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Scream into The Void
There's something cathartic about firing off a moany tweet or a frustrated status update, but who wants to be that person? The Void is a nocial media tool that spares your dignity while providing that lovely feeling of release. Before long your post will literally fade away without contributing to the net negativity of the universe.
posted by J.R. Hartley at 2:16 PM on January 3, 2017 - 8 comments
There's something cathartic about firing off a moany tweet or a frustrated status update, but who wants to be that person? The Void is a nocial media tool that spares your dignity while providing that lovely feeling of release. Before long your post will literally fade away without contributing to the net negativity of the universe.
posted by J.R. Hartley at 2:16 PM on January 3, 2017 - 8 comments
Podcast Recommendations and Reviews
My podcast review website! The goal of the website is to help connect people to podcasts.
posted by Tevin at 6:44 PM on January 13, 2015 - 4 comments
My podcast review website! The goal of the website is to help connect people to podcasts.
posted by Tevin at 6:44 PM on January 13, 2015 - 4 comments
Twicery: Twitter keyword monitoring
A user on Quora asked "Are there any free or cheap tools that would enable me to monitor a keyword and be notified whenever somebody over a certain follower threshold (say, 100,000) used it in a tweet?" I thought it was a great idea, so I built it. Specify Twitter keywords, set a minimum follower count, and receive an email when a suitably popular account tweets about it. You can also exclude retweets and filter out chosen accounts.
posted by quarantine at 8:16 AM on December 24, 2014 - 5 comments
A user on Quora asked "Are there any free or cheap tools that would enable me to monitor a keyword and be notified whenever somebody over a certain follower threshold (say, 100,000) used it in a tweet?" I thought it was a great idea, so I built it. Specify Twitter keywords, set a minimum follower count, and receive an email when a suitably popular account tweets about it. You can also exclude retweets and filter out chosen accounts.
posted by quarantine at 8:16 AM on December 24, 2014 - 5 comments
Jackie the baboon, and other upsetting topics
The story of Jackie, a baboon who went to war with the South African army, is the latest instalment in my series on Animals in World War I.
posted by Perodicticus potto at 11:17 PM on January 6, 2015
The story of Jackie, a baboon who went to war with the South African army, is the latest instalment in my series on Animals in World War I.
posted by Perodicticus potto at 11:17 PM on January 6, 2015
Investigative Journalism about the American Legislative Exchange Council
KBOO, a community radio station in Portland, Oregon, has just completed a months long project investigating the American Legislative Exchange Council's effect on members of the state legislature. The project, made possible by a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism, contains pieces from volunteer reporters about aspects of ALEC's lobbying efforts, interactive maps and spreadsheets detailing legislator involvement in ALEC sponsored model legislation and links to ALEC and organizations that watchdog ALEC. KBOO intends the work to be a model other community stations in other states might use as a starting point for investigating their own legislatures.
posted by CollectiveMind at 1:48 PM on November 8, 2014
KBOO, a community radio station in Portland, Oregon, has just completed a months long project investigating the American Legislative Exchange Council's effect on members of the state legislature. The project, made possible by a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism, contains pieces from volunteer reporters about aspects of ALEC's lobbying efforts, interactive maps and spreadsheets detailing legislator involvement in ALEC sponsored model legislation and links to ALEC and organizations that watchdog ALEC. KBOO intends the work to be a model other community stations in other states might use as a starting point for investigating their own legislatures.
posted by CollectiveMind at 1:48 PM on November 8, 2014
Kiva Interest Rate Finder
Kiva allows people to fund microfinance loans through Field Partners. Some Kiva Partners charge the equivalent of 109% APR. That is incredibly high. Kiva doesn't make it easy to find the partners that charge borrowers 0% or low interest, so I made a script to do so.
posted by rajbot at 6:44 PM on September 27, 2013 - 3 comments
Kiva allows people to fund microfinance loans through Field Partners. Some Kiva Partners charge the equivalent of 109% APR. That is incredibly high. Kiva doesn't make it easy to find the partners that charge borrowers 0% or low interest, so I made a script to do so.
posted by rajbot at 6:44 PM on September 27, 2013 - 3 comments
Building an Open-Source Language Map
I was working on some pretty fun language visualizations, but it turns out there's no worldwide, open dataset of where languages are spoken. So I figured hey, let's make one!
posted by soma lkzx at 9:44 AM on May 20, 2013 - 6 comments
I was working on some pretty fun language visualizations, but it turns out there's no worldwide, open dataset of where languages are spoken. So I figured hey, let's make one!
posted by soma lkzx at 9:44 AM on May 20, 2013 - 6 comments
Vector tile river map
I made a tutorial for open source maps with vector tiles. The result is a slippy map of American rivers and some pretty static maps of every US river. But my real goal is the tutorial source code, to help other developers learn to make their own vector maps from geographic data.
posted by Nelson at 11:02 AM on May 21, 2013 - 9 comments
I made a tutorial for open source maps with vector tiles. The result is a slippy map of American rivers and some pretty static maps of every US river. But my real goal is the tutorial source code, to help other developers learn to make their own vector maps from geographic data.
posted by Nelson at 11:02 AM on May 21, 2013 - 9 comments
Secret Metafilter
Secret Metafilter highlights discussions that are still active on older Metafilter posts. The idea comes from Metafilter user painquale, who wished there was a way to easily find older, active threads, and called the body of such threads "Secret Metafilter."
posted by jjwiseman at 10:39 PM on May 2, 2013 - 4 comments
Secret Metafilter highlights discussions that are still active on older Metafilter posts. The idea comes from Metafilter user painquale, who wished there was a way to easily find older, active threads, and called the body of such threads "Secret Metafilter."
posted by jjwiseman at 10:39 PM on May 2, 2013 - 4 comments
The Aleph: Infinite Wonder / Infinite Pity
Web art based on a Borges story.
posted by gwint at 9:09 AM on March 7, 2013 - 6 comments
Web art based on a Borges story.
posted by gwint at 9:09 AM on March 7, 2013 - 6 comments
Windchime
A generative music system that reroutes your keystrokes into a synthesizer before sending them back to what you're writing. Supports multiple instruments & scales, and aims for scriptable composition backends.
posted by tmcw at 10:17 AM on November 2, 2012 - 1 comment
A generative music system that reroutes your keystrokes into a synthesizer before sending them back to what you're writing. Supports multiple instruments & scales, and aims for scriptable composition backends.
posted by tmcw at 10:17 AM on November 2, 2012 - 1 comment
Ted Chiang interview
We have a great interview with science fiction author Ted Chiang up at The Margins, the magazine of the Asian American Writers' Workshop. Vandana Singh talks to him about the scientific basis of his work, artificial intelligence and race. Please check it out!
posted by johnasdf at 1:17 PM on October 3, 2012 - 2 comments
We have a great interview with science fiction author Ted Chiang up at The Margins, the magazine of the Asian American Writers' Workshop. Vandana Singh talks to him about the scientific basis of his work, artificial intelligence and race. Please check it out!
posted by johnasdf at 1:17 PM on October 3, 2012 - 2 comments
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