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Brad Story: Aerodreams Sculpture
My dad, a former wooden boatbuilder, is now a sculptor. I've made a website to display his work, which I think is abstract and fascinating. (The sculpture, not the website.)
posted by miskatonic at 8:06 PM on March 13, 2010 - 11 comments
My dad, a former wooden boatbuilder, is now a sculptor. I've made a website to display his work, which I think is abstract and fascinating. (The sculpture, not the website.)
posted by miskatonic at 8:06 PM on March 13, 2010 - 11 comments
Tower Hamlets Councillors Compensation
According to UK law, compensation paid to local councillors should be available to the public. While it would be quite reasonable to think that in 2010 this data would be online and easily available, if did believe so you would be wrong. I decided to change this.
posted by Mutant at 10:26 AM on March 21, 2010 - 7 comments
According to UK law, compensation paid to local councillors should be available to the public. While it would be quite reasonable to think that in 2010 this data would be online and easily available, if did believe so you would be wrong. I decided to change this.
posted by Mutant at 10:26 AM on March 21, 2010 - 7 comments
Waffleizer: 30 answers to the question "Will it waffle?"
Waffleizer seeks to expand the frontiers of waffling, offering alternative uses for your waffle iron. The blog kicks off with a waffleburger and twice-waffled bread pudding.
posted by veggieboy at 12:46 PM on January 6, 2010 - 12 comments
Waffleizer seeks to expand the frontiers of waffling, offering alternative uses for your waffle iron. The blog kicks off with a waffleburger and twice-waffled bread pudding.
posted by veggieboy at 12:46 PM on January 6, 2010 - 12 comments
Fuck This Weather
The weather should be simple, so it fucking is.
posted by parhamr at 8:18 PM on December 22, 2009 - 39 comments
The weather should be simple, so it fucking is.
posted by parhamr at 8:18 PM on December 22, 2009 - 39 comments
Certificatebuddy.com: gift certificates made simple
Certificatebuddy.com is a web application that allows small businesses to print and track gift certificates. I got frustrated by the lack of such a service when trying to make gift certificates for my girlfriend's online shop, so I made one.
posted by primer_dimer at 11:44 AM on December 16, 2009 - 4 comments
Certificatebuddy.com is a web application that allows small businesses to print and track gift certificates. I got frustrated by the lack of such a service when trying to make gift certificates for my girlfriend's online shop, so I made one.
posted by primer_dimer at 11:44 AM on December 16, 2009 - 4 comments
It's Santa Claus vs. Krampus - TO THE DEATH
The Long Yuletide War is a series of short stories I'm working on about the hidden history of that mysterious figure known as Santa Claus and his dark alpine shadow Krampus.
posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey at 8:02 AM on December 5, 2009 - 5 comments
The Long Yuletide War is a series of short stories I'm working on about the hidden history of that mysterious figure known as Santa Claus and his dark alpine shadow Krampus.
posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey at 8:02 AM on December 5, 2009 - 5 comments
Flash game: Starcom
I just launched my second completed Flash game: Starcom, a space-based action adventure. Pilot a starship defending the galaxy from an encroaching enemy invasion with an increasingly powerful array of armaments and technologies.
posted by justkevin at 8:17 PM on June 10, 2009 - 5 comments
I just launched my second completed Flash game: Starcom, a space-based action adventure. Pilot a starship defending the galaxy from an encroaching enemy invasion with an increasingly powerful array of armaments and technologies.
posted by justkevin at 8:17 PM on June 10, 2009 - 5 comments
Everyday Actionscript
There are many great blogs about cool Actionscript projects -- games, particle systems, etc. I love them and visit them every day. They inspire me. However, few of them impact my day-to-day, prosaic work as an Actionscript developer. So I started a down-to-earth AS blog, on which I post tips and tricks that have helped me with my with my work. It's mostly an info dump for me, so that I don't reinvent wheels. But as it may help out other developers, I'm posting it here.
posted by grumblebee at 11:41 AM on May 31, 2009
There are many great blogs about cool Actionscript projects -- games, particle systems, etc. I love them and visit them every day. They inspire me. However, few of them impact my day-to-day, prosaic work as an Actionscript developer. So I started a down-to-earth AS blog, on which I post tips and tricks that have helped me with my with my work. It's mostly an info dump for me, so that I don't reinvent wheels. But as it may help out other developers, I'm posting it here.
posted by grumblebee at 11:41 AM on May 31, 2009
Now You Know What Its Like
Inspired by Wolfster's AskMe, "Now You Know What It’s Like" is a project which explores how our occupations, passions and life experiences make us think differently. It takes as premise the notion that creativity and analysis are complementary skills, which drive success, innovation and beauty. Through reader-contributed anecdotes, I hope to show how skills used in one field can apply to skills in a variety of others.
posted by l33tpolicywonk at 3:21 PM on May 31, 2009 - 3 comments
Inspired by Wolfster's AskMe, "Now You Know What It’s Like" is a project which explores how our occupations, passions and life experiences make us think differently. It takes as premise the notion that creativity and analysis are complementary skills, which drive success, innovation and beauty. Through reader-contributed anecdotes, I hope to show how skills used in one field can apply to skills in a variety of others.
posted by l33tpolicywonk at 3:21 PM on May 31, 2009 - 3 comments
FLEE!, a simple flash game
I'm teaching myself AS3/Flash, and this is my first attempt at a game. It's very simple, and has a combinatoric soundtrack based on nine improvised counterpoint-ish things I recorded yesterday.
posted by cortex at 11:05 AM on May 24, 2009 - 25 comments
I'm teaching myself AS3/Flash, and this is my first attempt at a game. It's very simple, and has a combinatoric soundtrack based on nine improvised counterpoint-ish things I recorded yesterday.
posted by cortex at 11:05 AM on May 24, 2009 - 25 comments
DIY High-Speed Book Scanner From Trash and Cheap Cameras.
Wish you had all your books in digital form? Well, for a few hundred bucks and a lot of scrounging, you can do it. I just posted plans for a book scanner that uses cheap digital cameras and (with the help of friends) wrote free software to get all your books into the digital domain. There's a complete tutorial at the link above. Currently the software is a work-in-progress. Here's a sample if you're concerned about quality. We can do a lot more with software -- this is just the most basic treatment with alpha software.
posted by fake at 7:18 PM on April 19, 2009 - 12 comments
Wish you had all your books in digital form? Well, for a few hundred bucks and a lot of scrounging, you can do it. I just posted plans for a book scanner that uses cheap digital cameras and (with the help of friends) wrote free software to get all your books into the digital domain. There's a complete tutorial at the link above. Currently the software is a work-in-progress. Here's a sample if you're concerned about quality. We can do a lot more with software -- this is just the most basic treatment with alpha software.
posted by fake at 7:18 PM on April 19, 2009 - 12 comments
The First Annual MetaFilter Interactive Fiction Contest
In order to get people (including myself) into writing some interactive fiction, I set up a challenge during the month of March to write an interactive fiction game like Zork or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (most submissions in Inform). You can simply play the games or register to become an unofficial judge and vote on the games.
posted by Deathalicious at 7:10 AM on April 1, 2009 - 11 comments
In order to get people (including myself) into writing some interactive fiction, I set up a challenge during the month of March to write an interactive fiction game like Zork or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (most submissions in Inform). You can simply play the games or register to become an unofficial judge and vote on the games.
posted by Deathalicious at 7:10 AM on April 1, 2009 - 11 comments
A bunch of geezers blogging
I'm a member of the Monday Evening Club, of Pittsfield, Mass. We are 17 gents who meet eight times a year from fall through spring, for a nice dinner hosted by one member, and the reading of a "paper" presented aloud by another member, followed by discussion. We've been doing this since 1869, but unfortunately the club never archived the more than 2000 papers that have been presented during its first 139 years. So now I've started this blog as an archive (and I'm keeping a paper and offline archive as well). So far there are 15 papers from the current and prior seasons, on a wide range of topics.
posted by beagle at 7:27 PM on March 19, 2009
I'm a member of the Monday Evening Club, of Pittsfield, Mass. We are 17 gents who meet eight times a year from fall through spring, for a nice dinner hosted by one member, and the reading of a "paper" presented aloud by another member, followed by discussion. We've been doing this since 1869, but unfortunately the club never archived the more than 2000 papers that have been presented during its first 139 years. So now I've started this blog as an archive (and I'm keeping a paper and offline archive as well). So far there are 15 papers from the current and prior seasons, on a wide range of topics.
posted by beagle at 7:27 PM on March 19, 2009
Elevyn
Elevyn (pronounced as "eleven") is a place to buy and sell hand-made items produced by indigenous or marginalized communities. Think of it as an eBay or Etsy with a cause; using web 2.0 tools to connect artisans to the worldwide market.
posted by friedbeef at 8:34 AM on February 14, 2009 - 5 comments
Elevyn (pronounced as "eleven") is a place to buy and sell hand-made items produced by indigenous or marginalized communities. Think of it as an eBay or Etsy with a cause; using web 2.0 tools to connect artisans to the worldwide market.
posted by friedbeef at 8:34 AM on February 14, 2009 - 5 comments
Exploding Blog!
Collection of awesome explosion videos from around the internet. Maybe one or two new videos posted per day. That is all.
posted by brownpau at 2:13 PM on February 17, 2009 - 3 comments
Collection of awesome explosion videos from around the internet. Maybe one or two new videos posted per day. That is all.
posted by brownpau at 2:13 PM on February 17, 2009 - 3 comments
j, a cd command that learns
This one's for the unix nerds; everyone else can move along. Spend a lot of time cd-ing around a complex directory tree? j keeps track of where you’ve been, and how much time you spend there. Source it into your .bashrc, and then you can say j foo to jump to the most used directory that has the substring (actually regex) foo in it, or j foo bar for the directory that has both foo and bar ...
posted by dmd at 4:26 PM on February 18, 2009 - 4 comments
This one's for the unix nerds; everyone else can move along. Spend a lot of time cd-ing around a complex directory tree? j keeps track of where you’ve been, and how much time you spend there. Source it into your .bashrc, and then you can say j foo to jump to the most used directory that has the substring (actually regex) foo in it, or j foo bar for the directory that has both foo and bar ...
posted by dmd at 4:26 PM on February 18, 2009 - 4 comments
Look At This Cat!
I made Look At This Cat because I figured there are a lot of cats out there that people should look at. And I don't see why that has to involve like crazy Web 2.0 crap when all you really need is some pictures of cats and the ability to say to yourself "hey, look at that, that is one great cat right there".
posted by cortex at 5:48 PM on February 3, 2009 - 16 comments
I made Look At This Cat because I figured there are a lot of cats out there that people should look at. And I don't see why that has to involve like crazy Web 2.0 crap when all you really need is some pictures of cats and the ability to say to yourself "hey, look at that, that is one great cat right there".
posted by cortex at 5:48 PM on February 3, 2009 - 16 comments
School of Hard Knocks.
In 2008 I spent some time working in a special classroom for kids with behavior problems in one of Philadelphia's most notorious public high schools, in one of the city's worst neighborhoods. The experience resulted in an seven part web series that tells in great detail what it's like to be inside room 315.
posted by The Straightener at 1:15 PM on January 20, 2009 - 4 comments
In 2008 I spent some time working in a special classroom for kids with behavior problems in one of Philadelphia's most notorious public high schools, in one of the city's worst neighborhoods. The experience resulted in an seven part web series that tells in great detail what it's like to be inside room 315.
posted by The Straightener at 1:15 PM on January 20, 2009 - 4 comments
Using Drupal: An O'Reilly book about Drupal
After a year or so in gestation, a project that several friends and I have been working on is finally hitting the streets. We've authored an O'Reilly book about Drupal, the open source content management system, and it's a huge encouragement to see it become reality. Woo hoo!
posted by verb at 3:47 PM on December 3, 2008 - 1 comment
After a year or so in gestation, a project that several friends and I have been working on is finally hitting the streets. We've authored an O'Reilly book about Drupal, the open source content management system, and it's a huge encouragement to see it become reality. Woo hoo!
posted by verb at 3:47 PM on December 3, 2008 - 1 comment
Interview Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin's interviews sounded like the kind of gibberish one can generate with Markov chains. Markov chains can be used to synthesize new text from some corpus. InterviewPalin.com uses her interview transcripts to generate new interview question answers. It's a lot of fun, and if you find a good one, you can save it for your friends!
posted by metajack at 6:38 PM on September 26, 2008 - 14 comments
Sarah Palin's interviews sounded like the kind of gibberish one can generate with Markov chains. Markov chains can be used to synthesize new text from some corpus. InterviewPalin.com uses her interview transcripts to generate new interview question answers. It's a lot of fun, and if you find a good one, you can save it for your friends!
posted by metajack at 6:38 PM on September 26, 2008 - 14 comments