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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)
How do I make Sharepoint usable? Less ugly? Am I missing something or is this really unintuitive? What is everyone else using?
posted to Ask Metafilter by geoff.
at 11:15 AM on July 15, 2008
(11 comments)
September 14, 1998 "the Tan Canary" passes away. He started out as a gospel singer but went on to perform blues, soul, county, and jazz. In 1968 he covered the country standard
"Release Me" and it became a hit. His audience grew, but stardom outside of his home in New Orleans was not to be his.
posted to MetaFilter by nola
at 6:36 PM on July 6, 2008
(8 comments)
Looking for decently written, page-turning historical fiction.
posted to Ask Metafilter by banjo_and_the_pork
at 6:20 AM on June 15, 2008
(66 comments)
The result here is spending a few free days on my couch with my violin and computer. I would love all comments/criticism from anybody, as this is something I'd like to continue experimenting with. (I guess if you like it, you can vote by clicking on the plus sign and pass the link onto anybody else).
http://www.radioheadremix.com/remix/?id=1196
Thanks!
posted to MeFi Music by analogtones
at 8:36 AM on April 13, 2008
(9 comments)
How/when do you change gears on a multiple-speed bicycle? Out of the 21 gears, there are 11 or so useful/unique ratios. So, do you stay in in one front ratio and only use the rear-derailleur until you have to shift down, or do you shift through the all the available ratios, double-shifting when necessary.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nielm
at 2:46 AM on October 16, 2007
(22 comments)
How can I get the most out of cycling, in regards to a workout? I'm a real newbie.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rolypolyman
at 10:24 AM on April 3, 2007
(29 comments)
Is there a good program to follow to build endurance and cardiovascular fitness on a road bike? I have read previous questions (
this seeming the most relevant), but was hoping to find something that was highly structured like the
couch to 5K program for runners. How do I do a couch to 100k? I have a nice new road bike and time over the summer.
posted to Ask Metafilter by procrastination
at 3:17 PM on May 28, 2008
(14 comments)
What are your favorite tofu recipes?
posted to Ask Metafilter by barrakuda
at 2:14 PM on May 27, 2008
(31 comments)
Healthy chips and dip?
posted to Ask Metafilter by XMLicious
at 3:24 AM on March 7, 2008
(33 comments)
In the 17th century Dutch painters began to create informal paintings that focused on the features and/or expressions of anonymous people. These were called tronies. Although a tronie showed a person’s face, it wasn’t considered a portrait. [...] In 1995 Dutch photographer Hendrik Kerstens began a series of tronies featuring his daughter Paula. some images NSFW
posted to MetaFilter by xod
at 1:24 PM on May 22, 2008
(35 comments)
I have a duty to teach my fellow peers the basics of web design, and I intend to not bore them to death. Where do you recommend I start?
posted to Ask Metafilter by semi
at 3:03 AM on May 20, 2008
(15 comments)
We have LOTS of dill coming up. Can anyone provide any not-too-difficult recipes to take advantage of this situation?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Morrigan
at 10:39 AM on May 16, 2008
(28 comments)
Last night all was fine when I sat down. When I got up twenty minutes later I began to walk and it felt like there was a wad of gum under the ball of my foot. I checked and under the callous at the distal end of my first metatarsal it is visibly swollen. The area is nearly a quarter inch thicker than the same area on my other foot. The area is not painful, but the shear size of it makes me walk funny. I'll go to the Dr. on Monday, but until then, does anyone have any ideas about what it can be? Googling hasn't given me any clues.
posted to Ask Metafilter by a22lamia
at 5:24 AM on March 29, 2008
(18 comments)
Music suggestions for a new fan of heartbreaking country soul?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Robot Johnny
at 7:49 AM on June 8, 2006
(35 comments)
Top Ten Fan-Made
"Sweded" Films Featuring: Predator, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Die Hard, Back to the Future, Goldfinger, Total Recall, Jurassic Park, Armageddon, Lord of the Rings and Terminator 2.
posted to MetaFilter by miss lynnster
at 8:03 PM on March 20, 2008
(24 comments)
Stranded on the island of
New Britain during WWII, Fred Hargesheimer was
rescued by native islanders, who hid him for 8 months from occupying Japanese forces. Fred never forgot the kindness he received, and in 1960, he used his family's vacation money to return to the island to personally thank the people who saved him. Thus began a
48 year relationship between Hargesheimer and the people of New Britain.
posted to MetaFilter by The Light Fantastic
at 8:45 PM on March 8, 2008
(15 comments)
Sound Comparisons
is a database of different accents in English from all over the world. It provides soundfiles and
IPA transcriptions of 110 words in 110 separate dialects and Germanic languages closely related to English. Most dialects and languages are current but there are also reconstructions of older stages of English, Scots and Germanic. That makes for 12100 soundfiles that load directly into your browser. The site can be navigated either by dialect or individual word and there's also a
handy Google map of all the different dialects and languages. If you've ever wondered what the difference was between a Somerset and a Norwich accent, New Zealand and Australian, Canadian and American or Indian and Glaswegian,
Sound Comparisons is the site to go to.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 7:16 AM on March 5, 2008
(44 comments)
I'm not into VU bootlegs really, but apparently this is a big deal. It's the ONLY available live stuff from 1967 and has only become available in literally the last two days. Recorded just after the release of The Velvet Underground And Nico and featuring the debut performance of Sister Ray (19 mins long) and the *previously unheard* song I'm Not A Young Man Any More. That's right, A NEW VELVET UNDERGROUND SONG. And it's fucking good too. This version of Sister Ray absolutely shreds and is what the Velvet Underground are all about.
posted to MetaFilter by stinkycheese
at 4:03 PM on February 29, 2008
(61 comments)
Soukous Radio is an online radio station that plays/streams this energizing, joyous, African fusion music, known for its bright guitar sound and rumba/salsa beat. The name, Soukous, is derived from the French word secouer, to shake. A popular, recent Soukous video by two Ivory Coast singers, DJ Eloh and DJ Mix,
The Bobaraba (which means “big bottom” in the local Djoula language), celebrates booty shaking.
posted to MetaFilter by nickyskye
at 11:40 AM on February 21, 2008
(25 comments)
In 1900 they were everywhere. Singing on street corners, in front of circus entrances, or just moving down the dusty roads of the South, playing anywhere a crowd might be cajoled into donating a dime to the cause. To survive they played any request--ballads, popular tunes, white hillbilly music, hymns, and the newly emerged blues. Songsters were the first folk musicians to be "professional" ...Most songsters faded into the past. A few waxed recordings, leaving a tempting glance into their world--and many questions. Such is the case with Richard "Rabbit" Brown, one of the most celebrated songsters and the only one from New Orleans to record.
Times ain't Like They Used To Be:
Richard "Rabbit" Brown, New Orleans Songster--so,
James Alley Blues is the song most everyone names as Brown's greatest and, now, you can play it online
here.
posted to MetaFilter by y2karl
at 5:30 AM on February 7, 2008
(17 comments)
"A few years ago a psychologist and a philosopher got into an argument over whether we can accurately describe our thoughts. "Yes," said the psychologist; with training and the help of my special technique, we can accurately describe our thoughts. The philosopher doubted it. To resolve their argument, they recruited a young woman who agreed tell them her thoughts, so that they could argue over whether she was credible." Eric Schwitzgebel and Russ Hurlbert debate
the transparency of inner experience. See also Schwitzgebel's extremely interesting
blog.
posted to MetaFilter by painquale
at 7:39 PM on January 13, 2008
(34 comments)
Help my rosemary plant live through the winter!
posted to Ask Metafilter by slogger
at 9:22 PM on January 12, 2008
(15 comments)
The shadowy back alleys of MetaFilter...
posted to MetaTalk by carsonb
at 6:21 AM on January 12, 2008
(125 comments)
10cc was
NOT "The Worst Band in the World", but they played one on TV. And just about every song they recorded that
didn't have 'Love' in the title (
"I'm Not in..."), tested the limits of '70s Pop Music Oddness, starting with the stand-up/sit-down/doo-wop
"Donna" (sitting by the telephone).
posted to MetaFilter by wendell
at 4:34 PM on January 9, 2008
(46 comments)
