MetaFilterThe past 24 hours of MetaFilterPluribo- July 1, 2008 Pluribo is a way-cool Firefox extension that automagically summarises Amazon product reviews.http://www.metafilter.com/72951/Pluribo Hello friends and lovers -- Food Party- July 1, 2008 "Food Party is a (would-be) TV cooking show with a spicy saigon kitchen-witch as your hostess, a cast of unruly puppets as culinary advisors, and a cavalcade of hip-hopsports world celebrities as surprise dinner guests. Shot on location in a technicolor cardboard kitchen, each episode will instruct you on how to prepare wild gourmet multi-course meals with ingredients you probably have on hand in your kitchen already, such as pretzel rods, cheese puffs, eggs, sugar, secret ingredients, and...http://www.metafilter.com/72950/Hello-friends-and-lovers-Food-Party Talkin' 'bout the old style too: dawn Landes & the We Sorta Tried Bluegrass Band- July 1, 2008 dawn Landes & the We Sorta Tried Bluegrass Band perform a rather charming version of Peter, Bjorn and John's Young Folks SLYT. Sorry if this is kind of last-year-filter. Here's the original.http://www.metafilter.com/72949/Talkin-bout-the-old-style-too-dawn-Landes-amp-the-We-Sorta... Cunard Yanks- July 1, 2008 They were Britain's pop culture pioneers, bringing back American music and fashions to a nation still starved by post-war rationing and austerity. They paved the way for The Beatles. Meet the Liverpool Merchant Seamen known as the Cunard Yanks.http://www.metafilter.com/72948/Cunard-Yanks Bicycle Lock Planter - get your bike out of the hall- July 1, 2008 Bicycle Lock Planter This is a very simple invention. It is a big planter that you put in the waste of space at the front of your house and lock your bike to it. I had seen them popping up here and there in London but only found out today where they came from. Great video of the strength test - esp the freeze and then hit with a big hammer.http://www.metafilter.com/72947/Bicycle-Lock-Planter-get-your-bike-out-of-the-hall Mexican aerophones- July 1, 2008 Mexican Aerophones are wind musical instruments or artifacts that can generate sounds or noise with air jets and one or several resonator chambers of globular, tubular and other shapes. Roberto Velasquez, a mechanical engineer, has recreated some of these aerophones. Example sounds: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (.wav files)http://www.metafilter.com/72946/Mexican-aerophones Viking invasion ends- July 1, 2008 Viking invasion ends as longship sails home. The Sea Stallion From Glendalough, a replica Viking longboat (previously), is returning to Denmark.http://www.metafilter.com/72945/Viking-invasion-ends It's Spock's illusions I recall- July 1, 2008 Leonard Nimoy ruins Joni Mitchell. Johnny Cash redeems Gordon Lightfoot. The Donnas render Men Without Hats ever so slightly less ridiculous. The CBC assembles a list of great (and sub-great) covers of Canadian songs. And a happy Canada Day to you.http://www.metafilter.com/72943/Its-Spocks-illusions-I-recall The record shows I took the blows -- And did it MYYYYYYY WAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!- July 1, 2008 Red Karaoke is a free social network for music lovers, offering more than 14,000 songs for karaoke enthusiasts, and tools that enable users to record their own video and audio files.http://www.metafilter.com/72942/The-record-shows-I-took-the-blows-And-did-it-MYYYYYYY-WAAA... |