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Crack That Tank (13 minutes) is a World War II training film. A tank commander, played by Dick Purcell, explains to infantry soldiers (the film's audience) what to do when they find 25 tons of rolling metal death bearing down on them on the battlefield.For many of the young soldiers preparing for battle, this would be the last film they would see in their...

Spring has sprung in the northern hemisphere, which is great time to consider the 50 most romantic movies of all time!

From the New Yorker. "We analyzed the literature of protest and spoke to a range of people, including foreign dissidents and opposition leaders, movement strategists, domestic activists, and scholars of nonviolent movements. We asked them for their advice, in the nascent weeks of the Trump Administration, for those who want to oppose these dramatic changes but harbor considerable fear for their jobs, their freedom,...

Despite the prevailing skepticism toward non-fungible tokens, the world isn't becoming any less digital and blockchain remains the foundation of digital art's brave new market. It is right to acknowledge the seismic impact of NFTs on contemporary art even while they continue to enrage and inflame. The old world might be putting up resistance to the on-chain economy, but this story is far from...

Stonefish toxin could be new weapon against parasitic worms in livestock: a recently discovered stonefish toxin has enormous promise, according to researchers in Far North Queensland. The compounds have been shown to kill helminths or parasitic gastrointestinal worms while leaving mammal cells unharmed, said Danica Lennox-Bulow, a PhD candidate at James Cook University. Ms Lennox-Bulow said the toxin was different from the one stonefish...

Steve Mould takes on the question... Treadmill vs. Real Hill: Which is harder to run - YouTube. Good arguments, good experiments, conclusion. Right or Wrong? Pick sides.

Sometimes you just gotta go but it can't hurt to know your options. Bathrooms at homeBathrooms outside Bathrooms in hotels Bathrooms for public use, United States edition Bathrooms for public use, world edition Bathrooms that won a contest, United States Bathroom, mall. It's beautiful! Bathroom, most opulent. Rocca Restaurant, Ivens Hotel, Lisbon Portugal. Warning! This is an influencer video, I couldn't find anything better...

Dan Gelbart (previously) has some tips for the sort of people who'd enjoy tips from Dan Gelbart.

TimeOut magazine ranks the 100 best horror movies At GenjiandProust's request, I bring you the 100 best horror movies list, for your fighty delectation!I have *opinions* but will hold out for now until people have a chance to check out the list.

If you're anything like me you're going to accidentally lose several hours to simple sliding tile matching game Exponentile, which will remind some folks of iOS classic Threes and the raft of thematically similar web-based games of which 2048 was a standout example.

Nardwar vs Carney Nardwar vs Singh Nardwar vs Poilievre - didn't happen, Poilievre declined, which makes me sad.There are a few previouslies but I'm going to stick with this one which has some good interview links in the comments.

Replying 'Haha So True!' to Every Meme Your Friend Sends: An Experimental Study in Preserving Social Bonds with Minimum Effort from the Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology

It seems that this is what we are devolving into quickly. Our purpose becoming solely to produce. Every interaction made to gain or exchange something. But here's a nice video to just throw away all that for a few minutes and embrace Georges Bataille's Philosophy and maybe rethink our lives a little

The manuscript of The Garden of Eden exists in three irreconcilable drafts of varying lengths. To get the story into publishable shape, Tom Jenks, a Scribner's editor, did a cut-and-paste job on the longest of these manuscripts (a version of some twelve hundred pages)—deleting a great deal, changing around much else—thus producing the version that we now have. The result bears a suspicious resemblance...

Rebecca Solnit, author of A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster and editor of Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility, writes about community, resistance, hope, and the power of the people at Meditations in an Emergency.The speech she gave at the April 5 Hands Off demonstration in San Francisco is inspiring - as are...

Doctors in Quebec are leaving the public system in record numbers. Advocates of public healthcare are concerned after 780 doctors left the public system in Quebec in 2023, compared to just 14 in the rest of the country. Critics say it could be a warning for the rest of Canada.

When Waugh published his time machine (it took five months to write in total, after some wrangling about army leave), the reviews were thoroughly mixed. Behind the scenes the literati sniped about its ornate style and rococo syntax. Old-fashioned. Florid. Too many semicolons. (So many semicolons). When Waugh was young, he had written viciously funny books: they loved him for his dark and wicked...

The artist Michael Landy destroyed all his possessions in 2001. In 2019, Charlotte Higgins interviewed him about the whether he regrets it. He talked about the process in 2002. There was a MetaFilter post about it at the time.

Lizard rescued from drink can by sharp-eyed outback mates. Travelling along a dusty road in north-west Queensland, a strange sight caught Finn Cain's attention. A drink can was running across the road ahead.

Mechanical Gift Box [via mefi projects] MetaFilter's own churl ("engineer, builder, learner, lover") posted this 20-minute video documenting his 10-month project: handcrafting a beautiful mechanical gift box of wood and brass. Super cool to watch his process and try to figure out where he's going at each step. Nice closeups of his painstaking detail work, plus ASMR goodness. Or just skip to the 19:00...

The Dali Museum has realized the mustachio'd maestro's unproduced 1937 screenplay using Google's Veo 2 generative video model. Here is a preview.