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I love this! Thanks for making it. I also looked for "cock" before opening this thread...
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 5:31 PM on April 13, 2024

Love this! Thanks for doing it.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 5:29 PM on January 6, 2024

wow -- for some reason I find the recasting of Roman Polanski as a tall Asian man weirder than the sudden appearance of Bumblebee, but this is glorious.

INT. SHADOWY ALLEY - NIGHT

A sleek, black sports car ROARS into view, coming to a halt in a cloud of dust. Out steps JAKE GITTES (Jack Nicholson), a hard-boiled private investigator, silhouetted against the pulsating neon lights of Chinatown.

Suddenly, a MYSTERIOUS… [more]
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 9:05 AM on October 24, 2023

I think this has pretty much run its course, but FYI to anyone outside Canada that I've turned on a geoblocker for the back end of the site (which the password function requires) because for whatever reason I've been getting dozens of brute force attacks every day recently, and I'm going to shut this off at (more or less) the source until the bots get tired and move on to a new target.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 2:33 AM on July 26, 2022

This is great. I did not read "beefart" as "beef art".
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 4:57 AM on May 4, 2022

I appreciate the direct and explicit crediting of Wordle, thank you for doing that.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 4:47 PM on January 20, 2022

I bought this in pre-early-release years ago! Looking forward to revisiting it.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 4:22 AM on August 19, 2018

I forgot to mention that today's episode is atypically long.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 9:11 AM on April 11, 2017

Thanks, everyone! Updated today on my two-week rota with "Sasquatch" by local watercolour painter Melodie Papp.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 11:08 AM on February 14, 2016

Another update (a day early due to life stuff); "Nope!" by pop artist Chesty Wilson.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 8:10 AM on February 27, 2016

HOORAY
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 11:25 AM on July 2, 2015

Great idea -- I'm pretty much your target audience, and have been self-teaching Python for at least two years now, off and on, very very slowly. Wish I'd had access to this kind of resource when I was starting out.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 10:07 AM on October 11, 2013

The link in the main post is dead, and the iOS store no longer lists it as available. Is this project dead in the water?
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 6:37 AM on July 23, 2013

Aww, shoot: I forgot to give credit where it's due for one of the charts, too.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 9:50 AM on August 2, 2012

I like the concept.I think I'd like it even more without the captions. Some of them feel a lot more mean than funny ("designated fat friend?" Seriously?) and it kind of kills my enjoyment of the idea itself.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 9:45 AM on December 8, 2011

This is brilliant with TWO users in the room; I can only imagine how awesome it would be with four or five.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 10:59 AM on June 21, 2011

I check the tally bar at the top of the MeFi main bar every time I log on, but never click through and sit passively; largely because after a couple of minutes I forget I have it in a tab and then either close the browser or get the living shit scared out of me when somebody uploads a tune.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 4:25 PM on August 23, 2011

This is FANTASTIC.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 1:42 PM on July 14, 2011

I remember back when Tim Robbins did "Bob Roberts" and people were asking why he wouldn't release the soundtrack, which was dead-on satire and not bad musically besides, and he said that he could easily foresee hearing it played by people completely unaware that it was supposed to be a joke.

Hm.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 9:49 AM on August 10, 2010

John Lurie is, like, the last of the Renaissance Men or something. Musician, actor, writer, artist, and actually good at all of it.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 8:19 AM on July 15, 2010

Downloaded and am reading. It's lovely!

If you're open to constructive criticism -- and feel free to ignore this -- the only art-direction choice I really wasn't on board with was the use of Various Interesting and Theme-Appropriate Fonts for the story names. I certainly understand the motivation, but it's a bit jarring for me, as a reader, and as an author, I feel my titles can stand on their own.

As a f'rinstance, would Clive Barker's… [more]
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 10:50 AM on June 17, 2010

You are a god among men. Thank you.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 10:06 AM on March 31, 2009

Wow! Can you remind me before your reading group starts? I intend to read 2666 and to start it over the Xmas season. E-mail (or links to same) is in my profile.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 9:50 AM on November 24, 2008

NoScript keeps blocking things and telling me it's intercepting "clickjacking" errors. Not sure if this will be a problem for new visitors or not.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 6:08 AM on October 10, 2008

I'm also inclined towards including Democratic Ivy Leaguers, with -- since the page's stated purpose is to refute the claim that only one "side" has these people on the team -- the default page display being Republican staffers, and Democratic ones viewable with a button. Even if there are more Ivy Leaguers on one "side" than the other, the effort of counting/comparing will surely drive the message home, and nobody can accuse you of being unfair.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 12:12 PM on September 17, 2008

Thanks, cell divide!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 11:58 AM on September 17, 2008

As I mention in another blog thread, I have made a half-hearted attempt to find some seminal Wonder Woman material so I can chronicle Sarah Palin’s bewildered attempt to enter and understand Man’s World, but there really isn’t much out there with the word-for-word power or recognition of DKR.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 10:52 AM on September 17, 2008

Can I request Charles Foster Kane?
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 8:29 AM on September 17, 2008

I think it would be more effective if you presented it as a straight-up "Truth Squad" site; the current "LIAR LIAR" layout will basically drive off anyone who takes McCain/Palin seriously before they begin reading, and then you're just singin' to the choir.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 9:37 AM on September 15, 2008

Sadly, this is more pertinent and insightful than most of the Republican's comments on Obama to date.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 4:51 PM on September 8, 2008

I know very little about MySQL but I'd like to learn. Would this be a good way to do it?
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 10:15 AM on August 22, 2008

Cool! Thanks, folks!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 12:54 PM on August 22, 2008

I'm enjoying it so far, but I'm hoping you don't go the "realize they are comic characters" route, as that's pretty much drawing from the same well as (fellow Keenspotter, IIRC) Damonk's Framed!, from waaaaay back in the late '90s.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 12:26 PM on June 27, 2008

I hadn't thought about that! Initially I think I'll keep focusing on print (I'm only one guy) but that's a good idea for branching out, especially if more contributors get involved.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 7:09 AM on June 14, 2008

SO AWESOME. Thanks!!!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 9:53 AM on June 5, 2008

"Thank you for participating!

I would ask for your continued participation by asking you to email a link to the experimental page (http://leo.urbanacademy.org)."

I don't know what that means.

I'm not that familiar with Harry Potter, but enought that mirror-recognizing "Hermione" wasn't nearly as difficult as it should have been. Random words probably wouldn't be the best idea (that's not really… [more]
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Shepherd at 4:47 PM on June 3, 2008