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Isle of Beasts

Ooh! This looks wonderful. I can’t wait to dive in.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Kattullus at 3:28 AM on January 29, 2023

Calvin and Markov

Not to nitpick a brilliant idea beautifully executed, but it really should be called Markov and Hobbes.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Kattullus at 7:23 AM on July 6, 2015

Alt History Science Fiction Is The Best Fiction.

Some alt history is science fiction, some isn't. Both are speculative fiction. As with most genre definitions they are best nuked from orbit (it's the only way we can be sure).
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Kattullus at 2:04 PM on May 13, 2010

Samuel Johnson Online Exhibition

As someone who's been given a guided tour of Horace Rumpole's Johnson, I'll attest to its quality and vastness.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Kattullus at 8:57 AM on August 26, 2009

All kidding aside (for now) I have to say that this is a fine site. My one complaint is that sometime I can't read the writing when clicking to see the enlarged image, such as in this one. Other than that, this is a well designed site with plenty of interesting material and information.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Kattullus at 9:08 AM on August 26, 2009

Footballfilter version 3!

Yay! The right kind of football :)

I like the setup. I'm probably not going to follow it but I've already sent the link to my most football obsessed American friend. This is a true obsessive's site. Please keep it going until the World Cup as I get ridiculously obsessed about it and this would be like manna from heaven.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Kattullus at 8:16 PM on August 2, 2009

The Cranky Copyright Book

A worthy and knotted subject and I wish you all the best in writing it.

When you say "pitch in and help with" do you mean donate money to you and provide you with free publicity, which is what your contribute page is mostly about, or do you mean that you want people to help you with the writing?
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Kattullus at 1:12 PM on June 2, 2009

I suspected so but I wanted clarification, if only to hear how you'd handle the copyright issues of collaboration :)
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Kattullus at 9:17 AM on June 3, 2009

Recipe Puppy, a new Recipe Search Engine

This is really awesome! Though it doesn't always seem to recognize all the ingredients. Searching for "rice, lentils" the first link it gave me was this and it said that I'd only need to add broccoli, but the recipe doesn't actually include any broccoli but instead campbell's cream broccoli cheese soup (also roasted garlic & pepper seasoning).

That said, it did give me a lot of simple rice and lentils based recipes, especially once I started adding in… [more]
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Kattullus at 12:03 PM on April 21, 2009

Open For Questions

I'm glad you do the hard work so I don't have to.

Also, I love the Waste Industries guy. He's a riot.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Kattullus at 8:42 PM on March 24, 2009

365 Poems, 365 Days.

Heh... and after I posted this Steve put two poems up.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Kattullus at 4:54 AM on January 14, 2009

Well, the goal I set myself was to finish 365 in the calendar year, so yeah, when I miss days I have to make them up. It's not the end of the world if I don't post one every day. I fell asleep writing HYUM ANSA CRIF IESS (it is both fruitful and dangerous, I find, to write in bed at the end of the day) and finished it the next morning and wrote Depth of Field in the evening (also written in bed, though I didn't fall asleep until after I had posted it).
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Kattullus at 1:01 PM on January 14, 2009

Yup, I only plan to write good poems this year :)

That said, I'd be ecstatic if 10% are good. I was once told that the traditional Confucian view was that no one should be considered a poet until he had written 10000 poems and then the few good ones he had written should be collected together. I don't know if this has any basis in actual Chinese thought but I do like it as an idea. I have a little bit less than 9000 to go.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Kattullus at 7:17 PM on January 22, 2009

telstar: not bad, but...ok if poems are...shorter

Some of them are going to be short. I joke that I'm trying to see how long I can go before I write a haiku but really, writing a haiku would take me a lot longer than an 8-16 line poem in no set form, as I tend to get somewhat obsessive when writing haikus.

"Is this the right seasonal word I want in there to convey the aspect of the season I'm trying to depict?… [more]
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Kattullus at 7:23 PM on January 22, 2009

Thanks! I've been feeling uninspired the last few days so it's nice to get a boost.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Kattullus at 12:00 PM on February 2, 2009