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RPG Design Books?

There are a lot of books about video game design theory and philosophy. Are there any similar books about tabletop RPGs?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by adamdschneider at 3:12 PM on January 24, 2012 (11 comments)

Should I switch careers and learn to code?

I'm considering doing a career 180 and learning how to code. Should I do this? Do I have what it takes? What is it like to program for a living? Details within...
posted to Ask MetaFilter by lukievan at 8:10 AM on January 5, 2012 (14 comments)

Beginner bass guitar tips please

Beginner bass guitar tips please
posted to Ask MetaFilter by choppyes at 5:43 PM on December 1, 2011 (7 comments)

Henry + Glenn = 4ever

Four friends who collectively call themselves Igloo Tornado wrote a series of fictional tales of the love between Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig, plus some jokes from their Satan worshiping neighbors, Daryl Hall and John Oates. This land of make-believe is contained in Glenn & Henry Forever. There isn't a preview in one handy location, but various interviews, reviews, and blogs have posted some of the comics (more: Henry has no shoes, Hall & Oats play D&D, a postcard from Henry to Glenn, and a page from Danzig's diary). Danzig, often the butt of internet jokes, was not thrilled. His thoughts were made into a final comic. Oh, and there's an anti-Christmas animation special/advert. And a gallery show with more artists joining the fun.
posted to MetaFilter by filthy light thief at 12:17 PM on October 3, 2011 (18 comments)

How do I scrape information from a website?

How do I scrape information from a website?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by darkgroove at 9:10 AM on October 4, 2011 (12 comments)

Looking for a scale subway map

Can you direct me toward a scale map of the New York City transit system?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RajahKing at 6:41 AM on October 4, 2011 (10 comments)

Let's assume that I am the stupidest person that ever lived. Explain to me what JavaScript is, what it does, and how a moron would go about learning it...

Let's assume that I am the stupidest person that ever lived. Explain to me what JavaScript is, what it does, and how a moron would go about learning it...
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Senor Cardgage at 4:33 PM on September 7, 2011 (36 comments)

two player games?

My boyfriend and I are sick of watching tv at night. Board game suggestions for two players only?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by pintapicasso at 10:27 AM on September 16, 2011 (45 comments)

Sounds like Lustmord.

How do I make huge cavernous droney music?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by googly at 1:09 PM on September 14, 2011 (12 comments)

kitchen nightmares - UK and US version. why is there such a huge difference in quality?

kitchen nightmares - UK and US version. why is there such a huge difference in quality?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by canned polar bear at 5:24 AM on August 18, 2011 (26 comments)

Sandwiches of the future.

I enjoy sandwiches, but I am looking for an alternative filler to the standard meat and cheese that I would normally put in them.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by 517 at 5:50 PM on September 19, 2010 (59 comments)

The Shining

I was recently watching The Shining and I was struck by what an amazing movie it is. I'm not very well versed in film theory, so I was wondering if someone who knows film can tell me, from a critical perspective, what makes it such a great movie.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by codacorolla at 8:13 AM on April 10, 2011 (38 comments)

Death and Life of American Planning

The Death and Life of American Planning - Planning professor Thomas J. Campanella discusses the legacy of Jane Jacob's effect on planning in America: First: "Privileging the grassroots over plannerly authority and expertise meant a loss of professional agency." Second: " It diminished the disciplinary identity of planning." Third: "The seeming paucity among American planners today of the speculative courage and vision that once distinguished this profession." Have these culminated in turning American planning into a "trivial profession" whose goals of equity, social justice, and sustainability are self-undermined?
posted to MetaFilter by stratastar at 3:41 PM on April 30, 2011 (40 comments)

My Mets Journal

"My NY Mets sketchbook. I create an entry after each Mets game or commentary on the crazy stuff going on around the team."
posted to MetaFilter by clorox at 4:17 PM on April 20, 2011 (9 comments)

So, I'm not a racist but...

How to tell people they sound racist
posted to MetaFilter by Blasdelb at 8:04 PM on April 24, 2011 (156 comments)

Non-libertarian SF recommendations, anyone?

Help me find awesome SF books that aren't libertarian screeds, y'all. What are your favourite Science Fiction books that aren't just swimming in libertarian ideology?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by LMGM at 2:34 PM on April 22, 2011 (56 comments)

The holidays just aren't the same without old movies

There are lots of great films in the public domain and many of them are online. OpenFlix has 600, including a bunch of Chaplin, sci-fi and horror B-movies, film noir and HD versions of The Kid, M and Night of the Living Dead. Drelb has 400, including Buster Keaton's The General and Steamboat Bill Jr., episodes of Bonanza and Dragnet and Three Stooges shorts. Crazeclassics has over a 100, including The Third Man, Roger Corman's The Little Shop of Horrors, Bringing Up Baby and To Kill a Mockingbird. Ampopfilms has 80, including His Girl Friday, Reefer Madness, Destination Moon and the 1954 animated version of Animal Farm. Gravitas Ventures has 35, notably Vampyr, Death Rides a Horse and Borderline.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus at 10:03 PM on December 23, 2010 (19 comments)

How do I convert video from my DSLR?

Hassle free way to share video from a DSLR?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by theJigsawLady at 1:34 PM on April 17, 2011 (6 comments)

Looking for blogs that are off the beaten path

Which blogs out there are the best kept secrets?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by greenfelttip at 6:36 AM on April 15, 2011 (22 comments)

Fiction about cities?

Can you recommend great fiction about cities and the urban experience?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by crackingdes at 10:51 AM on March 16, 2011 (32 comments)

Design book Part II

A design book to follow Robin Williams' book?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by raheel at 8:53 PM on February 17, 2011 (3 comments)

Suggestions needed for great narrative nonfiction reading!

Please recommend your favorite "behind the scenes" nonfiction books!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by bookmammal at 6:19 AM on July 18, 2009 (47 comments)

Books that suck you in... TO REALITY

Recommend me some immersive, journalistic non-fiction books.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by eggplantplacebo at 3:10 PM on February 14, 2011 (53 comments)

Who writes the index?

This mind-boggling index won an award from the American Society of Indexers. Last year's winner was slightly less hard-core. As indexing blogger Seth Maislin says: "Scholarly indexing is WAY hard." And, as author Mary Beard (who indexed her own book) says, it's "Not remotely fun."
posted to MetaFilter by tombola at 4:18 PM on November 20, 2007 (19 comments)

Lost Places in Japan

Lost Places in Japan
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:31 AM on November 12, 2007 (27 comments)

IM IN UR WASTELANDS, RUINING UR LITERATURES

IM IN UR WASTELAND BURYING UR DEAD
april hates u, makes lilacs, u no can has.
april in ur memoriez, making ur desire.
spring rain in ur dull rootzes.
posted to MetaFilter by ardgedee at 3:04 PM on October 17, 2007 (85 comments)

Do you know jokes which presuppose obscure knowledge?

I love esoteric jokes, the kind of humor which presupposes a lot of specialized knowledge. The more opaque the joke is, the better. However, by their very nature they're kinda hard to search for on Google, or at least I rarely hit upon the magic searchterms. So, do you know good sites with specialist jokes? If not, do you know any particularly obscure jokes?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Kattullus at 9:56 AM on September 23, 2007 (97 comments)

What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople?

What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by limon at 5:40 PM on September 8, 2007 (237 comments)

How did movie titles used to work?

Before the advent of computer generated graphics, how were elaborate opening titles and scrolling movie credits created for films?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by punkfloyd at 2:00 PM on August 26, 2007 (10 comments)

Great experimental music?

Avant Jazz filter: Hey all. I'm looking to expand my collection of avant-garde jazz (or just experimental music in general). Suggestions?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by papakwanz at 8:06 PM on March 5, 2007 (54 comments)

Noticing New Words

Language/Listening/WordFilter [mi]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by zelphi at 12:43 AM on January 15, 2005 (13 comments)

You probably discussed this question with your friends yesterday, too.

What's the term (if there is one) for a previously-unfamiliar concept that you suddenly encounter all over the place for no apparent reason?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by vytae at 8:10 AM on January 24, 2007 (38 comments)

Books about Tokyo?

I'm off to Tokyo in a few months and would love to read some interesting books about/set there before I go...
posted to Ask MetaFilter by teststrip at 6:13 PM on January 15, 2007 (17 comments)

Difficult Music Filter: Albums that take *ages* to get into

Difficult Music Filter: Albums that take *ages* to get into
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Lanark at 2:01 PM on November 15, 2006 (87 comments)

What cases colds, exactly?

Does being cold/wet actually have any affect on the contraction of the common cold?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by borkingchikapa at 6:07 PM on August 3, 2006 (34 comments)

best visionary architecture/urbanism books

Could you suggest good visionary (realized or unrealized) architecture and urbanism books ? I'd be interested in well illustrated books. I can afford a 50 to 150 dollars book on that topic. I'd like to find things like that.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by vincentm at 5:45 AM on July 21, 2006 (18 comments)

The World's Cutest Synth!

Have you ever seen a synth and said "Man, what this needs is cartoon eyes?" A bit similar to the Buchla Box or theremin in that they don't have a keyboard to control the sounds -- it's probably closest to the Booper, invented by The Weatherman from Negativland (or, well, Circuit Bending), the Thingamagoop is a photosynthesizer... which means it basically uses light sensors to generate sounds. The signal's run through a couple oscillators and, well, it comes out as somethin' that's pretty dang awesome. I'm on the fence on pickin' this one up. On one hand, it's a really neat toy that makes noise... on the other hand, um.... um.... I dunno. It's not made of candy?
posted to MetaFilter by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 11:40 AM on July 8, 2006 (18 comments)

Recommend me some recent books on cognitive science.

Can anyone recommend any good, recent popular science (or undergrad/grad level) books about the way in which our brains work?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by handee at 10:24 AM on June 20, 2006 (11 comments)

Your favorite bread-dough recipes (no bread machines)

Bakers and homemakers; I need bread/dough recipes.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by snsranch at 7:42 PM on May 28, 2006 (16 comments)

Aural pleasure?

Is there a good online resource for lectures on .mp3? Particularly in fields (soooo mefi) of liberal arts, psychoanalysis, culture, internet and politics. Oh and my girlfriend (yeah right) wonders if theres any fashion/Jane Austen stuff out there? Please help me find something interesting for a long car journey!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by you're only jung once at 6:25 AM on May 9, 2006 (16 comments)

Argentina On Two Steaks A Day

Argentina On Two Steaks A Day The classic beginner's mistake in Argentina is to neglect the first steak of the day. You will be tempted to just peck at it or even skip it altogether, rationalizing that you need to save yourself for the much larger steak later that night. But this is a false economy, like refusing to drink water in the early parts of a marathon.
posted to MetaFilter by rxrfrx at 11:29 AM on April 12, 2006 (78 comments)

Design Journal Online

Design Online - a team from the London College of Communication have scanned and indexed all the issues of Design from 1965 - 1974 (via the Design Weblog, which says: "I believe you really need to see and understand the past in order to blaze a new trail").
posted to MetaFilter by tpl1212 at 9:16 AM on November 17, 2005 (13 comments)

Bonanza of articles and interviews on communication

Forbes special report on communication. A truckload of excellent articles and interview excerpts! Noam Chomsky on the spontaneous invention of language. Carl Zimmer on talking chimps. Jane Goodall on why words hurt. Arthur C. Clarke on the planetary conversation. Kurt Vonnegut on telling a story. Desmond Morris on symbolic gestures. Sid Meier on communicating with video games. David Copperfield on keeping secrets. Stan Lee on the superpower of comics. Steven Pinker on why we have language. Walter Cronkite on the language of news. Daniel Libeskind on the language of design. And much more!
posted to MetaFilter by painquale at 1:27 AM on November 2, 2005 (14 comments)

Comprehensive collection of isometric skyscraper illustrations

If you were to make a huge database of skyscrapers where users could submit their own isometric drawings, I'd tell you that you'd done a wonderful thing.

If you compiled these isometric drawings in to neat collections (see: World's Tallest, New York 1935, and Evolution of World's Tallest) I would then acknowledge that you had made something of substantive import and value, and extend my sincere thanks.

But it is when you provide a robust and responsive search functionality that allows me to include any type of structure, and sort by city, by project status, (eg. "Built", "Under Construction", "proposed", "destroyed") that I drop to my knees and reverently fellate you while holding back tears.
posted to MetaFilter by cadastral at 10:56 PM on October 31, 2005 (40 comments)

I choo choo choose this post!

Peter Feigenbaum is a model train enthusiast and Yale architecture student who designed & built a more realistic urban world for his train to go through. Full photo gallery here.
posted to MetaFilter by jonson at 3:31 PM on October 17, 2005 (48 comments)

News Nishikie

News Nishikie. The art of Meiji mayhem. 'Graphic true stories from Japan as portrayed and reported by woodblock artists and writers '
posted to MetaFilter by plep at 3:49 AM on August 12, 2005 (8 comments)

Jonathan Lethem website.

Jonathan Lethem 's fans will be happy (unhappy, missing, or set to vibrate) to know that the author has stuffed the glove compartment of his website with a heap of unpublished writings, including musings on everything from rick james and rod serling, an obscure children's book written by Eric Berne , and a tour-de-force portrait of the artist Fred Tomaselli. The site itself, by Will Amato, seems to randomly load a different design each time you refresh the page. I like the noir tableau with the devo hat, the kiddie drawing that plays a soul song, then endless looping drive on a lonely highway, and the montage of Dr Strange, Superman, and the Rawhide Kid.
posted to MetaFilter by stacyhall1 at 11:18 AM on August 8, 2005 (18 comments)

The World is Bound With Secret Knots

Athanasius Kircher was the 17th century's Jesuit version of the übergeek. His scholarly attentions were drawn to egyptology, astronomy, magnetism, languages, optics, music, geology, mathematics and many many other pursuits. The "dude of wonders" invented novel machines such as the mathematical organ and magnetic clock, established one of the first museums, published about 40 academic works (with beautiful accompanying illustrations) and was globally revered as one of his time's greatest intellectuals. He is also the main link in the Voynich manuscript mystery. [MI]
posted to MetaFilter by peacay at 11:24 AM on August 7, 2005 (12 comments)
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