Often ignored when critics talk about the history of electronic dance music - "booty music" has long played an important role. Raw, bass-heavy, hyper-sexualized, its the exact opposite of the androgynous, slick techno and house that gets most of the attention. (all links NSFW, probably)
posted to MetaFilter by empath at 1:00 PM on April 12, 2010 (52 comments)

Super Furry Animals live at the Highline Ballroom, NYC, 9.11.2009. (Previously)
posted to MetaFilter by Crane Shot at 12:32 PM on April 12, 2010 (10 comments)

Top 10 Biggest and Best Jumps Ever Does what it says on the tin [slyt]
posted to MetaFilter by mathowie at 6:50 AM on April 11, 2010 (71 comments)

Adam and Eve. Bigamist. Betty Boop. Charlie Chaplin. Execution. More. (via)
posted to MetaFilter by twoleftfeet at 3:30 AM on April 11, 2010 (15 comments)

Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906), considered “the greatest painter of India,” “the father of modern Indian art,” and a “prince among painters and a painter among princes.” Varma became renowned both for his portraiture and his paintings of Indian mythology. The painter's life and times played a major role in the shaping of the women he painted and controversy over the way he painted them. Varma's images have not just survived, but due to his vision of making them accessible to the common man, they have thrived over a century and influence movies, television, the world's most expensive sari, theatre and everyday calender art.
posted to MetaFilter by infini at 10:02 AM on April 10, 2010 (7 comments)

What just scared the crap out of me? Hallway light went on for about 15 seconds, then off, and is now burnt out.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by itesser at 3:32 AM on April 8, 2010 (19 comments)

The Obama Coalition "These general findings suggest the possibility that the political strength of voters whose convictions are perhaps best described as Social Democratic in the European sense is reaching a significant level in the United States. With effective organization and mobilization, such voters are positioned to set the agenda in the Democratic Party in the near future."
posted to MetaFilter by Glibpaxman at 1:00 PM on April 4, 2010 (37 comments)

Len Cella is a former housepainter from Broomall, Pennsylvania. He has been making short, stupid movies since long before Youtube (or indeed its userbase) was a gleam in anyone's eye. His dedication to his craft managed to get some of his Moron Movies on the Carson show. Moron Movies (1985) and More Moron Movies (1986) appeared on VHS, and have been popping up in discount bins ever since. Amazingly, they are not currently in print. You've heard of outsider music -- now enjoy a little outsider comedy.
posted to MetaFilter by Countess Elena at 4:30 PM on April 4, 2010 (20 comments)

A song begun a few years ago and just recently finished. I recorded the initial acoustic guitar track last summer in the boathouse, using a condenser and also the stero mic on my video camera. While fighting off mosquitos.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat at 5:07 AM on March 28, 2010 (14 comments)

Pour en finir avec le jugement de Dieu The completely insane and dying Antonin Artaud's last public performance, a radio show which wasn't broadcast for 30 years thereafter. English translation here.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof at 6:09 AM on March 30, 2010 (24 comments)

Kevin Coyne plays his song "Having A Party" live in Köln, 1979.
posted to MetaFilter by koeselitz at 3:57 AM on March 22, 2010 (8 comments)

Soviet CGI, circa 1968 (SLYT)
posted to MetaFilter by Chinese Jet Pilot at 12:38 PM on March 21, 2010 (20 comments)

The date was February 15, 1996. The place was the Xichang Satellite Launch Center (Google Map), situated some 64 km northwest of Xichang City, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province. At 2:50 AM, the Chinese Long March 3B rocket launched carrying the Intelsat 708, an American communications satellite. Seconds later, the worst space-related disaster in history occurred sparking a technology transfer controversy. Chinese authorities said 6 people died but video footage tells a different story.
posted to MetaFilter by stringbean at 9:39 AM on March 21, 2010 (26 comments)

SLYT: Ben Folds responds to Merton's Chat Roulette Improv (slightly NSFW: language)
posted to MetaFilter by miratime at 3:17 AM on March 21, 2010 (65 comments)

Breakout, on acid
posted to MetaFilter by delmoi at 7:06 PM on March 20, 2010 (49 comments)

OK. Alright. That's it. Ronnie of Botswana is my new favorite guitarist.
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite at 8:00 PM on March 19, 2010 (65 comments)

Many people who paint portraits try to make the painting look like a living person. Alexa Meade tries to make the person look like a painting.
posted to MetaFilter by emilyd22222 at 5:42 PM on March 15, 2010 (30 comments)

A man, a balloon and bad luck. (SLYT) A man records himself trying to get into an enormous balloon. His running commentary is Frink like.
posted to MetaFilter by zerobyproxy at 10:30 AM on March 15, 2010 (63 comments)

Paris in 26 gigapixels is a stitching of 2346 single photos showing a very high-resolution panoramic view of the French capital (354159x75570 px). Dive into the image and visit Paris like never before!
posted to MetaFilter by i_cola at 8:17 AM on March 12, 2010 (41 comments)

The man with no identity. [via]
posted to MetaFilter by Caduceus at 3:55 PM on March 10, 2010 (31 comments)

How we lost the cure for scurvy. "Now, I had been taught in school that scurvy had been conquered in 1747...but here was a Royal Navy surgeon in 1911 apparently ignorant of what caused the disease, or how to cure it. Somehow a highly-trained group of scientists at the start of the 20th century knew less about scurvy than the average sea captain in Napoleonic times."
posted to MetaFilter by rodgerd at 12:49 AM on March 8, 2010 (90 comments)

Jean-Paul LeBreton, level designer for BioShock 2, has written an analysis of the original Doom as well as remade (demade?) a level from BioShock using Doom [design notes].
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 11:13 AM on March 3, 2010 (68 comments)

"I Stopped Denying People." Former Bank of America employee Jackie Ramos appears on the Daily Show last night in a segment covering the sweeping credit card reform the went into effect last week.
posted to MetaFilter by lunit at 8:03 AM on March 3, 2010 (188 comments)

A Survey of Western Painting with Song Attached (SLYT)
posted to MetaFilter by tigrefacile at 3:40 PM on February 28, 2010 (16 comments)

Variations on Normal - the unusual inventions of Dominic Wilcox.
posted to MetaFilter by MuffinMan at 8:43 AM on February 25, 2010 (9 comments)

Computer generated music is about to get better.
posted to MetaFilter by herodotus at 7:46 PM on February 24, 2010 (44 comments)

Crash blossoms are funny despite later analysis, confusion, or web sites.
posted to MetaFilter by twoleftfeet at 4:53 AM on February 12, 2010 (49 comments)

If you like rabbits with random crap on their heads.... you'll love this site!

Oolong is so calm and patient -- he never gets angry when I take pictures of him. When I put various objects on his head, he stays still for a minute. This is just a result of an intimate relationship between me and Oolong. The main theme of my site is not to show these 'headperformance' links, and it's not my hope to propagandize nothing but the strangeness of his headperformance over the world.
posted to MetaFilter by ignu at 8:32 AM on September 10, 2001 (26 comments)

B-Rhymes is a rhyming dictionary that compares words based on their sounds, making it ideal for finding near-rhymes.
posted to MetaFilter by archagon at 2:19 AM on February 15, 2010 (27 comments)

Tonewheels: A Brief History of Optical Synthesis by Derek Holzer
posted to MetaFilter by vostok at 12:07 PM on February 11, 2010 (5 comments)

A short but epic song that dares to ask: Is our only hope in this war against the great space darkness the love of an ageless, gender neutral couple? Will their love be enough?
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp at 5:34 PM on February 10, 2010 (10 comments)

Prophetic Pictures from Menominie, Wisconsin. In 1905, high school senior Albert Hansen took photogaphs of his graduating classmates at Menominie HS. Not as they were -- but as they believed, or hoped, or feared they would be in the decades to come. Dorothy M. Jesse was going to be a mathematician, and Fred Quilling a pharmacist. Alice M. Tilleson would be a prominent socialite, whose "eccentric ideas with reference to danger, force her to cling to that old fashioned vehicle, the automobile, instead of the new wheel-less aerial motor car." William C. Klatt, a future physician, would operate on disembodied heads. And Hansen himself was destined for the hobo's life. The Wisconsin Historical Society has the whole collection available online, together with the text from the yearbook and the truth, as best the Society could learn, of how the graduates' actual future compared with prophecy. (Spoiler: Fred Quilling really did become a pharmacist.) Just one of the many remarkable collections at Wisconsin Historical Images.
posted to MetaFilter by escabeche at 11:44 PM on February 7, 2010 (25 comments)

I am concerned about the welfare of my ailing neighbour's cat. [Slightly long.]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Wendy BD at 10:24 AM on October 23, 2009 (46 comments)

Just wanted to point out a nice but sad update toward the end of this ask.me item.
posted to MetaTalk by zadcat at 10:06 PM on February 6, 2010 (40 comments)

Lessons from British folk songs
posted to MetaFilter by kenko at 4:43 PM on September 7, 2005 (19 comments)

The Fan History Project documents the history of science fiction fandom. The site covers it all: local histories, professional art, fan art, fanzines, and photos. Yes, the photos. Lots more inside.
posted to MetaFilter by marxchivist at 4:19 PM on February 4, 2010 (20 comments)

Nuit Blanche. "Nuit Blanche explores a fleeting moment between two strangers, revealing their brief connection in a hyper real fantasy." [Via]
posted to MetaFilter by homunculus at 8:00 PM on February 3, 2010 (21 comments)

Slaughterhouse 90210, where erudite literary quotes meet TV screencaps.
posted to MetaFilter by aerotive at 10:30 PM on February 2, 2010 (33 comments)

Jon Ronson On "Each week in a series of interviews, short location reports, scripted monologues, phone calls etc, Jon Ronson delves into a world of personal stories surrounding the central theme which all shed light on the human condition." You can download all the episodes here.
posted to MetaFilter by fearfulsymmetry at 2:49 AM on February 2, 2010 (15 comments)

Francesco Petrarch & Laura deNoves.
posted to MetaFilter by hama7 at 3:44 PM on July 24, 2004 (6 comments)

SLYT news report, starting with a lackluster establishing shot of a significant location.
posted to MetaFilter by stupidsexyFlanders at 9:49 AM on January 28, 2010 (121 comments)

Axe Cop! A comic written by a 5-year-old boy and illustrated by his 29-year-old brother.
posted to MetaFilter by Solon and Thanks at 6:37 PM on January 27, 2010 (89 comments)

Strange Games "What do you get if you cross a large rubber ball used for physical therapy with the medieval sport of Jousting? Yoga Ball Jousting."
posted to MetaFilter by feelinglistless at 1:40 AM on June 30, 2009 (18 comments)

i keep thinking there's something i need to do - and i keep not doing it... Recorded live in performance at Nana Hari, Hachobori, Tokyo. Here I'm accompanying myself on the strumstick. Video at YouTube and Vimeo.
posted to MeFi Music by flapjax at midnite at 9:06 PM on January 25, 2010 (5 comments)

An artifact of the 10th anniversary, with some embellishment.
posted to MeFi Music by idiopath at 10:03 PM on January 24, 2010 (2 comments)

Umbrella Today? tells you if you'll need an umbrella today. It will also text message your phone in the morning and warn you when you should bring an umbrella. (America only currently.)
posted to MetaFilter by scottreynen at 2:04 PM on September 8, 2008 (47 comments)

The only film ever made of the legendary Lead Belly.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 7:27 PM on January 12, 2010 (38 comments)

The Big Lebowski as written by Shakespeare.
posted to MetaFilter by Eideteker at 9:40 AM on January 7, 2010 (102 comments)

BREAKING NEWS: Kasparov assailed by flying dong. Possible inspiration
posted to MetaFilter by thirteenkiller at 4:07 PM on May 19, 2008 (82 comments)

101 new uses for everyday things lists some interesting and sometimes innovative ways to use things you find around the home.
posted to MetaFilter by Effigy2000 at 12:50 AM on December 30, 2009 (159 comments)