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PrepaidAfrica Discussion Series
The Prepaid Economy: African edition began as a means to track notes on the rise of Africa as an investment opportunity back in January 2010. Today it has over 28,000 readers on Tumblr, engaging an audience of young Afropolitans. We will be beginning a new series of discussion posts where engagement from our readers is encouraged. This Friday (25th January) we will be having our very first moderated conversation and the topic at hand will be “China’s presence in Africa.” If there are any particular article links or thoughts that you would like to see addressed in the discussion, feel free to share them and we’ll be sure to integrate them into the post. We look forward to hearing your input and hosting a productive conversation on the effects of China’s presence in Africa. Your moderator will be Beulah Osueke, currently Masters Degree student at LaSalle University, Philadelphia
posted by infini at 8:39 AM on January 24, 2013
The Prepaid Economy: African edition began as a means to track notes on the rise of Africa as an investment opportunity back in January 2010. Today it has over 28,000 readers on Tumblr, engaging an audience of young Afropolitans. We will be beginning a new series of discussion posts where engagement from our readers is encouraged. This Friday (25th January) we will be having our very first moderated conversation and the topic at hand will be “China’s presence in Africa.” If there are any particular article links or thoughts that you would like to see addressed in the discussion, feel free to share them and we’ll be sure to integrate them into the post. We look forward to hearing your input and hosting a productive conversation on the effects of China’s presence in Africa. Your moderator will be Beulah Osueke, currently Masters Degree student at LaSalle University, Philadelphia
posted by infini at 8:39 AM on January 24, 2013
Just Solve the Problem Month: Solve File Formats
In July of this year, I proposed the idea of Just Solve the Problem Month, a month (I chose November) where an untold mass of people descend on a problem that's probably a peach if only enough people descended on it. To try out this idea, I proposed solving a Problem that has dogged anyone who tried to rescue old electronic or online material: the File Format Problem. (That first link describes the File Format Problem in detail, but it comes down to there being a massive mess of formats out there from decades of computer use and operation, but scant collection of information about many of them.) The idea gained some traction, so here it is the end of October and we've ramped up the very first Just Solve the Problem Month with a Wiki, justsolve.archiveteam.org, where we'll be enumerating information, examples and links to most every file format we can discern. The hope is to have hundreds of people take on this issue and result in a version 1.0 of a directory of file formats, effectively "solving" the problem by providing deep and rich linkage on how to recover any old media in any old format. I've written an entry with a high-level overview of Just Solve The Problem: The File Format Problem, and an entry that's an extremely detailed version of same. I'd love for the lovely folks of MetaFilter who are interested in such a project to register for an account, or spread along the news of this project to the special overthinking classificarian in your life. The official start date is November 1st, but we've started working on the whole shebang now.
posted by jscott at 7:06 PM on October 26, 2012 - 1 comment
In July of this year, I proposed the idea of Just Solve the Problem Month, a month (I chose November) where an untold mass of people descend on a problem that's probably a peach if only enough people descended on it. To try out this idea, I proposed solving a Problem that has dogged anyone who tried to rescue old electronic or online material: the File Format Problem. (That first link describes the File Format Problem in detail, but it comes down to there being a massive mess of formats out there from decades of computer use and operation, but scant collection of information about many of them.) The idea gained some traction, so here it is the end of October and we've ramped up the very first Just Solve the Problem Month with a Wiki, justsolve.archiveteam.org, where we'll be enumerating information, examples and links to most every file format we can discern. The hope is to have hundreds of people take on this issue and result in a version 1.0 of a directory of file formats, effectively "solving" the problem by providing deep and rich linkage on how to recover any old media in any old format. I've written an entry with a high-level overview of Just Solve The Problem: The File Format Problem, and an entry that's an extremely detailed version of same. I'd love for the lovely folks of MetaFilter who are interested in such a project to register for an account, or spread along the news of this project to the special overthinking classificarian in your life. The official start date is November 1st, but we've started working on the whole shebang now.
posted by jscott at 7:06 PM on October 26, 2012 - 1 comment
rage
This thing converts episodes of ABC TV's music video program, rage, into excruciatingly minimalist youtube playlists.
posted by plant at 9:52 PM on August 13, 2010 - 12 comments
This thing converts episodes of ABC TV's music video program, rage, into excruciatingly minimalist youtube playlists.
posted by plant at 9:52 PM on August 13, 2010 - 12 comments
Australian Caravan Parks
This is a site which lists australian caravan parks and allows users to leave reviews, add pictures and caravan for sale ads, and visualise caravan park locations on google maps. So if you're going to Byron Bay you can easily see a map with all the caravan parks in town and prices on one page. It's written in python on google app engine as a test of the subjects learnt in the Udacity 253 online class.
posted by aTrumpetandaDream at 2:44 AM on July 23, 2012
This is a site which lists australian caravan parks and allows users to leave reviews, add pictures and caravan for sale ads, and visualise caravan park locations on google maps. So if you're going to Byron Bay you can easily see a map with all the caravan parks in town and prices on one page. It's written in python on google app engine as a test of the subjects learnt in the Udacity 253 online class.
posted by aTrumpetandaDream at 2:44 AM on July 23, 2012
Supercut.org
A comprehensive database of nearly 200 "supercuts" -- those rapid-fire video remixes that edit a million of the same thing together in one video. (Think every single "dude" from the Big Lebowski, or a hundred clips of people saying "We've got company!" in movies.) Add any I missed!
posted by waxpancake at 10:56 PM on November 7, 2011 - 8 comments
A comprehensive database of nearly 200 "supercuts" -- those rapid-fire video remixes that edit a million of the same thing together in one video. (Think every single "dude" from the Big Lebowski, or a hundred clips of people saying "We've got company!" in movies.) Add any I missed!
posted by waxpancake at 10:56 PM on November 7, 2011 - 8 comments
FaveRunner: The Video Game Of Missing The Point Of Metafilter
I'm teaching myself the blitting-centric Flash games library Flixel, and my Hello World program sort of got carried away and turned into this silly little platformer in which you try to collect favorites while avoiding the menacing flags. Fifteen levels in three worlds (blue, green, and grey), random fave and flag placement, and, in fine oldschool platformer fashion, compensating for it's shortness by being unfairly hard in spots. Features chiptune snippets of matthewchen is Spamming and Doing the Churlish Pule!
posted by cortex at 11:16 AM on September 29, 2011 - 8 comments
I'm teaching myself the blitting-centric Flash games library Flixel, and my Hello World program sort of got carried away and turned into this silly little platformer in which you try to collect favorites while avoiding the menacing flags. Fifteen levels in three worlds (blue, green, and grey), random fave and flag placement, and, in fine oldschool platformer fashion, compensating for it's shortness by being unfairly hard in spots. Features chiptune snippets of matthewchen is Spamming and Doing the Churlish Pule!
posted by cortex at 11:16 AM on September 29, 2011 - 8 comments
Lloydtube: Lloyd Dobler's boombox meets youtube
Sometimes you just need Lloyd Dobler to stand with a boombox held over his head as he stubbornly, earnestly yearns, with Peter Gabriel playing. Or maybe Lady Gaga. Or Black Eyed Peas. Or like Wagner or whatever, I dunno. Lloyd loves you no matter what you feel like listening to.
posted by cortex at 1:27 PM on August 8, 2011 - 9 comments
Sometimes you just need Lloyd Dobler to stand with a boombox held over his head as he stubbornly, earnestly yearns, with Peter Gabriel playing. Or maybe Lady Gaga. Or Black Eyed Peas. Or like Wagner or whatever, I dunno. Lloyd loves you no matter what you feel like listening to.
posted by cortex at 1:27 PM on August 8, 2011 - 9 comments
The Code Challenge - a maths treasure hunt by the BBC
I helped make the games and treasure hunt for a BBC Two series called The Code, a fantastic three-part series about maths in the world around us presented by Prof. Marcus du Sautoy. While it's just finished, you can still watch clips; play games about tessellation, prime numbers, symmetry (this one is awesome), and physics; and tackle our beautiful, free 84 page book of puzzles. Then there's the treasure...
posted by adrianhon at 12:14 PM on August 11, 2011
I helped make the games and treasure hunt for a BBC Two series called The Code, a fantastic three-part series about maths in the world around us presented by Prof. Marcus du Sautoy. While it's just finished, you can still watch clips; play games about tessellation, prime numbers, symmetry (this one is awesome), and physics; and tackle our beautiful, free 84 page book of puzzles. Then there's the treasure...
posted by adrianhon at 12:14 PM on August 11, 2011
Gamefilter dot net
"So," I asks myself, "self: does the world need a Metafilter-like site dedicated to gaming?" The answer I got back was "Hell, yeah!" and Gamefilter is the result. It's the newest site in the burgeoning network of MefightClub websites,ripped off from inspired by Metafilter and fitting somewhere in between our more chatty private forum and the more long-form Full Glass Empty Clip group blog. You don't need to be a Mefight Club member to join in; registration is open to all.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 7:24 PM on February 16, 2011 - 15 comments
"So," I asks myself, "self: does the world need a Metafilter-like site dedicated to gaming?" The answer I got back was "Hell, yeah!" and Gamefilter is the result. It's the newest site in the burgeoning network of MefightClub websites,
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 7:24 PM on February 16, 2011 - 15 comments
Draw Chewbacca
Announcing Draw Chewbacca, the Internet's premier online community for drawing Chewbacca. Join us and share your Chewbacca drawings!
posted by Xazeru at 2:27 PM on February 2, 2011 - 6 comments
Announcing Draw Chewbacca, the Internet's premier online community for drawing Chewbacca. Join us and share your Chewbacca drawings!
posted by Xazeru at 2:27 PM on February 2, 2011 - 6 comments
Scouting An Abandoned Mental Asylum
I recently had the opportunity to scout for a film the Rockland Psychiatric Center, a massive 600 acre complex built in the 1920's, with dozens of administration buildings, dorms, and even its own power plant...and nearly all of it completely abandoned. This is part one of the pictures I took.
posted by nycscout at 2:56 PM on January 25, 2011 - 5 comments
I recently had the opportunity to scout for a film the Rockland Psychiatric Center, a massive 600 acre complex built in the 1920's, with dozens of administration buildings, dorms, and even its own power plant...and nearly all of it completely abandoned. This is part one of the pictures I took.
posted by nycscout at 2:56 PM on January 25, 2011 - 5 comments
reccr, the amazing automated video game recommender!
Just in time to help you decide what to ask Santa for, reccr is the amazing automated video game recommender; rate the games you've played, and it'll tell you what other games you'll like, in a similar fashion to Netflix's "Movies You'll ♥" feature. It's in early beta and currently capped at 500 users, but the all-important "recommendations" core feature is working great, and the more people add their ratings the better the recommendations will get!
posted by luvcraft at 2:59 PM on December 18, 2010 - 12 comments
Just in time to help you decide what to ask Santa for, reccr is the amazing automated video game recommender; rate the games you've played, and it'll tell you what other games you'll like, in a similar fashion to Netflix's "Movies You'll ♥" feature. It's in early beta and currently capped at 500 users, but the all-important "recommendations" core feature is working great, and the more people add their ratings the better the recommendations will get!
posted by luvcraft at 2:59 PM on December 18, 2010 - 12 comments
Cats on Macs
Just what it sounds like: This is a site devoted to pictures of cats (and kitties, kittens, kittehs, ketselehs, etc...) on Macs (and associated hardware).
posted by limeonaire at 5:00 PM on December 11, 2010 - 8 comments
Just what it sounds like: This is a site devoted to pictures of cats (and kitties, kittens, kittehs, ketselehs, etc...) on Macs (and associated hardware).
posted by limeonaire at 5:00 PM on December 11, 2010 - 8 comments
Cats in Christmas Trees
Photos and videos of cats in Christmas trees. For all your cats in Christmas tree needs!
posted by null terminated at 12:03 PM on November 29, 2010 - 6 comments
Photos and videos of cats in Christmas trees. For all your cats in Christmas tree needs!
posted by null terminated at 12:03 PM on November 29, 2010 - 6 comments
Diary Dig: Wikileaks Afghan War Diaries explorer
A richly faceted and deeply hyperlinked browser for all of the as-yet released Afghan War Diaries from Wikileaks. Allows you to search by type, category, number of casualties, and many other parameters. Within each document, uncommon phrases that are shared among multiple documents are linked together, allowing you to go down the rabbit hole where you might not have otherwise thought to. My hope is that this will allow reporters, researchers, and the general public to better understand the scope and nature of the US war in Afghanistan, and the contents of this important archive. Source code available.
posted by yourcelf at 8:43 AM on August 1, 2010 - 1 comment
A richly faceted and deeply hyperlinked browser for all of the as-yet released Afghan War Diaries from Wikileaks. Allows you to search by type, category, number of casualties, and many other parameters. Within each document, uncommon phrases that are shared among multiple documents are linked together, allowing you to go down the rabbit hole where you might not have otherwise thought to. My hope is that this will allow reporters, researchers, and the general public to better understand the scope and nature of the US war in Afghanistan, and the contents of this important archive. Source code available.
posted by yourcelf at 8:43 AM on August 1, 2010 - 1 comment
The IT Crowd game
Somehow, Rob Manuel and I were lucky enough to be entrusted with Graham Linehan's beloved characters, so we've tried to pack the game with references to the show and daft memes. Apologies in advance for the rat song getting stuck in your head...
posted by malevolent at 5:39 AM on June 30, 2010 - 4 comments
Somehow, Rob Manuel and I were lucky enough to be entrusted with Graham Linehan's beloved characters, so we've tried to pack the game with references to the show and daft memes. Apologies in advance for the rat song getting stuck in your head...
posted by malevolent at 5:39 AM on June 30, 2010 - 4 comments
Ice Cream Club
As soon as you start making ice cream you have too much of it, so we meet up in NYC and trade it! We run a group blog where we post pretty pictures, ice-cream-making guides, examples of horrifying recipes, and like to help with troubleshooting.
posted by soma lkzx at 3:07 PM on June 17, 2010 - 16 comments
As soon as you start making ice cream you have too much of it, so we meet up in NYC and trade it! We run a group blog where we post pretty pictures, ice-cream-making guides, examples of horrifying recipes, and like to help with troubleshooting.
posted by soma lkzx at 3:07 PM on June 17, 2010 - 16 comments
New site for gun enthusiasts.
I just soft launched a new website that caters to gun enthusiasts. I am interested in getting some feedback from you guys. Hopefully by next week we will have the rest of the bugs worked out and can start promoting it.
posted by Mr_Zero at 9:28 PM on May 27, 2010 - 7 comments
I just soft launched a new website that caters to gun enthusiasts. I am interested in getting some feedback from you guys. Hopefully by next week we will have the rest of the bugs worked out and can start promoting it.
posted by Mr_Zero at 9:28 PM on May 27, 2010 - 7 comments
GTmetrix - site speed and performance optimization
With all the hoopla over Google's recent announcement that a sites page loading speed will be a ranking factor, we opened up a tool built internally to give people a quick overview of your sites speed.
posted by gossamer at 1:32 PM on April 15, 2010 - 4 comments
With all the hoopla over Google's recent announcement that a sites page loading speed will be a ranking factor, we opened up a tool built internally to give people a quick overview of your sites speed.
posted by gossamer at 1:32 PM on April 15, 2010 - 4 comments
OddBook - keeping track of your reading
I've been tracking my reading since 1997. In 2002 a friend of mine created a simple PHP application that created a booklist with RSS feed and a search and archives and I've been using it ever since. It's been tweaked a few times over the years [thanks and hosted from Uranus] but just recently cowbellemoo helped me get it in shape to put it up on Google Code. Actually he pretty much did all the work. Examples on my longstanding booklist and his example list.
posted by jessamyn at 8:45 AM on March 31, 2010 - 1 comment
I've been tracking my reading since 1997. In 2002 a friend of mine created a simple PHP application that created a booklist with RSS feed and a search and archives and I've been using it ever since. It's been tweaked a few times over the years [thanks and hosted from Uranus] but just recently cowbellemoo helped me get it in shape to put it up on Google Code. Actually he pretty much did all the work. Examples on my longstanding booklist and his example list.
posted by jessamyn at 8:45 AM on March 31, 2010 - 1 comment