MetaFilter posts tagged with instructional

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.

Duck & Cover Film Festival! Wheeeeeee!

miss lynnster — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:06:41 -0800

"For the quarter-century following World War II, a special kind of classroom film received wide circulation. These "mental hygiene" films thrived in a confused and nervous America. The rebellious behavior of young people challenging the social norms struck fear into the hearts of parents and educators, who saw dark futures for the teens who broke the rules and refused to fit in with society. These concerned adults embraced the metal hygiene film as a new means of delivering social guidance." Program One: Mann ers, Menstr uation and The American Way; Program Two: Dating, Deli que ncy and Diver sity; Program Three: Conf orm ity, Safety and The Bomb

Special Bonus: Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, Mitch Rouse & Steven Colbert re-enact How To Be Popular (from Program Two).

Music video for an imaginary song

jonson — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:18:34 -0800

Crumbs is a music video to a song built from splicing together instructional tapes for drums, bass & jazz guitar, using loops & selective editing to build a song out of the three distinct elements. Link goes to embedded quicktime.

The Japanese scientist in the white labcoat says so

reformedjerk — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 07:26:03 -0800

Everything you thought you knew about stirring beverages, putting on Band-Aids, rolling up sleeves, removing carpet stains, de-scaling fish, and quieting crying babies is wrong or inefficient.

Building blocks of knowledge

a47danger — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 06:05:37 -0800

We all have a lot of questions that are very hard to answer. Like how to prepare cereal, how to prepare a Pop Tart correctly, and how to walk like a ballerina. Luckily, wikiHow is there to help us dummies.