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Oregon Coast to Kentucky WITH NO FLAT TIRES!
The online journal of my recently-completed bicycle tour from Bandon, Oregon to Henderson, Kentucky: 3,245 miles over forty days.
posted by JeffL at 3:36 PM on August 13, 2019 - 7 comments
The online journal of my recently-completed bicycle tour from Bandon, Oregon to Henderson, Kentucky: 3,245 miles over forty days.
posted by JeffL at 3:36 PM on August 13, 2019 - 7 comments
Experience Vermont as a local, through interviews and tours
We want to introduce folks to the amazing artists and craftspeople that call Vermont home, and I’ve been interviewing them in a new YouTube series. I (and sometimes terrapin) also share a weekly tip or recipe from our own craft hobbies, primarily brewing, cooking, knitting, and dyeing. This week’s videos feature an interview with MeFi’s own Jessamyn West, and her tutorial on making your own mossarium.
posted by turtlegirl at 6:50 AM on February 8, 2018
We want to introduce folks to the amazing artists and craftspeople that call Vermont home, and I’ve been interviewing them in a new YouTube series. I (and sometimes terrapin) also share a weekly tip or recipe from our own craft hobbies, primarily brewing, cooking, knitting, and dyeing. This week’s videos feature an interview with MeFi’s own Jessamyn West, and her tutorial on making your own mossarium.
posted by turtlegirl at 6:50 AM on February 8, 2018
Mk Mrc Grt Gn! A Disemvoweling Twitter Bot
Inspired by a tweet from (metafilter's own) Maciej Cegłowski, I made a dumb Twitter bot using Glitch one night that disemvowels 45's mouthspew on Twitter as if he were a dumb troll trying his best to annoy the mods. The resulting tweets are collected at @Dsmvwld_PTS.
posted by snortasprocket at 7:37 AM on July 28, 2017
Inspired by a tweet from (metafilter's own) Maciej Cegłowski, I made a dumb Twitter bot using Glitch one night that disemvowels 45's mouthspew on Twitter as if he were a dumb troll trying his best to annoy the mods. The resulting tweets are collected at @Dsmvwld_PTS.
posted by snortasprocket at 7:37 AM on July 28, 2017
Wavelist: playlists of awesome podcast episodes
Wavelist lets you create and discover playlists of interesting podcast episodes. The first few playlist topics include marriage equality, the earthquake in Nepal, Sina Weibo and social networking in China, and weird birds.
posted by bwerdmuller at 4:43 PM on May 4, 2015 - 2 comments
Wavelist lets you create and discover playlists of interesting podcast episodes. The first few playlist topics include marriage equality, the earthquake in Nepal, Sina Weibo and social networking in China, and weird birds.
posted by bwerdmuller at 4:43 PM on May 4, 2015 - 2 comments
word.camera generates paragraphs from a photograph
With Clarifai, an image concept extraction API utilizing convolutional neural networks, and ConceptNet, a lexical relationship database, I built a template system to generate paragraphs of text from photographs. word.camera is responsive — it works on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. The code behind it is open source and available on GitHub, because lexography is for everyone.
posted by TheMadStork at 7:20 AM on April 13, 2015 - 4 comments
With Clarifai, an image concept extraction API utilizing convolutional neural networks, and ConceptNet, a lexical relationship database, I built a template system to generate paragraphs of text from photographs. word.camera is responsive — it works on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. The code behind it is open source and available on GitHub, because lexography is for everyone.
posted by TheMadStork at 7:20 AM on April 13, 2015 - 4 comments
Everywhere in NYC that Movies were Filmed
An interactive map pinpointing the locations of everywhere in NYC that a movie was filmed, 2011 - 2013.
posted by mgalka at 1:30 PM on April 2, 2015 - 5 comments
An interactive map pinpointing the locations of everywhere in NYC that a movie was filmed, 2011 - 2013.
posted by mgalka at 1:30 PM on April 2, 2015 - 5 comments
ORCWANKER
A generator of excellent swears. Text is NSFW, obviously.
posted by NoraReed at 8:20 PM on April 6, 2015 - 12 comments
A generator of excellent swears. Text is NSFW, obviously.
posted by NoraReed at 8:20 PM on April 6, 2015 - 12 comments
House minus dialogue
I cut all of the dialogue out of an episode (S1E11, "Detox") of House M.D. just to see what would be left. Answer: only about 14 minutes of running time, a reasonably coherent storyline thanks to some good blocking and visual direction, a lot of exasperated reaction shots, and a few long uncut segments where wordlessness was the point of the originally-aired sequence.
posted by cortex at 7:58 AM on March 27, 2015 - 6 comments
I cut all of the dialogue out of an episode (S1E11, "Detox") of House M.D. just to see what would be left. Answer: only about 14 minutes of running time, a reasonably coherent storyline thanks to some good blocking and visual direction, a lot of exasperated reaction shots, and a few long uncut segments where wordlessness was the point of the originally-aired sequence.
posted by cortex at 7:58 AM on March 27, 2015 - 6 comments
Save a loved-one's voicemail greeting
VMSave is a small tool to help you preserve a lost loved-one's voicemail greeting, because sometimes that's the last fragment of them you have.
posted by zrail at 5:53 PM on February 24, 2015 - 2 comments
VMSave is a small tool to help you preserve a lost loved-one's voicemail greeting, because sometimes that's the last fragment of them you have.
posted by zrail at 5:53 PM on February 24, 2015 - 2 comments
Glowy Clock
We used to have an LCD clock radio that glowed various rainbow colors. I "voted it off the island," so to speak, because it seemed like clock radio was a waste of space in the age of clocks-on-everything, but we missed spacing out while looking at it, so I put together this web substitute.
posted by ignignokt at 9:19 AM on February 15, 2015 - 14 comments
We used to have an LCD clock radio that glowed various rainbow colors. I "voted it off the island," so to speak, because it seemed like clock radio was a waste of space in the age of clocks-on-everything, but we missed spacing out while looking at it, so I put together this web substitute.
posted by ignignokt at 9:19 AM on February 15, 2015 - 14 comments
R2d2 takes unfair advantage of females
Our group at the University of North Carolina has just published a paper (open access) on an exciting new female meiotic drive system that we call R2d2. There is also a nice accompanying perspective article (also open access) from researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Institute in Seattle. Read on for a short description of meiotic drive and the findings of the paper.
posted by infinitemonkey at 7:59 AM on February 14, 2015
Our group at the University of North Carolina has just published a paper (open access) on an exciting new female meiotic drive system that we call R2d2. There is also a nice accompanying perspective article (also open access) from researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Institute in Seattle. Read on for a short description of meiotic drive and the findings of the paper.
posted by infinitemonkey at 7:59 AM on February 14, 2015
The Secret History of South Asian & African American Solidarity
African Americans & South Asians (i.e. folks from India, Pakistan, etc.) have been standing up for each other for over 100 years, despite barriers of race, information, and distance. These secret histories of global allyship are a reminder of how little of the good stuff schools ever teach us.
posted by anirvan at 9:53 AM on February 9, 2015
African Americans & South Asians (i.e. folks from India, Pakistan, etc.) have been standing up for each other for over 100 years, despite barriers of race, information, and distance. These secret histories of global allyship are a reminder of how little of the good stuff schools ever teach us.
posted by anirvan at 9:53 AM on February 9, 2015
Drinking My Way Through the Literary 1930's
I have been reading and reviewing drinks from the 1935 recipe book, So Red the Nose, along with the books they are based on.
posted by Alexandra Michelle at 7:41 PM on January 31, 2015 - 7 comments
I have been reading and reviewing drinks from the 1935 recipe book, So Red the Nose, along with the books they are based on.
posted by Alexandra Michelle at 7:41 PM on January 31, 2015 - 7 comments
Song name haiku
Given the name of a musical artist, "Song name haiku" finds haikus where each line is the name of a song by that artist.
posted by jjwiseman at 10:00 PM on January 19, 2015 - 5 comments
Given the name of a musical artist, "Song name haiku" finds haikus where each line is the name of a song by that artist.
posted by jjwiseman at 10:00 PM on January 19, 2015 - 5 comments
Shut Up and Beer Me
shutupandbeer.me is a site that finds you beer.
posted by azarbayejani at 3:33 PM on January 19, 2015 - 14 comments
shutupandbeer.me is a site that finds you beer.
posted by azarbayejani at 3:33 PM on January 19, 2015 - 14 comments
& you should
Dense images built out of photos gleaned from Flickr. A new one will be posted most mornings.
posted by ardgedee at 5:46 PM on January 15, 2015 - 5 comments
Dense images built out of photos gleaned from Flickr. A new one will be posted most mornings.
posted by ardgedee at 5:46 PM on January 15, 2015 - 5 comments
Isla Vista LocalWiki
When I went to UC Santa Barbara, the message I got as an incoming freshman is that the next-door student neighborhood, Isla Vista, is a risky land of parties and not much else. It took me a while to realize how interesting Isla Vista is, and how fun it is to go explore and understand it. I'd like to help other students get to that point faster, with fewer stereotypes about it and more stories about weird houses and public art and folklore and community gardens and land use history. I'm working on a LocalWiki for the neighborhood, in the style of DavisWiki, writing a lot of articles myself and also helping other people contribute. (LocalWikis have fewer rules than Wikipedia about things like notability and sourcing; you can write about the nice cat at the corner store if you want to.)
posted by dreamyshade at 2:25 PM on January 13, 2015
When I went to UC Santa Barbara, the message I got as an incoming freshman is that the next-door student neighborhood, Isla Vista, is a risky land of parties and not much else. It took me a while to realize how interesting Isla Vista is, and how fun it is to go explore and understand it. I'd like to help other students get to that point faster, with fewer stereotypes about it and more stories about weird houses and public art and folklore and community gardens and land use history. I'm working on a LocalWiki for the neighborhood, in the style of DavisWiki, writing a lot of articles myself and also helping other people contribute. (LocalWikis have fewer rules than Wikipedia about things like notability and sourcing; you can write about the nice cat at the corner store if you want to.)
posted by dreamyshade at 2:25 PM on January 13, 2015
Ink and water music video
This is an animated music video I made a few months ago that just launched online. It is for the Seattle band Dark Hip Falls, and their song 'Lam 2: Red Hands'. It was made using water, ink, and gum arabic solution. Enjoy!
posted by tessmartin at 10:59 AM on January 8, 2015 - 5 comments
This is an animated music video I made a few months ago that just launched online. It is for the Seattle band Dark Hip Falls, and their song 'Lam 2: Red Hands'. It was made using water, ink, and gum arabic solution. Enjoy!
posted by tessmartin at 10:59 AM on January 8, 2015 - 5 comments
Endless Jingling
Endless Jingling: an elf singing randomly generated holiday music, forever and ever. Reload for a new combination of carols. Spiff up and/or ruin holiday parties as needed.
posted by cortex at 7:20 AM on December 15, 2014 - 6 comments
Endless Jingling: an elf singing randomly generated holiday music, forever and ever. Reload for a new combination of carols. Spiff up and/or ruin holiday parties as needed.
posted by cortex at 7:20 AM on December 15, 2014 - 6 comments
Shape Shape Shape Shape—porcelain and cotton rope wearables
My partner and I have recently launched a project of porcelain and hand-dyed rope necklaces that we are calling Shape Shape Shape Shape.
posted by Sreiny at 2:39 PM on December 9, 2014 - 1 comment
My partner and I have recently launched a project of porcelain and hand-dyed rope necklaces that we are calling Shape Shape Shape Shape.
posted by Sreiny at 2:39 PM on December 9, 2014 - 1 comment