The Best Stuff in the World -- "an open, organic, polymorphous site which, depending on the user, could take on diverse forms and meanings. The site simply asks you to input your
best stuff, whether that be a song that inspires you, your favourite little Indian restaurant, or the best explication of Kantian aesthetics ... it's up to you!"
{via mefi projects}
posted by dobbs
on Oct 17, 2006 -
19 comments
The Sandbox A Doonesbury driven non-partisan non-policy community blog on the details of being human in a global war on terror.
posted by srboisvert
on Oct 10, 2006 -
22 comments
What’s the best way to dispose of an accumulated fortune? Conventional wisdom tells us that you can’t take it with you. The inevitability of death has inspired otherwise ruthless men to contribute to the larger community with the goal of establishing a posthumous legacy. Carnegie built libraries. Bill Gates is working on global health initiatives. But the conventional wisdom on this matter could be wrong. And with that in mind, some wealthy men are
choosing to turn themselves into cryonic popsicles and put their wealth in trust funds in the hope that at some point in the future, Science will be able to revive them.
posted by jason's_planet
on Aug 21, 2006 -
52 comments
the new urban jungle . . . is a growing movement led by cities like
San Francisco,
New York, and
Leiden to restore active and vibrant natural systems in urban areas. Far from the eden-like depictions of nature of yesteryear, i.e.
the garden of earthly delights (nonetheless, still attracting some dynamic
new christian converts), the movement has morphed into today's backyard and grassroots environmental movement which is more and more a picture of hybridity, compromise, mixed-use, and ultimately, taking nature out of the walled islands of zoos, aquaria, national parks and other thick-walled institutions and offering a different kind of everyday
"unmediated" community experience with the new
urban wilderness.
VIDEO LINK
posted by huckhound
on Jul 6, 2006 -
1 comment
Gay and Muslim groups getting together in the UK? plans are
to look at homophobia in the Muslim community and Islamophobia in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. The Muslim Council of Britain is also admitting that
if you have nothing positive to say keep your mouth shut, which is a very good first step. Can two groups often on the receiving end of hatred work together ?
“British Muslims welcome working with everyone including members of the Lesbian and Gay community against a common enemy, fascism.” I don't know if they have the likes of
Michael Savage there (or the many many others), who rail against (and call for the death of) both Muslims and gays on the airwaves daily, but it seems hopeful, no?
posted by amberglow
on Apr 19, 2006 -
29 comments
Zeitgeistfilter: Lumpen Leisure and
Welcome to Middle-Class Lockdown... Now Shut Up and Buy Something -- two fine rants about our current state of disunion by James Howard Kuntsler, author of
The Long Emergency (
excerpt), and writer and Vietnam vet
Joe Bageant. "All over but the keening for our soon-to-be-lost machine world," Kunstler predicts in
The American Conservative, while Bageant taps the inner stream-of-unconsciousness for
Dissident Voice: "Things cannot be as bad as the alarmists say. They cannot be as bad as I often suspect they are. If there really were such a thing as global warming they would be starting to do something about it. And besides, even if it were true, science will find a way to fix it. If there really were genocide going on in so many places far more people would be concerned... If the earth were heating up we would surely notice it. If our soldiers and government agencies were torturing people around the world it would make the news. If millions were being exterminated, it would be more obvious, would it not?" (Kunstler's book previously discussed
here, Bageant
here.)
posted by digaman
on Feb 14, 2006 -
52 comments
UK politics filter:
WriteToThem.com tells you who your MP, MEPs, MSPs, and Welsh and London Assembly members are, and will send letters to them on your behalf. All you need is your postcode. It's a service of
MySociety.org, the charity behind
PledgeBank, where you can promise to do something worthwhile if other people join in (
last seen here in June — please sign up to
save Christopher Robbin). The charity's latest project,
HearFromYourMP.com, lobbies MPs to provide regular email updates to their constituents,
like this one.
posted by londonmark
on Dec 15, 2005 -
10 comments
Personalized Digg. What if you could be able to read news filtered by people you trust? Of course it would be better if system can automatically learn your interests and likes, filtering the news appropriately... Beelaxy tries to do that job.
posted by snark9
on Dec 8, 2005 -
22 comments
This Site Cannot Exist! Recently I've been seeing a lot of crazy talk around the web regarding the possibility of a purely "community driven" website. And it is
FIERCE -- running the gamut from
here to
here to
here .
And, although the ongoing discussion is interesting (and centered around the pontification of one person), I couldn't help but think, "What the Hell is wrong with these people?" Community-owned blogging/websites have been alive and well for years. For example:
Kuro5hin,
Slashdot,
Linkfilter,
Plastic, and a growing host of sites using community platforms like
Drupal and
Scoop.
Heck, all they'd have to do is head on over to
Google and type in the words
"Community Weblog" to discover the answer to their queries.
That's right. At the top of the page staring them in the face is the
grand-daddy of all community Blogging -- the pioneer that started it all --
Metafilter.com!! Is community blogging possible? Come on!
Long live the
Big "M"!!
posted by jb_thms
on Dec 6, 2005 -
43 comments
Games games games! Board games have under gone a renaissance, spurred by games like
Settlers of Catan. Because users are rewarded for contributing content, the site has some real
depth. In addition to exhaustive lists of games, sorted by
rank (with Bayesian averages and standard deviation), there are a gajillion reviews and player aids. You can even
search for games based on criteria such as weight, game mechanism, ranking, or even game mechanics. The site is a great example of organically-generated user data.
posted by craniac
on Nov 15, 2005 -
36 comments
Community Supported Agriculture : Are you a city-dweller and tired of the wilted lettuce leaves your local grocery store considers a produce department? Looking for a way to support your local farmers while benefiting from great, fresh, often organic, in-season fruits and vegetables? Now is the time to find a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm. You buy a share (costing anywhere from $100 $600 early in the year), and every week throughout the growing season, your share pays you dividends.
Here's a list of what you'd have gotten from one near me had you subscribed last year.
posted by crunchland
on Feb 3, 2005 -
34 comments
There aren't very many there yet, and the signs are illegible for all but the 3rd set of photos, but I still really like the idea behind
These are the People in my Neighborhood. You walk around your neighborhood and take pictures of people holding signs with the lyrics from Sesame Street. Very interesting and probably a good way to actually meet your neighbors.
via
posted by willnot
on Jan 19, 2005 -
9 comments
xixax is a film community/bulletin board. In addition to forums for new films (released and rumored), stuff on DVD, and tech goodies for filmmakers, they've got director forums for Wes and PT Anderson, Scorsese, Lynch, the Coens, Soderbergh and many others.
posted by You Should See the Other Guy
on Dec 27, 2004 -
2 comments
Nerdfilter "The community blog for weirdos like you."--just opened and trying to emulate Metafilter, without the politics...take a peek.
posted by Postroad
on Nov 20, 2004 -
31 comments
Fecal Face is a San Francisco based arts community that promotes things that turn us on and primarily focused on the artists and happenings of SF.
{as safe for work as any art collective's site's gonna be.}
posted by dobbs
on Nov 12, 2004 -
7 comments
Sketchzilla - a public collaborative online community art project.
(As with most public spaces, if you're easily offended, this may not be for you. It may be NSFW at any given moment.)
posted by fatbobsmith
on Apr 15, 2004 -
3 comments
Dean Campaign and Revival of Community. Robert Putnam's book
Bowling Alone charted the decline of communities in America, arguing that people tended to no longer to meet others outside the family for common interests or causes. The NYTimes Magazine argues that the Dean Campaign derives its popularity from reviving such communal connections. [More Inside]
posted by gregb1007
on Dec 7, 2003 -
45 comments
The denizens of
Fark are having a crisis of conscience after one of their members
died in a car accident. There are only a few holdouts against the
outpouring of sympathy from the biliously sarcastic community. "Farkers, seriously - where's your irreverence?" asked Labberdasher. "Not one 'he should have gone for a Darwin award' ... ?"
posted by rcade
on Feb 5, 2003 -
60 comments
Collective* is the BBC's attempt to build an online community (or have a go at a simpler version of h2g2). Actually seems like an online version of The Guardian's 'The Guide' (mini what's on section which appears every Saturday). Overall it does feel a bit too processed. Should these things be so structured, or is it better that they develop naturally?
posted by feelinglistless
on Jan 14, 2003 -
4 comments
TV night or a drag show? Gay retirement homes are
starting to open as the Stonewall Generation grows old.
A study by the Brookdale Centre on Ageing at Hunter College in New York found that fewer than one in five elderly gays have a life partner and only one in ten has children. By contrast, nearly half the overall general senior population has a spouse and four in five have children. America’s first, of course, was in
Florida.
posted by gottabefunky
on Nov 22, 2002 -
13 comments
Are you "e-fluential"? It's possible you are without even knowing it--you never know who might be
listening in. While I don't find all gadget/soft drink/product discussions insidious, it does seem like they pop up pretty regularly. Has anyone here been
contacted? Or are these companies (and others like them) just targeting product-oriented boards?
posted by _sirmissalot_
on Oct 30, 2002 -
35 comments
