OMG I'M THE ADULT
Inspired by a passing tweet ,OMGIMTHEADULT is a simple blog about the moment you realize, OMG I'M THE ADULT HERE. Submissions very welcome.
posted by The Whelk at 10:16 AM - 3 comments

The Gecko Wears A Tiara
My selection of the most amusing ancient Sumerian proverbs, taken from The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, (which I learned of from this Metafilter post.) Warning: PDF.
posted by msalt at 10:34 PM - 6 comments

Great Catch
Here's a Superbowl Doritos commercial submission that I did the post-production on. (I apologize in advance for the aggressive embedded audio. Push the "skip intro" button fast for god's sake. It's way down in the bottom right corner.) I made it with some folks in St. Louis who believe that catching some fish starts with throwing out a line.
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Efficient Mondrian
Efficient Mondrian is a tongue-in-cheek art installation which generates HTML table compositions in the style of Piet Mondrian's Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red from the text of The Principles of Scientific Management by FW Taylor. It does this every two minutes, posting the results to twitter. [more inside]
posted by fearofcorners at 1:29 PM - 2 comments

How desperate are you for a Mac netbook?
The Askme question about a hackintosh netbook a week and a half ago got me interested in making one myself. So I bought a Dell Mini 10v and made my own. This is a 3,400 word blog post about the advantages (some), disadvantages (many), and why the advantages outweigh the disadvantages for some people and not others. In addition, it's compared to a real Macintosh and is used as evidence for why I've come to believe that Apple's unlikely to ship a Mac netbook any time soon. [more inside]
posted by ardgedee at 9:55 PM - 1 comment

Resurrected Recipes
Resurrected Recipes is devoted to researching and recreating recipes that are no longer in vogue, but were familiar to our grandparents, or even our great-great-grandparents and beyond. Many old recipes are very tasty, and it’s a mystery why they’ve been forgotten. Others have been forgotten for good reason. We’ll try them and find out which category they belong to. [more inside]
posted by litlnemo at 3:16 PM - 7 comments

Habiter
A tiny tool for keeping good habits. Log whether you did complete whatever (keeping your room clean, jogging) and get a nice little graph of it in your console. Put the file on a USB drive and you can edit it because it's a simple text format (YAML). Install it with 'gem install habiter' if you've got a mac or linux machine with ruby + rubygems. That's it.
posted by tmcw at 12:56 PM - 1 comment

Metafilter: Tagline Joke Remover
A greasemonkey script which removes (or attempts to remove) comments containing Metafilter tagline jokes.
posted by logicpunk at 8:42 AM - 10 comments

Homeless Child: Helping Street Children in Brazil
Homeless Child is a charity supporting street children in Rio. Most tourists traveling to Brazil never see the dire proverty, crack addiction and sexual exploitation millions of children suffer through each day. It takes less than one minute to make a free 1% Travel Pledge online and promise to donate 1% of your travel budget towards inproving the lives of local children if you ever go to Brazil. [more inside]
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Renaming "favorites" with Greasemonkey
I wrote a Greasemonkey script that lets you, on-the-fly, modify the "favorites" label on comments. Originally written because the November experiment's "faved" was unpopular, but since updated for the classic count of favorites.
posted by Pronoiac at 7:36 AM - 5 comments

Jobsee.kr is a new Korea jobs and community site
Jobsee.kr is my entry into the slightly-crowded jobs site space for expats in Korea and people who are interested in coming here. My hope is to provide an evolving set of resources and a grow a community that breaks from the negativity that reigns in much of the K-expat web scene. [more inside]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:28 PM - 1 comment

Hometaping - record an album in a month
Hometaping is a big effort to get as many people as possible to record an album of music in a month. November is the Hometaping month (i.e. now!). At the end of the month, we'll link to your album or host it for you (you own everything, of course) and then we'll have a party to celebrate. Read the about page or see the FAQ on the site for more info. Or you can follow the project on Twitter: @hmtpng
posted by basil1 at 12:05 PM - 3 comments

Put This On
Put This On is a new web series (and website) about men's style for men who want to dress like grownups. I'm the host/producer, Adam Lisagor (aka LonelySandwich) is the director/cinematographer/editor/producer as well as an on-camera contributor. We just finished our first episode, and are looking, eventually, to get some money together to make more.
posted by YoungAmerican at 2:15 PM - 6 comments

"Lock & Key"
I recently completed work on a three-minute documentary for WGBH Lab's Open Call program. "Lock & Key" profiles three women -- poet/bookmaker Sarah Westbrook Binns, playwright and therapist Kelly Dumar, and burlesque poetess Jojo Lazar -- about their diurnal diary habits. I blogged about postproduction here and here. Please help me potentially get aired on WGBH by viewing and rating my video!
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Gloomy Halloween: Post-apocalyptic Music For Sole Survivor
I have made a new album. Dark and depressive post-apocalyptic cthulhutronica, from a bleak and lonely character, roaming and searching a lost future. This is glitchy, bleak, hopeless desperation, the soundtrack of an individual doomed to eternal solitude in the ruins of a extinct civilization. It is available as a full download in a pay-what-you-want model, and it is sure to cast a depressing, departing and end-is-nigh mood on absolutely any party. [more inside]
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Seroquel hits the black market.
I've consistently expressed concerns in mental health threads on Mefi about the frequency with which the anti-psychotic medication Seroquel is prescribed off label for minor disorders like insomnia. Now, the drug is turning up on the streets in Philly. [more inside]
posted by The Straightener at 3:51 PM - 4 comments

Post-Apocalypse Dead Letter Office
Post-Apocalypse Dead Letter Office is a speculative/experimental novel in epistolary form written by yours truly and physically realized by dozens of creative Mefi Mail Art group members, Metafilter members and other collaborators. (RSS feed). [more inside]
posted by cog_nate at 10:26 AM - 5 comments

Textual Noise
Textual Noise is a sort of Web 2.0 art project, consisting of a Python Twitterbot which tweets a random YouTube comment every hour, on the hour. It is essentially a text white noise generator, hence the name, and is the source of some highly amusing idiocy if nothing else. [more inside]
posted by DecemberBoy at 9:35 PM - 3 comments

Cruciverbalizer -- Crossword Generator/Builder
Features a crossword generator that can randomly generate full-sized crosswords as well as a builder which can complete partially filled grids. Crosswords can be exported to PDF for a low-fi version or played online. [more inside]
posted by clawtros at 8:21 AM - 5 comments

San Diego Mexican Food Reviews
San Diego doesn't have a food blog or site devoted to Mexican restaurants. With approximately 700 taco shops, mariscos, and Mexican restaurants in the metro area, this seems like a seriously needed resource. So............ Okay, now San Diego has a food blog dedicated devoted to Mexican restaurants.
posted by y6y6y6 at 10:10 AM - 9 comments

The Million Baby Crawl
New project I worked on to help regulate toxic chemicals found in household products. It involves millions of babies crawling to Washington to demand change!
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Stories of Health
There's lots of debate about health care in the United States these days. Most of it is focused on dollar amounts and committee votes. Meanwhile, thousands of people are getting sick, dying and going bankrupt. To better help others understand the nature and scope of the problem, we've spent three months travelling California, talking to people about their experiences with the health care system. The result of this is Stories of Health. So far, we have 61 stories -- stories of people who are uninsured, people who've been overbilled, people who can't get insurance because of pre-existing conditions. There are stories of people with cancer and brain tumors; diabetes and polio; stories of mothers and fathers; of teachers and students, doctors and nurses. [more inside]
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Eugene
If you've always wanted to read a short story told from the point of view of a half-human, half-dog, genetically modified cop, you are at long last in luck. I wrote it, and Popcorn Fiction, a website for stories by film and TV writers, has published it. (While you're there, check out the archives. All the other stories are great, but my favorites include The Flying Kreisslers by Scott Frank, screenwriter of "Dead Again" and "The Lookout"; A Best Friend Named Rick by Nichelle D. Tramble; and Steam Table Blues by Craig Ugoretz.) [more inside]
posted by yankeefog at 9:27 AM - 2 comments

Why "Balloon Boy" Never Could Have Been
I've written a very short paper which explains the physics behind helium lifting balloons and why nobody should ever have been worried about "Balloon Boy" Falcon Heene.
posted by alby at 1:17 AM - 13 comments

How to Print a Document (with Zombies)
I have been doing some work for the College of DuPage Library, and one of the ideas they had was a series of videos about different parts of the library. This project started out as a simple "How to print" instructional video, until the librarian I was working with on the project said "I wish we could do something crazy, like zombies in the library or something." One thing led to another, and now my college's library has an animated short about zombies on its website. Enjoy! [more inside]
posted by buriednexttoyou at 3:55 PM - 14 comments

SuperSuper DB
A link-indexing site for music blogs. [more inside]
posted by god particle at 7:42 PM - 1 comment

How To Write Badly Well
After years of running poetry workshops, writing editorial reports and teaching creative writing classes, I finally realised what I had been doing wrong – people didn't want advice on how to improve their writing. They just wanted to know how to write badly really well. This blog is for them.
posted by him at 10:01 AM - 14 comments

Wiggers: The next step in the evolution of asswear.
A Winkers satire that some work buddies and I did. I am "Stinky Mario".
posted by woj at 11:30 AM - 3 comments

Is this you? Discover the impact your life has had on others.
Odbody.com is a recently launched site that aims to keep a visual, connected record of members life stories and show the impact they've had on others. Are you in the list of people members of the site want to thank for inspiring them? [more inside]
posted by MintSauce at 7:10 PM - 8 comments

Electric Sheep Podcast
I'm starting a podcast about how technology affects people's lives, any feedback is appreciated. [more inside]
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The Elephant Seal!
As a fairly recent convert to sabermetrics, a lover of humorous sports writing, and a lifelong fan of the A's and Giants, it became clear to me that I needed to start blogging. The Elephant Seal - a combination of the teams' mascots - explores the worlds of Bay Area baseball (and beyond), including why Jack Cust is awesome, why Tim Lincecum deserves the Cy Young Award, what's up with the Giants' hair, why the Infield Fly Rule needlessly deprives us of zany shenanigans, the childishness of not walking, and much more. Other topics - including football, Scrabble, Any'tizers, and more - are never out of bounds.
posted by ORthey at 6:32 PM - 1 comment

The Screening Room
We've been trying to come up with a way to make it easier for people to find all the great filmmakers and web series producers on the web without having to sift through 10,000 YouTube cat videos, what we came up with is The Screening Room which is a running directory of high-quality web television and movies complete with reviews and suggestions.
posted by socalsamba at 1:33 PM - 1 comment

tilige - generate timelines
This is a utility to make a simple timeline picture from user input. The scale is worked out automatically, and the program tries to place the text and lines such that nothing overlaps. Outputs in either SVG (default) or PNG. [more inside]
posted by spherical_perceptions at 6:17 PM - 10 comments

Packin' a Punch in a Sack Lunch
I used to mouse a comic in my universities' newspaper, and recently decided to restart it as a web comic. Taking a hint from XKCD, I tried to design an extremely minimalist and lightweight 1 page php script that handles the whole shebang, as well as releasing it under a creative commons share-alike license. I can't draw, and make no efforts to hide it, but hopefully a few people will get a kick out of the humor. Check it out!
posted by metacollin at 6:17 PM - 2 comments

lib.rario.us 2
lib.rario.us is a 4 year old project for keeping track of your dvds and books that I eventually neglected. I've finally rewritten it, hopefully for the better in terms of performance and usability. I know this isn't technically a new project, but it took me a lot of work to rewrite and I'm a bit excited about it. [more inside]
posted by sxtxixtxcxh at 5:11 PM - 1 comment

A Spreadsheet to Track Shared Expenses for Two Roommates
Other websites and spreadsheets for tracking roommate expenses were too complicated for just two roommates. So I made my own.
posted by ocherdraco at 10:18 PM - 5 comments

Awkward Yearbook Signatures
Every year, thousands of things get written in people's yearbooks. Some of them are heartfelt and will stand the test of time. Most of them are not. I decided to start a blog to catalogue the best examples of the latter. So far I've bought yearbooks off of ebay and found good examples from my own yearbooks and friends. But I'm hoping you guys can help me spread the word and submit some of your own so that I can post them more frequently. Submission email address is awkwardyearbooksignatures@gmail.com
posted by JoeGoblin at 6:26 AM - 10 comments

This is just to say...
I've been meaning to do this for a while - and have been half intending not to announce it in any way, letting people discover it themselves. But fuck all that, I'm a fame hungry whore and you are my dreadful stage. [more inside]
posted by Jofus at 10:13 AM - 20 comments

Giza Mysteries at MFA Boston
In conjunction with the Giza Archives Project, a small but growing collection of multimedia educational materials about the enduring archaeological questions that surround pieces in the Egyptian collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. [more inside]
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Word War vi
In a world divided by two editors, one man sets out to face down his destiny in an epic battle to the death to save his lost data files from being destroyed by the system. It's a dangerous game... did I say dangerous? I meant ridiculous. It's a ridiculous game, but somebody's got to play it. You are that somebody. This is that game. Word War vi. [more inside]
posted by smcameron at 10:52 PM - 4 comments

App idea? There's a page for that. Presenting Notepods.
While working on a larger iPhone app project that will hopefully get posted here in a few months, we were frustrated that there wasn't a dead simple notepad to accurately sketch out an iPhone UI, so we went ahead and made one. Sure, it's not for everyone, but I hope some of you may like :)
posted by LongDrive at 7:36 PM - 5 comments

How to Cook Anything
Find and choose the most common ingredients in the dish you want to cook. [more inside]
posted by kbrower3 at 7:36 PM - 6 comments

musical journalling
been updating my youtube lately could use some views and comments. will be intensively updating until the end of the month when i lose my place. check it out y'all. [more inside]
posted by beachgrrlmusic at 7:36 PM - 1 comment

Yallery: Share Art
When social networking solutions are applied to the world of art. Yallery.com is based in Boulder, Colorado.
posted by KokuRyu at 8:47 PM - 1 comment

ROVER DO! How Cool is Your Dog?
Would love to get feedback or submissions to a new site I started, Roverdo.com. It's for people who enjoy watching dogs doing cool things... http://www.roverdo.com
posted by livinginmonrovia at 9:03 PM - 1 comment

Haiku Finder
This thingy looks for sentences or groups of sentences whose words fall in groups of 5, 7, and 5 syllables. It follows a few simple rules to discard obviously awkward breaks, although it still lets some through. Paste in the text of a book from the Gutenberg project, a transcript of an interview, speech or deposition, or some dry legal document to find the soul within. [more inside]
posted by e.e. coli at 9:03 PM - 10 comments

A Squid on the Ice
The continuing saga of Science and Adventure with the Squid (that's me) in and around Antarctica's McMurdo Station. Includes cool science, musings on Lovecraft, the logistics of Antarctic life, and lots of pictures. We're hoping to get out to the Dry Valleys sometime soon. [more inside]
posted by fermion at 10:22 PM - 8 comments

Population of the states mapped to the total uninsured
This map came about from a simple question - if health care was separated by states - what could the uninsured look like if broken down on a state by state basis? This is how it would look if it were all the low population states (24 states + DC) - if you went with the high population states - California and Michigan would equal the total uninsured. Based on July 1, 2008 Census Estimate and the latest uninsured numbers from the US Census. [more inside]
posted by bigmusic at 10:13 AM - 4 comments

Tödt/Toad
This is the short animated film I made in St. John. I am working on another here in Brooklyn.
posted by evanlr39 at 10:13 AM - 2 comments

Bejewelings
JaiMahodara and I glue jewels to the world in an ongoing effort to make it shiny and beautiful, especially in places where it isn't. This is the blog we started to archive these bejewelings. [more inside]
posted by Lutoslawski at 1:26 PM - 1 comment