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Wayside Waifs Holiday Charity CD
melissa may, cortex, and I did a version of "Christmas Time is Here" from A Charlie Brown Christmas for the Wayside Waifs Holiday CD. There are 22 songs from people all over the globe (including "Joy to the World" by R. Stevie Moore!) and all of the money goes to Wayside Waifs, an independent, not-for-profit humane society and animal welfare organization. You can hear one minute samples of the songs at the first link (the name of the band is The Harvey Girls).
posted by sleepy pete at 10:45 PM on November 28, 2008 - 2 comments
melissa may, cortex, and I did a version of "Christmas Time is Here" from A Charlie Brown Christmas for the Wayside Waifs Holiday CD. There are 22 songs from people all over the globe (including "Joy to the World" by R. Stevie Moore!) and all of the money goes to Wayside Waifs, an independent, not-for-profit humane society and animal welfare organization. You can hear one minute samples of the songs at the first link (the name of the band is The Harvey Girls).
posted by sleepy pete at 10:45 PM on November 28, 2008 - 2 comments
Movie Night
This is a short movie my friend and I made this weekend on a whim. It was conceived, shot, and edited within the course of twelve hours. It pleases me more than I thought it would.
posted by millipede at 11:55 AM on November 24, 2008 - 1 comment
This is a short movie my friend and I made this weekend on a whim. It was conceived, shot, and edited within the course of twelve hours. It pleases me more than I thought it would.
posted by millipede at 11:55 AM on November 24, 2008 - 1 comment
Shitwitter
We're clearly at the very cutting edge of ajax implementation - and pushing the envelope of the Twitter API - but we figured you only get one chance to really explore what's possible in the digital world. We took that chance. This painstakingly crafted web app queries the Twitter API and highlights the word "shit" in recent Tweets. Oh Yes.
posted by Jofus at 7:21 AM on October 22, 2008 - 4 comments
We're clearly at the very cutting edge of ajax implementation - and pushing the envelope of the Twitter API - but we figured you only get one chance to really explore what's possible in the digital world. We took that chance. This painstakingly crafted web app queries the Twitter API and highlights the word "shit" in recent Tweets. Oh Yes.
posted by Jofus at 7:21 AM on October 22, 2008 - 4 comments
Interview Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin's interviews sounded like the kind of gibberish one can generate with Markov chains. Markov chains can be used to synthesize new text from some corpus. InterviewPalin.com uses her interview transcripts to generate new interview question answers. It's a lot of fun, and if you find a good one, you can save it for your friends!
posted by metajack at 6:38 PM on September 26, 2008 - 14 comments
Sarah Palin's interviews sounded like the kind of gibberish one can generate with Markov chains. Markov chains can be used to synthesize new text from some corpus. InterviewPalin.com uses her interview transcripts to generate new interview question answers. It's a lot of fun, and if you find a good one, you can save it for your friends!
posted by metajack at 6:38 PM on September 26, 2008 - 14 comments
Newspaper Doggerel.
After bemoaning the disappearance of short, badly rhymed, and metrically inexact poems that used to appear with some frequency in newspapers, I decided to go ahead and just start writing the stuff myself, using stories that pop up on MetaFiltert as inspirartion. All of these poems originally appeared in MeFi thread, and one got turned into a song by Cortex.
posted by Astro Zombie at 1:39 PM on September 15, 2008 - 1 comment
After bemoaning the disappearance of short, badly rhymed, and metrically inexact poems that used to appear with some frequency in newspapers, I decided to go ahead and just start writing the stuff myself, using stories that pop up on MetaFiltert as inspirartion. All of these poems originally appeared in MeFi thread, and one got turned into a song by Cortex.
posted by Astro Zombie at 1:39 PM on September 15, 2008 - 1 comment
Ivy League Elitists
In the Palin and Pancakes thread, Miko had many great posts, including one that exposed the hypocrisy of calling liberals "Ivy League Elitists," since so many conservatives are actually from Ivy League Schools. Several people said that this post would be a good meme, so I grabbed the domains and set it up.
posted by tomierna at 7:58 AM on September 17, 2008 - 13 comments
In the Palin and Pancakes thread, Miko had many great posts, including one that exposed the hypocrisy of calling liberals "Ivy League Elitists," since so many conservatives are actually from Ivy League Schools. Several people said that this post would be a good meme, so I grabbed the domains and set it up.
posted by tomierna at 7:58 AM on September 17, 2008 - 13 comments
McCain: The Mavericking Maverick Mavericks More
Basically a one-off Friday/Saturday done-on-the-GIMP project that took root in my brain when I realized that John McCain is essentially exactly the same character as Frank Miller's crazed sexagenarian Batman from The Dark Knight Returns. It's been linked to on a coupla blogs (and I mentioned it in The Palin Thread), but I'd like to see the meme spread, and I think it's fun.
posted by Shepherd at 9:17 AM on September 17, 2008 - 3 comments
Basically a one-off Friday/Saturday done-on-the-GIMP project that took root in my brain when I realized that John McCain is essentially exactly the same character as Frank Miller's crazed sexagenarian Batman from The Dark Knight Returns. It's been linked to on a coupla blogs (and I mentioned it in The Palin Thread), but I'd like to see the meme spread, and I think it's fun.
posted by Shepherd at 9:17 AM on September 17, 2008 - 3 comments
Things Not McCain.
A site where where you can download stencils and stickers in support of things and people who would make a better president than McCain. Like Lil Wayne or Frasier Crane. Or Shirley Maclaine and the L-Word's Shane. Even David Blaine.
posted by anthropoid at 2:21 PM on September 16, 2008 - 9 comments
A site where where you can download stencils and stickers in support of things and people who would make a better president than McCain. Like Lil Wayne or Frasier Crane. Or Shirley Maclaine and the L-Word's Shane. Even David Blaine.
posted by anthropoid at 2:21 PM on September 16, 2008 - 9 comments
Brad Sucks: Out of It
Finally released my new album. Please have mercy on me by enjoying it.
posted by frenetic at 8:52 AM on September 8, 2008 - 14 comments
Finally released my new album. Please have mercy on me by enjoying it.
posted by frenetic at 8:52 AM on September 8, 2008 - 14 comments
DNC 2004 - Blogging the DNC in Boston
In 2004 I was one of a handful of "credentialled bloggers" who got press passes and special seating at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. I took a bunch of low res photos and kludged them together with some narrative text in a php scriptish set of pages and forgot about it. Now, thanks to Flickr I can put them all in order and tag and title them. The original photo essay is here. The blog posts I wrote are here. Special treat for MetaFilter readers here.
posted by jessamyn at 7:44 PM on August 31, 2008 - 6 comments
In 2004 I was one of a handful of "credentialled bloggers" who got press passes and special seating at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. I took a bunch of low res photos and kludged them together with some narrative text in a php scriptish set of pages and forgot about it. Now, thanks to Flickr I can put them all in order and tag and title them. The original photo essay is here. The blog posts I wrote are here. Special treat for MetaFilter readers here.
posted by jessamyn at 7:44 PM on August 31, 2008 - 6 comments
Objects in Space by 76
I'm finally releasing my new album, "Objects in Space". If you dig instrumental electronica, stuff heavy with breakbeats and samples then you might dig this, but overall the music is very varied and eclectic. I'm releasing it and five other albums under the Creative Commons licence. You can download it and all my music at popamericana.com/76 or download the torrent here. Let me know what you think!
posted by Sir Mildred Pierce at 7:09 AM on August 27, 2008 - 3 comments
I'm finally releasing my new album, "Objects in Space". If you dig instrumental electronica, stuff heavy with breakbeats and samples then you might dig this, but overall the music is very varied and eclectic. I'm releasing it and five other albums under the Creative Commons licence. You can download it and all my music at popamericana.com/76 or download the torrent here. Let me know what you think!
posted by Sir Mildred Pierce at 7:09 AM on August 27, 2008 - 3 comments
Electicker 2008 | your election fix on one page
This has been posted to Projects before, but it has changed so much since that I feel it is almost a different project altogether. Electicker is a single page aggregator (think Popurls or Original Signal) on the 2008 US Presidential election. It monitors content from over 100 sources and displays it all on one page, providing election junkies with their minute-to-minute fix on the road to the White House.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 8:07 AM on August 21, 2008 - 17 comments
This has been posted to Projects before, but it has changed so much since that I feel it is almost a different project altogether. Electicker is a single page aggregator (think Popurls or Original Signal) on the 2008 US Presidential election. It monitors content from over 100 sources and displays it all on one page, providing election junkies with their minute-to-minute fix on the road to the White House.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 8:07 AM on August 21, 2008 - 17 comments
PoliticalFilter
PoliticalFilter is a community weblog focused on, you guessed it, politics. All nationalities and political topics are welcomed and encouraged, so come on over and make a post or two, but please leave your soapbox at the door.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 8:37 PM on August 18, 2008 - 9 comments
PoliticalFilter is a community weblog focused on, you guessed it, politics. All nationalities and political topics are welcomed and encouraged, so come on over and make a post or two, but please leave your soapbox at the door.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 8:37 PM on August 18, 2008 - 9 comments
1979: 29 Dorks
It does what it says on the tin: on this page you will find twenty-nine dorks from Delta, B.C., as photographed in 1979.
posted by Meatbomb at 7:58 AM on August 14, 2008 - 5 comments
It does what it says on the tin: on this page you will find twenty-nine dorks from Delta, B.C., as photographed in 1979.
posted by Meatbomb at 7:58 AM on August 14, 2008 - 5 comments
A Winner Is Me!
After a lot of encouragement from fellow MeFites about writing more, I went and started up a fiction blog. Each week I'll give the untold story behind some minor news item, do some Monday morning quarterbacking on some bit of popular fiction, or reveal a secret history you might not be aware of because I just made it up.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 9:31 AM on August 12, 2008 - 10 comments
After a lot of encouragement from fellow MeFites about writing more, I went and started up a fiction blog. Each week I'll give the untold story behind some minor news item, do some Monday morning quarterbacking on some bit of popular fiction, or reveal a secret history you might not be aware of because I just made it up.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 9:31 AM on August 12, 2008 - 10 comments
Botnet tracking
I run Despammed.com. A couple of weeks ago a spam got through the filter telling me the Beijing Olympics had been canceled, and I got interested in where that link took me. I'm a sucker for Javascript obfuscation. But then a little light went on in my head -- if one got through, how many got blocked? Turns out: a lot. I've been down the rabbit hole ever since. It's been fun; maybe you think so, too.
posted by Michael Roberts at 8:13 PM on August 11, 2008 - 13 comments
I run Despammed.com. A couple of weeks ago a spam got through the filter telling me the Beijing Olympics had been canceled, and I got interested in where that link took me. I'm a sucker for Javascript obfuscation. But then a little light went on in my head -- if one got through, how many got blocked? Turns out: a lot. I've been down the rabbit hole ever since. It's been fun; maybe you think so, too.
posted by Michael Roberts at 8:13 PM on August 11, 2008 - 13 comments
Fuelly: share and compare your mpg
Fuelly is a new site built by me and pb to help you track your gas mileage, allowing comparisons with EPA estimates, and other people driving the same car.
posted by mathowie at 4:09 PM on August 7, 2008 - 19 comments
Fuelly is a new site built by me and pb to help you track your gas mileage, allowing comparisons with EPA estimates, and other people driving the same car.
posted by mathowie at 4:09 PM on August 7, 2008 - 19 comments
ToAnswer
What do you get when Twitter meets the green?
posted by charmston at 11:57 AM on August 5, 2008 - 12 comments
What do you get when Twitter meets the green?
posted by charmston at 11:57 AM on August 5, 2008 - 12 comments
Symmetry explorer
Here's a little project I've been working on this week. It grabs photos from Flickr on any subject you like (e.g. kittens, or other fluffy things) and then presents them as pairs of mirrored halves. (If that makes no sense now, it will when you vist the site! :-) ) The results can end up quite weird and strange. :-) Here are a few of my favourites... (Thin/Fat cat) / (Fluffy dog thing) / (Seen my head(s)?)
posted by xlcus at 2:40 PM on August 3, 2008 - 23 comments
Here's a little project I've been working on this week. It grabs photos from Flickr on any subject you like (e.g. kittens, or other fluffy things) and then presents them as pairs of mirrored halves. (If that makes no sense now, it will when you vist the site! :-) ) The results can end up quite weird and strange. :-) Here are a few of my favourites... (Thin/Fat cat) / (Fluffy dog thing) / (Seen my head(s)?)
posted by xlcus at 2:40 PM on August 3, 2008 - 23 comments
Cryptanalysts wanted
A long time ago I came up with this idea for a code. A recent post about cryptology inspired me to encrypt a short text with it and you are invited to try to solve it. I don't believe I've made an unbreakable code, what I'd like to see is how you solve it, as I find it interesting to read about ciphertexts being solved. There seems to be enough people interested in cryptography on MetaFilter to generate an interesting discussion around it and I believe some of you are good enough to crack this message.
posted by Termite at 11:59 AM on July 25, 2008 - 4 comments
A long time ago I came up with this idea for a code. A recent post about cryptology inspired me to encrypt a short text with it and you are invited to try to solve it. I don't believe I've made an unbreakable code, what I'd like to see is how you solve it, as I find it interesting to read about ciphertexts being solved. There seems to be enough people interested in cryptography on MetaFilter to generate an interesting discussion around it and I believe some of you are good enough to crack this message.
posted by Termite at 11:59 AM on July 25, 2008 - 4 comments