We ♥ Mac and Cheese
posted to MetaFilter by ardgedee at 3:41 PM on March 14, 2010 (119 comments)

I think this blog, not quite a comic but not quite all text, is extraordinarily funny with a nice occasional sharp edge. You may too. via metachat and metafilter's own ThePinkSuperhero
posted to MetaFilter by mygothlaundry at 9:00 AM on April 2, 2010 (34 comments)

acoustic Joy Division cover
posted to MeFi Music by l2p at 11:15 PM on March 21, 2010 (3 comments)

Did a journalist investigating the 2000 election in Florida die under suspicious circumstances? If you remember this story even slightly, help me find it.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by damehex at 10:06 PM on August 23, 2008 (9 comments)

Central Massachusetts, sometime in early 1985. You were cranking your way through the UHF dial when you caught a glimpse of Rock and Roll. It was V66, and you were hooked.
posted to MetaFilter by dirtdirt at 10:32 AM on August 14, 2009 (22 comments)

The Finches: some of the best angular, atonal, postpunk, improvisational guitar I've heard in a while.
posted to MetaFilter by googly at 8:47 AM on January 18, 2010 (55 comments)

Waffleizer seeks to expand the frontiers of waffling, offering alternative uses for your waffle iron. The blog kicks off with a waffleburger and twice-waffled bread pudding.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by veggieboy at 12:46 PM on January 6, 2010 (12 comments)

My apartment is starting to look like I'm trying to audition for the TV show Hoarders. The floor is covered in trash and I have not a single organizational system. How do I deal with this mess by myself and how do I learn to change my behavior?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Anonymous at 7:58 PM on January 16, 2010 (36 comments)

Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) provides access to nearly 70,000 images in the collections of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S National Library of Medicine (NLM). Their collection includes thousands of really fascinating images from warnings about winter driving to instructions about how to keep your privy clean.
posted to MetaFilter by misanthropicsarah at 7:41 PM on January 7, 2010 (11 comments)

"Think of it - a piece knitted before the turn of the last century, designed by a close group of family/friends living in an isolated area, preserved in a photograph, being recreated by a far-flung band brought together by technology and a love of this craft." Presenting the Queen Susan Shawl knitting pattern, a Shetland shawl painstakingly reconstructed following an innocent post on a (members-only) message board. Here's the story.
posted to MetaFilter by liet at 6:53 AM on December 22, 2009 (26 comments)

I would guess that many of you MefiMusicians are much like me - fast PC/Mac, DAW of choice (Pro Tools, Cubase, Sonar, Reaper, etc.), good interface, a couple of nice pre-amps plus a couple of nice mics (and some decent-ish monitors, but never quite getting round to doing the proper studio acoustics thing!) - recording yourself, collaborations and local bands. If so, and you like me are largely self-taught, the good old interwebs is a great resource for advice, reviews, technique, etc. I thought it would be a good idea to share some of the online resources that we all use, so here's my "starter for ten". I have listed the forums I use pretty much daily, plus also the websites I have grabbed some fantastic, free, impulse responses from. (If you haven't already tried using a convolution reverb yet I would definitely recommend it, I use the one bundled with Reaper, but there are several free VST convolution plug ins.)
posted to MeFi Music by the_very_hungry_caterpillar at 3:47 PM on October 18, 2009 (20 comments)

Bank Notes - a collection of bank robbery notes, successful and otherwise.
posted to MetaFilter by nthdegx at 3:43 AM on November 2, 2009 (64 comments)

""Anti-Gravity Hills" (also known as "Gravity Hills", "Spook Hills", or "Magnetic Hills") are natural places where cars put into neutral are seen to move uphill on a slightly sloping road, apparently defying the law of gravity. Typically, the "spooky" stretch of road is rather short (50-90 m), only a few meters wide, and surrounded by a natural hill landscape, without nearby buildings. Such places are found in several countries all around the world, and have been tourist attractions for decades. They should not be confused with the "Mystery Spots" [previously] found in amusement parks. These are generally tilted cabins, purposely built as such; a person walking inside feels disoriented, getting a very strong impression of standing at an angle in a perfectly normal room." CSICOP and Discovery News explain the phenomenon, and here's the paper on which the CSICOP article was based (PDF).
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 10:24 AM on October 29, 2009 (41 comments)

My girlfriend wants superpowers. What should I get her for Christmas?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by moonroof at 2:45 PM on October 29, 2009 (41 comments)

Where can I find a t-shirt of a half-naked lady atop a hippo?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by sunshineunderground at 6:41 PM on October 17, 2009 (3 comments)

"The unburied come back to haunt us." On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan took off from Lae, Papua New Guinea (map) in their Lockheed Electra en route to Howland Island (map). They were never seen again.
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha at 6:11 AM on September 22, 2009 (25 comments)

Wireless electricity has been mentioned previously. A recent TED Talk actually shows it in action. The presenter, Eric Giler of WiTricity Corp (a startup founded by MIT researcher Marin Soljačić), mentions the first attempt at wireless electricity, the Wardenclyffe Tower, designed and built over a hundred years ago by Nikola Tesla.
posted to MetaFilter by Deathalicious at 12:10 PM on August 30, 2009 (95 comments)

An Armadillo running and sniffing
The Mole-Cam
Cow Staring at Cow.
These and many more at the Museum of Animal Perspectives, a site run and curated by Sam Easterson.
posted to MetaFilter by vacapinta at 4:31 AM on August 27, 2009 (39 comments)

So^* you want to learn the Language of Birds? There's the mnemonic route and the youtube guide. You can listen to the birds in your local habitat or geographic area: New York State^**, Florida, Southwestern US, Tropical America^***, for example. Or, just find your favorite bird out of 104,517 audio and 33,693 video samples at Cornell's Macaulay Library, and listen.
posted to MetaFilter by not_on_display at 10:53 AM on June 16, 2009 (19 comments)

My son is graduating from high school in a week. I want to make him a Best of Ask Metafilter book with all the best advice from the hive mind.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by katyjack at 5:21 PM on May 17, 2009 (19 comments)

What single ingredient can make my cooking more exciting or interesting?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dr. boludo at 1:18 PM on May 10, 2009 (85 comments)

Help me weaponize food.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Shepherd at 1:25 PM on April 30, 2009 (66 comments)

In the English version of Star Wars, Yoda speaks using some interesting word-order. In other language translations, is this technique carried?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by nikkorizz at 6:50 AM on April 30, 2009 (6 comments)

Most economical way to make good chai tea?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by DakotaPaul at 3:26 PM on April 24, 2009 (17 comments)

137 Uncomfortable Plot Summaries of a wide variety of movies, TV series and even a couple books, from varying points of view (whatever is the most uncomfortable). A treasure trove of pop culture redefinition.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 12:06 PM on April 14, 2009 (421 comments)

Perhaps the greatest country baritone since George Jones is confined to a wheelchair by muscular dystrophy and has a day job at a nuclear power plant.
posted to MetaFilter by BitterOldPunk at 2:17 PM on April 14, 2009 (28 comments)

Who Are The Journeys and Joni's Of Today?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Lipstick Thespian at 7:02 PM on April 12, 2009 (75 comments)

Sheepherders in Northern Nevada came largely from Basque country back in the day. They brought with them a tradition of making arborglyphs, carving text and images into living trees. You can see pictures of 175 Nevada arborglyphs here, 73 of which have companion videos showing a bit more of the surrounding. The unquestioned expert on Nevadan arborglyphs, Professor Joxe Mallea-Olaetxe, has written a great deal on the subject and in 2001 he wrote a good overview article in Forest History Today called Carving Out History: The Basque Aspens. Another good introductory article by journalist Emma Nichols in the Sacramento News & Review, Mystery of the Arborglyphs, with a focus on the more salacious arborglyphs. Basque Tree Carving: Legend in Nevada is an 18 minute documentary. Here is a video of Professor Mallea speaking about the arborglyphs and here is an interview with him. [all videos asx format]
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus at 9:42 AM on April 7, 2009 (14 comments)

I can't believe I'm asking this, but its on behalf of a friend (yes really!) so ... Remember in school, where you would fold a bit of paper up so you could stick four fingers inside the shape, write things on various bits of it and then move your fingers back and forth and have different things visible? I think sometimes it was used to be a fake decision maker or future predictor (like "how many children will I have?") Well I was having a discussion about googling to figure out how to make one... problem is, none of us know what its called! Or even what to vaguely query! Anyone else have a clue what I'm on about?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Admira at 9:31 PM on April 5, 2009 (44 comments)

I have a friend on the Local Music Committee of the Toronto Public Library, and they're looking to hire some Toronto-area bands that have a CD and a following, but aren't so popular that the library couldn't afford them or accomodate the huge crowds they'd draw. The group's music would also have to be acceptable for a fairly general audience. However, I'm very out of the loop, current music-wise, so if anyone has any suggestions I'd be happy to pass them along to my friend on the committee.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by The Card Cheat at 9:51 AM on March 30, 2009 (8 comments)

How big is the largest U.S. city without a Chinese restaurant?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by escabeche at 9:59 PM on March 25, 2009 (9 comments)

In this article, Clive Thompson says Disqus invented "selective invisibility" -- the moderation technique of hiding the activity of troublemakers and trolls from everyone but the troll themselves. I know this can't be true, mostly because I implemented it on Upcoming.org back in 2003. But I remember the idea floating around long before that, and some old online communities definitely implemented it, but I can't remember which ones. Any old-schoolers remember?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by waxpancake at 10:31 PM on March 25, 2009 (26 comments)

So bored you could watch plants grow? Okay, start with Corn [0:35] and Radishes [0:46].
posted to MetaFilter by mudpuppie at 11:40 AM on March 25, 2009 (25 comments)

First Person Shooters don't always have to cost you money. Free Doom and Starsiege: Tribes are two of the most well known free FPS around, but inside this post is a list of 32 more for you to checkout, download legally for free and enjoy.
posted to MetaFilter by Effigy2000 at 6:53 PM on March 22, 2009 (51 comments)

[NSFW] It's almost time to Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys -- the final episode of the Trailer Park Boys aired in December, 2008. (As Bubbles says, "It's a dirty, sassy liquor. So sassy.") Producer Mike Clattenburg says that there will be a second movie, "Countdown to Liquor Day", to be released late in 2009. After that, though, the TPB franchise will buy the great double-wide in the sky. [pervyously, preevisilly or however th' fuck you say it.]
posted to MetaFilter by not_on_display at 3:25 PM on March 11, 2009 (58 comments)

Breaking Lincoln news: possible last photo of the 16th President surfaces on same day a hidden message is discovered secreted in his pocket watch.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 9:13 PM on March 10, 2009 (44 comments)

Kutiman, the masterful Israeli funk musician and producer, outdoes himself by creating Thru-You: Multiple YouTube clips (mostly instructional and performance videos) edited into slick mega-mashups. They're not just patchwork assemblages, they're sample-based original creations that coud hold their own on anyone's album... Plus they're 100% audiovisual! It's a work of next-level genius.
(sorry for the hyperbole, but my mind has just been blown)
More Kutiman here. Music video here. And for you Pitchfork aficionados, here.
posted to MetaFilter by Silky Slim at 12:58 AM on March 4, 2009 (171 comments)

Libraries' Surprising Special Collections.
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 7:42 AM on March 3, 2009 (44 comments)

I need help finding the correct glasses/lenses (if they exist) to allow one to view a much-larger-than-usual stereoscopic image.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by VuMastr at 2:13 PM on March 2, 2009 (4 comments)

Have you been on a jury? How do you come to your decisions?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by abdulf at 3:04 PM on February 25, 2009 (27 comments)

Any clever ideas (based on truth, fiction or anecdote) of how a resourceful character might potentially track down someone who's fled the country?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by np312 at 8:24 PM on February 24, 2009 (19 comments)

What should I know before and after I shave my head?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by gursky at 6:32 PM on February 24, 2009 (72 comments)

The Letter People started as a collection of vaguely trippy drawings by illustrator Elizabeth Callen in the early 70s, but viewers of Midwestern PBS in the 70s and 80s might have learned to read from the Letter People puppet show produced by PBS station KETC in St. Louis. Set in the black void of "Letter People Land", the show allowed each character to introduce him or herself with a song, from the laid back, Carole King vibe in Miss A's song, to the bizarre sound collage of Mr. X (audio with fan-made video). And of course cashing in on the nostalgia craze, the new and improved letter people without references to junk food or the pesky marital status of the vowels.
posted to MetaFilter by Thin Lizzy at 9:29 AM on February 21, 2009 (34 comments)

I am looking for conversational topics/ questions that are relatively easy to answer, on topics that aren't too personal...help me come up with some!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by gilsonal at 11:01 PM on February 18, 2009 (31 comments)

They call this “Sanctuary Wood” – for me it fulfils a dream. I’m sorry I trespass but if I had my dream somewhere like this would be my home and sanctuary. An urban-explorer and his girlfriend come across an abandoned caravan in the woods of Essex, then find they are not the only visitors...
posted to MetaFilter by mippy at 1:46 AM on February 18, 2009 (34 comments)

His beard can lift random objects… and the human spirit. Every Friday, MeFi's own eamondaly will use his facial hair to lift things for charity. He'll add one pound per hundred dollars raised until he hits $5K (or his beard gives up the ghost). [via mefi projects]
posted to MetaFilter by Damn That Television at 9:46 AM on February 12, 2009 (25 comments)

The Vimy Ridge Memorial is a common destination for Canadian travellers in France. As previous visitors have discovered, however, it is not the easiest place to reach once you get off the train. Thankfully, there's been help in the form of the Welcome Man (Windows Media embedded video --clip starts at 11:30). Over the last 13 years Georges Devloo has met the train at Vimy every day, where he offers free transportation to the memorial to confused and lost Canadians seeking to pay their respects. In this time, it's been estimated that M. Devloo has given rides other assistance to over 1,200 Canadians. Today, we said au-revoir to "le grand-père de Vimy".
posted to MetaFilter by aclevername at 6:32 PM on February 10, 2009 (25 comments)

How I Made a 1,474-Megapixel Photo During President Obama’s Inaugural Address.
posted to MetaFilter by googly at 1:48 PM on January 23, 2009 (120 comments)

I have a soon-to-get-serious contest with some friends to see who can eat the most animals in one calendar day. The question - what constitutes an animal?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jimmythefish at 2:17 PM on January 14, 2009 (32 comments)

There is something indescribable about the Growing Up Star Wars (1977 - 1985) Flickr pool. I think it's the fact that the nostalgia for a commercial product actually is pretty moving. Okay, some are creepy, but in general I'm happy this exists. It's strange to see your childhood and realize how old it looks.
posted to MetaFilter by one_bean at 2:21 PM on January 9, 2009 (33 comments)