"I See String"
I just completed my first music video ever for my new music project, Youth is Truth. The entire thing was shot on my Nikon D90.
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cue.language: a small Java library for natural language text tasks
Over the 18 months or so that my Wordle toy has been in heavy use, I've continually improved the rudimentary utilities I use to detect language, count words, and such. Thanks to IBM's relatively sane policies about open source software, I'm able to share that small body of code (and resources) with the world. So, if you want to auto-detect language, remove stop words in a bunch of languages, or count n-grams (with Java), then maybe this will be useful to you. Otherwise, it's hard to imagine anything less useful. I mean that literally. I mean, like, an ice tray that's too deep to fit in your freezer? Some expired photo-processing chemicals? Ague?
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ExpatQA.com - The World Is Your Question Mark!
Having lived outside of the states in Argentina for a year and a half, I wanted to give back to the community of expats. There are a lot of forums for expats out there, which are great, in that they help each other know that someone else is 'out there' - and provide some sort of community. In another sense, most forums aren't very good at the "Peanut Butter Problem"... Where can I get a jar/can/bag of (Insert Marmite/Tams/Winegums based on your specific national quirky food preference) in this #$!@$ town? That's where expatqa.com comes in, with our motto, "The World Is Your Question Mark!" Questions and Answers for expats from anywhere living in any city worldwide are welcome!
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A Developing Story
I've spent the last couple of months building A Developing Story, a site that brings together and promotes multimedia from and about the developing world, from professionally produced campaign work, to user-generated Flickr photosets, podcasts and written testimony. [more inside]
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Digital Stats Blog
Please check out my blog aggregating all sorts of statistics about digital media, which is 300 posts old today. [more inside]
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Dunecember
Inspired in part by Infinite Summer and DHarbin's Dune Book Club, I've decided to start a Dune-reading book club during the months of December and January. I've started a blog/homepage, @dunecember, #Dunecember, and even a Google Wave and so far there's only a few readers. The pacing is such that it should not be a burden, even during busy finals/holiday times.
posted by sleeping bear at 4:59 PM - 4 comments

Animated Advent Calendar
'Tis the season for nested tables and animated gifs. [more inside]
posted by dirtdirt at 8:12 AM - 3 comments

VECTORTRONIC
An abstract long-exposure animation drawn and photographed by a Lego robot. [more inside]
posted by Chinese Jet Pilot at 10:39 AM - 5 comments

Novel + Soundtrack
I've just released my novel, The American Book of the Dead (about dreams, the end of the world, evolution, other things), and it's available for free download in different formats on my site. I'm also recording a song for each chapter in the novel. Sort of a rock opera, but sort of not. Songs are also available for free download. There will eventually be at least 26 songs to go along with the novel.
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Online Public Comment on the Healthy People 2020 Government Guidelines
Healthy People (funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services) provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for promoting health and preventing disease. Healthy People 2020 will reflect assessments of major risks to health and wellness, changing public health priorities, and emerging issues related to our nation's health preparedness and prevention. Public participation is shaping Healthy People 2020, its purpose, goals, organization, and action plans. HHS is seeking input from communities and stakeholders through public meetings across the country and public comment periods. Send your online feedback on the proposed objectives for Healthy People 2020. Comments will be accepted through December 31, 2009. [more inside]
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The 100 Poems In A Day Project
So I'm a writer and poet, I had a bit of writer's block, and, in light of a recent experience, decided the best solution was an enema - writing 100 poems in a single day. [more inside]
posted by RokkitNite at 8:44 AM - 5 comments

Wallet Garden - simple protection from ID theft
A free (and kind of pretty) web app, with a really simple goal: help you out if you've lost your wallet. Before you lose your wallet (that's the key part!) you go to Wallet Garden and enter in the customer service phone numbers for the different credit cards in your wallet (or purse). Then, if you lose your wallet while traveling, you have an easy go-to place to find all the numbers you need to call. The holidays are coming up, and you'll probably be traveling. I hope you're able to keep your wallet in your pocket. But for all you perdedors, this will hopefully help you out if you find yourself in a bind. [more inside]
posted by Alt F4 at 6:11 PM - 8 comments

Bastard Fugue
A multiplexed dance solo (using live video projection), set to a Bach fugue arranged for mixed percussion. I worked to a strict set of technical constraints (two digital projectors, one camera, plug-and-play setup) and the final piece does some nifty things with spatial orientation and video feedback in service of larger goals. Contains cowbell.
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Words of the year/decade nominations are open
The American Dialect Society's annual vote, the longest-running vote of its kind in the world and the word-of-the-year event up to which all others lead, will be held in Baltimore on Friday, January 8, 2010. We're now accepting nominations from the entire English-speaking world for both word of the year 2009 and word of the decade for 2000-9. This is the society's 20th annual vote. It is an academic, non-commercial, whimsical event which in no way represents a bunch of pointy-headed intellectuals officially inducting words into the language but surely we can do better than "defriend," "admonish," and "distracted driving." Send nominations to woty@americandialect.org. More details.
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Lobby Lud The Mystery Man
I was doing some research in the British Library recently, when I stumbled across the sheet music for this 1927 song about a British newspaper promotion. The song was scored for ukulele, so I sent a copy of the sheet music to George Hinchliffe of the mighty Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, and he very kindly recorded a home demo for me. With his permission, I've now put it on-line as a free download. Be warned, though - the song is what Germans call an "earworm", and once it lodges in your brain, it won't shift for weeks.
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Turkey Chef
Thanksgiving? There's an app for that! [more inside]
posted by popcassady at 3:30 PM - 6 comments

Bart's Blackboard
The opening sequence of the The Simpsons often finds Bart Simpson writing out punishment on a classroom blackboard, what has become known as the "chalkboard gag". Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's really not. Sometimes the reference is obvious, sometimes it's not. After 20 years, the writers of The Simpsons still surprise and delight viewers with Bart's punishments and Bart's Blackboard's purpose is to capture them all for posterity. [more inside]
posted by McGuillicuddy at 8:56 AM - 3 comments

Guide for more award(ing) travel
Travel blog focused on collecting and using frequent flyer miles and hotel reward points as efficiently and creatively as possible. [more inside]
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Helperdeck, DIY build-assist app
Helperdeck is a small open-source application to help in building DIY electronics. It shows you a window with the circuit board you're soldering, plus windows for bags of components, schematics and build stages. Everything is correlated: You can click on the board and see what component fits where, and you can click in the bags to see where those components go on the board. The schematic is also correlated with the board. Building is much faster, easier and more fun with better information and less parts hunting. Should also be useful to teach kids or yourself about DIY electronics. [more inside]
posted by krilli at 4:44 PM - 1 comment

A guide to books and writing in Philadelphia
A guide to books, author visits, bookstores, libraries, presses, writing and other literary phenomena in the Philadelphia area. I plan to interview authors coming to town, profile independent bookstores, promote literary events in the Philadelphia region, and generally talk about all things literary.
posted by melodykramer at 3:49 PM - 1 comment

A place for library discussion.
A place for librarians, library staff, and library users to discuss topics of interest. [more inside]
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Adventures in Subbing
In a recent question over at AskmeFi I was looking for blogs written by subs. I didn't find nearly as many as I wanted to that were still being updated. I'd been thinking about making this anyway, the lack of stuff just confirmed the fact that it needed to be done. [more inside]
posted by theichibun at 3:13 PM - 4 comments

NeatYo: Neat stuff, found online.
Just a little link blog I cooked up.
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Video for Steve Summers' "Lands of the Mind"
Follow the link to view my video mulch for new Steve Summers track. Please enjoy my patented mulch trash attack; VHS spit-up, pixel lace, controlled compression hiccups. Framed Mistakes. Thanks!
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Brooklyn Brainery: Get into things
We were tired of paying hundreds of dollars to take classes in things we could learn ourselves and sitting through surface-skimming lectures, so we created Brooklyn Brainery. Cheap, collaborative classes where you work through a subject without some Dr. Bossy teacher - just some books, Wikipedia, everyone else's experience, and maybe an ice cream maker. We cover everything from your grandmother's favorite crafts to pure snobbish intellectualism. Think book club on steroids! [more inside]
posted by soma lkzx at 9:01 AM - 7 comments

It started with AskMe: A Gamer's Alphabet
In July, I asked people to help me collect gamer's terms for a book project. At long last, A Gamer's Alphabet is ready. [more inside]
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Welcome to Regret
is the new album by my band, Derailleur (and we also busted out a new website to match!). It's 12 songs long, and wanders from noise rock to alt country to just a hint of New Wave. It also features a fairly ridiculous (but awesome!) song about huffing Jenkem. Free to stream or download. [more inside]
posted by COBRA! at 8:48 AM - 2 comments

HotTalkLA
From the ashes of the once dominant FM "Hot Talk" Talk format pioneered by CBS Radio's Los Angeles based KLSX-FM 97.1 rises the next generation of Talk Radio Entertainment…online and in your face at www.HotTalkLA.com. [more inside]
posted by jigsaw1999 at 5:18 PM - 1 comment

Validate on Save for TextMate
I made a TextMate bundle that will validate/syntax check your PHP, Ruby, JavaScript or CSS files every time you save. Instead of saving and finding out in the browser that a comma, or bracket or something easily avoidable was missed, you can fix it right away. Ideally, this will save more time in aggregate than it took me to put together.
posted by sxtxixtxcxh at 12:33 PM - 2 comments

How is boo_radley's performance in Team Fortress 2?
I hacked together a bunch of shell scripts that post my TF2 games to twitter.
posted by boo_radley at 12:33 PM - 5 comments

Get the Web: A Book of the Best Foundational Essays About the Web
My friend and I are constantly recommending the same foundational essays--"1000 True Fans", "The Next Economy of Ideas" and so forth--to clients, colleagues, students and so forth. We thought it would be wise to compile these into a book--a toolkit for getting the web. Assuming we can secure author permissions, we'll publish an ebook and maybe a hardcopy version, donating any profits to the EFF. For now, we're looking for recommendations for your favorite essays about the web.
posted by dbarefoot at 9:46 PM - 3 comments

I created a Q&A site for Cooking
What do you think? I am using a meta stackoveflow.
posted by kbrower3 at 8:09 PM - 3 comments

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 - 15 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 - 10 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 - 3 comments

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 - 16 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 - 2 comments

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 - 13 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 - 8 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 - 2 comments

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 - 9 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