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He performs a breathtaking version of "Free Bird" in the 2000 movie Duets (spoilers in the clip).
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 9:08 PM on December 12, 2023

I can't find an image of it on the Web right now, but The Boondocks comic strip got it right at the time by praising Lee as a lone voice of reason against warmongers rushing to judgment.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 1:00 AM on September 30, 2023

I can't tell what I think about this yet aside from a stunned feeling about its existence.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 12:46 AM on August 18, 2023

:x
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 7:22 PM on August 5, 2023

A lobste.rs post called "The future of the Vim project" links to a discussion at Google Groups.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 4:36 PM on August 10, 2023

A method of pressurizing, or pumping the clock case not very difficult to realize. The only problem is a possible acoustic nuisance produced by the pumps. And occasionally the clock may explode, or implode too.

Controller. I forgot the Arduino. So Bosch Rexroth profiles, Kapton tape and Arduino make modern science happen.

This is so fun! Thanks, zamboni.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 4:40 PM on January 29, 2023

Autistic people tend to focus on the mouth

That's where the words come out!!!
posted by mittens at 13:36 on December 29 [has favorites +] [!]

Amber: "For example, I learned that you should look people in the eye, not in the mouth."

Dina: "But that's what's moving."
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 2:56 PM on December 29, 2022

More of the former than the latter, eviemath. It's a hopeful look at what's possible rather than a beaten-down diatribe or a dismissal of potential. I guess it could be "cult of the amateur bullshit" but I think I prefer that to many of the other options.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 4:29 PM on December 7, 2022

I just learned about this from Randy Milholland. It didn't make me any happier than it made Davan.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 10:16 PM on August 1, 2022

dfan, ahem.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 1:58 PM on June 10, 2022

Oglaf continues with its customary raunch and vigor and NSFW inventiveness. And Cat and Girl keeps being fun and weird and smart.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 3:49 PM on April 30, 2022

Even with JavaScript disabled this article captured my attention and told a wonderful story. A great link, thanks, hwyengr!
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 4:33 PM on April 29, 2022

I loved this story then, and I love this story now at least just as much. Thanks, kristi!
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 6:57 PM on February 26, 2022

This is great fun! Thanks, brainwane!
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 3:56 PM on January 17, 2022

Funnily, clavdivs, I almost posted a different developer's effort to build an Asteroids game engine instead of this.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 5:16 PM on October 11, 2021

I wonder if there's a Life game for it yet...
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 1:07 PM on October 12, 2021

But of course, motty!
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 3:43 AM on October 15, 2021

This is a FANTASTIC survey of American sitcom history. Thanks so much for posting, The corpse in the library!
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 1:12 PM on October 3, 2021

This lengthy 6500-word piece by Willy Staley for The New York Times was going to be a post to the front page but I'll just put it here now:

The show’s depiction of contemporary America as relentlessly banal and hollow is plainly at the core of the current interest in the show, which coincides with an era of crisis across just about every major institution in American life. “The Sopranos” has a persistent focus on the spiritual and moral vacuum at the… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 12:20 PM on September 30, 2021

Your score is 87.67, higher than 92.61% of the people who have completed this task.

vector dirigible giraffe loop sweat crevasse logo
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 4:26 PM on August 6, 2021

I read what I felt was a decent Rolling Stone overview by EJ Dickson of this about a week ago, referred by Remy Kassimir and Ali Macofsky (hour-plus YouTube podcast link).
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 7:10 PM on February 4, 2021

Lebowitz's observations about white people and Black people in the U.S. have stuck with me for a long time:

The way to approach it, I think, is not to ask, “What would it be like to be black?” but to seriously consider what it is like to be white. That’s something white people almost never think about. And what it is like to be white is not to say, “We have to level the playing field,” but to acknowledge that not only do white people own the playing field but they have… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 2:58 PM on February 2, 2021

Thanks for the background and fleshing-out, elgilito!
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 3:25 AM on January 31, 2021

Last time around fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit almost nailed this.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 2:24 PM on December 17, 2020

This is an A+ post title. Pure gold.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 5:30 AM on December 2, 2020

Hartman knew that such a counter-history would be seen as less legitimate. “History pledges to be faithful to the limits of fact, evidence, and archive,” she wrote. “I wanted to write a romance that exceeded the fictions of history.” But a conventional history of the girls’ experience was impossible. As she noted, “There is not one extant autobiographical narrative of a female captive who survived the Middle Passage.”

This is wonderful, Ahmad Khani. Thanks for posting.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 3:07 PM on October 27, 2020

This was the most frightening thing I've read about U.S. electoral demographics in a long, long time.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 3:26 PM on October 1, 2020

>Also, this article pissed me off a bit because it sounds to me like they've finally given a name to the white middle-class women who put Trump over the top in 2016. I kind of skimmed, but I didn't see any reference to that.

From the article: Until we can be honest about the actual characteristics of Trump voters, we’re going to keep having these dead-end conversations about this election. Many of the POC pundits and thinkers in my feed… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 3:29 PM on October 1, 2020

Slarty Bartfast's truck is how we'll know for the first time whether we're evil or divine.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 8:07 PM on August 14, 2020

Spoil the punchline?
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 5:03 PM on May 18, 2020

What was the virtual worlds group blog I read for years before it went stagnant? I can't remember the name.

IF, was it Terra Nova? I read it for years because of Timothy Burke.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 2:19 PM on April 17, 2020

Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Cheerios.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 10:46 AM on April 16, 2020

Shirley Jackson's Raisin Demons Bran.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 4:09 PM on April 16, 2020

He probably won't be back on The Blacklist again then.

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posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 11:54 AM on April 16, 2020

"Why we are living in JG Ballard's world."
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 3:11 AM on April 4, 2020

Years ago I downloaded "The Lie of Love" from Matthew Perpetua at Fluxblog. I never followed up much beyond that, but it's a lovely song.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 12:38 PM on April 2, 2020

I saw what you did there, dephlogisticated.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 8:50 PM on March 16, 2020

chinese_fashion, MetaFilter has had runs like these before, and today's was blessed.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 3:11 PM on February 24, 2020

I can’t think of a good single book on it, anyone have recommendations?

clew, as it happens, I can and I do! E. C. Pielou published a magnificent book called Fresh Water that deals with this very thing in the very way you ask about!
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 11:43 AM on December 5, 2019

The grammar may not quite check out in that sentence.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 10:09 AM on December 4, 2019

On the other hand regarding that counterpoint, the thing about one million hats was cool!
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 10:36 AM on October 29, 2019

IS THAT A JOKE ABOUT THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE MADE BY A SOCKPUPPET-WIELDING BRADY BUNCHER
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 5:57 PM on September 13, 2019

hi, IRFH!
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 5:58 PM on September 13, 2019

Also, what was that '00s search engine front end called, the one with the pre-recorded flash video clips of an actress embodying it as your personal assistant? Like text search meets sluggish FMV game.

Ms. Dewey was played by Janina Gavankar and is no longer on the web.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 10:21 PM on August 31, 2019

Semicolons use so many people incorrectly; but I love them.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 4:41 PM on August 3, 2019

Magnificent.

I hold my women close, dead or not. Not-ness, of course, being our way of life. When I was asked to consider how men should be, I thought about how it must feel to not be not—a walking double negative. I can’t tell you how to be from this space of non-being. My boyfriend and I frequently get into arguments over my tendency to generalize. He loves specificity, context, nuance. I respect it, and I love those things too. But I usually speak in large… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 2:45 PM on July 2, 2019

[this is good]
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 12:53 PM on June 20, 2019

The men I work with are not the geniuses of Menlo Park, the ones who retreated to garages and emerged with hardware that changed the world. They’re ensemble actors in an industry that favors singular greatness. They have not made fortunes or founded startups but have benefited from their proximity and physical resemblance to those who have. They bought houses and had kids in between booms; today they are balding and graying, and upon entering a room, they sniff every corner like… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 9:07 AM on April 27, 2019

amanda, I think the documentary must be Wild City but I can't find much beyond the IMDb page for it.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 8:30 PM on April 17, 2019

MetaFilter: needles full of branded jizz as some hogwash cure-all.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 3:27 PM on January 17, 2019