Perhaps you were there in 1991 when someone spun We Are i.e. for the first time. Maybe you were a suburban rebel in the mid 1990s, listening to British pirate radio and taping the broadcasts. Or you kept it legit and heard Fabio and Grooverider on Kiss FM or BBC Radio 1. Perhaps you only caught wind of it when Goldie was on BBC's Maestro (prev). You might spend your time figuring out which breaks were used, from the well-known Amen, Brother sample (prev), to Both Eyes Open by Lucille Brown & Billy Clark. Or maybe you don't know the difference between clownstep and liquid funk, but it sounds like something you want to know more about. Step inside, junglist, and embrace the bass.
posted by filthy light thief at 7:28 AM Feb 9 2010 - 62 comments [115 favorites]

The Jain's Death. A sci-fi webcomic by Patrick Farley.
posted by hermitosis at 9:38 AM Feb 9 2010 - 36 comments [31 favorites]

The logistics and beauty of snowplowing or snowblowing by train (not always successful).
posted by jessamyn at 6:37 PM Feb 9 2010 - 22 comments [27 favorites]

A Few Billion Lines of Code Later: Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs in the Real World. A frank account of the technical, social and commercial challenges encountered while turning an academic research tool into a business.
posted by ltl at 2:05 PM Feb 9 2010 - 40 comments [26 favorites]

Neuroscience explained using LOLcats (SLLJ). You're-a-kitty filter. That is all.
posted by Joey Michaels at 1:56 PM Feb 9 2010 - 26 comments [24 favorites]

"It's going to be okay. I was raised by a single mom, and I turned out just fine." A young doctor in NYC writes a moving post about her observations in the neonatal intensive care unit.
posted by pseudostrabismus at 12:09 AM Feb 10 2010 - 19 comments [24 favorites]

"I don’t want my unborn grandchildren to listen to the story of how Taylor Swift won a Grammy she hadn’t earned. I want them to set pianos on fire."
posted by rollick at 5:44 AM Feb 9 2010 - 314 comments [19 favorites]

Vintage dinosaur books. Those of a certain age likely discovered dinosaurs in the pages of one of these books in their grade-school library. I'm almost sure that this one was my first (but I remember the cover being black instead of red), and that this was my second. Does anybody remember this one? Or this?
posted by e-man at 10:00 PM Feb 9 2010 - 19 comments [17 favorites]

The singer Pink's recent performance at the Grammy's evoked this reaction from comedian Joe Rogan: Her performance was like Jimi Hendrix doing the star spangled banner while Michael Jackson moon walked and Susan Boyle sang back up. The song, "Glitter in the Air," is from Pink's 2008 album "Funhouse." Much of that album was Pink's reflections on the breakup of her marriage to motocross star Carey Hart. But the story between Pink and Hart doesn't end there...
posted by bguest at 4:48 PM Feb 8 2010 - 155 comments [36 favorites (15 in the last 24 hours)]

SF classic series Gaean Trilogy anatomy visualized, art collected, partly mapped (more here) and more.
posted by DU at 7:26 AM Feb 9 2010 - 17 comments [14 favorites]

Stevie Nicks backstage singing Wild Heart (SLYT)
posted by generalist at 12:45 PM Feb 9 2010 - 42 comments [14 favorites]

HORROR MOVIE RULE #1: Don't look in the mirror. SLYT | 04:11.(via.)
posted by ericb at 2:12 PM Feb 9 2010 - 83 comments [14 favorites]

Researcher uses data regarding connections on facebook to map distinct regions of the United States.
posted by jefficator at 8:11 AM Feb 9 2010 - 55 comments [13 favorites]

Paul Proulx has composed a beautiful 7-minute montage of 'The films of the 2000s.'
posted by mojohand at 11:19 AM Feb 9 2010 - 29 comments [13 favorites]

Hanna Is Not A Boy's Name is a 'sugarcoated horror' webcomic that's wonderfully illustrated and typeset.
posted by flatluigi at 7:10 PM Feb 9 2010 - 17 comments [13 favorites]

Perhaps you like Canabalt. Perhaps you miss Lisa Frank. Or perhaps you just dream... dream of a robot unicorn leaping through stars with rainbow power. The music doesn't have to stop when the game does.
posted by prefpara at 10:04 AM Feb 9 2010 - 20 comments [12 favorites]

As They Say is a 20+ minute musical composition by Icelander Ólöf Arnalds, where she plays and sings all the parts herself in nine-fold splitscreen. She created the piece from interviews with 17 New Yorkers, each of a different nationality, and she sings in all 17 languages. Other Ólöf Arnalds videos: 11 minute documentary, 4 songs live on KEXP, covering That Lucky Old Sun, original song that morphs into Springsteen's I'm on Fire live, new song, an interview broken up into 17 chunks and a 10 minute documentary. The interview, the first of the documentaries and some songs are in English. [Ólöf Arnalds previously on MeFi]
posted by Kattullus at 8:12 PM Feb 9 2010 - 3 comments [12 favorites]

Dissonance is a biweekly show on D.C. micropower FM station Radio CPR featuring interviews and guest DJ sets from longtime local punk musicians, artists, and activists.
posted by ryanshepard at 2:45 PM Feb 9 2010 - 6 comments [10 favorites]

The Rhode Island School of Design has a set of beautiful designs for dazzle ship camouflage. Dazzle Camouflage was a way to confuse submarine operators as to the heading and speed of warships, so that they could not effectively fire torpedoes to sink them. Certainly a lot more colorful than today's camo! (previously)
posted by that girl at 10:28 PM Feb 8 2010 - 34 comments [23 favorites (9 in the last 24 hours)]

The Disenchanted Naturalist's Guide to Reality (see also)
posted by anotherpanacea at 11:40 AM Feb 9 2010 - 31 comments [9 favorites]