MetaFilter posts tagged with snails

Inner City Snail

jonson — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:30:03 -0800

Inner City Snail is the sister site of the (previously Mefi'd) Little People ongoing outdoor art installation. Like the Little People project, it takes place in London & features tiny figures, only these ones are alive & vandalized.

EscarGO!

Gator — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:40:06 -0800

Katatsumuri (Escargone) (mirror here, in case you don't want to sit through a commercial), a Super Mario-ish Flash game from Japan, except instead of an Italian plumber, you are a snail. With a mustache. From the fine folks at SKT. Left click to jump, left click and hold to climb walls, reach the end-of-level ring before the time runs out. Watch the animation before each level to see what new obstacles and enemies are in store.

Holy snails!

blahblahblah — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:26:42 -0800

A rabbi, some snails, the color purple, and a 1,500 year old mystery. By puzzling through various sources, a group of researchers and religious scholars think they have found in the mollusk Murex trunculus the source of a purplish dye that was used in ancient Jewish ceremonies over a millennia and a half ago. Murex has been used for the last 3,600 years to make Imperial or Tyrian Purple, a key color in the ancient world. There are many other pigments with their own interesting stories as well.

One slip and you're dead!

Irontom — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 05:48:37 -0800

One slip and you're dead!
Marine cone snails are among the most venomous animals in existence, some producing as many as 100 different toxins. Due to their unique properties, the toxins are in hot demand for neuroscience research. Most researchers obtain the toxins from dead specimens, but one upstate New York biochemist is trying to farm them. Milking time is dangerous...

lookit that S car go!

crunchland — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:39:52 -0800

Mancala Snails ... based on the ancient game of counting and strategy. [note: flash]