A list of every story that was chosen as No. 1 in Longreads's weekly Top 5 email.
posted to MetaFilter by AceRock at 12:16 PM on December 8, 2014 (17 comments)

New Marijuana Study Says Everyone Knows You're High And You'll Likely Be Stoned Forever (SLOnion...or is it?)
posted to MetaFilter by zombieflanders at 6:53 PM on March 4, 2014 (91 comments)

After two long years, season three of Check it Out! with Dr. Steve Brule returns to Adult Swim with a look at Planes. A spin-off of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, it stars John C. Reilly as Dr. Steve Brule. Every week, Dr. Steve Brule "checks stuff out" like Relationships ("If your body's lonely it's gonna get sick, probably!"), Food ("Try going a day without it. You'll miss it, Charlie!"), Space ("One small mankind, I'm gonna leap the hell out of this rocket!"), and Animals ("Just turn around and look, you dingus. Your best friends are animal.") All 13 episodes and two special presentations are available online.
posted to MetaFilter by Room 641-A at 6:16 PM on February 28, 2014 (21 comments)

Zack Hiwiller has the last ZZT disk.
posted to MetaFilter by curious nu at 6:32 PM on November 20, 2013 (25 comments)

Stalin's Story, by Victor Gijsbers, is a game combining Vladimir Propp's folktale archetypes with totalitarian manipulation. One player assumes the role of Stalin, and with it the power to dictate the rules and order executions; other players are either actors trying to beguile him with a traditional rustic tale or courtiers trying to twist the tale's elements to their rivals' discredit.
posted to MetaFilter by Iridic at 12:43 PM on November 6, 2013 (13 comments)

Neural network handwriting generation
posted to MetaFilter by gwint at 7:12 AM on September 20, 2013 (35 comments)

Question: Can you explain in one sentence or less [laughter] well you know what I mean, can you say why the Newsroom is the best show on Television? [SLFOD]
posted to MetaFilter by Potomac Avenue at 4:38 AM on September 16, 2013 (85 comments)

"We're encouraged, foodwise, to pay attention to contrast and balance: a little bit of salt to balance out intense sweetness, a little bit of acid to balance out a lot of rich fat, a bleach-haired goober with sunglasses on the back of his head hustling Donkey Sauce-drowned garbage-food on two different cable channels every nine minutes to balance out any confidence you had that success in life accrues to the deserving, and so on." Deadspin d/b/a Foodspin teaches us that sometimes too much is just enough.
posted to MetaFilter by Inspector.Gadget at 6:31 PM on September 8, 2013 (69 comments)

wwwtxt.org: "In 1995, commercialization, a swelling population, and the multimedia revolution began to shape Web 1.0 and the modern Internet. 1988–94 represent the final years of a much smaller, non-commercial, and text-dominated Internet. / The users of this era were not only programmers, physicists, and university residents—they were also tinkerers, early-adopters, whiz kids, and nerds. Their conversations and documents—valiantly preserved by digital archivists—are fractured across numerous services, increasingly offline-only, and incredibly voluminous (100GB+). / wwwtxt digs deep and resurrects the voices of these digital pioneers as unedited, compelling, and insightful 140-character excerpts."
posted to MetaFilter by codacorolla at 9:35 AM on August 28, 2013 (20 comments)

How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists
posted to MetaFilter by escape from the potato planet at 5:08 PM on August 27, 2013 (33 comments)

Regular Expression Crosswords Do you like regular expressions? Do you like crosswords puzzles? Then you're going to (hate|love) this.
posted to MetaFilter by boo_radley at 3:24 PM on July 12, 2013 (53 comments)

Sparky Sweets, PHD drops some of da illest classical literature summary and analysis that yo ass ever heard on The Great Gatsby, Crime and Punishment and To Kill a Mockingbird.
posted to MetaFilter by sacrifix at 6:18 PM on June 21, 2013 (10 comments)

“You know who I am, don’t you?” he asked. “Who’s that?” “I am BLACKWOLF the DRAGONMASTER. I am the unofficial wizard of New York.” Blackwolf's official web page. With Triumph the Insult Comic Dog More Triumph (starts at 4:06)
posted to MetaFilter by josher71 at 9:54 AM on June 14, 2013 (13 comments)

Could Magic Mushrooms Be Used to Treat Anxiety and Depression?
posted to MetaFilter by showbiz_liz at 2:02 PM on June 10, 2013 (59 comments)

The new Kitty (formerly Kitty Pryde) EP, D.A.I.S.Y. Rage is out today for your free streaming/download. If'n you wanna tumblrize and girlize and otherwise coyly subvert yr hip hop. ☠DEAD❤ISLAND☠ video. Previously seen on MetaFilter for her Okay Cupid and Orion's Belt videos which sparked heated debates. Noisey has an interview with her, and she's also taking over their twitter for the day. "If her new EP feels like the work of an artist coming into their own, that’s because it is: It’s as cohesive a body of work as the rapper has ever put out, showcasing the crooked self-assurance that it takes to cop to shit like bed-wetting and making a song with a guy who rejected you."
posted to MetaFilter by naju at 11:05 AM on January 31, 2013 (27 comments)

About a year after her participation in the groundbreaking Comedy Central documentary series the Comedians of Comedy, Maria Bamford was on stage at the Friars Club in LA when a heckler began shouting at her. What happened after that isn’t entirely clear, other than Bamford had a breakdown, walked off stage, and disappeared. She was found three months later selling clock radios on the sidewalks of Detroit. A fellow homeless person, who was also a Comedy Central fan, recognized Bamford and eventually her parents were contacted. They brought her back home to Deluth, Minnesota and began to get her help. Maria decided to document her recovery in a series of short videos called The Maria Bamford Show, which were first posted to the TBS networks' now abandoned Super Deluxe Web site.
posted to MetaFilter by Toekneesan at 4:41 PM on January 26, 2013 (98 comments)

Raumpatrouille – Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion [EN] ist eine deutsche Science-Fiction-Fernsehserie, die am 17. September 1966 von der ARD ausgestrahlt wurde, zwei Wochen nach der erste Sendung von Star Trek. Alle sechs Episoden der originalen Serie sind jetzt im Youtube verfügbar:

-Episode 1: Angriff aus dem All
-Episode 2: Planet außer Kurs
-Episode 3: Hüter des Gesetzes
-Episode 4: Deserteure
-Episode 5: Der Kampf um die Sonne
-Episode 6: Die Raumfalle
-Episode 7: Invasion

Aber warte! Es gibt jetzt eine neue Staffel, die einige Jahre nach den Geschehnissen der originalen Serie spielt:

-Episode 1: Angriff auf AE3000
-Episode 2: Die Erde in Gefahr
-Episode 3: In der Höhle des Löwens
posted to MetaFilter by dunkadunc at 9:19 PM on January 19, 2013 (32 comments)

Based on the hit videogame, Fruit Ninja: The Movie The Brostep Video (SLYT. Caution, contains dubstep-like music.)
posted to MetaFilter by Slap*Happy at 4:42 AM on December 20, 2012 (21 comments)

Broodhollow is a new webcomic that has been pithily described by its creator as “Tintin goes to Innsmouth.” It’s a bit of Lovecraftian horror with subtly detailed artwork. Be sure to check out long-running companion website Ichor Falls, a “…short fiction site for the discerning horror/terror enthusiast." Great starting points include curious little thing and candle cove (previously).
posted to MetaFilter by Existential Dread at 5:44 PM on November 4, 2012 (20 comments)

Star Trek TNG goes horribly wrong in a series of short, surreal and very zen mashups: Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 4:54 AM on January 31, 2009 (96 comments)

Captain Pronin! An early '90s Russian parody of '80s American action heroes.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 5:24 PM on October 9, 2012 (13 comments)

Flash Friday: Mardek 3 is an rpg similar in style and length to the Final Fantasy or Earthbound games from the SNES days. But that's not all!
posted to MetaFilter by Lemurrhea at 6:58 AM on July 16, 2010 (11 comments)

Tales of Game's Studios Presents Chef Boyardee's Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa. [youtube trailer] disclaimer: I haven't actually played it. The title & idea alone seemed amusing enough for it to be worthwhile posting.
posted to MetaFilter by juv3nal at 4:30 PM on February 21, 2007 (17 comments)

Easy AI with Python. High school-level introduction to a few artificial intelligence concepts, with relatively short open source Python code snippets.
posted to MetaFilter by cowbellemoo at 1:23 PM on May 21, 2010 (22 comments)

Find the Angry Video Game Nerd a bit obnoxious? Hey Ash, What'cha Playin', AKA HAWP, may be more your speed as far as video game comedy series go. See a pair of siblings (and sometimes their dad) take on games such as Trauma Center, Animal Crossing, text adventures, Persona 3, the best overlooked games, Professor Layton, Sleep is Death, and more.
posted to MetaFilter by mccarty.tim at 9:57 AM on May 14, 2010 (58 comments)

Hey Paisanos! It's the Super Mario Brother's Super Show! Hosted by Captain Lou Albano ( previously ) as Mario and Danny Wells as Lugi, the show boasted an unusual list of guest stars including Elvira, Magic Johnson, Erine Hudson, Moon Zappa, Regina Williams (with Capt. Lou in drag) , and in a meta-twist, Cyndi Lauper trying to find Captain Lou himself.
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 1:24 PM on October 24, 2009 (32 comments)

Epic Mickey: a dystopian, steampunk version of the Disney world and characters we all know and love (we love them, right?) from Junction Point Studios.
posted to MetaFilter by pixlboi at 11:55 AM on July 30, 2009 (51 comments)

"A Solitaire Civization game that's compact enough to play on a plane ... Using only a pad of paper, a pencil, and a specialized deck of cards, lead your civilization through the ages to become ... civilized." A free "print-and-play" board game.
posted to MetaFilter by jbickers at 2:24 PM on September 25, 2008 (19 comments)

"Gaze upon my packets, ye savory, and despair." -Saucymandias The Condiment Packet Gallery has hundreds of scanned condiment packets. You can view them by type, brand, or country of origin, or just view them all at once. (Via.)
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 4:38 PM on March 5, 2008 (37 comments)

Opencongress.org is a website for keeping track of the U.S. Congress. (previously) But, now it also a social network. So, sign-up and see what your favourite Senator has been doing, track bills and, follow important issues. Then, share that information with your friends or write about it on your blog.
posted to MetaFilter by geos at 8:30 AM on February 4, 2008 (20 comments)

Few things are as lethal as a human knot…
posted to MetaFilter by Second Account For Making Jokey Comments at 3:47 AM on September 22, 2007 (54 comments)

No PC should be without MS DOS 5 - apparently because it has mouse support, a full-screen editor, and an utterly inexplicable music video. Guaranteed to save you at least 45K!!! of RAM, that is.
posted to MetaFilter by Afroblanco at 1:24 PM on September 12, 2007 (55 comments)

Frank Zappa' was so many different things { Mother of Invention, orchestra conductor, garage freak, SNL musical guest, anti-censorship advocate, home movie maker, Congressional witness, Monkee, documentary film subject, whipping boy, drug trafficker, late-night TV talk show interviewee, death wisher, composer, Dance Fever judge, master of his domain, dental floss tycoon, cosmic force, breast man, Crossfire combatant and The Walrus, among others } that the one day he was recently given by Baltimore's Mayor hardly seems enoughs.
posted to MetaFilter by Poolio at 4:52 AM on August 12, 2007 (77 comments)

Kasper Hauser's parody of this American Life :Episode 1 - Going Postal . Episode 2 - Phantom High School .
posted to MetaFilter by srboisvert at 11:58 AM on July 6, 2007 (23 comments)

Frank Zappa - The Gigantic Spoken Word Project. Numerous volumes of a very large collection of Frank Zappa spoken word releases. They consist of radio interviews and journalist reporter type personal interviews. During the radio interviews sometimes music was played as background or added before the broadcast in between questions and answers. Sometimes FZ acts as D.J., plays records from his collection and talks to the radio audience. But the main focus of this series is FZ interviews which to me is as interesting as his music. (Just a quick warning; the download mechanism is a tad annoying)
posted to MetaFilter by KevinSkomsvold at 9:20 PM on July 5, 2007 (6 comments)

The true story of Yamamoto Otokichi (or John Matthew Ottoson, a transliteration of "Oto-san"): a Japanese seaman who in 1832 got caught in a storm off the coast of Japan and ended up floating all the way across the Pacific, becoming the first Japanese (documented, at least) in North America. And that's only the introduction to his story. To get back to Japan he traveled around the world, setting many firsts for a Japanese native, and played a part as the inspiration for Commodore Matthew Perry and his "Black Ships." Although barely a footnote in history, in 2005 half of his ashes were brought back to Japan to rest in home soil.
posted to MetaFilter by switchsonic at 11:17 PM on July 4, 2007 (20 comments)

Source magazine - uk photography graduates online.
posted to MetaFilter by sgt.serenity at 7:49 PM on July 4, 2007 (24 comments)