MetaFilter posts tagged with birthday

It's the Birthday Happy Birthday Song Contest

aniola — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:42:16 -0800

"Free Music Archive and Creative Commons want to dethrone one of the most notoriously copyrighted songs in the world. " [via mefi projects]

Rita Hayworth is Stayin' Alive

flex — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:27:36 -0800

Rita Hayworth is Stayin' Alive Rita Hayworth was born on October 17th, 1918.* Rita Hayworth, Tragic Princess from The Hairpin's "Scandals of Classic Hollywood" series (previously)

Happy Birthday, Julia

zarq — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:48:42 -0800

Tomorrow would have been Julia Child's 100th birthday. To celebrate, PBS Digital Studios offers: Julia Child Remixed. They also have created a celebration page, complete with an infographic, recipes, quotes, videos and more. In the weeks leading up to her birthday, PBS has been releasing full episodes of her shows to stream online, at The Julia Child Video Collection: * In Julia’s Kitchen: "Julia takes an in-depth look at contemporary American cooking: she cooks with the pros, detailing their techniques and dishes for the home cook." * Baking With Julia: "Julia hosts America’s leading chefs to bake dishes ranging from bread to petit fours to cakes and cookies. Plus, don’t miss Julia wield a blow torch." * Cooking With Master Chefs: "Watch Julia share the kitchen with America’s top chefs, including Jacques Pepin, Lidia Bastianich, Emeril Lagasse, Alice Waters and more." * Cooking in Concert Series: "Julia partners with Jacques Pepin and Graham Kerr to thrill crowds in these live specials that illustrate the skill, humor and personality of the masters." * The French Chef: The show that started it all: "Share Julia’s love of fine French food and learn to cook some of her most loved dishes with this special collection of 3 episodes from her original 1960s series." * Julia & Jacques: Cooking at Home (Hulu link) "Julia Child and Jacques Pepin join together with fire, fun and culinary genius in what became another classic hit. This was Julia’s last series on PBS." In 1999, Child was interviewed for TV Legends, and spoke about her life and early influences. Site. Playlist. Parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 The French Chef: Boeuf Bourguignon, aka Beef Burgandy Recipes * PBS Food * Gallery and Recipes from the Washington Post. * Julia Child's Recipe Series from the Smithsonian * Random House: Recipes from Mastering the Art of French Cooking Simply Recipes: Julia Child * NYT: The Julia Child Recipes Home Cooks Still Make * YumSugar: 7 Standout Julia Child Recipes * Ladies Home Journal: Meryl Streep's and Amy Adams' Favorite Julia Child Recipes Essays and Tributes * PBS: Celebrity Chef Tributes * WGBH: Home of The French Chef, they're posting video clips and recipes on their blog * Jacques Pepin: Memories of a Friend, Sidekick and Foil * Russel Morash, Jr., Director of The French Chef * Tori Avey / The History Kitchen: Brave, Curious, Bright and Fearless: A Tribute to Julia Child * Melissa Clarke / NYT: On a Floating Island with Julia Child Additional Articles and Reference Pages * 2009 Vanity Fair: Laura Jacobs on Julia Child * The New York Times: Julia Child * Biography.com Previously on MeFi * Oniongate * How to Make Primordial Soup * Julia Child, Superspy * Julia Child dies at 91

Another banner year for scanning cats and filtering metas

reprise the theme song and roll the credits — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:57:27 -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.

They say it's your birthday

beagle — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:26:35 -0800

President Obama: Birthday Cake Giver-in-Chief (12-photo slideshow)

That German that sent Americans to the Moon

Brandon Blatcher — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:49:10 -0800

Remembering Wernher von Braun on his 100th Birthday.

My Royal Canadian Mint Coins

unliteral — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:41:52 -0800

Taxali is not my original last name. It was changed 300 years ago to Taxali by a Maharaja in India. My ancestor invented a coin that was difficult to counterfeit and was subsequently knighted Taxali by the Maharaja. It means, "Maker or Steward of The Mint". How serendipitous!! Here I am, 300 years later, honouring my ancestor's achievements and mine and my sister's family name. via [Drawn]

The Original Rebecca Black

hermitosis — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:43:59 -0800

Back in the '80s, Kris Kardashian celebrated her 30th birthday with a very special video tribute to her friends. Yes, that's OJ Simpson in there! And for those who will inevitably ask, Kris is the mother of the Cerberus known as Kourtney, Kim, and Khloé.

Party of Lost Children

murphy slaw — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:01:46 -0800

The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party was a popular children’s birthday-party venue that was run out of several locations in North Toronto in the 1980's. Whisked away in a hearse, throngs of elementary-school children were led through a "magical underground kingdom" by teenaged attendants, participating in whipped-cream fights and shopping-cart bumpercars, with no parents allowed. People who grew up in Toronto a the time look back at the Mad Hatter with mixed feelings.

Happy 200th, Franz!

falameufilho — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:55:17 -0800

Yesterday was Franz Liszt's 200th birthday. Celebrate by watching performances of his most famous piece, the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, by Tom & Jerry, Woody Woodpecker or perhaps Bugs Bunny. Or maybe you prefer something less cartoonish?

Happy Birthday Linux!

kmz — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:09:12 -0800

"What would you like to see most in minix?" 20 years ago today, Linus Torvalds told the world about a small pet project he was working on. (Full thread.) An unnamed OS based in part on Minix, it would later become Linux, the operating system behind a huge swath of modern computing. Interestingly, the creator of Minix, Andrew Tanenbaum, was not very impressed by Linux, and publicly debated Linus and others in a very long Usenet argument. (Google Groups version.)

Cat-Scan.com

Argyle — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:17:10 -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.

A half-century of evil

Trurl — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 05:37:02 -0800

Join me and Satan in celebrating the 50th birthday of respiratory therapist turned Kerrang! Hall of Famer Tom Araya of Slayer.

I was so much older then. I’m younger than that now

Lovecraft In Brooklyn — Thu, 19 May 2011 18:37:45 -0800

Bob Dylan turns 70 next Tuesday. Why not start the party early by listening to 2ser's annual Bob Dylan Birthday Marathon on Saturday? It's streaming online from 7pm, Sydney time. Dylan has recently denied that China censored his shows, an allegation levelled against him by Maureen Dowd but opposed by Sean Wilentz.

Well, just take n=1...right?

King Bee — Wed, 04 May 2011 09:21:29 -0800

In the afternoon of May 4, 1971, in the Stouffer's Somerset Inn in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Steve Cook presented his STOC paper proving that Satisfiability is NP-complete and Tautology is NP-hard. 40 years ago today, Cook presented his paper on the problem we know today as the "P v. NP" problem, or the hypothesis "P = NP". From the wikipedia link: "Suppose that solutions to a problem can be verified quickly. Then, can the solutions themselves also be computed quickly?" If you can answer this question, you'll get a million dollars from the Clay Institute and a ton of accolades. Some interesting problems which are not known to be in P or NP-complete are the integer factorization problem. Even still, if it turns out that P=NP, then we're going to have to retire RSA encryption. (previously, and the fatal flaws in the proposed "proof")

Hello everybody out there using minix

DU — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 05:11:40 -0800

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.

With these words, an unknown hacker named Linus Torvalds released Linux into the world, 20 years ago this year. PS. ... It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(. Today Linux is the most portable kernel in the world, running on everything from phones to TVs to routers. And of course when coupled with the GNU set of tools and utilities forms an operating system of unrivaled power and freedom.

TWO CARS! TWO CARS! TWO CARS!

boo_radley — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:51:41 -0800

Happy Birthday Taylor!

a christmas birthday to remember

sarastro — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 22:42:40 -0800

These days, with Christmas getting more and more commercial, it's occasionally hard to keep track of all the reasons to celebrate. One of the big reasons though is a very special birthday. The birth of something that changed the world. I'm referring, of course, to the birth of the world wide web. Happy 20th Birthday Internet!

240 million strong, and growing!

Mister Fabulous — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:26:48 -0800

Happy Birthday Windows 7, Happy Birthday Windows 7, thank God you aren't Vista, Happy Birthday Windows 7. Windows 7 is a year old today. Currently, 240,000,000 licenses have been sold, and Windows 7 is estimated to be on 1.2 billion computers. Also, XP pushes closer to obsolescence as it will no longer be installed on netbooks.

You May Say I'm a Dreamer

morganannie — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 06:53:39 -0800

He was born 70 years ago. Killed almost 30 years ago. Museums around the world are celebrating his legacy. His Google Doodle isn't live in the US yet but you can see it on Google UK. And oh, yea...the FBI is still interested in him too.

Everyday Is A Good Day

gman — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:28:56 -0800

Walter Breuning reminisces about his life in three centuries. As the oldest man in the world and in celebration of his 114th birthday on September 21, Mr. Breuning agreed to this exclusive interview. Questions were gleaned via the internet from individuals around the world.

Happy Birthday, Bugs & Elmer

chavenet — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:14:10 -0800

Bugs Bunny just turned 70. So did Elmer Fudd. Their simultaneous debut came 70 years ago yesterday, in A Wild Hare. Be vewwy, vewwy quiet.... Previously: Tex Avery

Metafilter is dis many years old: !!!!!!!!!!!

The Devil Tesla — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:18:16 -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.

Happy 115th, Mr Fuller!

filthy light thief — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:17:43 -0800

When he was 32, his life seemed hopeless. He was bankrupt and without a job. He was grief stricken over the death of his first child and he had a wife and a newborn to support. Drinking heavily, he contemplated suicide. Instead, he decided decided that his life was not his to throw away: it belonged to the universe. Buckminster Fuller embarked on "an experiment to discover what the little, penniless, unknown individual might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity." If the architect, author, designer, inventor, and futurist Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller were still alive, he would be 115 years old today. Though he died in 1983, his legacy grows on through recordings of his ideas and the Buckminster Fuller Institute. Bucky did not arise from nothing on his 32nd birthday, but came from a long line of New England Nonconformists, including his great-aunt Margaret Fuller, an American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement, who is credited with writing the first major feminist work in the United States. In 1917 Fuller married Anne Hewlett, daughter of James Monroe Hewlett, an architect who had created a modular compressed fiber-block building material. Fuller himself supervised the erection of several hundred houses, but the construction company encountered financial difficulties in 1927 and Fuller was forced out. With the earlier death of his daughter in 1922, and now faced with caring for his wife and a newborn child, It was then that Buckminster Fuller set a goal of making a difference in the world at large. Though he had no official degree (he entered Harvard on a legacy, but was expelled twice - the first time for consorting with a dance troupe), Bucky started designing systems to address real-world needs and demands with the minimum amount of resources, often in very unconventional ways. One series of efforts started in 1927, with the design of the Dymaxion house. Dymaxion was a combination of three of Bucky's favorite words: DY (dynamic), MAX (maximum), and ION (tension). The first (and only) model was built until 1946, in Wichita, Kansas. It was supposed to cost about $6,500 in 1946, approximately the cost of a high-end automobile. Though it survived a near-miss with a tornado in 1964, the home was later abandoned. It was taken apart in 1992 and over the next eight years, Henry Ford Museum staff researched the house, and cleaned and restored its 3,000 components. On October 24, 2001, the restoration complete and the Dymaxion House was opened to the public. The Dymaxion line of creations also includes the Dymaxion map and the Dymaxion car (wobbly YT video, featuring Amelia Earhart amongst others). The Dymaxion map was called the Air-Ocean World by Fuller, based on an early effort to optimize air travel based on small connecting flights instead of long trips. The resulting map was a fairly accurate representation of the world, though the earlier Bernard J.S. Cahill butterfly map is considered more accurate. The Dymaxion car was another brainchild of 1927 that was refined for years. Three cars were produced, though only one is known to remain. One was ill-fated, surviving a fatal accident and being restored, only to be accidentally destroyed in a fire, and a second is lost and considered scrapped. Other items from Fuller with the Dymaxion name include his polyphasic sleep schedule, which he called Dymaxion sleep, as detailed in this 1943 Time magazine article, and the compendium of Fuller's lifetime of work, notes and associated recordings that is known as the Dymaxion Chronofile. In one of his last (lengthy, thought-provoking) public writings, Bucky noted that the "Chronofile" consisted of 750 12" x 10" x 5" volumes in 1981. Originally the Fuller Archives were curated by the Buckminster Fuller Institution, and in 1999 the Fuller archives were transferred to the Stanford University Libraries, where they are housed today. There is a lot of material online, including some fantastic audio, and though it is freely accessible, it requires you sign up for a password. If you're looking for more material, check the Buckminster Fuller Virtual Institute. Warning: heavy use of dated HTML, but the bibliography and itinerary is worth checking out. Bucky Fuller was not only a scientific mind, but also an artistic one. He is cited as a vague or possibly indirect influence on Warhol, through his painting of Romany Marie's restaurant with shiny aluminum paint. That act inspired Isamu Noguchi (seen here in a Dymanxion car, next to Dorothy Hale) to paint his own studio silver, before Warhol's Factory space turned silver.

TILLYKKE MUKHTAR

creeky — Mon, 17 May 2010 23:50:34 -0800

Mukhtar is a bus driver who gets a surprise for his birthday.