MeFi Projects

Last year during Inktober, I made up and drew a bunch of fake birds like the Barre Chord Owl, the Ruby-Throated Hoverbro, and the Gin-Soaked Penguin. At the request of a friend, I recently turned all of this into a 2020 calendar that should print nicely on regular old stolen-from-your-office 8.5x11" paper. And then I decided to make it free for the world. [more inside]
posted by COBRA! on Oct 4, 2019 - 1 comment

Tracking the moon landing live (+50 years) at apolloinrealtime.org (previously)? Here's a handy calendar that you can use to avoid scheduling conflicts with the most important events. [more inside]
posted by tss on Jul 14, 2019 - 1 comment

Last year I submitted the work of a team of volunteer journalists at KBOO in Portland for several journalistic awards. While looking for places to submit work from that team, I discovered the means to apply for awards is very disjointed. Many links offering such opportunities are several years old, meaning in some cases, the organization is no longer making the offering. In other cases, the links are dead because the organization has folded. In still other cases, there is simply a message saying the organization is not taking applicants for the current year. [more inside]
posted by CollectiveMind on Nov 17, 2015 - 3 comments

Here's a gruesome little tale every day for you to unwrap. Naughty boys, girls, women, and men get comeuppance for their bad behavior during the holidays. A new poem, portrait, and narration each day through Christmas. [more inside]
posted by Addlepated on Dec 4, 2012 - 0 comments

I've been developing software for around 8 years. I've discovered the basic problems people need solved over and over again to have a successful presence online. I've managed to come up with a project that has almost all of them solved from the beginning. This allows you to continue doing what you do best without having to find ways to "send email newsletters" or "create a calendar of events"; these basic needs will already be figured out for you. The best part is you can have some powerful software to focus on the success of your organization, not the troubleshooting of technical problems.
posted by KHinds10 on May 23, 2012 - 6 comments

Teamup Calendar is a free hosted web calendar. Unlike Google Calendar & Co., no registration or account is required to create your own Teamup Calendar or modify a shared calendar. Go to teamup.com, give a name to your calendar, done - your own web calendar is ready to use! Key features include multiple calendars, powerful sharing options, customization of look and feel, a WYSIWYG editor for event details, multiple language support, and many more. [more inside]
posted by teamup on Feb 10, 2012 - 0 comments

After Thanksgiving, my seven year old daughter asked me to find a Minecraft texture pack with a Christmas theme so she could explore her Minecraft world embelleshed with holiday touches. Well, I found one on the Minecraft forum, but the poster said it was created for an Advent Calendar he was building for inside the Minecraft universe, and to check back later for that. We'll my daughter and I waited patiently and when he finally posted it, we decided to record our adventures going through the advent making a little YouTube video for each of the days as we opened them. Little did we know some of the advent days would take longer than 15 minutes. So the link goes out to a YouTube channel where we've been posting these for the last nine days, but there are more than nine videos so far, primarily due to a little mis-adventure with some explosives. [more inside]
posted by Toekneesan on Dec 9, 2011 - 2 comments

The Clack Colander is a calendar in the shape of a clock. Take a look.
posted by beshtya on Oct 12, 2011 - 9 comments

Welcome to 7 Days in L.A., home to the city's most interesting guided tours. We're not a tour operator, but a consortium of the region's best independent tour operators. Whether you're interested in architecture or true crime, film locations or graveyards, gay history or iconic L.A. literature, you'll find the perfect excursion on our community calendar, and all the information you need to book a tour. Why 7 Days in L.A? Because this city is too big and too complicated to understand without a native guide, and because you're smart enough to know that a one-size-fits-all experience is the wrong size for you. Consult our calendar, sign up for the newsletter, and let our passionate local historians show you the city that they love. Give us few hours, or your whole week, and we'll change the way you think about Los Angeles forever. [more inside]
posted by Scram on Jun 1, 2011 - 7 comments

A community calendar to help people coordinate pet-events (dog shows, pet fairs, coral frag-swaps, etc) in their area. [more inside]
posted by quin on Jun 14, 2010 - 1 comment