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Dabbler: One new hobby, each and every month
Ever wanted to learn how to pickle? Or stargaze? Or build kites, read tarot, make cheese, or bind books? It's always fun to learn something new, but sometimes you need a tiny nudge. Dabbler picks a topic every month and sends a little package to your inbox: notes, links, book recommendations, and everything else to help get you on your way.
posted by soma lkzx at 10:58 AM on November 25, 2012 - 5 comments
Ever wanted to learn how to pickle? Or stargaze? Or build kites, read tarot, make cheese, or bind books? It's always fun to learn something new, but sometimes you need a tiny nudge. Dabbler picks a topic every month and sends a little package to your inbox: notes, links, book recommendations, and everything else to help get you on your way.
posted by soma lkzx at 10:58 AM on November 25, 2012 - 5 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
Alaskan art for those who don't do wildlife scenery or Sarah Palin
I've recently started selling prints of my work. I'd love to get feedback from MeFites.
posted by madred at 11:48 AM on April 6, 2010 - 9 comments
I've recently started selling prints of my work. I'd love to get feedback from MeFites.
posted by madred at 11:48 AM on April 6, 2010 - 9 comments
Peeps of Death
It's a long-standing [insert chosen Spring holiday here] tradition in my family to see who can most creatively destroy a Peeps candy. I have created a "contest" for the random Internet masses to follow suit. Should be interesting to see what they submit. All are welcome.
posted by functionequalsform at 2:25 PM on March 31, 2010 - 1 comment
It's a long-standing [insert chosen Spring holiday here] tradition in my family to see who can most creatively destroy a Peeps candy. I have created a "contest" for the random Internet masses to follow suit. Should be interesting to see what they submit. All are welcome.
posted by functionequalsform at 2:25 PM on March 31, 2010 - 1 comment
Meet The Lady
A tumblr blog created by myself and Help, I can't stop talking!, Meet The Lady is a compendium of ladies whom you might like to meet. Or not -- no pressure, really.
posted by hermitosis at 1:56 PM on January 6, 2010 - 9 comments
A tumblr blog created by myself and Help, I can't stop talking!, Meet The Lady is a compendium of ladies whom you might like to meet. Or not -- no pressure, really.
posted by hermitosis at 1:56 PM on January 6, 2010 - 9 comments
Big Apple Ed
All sorts of stuff about New York City schools! Test scores, demographics, teacher turnover rates, top ten lists, and about a thousand other things. Search! Compare! Judge ruthlessly!
posted by soma lkzx at 7:55 AM on December 18, 2009 - 2 comments
All sorts of stuff about New York City schools! Test scores, demographics, teacher turnover rates, top ten lists, and about a thousand other things. Search! Compare! Judge ruthlessly!
posted by soma lkzx at 7:55 AM on December 18, 2009 - 2 comments
Brooklyn Brainery: Get into things
We were tired of paying hundreds of dollars to take classes in things we could learn ourselves and sitting through surface-skimming lectures, so we created Brooklyn Brainery. Cheap, collaborative classes where you work through a subject without some Dr. Bossy teacher - just some books, Wikipedia, everyone else's experience, and maybe an ice cream maker. We cover everything from your grandmother's favorite crafts to pure snobbish intellectualism. Think book club on steroids!
posted by soma lkzx at 9:01 AM on November 17, 2009 - 7 comments
We were tired of paying hundreds of dollars to take classes in things we could learn ourselves and sitting through surface-skimming lectures, so we created Brooklyn Brainery. Cheap, collaborative classes where you work through a subject without some Dr. Bossy teacher - just some books, Wikipedia, everyone else's experience, and maybe an ice cream maker. We cover everything from your grandmother's favorite crafts to pure snobbish intellectualism. Think book club on steroids!
posted by soma lkzx at 9:01 AM on November 17, 2009 - 7 comments
#tweetcode - telegram codes meet twitter
There was noise last week about a telegraphic code book from 1891 that people used in Historical Times to shorten longer messages to make them cheaper. If "oh man that would be great for twitter!" was one of your top seven responses to that, have I got a site for you!
posted by soma lkzx at 12:49 PM on August 11, 2009 - 4 comments
There was noise last week about a telegraphic code book from 1891 that people used in Historical Times to shorten longer messages to make them cheaper. If "oh man that would be great for twitter!" was one of your top seven responses to that, have I got a site for you!
posted by soma lkzx at 12:49 PM on August 11, 2009 - 4 comments
Biking Rules!
Mefites often (hotly) debate etiquette as it relates to bicyclists, cars and pedestrians. Now everyone has a chance to make their point and win a prize -- NYC's Transportation Alternatives has launched a contest to promote responsibility in the biking community. Submit your video or still-image PSA and you could win $4,000 or a new Kona bike.
posted by hermitosis at 11:21 AM on July 29, 2009 - 1 comment
Mefites often (hotly) debate etiquette as it relates to bicyclists, cars and pedestrians. Now everyone has a chance to make their point and win a prize -- NYC's Transportation Alternatives has launched a contest to promote responsibility in the biking community. Submit your video or still-image PSA and you could win $4,000 or a new Kona bike.
posted by hermitosis at 11:21 AM on July 29, 2009 - 1 comment
In Which I Ruin Rashomon For Everyone, Forever
Trying to "solve" Rashomon is absolutely the stupidest possible way to approach this Kurosawa masterpiece. But diagramming it in a bullheaded attempt to figure it all out... that can only be described as a sensible use of one's time. Now with added Ted Sallis!
posted by Shepherd at 10:50 AM on August 4, 2009 - 7 comments
Trying to "solve" Rashomon is absolutely the stupidest possible way to approach this Kurosawa masterpiece. But diagramming it in a bullheaded attempt to figure it all out... that can only be described as a sensible use of one's time. Now with added Ted Sallis!
posted by Shepherd at 10:50 AM on August 4, 2009 - 7 comments
WHY HULK-MARG MAD (AND THEREFORE SMASH)
A slideshow I made to express how I feel about Sony's "OMG Girlz Play Too" ad campaign.
posted by ocherdraco at 1:12 PM on August 7, 2009 - 8 comments
A slideshow I made to express how I feel about Sony's "OMG Girlz Play Too" ad campaign.
posted by ocherdraco at 1:12 PM on August 7, 2009 - 8 comments
Triptrop NYC: Completely Rad Subway Time Maps
Plug in an address in New York City, and Triptrop generates a super slick looking map of how long it takes to get everywhere on the subway. And maybe you're moving? Then plug not one but two addresses into the address comparison version and see which one gets you where you want to go! Oh, joy.
posted by soma lkzx at 8:05 AM on April 21, 2009 - 5 comments
Plug in an address in New York City, and Triptrop generates a super slick looking map of how long it takes to get everywhere on the subway. And maybe you're moving? Then plug not one but two addresses into the address comparison version and see which one gets you where you want to go! Oh, joy.
posted by soma lkzx at 8:05 AM on April 21, 2009 - 5 comments
Tokyo Tuesday: Japan, right now
Tokyo Tuesday tells you what's going on in Japan. And by "what's going on," i don't mean hip happenings, I mean 115,806 people are gardening right now, and they're overwhelmingly female and attending school. Pretty streamgraphs and awesome census visualizations times ten million. And it's just in time for Statistics Day, too!
posted by soma lkzx at 8:03 AM on October 16, 2008 - 5 comments
Tokyo Tuesday tells you what's going on in Japan. And by "what's going on," i don't mean hip happenings, I mean 115,806 people are gardening right now, and they're overwhelmingly female and attending school. Pretty streamgraphs and awesome census visualizations times ten million. And it's just in time for Statistics Day, too!
posted by soma lkzx at 8:03 AM on October 16, 2008 - 5 comments
The Interactive Singles Map: More accurate, more depressing!
Remember the map of singles in the US that billed New York as a fabled babe mecca, and California as a billion boy beach? I crunched some digits and now we've got one where you can change the age range, adjust for statisticksy things, and just plain have it look a little bit prettier. This map will make any 25 year old boy cry.
posted by soma lkzx at 8:52 AM on September 8, 2008 - 7 comments
Remember the map of singles in the US that billed New York as a fabled babe mecca, and California as a billion boy beach? I crunched some digits and now we've got one where you can change the age range, adjust for statisticksy things, and just plain have it look a little bit prettier. This map will make any 25 year old boy cry.
posted by soma lkzx at 8:52 AM on September 8, 2008 - 7 comments
Hermitosis: A Malady of Perspective
Interviews about horror, featuring many people of note! Victims include Michael K. Williams (The Wire's Omar Little); film directors Jennifer Lynch, Mitchell Lichtenstein, and JT Petty; Philip Glass protogé Nico Muhly; 2008 Pulitzer-winning playwright Tracy Letts; Project Runway designer Chris March; Allan Apone, whose Faces of Death special effects faked out a generation, and many more. I've also amassed interviews with many others whose occupation gives them a unique perspective on the genre, such as the head perfumier at BPAL, a magician, an oral surgeon, a zombie scholar, an *ahem* funeral director, and so forth!
posted by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] at 1:49 PM on May 27, 2008 - 3 comments
Interviews about horror, featuring many people of note! Victims include Michael K. Williams (The Wire's Omar Little); film directors Jennifer Lynch, Mitchell Lichtenstein, and JT Petty; Philip Glass protogé Nico Muhly; 2008 Pulitzer-winning playwright Tracy Letts; Project Runway designer Chris March; Allan Apone, whose Faces of Death special effects faked out a generation, and many more. I've also amassed interviews with many others whose occupation gives them a unique perspective on the genre, such as the head perfumier at BPAL, a magician, an oral surgeon, a zombie scholar, an *ahem* funeral director, and so forth!
posted by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] at 1:49 PM on May 27, 2008 - 3 comments
Tarot In Plain Sight
After many discussions about the Tarot back in my hermitosis days, I've made my own site. Arcanalogue gathers all the most evocative and inspiring things that I find online (mostly MetaFilter, of course) and re-interprets them through the centuries-old eyes of the Major and Minor Arcana.
posted by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] at 1:51 PM on June 27, 2008 - 8 comments
After many discussions about the Tarot back in my hermitosis days, I've made my own site. Arcanalogue gathers all the most evocative and inspiring things that I find online (mostly MetaFilter, of course) and re-interprets them through the centuries-old eyes of the Major and Minor Arcana.
posted by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] at 1:51 PM on June 27, 2008 - 8 comments
opmlpop
opmlpop is a digg clone for OPML files. Submit outlines containing links, feeds and so on and the community can vote on them. The point? OPML lets you 'include' outlines and pool your content, but finding outlines to include or people to include your outline can be a pain.
posted by tommorris at 11:14 AM on June 18, 2006
opmlpop is a digg clone for OPML files. Submit outlines containing links, feeds and so on and the community can vote on them. The point? OPML lets you 'include' outlines and pool your content, but finding outlines to include or people to include your outline can be a pain.
posted by tommorris at 11:14 AM on June 18, 2006
Snacksby: A Recipe Site
I got tired of not being able to tell a cooking site "Hey! I've got two onions, 4 eggs, a loaf of bread and some mayo. What can I make?", so I made one that would listen. Snacksby can learn about substitutions and new measurements, and since it's after 1997 it's got things like tagging and rating (and rounded borders!)
posted by soma lkzx at 8:50 AM on June 20, 2006
I got tired of not being able to tell a cooking site "Hey! I've got two onions, 4 eggs, a loaf of bread and some mayo. What can I make?", so I made one that would listen. Snacksby can learn about substitutions and new measurements, and since it's after 1997 it's got things like tagging and rating (and rounded borders!)
posted by soma lkzx at 8:50 AM on June 20, 2006
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