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How does flag work?
What exactly happens when you flag a post? I know what the general response is, but how does it alert management? Does the post get highlighted, like what us plebes see when something on ask.mefi gets tagged "correct answer"?
Best episode to introduce someone to This American Life?
Best episode to introduce someone to This American Life?
How can "congratulations" be a description /and/ a message?
I'd never put only "question" here. I don't call my dog "Dog" or write out a check "for money Dollars". When I call 911 and request a firetruck, they don't call me back and speak the words "a firetruck" and hang up. Why is it normal to congratulate someone by saying "congratulations"?
Keep on dancing!
What are some examples of "the show going on" under the threat of a riot?
Chaos? In *my* print shop?
We've seen a number of Rube Goldberg machines in advertising before, but here's the first one I've seen that actually uses the controlled chaos of one to describe what their product actually does. Or doesn't, really. If you've ever worked in a print shop, you've probably seen something like this happen. Usually once or twice a day.
Clickity clack!
At least it will sound like I'm furiously busy as I fritter away the rest of the afternoon racing. TypeRacing!
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
From the Infocom treasure trove: Milliway's, the unreleased sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Ball! Ball! Ball! Ball!
Jerry the Dachshund + Ball Machine = Quality Entertainment SLYT. That is all.
Magic crayon Physics - now in online flash form
Online Crayon Physics
Flash version of stuff from here and here. No download needed (vs. prior posts) and totally addicting.
I live MeFi in dreams
I had a dream last night that I was at the base of a pyramid, and there was something earth-destroying in the pyramid, like an ancient God-like evil. I had to work my way through the booby trapped maze of the pyramid to reach the evil before it awoke, and so I popped open my trusty laptop and went to AskMeFi and typed my first question: How do I get to the center of a booby trapped pyramid maze. The answers started pouring in, and I began my mission, dodging ancient mummies and flying spikes.
Horton Does Some Pretty Cool Art
Elephant Paints Self Portrait.
I'm not sure what to say about this except that its pretty cool.
Genocide of the Marios
Remember Super Mario Frustration? Kaizo Mario World is another of those super-hard Mario level hacks, this one of Super Mario World. Someone played through its first level 134 times, with save states, recording all his deaths, then digitally composited them into one trip through the level. The result was Many-Worlds Mario. (For those interested, here's a video of a tool-assisted perfect run of much of the game. Here's the rest. Here's some more.)
Do you have what it takes to be The Guy?
I Wanna Be The Guy
is an insanely addictive and sadistically difficult independently developed video game that takes you on a wacky romp through some truly brilliantly designed stages. Along the way you have to best gaming history's most perilous adversaries, like a Giant Radioactive Zangief.
Oh My God! You Killed Low-Quality Spam-Infested Attempts at doing this! You (aren't) bastards!
Do you love South Park but you wish you could watch all the episodes on your own time? Uncensored? Without waiting for (or paying for) the DVDs? If so, South Park Studios just answered your prayers.
Since the Daily Show recently did the same thing - is Comedy Central making big waves, or big mistakes?
Impossible piano piece visualized and (mostly) performed
John Mark Harris provides
a interactive
graphical score synchronized to his realization of the
architect-composer Iannis
Xenakis's Evryali, a piano piece that
is intentionally
impossible to play as written. Harris's notes on the piece are behind the non-obvious "on Evryali" button on the score page. Things start getting really interesting around page 22.
I can haz marketshare?
AskMe #4 in Q&A site visits in the US according to Hitwise. Download the rest of the doc + chart here. Interesting news but I must say I've never even heard of Answerbag.
Elementary School Nostalgia-Filter
Blogger Beware!
Troy Steele reads through all the Goosebumps books and snarkily recaps them. So you don't have to.
One for the History Books
Obama's Gettysburg Address.
Today we saw and heard a preview of our brightest possible American future in Senator Barack Obama's glorious speech. This, then, is what it means to be presidential. To be moral. To have a real center. To speak honestly, from the heart, for the benefit of all. If there was any doubt about what we have missed in the anti-intellectual, ruthlessly incurious Bush years, and even the slippery Clinton ones (the years of "what is is"), those doubts were laid to rest by Barack Obama's magisterial speech today. A speech in which he distanced himself from a flawed father figure, Reverend Wright, and did so with almost Shakespearian dignity and honor. One of the most important speeches on race in decades if not longer. (text)
The Jefferson Bible
Thomas Jefferson so wanted to fix what he thought was wrong with religion that he rewrote the Bible. He went through and cut out the parts that he liked most and pasted it to a fifth volume. He cut out Miracles. He cut out the Christmas story. He cut out most of the Easter story. Resurrection is gone. Wikipedia. previously
Please tell me someone else has seen this
Am I crazy, or is there a book about a man trying to voyage to the afterlife?
If it really works, it's the coolest audio production tool ever.
Celemony are a bunch of crazy German software engineers known best for making Melodyne, a family of top of the line pitch correction tools. Apparently they've recently figured out how to do what they do with polyphonic audio.
I can't begin to explain how cool this is. Just watch the video.
Brain Stem! Brain Stem!
"How many brain scientists have the chance to study a stroke from the inside?" In 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor did (previously), and she recently gave a moving TED talk on her experience. If that merely whetted your appetite for more brainy videos, check out the complete archive of UCSD TV's Grey Matters, a series of lectures on the brain. And for dessert, The Parts of the Brain, as performed by Pinky and The Brain. [via Neurophilosophy]
Being alone and dead as an acceptable lifestyle choice
Life and death of an urban recluse
Odd and beautiful newspaper story.
"Garlic: The Silent Killer," "Juicy Beans," and 39 other fascinating projects of SCIENCE!
Crystal Meth: Friend or Foe
High school science project alchemy: dumb shit into comedy gold.
He should have known he would get responces like this from wacked-out liberals.
Okay, so this is an idiotic question.. Given that, howzabout everyone (myself included) sits on our hands since I just don't think anything helpful remains to be said.
Reckless Birthday Fun: The Mad Hatter
Does anyone remember the mind-blowingly dangerous fly-by-night birthday event management company that brought us THE MAD HATTER parties in the mid-1980s?
Reconciliation of church and state?
I think its time that we joined a serious debate about how to reconcile faith with our modern pluralistic society. Obama on religion and politics. (SLnonYTP)
Character. Integrity. Do.
20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack.
A very thoughtful and eloquent comparison (transcript) of the core differences between Obama and Clinton - by Creative Commons CEO and Professor Lawrence Lessig.
Yes, We Can.
Yes, We Can!
-- Obama's words, set to music.
Do not dig or drill before 12,000 AD
The site must be marked: What is here is dangerous(?) and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger...This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
The Megacity
"The really disturbing thing about Lagos’s pickers and venders is that their lives have essentially nothing to do with ours. They scavenge an existence beyond the margins of macroeconomics. They are, in the harsh terms of globalization, superfluous."
The Megacity, George Packer in Lagos.
The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing
The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing
"I've documented the journey of Billy, a young, happy lad who believes he's going off to have fantastic adventures at summer camp... This is a literal and practically contextual account of what happens to poor bastards sent to Animal Crossing."
How do I make visitors laugh at the expense of my kitty?
I need a funny saying for a sign that will go in a window. It will hang over my fat cat, who hardly moves. I know you guys can come up with something great.
24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot
It's 1994, there's a bomb in Los Angeles, and THERE'S NO TIME! Will Jack Bauer save the world with AOL 3.0?