ShortWaveMusic 2012: Timbuktu
A short film documenting my recent trip across the Republic of Mali to record indigenous and regional music. After the kidnappings and murder in Timbuktu in December 2011, I had forfeited all plans to go to the northern half of the country ... until the day I was piled into a 4x4, completely unplanned, and swept away to Timbuktu as the personal guest of a Malian gendarme. This film documents my early work in Mali ... and the utterly unique experiences that awaited me in Timbuktu. [more inside]
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My Beer Community Site
This is a craft beer blog/news/community site. All topics concerning beer are welcome. I specifically want this to evolve into a beer related forum which includes discussions of great taps found in any city as well as city beer guides and reviews. Home brewing tips and recipes, really just about anything. Please check it out and participate.
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Films to laugh, think, cry or clap
On this new site you can watch hundreds of randomly-played videos... made this to be ideal for watching while eating, when bored, or when looking for inspiration. Hope you like it!
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WeRelate Genealogy Contest
If you are interested in genealogy OR history I have developed a contest to try to add some fun and competition to the mix. First subject: Billy the Kid [WeRelate account required (free)]
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Cartophile collects beautiful maps  
My Tumblr is a curated collection of beautiful maps and cartography related objects. I try to find the original source of images I post, if possible, but corrections and submissions are welcome.
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Syllabi -- prepared reading for curious readers
Syllabi is a website I "launched" last week where I'm collecting informative or educational reading across various topics. Each post covers a specific subject comprehensively, providing a comprehensive selection of relevant (mostly journalistic) writing. I'm aiming this at curious, intelligent readers with a lust for substantial reading material. [more inside]
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Book Boroughing, An NYC Literary Event Calendar
Book Boroughing features an NYC literary event calendar, a blog with reading recaps and interviews with event coordinators and authors, and a soon to be launched podcast covering readings in New York City.
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Prussian Blue E.P.
A new E.P named after the iron-cyanide hue once employed widely as the blue in blueprints which was subsequently commandeered by twin white nationalist preteen starlets who later renounced their views and affirmed a belief in the benefits of cultural diversity and smoking pot. [more inside]
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AE Podcast #2
AEscifi has released its second annual podcast, this time featuring our favourite science fiction short stories from 2011. As always, everything is free and Creative Commons licensed. [more inside]
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They Came For Our Music
A concept album and graphic novel by long-lost 90s music legend and occasional children's author Toby Vok.
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Meme Pool
Meme Pool is a Tumblr blog that "evolves" new posts. Genotypes are post tags, phenotypes are Creative Commons images from Flickr, and mutations are introduced by the blog's followers. I wrote it in Python. Here's a more detailed description.
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NPR Fresh Air Tumblr
This is a Tumblr I started which goes behind the scenes of my office. (I work at a public radio show in Philadelphia.) I try to post stuff about upcoming guests as well as posts that fit in with the aesthetic of the show. I have a lot of fun with it and thought I'd share it with Metafilter. (There's a lot of behind the scenes stuff about public radio.)
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Infinimapper - HTML5-based Map Editor
The famous Tiled map editor is a powerful open source application for creating tile-based maps for use in video games, but what happens when we bring that level of versatility to anything that can run a modern browser? Add in the ability to create maps as large as you can imagine, allow editors in the same space to see each others work in real time, and this open source project could help facilitate a level of collaboration previously difficult to achieve. The end goals of this include use as a classroom teaching tool to spark young imaginations and hopefully generate interest in software development through simple games. It's a work in progress, so please feel free to let me know if there's anything you'd like to see.
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gifcollector.com
I thought the internet was missing this. We're still working out some kinks, but let us know what you love.
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CycleTodo
A super-simple webapp for keeping on top of bike maintenance jobs. Record your mileage weekly (or as often as you like) and it'll tell you how many miles you've done since you last cleaned your chain / changed your brake pads / checked your tyre pressure / etc. Free, no sign-up required - everything is done from a single web page. Comments/bugs/typos/suggestions welcome.
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The Interior of Mister Bumblethorn's Coat, now on PodCastle  
My fantasy short story, The Interior of Mister Bumblethorn's Coat, was published by PodCastle yesterday. The story originally appeared in Fantasy Magazine, and was also reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2011, edited by Rich Horton. [more inside]
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Explaining how search engines work
with a mecha-spider marionette. [more inside]
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"SXSW Baby", still bringing SXSW to the world
I found MeFi after I found SXSW. I found MeFi because of Bradlands. And I knew Brad because of SXSW Baby. The Unofficial Blog For SXSW is still going, and if you're heading to SXSW and could contribute a post or two (or if you want to do something a wee bit more) then I'd love you to get in touch with me ... Previously... [more inside]
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The Complete (Fake) Spot Paintings
Enjoy ersatz Damien Hirst paintings from the comfort of your own home. Inspired by the images from this MetaFilter post, you can pretend you're in a gallery without the travel or admittance fees.
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Kenyan time-lapse music video.
This was a song I recorded with some of my friends back in Davis, California; the visuals are a 30-minute drive from Maseno to Kisumu in western Kenya, compressed into three minutes. And those Kenyan roads are nerve-wracking even before compression....
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Commons Image Browser
A website that lets you browse CC and public domain images. [more inside]
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The Science of Magic
I like science. I like magic. This is my attempt to bring the two together. The Science of Magic is a series of easy to do magic tricks made available for the purpose of teaching students how to apply the scientific method in, what I hope will be, a fun and informative way. [more inside]
posted by Mister_Sleight_of_Hand at 3:19 PM - 3 comments

Instant Portland
I love the city where I live, so I've started to write about it. [more inside]
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TransitSpotter
I built a train arrival time web app for Chicago Transit Authority 'L' trains. It uses geolocation to find the station closest to you.
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Infinite Tangents
I recently had my first experience with the sacred plant medicine called Ayahuasca. It has inspired me to start blogging, as writing has always been a passion of mine but nothing I ever wanted to make public. This is the story of my ayahuasca experience and the beginning of my spiritual writings in the form of a blog. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
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The Ultramod Guide to Hollywood
A look at the strange history of the Los Angeles neighborhood known as Hollywood, written from inside a building on Cherokee where the Go-Go's formed. [more inside]
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Mapstalgia - video game maps drawn from memory  
Mapstalgia is a new blog collecting people's drawn-from-memory maps of video game worlds and levels. Zeldas and Marios; detailed Final Fantasy cartography and sketched Contra recollections; crayon Kings Quest and graph paper Castlevania. Submissions are open, draw something yourself and send it in! [more inside]
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TrueDestiny
A saucy, raw, fantasy fanfic about how, at the conclusion of TrueBlood Season 3, Russell Edgington escapes from his concrete prison and returns to Bon Temps to take revenge on those who have wronged him and kidnap Sookie back to his mansion in Jackson. [more inside]
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The Cookie Department
Fully Functional Cookies. [more inside]
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Definitive Jest
Definitive Jest is a vocabulary-building and SNOOT-approved word-of-the-day blog centered around David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest [more inside]
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Function, Oden
At 10 years, 11 months, this may be the world's slowest story. [more inside]
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Writing code to make music to drink beer to
Live coding is the changing of rules while they are followed. You can do it without computers, but in general it involves one or more programmers writing code on the fly, to make live music or video for a watching or dancing audience. Alternatively, live coding can be a participatory experience, possibly in collaboration with others. [more inside]
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Unicode Frenzy
Random configurations of Unicode characters, stacked or scattered off-kilter
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Hypnotizr, an online hypnosis service
I've been a hypnotherapist for the past five years, and because I'm a huge nerd, I've been looking for ways to automate my work. Hypnotizr is the result. [more inside]
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140 And Counting: very very short fiction and poetry, but lots of it.
Maybe you were given an e-reader today, and you're looking for stuff to read on it? Well, I've been running a weekdaily, online literary-and-speculative magazine since July 2009 called Seven by Twenty, which uses Twitter as its publishing platform. Since writing has to fit in a tweet, it by necessity focuses on very, very short stories and short-form poetry (haiku and scifaiku are especially perfect lengths). Now I've published an ebook anthology of the 140 best pieces from the first two years of the magazine's history (plus one more for luck). [more inside]
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Cytoplasm
This is a static blog compiler that works well with Git. [more inside]
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Magazine Words
Your friendly neighborhood word dispensary. [more inside]
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"World Made of Words"
Words and music by Eef Barzelay of Clem Snide. Video by me. [more inside]
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Iterations: concepting cards for product designers
A creative aid for product designers during the concept sketching process. Drawing a card and then sketching the result can lead iterative sketching down new and innovative paths not normally reached through standard concept drawing. [more inside]
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Mockingbird -- a typewritten poem  
"Mockingbird" is a 40-foot-long typewritten double-sided interrupted mobius strip of poetry -- the culmination of 3 and a half years of (intermittent) thinking and typing. Please enjoy it! [more inside]
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RPGive - gaming for a good cause.
RPGive is an event to help raise funds for Child’s Play Charity. Volunteer players will play a new game – Legend – live for everyone to see. Everyone that enjoys Legend can get it for free with a donation to Child’s Play. The game will occur on December 20 at 7 PM. You can watch the game live at Snakes & Lattes – a great Toronto coffeeshop that believe in the enjoyment of games. RPGive will also be broadcast live over the internet at RPGive.org
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Dawn
Your possessive, manipulative, jealous boyfriend has snapped and is coming after you. Unfortunately, he's a vampire. You must survive until dawn. (NB: Java applet) [more inside]
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Ongoing Abstraction
Abstract illustrations from the last two years. [more inside]
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Dead Party, a game made in 48 hours.
Dead Party is a game made for the 22nd Ludum Dare 48 hour competition. You're a cat, and you must escort friendly ghost cats out of the level. It's Ico meets Diablo meets Smash TV. With cats. [more inside]
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GroupsFinder - All of the Groups/Events Near You
GroupsFinder helps you find and track all of the groups near you, and the events that the groups host. [more inside]
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MetaFilter, Meet MetaClip...
MetaClip is an open source clipboard management utility that can store the contents of the Windows clipboard permanently in a portable file format that can later be restored, backed up or moved to other Windows based desktop machines. MetaClip stores and categorizes clipboard contents in a file-system based library. A technologically superior, open source version of this previous project, MetaClip stores clipboard contents in a custom .clpx extension file format, and allows users to categorize and store clipboard contents for easy retrieval and reuse. The current pre-alpha release actually seems pretty stable from my own informal user testing, and is already proving to be fairly useful in my own day-to-day work routine. [more inside]
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Philosophy INC International Media
My handle (PHINC) is short for Philosophy INC, a project I've been working on for probably around ten years. Mostly I've used it to promote local events and art projects. Now I've turned Philosophy INC into a media project selling altered images of places I've visited. Mostly I'm looking for input on how this might be improved.
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Awkward holiday photos for charity
Our agency's holiday card is a contest - win $250 for the charity of your choice by providing the best caption for one of our awkward holiday photos. [more inside]
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...And The Only Prescription is More Sleighbell
My girlfriend was complaining that some of the music we'd been listening to lately wasn't Christmas music. So I devised a simple formula to make any song into a Christmas song: 1) Take any song, 2) Overlay a track of sleighbells, 3) Enjoy a newfound Christmas classic. [more inside]
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Startups in Boston
A searchable list of Boston-area startup companies, sortable by neighborhood, industry, hiring, and more.
posted by ElfWord at 1:57 PM - 4 comments