- General Stuff
My dad has posted more gorgeous shots of New England to his Flickr feed.- Nothing is over until we decide it is!
- Suck it, Michael. The Beatles are one notch above the King of Pop for most-viewed Wikipedia article.
- How the hell does a car’s differential work? I never understood it… and then I watched this General Motors 1930s tutorial which explains it wonderfully. (link via Kottke)
- “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – MLK, Jr.
- Dooce is still writing the best stuff on the Internet. Seriously. If you haven’t yet read everything she’s ever written, take a few months off work and go do that right now. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll wonder why she doesn’t have her own television show.
- What did you think you were going to find at hiddenpassageway.com?
- What’s the business benefit of free bread at restaurants? (AskMeFi is just awesome, although some of the questions people ask can be quite depressing.)
- My wife is sure to be thrilled to see LA Weekly’s list of 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants.
- Yes, you could build your house with LEGO blocks. But why?
- Pizza Hut Fails Basic Grammar, another excellent post from the witty One Step Forward
- Techie Stuff
- Check out these cool grunge peeling sticker social media icons.
- Ten ways to stop spam in WordPress covers the basics and includes a few new tricks I didn’t know.
- Make your Mac prettier with a glossy dock.
Posts tagged “metafilter”
You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.
@sadderthan retweets and replies to things that are sadder than things you think nothing is sadder than.
MeFi Swap
Notes on a mix CD
Facebook v. Twitter, 2013
Notes on social medi
In Memory of Blue
“[I]f you ever wonder who has the more unconditional love for you, put your spouse and your dog in the trunk of the car for one hour. When you open it, who’s still happy to see you?” I’ve heard variations of this quote many times over the years and it always makes me laugh a
Happy Birthday, Moose and Squirrel!
On the anniversary of the birth of the greatest cartoon in television history
Metafilter Mythbuster?
One of my favorite sites is Metafilter (aka “mefi”). I found it way back in ’99 and became a member in March of ’00. For years it has consistently been wonderful. The users are infinitely more mature and intelligent than the ones at digg. It’s really quite incredible how mefi has managed to stay so
MetaFilter Sex Talk
I took a break from hacking out code and building insanely unsexy stored procedures tonight and happened upon what truly is the best Me-Fi thread ever. I must now seriously evaluate all of my previous notions concerning Portugal. linky goodness via leuschke.org
SportsFilter
I overheard someone talking about SportsFilter at some point during the LA MetaFilter shin-dig last night. This is excellent! It’s a MetaFilter just for sports fans!