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The Manual, by The KLF, cleaned up and proofread
There’s a cult band from the late 80s onward called the KLF (and other names); they made a step-by-step guide to achieving a number one single with no money or musical skills. Legitimate copies of the book are hard to find, or priced for collectors. Released in 1988, though copies are around on the internet; based on the same source version, there are many typos and OCR artifacts. I decided to clean it up and share.
posted by Pronoiac at 2:33 AM on February 2, 2021 - 3 comments
There’s a cult band from the late 80s onward called the KLF (and other names); they made a step-by-step guide to achieving a number one single with no money or musical skills. Legitimate copies of the book are hard to find, or priced for collectors. Released in 1988, though copies are around on the internet; based on the same source version, there are many typos and OCR artifacts. I decided to clean it up and share.
posted by Pronoiac at 2:33 AM on February 2, 2021 - 3 comments
"Cruiser" is a strong word for what it is now. But just you wait ...
Following up on this AskMe, I now have a 1974 Toyota Land Cruiser in hand and have started work on it. You can follow along in the IH8MUD forum.
posted by donpardo at 2:01 PM on August 11, 2020 - 4 comments
Following up on this AskMe, I now have a 1974 Toyota Land Cruiser in hand and have started work on it. You can follow along in the IH8MUD forum.
posted by donpardo at 2:01 PM on August 11, 2020 - 4 comments
mapschool
I work in maps but am generally frustrated with the way the field is taught: so this is my attempt at making educational materials that dial down the corporate tie-ins and talk about concept. I also write about the process of making it and am planning on illustrating & printing it for free/cheap for students.
posted by tmcw at 5:06 PM on January 9, 2014 - 3 comments
I work in maps but am generally frustrated with the way the field is taught: so this is my attempt at making educational materials that dial down the corporate tie-ins and talk about concept. I also write about the process of making it and am planning on illustrating & printing it for free/cheap for students.
posted by tmcw at 5:06 PM on January 9, 2014 - 3 comments
JAWS: The Text Adventure
In 1984, Mirrorsoft commissioned husband-and-wife coding team Dave & Sara Crud to create a blockbuster ZX Spectrum movie tie-in, only for rights holders to back out and leave it unreleased for nearly three decades. Or at least that's the backstory I wrote as my own brief...
posted by malevolent at 12:16 PM on September 17, 2013 - 7 comments
In 1984, Mirrorsoft commissioned husband-and-wife coding team Dave & Sara Crud to create a blockbuster ZX Spectrum movie tie-in, only for rights holders to back out and leave it unreleased for nearly three decades. Or at least that's the backstory I wrote as my own brief...
posted by malevolent at 12:16 PM on September 17, 2013 - 7 comments
geojson.io
A simple way to edit, share, and create map data, by drawing, importing, or coding directly.
posted by tmcw at 8:19 PM on July 27, 2013 - 4 comments
A simple way to edit, share, and create map data, by drawing, importing, or coding directly.
posted by tmcw at 8:19 PM on July 27, 2013 - 4 comments
The Summer of '63
From the governor of Alabama facing down his own state's National Guard to the March on Washington and the "I Have A Dream" speech, the summer of 1963 was the moment that the black civil rights movement in America galvanized the nation. The Code Switch team at NPR — with the help of our awesome social media team and NPR's librarians — is tweeting events from throughout that summer, just as they unfolded then.
posted by mthomps00 at 9:37 AM on June 12, 2013
From the governor of Alabama facing down his own state's National Guard to the March on Washington and the "I Have A Dream" speech, the summer of 1963 was the moment that the black civil rights movement in America galvanized the nation. The Code Switch team at NPR — with the help of our awesome social media team and NPR's librarians — is tweeting events from throughout that summer, just as they unfolded then.
posted by mthomps00 at 9:37 AM on June 12, 2013
space claw - a flickr telnet bbs
Browse flickr as a BBS. Open a terminal and type telnet spaceclaw.net
posted by bertrandom at 11:18 AM on March 28, 2013 - 5 comments
Browse flickr as a BBS. Open a terminal and type telnet spaceclaw.net
posted by bertrandom at 11:18 AM on March 28, 2013 - 5 comments
9,308 photographs of North Dakota
I got the most detailed map of North Dakota I could find, visited every dot on the map, and photographed something at every single spot.
posted by afiler at 2:05 PM on October 13, 2012 - 7 comments
I got the most detailed map of North Dakota I could find, visited every dot on the map, and photographed something at every single spot.
posted by afiler at 2:05 PM on October 13, 2012 - 7 comments
Washington, DC Police Tweets
An open-ended research tool for everything that the DC Police Department writes on their twitter feed. The department made the controversial decision to encrypt all radio communications last year, with no allowance for journalists, and thus have devoted more time to twitter. The site allows you to view the last three thousand tweets and quickly analyze factors like age, city quadrant, gender, etc., though a clever regular-expression-based interface.
posted by tmcw at 2:19 PM on August 30, 2012 - 7 comments
An open-ended research tool for everything that the DC Police Department writes on their twitter feed. The department made the controversial decision to encrypt all radio communications last year, with no allowance for journalists, and thus have devoted more time to twitter. The site allows you to view the last three thousand tweets and quickly analyze factors like age, city quadrant, gender, etc., though a clever regular-expression-based interface.
posted by tmcw at 2:19 PM on August 30, 2012 - 7 comments
Turn all book covers into wallpapers
For the last two weeks I have been creating desktop wallpapers based on book covers. The idea was sparked by a very old reddit post where one user asked why there weren't any high resolution images of book covers. I saw that and figured, "Why not high resolution, wallpaper ready versions of book covers?" And since they didn't exist, I started to make them.
posted by ky1e at 4:54 PM on July 15, 2012 - 8 comments
For the last two weeks I have been creating desktop wallpapers based on book covers. The idea was sparked by a very old reddit post where one user asked why there weren't any high resolution images of book covers. I saw that and figured, "Why not high resolution, wallpaper ready versions of book covers?" And since they didn't exist, I started to make them.
posted by ky1e at 4:54 PM on July 15, 2012 - 8 comments
RPGWrite - an inspirational writing tool
RPG Write is a tool to help you beat writer's block, by giving you RPG-style incentives when you write. We've all been there, stuck playing an RPG for a few more minutes, "just until I level." Many of us have been grinding that last bit of XP when we should have been writing! Rather than fight it, we've decided to cave to the compelling nature of RPGs!
posted by trunk muffins at 4:00 PM on October 28, 2011 - 8 comments
RPG Write is a tool to help you beat writer's block, by giving you RPG-style incentives when you write. We've all been there, stuck playing an RPG for a few more minutes, "just until I level." Many of us have been grinding that last bit of XP when we should have been writing! Rather than fight it, we've decided to cave to the compelling nature of RPGs!
posted by trunk muffins at 4:00 PM on October 28, 2011 - 8 comments
"China Girls / Leader Ladies"
A collection of frame enlargements I made of the mysterious photographs of (usually) women that sometimes appear in the unseen header footage of motion picture film. More will be added as I encounter them.
posted by bubukaba at 10:10 PM on October 6, 2011 - 4 comments
A collection of frame enlargements I made of the mysterious photographs of (usually) women that sometimes appear in the unseen header footage of motion picture film. More will be added as I encounter them.
posted by bubukaba at 10:10 PM on October 6, 2011 - 4 comments
Your Superfund
What environmental catastrophe is your neighbor? A map of all 1.6k Superfund sites and an instant finder for your own by using some interesting math hacks.
posted by tmcw at 10:22 PM on September 29, 2011 - 8 comments
What environmental catastrophe is your neighbor? A map of all 1.6k Superfund sites and an instant finder for your own by using some interesting math hacks.
posted by tmcw at 10:22 PM on September 29, 2011 - 8 comments
Web Developer Guide: XHTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, HTML5, and PhotoShop
For the last nine years I have taught web development, with a sideline in 3D, while continuing to freelance. The product of this AskMeFi question, my blog contains lectures, lessons, tutorials, resources and practice quizzes for XHTML, PHP and CSS. Increasingly, I’m focusing my writing on JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5. I’ve just added the (very much beta) ability to sign up and leave comments, with many more features planned.
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul at 7:35 AM on March 2, 2011 - 5 comments
For the last nine years I have taught web development, with a sideline in 3D, while continuing to freelance. The product of this AskMeFi question, my blog contains lectures, lessons, tutorials, resources and practice quizzes for XHTML, PHP and CSS. Increasingly, I’m focusing my writing on JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5. I’ve just added the (very much beta) ability to sign up and leave comments, with many more features planned.
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul at 7:35 AM on March 2, 2011 - 5 comments
Churnalism
Find news articles derived from press releases. Just paste a press release in and see what you get!
posted by Donch at 12:01 PM on February 24, 2011 - 6 comments
Find news articles derived from press releases. Just paste a press release in and see what you get!
posted by Donch at 12:01 PM on February 24, 2011 - 6 comments
TileMill
Finally out in the open - a project I've been working on at work. Sweet, beautiful open source map design.
posted by tmcw at 8:38 AM on February 16, 2011 - 2 comments
Finally out in the open - a project I've been working on at work. Sweet, beautiful open source map design.
posted by tmcw at 8:38 AM on February 16, 2011 - 2 comments
16 gallows ballads from Victorian London.
I've just completed a year-long project selecting, researching and writing about some of my favourite gallows ballads from the British Library's collection. These were the printed broadsheets knocked out overnight by jobbing hacks in London's Seven Dials slum and sold at the foot of the scaffold whenever there was a popular public hanging. Each entry in the menu linked above has the ballad's full lyrics, plus my own research on the real-life murder that inspired it and a scan of the original sheet itself.
posted by Paul Slade at 7:38 AM on February 13, 2011 - 4 comments
I've just completed a year-long project selecting, researching and writing about some of my favourite gallows ballads from the British Library's collection. These were the printed broadsheets knocked out overnight by jobbing hacks in London's Seven Dials slum and sold at the foot of the scaffold whenever there was a popular public hanging. Each entry in the menu linked above has the ballad's full lyrics, plus my own research on the real-life murder that inspired it and a scan of the original sheet itself.
posted by Paul Slade at 7:38 AM on February 13, 2011 - 4 comments
Your Hipster Meme Is Completely F---ing Played Out
My attempt to turn some of the existing LOLHIPSTERS sites on their ear by way of deconstruction. At least, that's the highbrow explanation. At the very least, I want to satirize the mocking of my hipster brethren around the world.
posted by zvs at 5:47 PM on February 9, 2011 - 5 comments
My attempt to turn some of the existing LOLHIPSTERS sites on their ear by way of deconstruction. At least, that's the highbrow explanation. At the very least, I want to satirize the mocking of my hipster brethren around the world.
posted by zvs at 5:47 PM on February 9, 2011 - 5 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
Death and the Maiden
A compendium of imagery inspired (consciously or otherwise) by the art motif of "Death and the Maiden."
posted by hermitosis at 1:24 PM on January 17, 2011 - 5 comments
A compendium of imagery inspired (consciously or otherwise) by the art motif of "Death and the Maiden."
posted by hermitosis at 1:24 PM on January 17, 2011 - 5 comments