Project Unison: A musical interval ear training game for iOS
I was working on being able to identify musical intervals by ear, but the apps I had tried weren't very fun. So instead of cursing the darkness, I got a few musical folks together and we made Project Unison, an app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch that turns interval ear training into a fun arcade game.
posted by buriednexttoyou at 12:06 PM on May 1, 2013 - 2 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 - 5 comments

Bird Presidents
I am drawing all of the US presidents as birds, or maybe vice versa? Bird Presidents, in any case. I'm doing about one a day and drawing them in order.
posted by cortex at 12:12 PM on February 5, 2013 - 10 comments

Start to Finish, A Metafilter Music Podcast
I've been listening to the songs on Metafilter Music - all the songs! - from the very beginning. On weekday mornings, I'll add a song I like. It's a song of the day podcast. The most popular tags for the music I like so far: electronic, pop, dance, ambient, rock, electronica, synth, techno, instrumental, & indie.
posted by Pronoiac at 8:53 PM on February 12, 2011 - 3 comments

Now That's What I Call Drone: Vol. 1
With this compilation, the challenge was for musicians to create drone versions of Top 40 pop songs. The word 'drone' was to be interpreted by each artist as they saw fit. The results are varied, interesting, and pretty damn good. Pop drone psychic energy. (Yes, "Call Me Maybe" is in here.)
posted by naju at 7:48 AM on July 24, 2012 - 9 comments

Kicksaver: Find and save Kickstarter projects ending soon.
Kicksaver finds Kickstarter projects that will end soon without meeting their funding goals. If you have a few dollars to spare, you can help tip a struggling project over its goal and prevent it from losing the pledges made so far. It also tweets endangered projects a few times a day. This is a weekend project I made as part of my continuing effort to teach myself programming. It's completely noncommercial, open source, and not affiliated with Kickstarter in any way (although I do think they're pretty great).
posted by ecmendenhall at 6:05 AM on May 21, 2012 - 6 comments

Built Dublin
Built Dublin is a love letter to architecture and public space in Dublin, Ireland. It's a blog highlighting beautiful, interesting, important and strange things in Dublin's built environment, from big buildings to small details.
posted by carbide at 3:47 PM on March 13, 2012 - 5 comments

Is this a retina display?
There is a lot of debate about whether the iPhone 4 and iPad 3 displays are truly ‘retina’ displays. But there's really no need for debate, because the question can be answered experimentally. Using some simple vision science principles, this website allows you to easily test whether your new iPad (or other display) is ‘retina-class’.
posted by beniamino at 2:11 PM on March 19, 2012 - 7 comments

Tower of Babelfish - A Language Learning Method
I had to speak 4/5 languages for my job, and in the process of learning them, I've landed on a pretty solid language learning method that brought me to fluency (C1) in French in 5 months, with about an hour/day time investment. This website shows you how to do the same!
posted by sdis at 8:50 AM on March 18, 2012 - 2 comments

Instrument-a-day
Every year I spend the month of February making a new musical instrument (or vaguely musical-instrument-like-thing) every day of the month. I'm up to Day 7 of Year 5. I document each instrument on the blog, and often try to share all the construction details, plans, and so forth. The instruments-a-day range in ambition from banging a trash can with a stick to a complete working violin, depending on the time, energy, and inspiration I have each day. Some of the things I've made have been fun for a few days; some are complete garbage; and some have actually been used in performances around the world, by me and by real musicians! Although the blog posts often have more details, the flickr collection is a nice way to get an overview of the project.
posted by moonmilk at 7:41 AM on February 8, 2012 - 6 comments

Fifty-two songs, Fifty-two stories
Every week in 2012 I'm going to pick a song, at random or by request, post the video for that song, and write a short story inspired by it.
posted by reynir at 5:24 AM on February 5, 2012 - 4 comments

Before The Movie Begins
"On leaving the theater, you will be assaulted by baseball-bat-wielding ushers, who will pummel your skull until you forget what you have seen. Any remaining memories are yours to keep and enjoy." I wrote the Shouts & Murmurs in this week's New Yorker. It's a parody of those infernal anti-piracy announcements.
posted by yankeefog at 7:33 AM on February 2, 2012 - 10 comments

Commons Image Browser
A website that lets you browse CC and public domain images.
posted by jsturgill at 3:19 PM on January 13, 2012 - 22 comments

Play SPENT: Can you make it through the month?
My agency created this game for a local poverty services non-profit. Too many people assume that being poor is the result of a moral failing or laziness. Hopefully SPENT challenges those assumptions.
posted by missjenny at 3:18 PM on June 22, 2011 - 12 comments

Rock and/or Roll, To Go
Showcasing the talented and creative folks on MetaFilter Music, The MetaFilter Music Podcast is a 35-45 minute mp3 released fortnightly for your listening pleasure. The blog includes podcasts, an FAQ, bonus videos, subscription links for RSS and iTunes, and more!
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 1:59 PM on December 14, 2007

Lumosity Brain Games
This is something I've been working on for the last year. All the games on the site are based on existing neuroscience research as well of some of our own research (check out the science page). We've tried really hard to make these activities into something more fun than boring lab exercises. Hope you enjoy!
posted by sixtoes at 5:26 PM on May 30, 2007

SMPTE Bar Test Pattern
Made with DIVs and CSS, this is just for some stupid fun. I used it as a holding screen for culture hole, when it went down a few days ago, thought I'd share it. You may now adjust your set!
posted by joelf at 11:48 AM on May 9, 2007

sound-free - netlabel/cc/free music podcast
sound-free is a regular podcast bringing some of the best netlabel, cc licenced and free sounds on the web, to your MP3 player. We've reached edition #3, playing a selection of guitar, electronica, ambient and absolutely anything in between!!
posted by cgfoz at 7:55 PM on February 26, 2007

Split Screen
A weblog dedicated to the art of the split screen and multi-layered visuals, as seen in movies, music videos, commercials and other media based on moving images. Video clips are linked to or embedded if they are available. The site isn't new but this month I began to post regularly again. (Still somehow punting on posting about Timecode, though. Soon!) More info on Split Screen.
posted by shortfuse at 7:56 PM on February 26, 2007

It's A Trap
April 29th 1982, EMI - Elstree Studios, England. A frustrated Richard Marquand is not getting the performance he needs from one of his key actors, Timothy Rose. In a last ditch effort, Marquand shows Rose, playing the role of Admiral Ackbar, a number of films to help him prepare for his final scene of "Return of the Jedi"...

A silly idea taken way too far. Here's our chapter in the epic saga that is the Admiral Ackbar "It's a trap!" meme. Brilliant suggestions for other traps might spawn a follow-up video. Created by myself and nathancaswell.
posted by fidgets at 10:43 AM on February 5, 2007