MetaFilter posts tagged with howto

How to eat a chicken wing

srboisvert — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:19:28 -0800

Lisa Needs Braces!

The Whelk — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:08:25 -0800

Saturday Night Simpsons Dance Remix Post: Dennal Plan, a remix, How it was made Available in Reversed!

October 25 2009 isn't THAT far away...

hippybear — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:45:12 -0800

It's time to start planning for this year's Thrill The World! Ever since I saw Jennifer Garner totally save a party doing the Thriller dance, I've wanted to learn it, just in case... Now anyone can learn it! Callous MeFites might have already seen myriad versions; how many have danced it themselves? Shake off the dust of the crypt by shaking your bootie. You know you want to... It'll make you feel good.

How-to Videos and Wikis

netbros — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:25:24 -0800

Howcast shows engaging, useful how-to videos and wiki guides. A few examples include: How to Do Polyphasic Sleeping, How to Make a Fried Onion Blossom, or How to Do a Frontside 180 Ollie. Founded by veterans of Google and Youtube.

That old homemade sound.

OmieWise — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:25:28 -0800

How to Build: A simple washtub bass. Some variations (on a crazily made webpage). A cookie tin banjo. (Previously) A cigar box guitar, and a cigar box ukulele. A fancy cigar box uke. (Kathy Marsushita's whole amateur luthier projects page is worth checking out, as is this gallery of cool cigar box ukes.)

Arts & Crafts Videos from Etsy

Kattullus — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:01:14 -0800

Etsy has a YouTube channel where they have all kinds of profiles of their users and how-to guides. My two favorite series are the Process series (e.g. New Books with Old Materials & Tin Toys) and Handmade Portraits (e.g. Armor Guitars & Wood Mosaics). In the description of each video there is a link to the corresponding entry on Etsy's blog, The Storque. The blogposts have more information on the users and sometimes further links and videos. [via Work in Progress]

How to Love Golden Age Comics

carsonb — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:24:20 -0800

How to Kick a Person in the Teeth | How to Contemplate the Back of Your Pate | How to Eat Beans Without Soiling Your Jeans | How to Get Your Beard Sheared | How to Sharpen Your Wits | How to Block a BackSlapper's Sock | How to Grope for Bathtub Soap | How to Eat Crackers in Bed | How to See TV | How to Keep a Cool Conk | How to Double Your Bubble Gum Bubble | How (Not) to Reel on a Banana Peel | How to Tweak a Beak | How to Fall on Your Face | How to Laugh at a Bum Joke
...and many more hilarious how-tos from Basil Wolverton's Culture Corner. All the Culture Corner strips are also available together as a PDF or Comic Book Archive (.cbz). For lots more classic comic strip goodness check out the Golden Age Comics archive, an amazing collection of public domain comics freely available for download.

Delicious With Mayonnaise

mannequito — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:28:51 -0800

Secrets of a True Master : How To Make A Carrot Ocarina {slyt} Metafilter never ceases to amaze me - people who make carrots into instruments have been discussed not once, not twice, but thrice in the past two years. (hope I didn't miss this hiding in one of the other threads)

For some reason, Usenet was full of cranks

The Whelk — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:00:03 -0800

How to Argue With Zompist: Or Social-Skills 101 A helpful guide for online discussion and debate written by Mark Rosenfelder with some help from notmydesk and others.

How to bake a potato

Citizen Premier — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:28:31 -0800

How to bake a potato. I've got mine in the oven right now.

Make your own pruno and may God have mercy on your soul

sveskemus — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:37:59 -0800

How to make prison wine out of oranges, sugar and ketchup. Part of the series "How to do some idiotic things."

YouTuberama

nickyskye — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:22:20 -0800

YouTubeFilter: The Monty Python Channel: "No more of those crap quality videos you've been posting. We're giving you the real thing - HQ videos delivered straight from our vault." l a feast of vids 70 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube ( Smart Video Collections) l Book TV on YouTube l Computer History Museum on YT l 100 Awesome Youtube Vids for Librarians l Top 5 Most Inspirational Videos on YouTube l Top 10 Amazing Animal Videos l Top 10 YouTube Hacks l a couple of good YT member collections: TEDTalksDirector's YT vids and Basic Computer HowTo by Help Me Rick on YT l Amazing YouTube Video Tools Collection l Is YouTube the Next Google?

Making Statues

dame — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:12:04 -0800

Making the Sculpture. Tom Otterness, the guy behind those sculptures that make riding the A almost bearable (aka Life Underground), explains how bronze casting is done in a way even an idjit like me can understand.

Pickled MeFi in a jar: just add snark and food coloring!

grapefruitmoon — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:36:16 -0800

Wish you had a good tapeworm in a jar to go with your new sofa? How about a nice pickled carnivorous sea monster for the mantle? Make your own! This is ostensibly for Halloween, but personally, I would totally have a pickled octopus on display all year 'round.

Make a Pancake (Make Make a Pancake).

grapefruitmoon — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:16:48 -0800

Make make a pancake from Atlanta all the way to the Great Lakes! [via]

"Nothing like a meeting you have to carb up for"

nthdegx — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:45:01 -0800

A runner's primer

Purgatory Iron Works

Upton O'Good — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:00:38 -0800

The folks at Purgatory Iron Works are making a series of 10-minute how-to videos for beginning blacksmiths. Current introductory topics include anvils, building a forge (part 2), and making charcoal (part 2); if there are topics you'd particularly like to see, the host is taking requests.

Do The Indie Kid

jontyjago — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:40:36 -0800

Hands Behind Your Back. Do the Indie Kid (SLYT).

How to do stuff

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:06:29 -0800

Quamut — learn how to write cover letters, crochet baby booties, make a home, how to self-medicate, and do other stuff.

Improve your Rock Band drumming technique

nthdegx — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:41:26 -0800

Improve your Rock Band drumming technique. Rock Band as in the videogame, that is.

Teach Me How!

brain_drain — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:51:44 -0800

A Big List of Sites That Teach You How To Do Stuff. That is what this is.

"Report a la bug. (That's French for bug report)." Halo 3 Linkorama.

nthdegx — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:55:47 -0800

Halo 3: Easter eggs, including the excellent Red Vs Blue in-game dialog easter egg; the RvB Halo 3 beta initiation; 3D images and how-to (dig out your glasses); achievements, ranks, armor, skulls, and campaign scoring explained; Bungie's favorites (videos, pics, maps, game variants to download to your 360)... and that grenade stick.

Algorithms for dumb security questions

nthdegx — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:09:58 -0800

Algorithms for dumb security questions

Lines and splines

tepidmonkey — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:45:08 -0800

So You Want to Create a Font (Part 1, Part 2). For something with a less presumptive title, there’s this, this, this, this, this, or even this, Eric Gill’s An Essay on Typography.

Plans for simple plywood boats

LobsterMitten — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:19:03 -0800

Hannu's Boatyard is a site by a Finnish guy who offers free plans for two dozen simple plywood boats you can build, along with photos illustrating the build process of each. He also describes basic woodbending technique and some of the design process, in a pleasing writing style that makes me want to get off the internet and make things. My favorites: Portuguese style dinghy; tiny stubby halfpea; round, Welsh-style coracle -- if you click on no other link today, click on the coracle link and scroll down at least to the black and white photo.