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Who are the most talented guitar players alive today?
posted to Ask Metafilter by netbros
at 6:22 AM on June 27, 2008
(92 comments)
What are some songs featuring acoustic guitars, rather than electric, that could still be considered "metal"?
posted to Ask Metafilter by TheManChild2000
at 9:20 PM on June 24, 2008
(20 comments)
I'm going to college soon. (Age 24; been working a desk job in health care since I was 18.) I've got an inkling I want to study biology. Recommend me some books to help me get the lay of the land and get fired up about this.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Attackpanda
at 5:21 PM on April 4, 2008
(24 comments)
I'm looking for musical suggestions that might help me ...
fuck the pain away.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adipocere
at 7:33 PM on June 3, 2008
(79 comments)
The rapid growth of electronic trading
since 1976 has benefited equity market participants by improving competition, reducing cost and increasing liquidity while insuring better pricing.
One unexpected side effect has been the recent emergence of
"dark pools of liquidity", or the secret stock market.
posted to MetaFilter by Mutant
at 10:14 AM on May 20, 2008
(21 comments)
Academic discussions of stock markets frequently reference
The Efficient Markets Hypothesis; an idea that share prices are fairly valued, their prices reflecting all available information. However folklore such as
"Sell in May and go away", which proved prudent in 2007, clashes with this theory.
posted to MetaFilter by Mutant
at 8:22 AM on May 15, 2008
(11 comments)
What is the best investment vehicle for "income stream", i.e. where can you put your money and get a return that you could live off of? Any recommendations?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kapec
at 9:00 AM on May 8, 2008
(14 comments)
I love history, and I love adventure. What real-life historical adventurers were awesome, and have books written about them worth reading?
posted to Ask Metafilter by WidgetAlley
at 12:28 PM on May 5, 2008
(40 comments)
I would like sharp cheddar. The best sharp cheddar recommendations you've got. Complex, subtle cheddars are great, but I'm also feenin' for cheddar that is sharp beyond belief. So if you don't have the cheddar equivalent of a 25-year old Bowmore, a perfectly acceptable alternative is the cheddar equivalent of a ziploc bag full of Everclear. Let the cheese strike my taste buds, hard.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Greg Nog
at 2:21 PM on April 3, 2008
(46 comments)
Tohoku University's Kano Collection
is an unparalleled collection of japanese books from the Edo period. The beautiful and grizzly
Kaibou zonshinzu anatomical chart has been
making the blogrounds lately but that's only one of the countless treasures the Kano Collection has to offer. Stumbling around near-blindly, like a non-Japanese reader such as myself, with only minimal help from the site, I have come across an amazing variety of beautiful objects, such as
this picture book,
a scroll with images of animals,
city map,
map of Japan,
battle map,
another picture book,
the Kaitai shouzu anatomical chart and
this picture scroll which has
my favorite little scene I've come across in the collection. Whole days could be spent just surfing idly through the Kano Collection.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 4:06 AM on April 28, 2008
(9 comments)
Awaiting autopsy, the newly deceased lies supine, naked, on a metal table. The head is positioned as if the closed eyes were looking straight up. The arms are at the side. The knees and elbows are straight. The ankles are bent forward, not to the side, at an angle of about 45 degrees. I have seen the bodies this way of persons I had known, persons I had spoken with the previous day. And sometimes a live patient, consulting me for a physical examination, will lie the same way on the examination table, naked, looking up, arms at his side; and my thoughts turn to the autopsy suite. I wonder if I will someday see him too lying this way, recently cold, and I wonder about the complicated awful predicament of the physician.
Short essays by Charles Bardes, M.D. on the practice of medicine.
An appreciation of Charles Bardes by Sven Birkerts.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 7:29 AM on April 24, 2008
(15 comments)
Bookmarks Magazine has long been one of my favorite book review periodicals because it aggregates and summarizes reviews from many sources, for example:
The Children of Húrin. Recently they have opened up the
back-issue archive to non-subscribers.
posted to MetaFilter by stbalbach
at 8:07 PM on April 20, 2008
(6 comments)
A couple years ago, The Inquirer noticed that the same college student was endorsing competitors Dell and Gateway. Readers started mailing examples of her selling UPS, Hewlett-Packard, Siemens, Ford, Siemens, CNN, Greyhound, and
quite a few others. After being dubbed The Dell Girl, she was promoted to The Everywhere Girl. People
critized her shallow commitments to the universities she endorsed. Nonstop appearances across most of the western world
must have been fatiguing. She's even in
high demand among Christian and textbook publishers.
posted to MetaFilter by ardgedee
at 4:00 AM on April 14, 2008
(34 comments)
What's some speculative fiction that uses magic or fictional technology to explore psychology, sociology, or political science in a deep way? I'm not as much interested here in fabulous monsters or space operas or even deep thinking about physics -- I'm interested in books that explore the nature of the mind and/or human society by imagining a world that worked differently.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shivohum
at 12:11 PM on April 13, 2008
(45 comments)
Free Speculative Fiction Online
is a database of free science fiction and fantasy stories online by published authors (no fan-fiction or stories by unpublished writers). Among the authors that FSFO links to are
Paul Di Filippo (14 stories),
James Tiptree, Jr. (4 stories),
Connie Willis (3 stories),
Eleanor Arnason (3 stories),
Bruce Sterling (5 stories),
Robert Heinlein (7 stories),
Ursula K. LeGuin (3 stories),
Jonathan Lethem (5 stories),
Michael Moorcock (6 stories),
Chine Miéville (2 stories),
Samuel R. Delany (3 stories),
Robert Sheckley (8 stories), MeFite
Charles Stross (33 stories) and hundreds of other authors. If you don't know where to start, there's a list of
recommended stories.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 1:52 PM on April 5, 2008
(34 comments)
Looking for a simple routine to build upper body strength without weights.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rachelpapers
at 7:06 AM on April 2, 2008
(24 comments)
Over 2000 classic tales and fables
including
Aesop's Fables,
Bulfinch's Mythology,
Indian "Why" Stories, tales by
Oscar Wilde,
Beatrix Potter,
Rudyard Kipling,
Louisa May Alcott,
L. Frank Baum and
Harriet Beecher Stowe and stories about
Abraham Lincoln,
Robin Hood and
Baron Munchausen. And more! The
folk and fairytale collection is particularly rich, with hundreds of stories from all over the world.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 9:41 AM on April 1, 2008
(15 comments)
Like sprites? The People's Sprites has the most extensive repository of old game pixel art I've ever seen.
Some good examples from:
Battletoads,
Excitebike,
Final Fantasy GBA,
Mega Man,
Metal Slug,
Mortal Kombat,
Punch-Out,
River City Ransom,
Shinobi,
Samurai Shodown,
Super Mario Kart,
Super Mario World, and my favorite,
Super Metroid.
Hundreds more at the site, plus
original and
public domain ones.
posted to MetaFilter by BlackLeotardFront
at 12:09 PM on March 30, 2008
(17 comments)
Coverville is a wonderful, podcast which collects covers grouped by various themes.
posted to MetaFilter by shothotbot
at 9:35 AM on March 6, 2008
(14 comments)
What books or online courses will best help me learn science and engineering? I'm especially interested in physics, astronomy, general electronics, and computer science.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dylan20
at 2:35 PM on March 24, 2008
(8 comments)
I have played a lot of D&D over the years, but I've never been the DM. My turn in the current group is coming up, so I'd like to write a campaign for them. The current one is a bit hack-and-slashy, I have in mind something more like a multi-arc murder mystery.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ysabet
at 12:11 AM on March 5, 2008
(12 comments)
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