How to Argue With Zompist: Or Social-Skills 101 A helpful guide for online discussion and debate written by Mark Rosenfelder with some help from notmydesk and others.
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 6:00 PM on February 11, 2009 (31 comments)

The past year in economics and politics as described by Microsoft Songsmith (SLYP) via this guy
posted to MetaFilter by mock at 8:23 PM on February 2, 2009 (10 comments)

Star Trek TNG goes horribly wrong in a series of short, surreal and very zen mashups: Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 4:54 AM on January 31, 2009 (96 comments)

This used to be really hard with CSS. Fluid 960 Grid System: Up to 16-column grid design that is flexible and fluid. Created by Stephen Bau, based on the 960 Grid System by Nathan Smith. [previously]
posted to MetaFilter by netbros at 8:49 PM on January 27, 2009 (56 comments)

What other sad, angsty, folksy stuff can you recommend in the vein of Bruce Springsteen's totally awesome "Nebraska" and maybe to a lesser degree Bon Iver's "For Emma, Forever Ago"?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by xmutex at 12:46 PM on January 20, 2009 (39 comments)

By request, this has been played through this. Unmodified or post processed in anyway, it sounds a little like a bad dub. But I thought I would post it as an example for other folks to see what is possible.
posted to MeFi Music by mrzarquon at 11:43 PM on January 8, 2009 (106 comments)

Richard Feynman Fan. YouTube playlists. [Previously.]
posted to MetaFilter by McLir at 1:46 PM on January 3, 2009 (10 comments)

Mike Dailly, the creator of Lemmings, describes the story of the game's creation in "The Complete History of Lemmings." If you feel the need to play the game after reading that, try it in DHTML (previously mentioned, though the old link is dead), and if you need help here are some walkthroughs and level codes. Finally, to short-circuit the rumors about these misunderstood rodents: no, they don't jump off cliffs in real life.
posted to MetaFilter by barnacles at 6:43 AM on August 26, 2007 (13 comments)

Public Radio Podcasts : NPR is a treasure trove of great audio content but most of it is not accessible via a podcast feed. This site uses the NPR API to construct proper podcast feeds for their shows that don't current have feeds (e.g. Morning Edition, All Things Considered) as well as per reporter and topic based feeds. Enjoy! [via mefi projects]
posted to MetaFilter by Effigy2000 at 10:11 PM on December 11, 2008 (31 comments)

Can you suggest some replacements for standard, everyday household items that are far superior in terms of usefulness, luxuriousness and quality?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Balonious Assault at 9:03 PM on December 2, 2008 (100 comments)

Urban burnout-filter: My wife and I are exhausted, frustrated, and otherwise burnt-out by our by the city life and our jobs in Toronto. We're contemplating quitting, moving somewhere with a slower pace and starting over. We need advice!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by thenormshow at 2:21 PM on December 7, 2008 (8 comments)

I felt like doing this quick and dirty. Thanks again to arcanecrowbar for the request
posted to MeFi Music by dagosto at 12:00 PM on November 7, 2008 (16 comments)

What is your favorite price point liquor of a given style and why?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Telf at 11:42 AM on November 3, 2008 (73 comments)

The Fed cut 100 bps. BOE cut 150 bps. ECB cut 50 bps. India, Vietnam, The Czech Republic, Switzerland, Denmark, South Korea and other nations have all cut interest rates in recent weeks, with many Central Banks cutting more than once. The G20 is now discussing the possibility of further, coordinated interest rate cuts. As interest rates globally plummet, we are observing what some analysts are calling "The Race to Zero".
posted to MetaFilter by Mutant at 3:27 AM on November 12, 2008 (86 comments)

another day, another word
posted to MetaFilter by netbros at 7:44 PM on October 14, 2008 (35 comments)

Everytime the "Futurama" theme song comes on, I'm compelled to gleefully dance around my living room. What other songs will make me do the happy dance?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Evangeline at 8:53 AM on October 14, 2008 (53 comments)

The 150 Best Online Flash Games grouped according to theme: Action, Aim and Shoot, Arcade and Classic, Escape the Room, Graphical Adventures, Guitar Hero, Jewels, Logic, Multiplayer, Physics, Puzzles, Racing, Reflex, RPG, Shoot It Far, Shoot-’em-Up, Skill, Sports, Strategy, Weird. Includes a link to every game on the list, a visual and mini description and how each one is played.
posted to MetaFilter by nickyskye at 5:34 PM on October 10, 2008 (20 comments)

Recommend any financial crisis blogs written by people who are following all the relevant indicators, or by people involved in the finance industry, who are trying to make sense of the market and economy?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by vizsla at 3:21 PM on October 9, 2008 (12 comments)

I used to be a biker and I'm getting a hankering to ride again. But my wife is horrified at the thought.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Anonymous at 11:23 AM on October 9, 2008 (24 comments)

Ossining Calling. Dyna Moe presents Mad Men Illustrated.
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 3:35 PM on October 6, 2008 (15 comments)

Fan-diddly-damn-tastic! The whirly-twirly-leapy-flippy world of nonce words. When something is crappy, do you ever yearn for synonyms such as crapitudinous, crapfestacular, and craposcopic? (via ADS-L)
posted to MetaFilter by strangeguitars at 8:56 AM on October 1, 2008 (49 comments)

Culture en péril - In these Canadian election times and in response to the recent Culture cuts from Conservatives - three of the best Quebec talents in music, theater and humor join forces and hit back hard (lol) with a highly satirical imagining of the replacement program (captioned).
posted to MetaFilter by zenzizi at 8:12 AM on September 20, 2008 (18 comments)

Word Spectrum; SearchClock; Digg Rings; Bible Cross-references: the gorgeous analytical vizualizations of Chris Harrison.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 2:54 PM on September 18, 2008 (16 comments)

Lehman Brothers files for liquidation. After an all weekend emergency meeting at the New York Fed, no rescue, and LEH is gone. AIG announcing restructuring tomorrow. Bank of America in merger talks with Merrill Lynch, offering to buy the firm outright at $29/share, which values the 94 year old firm at a paltry $40 billion. The futures market say that stocks are not happy.
posted to MetaFilter by eriko at 5:39 PM on September 14, 2008 (419 comments)

Needs. More. Cowbell. Morecowbell takes any MP3 file and adds synchronized cowbell along with random Christopher Walken clips. For example, David Bowie or Coldplay.
posted to MetaFilter by GuyZero at 9:53 AM on September 10, 2008 (95 comments)

World Names Profiler is a pretty amazing Flash tool, that allows you to see where other people with your last name are distributed across the world, in frequency per million, right down to the city and regional level. Fun to pair with the NameVoyager.
posted to MetaFilter by dgaicun at 12:38 PM on September 10, 2008 (93 comments)

MovableTypeFilter: Is there a way to export all unpublished entries (drafts)? It would be a million times easier for me to go through them all offline rather than one at a time with MT's cumbersome interface. I'm running MT 4.21. Even challenging solutions are helpful.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by 2oh1 at 11:27 AM on September 9, 2008 (7 comments)

Should I stay an English teacher or move on to a new career? I have been working in the ESL industry for eight years. I have a Bachelor's degree and CELTA. I have taught babies, young children, as a high school teacher, Business English, and IELTS preparation classes. I am an IELTS invigilator, and have curriculum design experience. I will be moving to Toronto soon, and I'm wondering what the next step in my career ought to be. I feel as though I've reached the limit of what I can do as a classroom teacher, and am interested in a counselling or international marketing role. Has anyone made this transition? What qualifications or re-training were needed? Am I on the totally wrong track? Should I just make a totally different move into a new industry?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by mariokrat at 3:46 PM on August 31, 2008 (4 comments)

I need suggestions for a good MBA program guidebook, and anything else that will help me be a good MBA candidate.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Anonymous at 6:45 AM on August 28, 2008 (3 comments)

Whether Einstein's "spooky science" or quantum weirdness, the Geneva tests that show entangled photons traveling at 10,000 times the speed of light are stirring up challenges and "Alice in Wonderland" discussions about "subatomic particles communicating nearly instantaneously at a distance."
posted to MetaFilter by Surfurrus at 5:00 PM on August 24, 2008 (73 comments)

The evolution of the US presidential campaign ad, 1952 to 1996... 1952: Eisenhower-Nixon (We Like Ike, The Man from Abilene) vs Stevenson-Sparkman (I Love the Gov [apologies for the intro], Ike... Bob..., Vote Stevenson/The Music Man, (Remember the Farmer, Back to the Days of '31). Bonus: Newsreels dealing with the campaigns. 1956: Eisenhower-Nixon (Eisenhower Answers America: The Cost of Living [excerpt], Corruption (california spot)) vs Stevenson-Kefauver (How's that again, General?, The Man from Libertyville [same annoying intro], Ad-lee, Ad-lie). Bonus: Election Day newsreel, including a santa Claus arriving in a flying saucer; Eisenhower, Suez, and hungary in 1956.
posted to MetaFilter by flibbertigibbet at 12:03 AM on August 22, 2008 (46 comments)

Le Bernardin chef Eric Ripert's got a blog where he serves up demos of recipes he makes in his toaster oven.
posted to MetaFilter by contessa at 7:57 AM on August 20, 2008 (39 comments)

So, my sweetheart and I are going to dump the city life, head down to eastern Canada, open a bed & breakfast, and live happily ever after. It's that last bit which is a little hazy. Neither of us have any experience running a B&B. This question is for MeFites who have. Is there anything you know now about running a B&B that you wish you’d known before?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by YamwotIam at 3:06 PM on August 9, 2008 (23 comments)

So I was reading this, and thought it would make an interesting visualization for MeFi statistics. Pretty pictures inside.
posted to MetaTalk by Galvatron at 4:48 PM on August 3, 2008 (54 comments)

For this month's challenge, in the "Spy Music" category.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat at 10:54 PM on July 18, 2008 (10 comments)

Webcomic artist D.J. Coffman offers to draw anything you want for $2 apiece.
posted to MetaFilter by divabat at 5:45 PM on July 23, 2008 (42 comments)

Tiled Background Designer is just a small, useful tool to create patterns. Experiment with pictures, colors, textures and transparency to get best result.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 1:38 AM on July 17, 2008 (37 comments)

I'm looking for unabashedly happy, feel good music. Do you have any favorites to recommend?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dpx.mfx at 6:17 PM on July 16, 2008 (123 comments)

It's lovely! I'll take it! Sometimes, you just wonder what people were thinking when they posted photos in their real estate listings.
posted to MetaFilter by Astro Zombie at 3:23 PM on July 11, 2008 (66 comments)

Canadian expatriate (and Metafilter member) stavrosthewonderchicken has a detailed and depressing look at the impact of the mountain pine beetle in Northern British Columbia, where a perfect storm of "forest fire suppression, clearcutting (and subsequent replanting), [and] global warming" has led to the destruction of over 130,000 square kilometers of forest.
posted to MetaFilter by gen at 7:05 AM on July 9, 2008 (51 comments)

About $100 000 has been transfered to me, and I don't know how to properly invest it.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Anonymous at 7:43 PM on July 7, 2008 (38 comments)

Traveling to Nova Scotia in July - suggestions for fun places to go?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by VeniceGlass at 10:59 AM on June 7, 2007 (15 comments)

I've got this ongoing fantasy about living cheaply abroad. Is it doable to live for $500 a month or so in some foreign locale?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by D-ten at 8:54 PM on June 25, 2008 (27 comments)

Do you enjoy classic 2D platformers? Then boy, are you in luck! The indie game community is thriving, and a good majority of its games are exactly that. I've spent many hours playing these unique, beautiful, and often exceptional projects, and there's quite a few - more than I can count on my fingers! - that could stand toe-to-toe with the finest contemporary games. Inside is a list of some of the greatest indie platformers, based on community recommendations and my own experience. Enjoy!
posted to MetaFilter by archagon at 3:28 AM on June 24, 2008 (48 comments)

The Bicycle Tutor is a site with lots of video tutorials designed with a sole purpose; to teach you how to fix your own bicycle. [via mefi projects]
posted to MetaFilter by Effigy2000 at 2:46 PM on June 17, 2008 (29 comments)

A close reading of the text of Volume One of Marx's Capital in 13 two-hour video lectures by David Harvey. (Two online so far) David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York. He has been teaching Karl Marx's Capital, Volume I for nearly 40 years. Marx biographer Francis Wheen speaks on NPR as to why the book remains required reading.
posted to MetaFilter by Abiezer at 6:35 AM on June 16, 2008 (46 comments)

A war widow at age 20. That is all.
posted to MetaFilter by Kibbutz at 10:21 PM on May 24, 2008 (172 comments)

Blonde Zombies - So NSFW, unless your work is cool with trashy Mexican comics, space vixens, pulp paperback covers, and the like.
posted to MetaFilter by jtron at 1:48 AM on May 23, 2008 (29 comments)

How can I find a drop-dead simple way of creating Regular Expression strings without having to learn all the underlying mechanics?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jmnugent at 3:47 AM on May 12, 2008 (35 comments)

Please help me convince my in-laws not to take colloidal silver (silver water).
posted to Ask MetaFilter by arcticwoman at 2:14 PM on May 7, 2008 (11 comments)