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Vooji - dating without waiting
Find love, dates, friends and hook-ups face-to-face, online. No registration required, 100% free, browser-based (DVD quality) videochat built in. Send and receive video messages through your web browser. Link to your Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace and Twitter accounts. RSS everywhere. We're in Alpha, be kind to our mistakes. Vooji
posted by SamSugar at 6:44 PM - 2 comments

February 7

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WordCamp Ireland
WordCamp Ireland is a two-day, three-track learning camp for WordPress. This inaugural WordCamp features 35 speakers from five countries and 200 attendees from all across Europe and North America. And cupcakes.
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February 5

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IfRL
So, I made a 7-day roguelike. It also happens to be a work of interactive fiction. Finally, the two great genres of ASCII video games unite. Er... finally? It's a little bit barebones, but what do you expect in just seven days? It has its own little website at: http://256k.org/IFRL/
posted by 256 at 11:08 PM - 4 comments

Weird Foods with Will
Will explores the strange and delightful food culture of Singapore to bring you fish head curry, beef lungs and pig's intestines soup!
posted by mordecai at 6:36 PM - 3 comments

Mr. Sun, a new iPhone app
MrSun determines where the sun will be at any given time, date, or location. Free!
posted by condour75 at 4:21 PM - 3 comments

Affiliates For Charity
It seems there aren't any well-known clearing houses for affiliate IDs belonging to charities. After asking the question over here, I decided to set up a few of domains, with a WordPress blog and see if I can find anyone who's interested in helping bring this project to fruition. [more inside]
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Kim Stanley Robinson on the Promise of Science
This is the septuple-link-YouTube video of a talk Kim Stanley Robinson gave at Duke last week for a symposium I helped organize on the "competing cosmologies" of science and religion. In addition to the YouTube embeds there's also context, some quotes, and a link to the podcast version at iTunesU.
posted by gerryblog at 7:52 AM - 2 comments

February 4

still-dancing.com - photography
still-dancing.com is passion! fun and information about and around photography.
We are a group of people who meet over the Internet to share our passion for photography.
At our homepage you can watch our best single pictures.
Additionally we present finished series of our members.
Next to the series we showcase every month exhibitions of interesting external photographers.
You are welcome to visit our forum or blog, if you are further interested. Thank you.
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Picture Book Report
This is an extended love-song to books. Fifteen illustrators will reach out to their favorite books and create wonderful pieces of art in response to the text that has moved them, shaped them, or excited them. From sci-fi to children’s books to fantasy to serious novels, we’ll cover them all. For three weeks out of every month there will be a new illustration every day from one of us along with our thoughts, process, anything we can come up with. Together we will try to excite readers both new and old and capture some of the magic of storytelling. [more inside]
posted by actionpact at 9:28 AM - 1 comment

Humans Hanging Out
A brief diversion in Flash made for the most recent Global Game Jam. You play as a robot with a limited vocabulary who must convince a number of humans that it has passed the Turing test. If you succeed, you'll be welcomed into human society as a peer; if you fail, you are sent to Robot Jail. [more inside]
posted by aparrish at 9:28 AM - 5 comments

February 2

Calendar of Free Events at the 2010 Olympics
A comprehensive Outlook/iCal/Google Calendar of free/low cost events at the 2010 Winter Olympics. [more inside]
posted by Extopalopaketle at 10:49 PM - 0 comments - Post a Comment

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MAGANRORD
It's a blog about the birds of Alcatraz! While most people associate Alcatraz Island with its history as a federal penitentiary, or possibly its prior history as a military fort, few are aware that it is now a federally-protected bird sanctuary. My close friend/coworker and I started this blog to bring more attention to that aspect (and also because we are total bird nerds). At the very least we have some awesome photos and video. [more inside]
posted by primalux at 9:02 PM - 2 comments

February 1

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stemming.org : growing the community of girls and women in science, technology, engineering, and math
Stemming.org is a networking website and community blog for women and girls interested in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and math) to connect up and share resources. [more inside]
posted by anotherthink at 2:17 PM - 7 comments

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Josh Millard, Musician
My new music blog and archive. I've spent the last several weeks collecting and organizing several hundred recordings I've made by myself and with others in the last fourteen years or so, and this is the result. [more inside]
posted by cortex at 12:27 PM - 7 comments

January 30

Mercy's 12 Angry Ezines.
This year, Mercy are producing twelve monthly E-Zines, each one based on a character from Sidney Lumet's seminal 1957 movie, 12 Angry Men. This project is a innovative new interface for digital publishing and features newly commissioned poetry, illustration and stuff. [more inside]
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The Máramaros/Maramures County Jewish Records Indexing Project
I've just started up a new genealogical indexing project for all surviving Jewish birth, marriage, and death records for towns that used to be located in Máramaros megye (county), Hungary. Thanks to geo-political border changes, that Hungarian county no longer exists and its towns are today split up between Maramureş county in northern Romania and the Zakarpattya (sub-Carpathian) region of southwestern Ukraine. Transylvanian genealogy FTW! [more inside]
posted by Asparagirl at 7:27 AM - 2 comments

I wrote a movie script about a Unicorn. (pdf)
I worked on it for a long time, and I think this is about as finished as it's going to get. [more inside]
posted by drjimmy11 at 7:27 AM - 4 comments

January 29

French Letter Band website! (also, band)
So, getting 'slightly' more serious about the whole music thing, and making a few websites for fun, here's my band website - purposely meant to straddle that line between annoying and awesome. Let me know if you think it's too far on either side.
posted by tmcw at 5:58 PM - 4 comments

January 27

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MJD-S Photography
I'm finally coming out of the closet and calling myself a photographer. This is my new portfolio site with a range of photographs in different categories including food, people and places. Please note that I can't be held responsible for any weird sensations you get from licking your screen.
posted by gomichild at 9:41 AM - 26 comments

20 or better
On Amazon, a product with one 5 star review is rated higher than a product with 200 reviews and an average 4.5 star rating. Is the product with just one review better? I don't think so, and amazon doesn't let you search for most-reviewed products, so on 20orbetter.com, I only list products that have at least 20 reviews to their name. [more inside]
posted by DreamerFi at 9:41 AM - 7 comments

Xpress! mobile game
Xpress! is a board game of description to play with 3 or more friends on your phone. Finish first by guessing the most words right that are described to you during your turn.
If you've got a Nokia N97, 5800 or other compatible device, I've made 50 free copies available to Mefi members at http://boardless.mobi/mefi . Otherwise there is a browser version of the game, however some of the functionality is missing and it is a little buggy. [more inside]
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January 26

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The Take Heart Project
The Take Heart Project is an outgrowth from the blog No Longer Quivering, which began as a place for ex-quiverfull women to tell their stories. It has grown to encompass a number of patriarchal religious traditions, and has an active forum community. [more inside]
posted by cereselle at 8:46 AM - 1 comment

January 25

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Kissed by a Bus
A comic about a bus. That's pretty much it.
posted by 913 at 10:39 AM - 2 comments

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Frown Town!
A puppet show about the saddest vacant lot in all the world. Currently deep in production, but we just finished the heads, so I figured I'd show them off here. To give people a peek into the dark depths of puppet creation, we're running a blog about the process of building them and eventually filming them. We've got everything up there, from concept art to the nitty gritties of building, and even some of the horrible abortions from its prehistory. Follow the process from their weird birth and watch as we finish their bodies, clothe them, make sets and eventually force the little urchins dance for us.
posted by renraw at 10:12 AM - 4 comments

Directing Shakespeare Video Podcast
I am the Artistic Director of a classical-theatre company in NYC. In this podcast, I reveal how I work on a Shakespeare speech prior to meeting with the actors. I explore meaning, verse meter, rhetoric and actor intentions.
posted by grumblebee at 8:47 AM - 1 comment

January 24

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MetaFilter Guided Tours
MeFi Guided Tours is a Tumblr that I'm writing that takes comments from Metafilter that are really awesome and builds posts around them, adding context so they can be understood without reading a whole thread. I plan to write up a few that I like a lot, and to start writing about whole threads more. Also, since I haven't read as much of MetaFilter as some of you guys I'm accepting submissions if anyone has any ideas.
posted by The Devil Tesla at 5:38 PM - 6 comments

January 23

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GRAR!
Free image of the GRAR! Monster for all you DIY artists and remixers and mashers out there. Internet anger has never been more stylish or affordable.
posted by The Whelk at 9:30 PM - 8 comments

January 22

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A chapter from my novel translated into English
I translated a chapter from my Icelandic language novel (coming out this May in Iceland) and Vox Humana, an Israeli-Canadian literary webzine focusing on Israel and Palestine, posted it. The chapter is one Icelander telling another about visiting Palestine. I altered it slightly to make it stand better on its own.
posted by Kattullus at 10:55 AM - 0 comments - Post a Comment

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Geek Girl Runner
I've been running regularly for a couple years now, and I decided it was time for there to be a running podcast by a geek girl who runs very slowly. I'm aiming to record a show every two weeks. It'll mostly be training updates as I work towards the Sydney Half-Marathon, along with news and rants about running-related issues. The inaugural episode has just gone live! Super huge thanks to MetaFilter's own uncleozzy, who not only gave me permission to use his awesome song "Little Donut Party", but provided me with cleaned-up custom Garageband loops for it. (MeFites are the best.)
posted by web-goddess at 7:47 AM - 9 comments

January 21

Blasphenomenology!
The Blasphenomenology Podcast, is an attempt to examine religion and its effect on modern society, from the perspective of an outsider. [more inside]
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Mass. Appellate Briefs
A monthly newsletter of cases accepted for review at the high court of Massachusetts, with analysis by a former law clerk (me!). Sort of like a SCOTUSblog for Massachusetts. (For example, in December the Court agreed to hear arguments on whether a defendant lost his right to object to hearsay by the alleged victim, after he married her so she could claim the marital privilege.) [more inside]
posted by jhc at 8:43 AM - 1 comment

January 20

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Fail Computer
A silly fail-type site focusing on computers. [more inside]
posted by damn dirty ape at 7:26 PM - 10 comments

Cats in Space
A short movie that I made with some friends last week. Apologies in advance for the absurdity. [more inside]
posted by cloeburner at 7:26 PM - 1 comment

January 19

Mother's History of Birds
A short documentary about the life and death of my mother's pet birds, as recounted in painting and words.
posted by dziga at 8:13 AM - 0 comments - Post a Comment

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Postcard Madness.
After offering to swap cards with any MeFite who commented in the beginning of the Postcard Thread (I had to cut off after a few days, not realizing the floodgates that this would open), I found myself with a much larger project that I'd anticipated. And what better what to capture a large project devoted to spreading awesome around the interwebs than a tumblr documenting the results!
posted by grapefruitmoon at 8:13 AM - 7 comments

January 17

Noah - Networked Organisms and Habitats
What is Noah? Noah helps people discover local wildlife and connects aspiring citizen scientists with current research projects focused on documenting various plant and animal species. Think of noah as a tool that nature lovers can use to explore and document local wildlife, as well as a common technology platform that research groups can use to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere. You can upload photos from the website or sign up for the beta test of our free iPhone app to get started.
posted by martini at 1:31 PM - 6 comments

music to raise money for environmental causes
with rare/exclusive music being compiled from over 40 donor artists since 2007, we've now launched an online campaign and site to kick off a grassroots music album to raise money for environmental charity around the world. An ad firm has donated some wonderful creative artwork to help spread the word. Seeking creative sharing insights ;-)
posted by bostran at 11:14 AM - 2 comments

January 16

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Circle Into Square Online Magazine
I've been undertaking a series of interviews at Circle Into Square called 'Everybody Knows You're Not from Here' for about the last year. Subjects interviewed live in the Portland, OR, area and include Ian from the music blog Musicophilia and mastermind of the 1981 box set, the married duo of writer and comic artist Sara Ryan and Steve Lieber, rockers Wow & Flutter, and a dude we all know who really likes donuts. I've just started another series called 'Not Quite 20 Questions' with the inaugural interview being Kliph Scurlock, drummer for The Flaming Lips. [more inside]
posted by sleepy pete at 10:00 PM - 5 comments

January 13

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Come On, Let's Go
I've started a pop culture blog (music/film/television) that also concentrates on the overlap between pop culture and "high art" and the fact that your humble blogger was a young emigre and is in that manner historically detached from the media.
posted by griphus at 7:47 PM - 0 comments - Post a Comment

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Real Time Congress iPhone App from Sunlight Foundation
The Real Time Congress iPhone app is the fast and free way to access real-time information about Congress on your iPhone. This app puts the actions, meetings and documents that make up the legislative process right at your fingertips. Whether you're a journalist, Hill staffer, blogger or just an interested citizen, this app will keep you up to date on what's happening in Congress right now.
posted by sunlightfoundation at 10:39 AM - 1 comment

January 10

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I made this tool to save time on finding a good restaurant on restaurant.com
I use restaurant.com to eat out for cheap(er) in nyc, but I always have a hard time finding a restaurant that is actually good using the restaurant.com website. I hate looking restaurants up one by one on recipe review sites to see if they are any good, so I made a tool that makes this process a little easier.
posted by kbrower3 at 9:41 AM - 4 comments

January 8

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Chicago House Music History
I recently started a series of interviews exploring the history of Chicago house music. Verb worked security at a famous club called The Music Box, where Ron Hardy spun. Merwyn Sanders and his friend Eric Lewis composed some of the most melodic, instrumental tracks. Frank Youngwerth achieved his goal of having a UK dance hit. Leonard "Remix" Rroy set the South Side on fire. Of course there are also a lot of free MP3 mixes from back in the day.
posted by hyperizer at 2:24 PM - 1 comment

INST MSGS
A new web series that aims to dramatize the best of online (mis)communication. The source material ranges from craigslist ads to dating profiles to user submitted instant message conversation. This week's episode, "R U There", stars Abigail Spencer ("Mad Men") and Josh Cooke ("I Love You Man"). New episodes air every Friday on Revision3.com
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January 7