MetaFilter posts tagged with Birthday

Long Long Ago, before Google AdWords...

Lutoslawski — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:48:52 -0800

Happy Birthday, Digital Advertising! 15 years ago today, the first banner ads appeared on HotWired.com - and had a 78% click-through rate.

10 years man! TEN! YEARS! Ten. TEN YEARS!

anotherpanacea — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:13:45 -0800

Cat-Scan.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, or why.

RFC 1

loquacious — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:59:58 -0800

Happy 40th birthday, RFC 1!

They're obviously not fans of The Simpsons

zardoz — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:15:11 -0800

Some wiseacres slip in risque prank-call names to a local TV station for its "Happy Birthday" segment, and whaddyaknow! It works.

Happy Birthday, Mr Darwin

chuckdarwin — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:43:01 -0800

Dawkins on Darwin | A Peek into the Life of Darwin with Jon Amiel, Director of Creation | Six scientific hot spots for modern Darwins | 'Why Evolution Is True,' by Jerry A. Coyne

Birthday Music Video Blog Birthday

not_on_display — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:21:08 -0800

[Music + YouTubery + BornOnThisDay] = Mincing Up the Morning, an eclectic music video birthday blog that's about to celebrate its own birthday--it's been updated daily since January 15, 2008.

But do you pronounce it "Tan Tan"?

Artw — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:41:03 -0800

Happy Birthday Tintin, whatever your sexuality! (maybe you're just confused)

Happy Birthday Metafilter!

jokeefe — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:41:58 -0800

Cat-scan.com Cat-Scan.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, or why.

Journey's of Franz K

Fizz — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:17:23 -0800

The Travels of Franz Kafka , a website that chronicles the many places and social interactions of Franz. A photographic journal collection of his life as he traveled. For your enjoyment, today being the 125th Anniversary of Franz Kafka's birthday. Cheers.

copyrite more like copyrong

dersins — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:54:38 -0800

"Happy Birthday to You" is the best-known and most frequently sung song in the world. Many - including Justice Breyer in his dissent in Eldred v. Ashcroft - have portrayed it as an unoriginal work that is hardly worthy of copyright protection, but nonetheless remains under copyright. Yet close historical scrutiny reveals both of those assumptions to be false. [Full pdf here.] [via] Over two hundred unpublished documents found in six archives across the United States have been made available on a website that will serve as an online appendix to this article.

Birthday Girl

furiousxgeorge — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:57:52 -0800

Birthday Girl is a catchy song/video from The Roots and Patrick Stump which stars Sasha Grey, an adult film star. It is an amusing literal portrayal of the relationship between internet pervs and weirdos everywhere and the online personalities that humor them.

The #1 Song On This Date in History

purephase — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:29:36 -0800

Ever wondered what the number one song was on your birthday? Anniversary? the day John Lennon was shot?, the attack on Pearl Harbor? (last two links can open iTunes directly).

Well, wonder no more. (via reddit)

Wear a Sweater on Fred Rogers' birthday

Lucinda — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:29:20 -0800

As part of Won't You Be My Neighbor? Days in Pittsburgh, and in honor of what would've been Fred Rogers' 80th birthday, Mr. McFeely is requesting that you wear your favorite sweater on March 20. "It doesn't have to be like the one Mr. Rogers wore, it just has to be special to you." (If you're a member of Ravelry, you can join this group.)

wonderful ecards

nickyskye — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:16:02 -0800

It has now been several years since Jacquie Lawson, an English artist living in the picturesque village of Lurgashall in Southern England, created an animated Christmas card in 2000. The e-card, featuring her dog, Chudleigh, her cats, and her 15th-century cottage, was sent to a few friends for their amusement. Those friends sent the e-card to others, and within weeks Jacquie was inundated with requests from all over the world to design more e-cards. My favorite Christmas ecard of hers. A lovely birthday card. 101 ecards with about 15 new ones released each year. The international prices/membership fees, in the USA $10 per year.

20 years of line noise and here's to 20 more

[@I][:+:][@I] — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:46:19 -0800

#!/usr/bin/perl
@d = localtime(time);
if ($d[4] == 11 && $d[3] == 18 ) {
 print "Happy ".($d[5]-87)."th Birthday, Perl!\n";
}
if( $ARGV[0] eq "love" || $ARGV[0] eq "hate" ) {
 print "$you can't deny its contribution to our culture\n"; 
}

Need some inspiration for turning up for work?

Brockles — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:31:49 -0800

Find that going to work is a drag, and nothing seems to make you want to go? Well how about being deciding to refuse to sit around at home and keeping working just because you're 'bored'. I reckon that is an unusual reason to work your life away. Especially if it happens to be your birthday. Oh, and even more so if you just happen to be 100 years old.

Corporate Magazines Still Suck

psmealey — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:51:04 -0800

Happy 40th Birthday Rolling Stone. On this day in 1967, the first issue of Rolling Stone Magazine was published, and it came with a roach clip. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J. Gleason It embraced and reported on the hippy counterculture during the late 1960s and 1970s, and its rise to fame was synchronous with such bands and artists as the Grateful Dead, Beatles, Doors, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. It is the magazine that trashed Eric Clapton, broke up Cream and ripped every album Led Zeppelin ever made!"

Who pins the tail on the donkey anymore?

konolia — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:19:44 -0800

Birthdays Without Pressure If you think children’s birthday parties are getting out of control, you’ve come to the right place.

My name is Zoom and I live on the moon...

mkb — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:10:37 -0800

You're the star today! In 1976, ABC's Record and Tape Division came up with the Captain Zoom Personalized Birthday Record. A two-minute song with 8 instances of the birthday boy or girl's name was recorded and mastered for a paper-thin flexible 7" record. It was sent in an envelope along with the lyrics to the song, a mini-coloring book, and an order form. In 1978, the Record and Tape Division was disbanded. Robert Stiller, a sales consultant who was involved with the project at ABC, bought the rights to the project and began distributing the record with his own company. Captain Zoom left a lasting impact on those who heard his little jingle.
And there's a wedding version too. How sweet.

July 14, 1999

Stan Chin — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:43:50 -0800

Cat-Scan.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, or why.

That's going straight to the pool room

tellurian — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:09:10 -0800

What should we get Erich for his birthday? How about a desk set with a radio, a thermometer disguised as a TV mast, a clock topped with a tank, a calendar, and four ballpoint pens disguised as missiles. Iconographia socialistica from the GDR.

A day to be thankful for resublimated thiotimoline.

escabeche — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:57:11 -0800

Think you get a lot done? Isaac Asimov (pronounced like "has, him, of" without the h's) , who would have turned 87 today, wrote or edited over 500 books, including science-fiction novels, introductions to organic chemistry (a field in which he held a professorship at B.U.) , indispensable anthologies of early science fiction, jokebooks, guides to Shakespeare, and collections of lively essays on science that have introduced thousands of people to the pleasures of thinking hard about the universe. He also found the time to write a few essays and write postcards to his fans. His story "Runaround" , from his 1950 collection I, Robot, is the only piece of fiction I know centered on the properties of a differential equation. His Foundation Trilogy was given a special Hugo award in 1966 as the best science fiction series of all time; a movie version, to be written by Jeff Vintar and directed by Shekhar Kapur, is currently in development. Previous AsimovFilter: here, here, here. Feel like a slacker yet? Stop reading MetaFilter and get to work!

Monk's birthday

hortense — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:15:54 -0800

Thelonious Sphere Monk's birthday is today and WKCR will not stop playing his music untill after midnight

happy birthday to you

reklaw — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 07:57:42 -0800

Happy 15th birthday, WorldWideWeb.

MetaFilter is seven!

kyleg — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:42:16 -0800

Cat-Scan.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, or why.