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More lipstick!

Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on SNL [advert precedes video]
posted to MetaFilter by humannaire at 11:06 PM on September 13, 2008 (116 comments)

LHC webcam

LHC Webcams. There's been a lot of LHC news lately but a less-publicized series of Compact Muon Solenoid proton collision tests is scheduled for today, and CERN has been kind enough to set up a live streaming webcam to watch the CMS in action. (There's also a view of the parking lot but I think that's more so underground-bunkered LHC staff can see the weather.) It's fairly dull viewing but if you're interested in the science of it all, it's great nerdy fun. Maybe you'll even see a black hole or two. ;)
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau at 11:44 AM on September 11, 2008 (22 comments)

Wisconsin Attorney General sues Elections Agency

The Attorney General of Wisconsin, JB Van Hollen, is suing the state Elections Board to remove from voting rolls all voters whose registered names & addresses don't match the records at the Department of Transportation.
posted to MetaFilter by echo target at 12:49 PM on September 11, 2008 (100 comments)

Why does everybody hate me?

Imagine if you were the only person on earth; if no one else could understand you except yourself. No matter how hard you tried, you could never make contact with the outside world, not for long at least. This is the life of a Schizophrenic. Here, in a simulation created to understand what a typical trip to the pharmacy is for a patient suffering from Schizophrenia [previously], you will experience for a few minutes what life is all about for people afflicted with this disease. (via)
posted to MetaFilter by hadjiboy at 6:55 PM on September 11, 2008 (53 comments)

"Ban, ban, Ca-Carol Ann?"

Britain's biggest exam board has removed a poem by Carol Ann Duffy from the GCSE syllabus and asked schools to destroy the anthology it is contained in because it makes a reference to knife crime. This followed a complaint made by Pat Schofield, an exam invigilator. Duffy responded with the poem: Mrs Schofield's GCSE.
posted to MetaFilter by ninebelow at 9:01 AM on September 12, 2008 (78 comments)

Foreign Dirty Noises

Things To Say During Sex
posted to MetaFilter by carsonb at 1:22 PM on September 5, 2008 (91 comments)

Like, OMIGOD!

80smusicvids.com - Like totally bodacious collection of over 1000 music videos from like the raddest decade. Choice.
posted to MetaFilter by carsonb at 1:34 PM on September 6, 2008 (61 comments)

People who live without TV

Out There: People Who Live Without TV. About one to two percent of Americans do not watch television, which it turns out, is a common ground for the very liberal and the very conservative.
posted to MetaFilter by stbalbach at 8:52 AM on September 4, 2008 (177 comments)

What do I do with an ant Queen?

So last night, I found what I think I've determined is an ANT QUEEN crawling across the carpet in front of my tv. I caught it. What in blazes do I do now? Make a little crown?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by asavage at 11:49 AM on November 17, 2007 (27 comments)

Cat-Scan.com

Cat-Scan.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, or why.
posted to MetaFilter by mathowie at 3:03 PM on July 14, 1999 (115 comments)

They're already using Ubiquity as a verb

Ubiquity is a Mozilla Labs experiment into connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily. Check out a video demonstration of Ubiquity. And here's a tutorial.
posted to MetaFilter by sveskemus at 7:39 AM on August 27, 2008 (70 comments)

HHS baits, switches

Not just for religious pharmacists anymore: the Department of Health and Human Services proposes a rule that protects anyone who refuses to provide medical services on moral or religious grounds.
posted to MetaFilter by casarkos at 11:42 PM on August 23, 2008 (201 comments)

Sokal and beyond

Truth's Caper : essay by Simon Blackburn on Sokal's Hoax.
posted to MetaFilter by Gyan at 1:22 AM on August 18, 2008 (163 comments)

"Telescopic Text"

I made tea. {Flash, I think. Via notcot.}
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs at 9:30 AM on August 18, 2008 (59 comments)

Aw, and I'm turning 21 in three months!

A group of 100 college presidents has come together to state that the 21 year-old drinking age is not working, and, specifically, that it has created a culture of dangerous binge drinking on their campuses. They want to encourage a dialogue about lowering the drinking age. They face opposition from Mothers Against Drunk Driving and from other college presidents, who accuse them of 'not wanting to deal with the problem'.
posted to MetaFilter by showbiz_liz at 5:45 AM on August 19, 2008 (165 comments)

Jon and his TiVo

In a strange and incestuous twist of the space-web-time continuum, a fascinating comment about the mechanism by which The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (previOusly.) records every bit of daily news appeared inside a post on PVRBlog, the red-headed stepchild blog of our selfless benefactor, user 1.
posted to MetaFilter by jckll at 6:23 AM on August 19, 2008 (26 comments)

Rhapsody in Pepsi Blue?

Yes, it's an advertisement, but this commercial for United Airlines is really extraordinary. (Link goes directly to a .mov file. If you don't want to open it directly, go here and click on "New Work", then "TV".)
posted to MetaFilter by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese at 11:53 PM on August 11, 2008 (98 comments)

Braid

Braid is the latest videogames-are-art posterchild. The mind-bending, time-twisting platformer is currently the most critically acclaimed XBLA game. Jonathan Blow, the designer, is something of a games philosopher. You can listen to a fascinating talk he gave on game design last year here.
posted to MetaFilter by empath at 12:01 AM on August 11, 2008 (96 comments)

808

808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808080808
posted to MetaFilter by fearfulsymmetry at 1:28 AM on August 8, 2008 (49 comments)

Oh, they'll pay.

Calvin and Jobs.
via Dark Roasted Blend, by way of Gizmodo.
posted to MetaFilter by JHarris at 2:07 AM on August 7, 2008 (43 comments)

Metafilter wrote on your Wall.

Hamlet as a Facebook News Feed
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle at 9:36 AM on August 6, 2008 (48 comments)

An anthropological introduction to YouTube

Anthropologists in the digital domain tend to be a day late and a dollar short as far as us early adopters are concerned, but Michael Wesch managed to capture the popular imagination with his YouTube video, The Machine is Us/ing Us. He recently gave a presentation to the Library of Congress titled An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube in which he talks about the best of the web (not to be confused with The Best of The Web.)
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 2:34 AM on August 4, 2008 (29 comments)

lolcatting all the way to the bank

goatse hijacked my bank account
posted to MetaFilter by quonsar at 1:11 PM on August 1, 2008 (53 comments)

JollyMetaFilter

In the years after leaving MST, Joel Hodgson of Mystery Science Theater, and his "smarter brother" Jim Hodgson, worked on a new movie-repurposing concept for USA Networks. The introduction for the test clip read:
"The Jolly Filter segment is a proof of concept test for a new film process. You will first view 2 minutes of the original film 'Rollercoaster' and then the same 2 minutes utilizing the JollyFilter technique.
"Note: If you find yourself getting bored during the original 'Rollercoaster' footage, don't worry, this is normal."
(SLYT, but an awesome one.)
posted to MetaFilter by JHarris at 7:17 PM on July 27, 2008 (47 comments)

Freedom Flies

The Department of Homeland Security has expressed interest [PDFs] in forcing all commercial airline passengers to wear a taser bracelet that can be used to incapacitate anyone on an airline. This video, from the company that will produce the bracelets, explains how the bracelet would be put on the passenger at the point that they clear security, and would not be removed until they leave secure areas. It would take the place of boarding passes, carry personal and biometric information about the passengers, track and monitor every passenger via GPS and shock the wearer on command, immobilizing him or her for several minutes. DHS official, Paul S. Ruwaldt of the Science and Technology Directorate, office of Research and Development is also excited about the possiblility of using it as an interrogation tool at airports. Ah freedom, who knew it smelled like burning flesh?
posted to MetaFilter by dejah420 at 10:35 AM on July 12, 2008 (143 comments)

Truth Vandals?

XKCD mocks Wikipedia's "in popular culture" sections. Wikipedians take the idea seriously. The article ("Wood"). goes on lockdown. But is adding correct, even if useless, information really WikiVandalism?
posted to MetaFilter by l33tpolicywonk at 10:16 PM on July 7, 2008 (70 comments)

BREAKING NEWS: Americans Love War, Drugs, see War on Drugs as No-Brainer

A new WHO study finds that Americans by far lead the world in rates of illegal drug use, despite America's crusading role in prosecuting the Global War on Drugs.
posted to MetaFilter by saulgoodman at 12:02 PM on July 1, 2008 (33 comments)

wunda 1

A productive nights flailing realized this tightly sloppy thing that says "bramph".
posted to MeFi Music by 31d1 at 8:46 AM on July 4, 2006 (1 comment)

YQYQ

An MPC, an Oxygen 8, and like maybe 7 beers.
posted to MeFi Music by 31d1 at 1:16 PM on July 13, 2006 (3 comments)

Description Not Related Except In Spirit

22:30 < @[3]> so anyway, the real question if if i should fpp the nuns from sister act the musical doing panda sneeze
22:38 < @[3]> "First, the Big Bang. In the most unlikely of circumstances, galaxies coalesced, worlds formed, millions of years passed, complex systems developed from mud, cultures formed, wars were fought, religion begat josiah, monkeys drew paintings in caves, technological civilization arose, we learned to record the universe around us , we networked our planet - all these wildly improbable things were necessary and sufficient to allow nuns from sister act the musical to reenact a panda sneeze
posted to MeFi Music by 31d1 at 7:31 PM on April 2, 2007 (8 comments)

warm day

There was a man with tongue of wood
Who essayed to sing,
And in truth it was lamentable.
But there was one who heard
The clip-clapper of this tongue of wood
And knew what the man
Wished to sing,
And with that the singer was content.
posted to MeFi Music by 31d1 at 6:28 PM on April 23, 2007 (5 comments)

C & D'd

My neighbor got mad at me while I was making this. Contains low frequencies.
posted to MeFi Music by 31d1 at 7:04 AM on May 5, 2007 (8 comments)

Church

Artificial but pleasant. A bit long.
posted to MeFi Music by 31d1 at 6:36 PM on August 19, 2007 (2 comments)

back and froth

< [31d1]> do you think the trumpets on that back-and-froth beat sound wack?
< [31d1]> like fake as shit?
aren't they supposed to sound kinda fake ?
< [31d1]> i'd rather they didnt but what are you gonna do
< [31d1]> i cant decide whether they add to, or detract from, the rest of it
< [31d1]> im gonna ask mefi

posted to MeFi Music by 31d1 at 7:20 PM on August 21, 2007 (6 comments)

qwer

tyuiop
posted to MeFi Music by 31d1 at 7:02 PM on September 17, 2007 (4 comments)

Yow

I finished this with about 5 minutes to spare before turning 30.
posted to MeFi Music by 31d1 at 9:04 PM on September 23, 2007 (2 comments)

musk

I wonder if you would enjoy a post-rave speaker-thrashing jazzy progressive grime cover of Wanna Be Starting Something, by M. Jackson.
posted to MeFi Music by 31d1 at 6:12 PM on October 3, 2007 (5 comments)

babby

How is babby formed? Apparently like this...
posted to MeFi Music by 31d1 at 8:21 AM on October 11, 2007 (3 comments)

lofi why

I really like working with a vocalist, and when I don't have one around I get increasingly desperate, and occasionally give up and say stuff.
posted to MeFi Music by 31d1 at 4:36 PM on November 5, 2007 (5 comments)

darnyreye

Winter is icumen in, Lhude sing Goddamm
posted to MeFi Music by 31d1 at 4:56 PM on November 8, 2007 (4 comments)

A million rounds

Made with samples from this video.
posted to MeFi Music by 31d1 at 10:11 AM on November 25, 2007 (6 comments)

angrymodem

Stupid broken modem wasting my whole afternoon. Dammit.
posted to MeFi Music by 31d1 at 1:51 PM on December 9, 2007 (2 comments)

V

Screwing around with some theories on how 5 and boompsh might fit together. After all, with the recession and inflation, Bernanke hopes to make 5 the new 4.
posted to MeFi Music by 31d1 at 6:22 PM on February 2, 2008 (4 comments)

crushed

A bit of lurking darkness to brighten your horrible day.
posted to MeFi Music by 31d1 at 3:56 PM on February 22, 2008 (2 comments)

spacewreck

No one was really sure how I could've crashed in space, which is by nature, mostly empty. And when they found me, I had gnawed of most of my leg in order to survive, and not in much of a state to explain the events.
posted to MeFi Music by 31d1 at 9:31 AM on May 10, 2008 (2 comments)

Lofi cold fusion error

Lofi is showing a cold fusion error if you are not logged in.
posted to MetaTalk by Jim Jones at 11:19 PM on February 13, 2005 (15 comments)

bond

There was set before me a mighty hill,
And long days I climbed
Through regions of snow.
When I had before me the summit-view,
It seemed that my labour
Had been to see gardens
Lying at impossible distances.
posted to MeFi Music by 31d1 at 3:58 PM on May 31, 2008 (2 comments)
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