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Ask A Japanese Person
You give me the questions, and I go out and ask them to Japanese people (mostly in Tokyo). Then I add subtitles and post the videos online. Just waiting for some questions...
posted by ejoey at 8:50 AM on June 20, 2006
You give me the questions, and I go out and ask them to Japanese people (mostly in Tokyo). Then I add subtitles and post the videos online. Just waiting for some questions...
posted by ejoey at 8:50 AM on June 20, 2006
I'm a Wildlife Ambassador
I'm 13 and I've been building this site that explains some of the work I do to help other kids understand wildlife and nature and habitats and how we humans are all connected to nature. The first part of the site has been just explaining myself. The next part will have a lot of wildlife information and hopefully a forum that could match up other kids' interests with ways to use those interests to benefit nature.
posted by FeistyFerret at 8:06 AM on June 11, 2006
I'm 13 and I've been building this site that explains some of the work I do to help other kids understand wildlife and nature and habitats and how we humans are all connected to nature. The first part of the site has been just explaining myself. The next part will have a lot of wildlife information and hopefully a forum that could match up other kids' interests with ways to use those interests to benefit nature.
posted by FeistyFerret at 8:06 AM on June 11, 2006
Worst of YouTube
Dinner Party Head digs through all the noise, muck, and funny videos on YouTube to find the most worthless wastes of bandwidth on the internet.
posted by a47danger at 1:53 PM on June 13, 2006
Dinner Party Head digs through all the noise, muck, and funny videos on YouTube to find the most worthless wastes of bandwidth on the internet.
posted by a47danger at 1:53 PM on June 13, 2006
The Impersonals
I couldn't find a personals site that I wasn't embarrassed to join, so I made my own. No popularity contests, no horoscopes, no buddy lists. Just profiles made from wide-open text fields and anti-creepiness features baked in at every turn. (Lifetime membership will be $5, but until it hits 10,000 profiles, it's free.)
posted by the jam at 9:02 AM on June 5, 2006
I couldn't find a personals site that I wasn't embarrassed to join, so I made my own. No popularity contests, no horoscopes, no buddy lists. Just profiles made from wide-open text fields and anti-creepiness features baked in at every turn. (Lifetime membership will be $5, but until it hits 10,000 profiles, it's free.)
posted by the jam at 9:02 AM on June 5, 2006
The True Life Story of Tom Ritchford
Youngblood playwrights group wrote a play about my life that's up for three more weeks in New York. It's been getting good reviews and tonight an NY Times reporter who's been talking to me about this was there. If only my own art did so well!
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 12:09 AM on June 10, 2006
Youngblood playwrights group wrote a play about my life that's up for three more weeks in New York. It's been getting good reviews and tonight an NY Times reporter who's been talking to me about this was there. If only my own art did so well!
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 12:09 AM on June 10, 2006
American Walrus Spring 06 Issue
I run the American Walrus Magazine, a submissions-based comics quarterly. This is our first issue, but we're hoping to turn it into a place where anybody with talent and a good story can get their stuff published, whether or not they've ever been published or even drawn comics before. This one's being offered for free online in its entirety. Future issues will probably be online in excerpt form. There's a lot of excellent comics in this issue, but space considerations forced us to shrink it a bit. There's a high resolution pdf on the page for better viewing, though. We operate at a velcro-shoe-fastener budget, so we're also selling ties with cartoon characters on them and t-shirts in an attempt to finance the printing of the summer issue. Highlights of the Spring Issue include:
-Killer School Girl Part One by Rebecca Doyle
-A jaunty Christopher Walken mask by Brandon Bird -A pulp painting of Hunter Thompson fighting a shark by Steven Fromtling -Tales of childhood angst by Andy Warner
-The bizarro fantasies of Alexa Rose
-...and more.
The summer issue's coming, too, so if you draw comics, send them our way! Lastly, if you just can't get enough, I also run a comics blog on the main page of the site.
posted by renraw at 7:54 PM on May 29, 2006
I run the American Walrus Magazine, a submissions-based comics quarterly. This is our first issue, but we're hoping to turn it into a place where anybody with talent and a good story can get their stuff published, whether or not they've ever been published or even drawn comics before. This one's being offered for free online in its entirety. Future issues will probably be online in excerpt form. There's a lot of excellent comics in this issue, but space considerations forced us to shrink it a bit. There's a high resolution pdf on the page for better viewing, though. We operate at a velcro-shoe-fastener budget, so we're also selling ties with cartoon characters on them and t-shirts in an attempt to finance the printing of the summer issue. Highlights of the Spring Issue include:
-Killer School Girl Part One by Rebecca Doyle
-A jaunty Christopher Walken mask by Brandon Bird -A pulp painting of Hunter Thompson fighting a shark by Steven Fromtling -Tales of childhood angst by Andy Warner
-The bizarro fantasies of Alexa Rose
-...and more.
The summer issue's coming, too, so if you draw comics, send them our way! Lastly, if you just can't get enough, I also run a comics blog on the main page of the site.
posted by renraw at 7:54 PM on May 29, 2006
Snake Oil:
A little video collage that I made after watching too much late night television. It's on YouTube, but I promise it's not me lip synching 'My Humps' or my friend jumping out of a moving car or anything.
posted by StopMakingSense at 11:01 AM on May 31, 2006
A little video collage that I made after watching too much late night television. It's on YouTube, but I promise it's not me lip synching 'My Humps' or my friend jumping out of a moving car or anything.
posted by StopMakingSense at 11:01 AM on May 31, 2006
Refi: Metafilter in Review
I spend too much time on Metafilter (and especially Metatalk). I've had I-don't-know-how-many conversations about the site—what it is, what it was, what has[n't] changed, and such—and so I've decided to go spelunking. I'm going to go back and read Metafilter, and blog it. I'm planning to read every n-hundredth or so post, starting from the beginning, and I'll be trying to note various observable trends—users, memes, tone, conversational structure, etc. It won't be rigorously scientific, but hopefully it'll be reasonably objective. Specific analytical notions welcome. Likeminded co-author proposals welcome. Cash welcome.
posted by cortex at 11:01 AM on May 31, 2006
I spend too much time on Metafilter (and especially Metatalk). I've had I-don't-know-how-many conversations about the site—what it is, what it was, what has[n't] changed, and such—and so I've decided to go spelunking. I'm going to go back and read Metafilter, and blog it. I'm planning to read every n-hundredth or so post, starting from the beginning, and I'll be trying to note various observable trends—users, memes, tone, conversational structure, etc. It won't be rigorously scientific, but hopefully it'll be reasonably objective. Specific analytical notions welcome. Likeminded co-author proposals welcome. Cash welcome.
posted by cortex at 11:01 AM on May 31, 2006
All My Jobs
From The Panhandling Banana
A post for every job I've ever worked. While on the clock I've been arrested for carrying a gun into an international airport, gotten into a fist fight with a panhandler in S.F., spouted horrible racist ramblings to a nationwide audience on a syndicated talk jock radio show, and had a boss from a previous job punch me in the face. It's been a long strange ride (over thirty jobs) and I still have not arrived at steady employment.
posted by joe beggar at 3:12 PM on May 21, 2006
From The Panhandling Banana
A post for every job I've ever worked. While on the clock I've been arrested for carrying a gun into an international airport, gotten into a fist fight with a panhandler in S.F., spouted horrible racist ramblings to a nationwide audience on a syndicated talk jock radio show, and had a boss from a previous job punch me in the face. It's been a long strange ride (over thirty jobs) and I still have not arrived at steady employment.
posted by joe beggar at 3:12 PM on May 21, 2006
Best Week Ever
This is what I've been working on for the last five months...we quietly launched in late April. Yes, I work for media megagiant Viacom...there's no use denying it. But the reason I'm posting is because we get to be the skunkworks, and I want to prove to MTVN & Viacom that you can use open-source software, free, DRM-less video (full episodes of the show in the podcast feed!) and massive linkiness to be a success online. I mean, the fights I had to wage- explaining why one would link to non-Viacom sites, for example, or how it is one might want to change one's site post-launch- basically ate my life in '06. You have no idea how hard it is to explain our version of Digg to lawyers. Now I ask you: what else can I do? In other words, if you had a budget and an international media conglomerate's attention, what would be your next move?
posted by paul_smatatoes at 8:54 PM on May 17, 2006
This is what I've been working on for the last five months...we quietly launched in late April. Yes, I work for media megagiant Viacom...there's no use denying it. But the reason I'm posting is because we get to be the skunkworks, and I want to prove to MTVN & Viacom that you can use open-source software, free, DRM-less video (full episodes of the show in the podcast feed!) and massive linkiness to be a success online. I mean, the fights I had to wage- explaining why one would link to non-Viacom sites, for example, or how it is one might want to change one's site post-launch- basically ate my life in '06. You have no idea how hard it is to explain our version of Digg to lawyers. Now I ask you: what else can I do? In other words, if you had a budget and an international media conglomerate's attention, what would be your next move?
posted by paul_smatatoes at 8:54 PM on May 17, 2006
My Apple-meets-The-Da-Vinci-Code Satire
It’s only the one page, and is intended to be a light-hearted take on the incredible loyalty that Apple products inspire. In retrospect, I probably should have gone with www.AppleDei.com, but that occurred to me about two hours too late.
posted by dbarefoot at 10:17 AM on May 24, 2006
It’s only the one page, and is intended to be a light-hearted take on the incredible loyalty that Apple products inspire. In retrospect, I probably should have gone with www.AppleDei.com, but that occurred to me about two hours too late.
posted by dbarefoot at 10:17 AM on May 24, 2006
The Terrible Scam Saga of Kelly S.
Putting her proverbial head in the jaws of humiliation and public embarrassment, one young mother of two and wife to a military man decided to speak out about being scammed not once, but three times in a period of 30 days, amounting to 15,000 dollars in debt. Not looking for her 15 minutes of fame, she decided the best (and possibly worst) place to get her story published was on the Make Money Fast Hall of Humiliation (featured on Mefi before). Her hope was to get the word out good and fast so that people just like her might be warned before they too go down that road. Surprisingly, the folks reading the story so far have been kind to her.
posted by thanotopsis at 12:40 PM on April 15, 2006
Putting her proverbial head in the jaws of humiliation and public embarrassment, one young mother of two and wife to a military man decided to speak out about being scammed not once, but three times in a period of 30 days, amounting to 15,000 dollars in debt. Not looking for her 15 minutes of fame, she decided the best (and possibly worst) place to get her story published was on the Make Money Fast Hall of Humiliation (featured on Mefi before). Her hope was to get the word out good and fast so that people just like her might be warned before they too go down that road. Surprisingly, the folks reading the story so far have been kind to her.
posted by thanotopsis at 12:40 PM on April 15, 2006
Both Ends of a Gun
Is a recording produced for RPM Challenge, the first event of its type. Based on the models of National Novel Writing Month and National Album Writing Month, the RPM (Record Production Month) Challenge asked bands and musicians from the Portsmouth, NH, music scene to write and record all the material for a 10-song or 25-minute album within the single month of February. This CD was my contribution to the project; it consists of songs built around two iconic American couples, Bonnie and Clyde, and Annie Oakley and Frank Butler. Submissions ran the gamut from highly produced, layered, professional studio work to humble kitchen-counter efforts like my own. The project, spearheaded by the local arts and culture paper, The Wire, galvanized the local music scene and forged connections between musicians both within and across genres. It's been a boon to the music community, and the model should definitely be emulated. The Portsmouth group is now throwing down the gauntlet by issuing the challenge to Northampton, MA, Portland, ME, and the entire State of Vermont.
posted by Miko at 12:02 PM on April 14, 2006
Is a recording produced for RPM Challenge, the first event of its type. Based on the models of National Novel Writing Month and National Album Writing Month, the RPM (Record Production Month) Challenge asked bands and musicians from the Portsmouth, NH, music scene to write and record all the material for a 10-song or 25-minute album within the single month of February. This CD was my contribution to the project; it consists of songs built around two iconic American couples, Bonnie and Clyde, and Annie Oakley and Frank Butler. Submissions ran the gamut from highly produced, layered, professional studio work to humble kitchen-counter efforts like my own. The project, spearheaded by the local arts and culture paper, The Wire, galvanized the local music scene and forged connections between musicians both within and across genres. It's been a boon to the music community, and the model should definitely be emulated. The Portsmouth group is now throwing down the gauntlet by issuing the challenge to Northampton, MA, Portland, ME, and the entire State of Vermont.
posted by Miko at 12:02 PM on April 14, 2006
MeFi Navigator
Mefi Navigator (annotated screenshot) is a handy GreaseMonkey script that makes navigating MetaFilter threads a bit easier. A picture tells a thousand words - look at the screenshot! Here's a description anyway: The main thing it does is to add a dropdown box (and forward and back arrows) next to each comment which allows you to go directly to the user's other comments in the thread. It marks comments from an admin or the original poster. Also, a little 'back to top' arrow is added to each comment. If you have any problems, email me at mefinavigator at googlemail dot com.
posted by matthewr at 7:32 AM on February 25, 2006
Mefi Navigator (annotated screenshot) is a handy GreaseMonkey script that makes navigating MetaFilter threads a bit easier. A picture tells a thousand words - look at the screenshot! Here's a description anyway: The main thing it does is to add a dropdown box (and forward and back arrows) next to each comment which allows you to go directly to the user's other comments in the thread. It marks comments from an admin or the original poster. Also, a little 'back to top' arrow is added to each comment. If you have any problems, email me at mefinavigator at googlemail dot com.
posted by matthewr at 7:32 AM on February 25, 2006
Wrestle The Future To The Fucking Ground
Using your inbox as my shoebox. No structure. No spellcheck. No consistency. No archives. No explanation.
posted by dobbs at 2:25 PM on February 3, 2006
Using your inbox as my shoebox. No structure. No spellcheck. No consistency. No archives. No explanation.
posted by dobbs at 2:25 PM on February 3, 2006
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