MetaFilter posts tagged with programs

"You know Rudolph and Frosty, Kris Kringle and Ralphie . . . "

Kibbutz — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:22:50 -0800

Park your carcass in front of the TV for the next six weeks. Here is the upcoming broadcast schedule for every show that has even the tiniest connection to The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.

OMG LOOK PUPPIES!!!!eleventy!1!

clevershark — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:07:22 -0800

Meet the TSA's newest, cuddliest employees! Sure, the TSA could spend its time and money developing a training course that won't result in a stunning 91% rate of failure in detecting weapons in carry-on luggage, but how do you make cute pictures out of that?

George: I've got rats in my tail pipe.

amberglow — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:58:32 -0800

Meet George -- 39, single, quirky sense of humour, looking for friends to chat with online. Last year, he won the Loebner Prize, to bots who can most successfully pass the Turing Test. More here from BBC. How long before we have our own Mefibots?

desktop subversibles

crunchland — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:58:36 -0800

desktop subversibles ... a collection of background subversions and awareness applications for the desktop.

Calm Down!

moonbird — Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:37:55 -0800

NPR's "All Things Considered" had a great piece on the anger management industry today and it's increasingly ubiquitous presence in many strata of American society. This is the most well known anger management company in the biz, while programs like this promote less orthodox techniques of trumping stressors.

Had any network rage lately?

OldVersion.com

mathowie — Sun, 02 Mar 2003 14:28:45 -0800

OldVersion.com bears the motto "newer is not always better." This virtual graveyard/archive of older windows programs lets you stick to versions of programs before they had advertising, before they had Digital Restrictions Management, and even those that no longer exist *sniff*. I can tell sites like this will be coming in handy as we enter a Matrix-like world of advertising, spy-ware, and DRM baked into everything, while a holdout of luddites stick with 0.9 betas of their favorite programs.

Yellowtail - gestural animation

Wet Spot — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 19:12:42 -0800

Strangely compelling. YELLOWTAIL is an interactive software system for the gestural creation and performance of real-time abstract animation. Yellowtail repeats a user's strokes end-over-end, enabling simultaneous specification of a line's shape and quality of movement. Each line repeats according to its own period, producing an ever-changing and responsive display of lively, worm-like textures. If you like the Java version, you can download the full screen version with sound.

Local Heroes

quarsan — Wed, 18 Dec 2002 02:24:09 -0800

There's one man that represents where I was brought up in Lancashire. Steeplejack Fred Dibnah. His interests include industrial archeology, traction engines and wearing flat caps. Recently he has been making history programmes for the BBC where his enthusiasm and interest in what other people are saying is given a fresh twist by his working class perspective and respect for the builders of castles, mills etc. A great man with his own way with words. So, who are your local heroes?

johnnyace — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 05:32:43 -0800

The USA Freedom Corps announced last night during the State of the Union address now has a live website for you to peruse. Is this a long-overdue program, or another feel-good waste of tax dollars? Can you name a better way to serve your country and countrymen?

rschram — Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:01:42 -0800

San Diego Opensource Convention Ends With "Positive Feelings"
The conference included a debate (documented in real time!) between Microsoft open source---what's the opposite of evangelist?---Craig Mundie and the CTO of RedHat Michael Tiemann entitled "shared source versus open source." Tiemann was feisty and "baited" Mundie, who remained cool as a cucumber. I thought we could all benefit from some postgame analysis here... (1, 2, 3)