I'd like to turn my wifi off (in Linux) except at specific times of day, and make it at least moderately difficult to turn back on. This is proving surprisingly difficult.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by sibilatorix at 3:27 PM on September 3, 2020 (7 comments)

My old computer choked on even basic things, and that killed my interest in making music. This is a lot more fun when I can throw things around without worrying about it hanging for 30-300 seconds.
posted to MeFi Music by Kye at 6:03 AM on September 11, 2020 (2 comments)

I've done some successful print books / ebooks about technical topics, and I'd like to try expanding them into online courses. What's the right platform?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RobotVoodooPower at 3:19 PM on September 9, 2020 (1 comment)

An eclectic radio show where I essentially play three hours of whatever I've been listening to that week and have a drink. All feedback is enjoyed.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by lucidium at 7:51 AM on June 29, 2020

another pop song
posted to MeFi Music by CarrotAdventure at 11:28 PM on August 7, 2020 (1 comment)

"Caste prejudice and discrimination is rife within the Indian communities in the United States and other countries. Its chains are even turning the work culture within multibillion-dollar American tech companies, and beyond."
posted to MetaFilter by MiraK at 7:35 AM on July 17, 2020 (37 comments)

Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs
posted to MetaFilter by minifigs at 5:06 AM on July 14, 2009 (43 comments)

A psychedelic synthpop meditation on dreams, the romance of travel, the uncanny desert night, and technology approaching obsolescence. If Tears For Fears collaborated with 1970-era Steve Reich, you might get something like this. Based on a painting by Georgy Nissky and a time-lapse video of two vintage railroad semaphores in the New Mexico desert.
posted to MeFi Music by mykescipark at 11:12 AM on May 4, 2020 (1 comment)

After coveting the things for 15+ years I finally went and bought a microKORG synth/vocoder from a person in town who was selling it slightly used for cheaper. I have been playing with it all morning and here is an attempt to put several pieces together in a hastily improvised song.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex at 12:31 PM on July 11, 2020 (8 comments)

Guitar Instrumental. A rework of an old piece of mine. Just got a bass guitar, so of course it's pretty high in the mix.
posted to MeFi Music by signal at 6:56 PM on May 17, 2020 (2 comments)

I live in NYC and *really* do not want to get onto the subway for quite a while, at least not during rush hour. I'm thinking about getting a fairly expensive one. Is it worth it?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by holborne at 10:38 PM on June 7, 2020 (18 comments)

Bizarrely, and for reasons too long and dull to explain, I’ve released an album of odd rock guitar instrumentals under the pseudonym Trey Fontaine.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Grangousier at 7:04 AM on April 30, 2020 (2 comments)

DJ techno/trance mixes - good. Swiss train driver pov videos - good. Swiss train driver pov videos set to techno mixes - double plus good! From Thomas H.
posted to MetaFilter by carter at 5:19 PM on May 4, 2020 (21 comments)

On Wired's Technique Critique, topical experts examine TV and movie clips and analyze their realism and accuracy: NASA astronaut Nicole Stott looks at 16 space scenes, then some more. Pro driver Wyatt Knox breaks down 16 driving scenes, then 18 more. Lawyer Lucy Lang breaks down 17 courtroom scenes. Surgical resident Annie Onishi breaks down 36 medical scenes, then another 22. Disease expert Brian Amman breaks down pandemic scenes. Movie accent expert Erik Singer breaks down 6 fictional languages, 28 actors playing presidents, and 17 actors playing real people. Hacker Samy Kamkar breaks down 26 hacking scenes. Robotics expert Chris Atkeson breaks down robot scenes. Former CIA Chief of Disguise Jonna Mendez breaks down 30 spy scenes. Forensics expert Matthew Steiner examines 20 crime scene investigations.
posted to MetaFilter by NotMyselfRightNow at 5:14 AM on April 23, 2020 (37 comments)

Not a Donald Fagen cover, alas, but a moody slice of danceable IDM in the early-'90s style. Recorded for my new monthly subscription music project, Faulty Machine Recordings Service.
posted to MeFi Music by mykescipark at 1:34 PM on March 17, 2020 (3 comments)

22 new series premiered through the winter and spring of 1985, 13 of them represented here by their theme intros and the remaining 9 through their network promos, as no intros for them were available at the creation of this video. Only 3 of these shows survived for at least another season: Crazy Like a Fox, Mr. Belvedere, and Moonlighting.
YouTuber RwDt09 has a stunning passion for American TV show history. As you’ll see within, they have archived and collated an inconceivable number of show intros.
posted to MetaFilter by Going To Maine at 7:26 PM on February 1, 2020 (71 comments)

A jaunty (for us) Carbon 7 number from last August. I was making notes on my phone of little snippets of conversation to use as song titles. No clue how we got there, but it seemed hilarious at the time. Utterly improvisational.
posted to MeFi Music by Devils Rancher at 5:19 PM on December 14, 2019 (1 comment)

NPR has looked at 46 alternative (American) anthems, starting a year ago, discussing the history and meaning of individual songs, from "America the Beautiful" to "To Be Young, Gifted and Black". For ease of review, the full list is also included below the break, with links to individual tracks on YouTube, or enjoy the playlist from NPR on Spotify and Apple Music.
posted to MetaFilter by filthy light thief at 9:06 PM on July 4, 2019 (43 comments)

"There's a modern (or at least louder in modern era) tendency in both fiction and the interpretation of fiction that every narrative be some sort of very specific kind of hyper-literal puzzle box that can be 'solved' by wikis and lore and clues" is near the start of a 2017 Twitter thread by Scott Benson. "After we released our game I was really blown away by how large the hunger for really concrete literal explanations were for things that were by design shadowy and vague and open to interpretation. But like, not in the sense of 'hey I'm curious', but 'hey, you left this out, when are you going to finish it or write the backstory lore etc'"
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 7:59 AM on June 14, 2019 (88 comments)

Imagine an anthemic indie punk song written by Ric Ocasic
posted to MeFi Music by nikaspark at 7:37 PM on February 9, 2019 (2 comments)

A poppy, uptempo song about how modern technology abets the struggle with an overwhelming desire not to miss out on being constantly aware of how awful everything is.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex at 4:06 PM on March 26, 2019 (10 comments)

One way we like to spend holidays while still getting exercise and not gaining weight is to do "walking holidays"; basically, the idea is doing moderate length hikes on foot every day, ideally traveling from one hotel/b&B to the next over several days, and a service both plans it and transfers your luggage for you so your daily pack is light. This has worked well for us for several UK vacations, Iceland, and more recently the Douro valley in Portugal, but I'm looking for recommendations for other places.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by kaszeta at 12:18 PM on February 3, 2019 (29 comments)

I had the drums and amp mic'ed up anyway, so I decided to lay down this track from Moana.
posted to MeFi Music by uncleozzy at 9:33 AM on July 30, 2018 (10 comments)

Folky, catchy murder ballad.
posted to MeFi Music by peppercorn at 12:35 PM on September 18, 2018 (5 comments)

It seems absurd that something as simple as changing your sitting posture in a vehicle travelling at up to 1200 km/h groundspeed could make a difference to your odds of surviving a crash, but the results are in. The brace position works, and you will do yourself potentially a very great favour by knowing how and when to adopt it.
posted to MetaFilter by paleyellowwithorange at 7:48 PM on September 10, 2018 (28 comments)

An upbeat ditty about falling in love, blah blah blah. Cobbled together during my currently-on-hiatus 52 weeks project. Inspired by Holiday-era Magnetic Fields.
posted to MeFi Music by grumpybear69 at 7:58 AM on March 27, 2017 (4 comments)

You either know who Dar Williams is or you don't, but chances are that if you know her music, you've got a bit of a story behind that.
posted to MetaFilter by Navelgazer at 12:59 AM on December 29, 2012 (61 comments)

An ambient-ish electronic composition in 3 movements. (17:21, 120bpm, C) As yet untitled.
posted to MeFi Music by acb at 6:50 AM on August 26, 2017 (3 comments)

Sumana Harihareswara, contributor to open source projects including Wikimedia and GNOME, asks a question: where are the women in the history of open source?

If you ask some people about the history of free software, you hear about Richard Stallman creating the GNU Public License and formulating the Four Freedoms...

Some people will tell you a bit about Stallman, and then discuss how Eric S. Raymond wrote “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” and articulated more pragmatic language for open source folks to use, and how permissive licenses helped popularize open source...

But in any case — where the fuck are the women?

posted to MetaFilter by metaquarry at 6:22 AM on May 28, 2015 (64 comments)

A wrote a little pep talk, for myself and for anyone else who needs one, as we wade through the fuckedness of all this. Catchy and short and angry and upbeat and exactly a minute long.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex at 6:24 PM on November 20, 2016 (30 comments)

I read this New York Times article about clothing that is ethically produced and looked up the company they feature, Everlane, and really loved the look of their stuff. It's conservative enough for an office, but still fashionable and hip, and not horribly expensive ($15 for women's t-shirts). The trouble is, they don't offer very much variety. Basically, I'm looking for more things along the lines of these previous MeFi questions but for women's clothes available for purchase in the U.S.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by forkisbetter at 11:05 AM on May 10, 2013 (8 comments)

After my weekend spent purging my closet of BAGS full of clothes to donate that are too young, too cheap, too ill fitting, and just too plain ugly, I now find myself with a few holes and thin areas in my (blessedly) more manageable wardrobe. I'd like to fill those holes (slowly, eventually) with pieces that are classic, high quality, and (unicorn!) ethically produced (or at least MORE ethically produced than many major brands). Problem: I LOATHE shopping and am a style/fashion amateur. Where should be looking? What should I be looking for? Details inside.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Dorinda at 6:17 AM on September 12, 2016 (24 comments)

For her 90th birthday, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth selected a striking green outfit to attend the Trooping the Colour parade. A green outfit that lent itself perfectly to chromakey special effects. As always, Twitter was there to help out.
posted to MetaFilter by Existential Dread at 11:05 AM on June 15, 2016 (38 comments)

It's been a long time since I looked for a job and a recruiter got me my current gig. Have you looked for a job in the past year? If so, how did you go about it?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by deathpanels at 7:01 PM on April 29, 2016 (6 comments)

You are future me. You used to self-sabotage your healthy intentions after shitty days by eating weird, crappy foods. No disordered eating or thinking, just zero self control and a feeling of 'fuck the plan, I'm sad and I deserve to feel better'. What did you successfully replace the weird crappy foods with to give you the same 'comfort blanket' feeling without the sabotage?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by citands at 2:59 AM on March 10, 2016 (38 comments)

Thanks to my obsession with Hamilton, I've realized that I am sorely ignorant about way too much of the hip-hop and rap history it calls on, and I'd also like to find more recent stuff I'd like.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by rtha at 8:00 AM on February 3, 2016 (39 comments)

Short version: I can't leave my room, but I can type and mouse. How do I make money under these circumstances? Is Mechanical Turk still a thing? Do things like Hits4Dollars or InboxDollars still work? How else do I do this?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by The Almighty Mommy Goddess at 3:09 PM on October 26, 2015 (28 comments)

In a world where marketing for films can cost hundreds of millions of dollars, movie studios count on one musical genre to make its trailers stand out: TRAILER MUSIC.
posted to MetaFilter by jet_pack_in_a_can at 3:48 PM on September 7, 2015 (22 comments)

An on-demand and discreet delivery service for sexual health and safer sex supplies, created as part of the 2015 North American StartupBus.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by divabat at 11:50 PM on June 5, 2015 (1 comment)

Inspired by the great man himself - J.S. Bach - this song presents a modern interpretation, stemming into interpretation, of this great piece. By Ummagma
posted to MeFi Music by Brodyaga at 10:24 AM on April 14, 2013 (5 comments)

Resistor celebrates springtime with a lush new single, "Everyone I Know." This hook-laden dance-pop number is seasoned with Resistor's cynical charm, pondering whether originality can exist if a person is merely a product of his environment. Of course, the existentialism lurks beneath many layers of burbling synths, glitchy drum machines, and boy-girl harmonies.
posted to MeFi Music by ludwig_van at 7:33 AM on April 17, 2013 (3 comments)

Post-rock always seems embedded with the sense that something is dire; however, shake it up a bit to get a kind of post-rock indie shoegaze vinaigrette and Sounds of Sputnik is likely what you would come up with. This is Ambiguous Sense of the Future.
posted to MeFi Music by Brodyaga at 2:14 AM on April 19, 2013 (4 comments)

Space rock is a term that is often over-used for various psychrock tunes, but it is dead on for this track from Sounds of Sputnik. Or space post-rock or even space post-rock shoegaze. Looking forward to your take on that.
posted to MeFi Music by Brodyaga at 3:06 PM on April 21, 2013

Another pep talk for the anxious and non-confrontational.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat at 9:52 PM on June 4, 2011 (12 comments)

A rambling instrumental with banjo, whistling, and a few other ingredients. Mix well and serve chilled.
posted to MeFi Music by ORthey at 10:34 PM on April 1, 2007 (14 comments)

Seen any good movies or TV lately, or ever? The hard part: must be Bechdel-positive.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Corvid at 3:03 PM on December 8, 2012 (70 comments)

A Vast Left-Wing Competency: "How Democrats became the party of effective campaigning — and why the GOP isn’t catching up anytime soon." Sasha Issenberg, author of The Victory Lab, has been writing a series of posts on Slate that focus on different aspects of "the new science of winning campaigns".
posted to MetaFilter by flex at 2:12 PM on November 8, 2012 (103 comments)

A minor-key, rondo-like composition for piano, bass, percussion, and various squelchy electronic bits. Hail the coming of Princess Luna!
posted to MeFi Music by Wolfdog at 11:19 AM on October 28, 2012 (1 comment)

This little pop ditty has been running through my head so I took it for a spin at the orchestra.
posted to MeFi Music by Doleful Creature at 11:39 PM on October 21, 2012 (4 comments)

I'm looking for folky and bluegrassy covers of popular songs. Examples inside.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by moonroof at 8:41 PM on July 7, 2012 (60 comments)