MetaFilter posts tagged with cool

Fallout Monopoly

pjern — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:56:38 -0800

Good photos of cool rich midcentury Americans on yachts in New England.

maiamaia — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:47:45 -0800

Good photos of cool rich midcentury Americans on yachts in New England.

"Enjoy your 30 gold coins."

HostBryan — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:37:57 -0800

Malaria, a short "motion comic" that bends the boundaries of what that means. "Malaria" is a short film/motion comic by Edson Oda. It's unlike any motion comic you've ever seen, and you need to watch it without knowing what's coming.

From 100 to 0

Kiwi — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:19:21 -0800

The Royal Society of Chemistry is offering £1000 to the person or team producing the best and most creative explanation of the phenomenon, known today as The Mpemba Effect More on Mpemba, paper in full here.
(Previously)

Sakanaction is a band that is pretty good overall !

DoctorFedora — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:14:30 -0800

Sakanaction is a band from Sapporo with a very stylish web site and some pretty unique music videos, especially but by no means limited to: • アルクアラウンド ("Arukuaround," a play on "walk around"), which was probably their first really famous video in Japan, and which was filmed in a single long shot • ネイティブダンサー ("Native Dancer"), which totally features the fancy dancing footwork of their lead singer. Totally. • 目が明く藍色 ("An Indigo that Opens Eyes"), a long, melancholy, and surreal stop-motion video • アイデンティティ ("Identity"), a catchy and upbeat jam of sorts • 『バッハの旋律をよるに聴いたせいです。』 ("It's Because I Listened to Bach's Music at Night."), a deeply surreal but extremely cool video that is a POWERFUL EARWORM • 「僕と花」 ("The Flower and Me"), their newest single, released just two weeks ago • BONUS VIDEO: They've apparently become popular enough that they have been recruited for an identification spot for Space Shower TV, essentially basic cable Japan's version of MTV-back-when-they-played-music-videos. If you're a fan of their hard-to-categorize music (rock? new wave? synth-rock-pop?) but don't live in Japan, don't despair! Don't even despair a little bit! They're available on iTunes, even in (at the very least) the US!

You make my heart go to 12,000 RPM

Brandon Blatcher — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:07:44 -0800

"Nature is not always the best designer, at least when it comes to things that humans must build and maintain. So the newest artificial heart doesn’t imitate the cardiac muscle at all. Instead, it whirs like a little propeller, pushing blood through the body at a steady rate. After 500 million years of evolution accustoming the human body to blood moving through us in spurts, a pulse may not be necessary. That, in any case, is the point of view of the 50-odd calves, and no fewer than three human beings, who have gotten along just fine with their blood coursing through them as evenly as Freon through an air conditioner."

paint your own nebula

rebent — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 20:05:29 -0800

Paint your own nebula

Shredding Capitol Hill

Oh OK HA HA — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:31:02 -0800

Shredding Capitol Hill is about finding your playground.

Look Out Below

netbros — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:54:44 -0800

Google Earth is a program where you can look at the Earth through aerial photos. At Google Earth Cool Places (GECplaces) you can find and share weird, cool, and beautiful places. You will need Google Earth to get the most out of this website.

Dominoes, move over.

phunniemee — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:17:50 -0800

This is a stick bomb. This is an AWESOME STICK BOMB. This is an awesome kid showing you how to make your own stick bomb. This is another really great stick bomb, but it's not done by that awesome little kid, so it's not nearly as cool.

12 coolest libraries in the world

anothermug — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:11:57 -0800

The 12 coolest libraries in the world.

Coming soon to dealerships across the Forest Moon

scalefree — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 12:34:21 -0800

The future has officially arrived. Would you believe a hoverbike? OK, if that one didn't impress you maybe this one will.

wonderful mwebi

puny human — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:14:03 -0800

It's rare to find a blog where you want to grab every picture, and click every link, but that's how it is at wonderful little mwebi, and just a few clicks there leads to these other just as tantalizing micro blogs, such as The Year in Pictures, Kitschy Living, Poculum, Cool Pictures, Colorfullthings, Design Squish and Fade Away (which has a bit of a squishy design). It leaves one wondering out loud, when did blogging get cool again?

Enhance, Rotate, Zoom in.

Mitheral — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:07:20 -0800

An amazing bit of photoshoppery transforms an extreme oblique view of a poster into a straight on view.

More than you ever wanted to know.

cthuljew — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:26:08 -0800

This is by far the coolest collection of TV pilots, pitches, scripts, and supplementary documents I have ever seen. Some highlights (all in pdf format): Batman writers' guidelines; Star Trek: The Original Series pitch; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine bible; The Crow bible; All of The Prisoner scripts; Doctor Who concept notes. Previously, and also, but never highlighting the variety or sheer volume.

See Something Cite Something

oneswellfoop — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:40:58 -0800

So you found something cool on the Internet... A helpful chart that MeFites totally don't need because the Blue is all about "Found something cool on the web and want to share it with everyone else?" from Loldwell.com (previously) and Rosscott, Inc. (semi-previously) who's doing for symbols in The Noun Project (here) what xkcd did for/to stickmen.

World's Oldest Optical Illusion Found?

novenator — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 03:59:48 -0800

World's Oldest Optical Illusion Found? A 15,000 year old piece of an atlatl (spear chucker) shows definite signs of being a Gestalt shift optical illusion (as demonstrated here, here, and in the classic duck/rabbit picture). Although not as well defined as modern optical illusions (like the really tripped out Neave Strobe), it likely demonstrates a stage of cognitive awareness in human psychological development.

There's ALWAYS room for Jello.

St. Alia of the Bunnies — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 16:55:57 -0800

Glass Block Holiday Jello

Flying squid. Not as tasty as it sounds.

nomadicink — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:51:08 -0800

"From the deck of a cruise ship along the coast of Brazil, a retiree named Bob Hulse snapped some high-resolution photographs of something unusual leaping from the sea: what appears to be dozens of squid propelling themselves through the air -- quite possibly the first time the impressive display has been caught on film."

Speed-Creating

divabat — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:38:52 -0800

Dominic Wilcox (previously) spent a month speed-creating - inventing something new every day for 30 days with the resources around him. Amongst his creations are lightbulb bread, a diary in the form of measuring tape, and a football that makes smoothies.

iron tesla

philip-random — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:15:49 -0800

Iron Man on electric guitar with tesla coils. [VIDEO]

A collection of band flyers

nomadicink — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 06:51:43 -0800

"...it's probably extra easy to trace my life & interests through these galleries. They start out in Kansas (most of the early non-Lawrence/ KC ones were sent to me either by people ordering copies of my zine or by a few pals of mine who had run away to CA), and as I move around in life the bands & venues change accordingly: Kansas, Ohio, Washington DC, Kansas again, Arizona."
The Jason Willis Flyer Collection, 1981-2006

Learning to see via an iPhone

nomadicink — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:02:45 -0800

A blind man uses a mobile phone to "see":

I have never experienced this before in my life. I can see some light and color, but just in blurs, and objects don’t really have a color, just light sources...I went outside. I looked at the sky. I heard colors such as “Horizon,” “Outer Space,” and many shades of blue and gray. I used color queues to find my pumpkin plants, by looking for the green among the brown and stone. I spent ten minutes looking at my pumpkin plants, with their leaves of green and lemon-ginger. I then roamed my yard, and saw a blue flower. I then found the brown shed, and returned to the gray house.

ce qui m'a permis de scanner en très haute définition ce microcosme en permanente évolution

OverlappingElvis — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:37:20 -0800

I installed an ant colony inside my scanner five years ago.

Knock Out Eileen

WCityMike — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:22:01 -0800

"Knock Out Eileen," a rather cool mash-up by Thriftshop XL of "Come On Eileen" (Dexy's Midnight Runners) and "Mama Said Knock You Out" (LL Cool J). (slyt)