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Popcuts. Buy Music. Make Money.
Popcuts is an online music store that gives fans a stake in the music. Every time someone buys a song, the people who have already downloaded that song get paid. Popcuts recognizes great music fans: the ones who discover good music before everyone else, the ones who spark others to try new music. So earlier downloaders get the most, and trendsetters get recognition all over the site. But it's not just for die-hard fans. Every music fan earns rewards, and everyone can discover good music in a social way. Follow your friends' picks, find others who share your taste. Popcuts gives all the respect to artists. So we invite artists to showcase their music in a community of fans actively trying to discover new things.
posted to Projects by racecar
at 9:31 AM on August 4, 2008
Okay LA folk... time to tell me... what are your favorite things about/in Los Angeles? Especially your favorite hidden secret stuff that maybe only locals know of. Or super good deals or scenes that make you happy. Stuff that actually makes you stop for a second and think, "Man, I love this place" whether you want to or not.
posted to Ask Metafilter by miss lynnster
at 11:39 AM on July 6, 2008
(52 comments)
Scrabble anxiety
posted to Ask Metafilter by A189Nut
at 4:58 PM on July 20, 2008
(65 comments)
I'm #4 on the eligibility list for a job that I want, and have a 2nd interview in a week. This is the final step in the application process. What can I do to vault myself to the top of the list and land the job?
posted to Ask Metafilter by saguaro
at 2:50 AM on July 22, 2008
(8 comments)
Retronomatopeya - cute collection of comic book images and language conveying sound and motion. Also see anastasiav's prior post:
Ka-BOOM, the Dictionary of Comic Book Words on Historical Principles.
(via oink!)
posted to MetaFilter by madamjujujive
at 10:08 AM on July 17, 2008
(11 comments)
I'm looking for unabashedly happy, feel good music. Do you have any favorites to recommend?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dpx.mfx
at 6:17 PM on July 16, 2008
(122 comments)
If the Tiber rises so high it floods the walls, or the Nile so low it doesn't flood the fields, if the earth opens, or the heavens don't, if there is famine, if there is plague, instantly the howl goes up, "The Christians to the lion!" What, all of them? To a single lion? So wrote
Tertullian. In the huge intellectual project that was the foundation of the Christian Church he was the great wit, most powerful rhetor and finest writer. Starting out as a pagan delighting in adultery and gladiator combat he became a great champion of martyrdom, defender of Christianity against its malefactors and heretics. His most famous contribution to our culture is undoubtedly the doctrine of the trinity. Towards the end of his life he threw his lot with a small group of hardcore ascetics called
Montanists and was denounced as a heretic. Ending his life among the defeated of ecclesiastical history he was forgotten for a millennium until
rediscovered during the Renaissance.
The Tertullian Project collects all his extant writing and information about his lost texts as well as biographical information,
selected quotations and much more.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 9:58 PM on July 15, 2008
(15 comments)
WFMU's Free Music Archive,
"an online digital library of music that will allow music fans, webcasters and podcasters to listen, download, and stream for free, with no restrictions, registration or fees. And it will all be legal." Still pre-launch, but there's already
quite a bit of music available on the site, including a
sampler CD.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate
at 6:56 AM on July 15, 2008
(18 comments)
The Art Institute of Chicago's website has been revamped.
[T]he goal of this project was to integrate the site with their backend asset management system to allow users to browse the Museum's entire collection online. The changes are pleasing and highly functional.
via
posted to MetaFilter by sluglicker
at 5:38 PM on July 12, 2008
(19 comments)
"The drug's effectiveness inspired an elegant theory, known as the chemical
hypothesis: Sadness is simply a lack of chemical happiness. The little blue pills cheer us
up because they give the brain what it has been missing.
There's only one problem with this theory of depression: it's almost certainly wrong, or at
the very least woefully incomplete."
How Prozac sent the science of depression in the wrong direction, from the Boston Globe.
posted to MetaFilter by zardoz
at 7:53 PM on July 6, 2008
(56 comments)
Who? Only one of the supreme
German graphic artists of his time, that's all. Long an acknowledged influence among illustrators, animators and cartoonists, he is probably known primarily for a couple of
Dover Books collection of his sketchbook art that were published back in the 60s and are now hard to find.
posted to MetaFilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 11:21 AM on July 3, 2008
(13 comments)
I'm looking for some funny and smart fiction books, along the lines of "A Confederacy of Dunces" and "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal."
posted to Ask Metafilter by banjo_and_the_pork
at 9:34 AM on March 6, 2008
(60 comments)
Vinyl Sharity
There's a lot of
exotic*,
odd†,
thrilling‡, and
strangely catchy° music out there on the net. Through
Weirdo Music and Record Brother, I've begun to touch the tip...
And while there's a fairly proscribed etiquette regarding the sharity sites (limited time for downloads, out-of-print only, desisting when asked), I find that
Free Albums and
Strange Reaction have put me off of buying new RIAA albums more than Napster or Kazaa ever did.
(Well, there is
Regnyouth, but the downloading is such a pain in the ass for most of it that I only ever really bother with things that I own on a format that I can't convert like cassette, or that I listen to once and delete, like Interpol).
But where do you go for weirdo music? Anything you've found in digging through these sites that's struck your fancy?
(And if you have sharities to, well, share:
You Send It,
Rapidshare and
MegaUpload are pretty much the gold standard.)
*
From Bellybongo
†
From WM
‡
From Basic Hip
°
From Comfort Stand
posted to MetaFilter by klangklangston
at 10:39 PM on September 21, 2005
(5 comments)
Bookfilter: I'm working a summer job that mostly consists of carrying things. Every hour or so, I take a 10 minute brake which I like to spend reading so that I can ponder what I've just read when I continue doing my otherwise mindless work. Bill Bryson's
A Short History of Nearly Everything is soon coming to and end. Where to go next?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Archers of Loaf
at 1:18 PM on June 12, 2008
(27 comments)
So, about 9 months ago I started working on this compilation... Until yesterday, however, I hadn't seen a tracklist from the mysterious 10-cd set called the VrootzBox, so this is not a derivative work, however similar it may be...I should mention that not all of these songs are songs that he covered or copped licks from. Most of the music he has made mention to, though a few of the songs were recorded after his formative years and one or two he never would have heard. But they are presented to give an illustration of the styles he drew from (such as gamelan, which he grew up playing in his neighbor's back yard).
Wrath of the Grapevine: The Roots of John Faheyvia FaheyGuitarPlayers
posted to MetaFilter by y2karl
at 12:33 PM on June 1, 2008
(12 comments)
What are some great old buildings and derelict locations in and around the Los Angeles area that can be entered legally?
posted to Ask Metafilter by katillathehun
at 3:04 PM on May 29, 2008
(10 comments)
The opening shots of 1920s New York City are wonderful, then you get a zany high-speed Harold Lloyd blazing down the avenues, and that's fun to watch, but the real killer is the horse-drawn trolley absolutely
tearing-ass through lower Manhattan, full gallop. Ends badly. Then it's over to San Francisco for one last bit of homicidal vehicular activity with a bus. Well, they sure don't drive
like they used to!
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite
at 6:53 PM on May 25, 2008
(37 comments)
Athanasius Kircher was the
17th century's Jesuit version of the
übergeek. His scholarly attentions were drawn to egyptology, astronomy, magnetism, languages, optics, music, geology, mathematics and many many other pursuits. The
"dude of wonders" invented novel machines such as the
mathematical organ and
magnetic clock, established one of the first museums, published about 40 academic works (with
beautiful accompanying illustrations) and was globally revered as one of his time's greatest intellectuals. He is also the main link in the
Voynich manuscript mystery. [
MI]
posted to MetaFilter by peacay
at 11:24 AM on August 7, 2005
(12 comments)
What are some good, somewhat dirty jokes suitable for telling to my Grandma?
posted to Ask Metafilter by sciurus
at 2:52 PM on June 26, 2007
(54 comments)
Algorithmic composition is a method of composing music using basic alogrithm models to compose.
Musicalgorithms is a program designed to allow composers a tool to explore algorithmic composition and lay people the opportunity to create music based on non-musical models.
posted to MetaFilter by DeepFriedTwinkies
at 12:17 AM on June 10, 2005
(4 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)
Here's a garagy tune i've been producing for my cousin,
Vonesvonic.
posted to MeFi Music by 6am
at 8:26 AM on April 29, 2008
(13 comments)
Harmanz ha haz b
bargan ahn za MMARBG
Ahban Bahb [
brahbazazzah ] ar zambahz. Zambahz haz AAGHZ g!bz gab azzar zambahz: a, b, g, h, m, n, r, z. Zambahz maz hab gab, za Zambahz zgrabbarh
Zamgrh, a gab grh a
gab bag,
a grammah, n
zhranzazzaz. Habganna
barbaga zaarz grh za
bra!nz?
posted to MetaFilter by xthlc
at 9:32 PM on May 8, 2008
(33 comments)
Honoré Daumier
is one of the great French artists of the 19th Century, beloved of no less an aesthetic judge than Baudelaire. Most famous as a lithographer and caricaturist, over 5000 of his lithographs and engravings can be seen, in high resolution, at
The Daumier Register. One of the best places to start are the many
online exhibits of his work.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 1:13 PM on May 1, 2008
(9 comments)
So hey, how has LA changed in the last 3 years during my absence? Update, please.
posted to Ask Metafilter by miss lynnster
at 2:33 PM on December 19, 2007
(36 comments)
LOS ANGELES LOCAL BANDS, recommend me.
posted to Ask Metafilter by klangklangston
at 10:55 AM on April 24, 2008
(21 comments)
I need a replacement word for the word clusterf#$k.
posted to Ask Metafilter by gummo
at 4:12 PM on April 17, 2008
(65 comments)
How does one keep track of personal improvements in a variety of aspects ?
posted to Ask Metafilter by raheel
at 4:39 PM on April 19, 2008
(11 comments)
