MetaFilter posts tagged with dragon

How to Raise a Dragon

mccarty.tim — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:18:05 -0800

Preemptive Friday Flash Fun: How to Raise a Dragon, a game by Gregory Weir, where you make decisions about a dragon's development. Nice pixel art style. I debated putting "game" in quotes in a naive attempt to stave off the argument over whether or not games are art.

Are all magocracies geriocracies? Or only most?

kaibutsu — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:19:49 -0800

From the Dungeon to the Dictionary. A brief discussion of the origins of that least popular form of government, the magocracy, the author analyzes the dweomer of the word itself, consulting many a hefty libram in the process.

Muppets' Exclusive La Choy Fire Breathing Dragon

Frasermoo — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:40:00 -0800

Muppets' Exclusive La Choy Fire Breathing Dragon! While on the road to success, Jim Henson's creations were used in the advertising world. The La Choy pitch is a great insight into the workshop's early genius. Further commercials aplenty. See Rowlf sell IBM! *credit to YT uploader batman1971 *

SpaceX finally makes it to orbit

b1tr0t — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:52:37 -0800

SpaceX's fourth flight was successful. Scaled Composites' X-Prize winning SpaceShipOne made the first privately funded hop into space. SpaceX just took the next big step and inserted a dummy payload into orbit. Next, they will launch the much larger Falcon 9 and later test out the human-carrying Dragon. CEO Elon Musk also enjoys dabbling in banking and exotic electric cars.

But what about the platypi?

ntk — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:46:48 -0800

It's hard to believe that, back before the Internet but after the first edition of Dungeons of Dragons, there was a time when we had no easy way to pool the world's knowledge of evolutionary biology, lizard genetics, Pern, and martians to answer that most pressing question: should male RPG fans draw female humanoids descended from dragons with ginormous racks, or without?

Save vs. Recession +5

boo_radley — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:59:26 -0800

Fantasy Stock Market Limit Break Go! A literal interpretation of fantasy stock market trading in Dungeons and Day Traders reg. req. Start with the rules and get trading in a week long mishmash of pyrolisks and porkbellies, mushrooms and margins, dragons and drawdowns...

Nimian Hunter

crunchland — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:58:14 -0800

Nimian Hunter ~ Ride your horse, lasso the creatures, and feed your demon. (note: flash)

2D => 3D

MetaMonkey — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:38:57 -0800

Carnegie Mellon researchers have created a program that can automatically generate a 3-D model from a single photograph, using machine learning. Take a look at this high-res comparison of original and generated images, also demonstration animations and downloadable videos (with executables). [via /. see also: a little on human 3d perception at everything2, groovy dragon illusion]

wanna live forever?

leotrotsky — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:40:24 -0800

fable of the dragon-tyrant 'an actual fable with an actual moral.'

COW! CUBE! COWUUUBE!

homunculus — Mon, 09 Feb 2004 14:27:31 -0800

The Zoology Dragon. "Rather than, as has previously been thought, a slow process of evolution, we now know that all animals were created by the Zoology Dragon. Unfortunately, we also know that the current Zoology Dragon is a bit shit." [Flash.]