MetaFilter posts tagged with ball

What part of "mine" are you not understanding?

quin — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:25:44 -0800

Baby Panda Loves Ball. [slyt | adorable | previously]

The bullet missed his brain but severed his optic nerves

mwhybark — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 08:51:37 -0800

A Real World Series: Inside the world championship of blind baseball. "It’s different this year. I can’t get last year’s Series out of my mind, even though it ended in the last week of July, when Taiwan took two from Austin on a rainy Saturday in Ames, Iowa, to win the title in the 37th annual world series of blind baseball." As we head into the World Baseball Classic (which opens in Japan and Puerto Rico in two weeks), Peter Richmond writes about the world series of blind baseball for baseball megasite SB Nation. Via Twitter pal @yakyunightowl, who shares my passion for Japanese baseball and the Mariners.

Slow Motion Flyball

Wolfdog — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:02:09 -0800

Slow motion video from the 2011 Czech Flyball Championship: Athleticism, speed, caught balls, missed balls, clean passes, misjudged passes, and really astonishing streamers of drool. If you're wondering "What is flyball?", the short documentary What Is Flyball? might address that question. (If you're wondering why the Czech video was set to the music of HIM, I have nothing that would address that question). The Czech boxes seem to work a little differently than the ones in use in North America. Here's a short full-speed clip of a dog executing a beautiful "swimmer's turn" at the box.

The Beauty Of Physics

Bora Horza Gobuchul — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 21:56:27 -0800

Ordinary objects made beautiful by physics: a red scarf surrounded by electric fans. Half-filled water balloons and Jello (previously) dropped and shot at 6200 frames per second. Two ball bearings welded together and set to spin with a breath.

O Wobbly Ball Of Science

urbanwhaleshark — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:49:38 -0800

Levitated Interaction Element Move, record and playback a ball along a path in a three-dimensional space.

Some ball.

unSane — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:37:19 -0800

Imagine a baseball. Now imagine that same baseball with 23,000 coats of paint on it. via Peewee.

More like Mighty Sciuridae Am I Right?

The Whelk — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:54:21 -0800

A squirrel enjoys playing with a ball, to the tune of "The Mighty Mouse Theme". Strangely satisfying.

Big Red Ball

twoleftfeet — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:56:53 -0800

The Red Ball in Abu Dhabi. The Red Ball in Chicago. The Giant Red Ball at a concert hall in Portland. The Red Ball blocked a tunnel in Barcelona. It's a big Red Ball. Home page for Kurt Perschke's Redball project

Sharing is caring, isn't it?

infini — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:53:21 -0800

On the 6th of December 2011, as has been traditional for the past 9 decades since Finland's Independence, the President, Tarja Halonen and her spouse, Dr Pentti Arajarvi host what is known as the Linnan juhlat or Castle Ball, an extremely popular televised reception for the notables of the nation. Along with the usual dignitaries, the President is also permitted to select invitees based on merit - entertainers, athletes, individuals - whom she feels have been in the news in the past year. This year Peter and Teija Vesterbacka also were invited due to Peter Vesterbacka's work as the CMO of Rovio. Teija Vesterbacka wore a red dress for the evening that had design concepts from one of the birds in the mobile game Angry Birds. Highlighted in the Finnish news by the very select group of photographers permitted entry to this exclusive event, it was when the photograph of this dress went viral among global MSM that the angry birds began to fly.

The World Record is awarded for Cleanest Floor, not Longest Bird Ball Balance

BeerFilter — Sat, 28 May 2011 07:43:50 -0800

Here is a video of a budgie attempting to stand on a tennis ball.

Snail Ball

Wolfdog — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:00:56 -0800

The Geometry of the Snail Ball [pdf] - an interesting article (with some DIY advice at the end) about a toy shop curiosity you may have encountered.

School Ball Bigots: Not Just for the Southern States

rodgerd — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:27:20 -0800

''I don't think it's appropriate they feel discriminated against, and I'm very upset they feel that,'' "After inviting friends to her home for ''pre-drinks'', [Hannah Williams] stood on her doorstep and watched her classmates file into the darkness to attend one of the highlights of the school year. Instead of joining them, Hannah took off her heels and black dress and went to bed...A few weeks earlier a teacher had told the year 11 student she couldn't attend the dance with her 15-year-old girlfriend, Savannah Supski. She was asked to bring a male instead."

Pony and Ball Show

Del Far — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 10:26:48 -0800

Pony plays with a Giant Green Ball

"I Was Just So Overwhelmed by Its Sheer Immensity ... I Had to Pop Myself a Beer."

WCityMike — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:30:16 -0800

Greetings from the Twine Ball, wish you were here: "But you can't see out of the side of the car, because the windows are completely covered with the decals of all the places where we've already been: there's Elvis-O-Rama, the Tupperware Museum, the Boll Weevil Monument, and Cranberry World, the Shuffleboard Hall Of Fame, Poodle Dog Rock, and the Mecca of Albino Squirrels. We've been to ghost towns, theme parks, wax museums, and a place where you can drive through the middle of a tree ... " (A final link for all of those who are 'WTF?'-ing – plus the inspiration for the song's structure and chords.)

Swinging away

Abiezer — Thu, 20 May 2010 03:50:04 -0800

Swinging Away: How Cricket and Baseball Connect Five minute slideshow with audio from the BBC of historical images to coincide with an exhibition at Lords on the linked histories of the two bat and ball sports.

Super Sayan Spinning Front Hoof Attack!

lazaruslong — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:31:33 -0800

My brother found this deer alone and malnourished when it was a tiny baby. My family bottle fed the baby, named Theen, until he was eating grass. Several months later he's very socialized with people, our black lab, and our cats. He is free to wander if he likes and we've seen him with several herds of whitetail and axis deer. Apparently he fits in just fine with them. He frequently comes back to the house to eat some catfood and play with our dog, Buddy. He doesn't care much for deer corn. One dog. One deer. One ball.

It is what it is

iamkimiam — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:19:54 -0800

1 ball, 1 cup aka, the new rules of beer pong.

Play with your balls!

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:33:49 -0800

Friday fun: The revamped Globulos! The French suite of cute, simple mini-games -- posted before -- has in its latest incarnation finally got rid of its annoying 15-minute limit for non-paying users. Now, simply register for free and bounce those Globulos! (You could play as a guest, I guess, but that would just be lame now, wouldn't it. Oh, and you can still buy Globbies if you want to give your Globulos a moustache or whatever.)

Ball! Ball! Ball! Ball!

miss lynnster — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:55:47 -0800

Jerry the Dachshund + Ball Machine = Quality Entertainment SLYT. That is all.

The man's got balls.

GrammarMoses — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:34:55 -0800

Alex Beim's Zygote is a lightweight inflated ball that responds to pressure: Tap it or squeeze it and the internal LEDs react. The balls can act as input or output devices by being linked to a central computer, as Daniel van Tijn did here to make crowd-generated music. (See also: Dorkbot.)

That dog's gonna have serious issues.

flapjax at midnite — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:20:41 -0800

Lord (and MetaFilter), forgive me, but Dog Chases Virtual Ball. [A one-link youtube post. 44 seconds long. That is all.]

Life before the Ashes

randomination — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:07:11 -0800

Stoolball is the medieval ancestor of cricket and baseball. First mentioned in print in 1671, it was reputedly played by milkmaids, who used their bare hands as bats. The game is still played today in some parts of south-east England, but luckily with frying pan-shaped contraptions instead. An important rule is that not following the spirit of the game will get you sent off the pitch. Here are some pictures of games in progress, along with other medieval bat-and-ball games such as Nipsy and Knur & Spell. Or, if you don't like ball games, try another medieval sport, dwile flonking (play online in flash).

Juice "Test Videos"

hama7 — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:23:49 -0800

Juice "Test Videos"

NBA Gets Some Balls

pwb503 — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:55:27 -0800

Even after the bad PR brought about by the new balls used in this year's World Cup, the NBA announced today (Draft Day!) a new official game ball to be used starting next season (ESPN coverage). The new ball designed by Spalding is the first official game ball change since 1970 and only the second change in the last 60 years. Vegans will be happy to hear that it's no longer made of leather. Mark Cuban will surely weigh in with an opinion on this...

Chinlone highlight reel

jonson — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:42:56 -0800

This highlight reel of people playing the traditional Myanmar game of Chinlone is pretty amazing. Being a particularly ignorant westerner, I really had no idea of the grace & athleticism involved in the game.