The Sopranos in 7 minutes and 36 seconds.
posted to MetaFilter by miss lynnster at 4:59 PM on March 30, 2007 (73 comments)

My favorite entree is the salmon sandwich on foccacia bread. Water is served with a slice of cucumber which is very refreshing. Which profession dines out the most? Whose judgements can be counted on for honesty and straightforwardness? The truckers'.
posted to MetaFilter by ardgedee at 7:01 AM on March 28, 2007 (60 comments)

THIS IS CAKETOWN!!!!!!!
posted to MetaFilter by empath at 6:50 AM on March 24, 2007 (34 comments)

Marijuana, the wonder drug. A new study in the journal Neurology is being hailed as unassailable proof that marijuana is a valuable medicine. It is a sad commentary on the state of modern medicine that we still need "proof" of something that medicine has known for 5,000 years.
posted to MetaFilter by ZenMasterThis at 7:49 AM on March 2, 2007 (80 comments)

Dude gives a homeless friend a camera. Months later, dude receives prints in the mail.
posted to MetaFilter by tylermoody at 4:20 PM on February 11, 2007 (63 comments)

The Radical Christian Right Is Built on Suburban Despair by the ubiquitous Chris Hedges. Previously.
posted to MetaFilter by HerArchitectLover at 8:05 AM on January 26, 2007 (109 comments)

AirTran Airways Removes Family with Unruly Toddler From Plane : AirTran is defending their decision to remove a family of three from a plane after their three-year old daughter refused to take her seat during boarding. The plane, carrying 112 people, was already delayed 15 minutes and the airline felt that the further delay caused by the toddler's behavior was unacceptable.
posted to MetaFilter by grapefruitmoon at 1:59 PM on January 24, 2007 (221 comments)

The Ad Generator is a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language. What it actually does is that it randomizes words and structures from real advertising slogans and pairs them with related images from Flickr, generating fake ads on the fly.
posted to MetaFilter by sveskemus at 2:59 PM on January 24, 2007 (53 comments)

I did not know this site yesterday.
posted to MetaFilter by goodnewsfortheinsane at 4:48 PM on January 13, 2007 (45 comments)

Tower Defence A Macromedia Flash based Tower Defence game inspired by Elemental TD for WarcraftIII.
posted to MetaFilter by srboisvert at 5:03 AM on January 9, 2007 (110 comments)

What's the most difficult piano piece? Opinions vary. Is it La Campanella, written by Liszt to show off what only he could do? (performance, score) Is it Balakirev's Islamey, which even Balakirev struggled to play? (performance, score) Or Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit, written to top Islamey? (performance, score) Does Godowsky double his points by reconfiguring the already-difficult Chopin for the left hand? (performance) And if someone plays all four hours of Sorabji's Opus Clavicembalisticum, written across four staves to fit the extra notes, will anyone listen? (perfomance excerpts, score excerpts)
posted to MetaFilter by argybarg at 8:54 AM on January 6, 2007 (110 comments)

Fooled By Cybermum “Like millions of teenagers, Ben Atkins spends hours on social networking websites. So he was delighted when he met his perfect girl online, she shared his love of philosophy and bass guitars, and thought he was wonderful … But the lovely Cheshakitten was actually Ben’s mother, Anne, posing as a teenager to find out more about this internet phenomenon.”
posted to MetaFilter by Tenuki at 3:07 PM on December 11, 2006 (95 comments)

This handy comparison guide can help you prepare for our turbulent future with lessons from other people's turbulent recent past.
posted to MetaFilter by hexatron at 6:23 AM on December 8, 2006 (48 comments)

Classic UK Hardcore Breakbeat videos. John Tab, a Washington DC-area Drum and Bass DJ, has been scouring you tube for classic UK hardcore and jungle videos from the early 90s and offering them up with commentary.
posted to MetaFilter by empath at 6:34 AM on November 24, 2006 (52 comments)

E is for Engage. Captain Jean Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise sings the Alphabet Song.
posted to MetaFilter by four panels at 5:46 AM on November 21, 2006 (32 comments)

"When you walk into a house that was sealed in the last couple of years of the plague, you can crack the door or window and it pops like a vacuum seal, and you walk in and there's surprisingly little dust..."

Among the quotes from "Ever Since the World Ended," a fake documentary about the 186 survivors left in SF following a slate-wiping pandemic. No idea if it's any good, but the documentary approach makes it creepy, because it doesn't feel far from home.
posted to MetaFilter by cloudscratcher at 11:27 PM on November 13, 2006 (61 comments)

"There's a lot [more inside]". Does anyone else find this annoying? I've seen it on a lot of AskMe's lately and it kind of bugs me. A little too cute I think. And its distracting when I'm browsing the questions because I tend to filter out the [more inside]s. What do you think?
posted to MetaTalk by PercussivePaul at 1:04 PM on November 10, 2006 (89 comments)

The Bohlen-Pierce scale is a musical scale which has thirteen notes spread evenly across one and a half octaves, so that the highest note is three times the frequency of the lowest. Compare with the western twelve-tone scale, which has twelve notes spread evenly across one octave, where the highest note is twice the frequency of the lowest. Both are tempered scales, and both have close approximations to 'just intonations', meaning you could play the scales by plucking a string clamped at certain ratios like 1/2, 1/4, 5/3, etc. One of the independant co-inventors of the scale, John Pierce, was also a famous electrical engineer best known for inventing the communications satellite. You can listen to Pachelbel's Canon(midi link) rewritten in this scale.
posted to MetaFilter by PercussivePaul at 12:46 PM on November 11, 2006 (45 comments)