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FourTrack - iPhone audio recorder
A neat iPhone four-track audio recorder that some friends created (& I helped beta test!) It does pretty much exactly what you would expect it to and lets you dump out the individual tracks (as WAVs) into the audio software of your choice. Here's to a new generation of Lou Barlows & Bob Pollards! =)
posted by idontlikewords at 1:49 PM on November 6, 2008 - 3 comments
A neat iPhone four-track audio recorder that some friends created (& I helped beta test!) It does pretty much exactly what you would expect it to and lets you dump out the individual tracks (as WAVs) into the audio software of your choice. Here's to a new generation of Lou Barlows & Bob Pollards! =)
posted by idontlikewords at 1:49 PM on November 6, 2008 - 3 comments
How Many Goats?
You've always wondered. How many goats are you worth? Take the quiz and find out.
posted by 913 at 1:37 PM on August 7, 2008 - 4 comments
You've always wondered. How many goats are you worth? Take the quiz and find out.
posted by 913 at 1:37 PM on August 7, 2008 - 4 comments
StupidFilter Beta Release
So, I'm not sure who remembers my little StupidFilter project-- the one were I decide to cure stupidity on the internet with fancy-pants algorithms, but we kind of actually did it. It's not quite perfect, but it really works. So, without further ado, here's The Press Release and The Demo.
posted by signalnine at 11:58 AM on July 25, 2008 - 14 comments
So, I'm not sure who remembers my little StupidFilter project-- the one were I decide to cure stupidity on the internet with fancy-pants algorithms, but we kind of actually did it. It's not quite perfect, but it really works. So, without further ado, here's The Press Release and The Demo.
posted by signalnine at 11:58 AM on July 25, 2008 - 14 comments
Musings of a Metafilter Spammer
Anybody who visits Metafilter regularly knows the drill. Someone signs up for the singular purpose of spamming the Metafilter frontpage, makes their mandatory three or four throwaway comments before being able to do so and is then beaten with the banhammer by our ever diligent moderators. By their very nature, these throwaway comments aren't the most significant contributions ever to be posted to Metafilter... until now! My new blog, 'Musings of a Metafilter Spammer' compiles the thoughts of each spammer in one single place, so you can read such thoughtful musings as "Nice!", "Wonder where I can get one?" and "Wow" before their posting rights (and their account) were forever deleted. And in doing so you'll get to laugh at the sheer simplicity of some of these asinine comments, and maybe stumble across some of the otherwise decent threads they used to make them in. A longer term goal is to use tags to document what these spammers are linking too, giving us a picture of what motivates someone to waste their $5 in a futile attempt at spamming one of the best communities on the internet.
posted by Effigy2000 at 11:46 AM on May 27, 2008 - 12 comments
Anybody who visits Metafilter regularly knows the drill. Someone signs up for the singular purpose of spamming the Metafilter frontpage, makes their mandatory three or four throwaway comments before being able to do so and is then beaten with the banhammer by our ever diligent moderators. By their very nature, these throwaway comments aren't the most significant contributions ever to be posted to Metafilter... until now! My new blog, 'Musings of a Metafilter Spammer' compiles the thoughts of each spammer in one single place, so you can read such thoughtful musings as "Nice!", "Wonder where I can get one?" and "Wow" before their posting rights (and their account) were forever deleted. And in doing so you'll get to laugh at the sheer simplicity of some of these asinine comments, and maybe stumble across some of the otherwise decent threads they used to make them in. A longer term goal is to use tags to document what these spammers are linking too, giving us a picture of what motivates someone to waste their $5 in a futile attempt at spamming one of the best communities on the internet.
posted by Effigy2000 at 11:46 AM on May 27, 2008 - 12 comments
The Valley of the Shadow
The Valley of the Shadow is an online project that uses street memorials in Philadelphia as a point of entry into life in the city's poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods. It does bare a passing similarity to this previously discussed coverage of street memorials in Washington DC, at least as far as photo content. However, unlike the DC project that focuses on the "heartfelt nature of the sad memorials erected by friends & family to honor murder and other violence victims in the Washington DC area," the Valley of the Shadow probes deeper into the lives of the deceased and they world they inhabited to paint a far more complicated and nuanced picture of who these urban homicide victims really were. I draw on my experience as a social worker, street level reporting and online resources including court records to provide the deepest possible intelligence. There are twelve parts so far and a new one runs each Tuesday. The project has its own neat logo and received a highly favorable write up in the local press last week. Parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
posted by The Straightener at 4:52 PM on May 27, 2008 - 4 comments
The Valley of the Shadow is an online project that uses street memorials in Philadelphia as a point of entry into life in the city's poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods. It does bare a passing similarity to this previously discussed coverage of street memorials in Washington DC, at least as far as photo content. However, unlike the DC project that focuses on the "heartfelt nature of the sad memorials erected by friends & family to honor murder and other violence victims in the Washington DC area," the Valley of the Shadow probes deeper into the lives of the deceased and they world they inhabited to paint a far more complicated and nuanced picture of who these urban homicide victims really were. I draw on my experience as a social worker, street level reporting and online resources including court records to provide the deepest possible intelligence. There are twelve parts so far and a new one runs each Tuesday. The project has its own neat logo and received a highly favorable write up in the local press last week. Parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
posted by The Straightener at 4:52 PM on May 27, 2008 - 4 comments
The Apple Keynote Index Fund
What if you invested in Apple the day before the keynote and then sold your shares a day or two later? What if you did this for the past ten years Steve Jobs has taken the stage at Macworld SF?
posted by mathowie at 12:52 PM on December 31, 2007
What if you invested in Apple the day before the keynote and then sold your shares a day or two later? What if you did this for the past ten years Steve Jobs has taken the stage at Macworld SF?
posted by mathowie at 12:52 PM on December 31, 2007
Space Get!
Sputnik 1's 50th anniversary seemed like a good day to announce this: Space Get, "a sticky ball for spaceflight images, videos, and other space media." I often entertain my inner frustrated astronaut by seeking out popular and obscure historical rocket launch and spaceflight media from the heyday of the Space Age, and I found myself wishing that someone would collect and tag links to this stuff in one spot so that people like me could find specific mission media from a single source. Then I realized -- that someone could be me, with a simple Blogspot site and a bit of perseverance. In the four days I've been doing this it's just been a few space videos, an image, and a WAV file, but I intend to post links to stuff from missions in Sputnik, Vostok, Voshkod, Soyuz, Salyut, Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, STS, ISS, Orion, JPL, LPL, GSFC, MSFC, SpaceshipOne, SpaceshipTwo, Space-X, Bigelow, and other programs as I go along. Fittingly, the first post goes "beep."
posted by brownpau at 2:36 PM on October 4, 2007
Sputnik 1's 50th anniversary seemed like a good day to announce this: Space Get, "a sticky ball for spaceflight images, videos, and other space media." I often entertain my inner frustrated astronaut by seeking out popular and obscure historical rocket launch and spaceflight media from the heyday of the Space Age, and I found myself wishing that someone would collect and tag links to this stuff in one spot so that people like me could find specific mission media from a single source. Then I realized -- that someone could be me, with a simple Blogspot site and a bit of perseverance. In the four days I've been doing this it's just been a few space videos, an image, and a WAV file, but I intend to post links to stuff from missions in Sputnik, Vostok, Voshkod, Soyuz, Salyut, Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, STS, ISS, Orion, JPL, LPL, GSFC, MSFC, SpaceshipOne, SpaceshipTwo, Space-X, Bigelow, and other programs as I go along. Fittingly, the first post goes "beep."
posted by brownpau at 2:36 PM on October 4, 2007
Think
Last week, I finished a small project at work called Think. I thought the Mac OS X MeFi crowd would dig it. Imagine if WriteRoom were available for other applications. Y'know, block out the Desktop and other apps, focus your attention, GTD. Sure, it's been done before, but I wasn't really happy with how it had been done before. Upon seeing a Mac OS X Hints thread where someone wanted an app like this, but seeing how meh the available options were, I decided to write one that felt "good". The manual's got a lot of tips and outlines the general workflow. So far, response has been either:
- "I don't get it."
- "Go back to Windows you n00b."
- "Holy shit. I can bring other stuff forward for a second and then throw it right back away. Holy shit, and there're keystrokes for it."
Of course, I prefer that last one there. It's free, so have a download and give it a spin.
posted by secret about box at 10:02 AM on February 6, 2007
Last week, I finished a small project at work called Think. I thought the Mac OS X MeFi crowd would dig it. Imagine if WriteRoom were available for other applications. Y'know, block out the Desktop and other apps, focus your attention, GTD. Sure, it's been done before, but I wasn't really happy with how it had been done before. Upon seeing a Mac OS X Hints thread where someone wanted an app like this, but seeing how meh the available options were, I decided to write one that felt "good". The manual's got a lot of tips and outlines the general workflow. So far, response has been either:
- "I don't get it."
- "Go back to Windows you n00b."
- "Holy shit. I can bring other stuff forward for a second and then throw it right back away. Holy shit, and there're keystrokes for it."
Of course, I prefer that last one there. It's free, so have a download and give it a spin.
posted by secret about box at 10:02 AM on February 6, 2007
Student of Fortune
This is a questions and answers site I've been helping a friend with that operates via a monetary bounty system. The site allows you to set fixed or negotiable prices on your questions, and then choose to buy responses from different answerers based on their rating, answer length, and a random sample block of text. While specifically targeted at the college set the site is useful for general purpose information exchange with a bounty regardless of how trivial or involved the question at hand is.
posted by Ryvar at 7:11 AM on April 12, 2006
This is a questions and answers site I've been helping a friend with that operates via a monetary bounty system. The site allows you to set fixed or negotiable prices on your questions, and then choose to buy responses from different answerers based on their rating, answer length, and a random sample block of text. While specifically targeted at the college set the site is useful for general purpose information exchange with a bounty regardless of how trivial or involved the question at hand is.
posted by Ryvar at 7:11 AM on April 12, 2006
One piece of paper.
It was an experiment to see how long it could last. Draw a comic, rub it off, and draw another over the top. Once it had finished, a second experiment was started on another piece of paper. Current data - one piece of paper can survive an average of 65 cartoons being drawn on it
posted by ZippityBuddha at 7:11 AM on April 12, 2006
It was an experiment to see how long it could last. Draw a comic, rub it off, and draw another over the top. Once it had finished, a second experiment was started on another piece of paper. Current data - one piece of paper can survive an average of 65 cartoons being drawn on it
posted by ZippityBuddha at 7:11 AM on April 12, 2006
Smart Source Code Search Engine
Codase is a powerful and smart source code search engine. Rather than treating code as text, Codase understands programming languages, and treats code as code. This unique and syntax-aware approach provides the most accurate and detailed search results.
posted by matthewchen at 10:09 AM on April 2, 2006
Codase is a powerful and smart source code search engine. Rather than treating code as text, Codase understands programming languages, and treats code as code. This unique and syntax-aware approach provides the most accurate and detailed search results.
posted by matthewchen at 10:09 AM on April 2, 2006
Baby!
It is with great pleasure that I announce the follow up to this Ask Metafilter question from nine months ago (the original question was deleted, link goes to archival photo of the thread). Announcing the latest generation of Jonson!! This release features no Y chromosome, but is highly feature rich in terms of adorableness & comes factory loaded with good baby smell.
posted by jonson at 12:55 AM on December 19, 2005
It is with great pleasure that I announce the follow up to this Ask Metafilter question from nine months ago (the original question was deleted, link goes to archival photo of the thread). Announcing the latest generation of Jonson!! This release features no Y chromosome, but is highly feature rich in terms of adorableness & comes factory loaded with good baby smell.
posted by jonson at 12:55 AM on December 19, 2005
RandomProxy
...allows you to talk to a random person anonymously on the AIM network. Have fun.
posted by phrontist at 6:51 PM on December 11, 2005
...allows you to talk to a random person anonymously on the AIM network. Have fun.
posted by phrontist at 6:51 PM on December 11, 2005
Beg The Question
BTQ was previously posted to MeFi as an April Fool's Day gimmick, but I decided to turn it into a concise central venue to inform the public of this too-common idiomatic travesty. Show off your stodgy pedantic obsessive tendencies by posting a link to begthequestion.info whenever someone misuses the phrase in a thread. There are also cards and shirts and mugs. Somewhat tongue-in-cheek, descriptivists and "language-is-evolving" types need not take offense. See the FBAQ for more info.
posted by brownpau at 1:34 PM on November 17, 2005
BTQ was previously posted to MeFi as an April Fool's Day gimmick, but I decided to turn it into a concise central venue to inform the public of this too-common idiomatic travesty. Show off your stodgy pedantic obsessive tendencies by posting a link to begthequestion.info whenever someone misuses the phrase in a thread. There are also cards and shirts and mugs. Somewhat tongue-in-cheek, descriptivists and "language-is-evolving" types need not take offense. See the F
posted by brownpau at 1:34 PM on November 17, 2005
Asetion keyboard layout
An ergonomic and easy to learn keyboard layout, designed as an alternative to the QWERTY and Dvorak layouts. It cuts finger movement distance in half.
posted by Sharcho at 5:45 AM on November 12, 2005
An ergonomic and easy to learn keyboard layout, designed as an alternative to the QWERTY and Dvorak layouts. It cuts finger movement distance in half.
posted by Sharcho at 5:45 AM on November 12, 2005
Song Quilts
The idea: listen to a recording and create a patchwork mosaic or "Song Quilt" of images for each track. A desperate attempt to connect and document what you hear and what you "see" in your head. I could say more about the concept but it's not really necessary. Have a look and think about the possibilities. I'm planning to take this thing further. Contact me if you'd like to discuss it.
posted by davebush at 6:50 AM on November 12, 2005
The idea: listen to a recording and create a patchwork mosaic or "Song Quilt" of images for each track. A desperate attempt to connect and document what you hear and what you "see" in your head. I could say more about the concept but it's not really necessary. Have a look and think about the possibilities. I'm planning to take this thing further. Contact me if you'd like to discuss it.
posted by davebush at 6:50 AM on November 12, 2005
Soplerfo mp3 archive
Here’s a downloadable archive of nearly all of the music I’ve made. It is now available under a Creative Commons Sampling + license. The music was composed primarily on a computer and the majority of its parts are made up of live instruments and samples of strange sounds. I like to think of it as clinky clanky music that you can sometimes hum to.
posted by soplerfo at 9:12 AM on November 9, 2005
Here’s a downloadable archive of nearly all of the music I’ve made. It is now available under a Creative Commons Sampling + license. The music was composed primarily on a computer and the majority of its parts are made up of live instruments and samples of strange sounds. I like to think of it as clinky clanky music that you can sometimes hum to.
posted by soplerfo at 9:12 AM on November 9, 2005
OfficePoltergeist
OfficePoltergeist is the easiest way to terrorize your coworkers. OfficePoltergeist sets up a small server running on the victim's machine. The program, which hides in memory while it runs, waits silently for a connection on port 666. With the OfficePoltergeist, you can be the poltergeist! OfficePoltergeist allows you to:
posted by ph00dz at 6:08 PM on November 8, 2005
OfficePoltergeist is the easiest way to terrorize your coworkers. OfficePoltergeist sets up a small server running on the victim's machine. The program, which hides in memory while it runs, waits silently for a connection on port 666. With the OfficePoltergeist, you can be the poltergeist! OfficePoltergeist allows you to:
- Play spooky sounds
- Open or close cd drives
- Transmit text through your victim's keyboard
- Make windows shake
- Turn monitors on and off
- Move windows slightly left and right
- Send popup alert messages
posted by ph00dz at 6:08 PM on November 8, 2005
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