Am I crazy, or is there a book about a man trying to voyage to the afterlife?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by gc at 9:42 PM on March 14, 2008 (18 comments)

Celemony are a bunch of crazy German software engineers known best for making Melodyne, a family of top of the line pitch correction tools. Apparently they've recently figured out how to do what they do with polyphonic audio. I can't begin to explain how cool this is. Just watch the video.
posted to MetaFilter by stenseng at 4:10 PM on March 13, 2008 (119 comments)

How obedient is your dog? Or chimp.
posted to MetaFilter by spec80 at 1:28 PM on March 13, 2008 (25 comments)

"How many brain scientists have the chance to study a stroke from the inside?" In 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor did (previously), and she recently gave a moving TED talk on her experience. If that merely whetted your appetite for more brainy videos, check out the complete archive of UCSD TV's Grey Matters, a series of lectures on the brain. And for dessert, The Parts of the Brain, as performed by Pinky and The Brain. [via Neurophilosophy]
posted to MetaFilter by natabat at 9:44 PM on March 12, 2008 (14 comments)

Life and death of an urban recluse Odd and beautiful newspaper story.
posted to MetaFilter by Free word order! at 10:18 AM on March 11, 2008 (41 comments)

Crystal Meth: Friend or Foe High school science project alchemy: dumb shit into comedy gold.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 7:49 PM on February 20, 2008 (101 comments)

Okay, so this is an idiotic question.. Given that, howzabout everyone (myself included) sits on our hands since I just don't think anything helpful remains to be said.
posted to MetaTalk by Deathalicious at 1:38 AM on March 4, 2008 (358 comments)

Does anyone remember the mind-blowingly dangerous fly-by-night birthday event management company that brought us THE MAD HATTER parties in the mid-1980s?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by CheeseburgerBrown at 12:10 PM on January 21, 2008 (5 comments)

I think its time that we joined a serious debate about how to reconcile faith with our modern pluralistic society. Obama on religion and politics. (SLnonYTP)
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 4:42 AM on February 10, 2008 (142 comments)

20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack. A very thoughtful and eloquent comparison (transcript) of the core differences between Obama and Clinton - by Creative Commons CEO and Professor Lawrence Lessig.
posted to MetaFilter by zenzizi at 6:44 AM on February 5, 2008 (489 comments)

Yes, We Can! -- Obama's words, set to music.
posted to MetaFilter by empath at 9:52 AM on February 2, 2008 (183 comments)

The site must be marked: What is here is dangerous(?) and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger...This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
posted to MetaFilter by never used baby shoes at 8:23 PM on January 3, 2008 (78 comments)

"The really disturbing thing about Lagos’s pickers and venders is that their lives have essentially nothing to do with ours. They scavenge an existence beyond the margins of macroeconomics. They are, in the harsh terms of globalization, superfluous." The Megacity, George Packer in Lagos.
posted to MetaFilter by afu at 1:09 PM on December 11, 2007 (25 comments)

The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing "I've documented the journey of Billy, a young, happy lad who believes he's going off to have fantastic adventures at summer camp... This is a literal and practically contextual account of what happens to poor bastards sent to Animal Crossing."
posted to MetaFilter by chrismear at 1:38 PM on December 10, 2007 (28 comments)

I need a funny saying for a sign that will go in a window. It will hang over my fat cat, who hardly moves. I know you guys can come up with something great.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Alpenglow at 8:59 AM on November 28, 2007 (82 comments)

It's 1994, there's a bomb in Los Angeles, and THERE'S NO TIME! Will Jack Bauer save the world with AOL 3.0?
posted to MetaFilter by dhammond at 9:56 PM on November 8, 2007 (45 comments)