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The 150 Best Online Flash Games grouped according to theme: Action, Aim and Shoot, Arcade and Classic, Escape the Room, Graphical Adventures, Guitar Hero, Jewels, Logic, Multiplayer, Physics, Puzzles, Racing, Reflex, RPG, Shoot It Far, Shoot-’em-Up, Skill, Sports, Strategy, Weird. Includes a link to every game on the list, a visual and mini description and how each one is played.
posted to MetaFilter by nickyskye
at 5:34 PM on October 10, 2008
(20 comments)
Life Before Death
- (from the site)
"This sombre series of portraits taken of people before and after they had died is a challenging and poignant study. The work by German photographer Walter Schels and his partner Beate Lakotta, who recorded interviews with the subjects in their final days, reveals much about dying - and living."
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle
at 8:41 AM on April 1, 2008
(67 comments)
Jan Terri, an enigmatic outsider musician from Chicago, became a dubious celebrity in her own right after releasing a number of self-produced songs and accompanying videos on VHS in the 1990s. Among her "hits" were
Losing You,
Baby Blues,
Get Down Goblin and the
must-see Rock-'n'-Roll Santa (which has been
covered by
Yo La Tengo). Her music videos were so earnest and popular for their camp value that
Marilyn Manson eventually enlisted her to sing at a birthday party of his and the
Daily Show invited her on. However, she hasn't really been heard from since. Has Jan Terri given up her dream?
posted to MetaFilter by Lillitatiana
at 1:26 PM on December 17, 2007
(20 comments)
The Unspeakable Odyssey of the Motionless Boy.
"How much of our humanity are we prepared to cede to machines? This is a dilemma of the future, but it's not much of a concern for Erik Ramsey. Erik can't move. He can't blink his eyes. And he hasn't said a word since 1999. But now, thanks to an electrode that was surgically implanted in his brain and linked to a computer, his nine-year silence is about to end."
[Via]
posted to MetaFilter by homunculus
at 12:00 AM on October 8, 2008
(30 comments)
So, you watched the movie Tron, and now you want to run your computerized guy off of the game grid and into the rest of the computer system? That's exactly what
Daniel Wellman did on his Apple IIgs.
posted to MetaFilter by CrunchyFrog
at 9:27 PM on October 8, 2008
(34 comments)
Let's build...
Blarney Castle, a
model building to test on an earthquake simulator, Thoreau's
cabin, a
stirling engine, the
NYC transit system, a
model bridge,
Galileo spacecraft, the
Mars Polar Lander, a flying
Martin XB-51,
Aliens universe papercraft, a
train layout under your bed, a
stereoscope, a
flying saucer. Or we could let The Swell Maps do it:
Let's Build a Car. And don't forget, "
Your country needs scale model planes for the emergency."
posted to MetaFilter by OmieWise
at 1:25 PM on March 20, 2007
(7 comments)
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. There are now nearly 600 maps.
Worldmapper
posted to MetaFilter by y2karl
at 3:21 PM on October 2, 2008
(28 comments)
Happy Bicentenemail.
Strongbad answers his 200th email in this installment of the long-running Homestarrunner.com web site. Featuring a musical intro by They Might Be Giants.
posted to MetaFilter by justkevin
at 10:45 AM on September 23, 2008
(43 comments)
Boom Boom,
Talk Talk,
Jump Jump,
Hey Hey,
Go Go,
Ooh Ooh,
Mony Mony,
Sugar Sugar,
Chug-a-Lug Chug-a-Lug. OK, that's it for now.
Bye Bye Baby.
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite
at 9:01 PM on September 29, 2008
(80 comments)
Look Around You is an insanely funny BBC parody of 1970's educational programs filled with pure nonsensical lies clothed as facts & pitch perfect mimicry of the style of governmental approved childrens education television. Each of the entire first season's worth of 8 10-minute episodes
can be viewed here and is highly recommended.
posted to MetaFilter by jonson
at 3:48 PM on August 30, 2006
(66 comments)
Nectivorous!!!
Those that eat nectar:
hummingbirds,
honeyeaters,
miners,
honeycreepers,
spinebills,
wattlebirds,
friarbirds,
lorikeets,
warblers,
some
parrots,
and of course
some bats!!!
Many plants are adapted to such
creatures!
posted to MetaFilter by beerbajay
at 4:29 AM on March 21, 2006
(18 comments)
There was a book that I remember seeing when I was growing up on fictional extraterrestrial life that I can not now find.
posted to Ask Metafilter by C17H19NO3
at 2:05 PM on September 24, 2008
(8 comments)
An Artist's
view from her tent. Listen to the view. Yes, listen. Katie Paterson via mobile phone and underwater mike at a glacier lake in Iceland, captures underwater sounds of melting and cracking Jökulsárlón Glacier.
Hear it piddling away. Call to listen what the seals are talking about, if they're nearby.
posted to MetaFilter by alicesshoe
at 5:53 PM on April 2, 2008
(9 comments)
Tod Browning's 1932 cinematic masterpiece
Freaks tells the story of a close-knit group of circus sideshow workers who are wronged and take revenge. The film's use of
real-life freaks so disturbed audiences that some ran screaming from theaters, distributors refused to handle the film, and it was banned in Britain for over 30 years.
posted to MetaFilter by flug
at 2:30 PM on July 8, 2008
(22 comments)
"So, that’s my long and winding history of a little postcard from the Upper West Side of Manhattan!" Suzanne Vega
writes about writing the hit song
Tom's Diner, coping with its numerous remixes, and its part in the birth of the MP3 music compression format.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 5:04 AM on September 24, 2008
(34 comments)
Billed as
TV's frst video arcade game show,
Starcade had its contestants battling
each other on video game trivia, as well as actual gameplay. Originally aired in the early 1980's, the show featured games like
Zaxxon,
Congo Bongo,
Star Trek and
Journey, to name
a few.
Ten full episodes are available online, for those of you who want a bit of video game nostalgia. And,
if nothing else, looking at
the contestants is pretty entertaining, in and of itself.
posted to MetaFilter by avoision
at 9:18 AM on January 17, 2007
(28 comments)
