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Project Prostitute [NSFW]
"I wanted to see a prostitute drawn by my grandmother, or my math teacher." My 17 year old sister's pet project for the last three weeks. I put the scans online and built the website from the ground up. Drawings come from her schoolmates, friends, relatives. One comes from New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. See if you can spot it!
posted by ifranzen at 10:23 PM on January 6, 2008
"I wanted to see a prostitute drawn by my grandmother, or my math teacher." My 17 year old sister's pet project for the last three weeks. I put the scans online and built the website from the ground up. Drawings come from her schoolmates, friends, relatives. One comes from New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. See if you can spot it!
posted by ifranzen at 10:23 PM on January 6, 2008
Metafilter Data Playground [currently down]
Do you know SQL and want to play around with metafilter data? This online tool lets you run SELECT queries online. Results can be viewed or exported to CSV. Can also be used to export data for use in another program.
posted by null terminated at 8:51 AM on January 29, 2008
Do you know SQL and want to play around with metafilter data? This online tool lets you run SELECT queries online. Results can be viewed or exported to CSV. Can also be used to export data for use in another program.
posted by null terminated at 8:51 AM on January 29, 2008
The Continuing Adventures of the 23rd Century in ... The 23rd Century
After a year of grunting and groaning while birthing this beast, our new album is done. Starting where the last album left off, it describes our further adventures in the future. Also done is the video from our last album (Will the Moon Explode in ... the 23rd Century?) made by our friend Clark Parkhurst. Finally, The Platypus and Mr. Klauss have been making a bunch of videos.
posted by tcobretti at 8:02 PM on February 17, 2008
After a year of grunting and groaning while birthing this beast, our new album is done. Starting where the last album left off, it describes our further adventures in the future. Also done is the video from our last album (Will the Moon Explode in ... the 23rd Century?) made by our friend Clark Parkhurst. Finally, The Platypus and Mr. Klauss have been making a bunch of videos.
posted by tcobretti at 8:02 PM on February 17, 2008
Photoshop Disasters
Just as the Daily WTF showcases disastrous code, Photoshop Disasters is a showcase for the most egregious examples of Art Direction gone awry. If you work with digitally enhanced images in a commercial setting please consider submitting your competitors' fiascoes, disasters and misadventures. After all, there is never a problem so severe that it can't be ridiculed.
posted by Cosmo7 at 5:31 PM on March 5, 2008
Just as the Daily WTF showcases disastrous code, Photoshop Disasters is a showcase for the most egregious examples of Art Direction gone awry. If you work with digitally enhanced images in a commercial setting please consider submitting your competitors' fiascoes, disasters and misadventures. After all, there is never a problem so severe that it can't be ridiculed.
posted by Cosmo7 at 5:31 PM on March 5, 2008
The Films of William Shatner
A nearly complete project, in which I track down and review every film William Shatner starred in in the 60s and 70s. There are a few television movies I have yet to find, but I've managed to do almost all his feature films. This project was inspired by my own post on Shatner's films here on MetaFilter.
posted by Astro Zombie at 9:32 PM on March 14, 2008
A nearly complete project, in which I track down and review every film William Shatner starred in in the 60s and 70s. There are a few television movies I have yet to find, but I've managed to do almost all his feature films. This project was inspired by my own post on Shatner's films here on MetaFilter.
posted by Astro Zombie at 9:32 PM on March 14, 2008
Metafilter comments vs. Youtube comments
How much difference does $5 make? Pulls the most recent comments from Metafilter and the comments from the most viewed videos on Youtube and puts them side-by-side for comparison. I used Yahoo Pipes to generate my source data (metafilter, youtube) . Enjoy!
posted by bertrandom at 7:38 AM on March 24, 2008
How much difference does $5 make? Pulls the most recent comments from Metafilter and the comments from the most viewed videos on Youtube and puts them side-by-side for comparison. I used Yahoo Pipes to generate my source data (metafilter, youtube) . Enjoy!
posted by bertrandom at 7:38 AM on March 24, 2008
Cruise Elroy
A new blog for intelligent discussion about video games. It takes both its name and inspiration from Ask MeFi. Highlights so far: why Super Smash Bros. Brawl's gameplay isn't important, what Nintendo is up to with their so-called "casual" titles, and what Koji Kondo's favorite cadence is (for the music nerds).
posted by danb at 1:05 PM on March 24, 2008
A new blog for intelligent discussion about video games. It takes both its name and inspiration from Ask MeFi. Highlights so far: why Super Smash Bros. Brawl's gameplay isn't important, what Nintendo is up to with their so-called "casual" titles, and what Koji Kondo's favorite cadence is (for the music nerds).
posted by danb at 1:05 PM on March 24, 2008
Tumblr + IRC
This tumblr log is different from most URL logs for IRC channels in that photos and youtube videos are posted inline. Specific quotes are posted from the channel, as well. All of this is done via a bot residing on #mefi, on Slashnet. Source code coming soon, but easy enough with Net::IRC and the tumblr API.
posted by cellphone at 6:01 PM on March 31, 2008
This tumblr log is different from most URL logs for IRC channels in that photos and youtube videos are posted inline. Specific quotes are posted from the channel, as well. All of this is done via a bot residing on #mefi, on Slashnet. Source code coming soon, but easy enough with Net::IRC and the tumblr API.
posted by cellphone at 6:01 PM on March 31, 2008
The Daily Batman
Every day, we offer a new image of Batman. This is done because everybody loves Batman.
posted by beaucoupkevin at 8:59 PM on April 5, 2008
Every day, we offer a new image of Batman. This is done because everybody loves Batman.
posted by beaucoupkevin at 8:59 PM on April 5, 2008
Public Domaina
Reviews of the weirdest and wildest films in the public domain, all available online.
posted by Astro Zombie at 11:44 PM on May 14, 2008
Reviews of the weirdest and wildest films in the public domain, all available online.
posted by Astro Zombie at 11:44 PM on May 14, 2008
The Hole in the Wall on Top Shelf!
My surrealistic cat story "The Hole in the Wall" (part of my Year in Comics project) is now being serialized by Top Shelf Comics as part of their new Webcomics section. Thrill to the pen & ink & watercolors adventures of two cats exploring a mysterious and dangerous underground landscape! More comics like this will be posted there depending on the popularity of this one.
posted by interrobang at 10:14 AM on May 16, 2008
My surrealistic cat story "The Hole in the Wall" (part of my Year in Comics project) is now being serialized by Top Shelf Comics as part of their new Webcomics section. Thrill to the pen & ink & watercolors adventures of two cats exploring a mysterious and dangerous underground landscape! More comics like this will be posted there depending on the popularity of this one.
posted by interrobang at 10:14 AM on May 16, 2008
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
FlickrTwitterThinker: Thinking Other People's Thoughts
Playing around with the Twitter API, and created a project where recent Twitter comments are superimposed over tagged Flickr photos. Users can upload photos to Flickr, and the tags help the thought balloons to be positioned correctly/automatically.
posted by avoision at 10:13 PM on June 8, 2008 - 3 comments
Playing around with the Twitter API, and created a project where recent Twitter comments are superimposed over tagged Flickr photos. Users can upload photos to Flickr, and the tags help the thought balloons to be positioned correctly/automatically.
posted by avoision at 10:13 PM on June 8, 2008 - 3 comments
Wordle + American Speeches = A little guessing game
Wordle has been making the rounds of the blogs the last few days; it produces "word clouds" a la tag clouds. So, I took ten speeches by ten Americans who have served as or have run for president, threw them in, and posted the results on my Flickr account. As an added bonus, I left off what the speeches were so people could take wild, stabby guesses at what they are.
posted by dw at 10:18 AM on June 17, 2008
Wordle has been making the rounds of the blogs the last few days; it produces "word clouds" a la tag clouds. So, I took ten speeches by ten Americans who have served as or have run for president, threw them in, and posted the results on my Flickr account. As an added bonus, I left off what the speeches were so people could take wild, stabby guesses at what they are.
posted by dw at 10:18 AM on June 17, 2008
"Don't Go Stop" stop motion (music) video
About a year ago I looked at my collection of push up toys and thought, "It wouldn't be that hard to do a stop motion animation video." I was about half right.
posted by sleepy pete at 7:41 AM on June 24, 2008 - 10 comments
About a year ago I looked at my collection of push up toys and thought, "It wouldn't be that hard to do a stop motion animation video." I was about half right.
posted by sleepy pete at 7:41 AM on June 24, 2008 - 10 comments
a text from Zucchetto
A random text message received from my friend Zucchetto.
posted by brad! at 12:58 PM on June 26, 2008 - 11 comments
A random text message received from my friend Zucchetto.
posted by brad! at 12:58 PM on June 26, 2008 - 11 comments
It's Lovely! I'll Take It!
Sometimes people make bad decisions when they choose the photos for their real estate listings.
posted by The corpse in the library at 5:10 PM on July 10, 2008 - 6 comments
Sometimes people make bad decisions when they choose the photos for their real estate listings.
posted by The corpse in the library at 5:10 PM on July 10, 2008 - 6 comments
Hurf Durf Data Eater
The infodump is nice and all, but what the world really needs is a script to download the dump automatically and put it into a structured DB. This is meant to be a tool to get the boring stuff out of the way of more awesome researching.. Dynamic graphs! Fast queries! Pants! Flash files with singing hamsters! On re-run the script doesn't download files that haven't been changed, nor does it re-insert most data into the database. cron lovers rejoice. Favorites not supported yet (lazy lazy). This is mainly for xnix. Some of the system calls may need de-idiotizing (replacing). Enjoy!
posted by xorry at 9:46 PM on July 13, 2008 - 3 comments
The infodump is nice and all, but what the world really needs is a script to download the dump automatically and put it into a structured DB. This is meant to be a tool to get the boring stuff out of the way of more awesome researching.. Dynamic graphs! Fast queries! Pants! Flash files with singing hamsters! On re-run the script doesn't download files that haven't been changed, nor does it re-insert most data into the database. cron lovers rejoice. Favorites not supported yet (lazy lazy). This is mainly for xnix. Some of the system calls may need de-idiotizing (replacing). Enjoy!
posted by xorry at 9:46 PM on July 13, 2008 - 3 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