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What are some things that humans do, that no other animal species does?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Solomon
at 8:57 AM on January 27, 2008
(91 comments)
Tiled Background Designer
is just a small, useful tool to create patterns. Experiment with pictures, colors, textures and transparency to get best result.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris
at 1:38 AM on July 17, 2008
(37 comments)
Rumplo
will help you waste even
more of your hard-earned cash on artist and designer created T-Shirts. You can
submit shirts you've found anywhere online, as well as
comment on and favorite other people's findings. Thanks to user-submitted
tags, you can browse by
color, type (
'boys',
'girls',
'kids'), and
many other attributes. If you get bored of browsing aimlessly, you can always check out what's
popular.
posted to MetaFilter by defenestration
at 4:50 PM on July 12, 2008
(37 comments)
Simply Noise.
Streaming white noise for your auditory zen needs. That is all. That is enough.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 12:16 PM on July 5, 2008
(40 comments)
How can I help my sister come to terms with her mental health issues?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Julia F***ing Sugarbaker
at 2:49 PM on July 4, 2008
(17 comments)
The Book of Accidents: Designed for Young Children
(1831). "In presenting to his little readers
The Book of Accidents, the Author conceives he cannot render a more important service to the rising generation and to parents, than by furnishing them with an account of the accidents to which Children, from their inexperience or carelessness, are liable. If generally studied it will save the lives of thousands, and relieve many families from the long and unavailing misery attendant on such occurrences."
[Via]
posted to MetaFilter by homunculus
at 6:37 PM on July 3, 2008
(34 comments)
After 80 years, a complete version of Fritz Lang's
Metropolis has
been discovered in Buenos Aires.
posted to MetaFilter by Nathaniel W
at 2:27 PM on July 2, 2008
(81 comments)
Can someone tell me what I am doing in my brain to cause this sensation in my body? Am I a monk?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 7:43 AM on July 3, 2008
(18 comments)
Mexican Aerophones
are wind musical instruments or artifacts that can generate sounds or noise with air jets and one or several resonator chambers of globular, tubular and other shapes. Roberto Velasquez, a mechanical engineer, has
recreated some of these aerophones. Example sounds:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5 (.wav files)
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 1:28 AM on July 1, 2008
(6 comments)
Emergency hickeyectomy - STAT!
posted to Ask Metafilter by tristeza
at 5:36 PM on April 9, 2006
(27 comments)
Whether you want to learn to lace shoes, tie shoelaces, stop shoelaces from coming undone, calculate shoelace lengths or even repair aglets,
Ian's Shoelace Site has the answer!
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 11:47 PM on June 27, 2008
(22 comments)
The Itch: The New Yorker's suprisingly interesting Annals of Medicine article which includes the story of a woman whose scalp itched so badly she scratched through it. And then through her skull.
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm
at 2:26 PM on June 24, 2008
(89 comments)
Where can I get modern, bright or otherwise designy carpet runners online or in Southern California? Long, long, by-the-foot options preferred, but if I find something I like I might just buy several of the same one. Other relevant information: I am allergic to beige.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Ambrosia Voyeur
at 12:01 PM on June 24, 2008
(5 comments)
Farming with Dynamite
Do stumps, clay or tired old soil have you down? Let "Red Cross" dynamite come to your rescue.
(A blast from the past via )
posted to MetaFilter by caddis
at 9:04 AM on June 16, 2008
(34 comments)
Either I'm being paranoid or the stores I frequent have stopped stocking certain items beloved by me because they contain both chocolate and peanut butter. Paranoid or not, I can bake, and am therefore not at the mercy of the peanut butter and chocolate overlords. Which leads me to ask the question, what decadent peanut butter and chocolate recipes do you have to share?
posted to Ask Metafilter by orange swan
at 6:51 PM on June 15, 2008
(13 comments)
The
"Most Beautiful Goat" competition. SIx pictures from the Mazayen al-Maaz this year in Riyad.
posted to MetaFilter by 31d1
at 11:58 PM on June 14, 2008
(59 comments)
I Love My Life The Way It Is. A collection-in-progress of unscratched scratch-off lottery tickets, the project is the brainchild of Ali Alvarez, who hopes to collect at least 8000 tickets, enough to fill a 12x12 room from floor to ceiling. Alvarez is soliciting donations of unscratched tickets from volunteers around the world, and has posted pictures of some of the ones received so far. The idea of an unscratched lottery ticket makes some people "a little crazy," but Alvarez hopes the collection will cause people to explore the ideas of "getting your hopes high, dreaming, escaping, and then usually being let down."
Via.
posted to MetaFilter by amyms
at 9:09 AM on June 14, 2008
(76 comments)
NURSE CHILD WANTED, OR TO ADOPT -- The Advertiser, a Widow with a little family of her own, and moderate allowance from her late husband's friends, would be glad to accept the charge of a young child. Age no object. If sickly would receive a parent's care. Terms, Fifteen Shillings a month; or would adopt entirely if under two months for the small sum of Twelve pounds. This kindly nineteenth-century advertisement had a hidden meaning. If a woman paid her adoption fee to a
baby farmer and handed over her infant, no one ever had to worry about that baby, ever again.
posted to MetaFilter by Countess Elena
at 4:23 PM on June 7, 2008
(38 comments)
What do you suppose caused
this effect?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pjern
at 9:47 PM on June 6, 2008
(15 comments)
A couple of months ago, I read an article about a very rare illness primarily affecting men which caused them, among other things, to hurt themselves - sometimes quite seriously. Does anyone know the name of this disorder?
posted to Ask Metafilter by anonymous78
at 10:01 AM on June 5, 2008
(17 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)
I can make apple muffins, banana muffins, and carrot muffins.
So what else can I
muffinise (oh, did I just invent a verb there)?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mutant
at 4:14 PM on June 2, 2008
(34 comments)
I'm looking for funeral chants, prayers and songs that are beautiful and mournful.
posted to Ask Metafilter by naju
at 9:32 PM on June 2, 2008
(25 comments)
