Buzzfeed.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.
posted by awesomebrad
on Mar 3, 2011 -
32 comments
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
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posted by The Devil Tesla
on Jul 14, 2010 -
238 comments
"Notes and Queries: A Medium of Communication for Literary Men, General Readers,
etc."
Notes and Queries is a long running journal which printed the, well, notes and queries sent in to them by readers. Google books seems to have full view available for most, if not all, of the issues from the founding in 1849 up through 1908.
[more inside]
posted by Caduceus
on Mar 7, 2009 -
12 comments
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.
posted by jokeefe
on Jul 14, 2008 -
186 comments
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.
posted by Stan Chin
on Jul 14, 2007 -
111 comments
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
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posted by kyleg
on Jul 14, 2006 -
181 comments
You desire new music? How fortuitous! Look what your
fellow mefites have been up to:
-
The 23rd Century, addictive psychedelic pop from
tcobretti
(via
Projects)
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Both Ends of a Gun, a shotgun-produced country album by
Miko
(via
Projects)
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Congratulations to the Young Men of Nelson, creepy tortured music-toy electronica by
nylon
(via
Projects)
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MAXX KLAXON, ass-bumping orwello-euro electropop by
Artifice_Eternity
(via
Projects)
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Inter[mediate], an electronic EP by
phylum sinter
(via
Projects)
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Vector Trio, atmospheric jazzers, and just one client of
turtlegirl's Scully Sound production outfit
(via
Projects)
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Fractures EP, some lush electronic stuff by
nthdegx
(via
Projects)
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The Earl Stoner Band, countrified tunes by
xowie
(via
Projects)
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Red On Strike, XX-fronted punk rock by
InfidelZombie
(via
Projects)
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The Scarring Party, foot-stomping old-timey tunes by
drezdn
(via
Projects)
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Soplerflo Archives, sundry musical noises by
soplerflo
(via...wait for it...waaaaaait for iiiiit...
Projects!)
Viva la
Projects!
posted by cortex
on Apr 15, 2006 -
97 comments
America seems a little less evil today. The outrage and indignation expressed in a
previous MeFi story was unjustified. The Department of Homeland Security did not visit a student after he made an interlibrary request for Mao Tse-Tung's Little Red Book. The student
made it all up.
posted by Meridian
on Dec 24, 2005 -
53 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
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.
posted by anastasiav
on Jul 13, 2005 -
121 comments
the simplest ideas are usually the best ones. Its easy to forget that the internet is a relatively new medium. Whats the bet that in the future that we will all be wishing that we still had all of our content that we contributed to "cyberspace" such as reviews, comments, posts... Who knows if 10 - 15 years from now, if the sites we post on will still be up, even stable sites such as MetaFilter may not exist in the future.
sites have shut down before, taking everyones content with it. Its a simple idea, why not just store your content, be it on your desktop or a web application? So who wants to start a
MeFi label over at
bulletin board buddy.
posted by omega
on Mar 16, 2005 -
30 comments
With the next round of
bloggies (or web log awards for those not down with the
hip lingo), there's some concern that some types of blogs with
large communities may not be included. Specifically, communities that are well known for
tons of online events, and large
gathering places whose interactions leak in to and out from real life. So, the food bloggers (floggers?) have done what they do best, and
started their own awards - with 14 nomination categories, the results plan to, at the very least, make us all drool, if not inspire a few feasts here and there.
(and yay to mefi for winning
last year's best community blog!)
posted by jearbear
on Dec 8, 2004 -
7 comments
Viewropa - OK, maybe there's some agreement not to post this here, but I wasn't part of the development, and it's already got some good links (especially the evolution of writing one). So here's
Viewropa -
a community site started by members of MetaFilter who are attempting an experiment in multi-lingual, collaborative and Euro-focussed blogging. All are welcome here, no matter where you're from [...] (beware the impossible Portuguese kill-the-snowman game) (and I get the impression a non-English link would be more than welcome).
posted by andrew cooke
on Oct 31, 2004 -
17 comments
Two weeks from today, John Kerry will win the popular vote by "23% or more" over George W. Bush, according to
5 Star Psychic Advice. See if you can do better than the spirit world by predicting the electoral and popular vote totals in the
second quadrennial MetaFilter Presidential Contest ...
posted by rcade
on Oct 19, 2004 -
127 comments
From the where-are-they-now (-and-I-hope-they-are-doing-ok) file:
Jeremy Botter, our medic
man in Iraq, has just released all his posts from Iraq as
a free downloadable PDF. It contains the story of capturing Saddam, getting bombed at camp as soldiers died, and a whole lot of playstation2.
posted by mathowie
on Jun 1, 2004 -
4 comments
I'm not a fan of followup posts, but this is cool enough to mention. Remember
the challenging question of how to turn $14 into $1,000?
BirdD0g has taken that noodle-scratcher of a problem and turned it into his personal challenge, and he's taking everyone along for the ride at
14bucks.com. He's got until April 15, 2005 to turn it over into a grand, which sounds like plenty of time, but that's a lot of profit to turn over (7000% return on investment). Who wants to take my $14 bet it doesn't happen?
posted by mathowie
on Apr 29, 2004 -
38 comments
What's really undermining the sanctity of marriage? Dahlia Lithwick has an interesting piece in Slate commenting on the real threats to marriage in light of Massachusetts Supreme Court's declaration that gay marriage is protected by the Constitution. Lithwick lists:
1. Divorce (~43-50% of all US marriages end in divorce)
2. Frivolous marriages (i.e. it is easier to get married than it is to drive a car, buy a gun, buy alcohol, etc.)
3. Birth control (is marriage "only for procreation"?)
4. The various challenges to our time and attention that take away from quality time with our spouses
Can MeFiers please share with those of us yet to be betrothed your secrets in keeping a marriage successful?
posted by gen
on Nov 26, 2003 -
55 comments
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.
posted by Stan Chin
on Jul 14, 2003 -
79 comments
The Wooly Bullies Of MetaFilter - Uncovered! Sweating heavily as I perused this unholy website's rhetorical machinations late into the night, I was suddenly shaken by a strange feeling of dread, for it was the spectre of MetaFilter itself I was seeing before my bulging eyes, in all its hideous familiarity, emerging from the fetid depths of my guilt-wracked soul...
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Feb 27, 2003 -
16 comments
