Is the AppleCare Protection Plan a "make-it-or-break-it" add-on when purchasing an Apple laptop? Even one that gets low usage?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Gordion Knott at 3:32 AM on October 22, 2007 (25 comments)

Live anonymous edits to the English Wikipedia on a Google map in real-time. (The FAQ)
posted to MetaFilter by stbalbach at 7:25 AM on October 30, 2007 (20 comments)

MeFiSwap: Best of 2007 Edition.
posted to MetaTalk by ND¢ at 6:55 AM on October 17, 2007 (100 comments)

The Uncensored History of the Blues is a fantastic podcast exploring some rougher aspects of blues history. From the Delta Blues Museum.
posted to MetaFilter by Miko at 10:34 AM on October 17, 2007 (25 comments)

Anyone up for a San Francisco or East Bay meet-up?
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant at 10:01 AM on September 29, 2007 (39 comments)

SF MeFi/MoFi Meetup? the quidnunc kid and I are throwing a meetup ... or meeting a throwup as the case may be.
posted to MetaTalk by Koko at 12:58 PM on October 3, 2007 (44 comments)

A wiki cataloging common cliches in anime, tv shows, and webcomics, amoungst other things. Looking for a Wikipedia even more chock full of pop culture cruft? Ever wanted to know what the heck that thing that goes DOINK in an anime was? Wanna see a complete archetypal breakdown of Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Wish to better understand the sorting algorithm of evil? All these tropes and more can be found within!
posted to MetaFilter by zabuni at 2:12 PM on September 28, 2007 (28 comments)

Like free music? Like Blogs? Try putting them together: To start, search Hype Machine and Elbo.ws to find music you like. Then start following the links and blog-rolls, and before you know it, you'll have dozens of blogs just begging to give you songs to download. If you like indy dance music like I do, here are some blogs to get you started: Digital Eargasm, Missing Toof, Palms Out Sounds, These Rocks Pop, Kiss Atlanta, Resonator Magazine, Fluo Kids, Discobelle, Disconap
posted to MetaFilter by empath at 8:16 AM on September 21, 2007 (24 comments)

"About five years ago I had the idea of doing hand-written interviews with cartoonists I loved. I took a shot and wrote the top guy I could think of - Robert Crumb! And he wrote back!" Also featuring Joe Matt, Jeffrey Brown, James Kochalka, and Adrian Tomine. [Via Drawn!]
posted to MetaFilter by Alvy Ampersand at 11:47 AM on September 7, 2007 (10 comments)

Philosophy Bites is a podcast by David Edmonds (of Wittgenstein's Poker fame) and Nigel Warburton. Listen to: Edward Craig - What is Philosophy?, Timothy Williamson on Vagueness, or Stephen Law on The Problem of Evil, and others.
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea at 7:24 PM on September 9, 2007 (8 comments)

What can you tell me about home CD printers?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by glibhamdreck at 8:43 AM on January 29, 2007 (11 comments)

The California poet Robinson Jeffers, though once popular enough to make the cover of Time Magazine, is for various reasons now a somewhat obscure figure- however, he has attracted increased interest in recent days both for the quality of his work and his pantheistic personal philosophy, which anticipated much future environmentalist thought. [more inside, with links to poems]
posted to MetaFilter by a louis wain cat at 12:10 AM on August 9, 2007 (24 comments)

Help me become an entertainer! Help me beat my fingers into submission without boring my friends and neighbors with the same two songs over and over again. Help me -- I am looking for songs I can play on the guitar using only the following chords: A, Am, C, D, E, Em, and G.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Soulbee at 6:35 AM on July 24, 2006 (41 comments)

GuitarFilter: Bar chords hurt...
posted to Ask MetaFilter by knave at 10:56 PM on June 11, 2005 (27 comments)

Famous Poems Rewritten as Limericks , as brought to us by our very own Lore Sjöberg. English majors, begin your griping now.
posted to MetaFilter by SansPoint at 5:21 AM on July 23, 2007 (297 comments)

Chime.TV -- it's a new video hyper-aggregator (like VodPod) by MeFite chime that I've been using since it was in development. It's Wii-compatible and tested and can turn your fave sites into channels (including but not limited to MeFi,Boing Boing, Digg, or Fark). You can automatically watch any YouTube channel as well, or just watch your favorites. I'm personally going to suggest you try out the Net100 channel, which is an aggregate of everbody's top 10 videos. Flash player required
posted to MetaFilter by taumeson at 1:46 PM on June 12, 2007 (26 comments)

Anybody want to play chess?
posted to MetaTalk by felix betachat at 3:28 AM on June 20, 2007 (69 comments)

Heterodoxy is by definition not widely popular, and so it goes in the field of economics. Lately, though, the orthodoxy has been on the defensive against a faction that's named itself post-autistic economics. Arising in France, it has spread around the world, capitalizing on the widespread feeling that all's not well in the field of economics. [more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus at 4:58 AM on May 29, 2007 (57 comments)

"My deepest sympathies for posting this. I lack all attempts at rhythm and meter, and don't even have a nice English accent to back things up!"
posted to MeFi Music by chrismear at 9:10 PM on May 23, 2007 (54 comments)

Guitarweek is quite easily one of the best, if not the best, guitar education websites on the web. Check out the Chord worksheets. The load of free lessons, plus some members-only flash lessons. It's a real labor of love by a pretty interesting guy, who like a lot of people who work more for a passion than money, appears to have trouble making ends meet on it. Membership is amazingly cheap to boot.
posted to MetaFilter by bluevelvetelvis at 3:14 AM on May 22, 2007 (9 comments)

Rice Boy ~ a web comic. [updates log] [via] [no relation as far as I can see]
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posted to MetaFilter by grobstein at 7:58 PM on May 17, 2007 (14 comments)

Caligraft - computational calligraphy.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 5:45 AM on June 19, 2006 (14 comments)

The Antikamnia Calendar for 1900 shows a policeman, a clown, and a newspaper editor (among others), with one slight but notable difference. The 1899 one is pretty neat, too, but not as useful (because 1900 matches 2007 day-for-day). More info and related pics here. via.
posted to MetaFilter by cerebus19 at 4:10 PM on May 6, 2007 (10 comments)

How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran by Joshuah Bearman. As history keeps on happening, all people and events are becoming linked to each other in strange and inexplicable ways. Once in a while those links surface into view. Here, then, is the key event that connects Jack Kirby and Roger Zelazny to the CIA's handling of the Iranian hostage crisis. Via Wired Magazine and good evening.
posted to MetaFilter by JHarris at 12:17 PM on April 26, 2007 (36 comments)

Thomas Sutpen is one of Faulkner's most complex and intriguing characters. His blog, If Charlie Parker was a gunslinger, there’d be a whole lot of dead copycats includes nostalgic collections of rare photographs in serial form. Samples: They Were Collaborators (298) Great Con Artists of the 20th Century (14) Vietnam - Dramatis Personae (7) A is for Arbus (37) Collect 'em All (26) The Golden Age of Prurience (37) Poets are both clean and warm (18). Many wonderful others on the sidebar.
posted to MetaFilter by growabrain at 9:57 PM on April 21, 2007 (12 comments)

Cooking with Vincent Price! Delicious mushrooms & stuffed eggs! Roast pork sirloin with prunes, onions & red wine! Small boys in a spectacular curry! Cooking not your thing? Well, would you prefer learning about cricket? Or perhaps Florentine art? Voilà, my friends!
posted to MetaFilter by miss lynnster at 1:07 PM on April 13, 2007 (35 comments)

Download munkey points out rougelike magazine and AliensRL, nice a roguelike shooter based on the Aliens movies.
posted to MetaFilter by boo_radley at 10:17 AM on April 13, 2007 (20 comments)

I Saw You: Missed Connections Comics - a flickr project in which artists illustrate posts from Craigslist's Missed Connections. Possibly NSFW. (via)
posted to MetaFilter by Ufez Jones at 1:43 PM on March 30, 2007 (17 comments)

A second pretty much complete song for the RPM Challenge. Fancy ears will be able to pick out my attempt at learning to play the Cuatro that was hand-delivered to my front door from the awesome and amazing Micayetoca in Venezuela.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat at 2:28 PM on February 23, 2007 (42 comments)

William Carlos Williams audio 1 GB / 19 hours of the poet's lectures, interviews, poetry readings (mp3). Quite a resource at Pennsound.
posted to MetaFilter by chymes at 7:29 PM on January 10, 2007 (20 comments)

Since the Middle Ages, German craftsmen have gone 'auf der Walz' (taken to the road) as part of a kind of working-pilgrimage that artisans make after completing an apprenticeship with a master craftsman. These travels are meant to teach them about work and life and takes precisely three years and one day; they are not allowed to return home before this time. The trip can take these young craftsmen and women (all must be under the age of 30) halfway around the world (and often does) and they are allowed only a small rucksack. Other than that, they can bring along their uniform (a simple black and white affair that almost defies description), their tools, undergarments, a sleeping bag, a book and their trademark walking stick.

Although today this is a dying tradition, and is often more traditionally known as being a Journeyman today, it still exists and has inspired some to write about the strage travellers they see on the road. Indeed, perhaps the most famous work this tradition inspired is Australian poet Banjo Patterson, whose work Walzing Matilda is believed to have been inspired by this fascinating yet waning custom.
posted to MetaFilter by Effigy2000 at 6:11 PM on December 14, 2006 (28 comments)

"[M]y writing's not making a distinction between physical/muscular action and mind action or between events of history and minute events between people." -- Leslie Scalapino. Leslie Scalapino is an American poet associated with the language poetry movement. -- How2 Special Feature on Scalapino. -- Excerpt from The Forest is in the Euphrates River. -- Audio links to Scalapino reading from and discussing her work. -- Another audio link, to Scalapino reading from her book The Pearl. -- Excerpts from The Tango. -- Scalapino's Nov. 11 2006 reading at The Poetry Project in NYC. -- Scalapino is the daughter of controversial Berkeley scholar Robert Scalapino, who founded Berkeley's Institute for Asian Studies. -- Scalapino defends her father. -- Scalapino co-edited a volume of poets against the U.S. interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq. -- Scalapino's discussion of "relation of writing to events" with Judith Goldman.
posted to MetaFilter by jayder at 8:26 AM on October 29, 2006 (6 comments)

I have, over the past several years, become the individual that lots of people come to for music suggestions and to talk about music (most metal, but some other stuff). Much like the fine folks at Pandora. So I had the great thought of starting a podcast. However: Mayhaps I'm missing something, but I can't find anything online that spells out how to start a music podcast legally. (More after the jump)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Ikazuchi at 1:56 PM on October 13, 2006 (7 comments)

What the heck is "the purification dot org" all about? (I'm not linking to it directly because I have a hunch it's just a particularly enigmatic viral marketing ploy.)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by sportbucket at 6:20 PM on October 2, 2006 (743 comments)

Web programmers take note, gotAPI is an excellent collection of searchable programming references wrapped up into a customizable interface.
posted to MetaFilter by Roger Dodger at 6:59 AM on September 21, 2006 (14 comments)

"Be a philosopher, but amid all your philosophy be still a man"- David Hume
posted to MetaFilter by Rufus T. Firefly at 5:00 AM on September 17, 2006 (35 comments)

They'll never piggyback on your wireless again Your router makes the computer look funny. (via MeTa)
posted to MetaFilter by klangklangston at 2:09 PM on August 10, 2006 (62 comments)

If you want to see all the interesting stuff hidden in Google Maps then you need look no further than a site like Google Sightseeing, but what about the other way around? If you've ever wished Google Maps was better labeled then Wikimapia might be what you're looking for.
posted to MetaFilter by Mr.Encyclopedia at 5:18 PM on July 19, 2006 (29 comments)

QuickMuse is a cutting contest, a linguistic jam session, a series of on-the-fly compositions in which some great poets riff away on a randomly picked subject. via
posted to MetaFilter by bigmusic at 4:25 AM on July 18, 2006 (3 comments)

World eBook Fair - Project Gutenberg opens the door to even more books online for free (through Aug 4). Not just public domain stuff, but copyrighted works like Ulysses (PDF), T.S. Eliot (500 pp. PDF), and Neal Stephenson (PDF). Over 300,000 additional works online.
posted to MetaFilter by mattbucher at 8:43 AM on July 10, 2006 (51 comments)

I need some recommendations for great fiction. And yes, I've read all those other threads.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by nevercalm at 2:30 PM on June 29, 2006 (36 comments)

For those who are interested, I'm open to running another session of the MeFiSwap and have fiddled up the site (hat tip to the Metafilter Writers Group for the look) to make it a little easier for everyone to deal with. If you're in, come sign up.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 11:46 AM on June 20, 2006 (24 comments)

Gutenkarte: "Gutenkarte is a geographic text browser, intended to help readers explore the spatial component of classic works of literature. Gutenkarte downloads public domain texts from Project Gutenberg, and then feeds them to MetaCarta's GeoParser API, which extracts and returns all the geographic locations it can find." [note: works in Firefox but not IE, for me.]
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken at 9:18 PM on June 25, 2006 (16 comments)