I cannot tell you how or why, but at some point a few years back I discovered that Instagram Stories not only allows you unlimited emojis, it ALSO allows you to enlarge them to an apparently infinite degree. And so, may I present: FAMOUS PAINTINGS RECREATED USING ONLY EMOJIS! All on one page: Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son. Klimt's The Kiss, Wood's American Gothic, Michaelangelo's The Creation of Adam and more, all moulded from shaded yellow spheres.
posted to MetaFilter by ambrosen at 1:19 PM on May 13, 2024 (27 comments)

Making the ultimate Hackintosh: the Brewintosh
posted to MetaFilter by They sucked his brains out! at 12:07 AM on March 21, 2024 (10 comments)

Jim Keller on AI Generated Software - "It won't be that long until you start looking at all the software that has ten years of legacy in it and go 'Why would I want old software? Why wouldn't I want software that was generated this week?'. And there are a whole bunch of really interesting changes that come with that."[0,1]
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless at 12:21 AM on October 18, 2022 (76 comments)

BabyMetal’s Headbanger!! (ヘドバンギャー!!) arranged for recorder quintet. (original, live, previously)
posted to MetaFilter by Quasirandom at 7:41 AM on February 1, 2022 (4 comments)

@jnack (John Nack): *.@Pixar has shared the full “Art of Luca” book digitally. Happy Friday.
posted to MetaFilter by Going To Maine at 11:56 AM on January 29, 2022 (5 comments)

"...I had to remember to breathe, and to blink. Hours passed. I stopped to finish my water and looked ahead to see our destination, a lake glittering in the far distance. Almost all Robinson’s novels involve an experience of this kind—a long, difficult, rocky journey through a mountain landscape, on Earth or elsewhere, accomplished through sustained concentration that lifts one out of time. The main thing is to start, then to keep going, finding your way one step at a time. It never occurs to you to stop. Even if the path isn’t set, the job before you is clear: you have to get down the mountain before dark."

The Best Case Scenario
posted to MetaFilter by y2karl at 5:50 AM on January 25, 2022 (39 comments)

On this episode of Resties, Plante and Frushtick countdown their top 10 games on Nintendo Switch Online. Of course, Chris has chosen a ridiculous #1. In the back half of the episode, they talk about the Outer Wilds DLC, Echoes of the Eye. Spoilers are limited to the first couple hours of the game and kept as vague as possible. Discussed on this episode: a metric ton of retro games, Outer Wilds, Death's Gambit Afterlife, Universal Paperclips, and Dune.
posted to FanFare by lazaruslong at 2:29 AM on December 27, 2021

Twitter thread: Finally watching Shang-Chi, here as a bus operator to rate the SFT transit factors of The Bus Scene. Threadreader link.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 9:05 PM on November 14, 2021 (69 comments)

Bike trials legend Danny MacAskill (previously, previouslier) visits a wind turbine factory, while content creator Danny MacAskill shows the youths how much energy is generated by renewable sources.
posted to MetaFilter by box at 3:03 PM on October 25, 2021 (15 comments)

I played the piano when I was growing up and would like to play again. I have a piano. Can you recommend a workbook or something that I can use to dust off my skills?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Charity Garfein at 9:30 PM on September 21, 2021 (7 comments)

A handy guide to the rocks and minerals of Minecraft. (SL labor of love from Jolyon Ralph of Mindat.org, "the world's largest open database of minerals, rocks, meteorites and the localities they come from.")
posted to MetaFilter by MonkeyToes at 6:46 PM on August 8, 2021 (11 comments)

In 19 seconds, GLASYS does just that in a pleasing way. [SLYT]
posted to MetaFilter by filtergik at 1:48 PM on August 4, 2021 (10 comments)

Pitchfork reviews Peppa Pig's Peppa's Adventures: The Album
posted to MetaFilter by box at 2:16 PM on July 31, 2021 (14 comments)

A month ago (previously), Youtuber Veritasium sailed Blackbird (previouslier) directly downwind faster than the wind. Afterwards, a physics professor bet him $10,000 that it didn't happen. Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye weighed in. Veritasium asked Xyla Foxlin to design and build a working model to win the bet. Foxlin (who surprisingly never seems to have been featured on Metafilter) has also built a cedar-strip canoe, built some flame throwing greeting cards, and sent her Miss America crown to the edge of space.
posted to MetaFilter by clawsoon at 2:42 PM on July 1, 2021 (150 comments)

A young apprentice hunter and her father journey to Ireland to help wipe out the last (?) wolf pack. But everything changes when she befriends a free-spirited girl from a mysterious tribe rumored to transform into wolves by night.
posted to FanFare by Huffy Puffy at 5:53 AM on April 22, 2021 (8 comments)

For the past 20 years, UK Post Office employees have been dealing with a software called Horizon, which had a fatal flaw: bugs that made it look like employees stole tens of thousands of British pounds. This led to some local postmasters being convicted of crimes, even being sent to prison, because the Post Office doggedly insisted the software could be trusted. After fighting for decades, 39 people are having their convictions overturned. More than 2,400 claims for damages have been filed so far.
posted to MetaFilter by DirtyOldTown at 8:34 AM on April 24, 2021 (28 comments)

YouTube: 'Limbo' and 'Typhoons' (YT) two latest singles from England's Royal Blood, see them returning (YT) to really ambitious clips after remaining quiet during the pandemic. (Previously)
posted to MetaFilter by kfholy at 5:30 AM on April 3, 2021 (2 comments)

Almost anything I could say about the short film Chicken/Egg would spoil the many entertaining twists and turns it crams into 15 minutes. It was written by James D'Arcy and stars (in order of appearance) Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones), Max Fowler (Powers) and Hayley Atwell (Agent Carter). {SLYT}
posted to MetaFilter by rednikki at 5:02 PM on March 30, 2021 (9 comments)

Hillel decides to interview people, who switched from traditional engineering to software engineering. If you ever used the example of bridge building to explain the differences between software and real world engineering, you are in for a treat: One person talked about how frustrating it is to start work on a bridge foundation, only to find that this particular soil freezes in a weird way that makes it liquefy too much in an earthquake. Back to the drawing board. [Part I], [Part II], [Part III]
posted to MetaFilter by kmt at 2:14 AM on January 26, 2021 (57 comments)

Chris Ramsay likes to solve puzzles. Lots and lots of puzzles. Puzzle boxes, lock puzzles, furniture puzzles, puzzles made from Lego, and very weird jigsaw puzzles.
posted to MetaFilter by garrett at 3:04 PM on January 21, 2021 (4 comments)

Why I'm so excited about solar and batteries - "Instead of the Jetsons future, we got the cyberpunk future. Why did that happen? ... I blame the slowdown in energy technology... we didn't get anything better than oil during this time. Nuclear fission provided a bit of a boost to electricity generation (and a big boost in France), but nobody ended up driving fission cars around or flying fission planes through the sky."[1]
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless at 11:56 PM on December 17, 2020 (44 comments)

Blob Opera is a machine learning experiment by David Li in collaboration with Google Arts and Culture.
posted to MetaFilter by OverlappingElvis at 10:21 AM on December 15, 2020 (28 comments)

For years the UK Post Office denied there were any fundamental problems with the Horizon software, provided by IT specialist Fujitsu. Instead, it blamed mistakes on dishonesty from sub-postmasters, who run most of its 11,500 branches. Introduced in 1995 as a PFI deal costing £1 billion, problems with the system were first reported in early 2000. Hundreds of post masters and other Post Office employees have since been jailed and financially ruined.
In 2019, class action civil litigation, brought by 550 sub-postmasters was settled by the Post Office.
In December 2020 the first sub-postmasters wrongly accused of theft and fraud have finally had their convictions quashed.
posted to MetaFilter by Lanark at 8:12 AM on December 13, 2020 (60 comments)

Bartosz Ciechanowski explains how cameras and lenses work by building a simple camera from first principles, aided by plenty of interactive simulations.
posted to MetaFilter by adrianhon at 2:28 PM on December 13, 2020 (13 comments)

The Utah Department of Public Safety has found a monolith in Utah.
posted to MetaFilter by Stark at 2:28 AM on November 24, 2020 (141 comments)

Ask A Manager says: let's talk about kindness at work. "Now let’s talk about times at work when people have gone out of their way to do good or be kind. Please share stories of kindness at work in the comments." Lots of appreciation, generosity, and people stepping up in hard moments -- and "a coworker who, if I was detained by crap commute on our monthly free bagel Friday, would save me a fresh, still warm chocolate chip bagel that would otherwise have been snatched up".
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 12:26 PM on November 10, 2020 (36 comments)

The Size of Space - from astronaut to the observable universe. A visualization by Neal Agarwal.
posted to MetaFilter by thatwhichfalls at 3:25 PM on November 8, 2020 (43 comments)

In which the hacker known as "Alex" accidentally sort of steals the passport and personal phone number of former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
posted to MetaFilter by theodolite at 7:54 AM on September 16, 2020 (38 comments)

You know that girl who fell through a portal to the surreal future of year 3000 and has been Instagramming from it ever since (previously)? She's still there (seriously, President Prez refuses to let the year number change), and she's just uploaded an EP of music from the future: Unanimous Girth's Shard of Girth (list of other services it's on). It is... extremely 'Normal'. More audio from weird worlds after the jump.
posted to MetaFilter by BiggerJ at 10:41 PM on July 16, 2020 (11 comments)

Rare 'branched flow' phenomenon seen for the first time in visible light. "For the first time, researchers have created the 'branched flow' phenomenon in visible light, previously only seen in other types of wave like sound. Using nothing but a laser and a simple soap bubble, scientists caused light to twist and fork along its path."
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva at 10:07 AM on July 1, 2020 (10 comments)

Adam from BuzzFeed's "Worth It" YT series makes vegan nuggets and sauce. Adam from the very popular "Worth It" video series, exposes that he is as much of a charming curmudgeon as we all expected, and is also a very good instructional cook for fast-food vegan cuisine. Nuggets and ranch are on the menu!
posted to MetaFilter by Slap*Happy at 10:39 PM on June 21, 2020 (6 comments)

From WIRED: "The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet" A level headed account of the man who stopped the WannaCry ransomware, and his subsequent arrest.
posted to MetaFilter by benoliver999 at 12:45 AM on May 13, 2020 (34 comments)

Review of time spent with our toddler on his nightly screen time sessions with Cars (2006)

During week 1, we estimated that we were getting through roughly 20% of the movie Cars (2006) every night, leaving us five days to get through completion of the 117 minute movie (roughly 109 minutes if you don’t include all of the credits and accompanying John Mayer song/gag). As the quarantine continued into week seven, we estimate that the Toddler has now cumulatively seen Cars (2006) a total of 19 times.

posted to MetaFilter by jenkinsEar at 1:01 PM on May 1, 2020 (14 comments)

A different kind of marathon; running one lap an hour, for 24hrs, around my perfectly mile long block. The rest of the time I do as much as possible; making things, odd jobs, fixing stuff. It's about running, doing, and thinking. (SLYT)
posted to MetaFilter by Etrigan at 6:06 AM on April 30, 2020 (8 comments)

Terry Pratchett novels to get ‘absolutely faithful’ TV adaptations.
posted to MetaFilter by Literaryhero at 4:52 AM on April 28, 2020 (41 comments)

"On the 11th of January 1982 twenty-two computer scientists met to discuss an issue with ‘computer mail’ (now known as email). Attendees included the guy who would create Sun Microsystems, the guy who made Zork, the NTP guy, and the guy who convinced the government to pay for Unix. The problem was simple: there were 455 hosts on the ARPANET and the situation was getting out of control." The History of the URL (The Cloudflare Blog)
posted to MetaFilter by not_the_water at 9:09 AM on March 20, 2020 (10 comments)

Can Bob Mortimer break and apple in half with his bare hands?
posted to MetaFilter by bonobothegreat at 7:15 PM on March 15, 2020 (81 comments)

An embattled NYPD detective is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy.
posted to FanFare by ellieBOA at 1:57 AM on March 2, 2020 (1 comment)

L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (1896). L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (2020). (via)
posted to MetaFilter by sapagan at 1:44 AM on February 5, 2020 (49 comments)

No extradition request from the US to the UK had ever been denied. Until teenager Harry Dunn was killed while riding his motorcycle near an RAF base used by the US in Northamptonshire.
posted to MetaFilter by plonkee at 3:47 AM on January 24, 2020 (67 comments)

First you launch the glider. Then you follow the wind. The birds know what they're doing.
posted to MetaFilter by clawsoon at 4:12 PM on January 20, 2020 (9 comments)

Players Are Pushing Their Bodies to the Limit Speedrunning Nintendo's Fitness Game: "Speedrunning is a test of skill and endurance, and while tapping buttons and analog sticks is physically draining in its own right, it’s hardly on the same level as, say, having to perform a plank over and over again. It’s what makes the slowly growing world of Ring Fit Adventure speedrunning so fascinating. In its early days, it’s not one defined by glitching through in the world in weird ways because no one’s discovered anything like that yet. The only “shortcuts” are to scroll the menus faster—a staple of speedrunning JRPGs—and to manage your stamina. A workout that might be more effective at taking out a group of enemies might be more personally draining, forcing you to take a costly break while your energy returns. It’s a very different way to play."
posted to MetaFilter by J.K. Seazer at 3:50 AM on January 15, 2020 (16 comments)

Bike legend Danny MacAskill shows that there are other ways to make your mark in the gym - Danny MacAskill's Gymnasium and Behind the Scenes.
posted to MetaFilter by ellieBOA at 3:26 AM on January 11, 2020 (12 comments)

What small gestures have made you feel loved?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Miss Viola Swamp at 6:10 PM on December 6, 2019 (50 comments)

A historian’s look at the Siege of Gondor in Peter Jackson’s Return of the King.
posted to MetaFilter by Chrysostom at 10:13 PM on November 30, 2019 (52 comments)

Three very different deaths were announced today in the UK. First came TV chef Gary Rhodes, arguably the originator of the modern British TV chef as we know it, and only 59 when he died. Then came news that Jonathan Miller had died at the age of 85. Incredibly widely talented, he was still a practising doctor when he started appearing on the stage. Finally came new that Clive James had died aged 80, robbing us of his high-impact comic phrasing.
posted to MetaFilter by YoungStencil at 10:56 AM on November 27, 2019 (14 comments)

Maestro by Illogic Studios and Bloom Pictures "is a lush, short film about beautifully animated woodland creatures putting aside creature differences, to perform together a gorgeous, revolutionary operatic aria under a full moon. [...] The aria, “Guerra Guerra”, comes from the Vincenzo Bellini opera Norma and tells of the coming of revolution." (via Laughing Squid)
posted to MetaFilter by katra at 7:35 PM on November 10, 2019 (3 comments)

'You've lost the news!' How The Day Today changed satire forever Full of immaculately prepared insanity, The Day Today scrambled the brains of television news in a way never seen before. Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci made a satirical news show whose target was the news show itself, with every one of its conventions and excesses lovingly recreated in bent form.
posted to MetaFilter by argybarg at 10:50 AM on November 6, 2019 (12 comments)

I watched about an hour of the NYC Marathon yesterday to cheer on some friends as they ran through my neighborhood. I noticed that there were many runners who ran with stuffed pineapples strapped to the top of their heads or their foreheads. They were not running as a team. What's up with this?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fuego at 10:24 AM on November 4, 2019 (8 comments)

The Trouble with the County Winner Map, and why this Muddy Map is better for determining vote populations and vote margins in the US election.
posted to MetaFilter by agentofselection at 12:33 PM on October 18, 2019 (22 comments)