MetaFilter posts tagged with mosh

Fans often form circles and then run together with physical abandon

not_the_water — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:16:46 -0800

Moshers, Heavy Metal and Emergent Behaviour: The collective behaviour of moshers at heavy metal concerts is mathematically similar to a disordered 2D gas, say physicists. Silverberg and co gathered their data by examining videos of mosh pits on You Tube, such as this one and this one. These crowds contain anything from 100 to 100,000 people. After correcting for camera shake and distortions in perspective, they used particle image velicometry techniques to measure the collective motion of moshers. What they discovered was that the speed distribution of moshers closely matches that of molecules in a 2D gas at equilibrium. That’s curious. “Why does an inherently non-equilibrium system exhibit equilibrium characteristics?”, they ask.

Telnet Times Ten Thousand

schmod — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:16:08 -0800

If you've ever worked with the command prompt on a Unix-based computer, you're likely familiar with SSH (Secure SHell), which is a program and a protocol that allows you (yes, you!) to securely access a remote system. While SSH has certainly earned the "Secure" portion of its namesake over the years, it's functionality as a shell has ironically received very little attention, and has begun to show signs of age and obsolescence: SSH doesn't work very well on mobile connections, and its support for Unicode is buggy and incomplete. A group of MIT researchers think they've found solutions to these problems, and have created Mosh as a potential successor to SSH, which fixes many of the old protocol's annoyances and shortcomings, while retaining all of SSH's security features.

The nearest thing to being alive

philip-random — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:50:38 -0800

The Wall of Death is a great song by venerable British folkie Richard Thompson (covered by REM among others) concerning a carnival sideshow attraction involving a large wooden cylinder and at least one motorcycle (previously on metafilter). The Wall of Death is also the latest permutation in mosh pit chaosity.

Social Networking Wars

chuckdarwin — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:57:32 -0800

Google's Socialstream aims to be a "a system where users can seamlessly share, view, and respond to many types of social content across multiple networks." Possibly worried about being outdone (again), Yahoo! is working on a new social networking site called Mosh. [via mobuzz]

Have you moshed enough this year?

dflemingdotorg — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 08:03:48 -0800

Santa, apparantly, brings the mosh like noone else.