Today we're introducing a new way to find travel questions at Ask MetaFilter: Travel Locations.
posted to MetaTalk by pb at 8:27 AM on September 7, 2011 (113 comments)

"Pro tip for comic book artists: No human being alive sits like that as a way of relaxing. This is beyond ridiculous.".
posted to MetaFilter by griphus at 8:46 PM on September 2, 2011 (217 comments)

Going to the store. [Vimeo]
posted to MetaFilter by ardgedee at 11:19 AM on September 2, 2011 (68 comments)

Dune Week is CANCELED!
posted to MetaTalk by curious nu at 2:12 PM on September 2, 2011 (124 comments)

The many covers of the Dune series. / Dune fan art found on deviantart, and other, different fan art, and some even more fan art. (Dune art previously)
posted to MetaFilter by curious nu at 1:44 PM on September 1, 2011 (32 comments)

How can I soup up my apartment for maximum enjoyment, for less than $200/month?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by bonheur at 7:59 AM on August 29, 2011 (19 comments)

How do you improve your posture as an adult after a lifetime of slouching?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by mudpuppie at 12:46 PM on September 1, 2011 (33 comments)

What are examples of products/services where buying an extremely expensive version has a significant payoff (brought you happiness, lasted forever, changed your life, improved your health, etc)? Personal examples or generalizations welcome (Illustrative examples: $1000 lamp, $500 massage, etc)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by pacifica at 12:56 AM on August 31, 2011 (86 comments)

I love boring movies. Recommend me your favorites.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by theodolite at 2:09 PM on August 22, 2011 (117 comments)

Why Arabic is Terrific
posted to MetaFilter by wpenman at 4:27 PM on August 23, 2011 (66 comments)

Help me participate in a mental exercise - how do I establish a more creative mindset? Right now, I'm not creative at all, painfully aware of the fact, and feel powerless to change the situation.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jjleonard at 2:49 PM on August 11, 2011 (28 comments)

Want to know what's going on in African electronic / dance music? The BAZZERK blog will help bring you up to speed. Chock full of fun, fresh stuff.
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite at 9:05 AM on August 3, 2011 (6 comments)

When Patents Attack. The team at PRI's This American Life and NPR's Planet Money bring you an hour long look into the growing "Mafia War" around software patents. Diving into the corporate filings, patent acquisitions, and office locations of Nathan Myrhvold's Intellectual Ventures and it's shell companies, Laura Sydell and Alex Blumburg uncover a disturbing protection scheme which threatens to undermine the competitiveness of the US tech industry[pdf].
posted to MetaFilter by Popular Ethics at 6:59 PM on July 28, 2011 (122 comments)

Bill Nye, the-Sci-ence Guy
Biill Nyye, the Science Guuy
Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!
Bill Nye, the-Sci-ence Guy
(Science rules)
Bill Nye, the-Sci-ence Guy
(Inertia is a property of matter)
Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill-Bill-Bill-
Biill Nyye, the Science Guuy
Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!
(T-minus seven seconds)
Bill Nye, the-Sci-ence Guy

posted to MetaFilter by troll at 10:24 AM on August 4, 2011 (99 comments)

This post was deleted for the following reason: All my ex-posts lives in Tex-post -- cortex
posted to MetaTalk by dash_slot- at 3:23 PM on July 26, 2011 (371 comments)

Please help us finalize details of a ThereIsHelp indicator on user's profile pages who are interested in participating.
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 10:14 AM on July 25, 2011 (386 comments)

How do I avoid slacking off at work?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Anonymous at 8:46 PM on July 13, 2011 (24 comments)

"If there's one thing I've learned from working in an emergency room, it's that people are terrible liars. Maybe I only think that because the good liars don't get caught? [...] And a lie I hear almost every day in the emergency room is "I fell down the stairs. My partner loves me. They would never hurt me." [...] For a long time, I just couldn't understand this. We'd get the victim in a private room locked away from the abuser, and they'd sit there with bruises or wounds or even broken bones, in a safe place surrounded by people who wanted to help them, and they'd tell us, often through tears... "I fell down the stairs." It drove me nuts. It made me furious at the victims. Why did they do this? Did they like pain? Did they want to get murdered? Were they just unbelievably stupid? Why the HOLY LIVING FUCK would someone choose to protect and return to a partner who just broke their arm?
posted to MetaFilter by fiercecupcake at 1:59 PM on July 18, 2011 (74 comments)

What makes a woman 'good in bed'?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Anonymous at 1:45 PM on June 22, 2011 (52 comments)

In this episode we interview our intern Dom, then cover the usual excellent spots from all parts of MetaFilter. We recorded this on Monday, July 11th and it runs about an hour and a half.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 11:04 PM on July 12, 2011 (34 comments)

On the eve of MetaFilter's twelfth birthday, the Willamette Week sits down with Matt Haughey to talk about his roots at the dawn of the blogging age, the value of lifestyle work vs. captaining industry, and the future of community blogs in an online landscape increasingly dominated by Twitter, Facebook, and mobile browsing.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 6:54 AM on July 13, 2011 (102 comments)

Saving Valentina. A group of five friends out boating on the Sea of Cortez discovered a young humpback whale entangled in fishing net and possibly near death. After about an hour of hard work they were able to free the whale, who proceeded to put on an amazing show for her rescuers. [Via]
posted to MetaFilter by homunculus at 4:01 PM on July 14, 2011 (43 comments)

Why do people believe something even after it's been proven false? A new study confirms that "the effect of misinformation on memory and reasoning cannot be completely eliminated even after it's been corrected."
posted to MetaFilter by zooropa at 6:53 AM on July 15, 2011 (73 comments)

I got caught on the SkyTrain (Vancouver) without a valid fare. Enter the $173 fine, which I can't really afford. I would love to hear about your experiences either disputing or flat out not paying a SkyTrain fine.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Anonymous at 11:14 AM on July 13, 2011 (16 comments)

What notable "creative types" started out late in the game?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Vrai at 6:32 AM on July 5, 2011 (34 comments)

Using a computer for the first time. A Firefox UXer has an interesting encounter with someone who has never used a computer before and we all learn something. (Also, Jessamyn has a nice comment.)
posted to MetaFilter by dame at 10:45 AM on July 7, 2011 (128 comments)

I'm looking for quotes that basically convey - it's not about you / get over yourself.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by kitcat at 4:32 PM on July 4, 2011 (24 comments)

John Hyduk, a middle aged blue collar worker in Cleveland, writes about his daily existence.
posted to MetaFilter by reenum at 8:23 AM on June 28, 2011 (46 comments)

MeFi's Summer Intern is blogging about his job. Via Projects.
posted to MetaTalk by zarq at 8:48 AM on June 27, 2011 (238 comments)

In a job interview, the interviewer asks the interviewee questions. But what questions should the interviewee ask the interviewer?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by lockstitch at 10:18 AM on June 17, 2011 (29 comments)

The much-beloved Arrested Development was characterized by its complex, multilayered narrative jokes; here the A. V. Club analyzed a 50-second-long clip and tried to map out all its references (including one very subtle three-part joke about eggs). Luckily for you, there’s a very exhaustive web site, The Balboa Observer-Picayune, which documents the show’s obscurest jokes (H. Maddas, Blackstool, GOB’s ice obsession), its cleverest callbacks (Hello’s revenge, ”Mom says”, pilot/finale callbacks), its visual gags (yearbooks, newspapers, cartoons, Amazon), and its longest-running gags (I’ve made a huge mistake”, “Her?”, Cloud Mir, ”Hey, brother!”, and the chicken dance). Complete index of references at the Bluthcyclopedia. Complete transcripts of every episode. Bonus songs! All You Need Is Smiles. Yellow Boat. Big Yellow Joint. Hot Cops. It Ain’t Easy Being White. Discipline Daddy. Motherboy. Balls in the Air. You Here With Me. I Get Up. Finally, Fonzie jumps the shark again.
posted to MetaFilter by Rory Marinich at 7:59 AM on June 16, 2011 (291 comments)

Current TV previously & previously, the media company founded by Al Gore after the 2000 election, has picked up the kinds of in depth long form journalism being rapidly dropped by major networks, but has been tantalizingly unavailable for those without cable; until now. They have been putting their Vanguard episodes up on their website and on YouTube.
posted to MetaFilter by Blasdelb at 4:31 PM on April 30, 2011 (23 comments)

Can anybody recommend great books that have unique formats, such as Flatland, Sum, The Gay Science, and The Devil's Dictionary?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by philosophistry at 2:49 PM on June 7, 2011 (56 comments)

Hyper-literate pony: LibraryThing's "Currently Reading" list -> Profile Pages?
posted to MetaTalk by Apropos of Something at 9:31 PM on June 6, 2011 (61 comments)

Working on the railroad; 5.17 flash video that is strangely hypnotic.
posted to MetaFilter by bwg at 5:00 PM on May 27, 2011 (37 comments)

What are unnecessarily formal "academic jargon" type words that I should seek and destroy in my papers?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by lollusc at 5:48 PM on May 28, 2011 (65 comments)

Atari Teenage Riot is the sound of punk, breakbeat and glitchy electronics, with a message behind the noise, something of the modern version of a riot set to music. The German group was briefly associated with the Phonogram record label back in 1993, but only long enough get a record deal with an unrecoupable advance, piss off the label, cut those ties and form their own new label: Digital Hardcore Recordings. From there, the group made three albums and about a dozen singles and EPs, toured the world, then went quiet in 2000. That is, until last year when the group reformed to tour, and the revised cast of characters recorded a new album, which is streaming online. Step inside for more history and noise.
posted to MetaFilter by filthy light thief at 11:59 AM on May 25, 2011 (45 comments)

Why America is the 'no vacation nation'. (CNN) -- Let's be blunt: If you like to take lots of vacation, the United States is not the place to work.
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle at 6:26 PM on May 23, 2011 (329 comments)

Steven Wittens uses WebKit to rethink the UNIX terminal [via]
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon at 4:12 AM on May 19, 2011 (204 comments)

Best books about manipulating people - e.g. via game theory, behavioural economics, inaccurate cognitive algorithms and so on?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by kid A at 6:45 AM on May 13, 2011 (24 comments)

Metafilter shoutout on Treme. Did anybody else catch it?
posted to MetaTalk by ereshkigal45 at 7:58 PM on May 8, 2011 (178 comments)

I've pin-pointed a number of activities that would positively improve my life, but am having trouble implementing them because I seem to either have no self control or willpower or am impressively lazy and good at procrastination. Help me gain some?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by good day merlock at 12:08 PM on May 3, 2011 (13 comments)

"I'm dead, and this is my last post to my blog." Writer, editor, musician and marine biologist Derek Miller, author of Penmachine, wrote this blog post to be published after his death from colorectal cancer. He died on May 3rd.
posted to MetaFilter by mathewi at 10:40 AM on May 4, 2011 (74 comments)

How is pizza made at a major chain pizza restaurant?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jca at 8:38 AM on April 19, 2011 (49 comments)

Where do IT people go to work when they don’t want to do IT anymore, or even work in a corporate environment? In which jobs and/or careers would IT experience be valuable?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by bondcliff at 8:44 AM on April 19, 2011 (24 comments)

Man unveils interactive toothpick sculpture of San Francisco that took 35 years to create . Mindblowing. (single vimeo link)
posted to MetaFilter by the_bone at 12:43 AM on April 23, 2011 (56 comments)

How to earn extra $400-500/mo. with limited hours and 8-5 job? Specifally, seeking good at-home/on the side or Saturday/Sunday A.M. job ideas.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Dukat at 12:55 PM on April 19, 2011 (13 comments)

How do I learn to think and react more quickly, especially in surprise situations or high excitement and/or stress situations.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by [insert clever name here] at 4:04 PM on April 1, 2011 (15 comments)

I'm starting a new job. What are the weird little things you do on a daily, or weekly basis to a) get up to speed in a new workplace, or b) 'get your game on' to be worky/professional at your job, or c) quite literally, not go crazy from work-stress?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Elysum at 8:38 PM on April 4, 2011 (12 comments)

How do I improve my posture?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by beccyjoe at 6:37 PM on April 11, 2011 (25 comments)