The Bonkers Institute presents The Nearly Genuine and Truly Marvelous Psychoneuropharmacological Mental Medicine Show, a gallery of modern and vintage psychiatric drug advertising.
posted to MetaFilter by jtron at 3:54 PM on May 26, 2008 (8 comments)

An agent is interested in my book but says that they only have an "optional" contract- authors can sign it or not, given their preference. Should I give them my book?
posted to Ask Metafilter by arnicae at 9:08 AM on April 13, 2008 (15 comments)

The Public Archives of Nova Scotia has some cool online exhibits. The original list of dead bodies recovered from the Titanic sinking caught my eye, they also have original log book pages from privateers, lighthouses, slavery and abolition, boats, boats, and more boats. [via]
posted to MetaFilter by marxchivist at 5:29 PM on April 20, 2006 (11 comments)

n+1: Is this your actual office? It’s so small.
HFM: Yes. I don’t actually spend much time in here, I have a desk out on the trading floor so this is just for, you know, meetings or phone calls I can’t take out of the desk, or interviews with literary magazines that I do every Wednesday at 4pm.
posted to MetaFilter by 235w103 at 3:19 PM on April 8, 2008 (19 comments)

The Great Tantra Challenge - "On 3 March 2008, in a popular TV show, Sanal Edamaruku, the president of Rationalist International, challenged India’s most “powerful” tantrik (black magician) to demonstrate his powers on him. That was the beginning of an unprecedented experiment."
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 8:30 AM on March 25, 2008 (68 comments)

"I found these in a red photo album marked "Darlene" at a swap meet in Huntington Beach, California." The Cocaine Photos. Images from a more innocent time.
posted to MetaFilter by oneirodynia at 9:03 PM on March 27, 2008 (91 comments)

Critical Thinking Skills - Apparently, I don't have any. What exactly entails "having" this skill and is it something I can develop?
posted to Ask Metafilter by zippity at 6:26 PM on September 22, 2007 (43 comments)

NetClassicsFilter: All 24 of the 25 GI Joe PSAs redubbed by Eric Fensler, via YouTube: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 [some nsfw] [previously] [also via]
posted to MetaFilter by not_on_display at 8:22 PM on February 26, 2008 (54 comments)

Missouri's digital archives of African American portraits. African American portraits from Florida's archives. The Black Archives of Mid-America. Missouri's archives, with a specific section for the African American community in northeast Missouri.
posted to MetaFilter by winna at 5:38 PM on February 22, 2008 (17 comments)