31 December 2005
Is it over? Put the year behind you yet?
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I need YOUR help to make a mix... Bunnies, please hope me. I need the following mp3's to finish making a mix for some friends. If you can hook me up, I'll get you back. Promise. You'll see.
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Dick Clark? Regis? Ryan whatshisface? MTV? --bitch here, Americans. ABC is already showing some asinine thing with Ryan.
Happy New Year's from Berlin! Somehow, this year turned out six hours shorter than usual...
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Milk. (.wmv file) Amusing.
Predicting the Shit Out of Stuff --what are your more unlikely predictions for 2006?
Weebl and Bob An eponysterical episode. Everybody else may well know about them already, but I didn't, and I've just been going slowly through them and laughing like a loon for hours. So happy weebl & bob new year!
You're Elected!? Donald Trump to run for NY governor??
Random Radio Matildaben - D Edition Today's time-zone-shifted episode is brought to you by the letter D.
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Indianapolis: How is it? Besides cold. Looks like I'm headed there in February. Never been.
A new word I have come up with a new word:
Deliberance: n. The act of thinking about whether or not to sodomize someone.
ex: Locked in deliberance, Nathaniel stroked his chin and gazed at the languishing anal beads.
For some of our bunnies, it's already 2006... So I decided to go ahead and put up the New Year's bunnyhead! (refresh if you don't see it.) Happy New Year, everybody! I kiss you!
MC King Kong? Why am i parsing this as "Rapper Chimp released from prison"?
Facts. To amaze and confound you.
I'm shaving my beard! I am doing it gradually as to not upset the boy. When I was young my dad shaved his beard abruptly and it was very disturbing. Any who 2006 is going to see a clean me.
This computer kinda sucks Sucks a lot, actually. So does being in Memphis. Hello hi how are you?
Ask MeCha: looking for royalty free or inexpensive photos that would be appropriate for... an online tax school. Preferably with different races represented and not children. Anyone got any links/suggestions?
30 December 2005
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Radio Matildaben - Random C The third installment in our random radio series. Brought to you by the letter "C". Starting at approximately the top of the hour.
I want to share something cool, but it kinda feels like bragging. But I've been told I'm allowed to brag about this, though it makes my typical sense of humility quiver.
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HAPPY THREAD!!! →Read more...
Billboard --weird average sound snippets of every #1 song since 58--reminds me of Capn's contest, but is completely unrecognizable.
Jack in the (Witness) Box, reports AP Abramoff's cooperation would be a boon to an ongoing Justice Department investigation of congressional corruption, possibly helping prosecutors build criminal cases against up to 20 lawmakers and their staff members.
Most Overhyped/Underappreciated Band of the Year?
AskMecha: Would it be OK to post a "commercial" web site I am working on to get some feedback?
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My favorite albums of 2005 Insipred by the "favorite song of 2005" thread below.
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Friday Flash Funny Fighting Something for the end of the week, end of the year, end of the world as we know it.
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Finally, I finished Cloud Atlas. Anything we need to do before the 6th? How's it going to work? How many others have, will have or will not have finished reading it by then? I'm looking forward to talking nonsense about books!
Roger McGuinn's folk corpus. I found these poking around Gutenberg today.
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Isn't it about time we did another Exquisite Codec? Post a link to a song that is connected in some way (artist, title, general theme) to the song posted previously).
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Hand-cranked Lexus. →Read more...
Radio b - Coincidentally 100% Walrus-Free Coming up at approximately the top of the hour.
Now with less flavour! So two products, a mouthwash and a gum have been launched in my market (and maybe yours, I dunno), both proudly proclaiming "NOW! With Less Intense Taste!"
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This morning, I would like to smell like a hint of a best beloved's cologne, a touch of campfire and sea water after an extended romp of nightswimming.
How 'bout you?
AAAAARRRGGG! SHOUTING THREAD! →Read more...
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Best MetaFilter (Blue) FPPs of 2005? My favorite, off the top of my head.
I Am The Walrus Beginning at 12:15 EST: sixteen different versions by fifteen different bands. Why? BECAUSE I CAN!!!
Bwah-ha-ha-ha!
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I smell like Jack Daniels and cigarette smoke this morning. How 'bout you?
Hi! Can I stalk you? Or maybe you can stalk me? Never had my own stalker before. Unless of course you count the guy who used to call my house in the middle of the night and say dirty things.
A change of policy. Lately there have been instances of Metatalk squabbles being brought over here and also discussion of Mefi users without their knowledge. This needs to be dealt with and here's what is going to happen.
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Hey Chicago! I'll be in town next week.
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I would just like to congratulate jonmc... →Read more...
Paging Flopsy →Read more...
Some pop. Because I'm in the mood. →Read more...
Tunes for a post-NYE-hangover open house? →Read more...
Radio Mosch maxin and relaxin.
Ask Meatchat. Anyone have a chili recipe to share? →Read more...
29 December 2005
Radio yhbc in just a few minutes, when matildaben is done. A short, randomish set.
Warning: Flash. Warning: Your Favorite Band Sux. Warning ... I wouldn't dare post it to MetaFilter ("Shill! Shill! Pepsiblue!" "Dude, flash totally SUCKS!!!" "So why is this here? What do we care about this, when people are dying?"), but the band
Stereophonics has what I thought was a pretty cool flash-based website, and I just wanted to share it.
Yo, Philly! Come out and play!
How Many Condoms at once? Let's hear it for science. Photos may be considered NSFW.
Followup to the posthumous xmas AksMe
AskMeCha: Travel Which of those destinations would you choose? (i may have a week off at the end of Jan)
Random Radio Matildaben - B Edition Random song titles beginning with B - starts at 5pm PST/8pm EST. Oh, and
flaming squids on ice!
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mierda my old Uni's been the target of a terrorist attack.
Emerald Nuts. Their ads make me laugh. And you, too, can enter their ad contest.
C'mon out and play, y'damn kid! Serious mommy/puppy love, puppy seriously overwhelmed. Cuteness abounds.
There is something wrong with my ears. I hate earbuds. Hate them with a passion. They won't stay in, they hurt, they are a huge pain.
And, they came with my new mp3 player.
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The Kid From Brooklyn dot com. [nsfw] All you Noo Yawkahs probly know of dis guy, but I hadn't hearda him til today. Most amusing.
Someone has a sense of humour. So at the video store today...
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My shoes arrived... I like 'em. Thanks! :)
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CabbageHead Redux A few people have asked me to repost
this mix, so
here it is. (~100mb)
Jane Smiley post at HuffPo on differing mindsets and politics--is what she says true?
Wiki wiki wah! Things like this can get lost so I'm just dropping in a little reminder: we now have a wiki so please check it out, help yourselves, think up clever uses, etc. If you need help then just ask.
50 across. 5 letters. Electric catfish. Although I refuse to Google this, I see nothing wrong with asking you for help. (2nd letter is an A) Bless you.
My neighbor moved his/her router and now I can't get pirated WiFi and be on MetaChat when I'm at home. Hold me.
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Sonic the Hedgehog. As played by a piano.
[oh noes! google video!]
What new hot trend is right for YOU?
War and Peace English translation
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2-year-old gets drunk; baby-sitter charged -- hon -- can you pass the
Dubonnet? Thanks. Love. Kisses.
SPAM SPAM SPAM i go to my gmail SPAM box and there's 1) SPAM e-mails do i want to see SPAM e-mails NO! [well maybe when there's funny names like 'pinto brada' and 'masato boss' and hilarious shite like penis growth patches i mean picture that--some dude walking around with a PATCH ON HIS WILLY! haha] but then in the SPAM box there's also 2) RECIPES USING SPAM! that's right ALWAYS TEXT ADS for RECIPES USING SPAM salty screwy 'meat' [?] in a tin recipes which NO ONE WANTS TO SEE! [and i'm a vegetarian] am i RIGHT? does this happen TO YOU!? [does google not have more sense than this or is it a joke?]
*phew*
Thank you for your time.
28 December 2005
Defend Your Temple --a timely flash game for Hanukkah
This is a test. This is a test of Wadio Wendell. If this were an actual emergency, you'd be on your own.
Brokebush Mountain --Cowboys. Neocons. Lovers. : >
Alyson Hannigan is still the sexiest woman on TV. But
Marissa Jarett Winokur and
Kirsten Vangsness are nipping at her heels. This is what years of painstaking research ahve tought me.
mitil "I am always recruiting the work of the picture. I will welcome the request of the picture from foreign countries."
Random Radio Matildaben (A edition) Starting approximately on the hour (6 p.m. PST) - all random songs starting with the letter "A".
The world is ending in some strange, prescribed way. You can only have one of the following for the rest of your life: The company of people; the company of animals; music.
Which do you choose?
What do you wish you were doing immediately before you responded to this post?
SQL Bug I occasionally get the following bug when clicking on the (n new) comments link. I only started seeing this today. Firefox 1.5 on Win2003 Server.
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What were you doing immediately before you responded to this post?
Random Radio II In which I'll spin for an hour until matildaben gets home.
Random radio. In which I tell WinAmp to play 20 tracks from my collection of 15,000 at random.
2005 Year in Review News Quiz -- Bush | BTK | Terri Schiavo | Pope John Paul II ...
Radio Dodgy Just a quickie...
Term coinage I propose the following challenge to the Mecha masses...
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What notes do you have on your desk? And what do they say?
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A responsible adult can use the Jesus doll to teach young children. But what can I
use it for?
Winnar!!! Also, answers, inside...
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eleek, inc. lighting Hand crafted metal work out of Portland, done with patternmaking: "the old world craft of making patterns --- detailed wood positives from which molds for metal castings are made."
ooh! A couple drops of rain just splashed against my window and I turned to look, barely in time to catch a fleeting rainbow. Rainbow inside!
Slice. A desktop (1024 x768) for anyone who wants it; the dual monitor version is
here. (Thumbnails inside.)
Not that I want to start a trend. But I now sport my new name! Thanks ever so much, dodgygeezer. I feel shiny.
-mecha formerly known as yoga
Postcards from beautiful Britain. Brought to you by the fine people of The Caravan Gallery.
What's the very first site I pull up after being away (!) from the internet four whole days...?
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27 December 2005
Splitting AVIs I have a huuuge AVI file (video: DiVx; audio: MP3) and I want to select few segments and export them as AVIs. Quickest way?
Everyone hop in the IRC hot tub! Get in, it's nice and warm.
The Quitters Club So... I'm throwing my hat in the "I will quit smoking in 2006" ring. We should totally form a club or something.
Tuesday! And
this is the second gis hit. Is it a sign? It is a sign.
Noise radio. Soundscapes, random bluprs and other various loud and abrasive things.
More year-in-review pictures. Some incredible shots (warning: some are graphic).
Attention Torontonian MeCha Members! I will be in your fair city this coming weekend... up for a drink on Friday?
My dad picked me up at BWI rail station last Thursday night.
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Reminder In case you missed the first two threads. Now there's $200 on the line.
Presents Ive seen a thread about what presents you lot got for Christmas; now what did you give?
Me, i bought a hardback copy of Banksy's graffiti work for my mum, some slo mello jazz for my dad (was thinking about some pharoah sanders but went back on that), and some lush latin-jazz party tunes for my sister.
What gives?
A few days late but ... There are no words to describe this. Well, there are, but I would go blind writing them. (mp3 file)
Update: For what it's worth, police now say that the woman who swallowed her cellphone, previously reported as having swallowed it in an attempt to keep it away from her boyfriend (
discussed, quite passionately, in this thread), was, in fact, apparently the victim of an assault. Maybe dame and ortho can be friends again.
Brief NYTimes article, p. A21.
So. What do you want to know?
So what were the good books this year? Or have we already done this?
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My father had a machete that was... →Read more...
Mr. Gackt! We have to go! Possibly NSFW, video launches upon clicking.
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Help. I Need to Install Some RAM Walk me through this, please, oh technically gifted mechazens?
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Some Oldham. Because I'm in the mood. →Read more...
This is A Thank You Post for the Metachatters Who Made My Christmas Great! This is a post of thanks to Mechatters who made me happy this Christmas and why
1. Matildaben for the Chinese Food, videos and utterly great CD's (Epynt! Epynt! you go, Gruff!)
2. Mudpuppie for saying she was a reindeer and letting me hang my laundry on her antlers.
3. JonMc for all the kickass Peter Green downloads.
4. Agropyron/Diva Despina for Indian food, and numerous great evenings at their house.
5. Dame for calling me Smootchie.
6. PinkSuperHero for the whole PinkSuperChihuahua back-and-forth, and for the chat that started "Okay, WHO ARE YOU??"
7. Eideteker for the great spinsets.
Now feel free to add to this list, I know you wanna!
Ask Mecha: I need a free medium-sized (c. 5 million words) corpus of representative American English. I do not need parts of speech tagged, just the text itself. [mi]
Falling sand You are getting verrrry sleeeeeepy.
26 December 2005
Someone upgraded my last.fm account! →Read more...
When you're sitting on an airplane, do your elbows venture past your arm rest into your neighbor's space? Do they, perhaps, jab into your neighbor's side? If so, I have words for you.
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I'm sad that I had to leave IRC My family is sucking right now.
Dingle bunny! I am so in love.
Easy To Slip It's so easy to fa-ah-all. Let your memory drift into nothing at ah-ah-ah-a-ahl.
Well the whole world seems so cold today.
But I had sex with Ernest Hemmingway.
Contest is GO! See
here for info
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Party in #metachat! Come on down!
This week's last.fm charts: Jingle Rock Bell tied for #1 with Eartha Kitt!
Russian Cannibal Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison for Cooking Friend. It's not the story so much as the stock photo they used. Makes the NY Post look staid.
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Music Box I'm starting with some hip-hop, then maybe something else. Listen in, if you're so inclined.
Book Club --i hope you're all reading or have finished Cloud Atlas. Email me with suggestions and problems or puzzling things about it--i'm formulating questions now. : >
Happy Boxing Day! May the drunkeness commence!
Committing musical crimes for charity. Inspired by
mosch, I have a musical contest for you and I will donate
100 Canadian dollars to a charity of the winner's choosing.
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Xmas Miracles thread →Read more...
This is the Robitussin whining thread. That is all.
Listen to the radio for the next six hours.
Also, Derek Bailey just died.
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midnight radio mayfly after panoptican i will be playing you some music that may or may not be jarringly random.
Nixon's favorite musical? To test my iPod, I'm playing a musical both I and, reporttedly Richard Nixon, enjoyed in the 1970s.
Nixon, it is claimed, had a song cut from the movie version.
Name the musical.
Penis Variations on a theme.
Also cheerfully lifted from MoFi.
25 December 2005
Kongdingle The new King Kong was beautiful. Full of metaphors, too many to count. Quite the cliffhanger as well, mostly literally. He should have flung poo at those damn biplanes, but I guess he was too classy a dude.
Speaking of which, isn't dingle the clumped stuff that occasionally hangs off a bunny's ass?
Woot's offer today? --a bag of crap for a buck. : >
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Imagine ... Liel and Bill Clinton in a duet Imagine singing this song ...
it's easy if you try
you may want to know the lyrics ...
before you answer aye
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Radio Dodgy Quick one hour session. On now.
I just watched Queen Elizabeth's Christmas broadcast (transcript, video available on the right) and I must say I was impressed.
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Is that mistletoe AND dingle our bunny is holding? I love it!
Many Kissmas kisses!!
I was right! David Tennant is great as Dr Who!
Radio announcement! (I like the holiday logo!) Tomorrow, from 9am to 3pm PST, I'll be
broadcasting music by artists on the
Nurse With Wound list, along with some NWW and Current 93.
It's my gift to all of you.
They were trying to get the lights to work. In case you were wondering. I was, but then I'm kinda dimly witted. Via
Sk4n on the other side.
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Merry Kissmas! →Read more...
Minor Mainstream Media Mention of Jingle Rock Bell. The story is mainly about Jon Solomon's long running and awesome 24 hour Xmas musix Marathon, which you can hear
here. Right now he's playing
Lord Buckley's Scrooge.
Blogging options for PostgreSQL Lovers? Seriously, what's the deal with none of the blogging software working with postgresql? How hard is it to write a program that works with more then RMDB? Bleh.
hey guys <3 Happy December 25th. Thanks for all the music, entertainment, and great company. HUGS FOR EVERYONE!
Happy, young, hip clipart couple They're happy because now they don't have to worry about building their own super-computer, one of the greatest challenges for a young, hip, skinny couple on the go
Anti-Christmas Radio. But not really. Mostly just a bunch of tunes.
24 December 2005
I didn't recognize your face at first... And then my eyes flew open wide.
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I don't celebrate any religious holiday in December. How 'bout you?
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Do we really need the Happy Holidays Backlash? What is this thing where people are all militantly "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays" this year?
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I am very bored on Christmas eve So I am
broadcasting radio kellydamnit EBM and industrial stuff now.
And I am on
IRC.
And I really don't feel like wrapping presents.
Weirdest location you've been kissed in? I don't mean "spot on the body," I mean your surroundings.
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Does anybody know what this says, or at least what language it is? Stastne vianocne sviatky v...
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49up? anyone know of torrents for it? was it good? sad? How's Neil? (uknova didn't have it)
Ladies in Hades radio. I got an early present from my Santa baby -- a wonderful comp called
"One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found." Lots of familiar lovely things, but some I'd never heard before and that I've already fallen for, hard.
So if you're up and you like the soulful ladies, you should listen to some selections, as well as a few I'm throwing in just because I'm fond of them.
My deepest apologies to Clement Clarke Moore and wuffles to the rest of you. Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a bunny;
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23 December 2005
Radio Mecha--DJ mixes Right now it's DJ Riko's 'Merry Mixmas.' Next, who knows?
How old were you when you found out Santa wasn't real? My niece is 11, and she still believes, and it kind of worries me.
Do you care what others think? It seems like a certain group of people (many of them MeFites) considers it highly desirable to have no care for what others think. How much do you care? For example, how much would it bother you if you knew that 2-3 of your coworkers were always smirking about you behind your back?
Help me be Mrs. Santa (advice needed) →Read more...
Ack! A. Ottawa is cold goddamn cold.
Creepy First Date Quotes/Questions So have you ever been on a first date where the other person said something REALLY weird?
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I just had an hour-long telepnone conversation with my ex-girlfriend →Read more...
Radio Mecha Trivia Game Tonight - 9PM Eastern. Cash prizes.
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Folktastic Radio. For those of you who have actually finished holiday shopping.
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Radio Matildaben No one seems to be on and no one claimed the spot at the end of dodgy's, so I'll rerun a few of the songs from last night and probably slip in some more as well.
Microwave recipes
What's your favorite?
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Christmastime for the Jews --Shown on SNL last week, with Darlene Love singing--a TV FunHouse animation. : >
NORAD’s Santa Tracker -- This is the 50th Anniversary that
NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have tracked Santa. The tradition began after a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. store advertisement for children to call Santa on a special "hotline" included an inadvertently misprinted telephone number. Instead of Santa, the phone number put kids through to the CONAD Commander-in-Chief's operations "hotline."
Radio Dodgy Just a short set [at half past the hour] as I'm sure everyone is busy elsewhere. I'll try my best to do any requests.
Is anybody here in London? The sister-in-law of a good friend is currently having some severe issues and is in London. We need to get help, either to an airport to the United States, or possibly to a hospital. She may or may not be able to walk.
Details are sketchy, but the fact that I've been contacted means the situation is reasonably desperate.
Can anybody here point me towards an appropriate place to call for assistance, in London?
My favorite christmas song ever No one can say happy holidays quite like Shane MacGowan.
Of course I forgot a bunch of you Because I was drunk. I have no other excuse.
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Too tired to live →Read more...
Are there any more questions?
You people crack my shit up. Will you be my friends?
You are all special, wonderful and pretty. It's true.
FOR ALL YOU SLACKERS WHO LEFT IRC EARLY. HERE IS THE SCINTILLATING CONVERSATION YOU MISSED ABOUT
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Music Box I can't sleep, so here's some music.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's great-grandson Hallam, 85 found stabbed to death. “Normally you worry about your teenage children, but we were worried about him." I hope I can be so active at that age.
No illusions: Please come to IRC. It's my last night here before leaving for a few days, and I'd rather not have to do something productive like, oh, clean the bathroom. Come kill time with me?
Future Perfect "is (a blog) about the collision of people, society and technology, drawing on issues related to the user research that I conduct on behalf of my employer - Nokia."
What's your favorite charity?
22 December 2005
Out of ideas for last-minute Xmas gifts? How about a
semen detection kit? Make sure to read the
customer reviews:
"
We used this test in regards to our daughter and wanted to be sure we bought the right one."
A Holiday Song From The Band Hi all. I hope a lil' self-link action is ok.
Our band recorded a quick holiday song. I wanted to share it with you. Happy Holidays.
I love you guys, So here's a neglected Xmas classic I just stubled upon going through my collection:
Cheech & Chong - Santa Claus & His Old Lady
Woke me up... ...a good thing.
Welcome, newcomers. As some of you know the tradition of Festivus begins with the airing of grievances.
I got a lot of problems with you people!
Sites that do annoying and obvious things in Javascript? I want to test something. Can you point me to sites that make annoying and obvious uses of javascript?
Hate Christmas shopping? Scratch your armpit for yes. Scratch your bum for no. Poke your thumb in your eye if you're not sure.
or shopping without pre-defined outcomes
Don't post a reply.
Marion Post FSA photographer. One of the lesser know FSA artists but one of my favorites.
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MORALS NOT SPELLING! After the Weekly World News' Ed Anger pussed out heavily, I've needed a counterpoint. I think I've found it.
(via
here)
Radio Matildaben Broadcasting until 4, when Mudpuppie starts the Santa/Jesus onslaught!
So, what's everybody planning to do in 2006? Hmmm?
Aussies! The sun is directly overhead in Rockhampton, yes? →Read more...
Ho Freakin' Ho. Metachat Holiday Radio™ to be rebroadcast this afternoon at 4 Pacific.
Skin your Roomba! Because nude Roombas are not to be tolerated.
Yay! Strike Is Over! Find your own damn links.
Radio b - the Mid-Life Crisis edition. Coming your way at approximately half-past the hour.
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I need an online greeting card I can send *in the body* of an e-mail. Where can I find such a thing?
Too chatty? Matt deleted a good thread, let's carry on here:
If you were going to relocate permanently from the present day to Rome circa 100 BC, and you could bring only one piece of luggage (standard carry-on dimensions) what would you pack?
Also: what's the reasoning behind your selection? posted by alms
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Ask MeCha Help me find some mac software to give as a gift.
Difficulty: giftee is not particularly technical, and as it's a gift, free software won't do.
Why Sea Kayaking Is Not a Good Idea warning: SFW but links to video & ebaumsworld, so beware the popup monster.
Holiday free-for-all All these mentions of family fights made me start a list of all the things I can't talk about with various members of my family during the holidays...
Psychology of the Short-timer [Google Video, some bad language & a brief pussy shot]→Read more...
I'd like to propose a holiday greetings thread →Read more...
Metachat Wiki! I thought it'd be useful for us all to have a place where we can store info, colaborate, etc so I installed a wiki. Please feel free to make use of it.
ho ho ho. ho? ho! →Read more...
Hey Black People one of the greatest dub tracks ever.
Last night I dreamed I was trying to shave with my USB memory stick.
Vague Photoshop Tip: I saw
this tutorial on how to color b&w images linked from delicious, and decided to give you my own favorite technique, kinda. (see inside, for the more...)
Yo, Brooklyn! I'm going to be in your fair city this Friday night with a friend and I'd love to meetup with some of you if you're so inclined. We plan to wander around aimlessly eyeing cute hipster boys...anyone want to join us/point us in the right direction?
You aint gonna believe this update on our United Airlines mess...my son called from the RALEIGH airport as he actually got in at the regular time instead of when UNITED insisted...so he gets to cool his heels for an hour and a half as we jump in the car to go get him.
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21 December 2005
Mary Christmas: The world's greatest tree Courtesy of two overly creative friends.
I hated union ever'where, 'Cause God likes unions
And I hate God!
Touch-typing hurts. It hurts! Especially the damned exclamation points.
United Airlines is getting coal for christmas. My son was supposed to arrive at the Raleigh airport tonight at 11pm. We got a computerized call that because of flight delays it will be 8 in the morning. No weather delays, according to the website it was "customer service" reasons.
Customer service my hiney. Haven't seen him for a year! WAAAAAAAA!
A very brief, non-Christmas oriented Radio MetaChat featuring the MeFi mix I have yet to send.
[it's going into the mail tomorrow, I promise]
Recurring MeTa Deletions →Read more...
I have an extra MefiSwap CD →Read more...
LIVE NUDE SWINGIN' CANUCKIANS!! Err, sort of. Ok, not really. I'm very, very afraid.
Those Swinging Canadians -- Canadian Court Lifts Ban on ‘Swingers’ Clubs -- Group sex among consenting adults not a threat to society, it says
Is anyone preparing tofuck for the holidays? Sometime Mefi outdoes itself...I'm trying to laugh silently at work and it's not working!!
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The best thing about being at home all day is being able to make a hot lunch!
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The Neanderthal Past of Pop Music Okay, I just read on Spin.com's Essential Mix that the Bloodhound Gang's recent album contains this euphemistic gem for sex:
"Cattle-prod the oyster ditch with the lap rocket".
Um, no thanks.
Anyone else out there want to weigh in with the worst sex euphemisms you've ever heard?
This one makes me wanna holler for "oyster ditch" alone...
Off in the Christmas Cosmos ...further adventures in holiday obscura, courtesy of
Sound Opinions.
Happy motherf@#$#ing birthday, Sam Jackson! →Read more...
Rocket Santa! via BoingBoing
ho ho ho part deux! →Read more...
Hey, did you hear, they're doing a new CSI all about internet crime and IM perverts? →Read more...
A Holday Gift for the MeCha Weird Music Geek Contingent
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Virtual cigarette break →Read more...
The Gilded Moose presents the 2005 Guide to Modern American History As Told Through Anne Hathaway's Hair in Brokeback Mountain.
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How about some strike sex? Sometimes I just love Gawker. (linked ads probably NSFW)
Last night in my sleep I stuck my thumb in my eye.
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And a MeCha Solstice to you, sir. For most of us, winter begins today. A good season full of whatever-warmth-you-can-find to everyone!
last.fm users - let's get a Harvey Girls image up. Go vote "yes" for the proposed image so we can give
The Harvery Girls a face on last.fm?
Hahahaha! Hahaha! *drys eyes.* That is all.
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Radio KMA~ Just some stuff I threw together so mudpuppie could get away from Xmas music. Probably will go about 1 hour starting at 10PM Pacific.
metafilter contrib index is fsck'd Either that, or matthowe, johnmc, and wendel have only been around for one day.
Also, tdecious pwns us all.
Vote Now! For the MeCha book club book of the January!
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This post is for Mudpuppie and Matildaben Hello all. This is just a post on Metachat because, well, you know, I should. It's wrong to not post. To continue or start conversations. To whet the insatiable appetite of the internets. So, say hi here. If you want to, that is. Otherwise, well, don't.
Merry Christmas, Mudpuppie. Merry Christmas, Matilda.
20 December 2005
What's the IRC record? We've got 17 right now.
Abducted: Toga Reward: Many fishies!!
MeCha holiday tunes start on the hour. Also, holiday party -- with eggnog! -- in
IRC.
Dover court rules that Intelligent Design is not science. I'm not going to post this on the blue because I know it'll degenerate into the usual religious wars.
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I know the love has been flowing freely around here lately But for reals, I've been listening to MeCha mixes all day, as well as random tracks that everybody has shared, and y'all rock. So many new artists for me, and lots of songs that I had completely forgotten about. Happy times! Thanks everybody.
The Oracle, 1928 -Forgotten Associations--cool blog from Mefi's very own
deafmute
I propose a "wow' thread. Just to sorta balance out the pouting thread, y'know.
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Email sent by mistake Back in 1998 I was working for a huge software company, in their tech support department...
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MeCha Holiday Radio Later today, I'll be broadcasting all of the songs you uploaded in the xmas music thread.
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Do you love your pod coffee maker? →Read more...
Since I've now bit the bullet and done something I'd been considering doing for a while, I thought I might as well go whole hog and post it here as well. Some
sample tracks from MeFite/Cha member Fake. Enjoy!
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Haven't heard about any MeCha dreams in a while... and this one's pretty weird....
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Kedeng kedeng Kedeng Kedeng Kedeng Kedeng Kedeng
Kedeng Kedeng Kedeng Kedeng Kedeng oe oe
Kedeng Kedeng Kedeng Kedeng Kedeng
Kedeng Kedeng Kedeng Kedeng Kedeng oe oe
A classical music puzzler for you. Identify the composer of this lovely cello concerto: Movements
I,
II,
III. (Or don't worry about who wrote it & just enjoy.)
Aaahr, I need a pirate! No, really. I need a really simple jpeg of a swashbuckler who looks like the
Capt Morgan rum fellow. {MI}
This is a fucking thread. "The Daily Schedule of a Porno Copywriter" is my favorite.
Eyes on a CabbageHead (~100 mb) My recent mountian music/folk music mix for the MeFi cd swap.
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20thC classical music on the radio from 9am to noon PST.
Is Fark a better resorce than MetaFilter? Lately, I've been seeing more interesting stories on Fark than on MetaFilter. (I'll still maintain that MF comments are better than Fark comments, though.)
Step inside, and I'll point out which Fark links I wish I'd seen on MF....
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Happy Birthday, Dame! →Read more...
SWF recompiled (safe for work)
This comment I made made me curious. Also, I'm a cat. What links are on your
bookmarks toolbar?
Is anyone else having problems with Firefox right now? It keeps not opening and giving me a message that it has shut down. I'm on a Mac, 10.4.3 or so.
19 December 2005
NYCfilter: TWU Local 100 rejects final MTA offer
Looks like this strike is gonna happen.
radio Moonbird: Monday Night Mellow Minimix On for a short spell - beginning at 20 past the hour.
The Master and Margarita: On the BBC world news today I heard that a 10 part
adaptation of Bulgakov's
The Master and Margarita is going to begin airing on Russian television tonight. I don't speak more than a lick of Russian (for those who do, here's the
official site for the series), but I'd love to at least see this, since I'm somewhat familiar with the story. Anyone know of any good Russian torrent sites that don't require membership where I might find this?
Christmas Music! Judy Garland
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and
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I witnessed a car wreck today. A fifteen year old kid stole a car, drove like a bat out of hell down the road I was on, swerved around me, was blocked in by traffic, hit a curb, tried to pull a uturn, crashed into a woman heading the other direction, totalling her car right in front of me, then sped off with a cop on his tail.
Good thing? Woman alive, not hurt. Air bag good. Mitsubishi good. Bad thing?
She had just gotten her car out of the shop after repairs needed when another car had rearended her.
I am so thankful I didn't have to see someone get killed in front of me. For a moment I thought that was what I was seeing.
Twang time. Country-fied radio starting on or around the hour. (I need something to listen to while doing computer work.)
Oh dear. Christmas lights.
Remember that song from Ocean's Twelve where the thief dude was dancing through all the funky lights and stuff? Well
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del.icio.us is back up For anyone chomping to jump back on. Was down for two days I think.
Remember the JCB song? It's Top of the Pops. You remember it, right? The charming song about the boy and his dad riding along together in his JCB digger? If you haven't seen it yet, the video is
here.
Candy! mr. g and I are at the final stages of christmas shopping -- buying candy to fill stockings. What's some good candy to put in the big socks? The candy is for both adults and kids.
A complete set of the 1968-1974 Alcoholics Anonymous comic strips.
Outburst Inside →Read more...
Attention all ye self-identified pirates! →Read more...
And for Pete's sake don't let any kids see this. Because the next day they'll be sticking bike spokes into the schoolyard bully from across the playground. Believe me you don't need this kind of trouble. Like I said — let's keep this between me, you, and a handful of other "hotlist" customers. More deep and deadly insights
here.
Where can I get Dommelsch Bier in the US? →Read more...
For your scrutiny... "THIS IS A VERY RARE STONE BELIEVED TO HAVE GOT IN MY FAMILY MANY YEARS BACK PUT BY RED KING COBRA"
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In death's other kingdom, Waking alone / At the hour when we are / Trembling with tenderness / Lips that would kiss / Form prayers to broken stone.
Strangely poignant tale of the death of Asheron's Call 2. From Wired.
SF Weather Living in Calgary I can usually tell whether an immigrant comes from BC or the Prairies. BC refugees think the weather sucks and people from SK/MB/Northern AB think the weather is great. I wonder how many of the people insisting the weather in SF isn't very good are from other places in California and how many are from say North Dakota.
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You last drink would be...?
FireFox Minihacking Help Moan Request!! →Read more...
Attn graphic gurus: I need to cut & paste into a letterhead design some of that Lor ipsum Voldemort dummy text. Where can I grab some?
Your last meal would be...?
Apropos of nothing, I really love Metachat. And I love all of you too. Really.
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Aquarius Records haul →Read more...
18 December 2005
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At long last! A list of films ordered by uses of the word 'fuck'.
I miss you people. But I have one last paper to do, and it's due Tuesday. Grr.
Reasons Why Mudpuppie Should Move to Portland 1. Powell's.
2. Powell's.
3. Powell's.
Don't turn around (uh-oh!) dar Kommisar's in town Yes, we're (hopefully) debuting
Radio YHBC (bam!!!) in just a few minutes - something old, something new, and even some a cappella too ...
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"I would strongly recommend a spell in prison to anyone" . Tenzin Tsundue, the "new face of the Free Tibet movement", in the New York Times Magazine.
Who will watch Chimpy tonight? I don't want to watch it alone. Like an old man, I'll start yelling at the TV.
Natural Radio goes on air at 7
PM EST.
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Michra Ghara Dhum (8.4MB mp3, 9:13 real time) - Some Ravi Shankar & Co. for a Sunday evening or a Monday morning.
Radio Mosch Coming up in 5 or 10 minutes, after Radio UWS finishes setting his awesomely high bar!
Law and Order - SVU Marathon Surely i'm not the only SVU addict? Well, there's a marathon on USA Network, just in case you aren't aware.
i've seen everything. (nb direct link to page that auto-loads audio that may be nsfw if picard talking about boobies is nsf your w.
from over on the blue)
Stop in the name of love... I promised my daughter I would quit smoking after the new year.
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I just learned about IRC and I need some non-IRC advice. So come talk to me!
While I'm Feeling Generous My love for MeCha is exceeded only by my love for the specific subset of MeChazens who participate in Radio Mecha, both as DJs and listeners. In honor of how much this group has given me this year, I have made a donation to keep Radio Mecha running for the next 3 months. Please enjoy.
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That's a Ten (.mov on how to eat ice cream)
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Darn it. Waffle House won't serve my chopped steak rare anymore.
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Bringing Down the House. I just finished it - I think it would make a great movie.
Nice weather for ducks... I couldn't decide what to get you all for Christmas, but I think I found something that fits everyone.
Untie the ribbons and rip off the wrapping paper
here and
here.
Wishing you all the best during this holiday season.
Stones Throw Holiday Mix by Peanut Butter Wolf Rudy Ray Moore, James Brown, Dudley Perkins, Beat Happening... Perhaps you'll like it.
Ice breakers for meeting interesting looking strangers? Last night at a classical music concert, my husband and I saw a fun looking couple about our age in the lobby.
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Book Club January Selection Nominations! Rules are here. Nominations will be open till around 12 noon on Tuesday the 20th.
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I want to bring oranges to your villages! I don't even know what that is in reference to, but it makes me laugh so much.
A couple of desktops for you: 1024 x 768, for dual or single monitors. I put them all on the same page, because I'm just that lazy today. The "lady in snow" image is from
this image, at
this nice site. Thumbnails inside...
You just missed Radio Mosch. →Read more...
What I get for passing out →Read more...
MeChaMusicalRadio followup... Has anyone sucessfully done this with a Mac? I went looking around to download Shoutcast, but it seems pretty clearly a Windows only application. I'm using an iBook, OS 10.2.8, obviously no WinAmp. Any advice appreciated. Thanks!
I think I want to make cream cheese fudge as a holiday treat for
my little nephew; do you have a great (easy!) recipe?
17 December 2005
Super duper awesome amazing radio. In which panoptican sticks it to the (wo)man and also plays some faves. One artist will be repeated because he specifically is extra super duper awesome amazing.
Radio Matildaben Thanks to mudpuppie!
Improptu MechaSF meetdown? I'm heading into town tomorrow. Anyone want to have a wee get-together?
Madamism (as in Wayland Flowers and...)
Abbreviated radio mudpuppie for a rainy saturday afternoon.
MeCha: The Musical. I'm thinking of asking for the keys to Radio Mecha, in order to play a set consisting exclusively of pre-1970 Broadway show tunes. Question: will you all run screaming, or will you listen, dabbing a wistful tear from your eye, as Robert Goulet sings "If Ever I Should Leave You"?
MeCha Poker? →Read more...
AskMecha: I'm thinking about winning the lottery tomorrow. If I do go that route, I plan to purchase a grocery store. One of the big box ones. It's Rainbow Foods up here in Minnesota (though I could perhaps buy a Piggly Wiggly and move it up here). How long do you suppose the food will last me?
Some remixes Sia - Breathe Me (Four Tet Remix) (yes, this is a remix of the song from the last episode of Six Feet Under).
Calexico - Black Heart (Jazzanova's White Soul Dub) - the remix really honors the wintry feeling of this song.
What can I say to my crazy neighbour? Please consider this as a short story.
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Radio Dodgy. Blast from the past edition. In fifteen minutes.
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paging ortho, paging ortho --email me. I got an email from someone trying to reach you, but your email bounces. it's something about galaxql, if that rings a bell.
Hot librarian trading action You know you want to "collect" them all...
MetaChat Poll: 1. If you use an IM client (of any kind) do you have logging turned on or off?
2. Do you feel that when you're IMing someone, there is the expectation that hte conversation is not logged? Or is your expectation that the conversation may or may not be logged?
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Arctic Monkeys I was about to remove these live cuts by the most hyped kids of -05 from my blog, but I thought you might like to download them first.
Btw, I saw AM live last week and they were awesome. Effin kids.
So sue me Rather than pollute
the question thread itself, I'm just going to vent here that I'm sad that the question even had to be asked.
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Impromptu Radio KMA~ Going on right after BoringPostcards. Nothing planned, I'll just wing it.
16 December 2005
Friday Night Radio Going to play a set of some random (likely kinda loud) tunes in the next ten minutes or so, starting before midnight Eastern.
How do you Pronounce 'Meh' ? Do you say it in real life ? Do any of you use other web-centric expressions or acronyms there, too ? Perhaps this has been asked before, but life is short,
and there are only so many times you want to Google, if you know what I mean. So, I thought
I would pick your brains. So to speak.
Outfoxed? I downloaded FireFox 1.5 and damn, is it slow. Crashes hourly. Lost all my previous settings. Anyone else have this problem?
Radio Kenko, after a fashion. From 6-9pm PST (starting in under an hour, that is), I'll be broadcasting on
KZSU, and you can listen. Playlist will be updated
here.
People who listened to my metachat radio broadcast may find some of it familiar, but it's finals week and I haven't had time to properly gin up a whole new program.
Radio Moonbird: Friday Night Speziale ...begins in 5 minutes. A variety pack for those of us at home deviod of other plans.
Ask Mecha: Alternatives to PayPal for Donations? I'd like to solicit donations on my website. Is there a decent alternative to Paypal for this?
Paging Languagehat and other wordnerds There should be a name for the event of someone posting the same link you were typing up, and you see it on preview.
2-0-5 -- JibJab presents George Bush's Year-In-Review.
Insanely twisted rabbits There. I've made my obligatory bunny post. That is all.
What should you be when you grow up? username: "ceridian"
password: "lifeworks"
(via
Count Ziggurat)
Face Recognition Have we played with this webtoy before/recently?
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come talk to me For some weird reason, I can't make my name show up on this page. Hrrmmm.
"May God damn this newspaper for running the photo of the
snow penis online. I am no prude, but this display was truly pathetic and you should be ashamed of yourselves. Is this why you became journalists?"
I give you an anthem-rock band of brothers (and former Irish fiddle champs) covering Sham 69. Somehow it works better than you'd imagine:
Mama's Boys - If The Kids Are United.
There is a slim chance of Radio b in about half an hour. I'm attempting to resolve some technical difficulties on my end. The hangover isn't helping.
Celine Dion Doesn't Live Here Anymore Anyone listen to this week's CBC Radio 3
podcast? Lots of good indie rock, a little bit of electronica, some prarie hip-hop and just a touch of leiderhosen.
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Imagine "Today NECA is proud to unveil our first John Lennon 18" Action Figure w/motion activated sound. Coming in Spring 2006, this is the first officially licensed John Lennon Figure ever. He will "speak" authentic John Lennon phrases and is known as "The New York Years" John Lennon."
Car Insurance Question Since I no longer have a car, I have no insurance. I am renting a car for the week to drive to see my family in TN. What kind of insurance do I want to get to cover my ass?
I paid for my scrambled eggs on a roll the other day with a new dollar bill and three West Virginia quarters, which I idly turned over and
over in my hand as I waited.
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AskMecha: Car insurance. My friendly local f*cktarded insurance agency dropped me because they lost a payment. Oh, and because I have 7 points (insurance points, not the license kind). Who can recommend an agency that will not bleed me to death?
Get out of your sexuality FREE! Prompted by the jonmc/Divine Wino love-fest below...
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It's Friday! So what are you doing this weekend?
All About Om. The meaning of this sacred syllable -- and how to practice om yoga meditation.
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7 a.m., and no word on the strike Anyone going to work?
Free Music Kristin Hersh's new band, 50 foot Wave, are giving away their new EP.
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Hey man... slow down... [SFW, but this site was blocked by my work's proxy... fair warning]
If it's nine days before christmas, it must be Frisbee's birthday!
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well, since this got deleted - what do
you want for Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/year-end-holiday of choice?
15 December 2005
eek spooden huminuh-huminuh-huminuh
I gots me a smokin' hot Harvey Girls sticker! In fact, two of them. And a piece of paper that leads me to believe that someone at Harvey Girls HQ smokes, but it smells like those foofy euro-cigs that smell more like pipe tobacco, so that makes it kind of OK. And there was a CD too. Oh, boy!
The news is that there's no news Listening to the live announcement on NY1, I'm wondering why they called a conference to let us know that there's no progress on the MTA transit negotiations?
a twofer: first, in honor of the coming transit strike:
Nobody Else, Daniel August (QT music video, sorta german expressionist i think), and then, in honor of all of us birthday folks this month:
SIGUR RÓS: Hoppípolla (WMP music video)
I just got a new camera and I am at work. What should I take photos of?
On Air. Show starts in a ½ hour (7PM PST). Tune in whenever.
Food. For the weekend. →Read more...
food for when you feel nauseous →Read more...
we take great pleasure in answering at once the communication below, expressing at the same time great gratification that its author is numbered among the friends of nro:
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A tale of penis pipes and Homeland Security →Read more...
Makin' Whoopee (~7MB mp3) Some acoustic jazz for your Thursday evening courtesy Martin Taylor and The David Grisman Jazz Quartet. From a wonderful album of standards called
I'm Beginning To See The Light.
Did anyone lose a camera? Or, do you recognize
these people?
People who make top-n lists, how do you organize your music? By year? Do you just
know which new-to-you music you've heard in a year has come out in that year?
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I have a new drug of choice. →Read more...
Alrighty then. Here's a
mix for y'all.
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The Long-Awaited Death of Prog Just as a reminder, I'll be playing my überlist of die progressif musik one last time tonight for you Left Coasters, between 7pm PST and midnight same time zone.
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If a radio plays in the forest and no one hears, is it really on? dodgygeezer, in a rare lapse of judgement, has given me the keys to Radio MeCha. I was thinking I might take it for a spin tomorrow, around this time. Are there people who A) can listen at this time, and B) would want to listen? Or should I wait until the weekend?
This is for amberglow part deux This isn't one of Michelle's funniest posts but I thought this was particularly timely considering well, you know...
Love you all.
Music is the universal language ... So what the heck is *this* saying?
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Can we talk about poop for a minute? Poop is ruining my life.(Not for the weak stomached)
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The My Humps saga continues. "...hearing this song for the first time was 2005's most sobering musical experience."
Holy Sh*t I'm mad. I've literally got some some aventricular tachycardia going on.
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IDF practical joke Helmet at the office: Veteran troops convince new recruit office ceiling unstable; army unimpressed.
via Jewlicious
Custom printed M&Ms - What would yours say?
Meanings of music library song ratings I spend all day at work listening to my digital audio device and then at the end of the day, I sync it up with my music library software (guess what they are; they both start with "i").
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These shoes... boy shoes or girl shoes?
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Ask Mecha: Will My Heat Work Without Power? Fairly new oil furnace in basement, thermostat in hallway. If the power goes out, will the heat work?
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Transit Strike The deadline is midnight. Will it happen? Will I ever leave my house again?
Atilla "California Flash," A
mid 70's hard rock band who's lead singer later changed his approach radically and became hugely famous. A great period piece.
I feel like I'm not getting the most out of... breathing, and... I dunno, walking around. What are your favorite breathing and walking around hacks?
Library Thing Is any one else losing time to cataloging books on this awesome site?
HELL YES HAPPY DANCE! Ice storm closes office! I'm going to bake everyone a cake!
Some Ass Ponys for you... (Because Chuck Cleaver rips a mean lyric. One of my favorite song writers...)
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HEY! is it bad form to put 'let it be' on a mix cd?
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This is a reminder. The internet is fucking fantastic!
MERRY CORPORATE CHRISTMAST What could be more fun then watching late 20s, early 30s aged people sing karaoke to early 90's alternative bands Perl Jam and Nirvana? Doing it drunk.
14 December 2005
Hanukkah Rocks --a new album by the LeeVees (one Zambonis guy and one Guster guy) Click on the frying pan to listen.
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Take the Bem Sex Role Inventory Test It characterizes your personality as masculine, feminine, androgynous, or undifferentiated. The BSRI is based on gender stereotypes, so what it's actually measuring is how well you fit into your traditional sex role.
Gingerbread! Photographs taken at City Centre Mall in Seattle of a gingerbread building exhibit. Trust me, you just have to see it. Clicky, clicky!
Am I on acid? Did someone drop LSD into my lemonade, or am I really watching "Christmas In Washington" on TNT, hosted by Dr. Phil?
Are you a Vampire, Melvin Laird? Another thread where I ask you for music. Bad me!
But it's good music, and for a good reason.
What I'd like is Ed Sanders' Truckstop and Wildman Fisher's An Evening With Wildman Fisher.
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Whale freed from net, says "thanks." Who says there's no kindness in the world anymore?
THIS IS A SHOUTING THREAD! →Read more...
It's my birthday, and it's raining buckets out.
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Its only Wednesday And I want to drink...
a former Fox News producer speaks on the War on Christmas and Fox and religion.
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Internet Doppelgängers Do you have an Internet Doppelgänger? Someone with your name who is not you and who comes up when you self-google? Are they cooler than you and are you half-tempted to take credit for what they do? Or are they embarrassing and do you want to send them a nasty email telling them to stop disgracing the name?
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Ha HA! Right now I'm watching through the glass as my boss interviews my replacement. For real.
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MovieChat:: John Wayne quote →Read more...
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I'm supposed to be working right now damnit! But instead I'm listening to random Mechas talk. I only just discovered that nifty link in the sidebar. It's been a while since it's been updated though. How about an audioblog revival?
Things to do with a doctor's examination table... ? And anyone know how I can get my hands on some school lockers?
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If you could be one place in the world right now, where would it be?
Seriously f--ked upbody mod. Most body modding is not a big deal to me, but I've never seen anything like this and it is super-creepy. Also what the hell is 'straight-edge' in the body-mod scene and why are brass knuckles associated with it?
Re-rebroadcast? Jokeefe has requested a West Coast rebroadcast Thursday night. When?
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Sorry. It's a companion to
this thread.
13 December 2005
The Army Men Homepage "...a 22 caliber bullet will usually pass through Army Men doing little more than making a big hole. Unless it hits an arm, leg or head, which it will sever."
Marcel Duchamp agrees: I have exactly two things I need to say
right now.
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Music Box - 1 2 3 A B C This Radio Mecha playlist consists of songs titled from 1-9 and A-Z (if I stay awake that long), and it's otherwise kind of all over the place.
american edit - green day mash-up album get it today. only. it's f*cking great! plus, the music industry lawyers say you can't have it. you know what to do!
Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is on UPN right now!
Favorite things/recipes for what to put inside a crepe and wine suggestion?? →Read more...
Dodge a bullet. [flash, may load slowly.]
IRC via Trillian 3 Howto →Read more...
giant transit rally right now on 42nd st. opposite Grand Central---- giant portable screens, Jesse and Al... : >
(they might strike on Fri.)
Pencil or pen? I just noticed that I'm using the venerated
Dixon Ticonderoga; quite accidentally, of course. What's your writing implement of choice?
Christmas at Chez Fris Orphaned and familially blessed alike, are welcome. Definitely Christmas Eve, possibly Christmas Day, should the mood/desire last that long.
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Makezine: how to make cool stuff like a bacon-frying alarm clock, a tiny RC controller helicopter, or a soda-can Van de Graaf generator.
llor.nu has reset More lots available to build, 1 new item, still kinda boring yet addictive.
How was it for you? Five years ago today Al Gore phoned George Bush to formally concede the presidency. So what is the Bush legacy after half a decade? Here, six top American commentators - from the left and the right - deliver their verdicts
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You know that scene in LOTR:The Two Towers where the opposing armies gather before each other and then rush to attack?
Drunken Santa Walking (flash) Get Santa from drink to drink - if he touches the railroad track he gets electrocuted.
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It sure is amazing what they uncover when they restore these old films and put them on DVD...hysterical retelling of a beloved classic. : >
I ain't afraid of girls. From the founder of QbaDisc and my homeboy (kmellis', too), Ned Sublette. Live at CBGB, I think.
Wil Wheaton explains the sweater. I knew my Wil wouldn't let me down.
X-Box Live. Is it worth it? What do I need to set it up?
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La Mort Joyeuse Brand new mix. Music for Panoptican to fuck up WalMart with. Punk's not dead - it just has newer, louder fuckin' toys! Not safe for epileptics or the weak. VERY LOUD AND ABRASIVE.
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Remiss is a neat word. It has something to do with this image too.
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Salsa and scrambled eggs ... are really really good.
Favourite breakfasts?
aside from bacon, bacon, ham, bacon, & bacon
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I took over. It was not hostile. It'll be mostly
like this. Ambiguity is awesome kids!
12 December 2005
On the Radio Again Just some random tunes, nothing planned.
#Metachat for Trillian users How do I make it work?
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What's the point in trying to make a good post? After I saw that the New Yorker had republished Anne Proulx's original "Brokeback Mountain" short story, I spent about 20 minutes looking for supporting links, and found a recent interview and recent discussion with her.
The thread immediately got derailed into chat about the movie and gay cowboy jokes, which
had been done before. Only one of the first 20 or so commentors read any of the links, and they commented to bitch about it. I might as well have just posted the words "Brokeback Mountain" and saved myself the time and effort of trying to put a good post together.
What's the point in trying to make a good post if no one's going to read the fucking links?
MeFi self-links OK "if they're good"? And "probably a few get through"? Of course they do, but I suspect the number is objectively more than "a few".
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I'm sick and cranky, and I want a pony. But I'll forgo the pony if someone links me to an intersting short story on the internets.
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Forests Forever (Flash; fancy photos flogging Fuji Film)
This is just a modern prog song by the 90 Day Men, entitled "Night Birds".
Hey, baby. What's your sign? I'm a scorpio.
While my ukelele gently weeps Who said the ukelele was dead as a serious rock instrument?
Rolling Bomber Special In which our hero does very little to either save or destroy the Earth, as assisted by similarly disorganized agencies of whatever.
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I need you to tell me something good.
I liked this sign so I thought I'd share it with you.
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For yoga, as requested Not nearly as ultra cool and urban chic as the Christmas Ladder (tee-em), but everyone has their humble beginnings.
Radio KMA~ Rebroadcasting last night's soulful 74-minute set for those in non-USian time zones. Starts in 5 minutes.
At the baby bush toy company ...we offer an exiting range of products for the resoundingly average child.
Rocketboom So what's the deal with Rocketboom? It's really popular with some people. Popular enough for TiVo to pick it up. But I don't get it. The young, perky anchor is certainly attractive, but anything else?
Draw a house for fun and profit! Actually it's some kind of "personality test," but you can put your houses together with friends' on a street. Fun if you're looking to kill some time, and we both tknow that's why you're here. (Link goes to constructing a house to add to MetaChat Lane)
You should not eat babies. →Read more...
Insomniac Radio and/or I live in Austalia.
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11 December 2005
Some families are weird. Like mine. →Read more...
I'm sorry, but it must be said. I'm afraid the quality of posts around here has been falling off lately.
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Plagarismo! Alright, who else besides me thinks the gloves are finally off between The Simpsons camp and the Family Guy camp?
Blah Blah Radio Announcement After mayfly wake, I bring YouCanCallMeRadio to the 'netwaves. YCCMR: The Slightly Mopey Sunday Mix. Probably around 9PM EST.
temperature and pressure does anyone know the conditions under which gasoline and kerosene are stored in the large tanks such as those that exploded today in the uk? there's a physical phenomenon called the joule-kelvin effect wherein gases can either heat up or cool down as they are throttled through a small aperture (eg a pinhole leak) depending on the initial conditions of the system.
So this may be the last update. I feel kind of weird posting all the details of what's been going on out here on the internets but you guys have been such a help I figured I could tell you what happened one more time. I mean without your advice there probably wouldn't be anything to write an update on.
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Stupid Question Time: I don't understand IRC. →Read more...
My First Radio MeCha ...featuring much indie pop and twee and folk, and also some strangeness. coming up after matildaben. :)
Ah, listen to that … The guitar. The
electric guitar.
I had seven or eight uncles called "George"—and then there was auntie George.
Corporate Hangover --things to do at your company's holiday party--NOT. ; >
Radio Matildaben begins ~1 hour This will be a preview of my MeFi CD swap mix. It's 74 minutes so I'll probably run it twice for people who've missed it. I'll be on IRC too. By my calculations, that's 16:00 EST.
What's your pleasure? This morning I was talking about the things I enjoy and it made me want to know about yours. Little pleasures, big pleasures, whatever you will.
Rebroadcast starting at 10AM EST (in about 45 min).
Listen.
IRC.
Giant pink bunny on Italian mountainside! Can't believe no one's posted this yet...
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Why does the Washington Post never tell us Selman is a
Jew?
But the article mentions he's "Bronx-born" and eats vegetarian Chinese food, and that "questioning" is part of his "culture"? Code words?
Oh, my. I kiss myself. I love me. Here's why:
I made red beans and rice today (well, beginning last night, really), and it's rocking the universe. (
There! Just now! Did you feel that? yep. That was me.)
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A Christmas Story in 30 seconds. Performed by bunnies. You'll shoot your eye out.
The War Nerd Funny writing about an unfunny subject. Ah, Fresno. Old for some but new for others I hope.
(It was the Bakersfield reference that fired this synapse, that a certain nostalgica for Total War when men were men and killed each other up front and honest. Oh, and Pearl Jam's first album. And beer.)
Freakin' awesome! Buck Owens is cool beyond words. Almost made having to stay the night in Bakersfield bearable.
10 December 2005
In memoriam, some Richard Pryor mp3s. half of Richard Pryor, live in concert. (83 meg zipped) Couldn't get the first half unfortunately.
Is it bad form? Should I ask for contributions from users of my Firefox extensions? (So I can offer someone top dollar for another no longer manufactured magic
Touchstream keyboard?)
Rado Panoptican. Coming up at a quarter past the hour.
Real tacos + freakin' hot salsa = flu medicine. →Read more...
In honor of mudpuppie I saw this dessert box lying in my kitchen waiting to get thrown out, and got an inspiration. I'm not the best Photoshopper, but I made this while I was listening to
mudpuppie's radio interview. [more inside]
Talk only in spam. →Read more...
Goodbye to the funniest, most scathing, insightful comic to ever walk the earth. We'll miss you, great one.
Help me get a clue with audio stuff, part 2. So I listen to a lot of music on my PC...
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Gottgedammt I can't seem to find it... It being a website that had an unreleased prog album with drummer Tony Williams up on it.
The site was Scandinavian, though which of the Nordic lands, I couldn't tell you. It also had Pink Floyd live sets on it.
I could have sworn that it was linked through here, MoFi or MeFi, but I can't find the damned thing. It might have also come from Regnyouth.blogspot.com, but their search function blows... ARG!
(Anyone know what I'm talking about?)
I NEED MORE PROG IN MY LIFE SO AS TO MAKE MY NETHACK SESSIONS MORE AUTHENTIC!
(I am a nert).
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Brians Guide Cute Bunny Art.
Betty, our beloved yellow lab, is 14 today! She was flown over as a pup from Finland and is the hairiest creature on Earth. She has excellent
grill supervisory skills, and is a
serious napper. She
rode in the front of the truck with me all the way from PA when the wife moved down in 2001.
PDF techie help, please? Edited and crossposted from my LJ.
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Merry Xmas All. It's a card and a quiz, and it's inside.
lsxhlf!?!? Anyone else up for drunkenly mashing at the keyboard?!? fokrfferooefok;oif;o;i??
Radio Matildaben As soon as Eideteker is finished.
The mushroom thread is blinking. Or is it just me? Everything after the comment linked is blinking.
Not enough ladies in #metachat
I would like to thank mygothlaundry for introducing a beer-gourmet like me to the budget wonder and power of PBR. w00t!
09 December 2005
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Madlib made a mix for MetaChat. Or not. It will always be a mystery.
The 5th season finale of Curb Your Enthusiam Watching this now. Larry learns he was adopted -- and that he's a Gentile by birth. Hilarious.
But why when he's doing Gentile activities like fishing, hunting and drinking, is background music "Three Little Maids from School" from The Mikado???
For those interested, here's my attempt at an approximation of the position of the crashed SW 737 in Chicago. [Inside]
Prog Radio starting around 10PM EST. Playing tracks all longer than 6 minutes, most longer than 8. Prog rock for those who haven't got a life on Friday night.
Currently a post-party radio by UWS Don't blame me for what comes up.
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AskMecha. To unplug or not to unplug? →Read more...
By the time I read this, I'll be drunk
If we locked orthogonality in a room with grahamschmidt, do you think he'd come out normal?
Any NYCers in Manhattan up for Happy Hour? I'm leaving in a half hour.
Cop vs. Cop "Taser, not just for grandma anymore!"
Wedding Present or Cinerama? →Read more...
it's 40F outside. should i go running? or go to the lab to work on the laser.
???? FIX MY PROBLEMS, INTERNET!
How are you going to fix it?
Too embarrassing for my livejournal (HomeEcFilter): I just tried to make my first salad.
Stop laughing.
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4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 -- Hurley hits twice! "
Lost" numbers are real, at least for the lottery in Ireland.
I'm hung over. Not fair. →Read more...
Well, that's that. After several attempts to resign, I just found out that my position is being eliminated. At least, there's some finality to this saga. Stiff drink, bottoms up.
Holiday Wishes! I think it's probably a silly e-mail forward of some sort. But maybe not, either way, it's funny in light of the big 'ol controversy this year.
Ask MeCha: mom's having email probs. Emails my mom sends have the receiver as the reply to. WTF?
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Jameson Irish Whiskey - Why or Why Not? I can't come up with a cogent theory myself - yet. But maybe you can.
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KLNG Bear with me... I'm gonna be playing, well, mostly stuff that I've been listening to over the last week. I'll probably zip it up and post it on my blog once I'm done.
Testing, testing (Audion to stream?)
Dengue Fever Here is a track from Dengue Fever, a strange and wonderful L.A. band influenced by Cambodian pop and dense psychedelic garage rock.
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I've always wondered... Does
Faint of Butt have an anus? Is the lack of one why his butt is so faint? If so, why does MetaFilter attract so many anus-less users?
The Top 5 Troublemakers in Webcomics Of course it makes sense that the first time I heard about this was from a rant on
Offender #4's website. For comics nerds only.
(Which means that yes, I'm a comics nerd.)
Help me brainstorm! I need a name for a new literary journal.
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A request. It has been a long time since I have called myself a Christian but St. Mary’s College helped form the best parts of who I am today. An alumnus,
James Loney, has been
sentenced to death in Iraq.
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Problema grande El estudiante suspendió para el español de discurso
Will one of those iTunes TV shows look good at fullscreen? I have 1280x1024... will it look like monkey turds at that size?
Meh. I'm soooo sick. *whine shiver* I'm certain it's bird flu. We're all frickin' doomed.
Images via IRC (may be most likely NSFW) there's a Merry Tubgirl on the "browse all" page now, but it's interesting, in a random way.
i warned you. ; >
08 December 2005
Out, out, damned spot! It's like 6 am here, and I'm writing a grocery list (yes, I'm that weird)... and it suddenly struck me how very strange modern man's need for soap is. In the bathroom I have bar soap and liquid soap for the shower, as well as two kinds of shampoo, plus liquid hand soap for the sink, and special face soap; in the kitchen I have liquid dish soap for the sink plus soap tablets for the dishwasher Then there's detergent for the washing machine, plus another kind for hand washing clothes. That's a lot of soap. (And I'm not even counting the heavy duty stuff for housecleaning). This has never seemed bizarre to me until now.
A different kind of radio kenko. I was finally cleared to be on the air at
KZSU. Yay.
Radio (Victrola) Goatdog. Back by popular demand, a replay of my 1920s–1940s set. Broadcast starts at 11 eastern.
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Radio Panoptican. A mess of noise, hip-hop, and some indieish, folkish, popish stuff. I'm not very good with labels though, so maybe not.
Scumbags. It's down to five.
This one's tailormade for this crew. The great mp3 blog Locust Street offers
musical tributes to whiskey.
Audioscrobbler plugin works fine but then disappears completely after using Shoutcast I posted this morning on the last.fm forums but have gotten no answers yet. Any ideas?
What's a good program to draw graphs and crap in?
I gotta draw a buncha line graphs for a project that'll show my economics teacher that raising minimum wage won't result in the apocalypse.
John Waters on New York Public Radio's "Sound Check" Plays a couple of (too short) clips from his christmas album and discusses his one man show.
Pirate or Ninja! Since I'm new here, I thought I might as well get this question out of the way: Which are you, a pirate or a ninja?
Bunnies to teach female sexual gratification [via] Videogames, bunnies, and sex - the magic trifecta.
Disney replaces Christopher Robin with a six-year-old girl. In 3D. With a bicycle helmet. Victory goes to Satan!
Buck The Animated Stag Move over Talking Billy Bass.
Video [wmv].
Hey, Funeral got nominated for a Grammy. Yeah, they announced the nominations today.
Ask Mecha: Enhanced CDs. For my birthday yesterday (yay!) I received "Matisyahu Live at Stubb's!" You might recall him as the
Hasidic reggae superstar. Anyway, it's one of those enhanced CDs, and it won't play on my car and is killing my office computer. Is there any way to isolate the audio tracks for listening in anything other than a PC? Gracias in advance!
Rice Offers Assurances on Torture Just had to share this amusingly worded headline.
Mary Ellen Mark has portraits of dozens of celebs including a haunting Jodie Foster, a great Paul Newman, a too prescious Natalie Merchant, a jolly I.F. Stone,and a creepy Don Johnson & Melanie Griffith. She also has pictures that prove the circus is creepy in any nation.
Sick gaspode! I've got a bad cold. Help me, please...
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Enter the Comic-Nerd Dome! I'm curious as to whether anyone here is A) reading Seven Soldiers of Victory, B) likes it or dislikes it, and C) has any theories as to how Mr. Miracle is going to fit into the rest of the storyline.
Who's Your Firefly Crush? Zoe, Kaylie, River or Saffron? Or, if you ride sidesaddle (or bareback); Wash, Mal, Jayne or Simon? Note: the character we're talking about here, not the actor
Stop doin' that and get back to running Metafilter. In which the NYT works out that one way to get articles linked to is to have them written by the editors of the websites doing the linking.
Run For Your Life Fiddy got nothin' on John Lennon.
via
imagine if no one ever used John Lennon's
Imagine to promote any thing ever again. it's easy if you try.
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'A man would not be able to shorten human life but a machine can.' You can't kill a person, but you can set a timer that allows a machine to count down to.. oh, I don't know... could you go flip the, ahhh... Well, it's on the wall with the breaker, next to the....
Did you hear this tonight? "Tissue Time" on Howard Stern's Sirius station. The premise is that it's phone sex over the air. Tonight however, the "special guest star" was Blue Iris, the geriatric porn star.
*shudders*
argh argh argh Magic keyboard still dead, can't be seen on either new computer or old computer.
So, uh, anyone know about low-level USB diagnostics?
Some Ethiopian "Jazz" because I'm in the mood.
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Baby Bush Toys featuring a "Twisty Thing, That is Red" and the "Terror Alert Xylophone"
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07 December 2005
AAAAA I AM SO BORED AT WORK. SHOUTING INSIDE.
Kyle Gann may be an effete east-coast downtown microtonal intellectual, but his uncle makes some
powerful chili.
Ouch, quit poking me. Damn, I'm feeling the full the weight of that there popular opprobrium today. Anyone else feeling that opprobrium?
I think I need a fuzzy bunny or something.
When ripping mp3s how do you handle hidden tracks?
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Radio Matildaben begins 9:00 EST Featuring variety mix, mostly indie rock and pop, but who knows what I might throw in.
Last chance to make a reference to Alice in Wonderland... 983 posts. Yes, I'm obsessed.
Have you heard the one about the spineless jellyfish and the impotent aardvark?
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Blitzen Poop! --so a remote co-worker sent me a really really expensive present, and i was only planning on spending like 10 bucks on her...
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Are you sick and tired of rolling up extention cords, LAN cables, headphones, or rope, only to come back to a tangled mess?! Tired of spending hours untangling rolled up cables?! THE SOLUTION IS INSIDE!
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Can I start a fire using a stapler? I'm at work for three more hours. I have no lighter. I need a cigarette. All the other offices close at 5.
In 20 minutes, my window of opportunity for smoking will be gone.
How can I light a cigarette? Help. Give me some MacGyver ideas. I may die.
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Radio Boring Starting in the next ten minutes or so. Featuring a great Beach Boys remake, a solo tune by one of the members of Kraftwerk, and other mellow pop goodies for a grey Wednesday evening.
Most of us have seen that you can order
9,000 live ladybugs on Amazon, but did you know that you can also order
7,000,000 nematodes for just $21.95? (Even more bugs
here)
In the spirit of the Mushroom Thread,
here's something that I actually would like to get for Xmas...
William Schaff makes really good art Perhaps you recognize his artwork from Songs:Ohia's
Magnolia Electric Company release or maybe the beautiful artwork from Godspeed You Black Emperor's
Lift Your Skinny Fists... either way his site haas a huge collection of his scratchboards, paintings, collages, and mail art.
Hope you enjoy!
Probably not worth a Mefi post, but I found this article on radar detection kinda fascinating.
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So, last night I tried to watch the Charlie Brown special... →Read more...
When my dad was in high school,
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History of 'The Producers': Part III During an early staging of The Producers, “a Jewish guy got up and stormed out of the theater. He saw me standing at the back with my wife. He said, ‘This is an outrage! I fought in the Second World War!’ I said, ‘You served in the war?’ ”—and here he stops, takes a beat, then pounces on his punch line—“ ‘So did I. I didn’t see you there.’”
Just for the Holidays! My special curse for December. →Read more...
Eyeballing France & Spain - Pages Jaunes is a map to photo zoomy arrangement that lets you see everywhere around French and Spanish cities from a pedestrian's (photographic) perspective. This is rather cool in a totally naive wannabe stalker or real estate junky kinda way.
[via]
Graphics mavens, help me to antialias [mi]
A very special message from Coke Machine Glow. 1266 words of bile.
Think of this song’s meaninglessness as a vacuum, a black hole. And, just like a black hole, it sucks: it sucks in the notion of “logical” pop music; it sucks in our need for melody, for dynamism and for form; it sucks in our taste for lyricism, elegance and nuance; it sucks in our innate thirst for motion, for rhythm, for dance. It sucks. It sucks. It sucks it sucks it sucks.
Someone play euchre with me. That is all.
It's now Wednesday in my time zone. Thus, it's yet another Sagittarian Mechabirthday. I've had 33 of these so far.
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06 December 2005
Radio Mecha I'm playing some jazz, with an emphasis on multiple versions of songs. Won't you join me?
Why whuffle when we wish whimsy would whoosh westward? →Read more...
Fixed column widths considered harmful
Help from fellow MeCha DJs! Am I missing something or is it not possible to play protected .aac files with winamp for broadcasting or broadcast from a Mac? I've got all this music that I'd love to play, but short of burning and ripping it all, I don't see how. ARGH
A slideshow app that can handle flash movies AND static images Does such a beast exist?
Fun for everybunny. Magnet 2 is the sequel to
Magnet from
SKT Products. You're a bunny with a magnet for a head! What more could you ask?
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912 Comments! The Mushroom thread lives on...
Another fake AskMe? "Years ago I slept with a married celebrity, now reporters are digging up dirt."
I don't like being "the hive mind." It sounds itchy. I liked "...and ye shall receive" better.
Has Star Jones' career inspired you in some way? Has her life been influential to you and you'd like to share your story?
If you or someone you know has been inspired by Star Jones and you are willing to appear on the Dr. Phil show please tell us about it.
Shiver me timber! You haven't seen a pirate movie like this before. [
NSFW! Immediate flash w/sound]
Playboy in Braille 'Nuff said. Now I'm gonna go feel me some centerfold.
MetaCheeze Vol. 2 ... Taking Requests Several individuals have approached me with opinions about songs that they wish had appeared on the original
MetaCheeze compilation of 1970s tracks. This is the open thread for requests and suggestions for Volume 2. Please also feel free to post any 70's-type images that you would like to suggest be incorporated into the cover art.
When I say (blank) you say (what)?
See that thread below this one? It's broken. →Read more...
You're a Good Magnet for Holiday Ads, Charlie Brown Charles M. Schulz's "
A Charlie Brown Christmas" — the animated television special about love conquering materialism that airs tonight on ABC — now fuels a $1.2-billion-a-year global publishing, merchandising and marketing machine.
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Neat Facts About the Ocean And just for the heck of it,
porifera,
annelida, and
chordata <GeorgeTakei>(oh my)</GeorgeTakei> of
Ross Island & McMurdo Sound.
I'm going to whisper something in your ear now. (You know who you are.)
A Charlie Brown Christmas It's on tonight. Just a little public service announcement.
Finished Cloud Atlas on the plane last night. Am I first? If so, do I win?
Fart-astic! -
"Three weeks." One blogger, known as Iconomy, stated. "That's the definite answer. Exactly three weeks. But only if the sex is good. If the sex is lousy you have to wait six weeks."
The "Sex and the UniverCity" column of the
Daily Campus shouts out AskMe, and our girl iconomy, in their column "Having a Gas".
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Gay On The Range - awesomely badly titled pulp books from the 50s and 60s. Hollywood Homo and Gay Whore are my favorite titles.
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AskMecha: Christmas Carols with Guitar Chords A student in a rock band asked me to bring music for her to accompany the rest of the class in singing carols.
I know not what I seek. Please help.
25 years later, Lennon's death still lingers for men who were there I was ten years old at the time, living on the farm where I grew up. I remember coming home from school to an empty house (not so unusual or irregular at that time and place) and turning on the TV and hearing the news. I remember it as a moment of great import but not my specific emotional reaction. I can remember how I was sitting, what I was wearing and the quality of the daylight in the room. Thanks to my Mum the Beatles were a huge part of the soundscape of my childhood and as an adult and particularly as a musician I have come to appreciate them even more. R.I.P. John.
Sufjan Stevens Christmas Album. A year old sure, but it never hurts to remind you people. And perhaps there are those who hadn't ever heard it. The Christmas set earlier reminded me.
72 anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition! It's today.
The three emotions I'm working on a theory of emotive motivation. It seems like, truly there are only three or four emotions, and how you think of them depends on contextual cues. I mean, emotions have a physical component (a 'tingly' sensation) and that physical component all we really feel. My feeling is that the only emotions are: Joy, Desire, Fear and Anger. But I'm not sure that Fear and Anger are separate, or just felt together.
Radio Mosch Presents The Floor-Stompers.
First quonsar and now this! Western Michigan is a truly blessed place.
05 December 2005
Fellow flickr folk, esp. those with pro I have questions, please.
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I had my first Metachat dream last night. In it I got into an argument over the definition of the word "punk" and then I had hot sweaty floor sex with one of you.
Is it still OK to talk about Metatalk here?
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Radio (Victrola) Goatdog. Music from the 1920s–1940s (with a couple from the 1950s).
Kos = douchbag So, one of the three charges against DeLay was dropped because the crime took place before the law took effect. Now Kos calls that a 'technicality'.
How can a rational person make that claim? Actually, isn't "technicality" just a term diehard authoritarians use to describe constitutional rights in general?
radio free sciurus: A Not Very Traditional Christmas. Playing kitschy and cock-eyed Christmas carols for the next little bit.
I'm in Austin for a couple of days. Anybody who's around want to grab a bite or a drink tomorrow evening?
Problem loading page The connection was reset. The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
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This is almost painfully beautiful.
I'm a dumbass. I just electrocuted (okay, not really. if i had, i'd be dead. what's the non-fatal version of electrocute?) myself putting up Christmukah lights. What stupid thing have you done recently?
What are some fun Google searchs that your site comes up number one for? →Read more...
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Jonny Cash, biopics, lip-synching, and all that-- So, after seeing
Walk the Line this weekend, Johnny Cash has taken over my brain (to be honest, this happens a couple of times a year). The movie really put the hooks in me, despite a bunch of things that I knew were at least a little inaccurate.
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This is the thread where you bitch about work. →Read more...
I really want to start a thread, but I can't think of anything to say.
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Santa’s coming. →Read more...
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MetaCheeze Here's the 1970s swap mix you've all been waiting for (YouSendIt link). I will post the cover art and tracklist in a subsequent comment.
Some early Neutral Milk Hotel demos. May be old news to some as it was on PFM and TMT but I just found out about them.
Another here and
here.
Burning Down the Goat. I bought my ‘
julbock’ yesterday, and, having read this report, am now tempted to set it on fire...
Part 3 of the saga. In which our hero crashes and burns.
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Einstein the parrot [embedded 12mb .mov]
More myspace magic So my friend told me to sign up for myspace, because 'thats where the babes are' And I stumble upon this 'lovely' thing. Myspace is a weird fucking place.
04 December 2005
WWYY2KD? What would y2karl do?
From a Whisper to a Scream. I'm posting this Elvis Costello / Glenn Tillbrook duet because I can, and I can't seem to get it out of rotation. What is stuck on your (figurative) turntable?
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Ladies & Gentlemen. Radio Jonmc (special thanks to my main man scurius) (I'm in IRC, too)
I'm considering getting this. So, is XM worth it? The dealbreaker will be the quality of their "public radio" programming and world/dancy music.
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Matilda's car trouble, part deux It's finally time for the tow truck.
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Where are the Christmas lights?
Sunday morning instrumentals. →Read more...
feed said deaf fat tiff Spurred on by this thread, I'm learning to touch type. Woo for me. As you can see, I can do "t" and "e" and a coupla extra letters.
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What's your favorite song and video about making cake? mine's
this one.
Radio mudpuppie broadcasting for a while, mostly for the IRC folks. The rest of you, meh.
For people who really care about simmering. Someone just told me that you can put a paper plate on a viking range at its lowest heat setting, and the plate won't burn.
03 December 2005
Safe balloon launch Are there enough biodegradable materials to stage a safe (i.e. green) balloon launch? Biodegradable balloons, string, paper, etc.? Will all the little seals die?
Radio Free MeCha. Come for the music, stay for the
IRC.
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Let's try that again, shall we? And this time I
mean it.
What the heck? There's a black squirrel in my backyard that thinks its a crow. Anyone ever seen this? There's a squirrel - I'm *sure* it's a squirrel that's sitting in a fir tree cawing like a crow. It needs a few squirrel clucks to get warmed up, then it starts cawing like a crow.
And the neighbourhood crows are replying!
WTF?
One of the damned things cached a half-squirrel-eaten chocolate bar (with nuts) on top of my garden-hose reel. Normally it's just nuts and pizza crusts, but this is one of those "king-sized" bars.
Crazy squirrels.
Santastic! Holiday Boots 4 Your Stockings--mashup album, all downloadable.
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How to make vanilla syrup w/ vanilla extract? Anyone know a simple way to make Vanilla Syrup when all I have on hand is vanilla extract? I did a search and all the solutions are how to do it with vanilla beans.
Oh no, here comes Radio Moonbird! Well, here goes kids. I haven't done this since my pirate radio days...
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Radio Mecha guest DJ now playing. So, yeah - speaking of radio... I thought maybe I would put up this mix I like by a friend of mine. I'm going to play the first song (Cleopatra in New York) again at the end, because I like it especially. If anyone else wants to play a set, though, please let me know - I'm just filling some "too damn quiet" time. :)
OK, It's noon. I've started drinking and it's too damned quiet in here. So, I offer you music from a man who, politically speaking is an absolute moron, but man did this guy crank out some great riffage back in the day.
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Interview questions. I was asked in a recent interview what my favorite joke is.
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How are everone's weekend going? Mine's going OK.
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35 Years Ago today in Bridgeport, CT, a child wailed his way into the world.
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I've been so busy!! I haven't had a chance to read and comment much at all, and I feel so far behind... I'll never catch up! So let me just say "happy, happy happy birthday!" to all our beautiful Sagittarians, congratulations on papercake nuptials, "holy balls!" to melissa may, "welcome back" to mudpuppie, "you can leave your hat on" to mrs. pants, "thanks for the email last.fm help" to stilicho, "I love you!" to all mecha radio DJs... plus specklet, your song "rocks my Goda"! I've missed you all, and to make up, I have a little gift for everybody inside.
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Describe your favorite Scrabble memory. Tomorrow I'm going to play Scrabble for the first time in quite a while and it's made me remember the distinctive moments in my Scrabble history. Now tell me yours.
02 December 2005
FUCKING ITUNES CORRUPTED THE TAGS ON MY MP3S. JUST WORKS MY FUCKING ARSE.
Po/bun-ny request When I'm making a comment, I don't know how long it's been since the last comment was made because I don't know what time zone it's pointing to. Could there be something on the right hand side of the post/comment that says "current MetaChat time is HH:mm"? Please?
Name the 75 bands in this picture. I'm hopeless at this kind of thing. Metachat, help me!
radio shark now playing a low-fi nothing set
Fuck yeah! I just finished (another) grant application. Too late to send it to NIH, but it doesn't have to be sent till Monday. I'm off home to get drunk on some NZ wine I've been saving for this very occasion.
jonmc!!!! My coworker and I are arguing over the song "Queen of Hearts".
He says (and is older and therefore probably right) that the song was originally done by Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe.
I only know it by Juice Newton.
Internet searches aren't helping...
Radio kenko Tomorrow, at, uh, 3pm, PST.
The Bunny movie star... Anatomy of a bunny? Mrs Bunnyson? Bunnysferatu? How many can you name?
(quicktime, large file, cool animation worth the wait)
Inspired by Specklet Music from the birthday people part deux:
Here's mine (I wrote it, but I didn't sing it.)
Ok, Jonmc, you're next, buddy.
I believe I can fly... I believe I can touch the sky. Okay, for reals...have you ever had a dream where you can fly?
I haven't had one in awhile but I have had them often. I love them. Seriously, my favorite dreams.
10cc? I know that, y'know, people like 'em and junk. My father's mentioned 'em more than a few times, though he doesn't seem to own any. Me? I get 'em confused with Godley and Creem for some reason.
Can anyone recommend/YSI some tracks to me? Godley and Creem (if I'm even spelling that right) would also be appreciated...
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Ads of the World Do you use your DVR to skip those annoying commericals? Or maybe you don't watch TV at all, but still need to know what Madison Avenue thinks you need. Catch-up on your viral marketing. Some of the ads are not from the US, so they may be NSFW.
is it ok to name a dog "motherf*#ker?" (i mean does the dog know)
For those who enjoyed the TSO Christmas music. You may get a kick out of this, too. I wish it had been played just a tad less literally, but still.
Looks like someone's got a case of the Fridays! So, how will you waste time today? Where will you take that extra long lunch, and what will you eat? How will you dawdle on your way back, and what's your excuse?
Tangled up in blue Some stellar Jerry Garcia
here.
I'm So Totallly Talking To Myself Not that it isn't entertaining but -
I've been re-writing the Bob Dylan entry at Wikipedia. So far I have corrected and re-written lots of stuff, just for good writing. I pretty much re-wrote the intoductory paragraph tonight. And most of "The Early Years" is mine. I am going to keep going. Any advice or facts or fiction that I should include?
L.A. Through Vintage Postcards A collection of vintage Los Angeles postcards.
01 December 2005
In a little over two hours Amberglow will pass the torch as it will be MY birthday.
Wrinkles and gray hair and liverspots, oh my!
Frisbee Girl has demanded an update on
my situation, and an update she shall have!
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Yoshi keeps on rucking. With all the birthday talk today I just hope I age half as well as this guy.
Children's stories that scar for life... Inspired by
this metafilter discussion, I ask: What kids' books and shows are the most likely to scar for life?
Today at work the steering column of my car froze I can drive forwards and backwards, but not turn. Who ever heard of such a thing!
What important things happened on your birthday? (continuing the theme) : >
Mine is, of course, Rosa Parks.
@#!*&%#!~!% So I was going to go home early because it is snowing like a mother
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A stream of AP quality photos just came up on my flickr home page. Interesting and weird.
Can't find a mefi post. It involved a batshitinsane couple who were playing mind games on FBI agents during a road trip?
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Hi. It's snowing. Nothing is happening here save a raging debate whether "Cat Scratch Fever" is a right-wing Nugentian salute to mastubation. Toodles.
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This makes me very unhappy *shudders*
Even a 330 million year old scorpion can creep me out if it's 2m long.
Goodnight Reality
Goodnight Moon given the good old Stalin treatment.
article.
Thanks. (The Swap went underground last month I think).
my friends and i tried not to be gangsters any more but it was too late so we're stuck in the game. advice?
More devendra banhart I see him at the top of the lastfm list so there must be a lot of fans here. Largehearted Boy has some Antony & the Johnsons up which feature banhart on vocals.
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Happy birthday to me, I'm a hundred and forty three... : >
Freed babies run amok —
Heaven doesn't want 'em and
Hell is afraid they'll take over.
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Car Radio All actin' tough.
I bought Spoon's Series of Sneak's after getting a track off of their All The Negatives on a mixtape, and loved it. A cheatin' girlfriend kept the CD after borrowing it, so I've been a few years without. It showed up on one-a them downloading places what where the album is... And BAM!
Car Radio is the best minute and a half of pop music in history, even better than Guided By Voices for economy of awesome.
David Byrne warned by the RIAA. Who's the hand here, and who's doing the biting? The fact that the RIAA has no more respect for a professional musician than you or I is charming. Blah blah anti-RIAAfilter.
Make your own snowflake This would be a
double post on MeFi, but I still think it's cool enough to post once a year. December 1 seemed like an appropriate day.
I'd like to apologize for my bizarre and frankly vulgar displays over the past few days, especially
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Mall kills katrina christmas display I sware I am not a paid viral marketer for gawker media.
Help a feller out! I downloaded the Golden Palomino's Visions of Excess from eMusic (legit!), but the mp3 of "Boy (Go)" gets cut off a minute or so early. Anyone got it? Can't find it on, uh, that other legitimate download service I use.
30 November 2005
Interesting Story The photos are neat too. The better ones are on the main site.
Box Radio A to Z, largely international stuff, dub, electronic music, etc. Right now, Amon Tobin.
Open source page layout apps Any suggestions?
Radio Free Sciurus If you want to play feel free to tell me and I'll roger off. ;)
Christmas kills! Note the bunny.
I quit smoking again and I had a one night tryst with the ex again...
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Taco-Man came by, he gave me some water — sweet mineral water. But then Commodore Rico called, and my luxury yacht has been found. Unfortunately, all of the items inside have been burned beyond recognition. It's a total loss. What am I gonna do without the
Duke-Stir?
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Dr. Rico called, and my brain has been found. Unfortunately, all of the items inside have been fried beyond recognition. It's a total loss.
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gawker as NYT your thoughts?
Rico called, and my car has been found. Unfortunately, all of the items inside have been burned beyond recognition. It's a total loss.
Hi, y'all! I missed you people. What's shakin'?
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Ask Mecha: Giving a 14 Year Old the Anarchist's Cookbook My son will be 14 on December 8, and this is what he wants for his birthday. I am ambivalent.
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Announcing the MetaChat Book of the Month for December. You have selected to read Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell. Dust off those library cards; it's time to start reading!
I have enclosed below a series of pictures to show how the US government starting around 1994 went back in time with remote sensing and holographic radiation longitudinal emf and sound wave holographic energy beams as shown in the movie time tunnel to place different computer generated holographic archetypes of different Nordic, Celtic, and Aryan faces and other attributes around my body as if I were a microcosm of the center of the universe, Adam, and God, to change the genetic attributes, facial form, eye color, hair color, voice sound, and many other body attributes throughout my life year by year from my birth (1962, Jan 23 Midnight) to the present representing correlation's between the years in my life and the ages of evolution and history from the beginning of time to the present
How unethical would it be if I eat the food my roommate has obviously forgotten he owns? I incline to "not very".
Wanna b stylin' like Saddam. "But I don't want people to think I only kit-out killers,"
29 November 2005
Holy crap! Was that an episode of "Law & Order" with a liberal, anti-Federal government, anti-Patriot Act slant? Are the aspens turning?
This is the official cake-eating, rice-throwing, misty-eyed sentimental congrats thread to
papercake and his lovely bride, who just tied the knot!
I finally did it and offered my resignation today. It's been a
long road and I finally was able to corner my boss and wave the magic letter. But...
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Radio Matildaben Repeat Repeating
this playlist from the other day. Starting as soon as sciurus is finished. May be on #metachat for a while.
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Yo mama so ugly she gotta tie a pork chop around her neck so the dog'll play with her!
Collectible card games have evolved to their highest peak yet...
What the hell? Some blokes have taken away the stairs to my second floor apartment!
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just started on the radio if anyone fancies a listen
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BLEAH! Had to stay home from work today with a fever and a splitting headache. I slept in all morning and that's helped the fever... now I'm going to play some "music therapy" on Radio MeCha at about 1:30 ET (just a few minutes from now).
Nutjob, Handjob, Punjab or Goofiness? So I had a dream last night
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Insomnia Cure, Psychotic Break, or Goofiness? A few nights ago, I was dreaming, and when I woke up several times during the night, I thought to myself "I'm not sleeping as me, I'm sleeping as a member of the Minnesota Vikings." I was able to quickly get back to sleep, and even slept in different positions. So I've been picking a person at random to Sleep As the past few nights. If I wake up and start worrying about a grocery list, for example, I can tell myself to relax. Barbara Streissand in Yentel does not need groceries, and that's who I'm sleeping as tonight. Harmless sleep aid? Or, as I haven't been the happiest of campers lately, beginnings of a reality break? Or just goofy?
An exercise in viral marketing How many band names can you see? Apparently there are 75.
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Grandma got run over by a reindeer sung by Metachat bunnies! It doesn't matter if you can't sing. Neither can I.
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Vote Now! For the MeCha book club book of the December!
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Have your Flickr drawings been redsignated NIPSA yet? It seems that Flickr is cracking down on those that use the site for non-photographs!
If tuna didn't contain mercury I'd eat it every day. Name me other cheap and healthy and easy to prepare meals.
Just say "No!" to uptime It's time for our nightly downtime.
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Ever rediscover old music you're not entirely sure you're proud of? In this case the album in question is 'Peep Show' by Siousxsie and The Banshees. Listening to it some fifteen-plus years after I first enjoyed it (possibly due to a spin on 120 Minutes?) Faced with insights on my character of old, I dug out some pictures of my orange perm and played amateur archaeologist. Ever rediscover something you thought you'd forgotten? How did it make you feel?
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28 November 2005
Somewhat creepy looking but that's part of their appeal. Animal scuptures (from 1" to 6' tall) made from brass, bone, pewter, glass eyes, plastic, leather etc.
No pricing, but I can imagine.
Ask Mecha: the sticky wall putty I used to attach some heavy card stock to the wall isn't working; the card stock's weight is enough to cause slippage. [mi]
Jane Siberry Check out the store. That's music industry.
Intoxicate me now. Those kids from Nickel Creek ham it up at the House of Blues by doing an acoustic version of Britney's "Toxic."
New Caledonian Crow Research Watch the
videos! We talked about this in my Animal Behavior class today; I had heard about it before but the research group has done much more since the original discovery about tool-making.
Prairie Lights Airblown World Set in scenic Lynn Creek Park on Joe Pool Lake in Grand Prairie, these one of a kind, lighted displays will feature all of the traditional holiday characters plus Snoopy, Mickey Mouse, Sponge Bob, NCAA mascots, and many more!
What could be more festive than 700-plus inflatable yard decorations set up in the Texas desert? (I chuckle, but I'd also seriously go see this if it was near me.)
I just put 9 sour skittles in my mouth, help!
SportsChat (American) football game's about to start. Whatcha think? Steelers or Colts or Monkeys or Bunnies?
Atheist "swaps" wife with Christian pastor African-American atheist "swaps wife" with white Christian home-schooling pastor. On ABC now. Let's watch.
Audio Music Box I'm playing rap/hip-hop/etc. Yeah, how ya like me now?
AskMeCha: So I just asked a professor to write me grad school recommendations.
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Oh this is so ridiculous Air New Zealand and Qantas airlines have banned men from sitting next to unaccompanied children on flights.
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SLOEfilter Jole on Software's Jole on why the recording industry wants to charge diffrent amounts of money for diffrent songs, and it dosn't have anything to do with the amount of money they actualy make...
The document contains data: a) Yes
b) No
Can you help me discover more music that I'll like? The Music Genome Project presents Pandora. So far I'm likeing it.
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Question: Do any of the NYC MeChatters know a place in the city that sells pickled eggs by the jar? I've been craving them something fierce for over a week, and no place in my neighborhood has them, although they have pickled everything else.
This week's last.fm charts Radiohead is still #1 but Kate Bush is tied for the #2 spot.
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Cleaning How do I get
burned chocolate off an enamel fondue pot. Also,
check out my fondue pot!
Accepting Nominations! Yet another book club thread.
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Ask MeCha: Should I take a job teaching English to elementary school kids in South Korea?
Ask MeCha. So, there's this girl...
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Apple's plans for world domination? Crazy idea being Apple's next move?
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Eyepatch advice Does anyone have any idea what makes for a good eyepatch? I want to decorate one for a friend (who needs one intermittently) for a Christmas present. Comfort and style- that's what I'm looking for.
This is the real MeCha book club thread because jonmc & I ruined the other one.
Undun Yes, the original version with the dramatic little tinkly piano at the front. But what
undun her? Drugs? Psychiatry? Heartbreak? World in general?
27 November 2005
Illogical Attraction Are you attracted to the idea of something that you know you would hate in actual fact? What?
What music do you most like to listen to when you are intoxicated?
"Dear Professor Paglia," "Fuck off, you crazy old dyke."
"No, I just think he's a bald little twat."
Celebrity flame wars are just as funny as the web kind.
MeCha book club? Who's interested? Suggested reading/format/bylaws? I'm used to reading a book a month and then "meeting" to talk about it. I say "meeting" in quotes because we could do it on IRC and/or in a thread here.
Thoughts?
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Just Keep Walkin'. Linda Laurie's "Ambrose." One of the
weirdest, (yet strangely endearing) records of all time. You have been warned.
Bring me back to Tara (so I can dig for gold in the cotton fields)
The MeCha book I wonder how the book is coming along, and when it will be available. Any news, dodgy?
26 November 2005
There are nine people in #metachat now. But only four show up in the sidebar list. Y'all need to be typing "/mode (your username) -i", people.
A mix for MetaChat I don't comment much, but that doesn't mean I don't love you...
I made a mix for MetaChat. [100 MB Zip File]
Let the rejoicing commence I am finished with my Theology 101 paper. And boy is my brain tired.
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Since I can't be in NYC right now, here's some music. This might be my strangest set yet. You've been warned.
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An Aquarium Drunkard I read this for the first time today, and like the creator's choices and style -- check out this post on
Mark Kozelek, or the posts on the current front page featuring Roy Orbison and music from David Lynch film soundtracks. Enjoy!
Radio Matildaben Probably only for about an hour. Come join me!
Radio Dodgy I'm too ill to go and see The Damned tonight so I'm going to sit here playing MP3s instead. Come and join me.
Bannination: are you experienced? Link is to a random thread I picked up off google. I personally have been banned from Slashdot [IP block really], Somethingawful and today I thought I was banned from Mefi due to a bug in the login script. [Got a Forbidden when trying to log in.]
So, any other haters out there?
Linked from, and reminiscent of, our own
eBay scammer thread, I give you
Charlie Wenzel.
Music Box Here's some music. Orchestra Baobab right now.
Put a ring in *this*. Last night's
Depeche Mode thread inspired me to share with you:
Enjoy the Silence, rendered rockingly (apparently, it's possible) by Failure.
What qualities do you enjoy most in other people?
Sagging floor ends Ian Brown gig. It’s cool when jokes just write themselves.
I just slept from 6-11 p.m. Now I'm wide awake.
25 November 2005
A little late, but familiar.... YouCanCallMeAl's set was so good, I almost hate to offer a repeat in its wake... but I will.
Here's a nearly-same replay of Boring Radio from last Saturday night.
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Friday Night Music and Beer! Coming up in about ten minutes. (Or however long it takes me to get a setlist together and a beer in my hand.)
Bring on the requests!
Dad, why do you have an earring in your ass? It's amazing what can seem like a good idea at the time.
If he draws on me again I'll shoot him in his toodles. (4.2MB wmv)
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Enough of this napping shit! We need some loud drinking music on this post-holiday afternoon. So, here's a live (in Cork, Ireland, no less) Thin Lizzy doing
"Whiskey In The Jar." (note: the "Midge," referred to in the intro is none other than Midge Ure from Ultravox, there's a dude who covered a lotta musical ground).
Wack fal my daddy-o...
There's something funky going on with the 'next/prev' links on for first few threads for today.
Several of them have kmellis' aunt post as the '←' link.
Discussion: There are some people whom I can't stand on Metafilter, and grown to really like as a direct result of their participation here,
In my email this morning from my aunt: "There is a client at [homeless shelter] who works for us an hour or two each morning cleaning our office.
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Freddie's Dead Hey, since everybody else is posting their music, I thought I could use you people for my own means.
I'm creating a funk band, and right now I'm sketching out music for the band, so in no way is this a finished project.yet.
I converted the original strings for multiple trumpet parts (since that is one of the three instruments I play).
Any help is greatly appreciated.
The True Mirror "Welcome to the home of the fascinating True Mirror; one of the most interesting and unique products to be introduced - a mirror that reflects true, non-reversed images!"
what makes a day holy? the federal mandate or double overtime or--
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I'm sore and sad... I just had emergency surgery 2 nights ago and i'm feeling sad coz i lost a fallopian tube. I was discharged from the hospital this afternoon, so no turkey for me, and no Black friday shopping madness for me either. I'm very depressed...especially about the shopping. Please please suggest ways to beat this depressive funk i'm in...music, books (i can order online)websites to make me smile...etc etc.
Thanks, metachatters.
24 November 2005
Your favorite blogrolls? here's one non-political:
Cup of Chicha's, and a political one:
firedoglake's (on lower right)
AskMeCha: What style of music is "Stalker" by Covenant?
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ex-pat non-thanksgiving, with wine. Well, I'm still feeling thankful, and I actually do feel that way most of the time, but today was kind of anti-thanksgiving, because:
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New search feature. By unpopular request I've dumped the lame old search function and put together a new one. You should find it an improvement over the old one however there may still be a few bugs lurking in there.
Music Box (again and again) Here's my pledge to you: nothing but jazz, until I feel like playing something else.
I've been a miner for a... I love The Heart Of Gold from the Hitchhikers movie. Is there a good hi-res still or wallpaper or something out there? Speficically featuring the nose-art? (What you can see
here by clicking on "Gallery" then "H.O.G Ring"
p.s., I hate how Flash breaks teh intarweeb)
Happy thanksgiving to all Americans We haven't got that holiday over here but hope you're having fun with your turkeys, deep fried or not.
Green Bean Casserole! I've been given the sudden distinction of preparing this southern delight for dinner at a friend's casa in a few hours. Any unique or otherwise fabulous recipe ideas?
It's raining Is it raining?
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Linnea - another sketch I am working on. Critique it to shreds. It's FruityLoops so it's sequencish. Once I get my guitars, I'll record it for real.
23 November 2005
Who here be theatre geeks? Roll call of those who do various sundry things on stage, for whatever reason.
University of Kansas to teach Intelligent Design course...
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Music Box I'm playing some music and having some beers. Won't you join me?
Wow! check out this runway.
Litcon #1: Write a Pun Stealing wholesale from the MeTa thread re: writing contests, I figured I'd start us out on the right foot.
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Hurleyville Taxi One of my earliest childhood memories.
Ask Mecha: Alleviating pain med nausea? →Read more...
Hockey Monkey! and
The Great Zamboni Of Devotion and
Bob Marley & The Hartford Whalers by the USA's premier hockey-rock band (and pride of my britplace, Bridgeport, CT)
The Zambonis! (I've seen these guys live about a zillion times, nice guys).
More music here. Oh, how I wish I could be the mustard on your knish...
la mer A french museum's exposition site about the sea. All french, but lovely images.
What's the grossest thing you've ever found in your food? →Read more...
Let them sing it for you! (takes your text and creates a singing version using pop music)
Asterix or Tintin? My girlfriend loves Asterix, I can't get enough Tintin. What's your take?
H'okay, who would like to help me eat a 20 pound bird? →Read more...
Little Presents: I just realized I haven't read
Dinosaur Comics in weeks! I'm really going to enjoy going through the backlog. I love little unexpected presents like that. How 'bout you?
YouCanCallMeAl Radio! Version one. Got requests? Let me know.
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Missing out on all the drama... →Read more...
Rock rock jingle jingle bell bell rock...
An unholy union of the img and marquee tags...
Poor Lost Souls -- NYC Meet-Up Just in case you haven't wandered over to MeTa lately, some of us are getting together on Saturday night.
Please join us if you feel so inclined.
Let's get festive and merry. Or something like that.
Turkey Fryers Are Dangerous Some Thanksgiving
disaster-porn [mpeg; sfw] from Underwriters Laboratories. Who knew?
I'm loaded and down jingling my bell rocks right now. But something someone else said about "Soulseek" keeps distracting me.
More pix of the Chicago MetaChat Meetup, including a bunch from after the light-weights took off.
I'm downloading Jingle Rock Bell from someone on Soulseek right now. I'm gleefully rubbing my hands together in anticipation of listening to this Christmas classic. It's going to be great after a long day of nasty surprises and disappointments.
Someone is downloading Jingle Rock Bell from me on Soulseek right now. I'm sure they have no idea what it is. I'm gleefully rubbing my hands together from the sheer idea of the surprise they will encounter.
War on Brats
Restaurant requests politely that kids behave. Somehow, this is controversial.
22 November 2005
lamb broth. I hope it doesn't grow a shitload of mold & whatnot by tomorrow.
RIP World's Ugliest Dog "I don't think there'll ever be another
Sam," Susie Lockheed said, adding: "Some people would think that's a good thing
mary kate or ashley? you decide.
guess what I am holding! →Read more...
delicious playtagger what do you all think about this?
Christmas&Birfday Cards I want to make my Christmas&Birfday cards this year.
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metachat: Failed Projects. Really, this is all about me and me, and look at me, but what failed projects have y'all started, and then got bored with, and then wish you'd carried through so you could post it on projects so the hordes could click "+" and "+" and "+"
SHIT! I WAITED THREE DAYS TO BUY A PLANE TICKET AND IT WENT FROM $212 TO $303!
Corey Haim or Corey Feldman? You must choose. Inside. Give reasons if applicable.
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Blonde Redhead My new iPod Nano shows the album title for a Blonde Redhead album as "Misery is a Butt...". I thought this was appropriate given our carols last week.
The stench from Washington. If you’re in the DC area perhaps you can still catch it.
i like to make the chat room could you make chat withe me there
What do I do with a 20 pound bird? →Read more...
Scrobbler, stick to thy Last.FM Our new charts have been up a couple of days ...
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STOP ME. PLEASE STOP ME. →Read more...
I knew the more inside was going to be a doozy. It's like a soap opera. I mean how often does a guy get his (blind) girlfriend's sister pregnant?
*nsfw* Photo of Paris Hilton screwing by a pool. She likes..um... "tools", if you know what I mean.
Great street names. I particularly like
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Is today the day I quit my job? Predict within.
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AskMeCha: what is this toy called?
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I just spent two hours sorting Pokemon cards. My nephew who is adorable and lives with me dropped his Pokemon cards. What was once chaos is now once again Japanese marketing bliss. I am going to bed. That's all.
Bad Gifts for Two Year Olds - Brilliant use of listmania on amazon
Mouseover Pretention... Mousing over user names now seems to just show the names, rather than numbers. I applaud this innovation. No more looking to see how much older, wiser, and more mature you are than someone else.
though I do this routinely on metafilter
Covers to love and/or hate Very unique spins on some well known songs
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Jiggery-poniery. NOT ONLY did Ace Mart restaurant supply send me the
wrong size of middle-jigger (I wanted .75oz-1.5oz, they sent .75oz-1.75oz—well
what am I supposed to do with that?) but I just applied a very
casual twisting force to the 1oz-2oz one, and it
came apart in two—well what ELSE is new!
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La la la, lal la, la la la I somehow accidentally got the song (I think) America is Sexy by (I think) Paul Hyde stuck in my head,
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Photos from the Mecha Chicago meetup, 11/21 at the Billy Goat, underneath Michigan Ave. Probably still in progress.
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21 November 2005
Cold Turkey. Having recently realized I've spent close to six thousand dollars on cable over the last five years, I've disconnected from the box - and am delighted, actually. Have any others broken with the cable horse? (aside: Am currently enjoying the 3-d episode of Medium pretty darn well, the 3-d glasses were even free)
ooo--the HP movie is excellent!
Stitch 'n' Bitch Nothing like catty crafters!
Don't miss
this and
this.
Lord, it's an illness. I can't stop hitting the "post" button. But as a friend said when she showed me this spot, "I have run out of piss with which to piss my pants laughing."
I see the lights, I see the party lights Claudine Clark, a recent college grad was allowed to put her own composition "Party Lights," on the b-side of a factory-penned number called "Disappointed." The a-side sank like a stone, but the DJ's flipped over the disc to discover Claudine's masterpiece of teen heartbreak and rock and roll history was made. Enjoy.
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Askmecha: "El Paso" by Marty Robbins? "El Paso City" retells the story of "El Paso" but was there another song that told the story from a third perspective?
Time to feel happy! About food! And Thanksgiving!
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Ask MeCha: What IS this, anyway? When mudpuppie and I met up in Berkeley a few weeks ago for lunch, cheese shopping and general poking about, we came across this item. Does anyone have an idea what it is or might be?
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To Confirm: MeCha
Chi meet-up tonight, in honor of mudpuppie's visit, at the
Billy Goat under the bridge.
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Alien Performance Art Mattnonomattnomattmattmatt
Finds you well I saw on our MeCha AudScrob charts that someone else listened to Dabenport last week. Maybe two someones, if I didn't (it didn't show up on my chart).
They're an absolutely fantastic local band, and one that I think a lot of people here would like. Somewhere between shoegaze and country, with beautiful harmonies. This is one of their slower songs, and one that for me always tied to missing someone in an airport. Something about the sterility and the distance really balances well against this track...
Blind Uncle Gaspard -
Assi dans le Fenetre de ma Chambre. Enjoy the relaxing sounds of soothing Cajun balladry this early Monday morning. Born in Avoyelles County, Louisiana, in 1880, Gaspard formed his first band with his brothers Victor and Amade. Gaspard died in 1937.
Otic Radio Podcasts: "A stream of sonic ideas and modern music culling from over the past 50 years. psychedelic, avant-garde, experimental, punk, noise, psychUnderground, ect... mp3 mixes by Dj Magneticring". Cool? But check this out: if you like what you hear you can
download the mixes from their site - no separate tracks, but, hey, wowie!
Interesting mystery music site. A collection of (rare?) 60s and 70s psychedelic, beat, progressive (&tc.) albums, with images and ratings, separated by country (or sometimes
region). I have no idea who put it up, or why, but I'm finding it fascinating, and all I know is that now I have to find this
"Four Levels of Existence" Greek band that I've never heard of (
info - ignore the spam link at the bottom).
News from the dead What a cute dead girl that was, don't you agree? YES.
Why does my Post Preview say 01 January 2000, has it always said that? Am I dead?
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Last.fm down? Does anybody know what's up with that? :(
20 November 2005
Who is your favourite comedian? I've just finished watching Eddie Izzard. Again. For the 10 millionth time, without exaggeration. Nobody else can make me pee a little bit from laughing. Who can do that to you?
Cat noises! Drive your cat nuts! Get any reaction, from pricked ear to narrowed eyes. A+++++ would disturb cat sleeping in basket again!!!1!!
Anyone wanna critique a work in progress? Be harsh. Be very, very harsh. I can take it. heheh
Rocket 88 First Rock Song or first Product Placement.
(I particularly love the line: boozin and cruzin along!)
Yes, my Hi-Fi is so hot the wax is melting!
[[bonus: my spellcheck knew 'cruzin' but not 'boozin']]
maybe some bad boy could hook up a mp3?
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I wouldn't want MetaChatters to miss out on the
Chicken Yodel.
Happy birthday, mischief! I'm going to share your birthday present with everyone else: the single version (3 and half minutes) of Kraftwerk's "Autobahn."
Hey! Stop looking across! The Internet is so weird (pot?)
Metal Christmas Lights (wmv)
Some people have waaaaaay, waaaay too much time on their hands. Yet I'm glad they do.
asteroids and topology this is great. this is exactly the kind of math writing we need more of in the world.
"Big Bottom" covered by a bass clarinet quartet.
bush sober today, apparently. "People should feel comfortable about expressing their opinions about Iraq," Bush said, three days after agreeing with Vice President Dick Cheney that the critics were "reprehensible."
Signifyin' Monkey! A great dirty 60's R&B song about a primate for your sunday morning listening.
This is a quiet thread. →Read more...
Doggone It. I was just watching that Sunday Morning show. They interviewed Rachel ray. She's just gotten married. I must mourn. The upside is he's getting a talk show.
100 years of cinema through the eyes of one
rabbit-animal. (May take a little while to load, worth the wait).
The JJJ Impossible Music Fest bittorent I'm still downloading but thought others may be interested.
You have offended my sensibilities, sir. I challenge you to a
duel! *throws gauntlet down*
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19 November 2005
AskMecha: what's a good link for one of those things that does that deal? What? Too vague?
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Happy 11/20 birthday to mischief and sciurus.
Rabbits Have A Christmas (more info
here, scroll down a tad)
Shocking tunes for a Saturday evening Including a song or two from the sequel to
The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Starting at 7PM EST, a few minutes from now.
Oha! -- Shingo Mama video : >
Zubbles! "Disappearing colored bubbles"
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AskMecha: What's good for a fat lip?
Just got punched in the mouth sparring in my Kung Fu class, what's a good way to keep it from swelling up too bad?
I don't get the MeCha shoutout thing I want to get them, but I don't.
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I'm posting this song as a thinly veiled excuse for starting another Chicago meetup thread. Let's finalize, shall we?
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The gal you loved is dead. I woke up Thursday morning to the stench of burning electrical components.
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Because I love you all so much I will share one of my biggest requests when I DJ, and current favorite songs.
Hooked by
Seabound
I WILL WIN YOUR LAST FM HEARTS New mix for all y'all. Includes awesome dub, punk, pop, rap, but maybe not in that order.
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Three Years, Gone. After a nearly three year relationship, I officially broke it off with my boyfriend last night.
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I don't get the mecha shouting thing. I want to get it. I want to get excited about it. But I can't.
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A day night in the life →Read more...
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Twisty Center for Urban Varmint Research brightened my day. Anyone else have pretty bug pictures? (or critter collections?)
Casting call! →Read more...
18 November 2005
a violent whisper →Read more...
Oh, C'mon, even I can do that!
Crazy gymnastic kids jump around like monkeys while magically avoiding killing themselves.
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ONCE YOU'VE BEEN HIT, YOU HAVE TO LOG ON TO #METACHAT! IF YOU GET HIT AGAIN YOU'LL KNO YOUR REALLI CHATTY! IF YOU BRAKE THE cHAIN, NO1 WILL TALK 2U 4 10 YEARS SO PASS IT HIT WHO EVER YOU THINK IS CHATTY
Come to me Or Como, whatever.
Hooplas Involving Circus Tricks (.mp3) Pixies in tight green little skirts / Say it's so much better now that it hurts . via
3hive
This just burns my britches. It's a nice, informative article, but how could The Old Gray Lady get away with such a horrible use of apostrophes? I mean apostrophe
's. Read, weep, raise fist in anger and howl at the moon!
HELP! I'VE LOST MONKEYFILTER!!!
If you could go only one place in the world, where would it be? And why?
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Radio Dodgy Anniversary edition. Only party tunes allowed. Playing now...
Fòrse sé tu gustassi una sòl volta,
La millésima parte délle giòje,
Ché gusta un còr amato riamando,
Diresti ripentita sospirando,
Perduto è tutto il tempo
Ché in amar non si spènde.
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AskMeCha: Is copy editing as awesome as it sounds? I'm brainstorming jobs I might like. I love grammar and spelling...
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WE ARE OVERDUE FOR A SHOUTING THREAD! →Read more...
Cream of sweet potato soup = yum. It was my first attempt. Should this be in mecha cooks? :/
Ever had a dream come true? I'm sitting here listening to an advance copy of a cd that comes out in a couple of weeks...
What should I do for my birthday this weekend?
Spin the string. Fun with Flash -- reminds of a 3D spirograph.
HAPPY 6th MONTH ANNIVERSARY, METACHAT! →Read more...
Capitalizing on the Cult of Cute , 2005, by artist/illustrators kozydan (Dan and Kozue Kitchens)
17 November 2005
AskMeCha: To be drawing the crude pictures of genitals I just need a small free art program for mac 0s10.2.8 (The Jaguar). What I want is something similar to MS Paint, that can draw straight lines and a couple curves, has at least 16 colors and maybe that neat thatching for the crappy spraybrush.
I DO NOT NEED SOMETHING AS COMPLOX AS ILLUSTRATOR.
(I just wanna doodle on my computer, man, I don't need a buncha filters or nothin').
Any hope for me, MeCha?
Godstar (7" version) I spent a week in the hospital (or 'in hospital', for those of you that identify yourselves as 'blokes'), and found myself with little to do to pass the time.
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La Bamba. Here's my favorite version of La Bamba as interpeted by Milton Nascimento. Enjoy!
Have you ever declined a job offer because they want you to wear a tie every day?
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PLEASE HOPE ME I have a track with a name, but no artist. A country/folk song "Prodigal Son", sounds like Laura Cantrell or Lucinda Williams a little, doesn't seem to be either. I may have gotten it from MeCha around 10/30.
I quite like it and wish to give it the Last.FM statistical love it deserves. These are the rough lyrics:
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AskMecha: Wainscoting! →Read more...
Leibovitz shoots Knightly as Dorothy -very well done (but i make a better Dorothy) ; >
We're at the bar. Posting from a meetup. Divine wino, myself, hugh janus, gaspode, trharlan and our freind tennesee sam are here.Tennessee sam says fuck you you godless sons of bitches
First pair of bifocals. Feel so old.
Anyone know anything about Doctor's weigh scales? →Read more...
Is the mudpuppie / Chicago wing-ding still happening?
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I'm too drunk to drive... BEER CALL! Guy's night: 5 guys, lots of beer, pizza, and the occasional cigarette. One guy says, "we need more beer." Everyone agrees, but no one is sober enough to drive. An idea is proposed: a company that delivers beer, cigarettes, pizza, and wings.
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Ole FUZZY, Telecast extraordinaire.
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Mix CD Help If anyone has a digital file of any of the songs listed in the linked photo, could you post it on yousendit please, and link it here? I would like to help the Portland MeFites realize this mix.
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An Announcement and a Request... →Read more...
Would someone... please go to
Flickr and tell me if they can see pictures? All I see is that little red x in the corner of where my picture would be.
This got me curious What are your favorite/top five sites to visit, and why do you like them so much?
Carthago delenda est? This post manages to take a swipe at Bush and it's not even political. I'm looking forward to finding out what the heck gives.
Black is the
Color of my
True Love's Hair. (Espers, Currituck Co. [with bonus extra Simone cover], X-Legged Sally.)
16 November 2005
The Mefi Boardgame (via The Haughey)
Some Wednesday tunes... A kinda-sorta semi-repeat of the Boring Radio broadcast from Monday afternoon... only better. Starting at 10:30PM EST (about ten minutes from now).
Lost I really wish I could get on that island so I could help those people.
Some of the
websites that
have made me
happy for
a long
time.
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Are You or Have You Ever Been Eeksperienced?
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Another desktop Not as holiday-ish as the last one.
All hail! The file I started downloading days before making
this post is
almost done downloading! I'm tingling with excitement!
Did we ever decide what the word is that describes when a mefite makes a
comment or post that's
amusing, considering their username?
nice to have my computer back
Wellie Wanging is one of my favorite contests.
Radio Mosch The rockin starts at the top of the hour. Ends an hour after that.
Stapler pr0n. What them sexy
little swingline minxes get up to when you aren't looking.
nsfw - or at least not safe for office supplies.
Someone just said to me: "You rock my face off!" What'd somebody just say to you?
Actually, you're supposed to give
me the chocolate bar and watch as I eat it
for you.
How many drinks does it take you? →Read more...
New Modernist Photography Some NSFW. Previously seen on mefi as part of
Operation Eden.
(Can I grouse that on Mefi, the lack of description kept me from seeing the Katrina blog the first time around, and that the poor indexing meant that nothing showed up for the photographer or blog until I was previewing the FPP? And now it's closed to new comments... Arg...)
How Long Is Your Time? I was discussing this with a friend: Is a day or a week a long time to you or not so much?
To think I really really really really really wanted to be a MeFite I've been almost a year since I registered with MetaFilter. I paid my $5 and got my logon.
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I thought I didn't like the World Game Man, I just got back from the pub where we watched Australia qualify for the 2006 World Cup.
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AskMeCha: Pretty Pretty Pencils I've decided to sew or somehow make all my Christmas presents this year (except the stuff for my kids, because I can't sew mp3 players and computer chairs yet, unfortunately...)
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Maya's Micronomicon An amazing sketch/notebook kept by
a Mefi member. It was featured briefly in
this post back in August but it's just so awesome I thought it deserved its own over here. Make sure you look at the enlarged pictures.
Who's your favorite person? →Read more...
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15 November 2005
Anyone here have sleep apnea? →Read more...
Unable to connect -
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.metafilter.com.
Story of my life.
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teehee britters to kick k-feed out on the street. According to this site on the internet. [via vark]
Random thought/random quote: "I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me... but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life..." -Lester Burnham, "American Beauty"
Spam, for those with firewall issues.
What do you get when... →Read more...
Gimme some good thanksgiving dish ideas!!! →Read more...
Time-lapse painting. [Quicktime, via Boingboing]
Transverse Myelitis - request for any medical histories/experiences →Read more...
Radio mudpuppie, for those who hunger. Starting in 15 - 20 minutes.
Speaking of worst covers words fail.
make sure to look at their wicked druid-esque band photo and read their totally dark stage names.
wow.
I am no graphic artist clearly, but I following up
this, I made this...
Jonmc says this is the best sweet treat ever made. So, I ask him what's so great about Valomilk?
Also, Jonmc, are those gummi teeth actually good? Or akin to Wax Lips which were allegedly edible. Sure you could eat them but they taste like ass.
I love this image. And I love the idea of The Picnic as a jumping off point for
an art show... But the rest of the works here? Meh. Not so much, really. So I decided to gather together a potluck of picnic images for us to snack on.
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Remember this guy? He gained notoriety for representing
Jack Kevorkian in a somewhat flamboyant way; He then ran for Michigan governor against a disliked Republican with
less than spectacular results. Now he's running for
Michigan Attorney General.
Hilarity ensues.
So You Wanna Be A Rock N' Roll Star Three of the Killers were kicked out of a hometown Vegas hipster bar, unrecognized, for lack of ID. That has to be humbling, especially in a town known for its love of celebrities haunting local joints.
Heheh
What do I do with 200 rubber lizards? I just moved into a new office
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Superhot! Every Playboy centerfold from 1988 to 1997. Mathematically averaged. Math is sexy. [Totally safe for work, unless naked blobs are against the rules.]
Feeling down?? This song will cheer you up! It's Charming Hostess doing a Child Ballad ("Lady Gay") spliced with a klezmer tune, complete with clarinet solo.
14 November 2005
Rube Waddell "plays mongrel-bred swamp music using a bewildering array of traditional-junkyard-hand-whittled-cat gut-burping-outhouse-rusted instruments-the essentials of pure Americana."
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Ewwwww!!! Even the owner of the company thinks it sucks, and he expects me to drink the stuff?
Woohoo! Just picked up a pair of
these (the single chair, not the double) off Craigslist for $100. :) Makes me curious what stellar deals others have found at garage sales or in the classifieds? Speak!
AskMeCha: I'm quitting my job. I've never quit a job before. Help me. →Read more...
Rain would be good. A phrase I never dreamed I'd utter. -18" and counting.
Well...duh!!! Is there a waiting list to sign up? Do i have to be Irish to be a resident?
AskMecha: I need help finding a breakout clone that has a "medieval" theme.
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Radio Radio Monday afternoon tunes now playing on Mecha Radio.
He only writes when he wants something →Read more...
Wax On, Wax Hoff: continuing our fascination with, and torture of, The Hoff.
Drive a cab. (Amusement value time approximately equal to load time on a broadband connection.)
How did you get away with it? →Read more...
YaNooooooooooo! So, I cheesed my Yahoo password on Friday evening somehow. When I went to have them reset the password they sent it to an email address I can't get access to.
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Galaxia. A revolutionary new band. Tracks available
here.
devendra banhart i just heard this guy singing santa maria de <something> on the bbc's late junction (second track in, thursday's show, available
here) and found it stunningly beautiful (it helped that he speaks spanish so slowly and clearly that i could understand every word).
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Today’s helpful gardening tip. →Read more...
I quit. Gawd, I just can't take it anymore.
"That's terrible! What do you call it?" "The Aristocrats!" Tell me a dirty joke.
The Search. The Truth upholds the fragrant Earth and makes the living water wet. Truth makes fire burn and the air move, makes the sun shine and all life grow.→Read more...
Perhaps you'd like to help save some art. This cool gallery I know really needs help. I love this place - the only place I've felt at home in Phoenix since I've been here.
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Questions about new iPods So I just read the review of the new video iPod at ilounge.com. Apple's dropped firewire support "for data transfer". WTF?
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13 November 2005
Radio Mosch He's at it again!
URGENT! A second iTunes question ...since I used up my ask.metafilter question earlier today.
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Party nextdoor. (It's what appears to be a "dance party," actually. Check it out.)
ARRGH I hate it when the referrees decide who wins and loses!
AskMecha: Home PC as Server? How easy is it for a moderately technically proficient person to use their home PC as a server to host their own site? Is it worth the trouble?
The fruit of mefi projects (
nsfw) Checking out the projects, I found this odd site.
Remember that sweet forum? It came out a couple months ago... it had a lot of AJAX and CSS in it... didn't look like a regular BBS/forum. I can't, for the life of me, remember what it was called - or where to find it. Any guesses?
Radio Mosch Listen and see!
I am just slightly ahead of the curve. Exhibit A,
Exhibit B
AskMecha: Hope me! Why is this document stuck inside my computer?? →Read more...
Country-fied Flashdance? Cruising the dial the other day, I came across a bluegrassy/country version of Flashdance. No artist was ever announced, so might anyone here know of the persons behind this masterpiece and where I might find it? Gracias.
mudpuppie's back!! YAY!!!
Metachat, we need to talk. →Read more...
Ask MetaChat: Simple http server? I know I saw an AskMe about this..
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Design Sponge, "Musings of a design junky" is a terrific blog for decorative arts. You will drool.
New techno mix! A bunch of new (to me) tracks in this one, Jeff Mills, Detroit-ish, some noise, some melody. Better sequencing overall. A bit rough in spots, but not at all utterly terrible, smoother in some places, rougher in others.
12 November 2005
I'm home! Did ya miss me? huh? huh? : >
Can anyone identify this painting? It's from the cocktail party-scene in Spinal Tap.
Indie Rock Worlds Collide Final Fantasy (Owen Pallett of the Arcade Fire) covers a Bloc Party song. Oh, and it kicks ass. Happy Saturday Night, kids.
Radio Dodgy. Not psychedelic this time, just the usual mix of all sorts of stuff.
Jed's Other Poem An incredibly clever music video for a song by the band Grandaddy, made on an old Apple II+ computer. Awesome. (embedded QT)
Marty Stouffer, I salute you. Saturday morning, sun is shining, cup of coffee in hand, and Marty Stouffer's Wild America on TV. Does it get any better than this?
Homicide: Life On The Street The great lost show of the 90's. Brainchild of legendary director Barry levinson, one might even say that in it's gritty realism and frankness (NTM cinematic sensibility) it was the antecedent of shows like The Sopranos and The Wire. Any fellow fans here?
[Riff] His eyes.. ...were each like drops of diarrhea in a glass of milk garnished with an olive pit a'mid ships.
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Toonpedia. An exhaustive catalogue of American cartoons, both animated and print, ranging from the
ubiquitous, to the
classic, to the
largely forgotten. It also includes a cool "
Today in Toons" feature.
(A MeFi search shows that it's been linked in comments several times, but it's never been an FPP; I had never encountered it before tonight, when I had a pressing need to know the name of the
show that Gleep and Glop appeared on.)
Whoa. The newest dinosaur is pretty awesome.
Late night MeCha rave BYOB. BYOE. Glo-sticks optional. Don't tell the cops. And BTW, dancing by your computer is not geeky unless someone sees you doing it.
Surf Away the Weekend! Groove Terminator, Here Comes Another One.
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11 November 2005
First let me say that I very much enjoy and respect the music (and to a large extent the beliefs) of Pete Seeger.... [mi]
Today's our anniversary and... →Read more...
Ask Metachat What Do I Want For Christmas? →Read more...
Falcon love From the Blue Zoo to you.
A short list of short lists of things →Read more...
Boston Legal Anybody else here watch it?
The First Annual Myspace Stupid Haircut Awards!
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"Sweet Emotion" Leo Kottke (no, not
that Kottke) and Mike Gordon (yes,
that Mike Gordon) apply their own deadpan, droll spin to Aerosmith.
A short list of things I neither love nor hate. →Read more...
A short list of things →Read more...
This photo makes me happy. That it could do otherwise is inconceivable.
A Short List of Things I Both Love and Hate →Read more...
A short list of things I love →Read more...
Ask a Handy Mechazen! How do you stick sheet plastic to brick in such a way that it will stay all winter and yet be cleanly removable come spring?
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A short list of things I hate →Read more...
I donated to WUNC, local NPR station this week. It's their fall fundraiser. Besides, I wanted my name in the drawing for an Alaska trip. (I didn't win.)
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50's lounge plinky music Help me with a genre/artists!
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It kinds sucks online on the West Coast (unless you're Japanesee, I don't know). You all are peacefully snuggled into your beds while here I sit. Bored. Don't bother to answer because by the time you do I won't have waken up yet.
*passing time listening to Tipsy while tipsy*
HEY! HEY! HEY!
too aloof to be really married "Pannu and Ranjit do not depict the comfort level that is visible in photographs of a married couple. You and [Pannu] look distant and aloof in the photographs"
Veterans' Day 2005
"I can envision a small cottage somewhere, with a lot of writing paper, and a dog, and a fireplace and maybe enough money to give myself some Irish coffee now and then and entertain my two friends."
-- 2nd Lieutenant Richard Van de Geer, letter to friend before he was killed, May 15, 1975, officially last American to die in the Vietnam War
I missed out on the mix swap But here is my contribution. I hope you enjoy it.
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You, sir, are a wanker. →Read more...
10 November 2005
Some Old Time Religion I just got the CD boxed set
Goodbye Babylon...
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Oldest, middle, youngest, only? Where do you fit in?
I am considering buying a fedora →Read more...
Thanksgiving desktop I've seen taz share these every so often, and as I used some of the fabric patterns from her fantastic site, thought I'd offer this one too. 1025x769 Hope this is okay.
I've been wanting to share this for a couple days now, but was unsure how it would go over on a site that seemed male-centric. It's an essay on male privilege in the online subgroup of fandom.
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WEAK Three people in the cube next to me are yammering, seriously, about theological end-times.
sheesh.
Rackstraw Downes: A Interest in Air "Years ago I read a beautiful letter that Stendhal sent to his sister, giving her advice on letter writing. He said, choose subjects you care very much about, but when you put your feelings into words, do it as if you didn't want anyone to notice. When I read that, in the seventies, I thought, that's what I'm trying to do. I don't want anyone to notice the style".
Lounge Music of the Gods! All kinds of tiki goodness for your delectation.
winders-free. you know you want it. dayum. i decided to go ahead and bite the bullet and install the ubuntu linux to my computer.
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Silly people on the Daily Show: Where they come from and where they go.
I pride myself on the fact that I'll eat just about any type of food. Moldy, stinky cheese? Fermented, pickled vegetables? Strange, briny critters dredged up from the bottom of the ocean? Organ meat? Bugs? I eat 'em all.
However,
this bread gives me pause [WARNING: disturbing images].
"I have struck a city - a real city and they call it Chicago. . . I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages."
Over a hundred years have passed since Kipling penned that little bit o' love for Chicago.
So what of it Mudpuppie? You're still coming right? Where're we meeting huh? It's gonna be fun yeah!
Pyramid Cam. So that when the aliens return, you'll know right away.
The Adventures of Captain DooDoo [mildly nsfw?] When you are constipated and you need to poo, make sure to call Captain DooDoo. (via
blort)
The Chocolate Fashion Show On one hand: chocolate good. On the other: fashion stoopid. How conflicting.
When did Google switch to Cold Fusion?
"Server Error
The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.
Please try again in 30 seconds."
the new kate bush cd →Read more...
TERRA GALAKTIKA! (Geocities link; archive.org version
here. ‘Mua will change my life forever...
Mua is coming!’ Read the
Manifesto! Make a
Prayer! Take the
Oath! ‘Throw off the lousy dresses of shabby old morality! Face the sunrise of the new world in your nude body of power!’
Speaking of mefi projects... There's a girl (not from France)/and they call her mrs. pants/and she draws real good/so vote for her, you should...
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Mother-child relationships I've started to realize that the women I have had the best relationships with in the past are also those who have had the best relationships with their own mothers. Really sweet, caring mom = really sweet, caring daughter. Moms who abandoned their daughters at an early age = all sorts of fucked-upedness. Moms who were around but didn't seem to care that much = daughters who don't seem to care that much.
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Y'ever wonder... whether it would be better to be completely ignorant about what's going on?
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Lights, Fall, dreams, ass stabbing redheaded midgets and an antique babe…
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Ever have a reference letter so good... that it made you wonder if you should stay?
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Fall music Some reason for the season.
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09 November 2005
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to.... Sparkle Motion. What responsibilities have you been slacking off on, er, transitioning out of, lately?
mp3 tag editor? I need an mp3 tag editor. iTunes won't give me access to the Title tag field. I downloaded GearVolt, and for the life of me, I cannot figure out how it works. Anybody know a simple tag editor?
Neutral Milk Hotel I uploaded this for a friend, but thought I'd share for those of you who haven't tried this popular-with-MetaChat band.
For the lonely. The women of the Ridgid brand tools calendar for 1975-76. NSFW, probably.
"EECP is often referred to as a 'natural bypass' because it stimulates the formation of small blood vessels to create natural bypasses around narrowed and blocked arteries."
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[The aspens] turn in clusters, because their roots connect them.
I truly ((2x2+y2+z2-1)3-(1/10)x2z3-y2z3 = 0) you all.
It's beginning to ooze a brown liquid, and animals have foraged inside.
I just met with the GC. Everything's fine, my drawings are fine, the schedule is fine, and I'm so relieved I'm tearing up. I hope all of you have pieces of your life that are falling into place.
Goofy pop for your lunch break Or maybe as you start back to work. I'm unexpectedly home in the middle of the day (shift hours changed), so here are a few fun tunes I pulled out to listen to... Boring Radio starts broadcasting in just a few minutes.
What's your favorite cheese?
Dutch Godwinning Click 'Curiosa' then 'ABC'.
(even with the actual URL it only resolves back to the main page)
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Menu for an Amish Barn Raising From this very kickass Mennonite Community Cookbook that I just found at the library for 10 cents
(you don't often see kickass and mennonite in the same sentence).
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I'd just like to thank the voters of Maine for a wonderful birthday present. This is the election crowing/sobbing thread. Enjoy!
Celebrity Lunchboxes It's depressing, but Joaquin Phoenix doesn't even have to try and he's making the most money. And, Bill Gates, despite his philanthropic nature just doesn't get it. I'd quite like the Lisa Marie Presley or the Patrick Earl Barnes one. What about YOU?
COOL! LED Faucet Light turns water bright blue
MeFi Projects! Just in case you missed it in MetaTalk (and, wow, that page is scrolling down really quickly), the projects site is up, and Matt has agreed that for the first month or so, any (appropriate) project launched in 2005 "that hasn't been seen on a million blogs or metafilter before is up for grabs".
Here's the MeFi Projects "about" page.
I have stopped caring about my job! →Read more...
08 November 2005
w00t! Good news all around! →Read more...
Chief Commander I found this
here, at No Condition is Permanent. I'm thinking about MeFi-ing it, but I don't want to ruin the links until I've downloaded what I want. And to keep the presure off of him, I've YSId a particularly tasty bit of afrobeat from Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey. Groove on this, folks.
Radio goatdog will commence at 10:30 eastern, 7:30 pacific (approximately 10 minutes from now).
"Bat as Penis" motif - concept of up-coming Superman and Batman teamup comic? My eyes are filthy because I swear I see what isn't supposed to be there. Click for image. Possibly NSFW or bats, but very much the cover of an upcoming DC children's comic.
Deodorant for Girls Girls, what kind of deodorant do you use that does not make sweat stains?
Fly the friendly skies! Now featuring
free admission,
wine, and
gambling!
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Insoles. Advice, wisdom sought. →Read more...
New XP Install Question about slipstreaming a Win XP Home edition install to include SP2 and a SATA controller driver:
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Election day!! →Read more...
Hoppy Birthday to Melissa May and Shane! Any other birthdays this week?
Toys! Tell us about your favourite toy when you were a kid. Mine was a big mat that I could spread out on the floor, and it had a whole town planned out on it, and I could make houses with my Lego and create a whole world with my stuffed animals. I was also a big fan of my giant roll of newsprint and my crayons.
(Bonus points for kiwis: did you have a
Buzzy Bee?)
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Heavy Drinking By the fabulous Jazz Butcher. Why he isn't better-known I can't understand.
Tales Collected by the Brothers Grimm. Two hundred fairy tales from the 1884 translation by Margaret Hunt.
07 November 2005
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What do they call you at home? Inquiring minds want to know!
Let There Be Rock! Just got tickets to see
The Drive-By Truckers on the weekend after Thanksgiving...
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This is me: I am sad. I took one of my dogs to the humane society today. I'm drunk and hurting. I tried and tried and tried; he had brain damage and I couldn't make him into an okay dog.
BEST SINGLE-LINK NEWSFILTER POST EVAR Cheerleaders, sex, bar. The story really just writes itself.
Stressed? Discovering
Qi Gong,(via Google Video; low resolution)
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Any progress on the MeChat Mix CD For Charity drive?
Compulsive Reference Checking I've been watching tv/movies on my PC now, which has led to odd behavior: if any book is ever shown during the course of a show, no matter how briefly, I find myself pausing the show to immediately look up the book on the net to see what it's about. The same if anyone sings any songs.
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You are just a dreamer, and I am just a dream Does anyone have the version of "Like A Hurricane" from
Weld that they'd be willing to share? I'm writing an essay on Neil Young generally and "LAH" specifically, and am looking to compare the various recordings. I have the original (which is right
here) and the version from
Live Rust, but don't have
Weld at the moment. Thank you for your time.
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John Fahey instrumental acoustic blues Anyone ever listen to this guy? I have had the '97 re-issue of
The Legend of Blind Joe Death playing and can't get enough. It gives me goosebumps.
Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar I usually develop against Firefox with the Web Developer toolbar installed, and this seems to be a close analog for IE. Pretty slick.
Charts, we have charts. Now that the Last.FM group has surged to 39 members (woohoo! ... we surpassed the MeFi IRC group in just over 10 days), we're getting charts that are probably going to settle down a little better.
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Foment-Free Zone All fomenting strictly prohibited in this thread NO EXCEPTIONS
Music Box I'm playing some jazz (mostly) on Radio Mecha. Please tune in, if you're so inclined. 'Tune in' isn't really the appropriate phrase, is it?
It's not your birthday Though you may enjoy this mix. I was late putting it up this week, but it's still tasty pop from Africa, Japan, Iceland, Sweden, Jamaica, Italy, the UK and US.
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Dean & Me. What kind of guy laughs when you upstage his crooning with a piece of raw meat on a fork? Whoever he is, you'd better hang onto him: he's probably the best friend you'll ever have.
Jerry Lewis tells the story of his
partnership with Dean Martin in a
new book.
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This makes me very happy Does he make you happy too?
Whats your fave anim gif? I dig:
ascii bunny and
vi vi vi becomes the editor of the beast. Now show me yours!
Frontiers of Science! This
/. link discusses a gravity wave detection experiment, which seems to me reminiscent of the
Michelson-Morley experiment of yore. To think of all the cool E-M phenomena we now understand! What other sorts of things are on the forefront of exciting science these days?
Help me decide what to do today.. Mr. taz is out of town, I made lentil soup yesterday, so I won't need to do any cooking, and I'm half inclined to be productive, and half inclined to be a slug. Here are the exciting options:
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06 November 2005
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?y keyboard settings are very very zrong: they have szitched to another language as you see: this is not a joke: please help: i use osx: thanks: yes I already rebooted; and system, preferences appear to be set ok: thanks:
AskMecha: DVD playback on my puter. What's your favorite free software for playing DVDs on your XP computer?
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Sony Rootkit CDs →Read more...
Help, Green Fairies! I'm trying to find the best route to procure some absinthe for my best friend's birthday in two weeks. Has anyone had the experience of having it shipped to the US (prices are ridiculous) without trouble? Any alternate routes available? Can you recommend some brands that don't cost gazillions and thus won't bust this fairy's ass? Merci beaucoup!
I'll trade you an
eleven-minute live version of "Season of the Witch" by Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper and Steven Stills for the cover of it Richard Thompson did for Crossing Jordan.
It's soup time! I love to make make soups
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Goats and Trampolines: Together at Last The pictures that accompany this news item about a boy and his pet goats make me so, so happy. Thank you, internets, for bringing such a thing to my attention.
Willy Wonka's Father is Count Dooku!1! I'm a little slow, but I saw the stupid film last night.
05 November 2005
Guess that launch code! From 1960 until 1977, all U.S. Minuteman nuclear long-range ballistic missiles shared the same 8-digit launch combination: '00000000.'
I LOVE IT when i'm on vacation during an exciting time!
(this'll be the Paris update thread==more inside) : >
I HATE IT WHEN FRENCH RIOTERS TORCH MY CAR
I HATE IT WHEN TORRENTS SLOW DOWN TO A CRAWL WHEN THERE IS ONLY LIKE 2% LEFT!!! AHHHH!
People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people. I've just got back from a fantastic bonfire night. Fireworks, flames, toffee and baked potatoes. 400 years on, read about
Guy Fawkes, then watch (again) the trailer for
V for vendetta. Finally, listen to
this song by Attilla the Stockbroker.
metawishlist Why is everyone so &^#*ing 'meta' these days? Since when is Meta the new cool? And what's with the blue on this page? Seems .... familiar ... somehow.
I've been cooped up at home, sick, for four days. Yes, I'm ranting.
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Golden Silents. Silent Movie Stars. Their Lives, Their Films.
ears down As in unperky bunny.
I have a lot on my mind, nothing fit to be shared, but if you guys wanted to be silly on a thread*, it would cheer me up immensely.
*This one. Please?
A little dark music A mostly-repeat broadcast of Boring Radio from late last week, this time in daylight hours. Starting at 5 PM Eastern (about 15 mins. from now).
How guilty should I feel? So I've been dating a nice woman for about 3 months,
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Oh, that's why my printer came with a sample of photo paper
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Finnegan the Squirrel Can I
hear see a collective "awwwww"?
Gnarly Pumpkin Step one:
carve pumpkins. Step two: Let set for a week. Step three:
Gnarly Pumpkin!
Thanks I was in the dumps recently about what i was going through and was reaching out to mecha and got some nice responses from y'all. I'm a little embarrassed (cuz i waz a lil' drunk) but really it was nice.
Thank you.
Ask Mecha More More (Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill!). When I try to copy text from a pdf (hate! hate!), all I get is little boxes with scattered ampersands, dollar signs, etc. Does anyone else have that problem, or is it because of my Greek language support? Any idea how to fix?
Ask Mecha More A free Windows XP program to make inactive windows transparent (that is, alpha-blended)?
AskMecha: How do I add my google feedreader to my google customized homepage?
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04 November 2005
The Email Time Capsule. Send a harangue or words of positive affirmation to your future self, via email. Wierdly enough, a free service provided by your jowly capitalist friends at Forbes.
Yo Chicago... →Read more...
Babies Go Wild for Robert Plant I was playing music for my 16 month old little boy tonight. After he was done and got down, he started dancing and bouncing to the music. Which was sweet enough.
But when Led Zeppelin's Misty Mountain Hop came on, he came up to me and gave me a kiss for the first time ever. Just a peck on the neck and went back to shaking his tiny little groove thing.
Just too sweet not to share.
Ask Mecha: On my handheld, I had a program that allowed freehand drawing, but replaced the freehand shapes with the closest matching geometric shape. What's similar for the PC? [mi]
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Weird. So I learned this word from a difficult reading the other day, "instantiate",
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Look, I miss jonmc and hope he's okay and all, but
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Ask MeCha: When awaiting a shipment from DHL, what does a status of "Transit through sort facility" mean?
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The darkness. Today the sun came up at 07:17 and set at 15:48. And it's only November. It sucks.
Remember, remember, the 5th of November. Where can I find a nice Guy Fawkes mask to print out? Could you make me one? You know I've always admired your artistc skills.
Help me get a clue with audio stuff. Or don't.
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IT IS FRIDAY! I AM SO BUSY THAT THE TOP OF MY HEAD IS COMING OFF!
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what are your favourite buildings? with the caveat that you have to have seen the damn thing in real life. bonus points for url's with sexy architecture photos.
Off With His Thumbs! Nevada mayor wants to amputate thumbs of graffiti artists, live on television. Mayor also thinks caning is a good idea.
Whoa! I know this made the rounds a few years ago, but suddenly it seems like the perfect coffee table book!
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RSS Question: I assume from the dynamic bit in the lower right corner that "Recent MeFi
posts by Metachat users" uses RSS to spit out that data? Let's say I had a blog and I wanted to do the same thing. What's the best way to "call" that data? I noticed Friendster now has this functionality, too. All you have to do is paste the url and it prints headlines to your user page. I've never understood how to implement such a thing for personal use.
Hey, how come you can't have a really really really really really really really really really really really really really really
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Sharpie Minigame Play a Breakout clone, give up some personal information, and get a Sharpie Mini in the mail (while supplies last, natch). Or, alternately, just
buy some. I like Sharpies.
MeCha coding dream In RL I did a lot of reading other people's code yesterday. Last night I dreamed I was working on this piece of code and in the comments, one of the people who had edited it, back in 2001, was Specklet. Then I saw her on IRC and said "hey, I found some of your old code!" It was kind of cool.
AskMeCha: My boss doesn't know my name... So, I work part time as a law clerk at a firm while I'm in school. One of the guys-with-his-name-on-the-letterhead, a man in his 70s, has begun regularly addressing me by the wrong name. I don't care about that, but my question is: What's more polite, ignoring the error, or finding a way to subtly clue him in? And if it's the latter, how?
Protect your banana! Careful now. Don't bruise it!
Listen, people. This is a good song. Yeah, maybe it's a little too long. But you shouldn't just let it
die.
03 November 2005
Canasta--Please! Aaagh! I want to play online canasta with a friend, but I need Java and my system keeps telling me I don't have enough disc space to run Java... but I DO, I DO have enough disc space! How do I download Java (on XP Home) or find a free canasta site on the Web that doesn't need Java? Thanks!
I'm going to Paris tomorrow night! I'm going to Paris tomorrow night! : >
A Non-Philosopher's Guide to Philosophical Terms via that bastion of rampt intellectualism, fark.com
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How can 42 oz Arizona Tea be 30 cents cheaper than 20 oz Arizona Tea? No, this was not a sale nor a mislabelling, both sizes were next to each other on the shelf, and yes they were in the right spots. I understand economy of scale, but this is just plain weird.
An introduction to Clampers.
Deaf phone sex (kinda NSFW, ya know...)
How long does a person wait for Flickr? It's not a big deal, but I started using my Flickr account, and still am not showing up in the Metachat and Metafilter_users section.
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Random workout/medical question: Are you more likely to end up with exercise induced low blood sugar in the evening than in morning?
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How can I slack off if nobody
talks to me?
Photo of a pack of dogs attacking an alligator. *warning* - very graphic. Don't click if you're squeamish.
Did bugmenot.com move? A week seems like a long time for the domian name to have remained expired.
MetaAskMeChat : After the great discussion that developed last night in my AskMeChat venture, I question Matt's wisdom in trying to ban chattiness in AskMe.
My day is made. Richard Price interviews Dion DiMucci for Rolling Stone, 1976. I'll be off having orgasmic fits if anyone needs me.
Interesting article about the McMartin case, including an apology from one of the "victims" for lying. He made the whole thing up.
"I am a fashion god!" That Brownie, he did a heckuva job. Just read his email! (PDF alert...also kinda Newsfilter.)
"You son of a dick!" Ever hear somebody butcher an insult, either from unfamiliarity with the language or ignorance of the idiom?
Santorum to Imus: "Your wife called and says she wants a threesome."
It never fails, does it? Sooner or later these guys always show what they've really got going on inside them.
Karlheinz and Lucifer. 'Lucifer is still leading his rebellion against God and mankind. The problem is that almost nobody believes in the existence of Lucifer.' Karlheinz Stockhausen talks to the Independent.
Wow. I totally missed out on this meme, and... I'm glad.
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If these words were people, I would embrace their genocide"
...er, that is to say, the author of the page would. Not that I would. Necessarily. Which is to say, I don't endorse genocide. Or Linguicide. Or something.
My first Mecha dream! I guess, being a cult and all, it must happen to all of us. In the dream, I made a new post that went something like "Tell me the difference between a Venus Fly Trap and and an office chair. Also, contrast a falling piano with an Swiss cheese omelet."
So, uh, yeah, self fulfilling prophecy and all that.
How to make a set of bagpipes from PVC and some vinyl.
The Flower Mandala Project "For the past two years, I've been taking pictures of flowers and manipulating the images to form mandalas. "
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02 November 2005
Remember those choose your own adventure books? Are those books still around?
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AskMecha: Absurdist, surrealist blogs? →Read more...
A little dark music Boring Radio will be on the air at 10p Eastern (about an hour from now) with a set that is inspired by...
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Aspirin or acetaminophin? I did water aerobics for the first time today. I ache so bad I'm nauseous. Which is more likely to give me some relief?
Sally Go 'Round the Roses: The original, as performed by The Jaynetts, and a
recent cover by Caroleen Beatty and Heavy Friends.
AskMecha: Real pumpkin pie recipies? →Read more...
anyone know where this is now? I'd sure like to see this damn thing.
why do links expire? why??
Let's get cracking I had my bimonthly hissy-fit at the Blue where I remember why I canceled the feed. I walked home real fast-like and listened to this music. Enjoy.
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Bust Calculator and Bra Outrage The actual measurements of bras are not the same as they say they are. I for one am mad.
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Tinfoil House Click "Verdict due on electro-sensitivity" on the right hand side [video].
I couldn't help but roar with laughter when I saw the loft.
I hate scones Everybody around me loves them, but I can't be convinced. They seem like dry, crumbly turdballs that get stuck on the roof of your mouth. Am I alone? Am I missing something?
Wal-Mart's Got Beef with the
trailer (Quicktime) for the new anti Wal-Mart movie.
Don't let that get you down though, just
do the Chinese Wal-Mart Cheer!
Fernando Ferrer's ad attacking NYC Mayor Bloomberg [qt link] for his buddy buddy relationship with George W. comes off as more than a bit homophobic. The tag line? "He's not like Mike; he's more like you."
That said, if you live in NYC, do vote for Ferrer next week.
Are you a creative person? What do you craft/make/create/do/design/dream of?
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Phew! I just finished a huge buttload of work that has consumed every fibre of my being for the past couple weeks. And now it's over! And now I'm gonna slack off for the rest of the day!
Does anyone have some happy bouncy jangly guitarry music out there to post for me? pretty please? I'll dig some up too...
If I were a rich Brit "So... Ladies, your bunker or mine?"
Home sick. Sweating, exhausted and preparing for surgery on Friday. So, because it'll lift my spirits (and hopefully yours, here's some anthems about rock and roll itself
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Yikes! The MeCha book deadline came and went and I forgot to send my submission!
Is there still time to get it in? Pretty please with a cherry on top?
Ask MeCha When I am in the car, on a long trip, the game we play is to take the names of exits and append the last name of whoever is with me in the car to name their imagined children. Examples would be "Belvedere Genoa Steichmann," to use my last name, or "Paw Paw Lawton Chatfield" to use the last name of my girlfriend. Some sound aristocratic, some sound white trash ("Lucky Haskins Chatfield"), some sound deliciously exotic ("El Dorado Omega Steichmann").
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Can sombody parse this for me? Yes, obviously, it's the
sand art you can eat, but is there some significance to the hierarchy? How many licks of Jesus' blood does it take to get to the sweet black sin?
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Donde Esta Hugh Janus? Ethylene? →Read more...
wOOt! We just got broadband at work! →Read more...
Ask MeCha: Blackberry anyone? Any of you super savvys have one of these devices? Are you happy with it? on a scale of 1-5 when 1 is completely dissatisfied and 5 is completely satisfied How is coverage/line droppage? Is it a Sprint thing or GSM? If a cat is stripey and you shaved it, would its skin be stripey?
That is all.
Witnessing PC Abuse: I have just watched a colleague, at the other side of my office, install one of those "animated desktop backgrounds" with the bubbling waterfall and the flittering butterflies and the malicious spyware. I believe he also installed some "Free Screensaver!!!" as well. I weep for his CPU. Cruel, cruel man.
Roadsidepictures ads, signs and stuff from 50s and 60s--neato!
The Murine Kings Sing Songs of Love New Mice on the Block? Modest Mouse? The Future Sound of Mouston?
I've been digging on this mouse funk for a while, actually, but it sounds like it got a three on it.
Ask MetaChat: What is to be done?
01 November 2005
It’s just a silly phase I’m going through Is there a song you associate with your first big crush?
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I just ate collard greens and they were freakishly wonderful. Took some back to my room and am going to have a cold collard greens and Miracle Whip sandwich in the morning.
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Where are the weapons? / I have only those of my reason...
(main link may be NSFW)
Exactly thirty years ago,
Pier Paolo Pasolini was
murdered in Rome. In the main link, a hitherto unpublished (in English) poem, "Victory".
Ask MeCha Do young women over the age of 30 lust after attractive manfolk that are much younger than they are?
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Coffee Beer Yay! or Meh. ?
if the universe is expanding, what is it displacing?
Men With Buns. "some bunny needs you"
Rabbit information from Vancouver's Rabbit Rescue and Advocacy. And a nice calendar for people who like men who like bunnies. And bunnies that like men. I'm sure you know what I mean.
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Open warfare in the Senate. Harry Reid, the democratic leader, invokes a little-used rule to clear the gallery, lock the doors, and move the Senate into closed session. The topic: pre-war Iraq intelligence. Bill Frist, caught flat-footed, labels the move a stunt and a "slap in the face". Oh, snap!
This seems appropriate for MetaChat, considering the frequent mention of unicorns around here.
C'est Novembre So I know we had a thread about signups, but it's closed. Who here is attempting to do the NaNo thing this month?
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Devendra Banhart - "Quedate Luna" I just got the new CD on Saturday, and I've already played it straight through about nine times. (It's 74 minutes in length.)
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Proposal: Tom Waits should be adopted as the official musician of MetaChat, for the following reasons:
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Tenhunen is already prepared to begin the procedure with a warmed-up, artificial vagina in his hand. One bull mounts the other, then there is some some swift but gentle action with the vagina, and success is achieved - a "full load".
I couldn't sleep last night So I went and made y'all a mix cd. Big file; sorry dialup peeps.
Good morning! ... and remember, you read it here first.
Where have you been? A nifty application that maps out which countries of the world you have visited. Also, map which
US States,
Canadian Provinces, and
European Countries you've been to. Blog-postable images ensue.
Women with voices I love... →Read more...
would you rather be happy, or be right?
31 October 2005
what do you know... →Read more...
What To Do About Halloween. "Are you haunted by the question of whether your family should celebrate Halloween? Here are some fun alternatives." A resource on redeeming Halloween made available by your friends at Focus On The Family.
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Secret of the Pied Piper? Valerian? Who Knew? "
Valerian has an effect on the nervous system of many animals, especially cats, which seem to be thrown into a kind of intoxication by its scent. It is scarcely possible to keep a plant of Valerian in a garden after the leaves or root have been bruised or disturbed in any way, for cats are at once attracted and roll on the unfortunate plant. It is equally attractive to rats and is often used by rat-catchers to bait their traps. It has been suggested that the famous Pied Piper of Hamelin owed his irresistible power over rats to the fact that he secreted Valerian roots about his person."
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Spooky music to download for tonight? What are some good songs I can burn to a CD to play to scare kiddies with?
I think my brain is loose.
Eight galleries of gigantic women, and one gallery of
gigantic meat. The meat is safe for work. The women aren't.
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I got an apple divider the other day, and it's really oddly satisfying. I find myself eating more apples now, just to be able to use it. What tools or machines do you find satisfying/therapeutic?
Circulus (38 MB .mov) More
here.
The Autumn of the Patriarch by
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ (Translated, from the Spanish, by Gregory Rabassa). More inside.
Pugs on Bikes! PetSmart's Howl-O-Ween Pet Costume Contest ...
Another Neutral Milk Hotel song Let's get more NMH on our Last.fm charts, shall we?
TRON. For your amusement, a networked 3D Tron lightcycle game. Completely free, multi-platform, and highly addictive.
Live the greatest movie EVAR!
Your MeCha Halloween Rock Jukebox Starter Kit →Read more...
I let her get away. So yeah, every time I upload something to yousendit, I drop you guys a link. Enjoy! Or don't! It's totally open-ended!
The Party is Dead. Long Live the Party. Yeah, that Bloc Party being number one was so faux-hipster of us. We had to go unseat those poseurs and make our top artist the unfiltered, undeniable brilliance of one Modest Mouse!
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hi My Aunt just died (not distant). ask.mefi contains no data. What would you do? What should I do? ...hurting
30 October 2005
Pink Floyd Trade Freely. Not For Sale.
TOMORROW (the future) I will turn twenty-five. This means that when we approximate my age to one significant figure, I shall be THIRTY.
WHERE IS MY HIP REPLACEMENT & SHIT.
I was going to post this in the Ali thread on mefi... but Mefi died before I could post it, so here it is
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Music Box Dub reggae, Afrobeat, maybe some jazz, you know how it is.
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Repent, sinners! The practice of
Flying Spaghetti Monsterism is really a sanitized take on the demonic
Killer Spud of pagan folklore! Do you really want
THIS to accept your immortal soul?
Yeah, Stephen Baldwin. He was in town and dropped by for church today.
I also saw two people I knew from the gym there as well. Come to find out I played at the wedding of one of them. (long story, short version being her m-i-l put the wedding together for her, and I was handy.)
So how was your Sunday?
Spoooky Here's a lovely, haunting song with enough musical saw to last you for a while.
MetaChat survey. Be honest, now How much food do you normally download off the internet? (Extra points if you use bit torrent.)
For Halloween, the
Bride of Frankenstein suite, and Dr. Frankenstein screaming "
It's alive! Alive!" from
Frankenstein.
MetaChat Survey, Please Enlighten How much do you spend on groceries per week? (Extra points if you live alone.)
Thanks for all the Phish. A special shout out and thanks to all of the fantastic DJs at Radio Mecha! The good stuff played and the great variety makes me a little melancholy for the old days - like, 2002.
Antenna Radio was
still broadcasting, and y2karl was DJing drylongso, which was the most amazing compilation of swing, blues, jazz and folk, mostly from the 40s and 50s, some later, some earlier. They also had Otis Fodder broadcasting, and some crazy Japanese pop that was lots of fun. Anyone else remember it fondly, or know of other stations like y2karl's?
Now there's something i dont have One of the ads on teevee this Sunday afternoon was for a huge Philips MRI scanner.
Anyone else seen ads they dont understand why they were made?
Help me with my screen The yellow circle on the mecha front page, it's a circle not an oval, right?
I just want to say... that the Mythbusters episode where they are punching sharks (!!!) is the best thing I have ever seen on TV.
What is the greatest thing you have ever seen on the boob tube?
Leopard Skin Pill Box Radio How about a little Bob Dylan?
AskMeCha: Help! I'm going to see the
Tiger Lillies!→Read more...
it is raining! →Read more...
Paul Smith's Typewriter Art continues to fascinate. This site's been around for a while, but it's always nice for a revisit. All the art was done on a typewriter.
Radio taz: A Sunday Kind of Love I've put together a sort of happy jazzy bluesy Sunday show for you...
if I've done things right... Update: Now Playing!→Read more...
It's my birthday, so you all have to listen to
this song by The Residents. BYE
or sell or buy bye or sell or buy...
Something for HalloWeenies: RetroCrush's 100 scariest movie scenes of all time. Boo!
Ask Mecha: Any Audiograbber users here? I just installed it, and I have a problem I can't seem to figure out. It doesn't show (in the application itself) or record file information (artist name, song name, etc.).
Here's a screen capture that shows what the tracks look like in the application, how the general settings are configured, and what the saved mp3 file name looks like.
Neither does the file info show up in winamp when playing an mp3 created with Audiograbber. What have I overlooked?
turn your watch, turn your watch back, about a hundred thousand years...
/public service announcement
Damnit, Amberglow Stop deleting your posts. First I tried to comment on your bush picture thread and now with the time post. But noooo, you deleted it!
Big Ole Halloween Saturday Night I drank some beer, watched two movies and went to bed. What did y'all do?
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29 October 2005
Help me, Metachat! Ok. For Halloween, help me quickly. There was a story that I read in a high school literature textbook anthology thing that was about a ne'er-do-well who screws up various jobs before getting hired as a professional mourner (due to his grave countenance). It's a sardonic little story, and I thought that iw was written by Brecht (or another German). Thing is, I can't find any mention of it and I can't remember the title (and I'm not even positive about Brecht writing it).
Can you help me? Does anyone else remember this? I don't think it was Wallace Shawn's Designated Mourner, since it was definitely a story and not a play...
Yellow Mustang Registry Who knew there was such a thing?
I've got some binnies, mister, fluffly little bunnies... [embedded qt]
Your #1 Internet resource for all cultural references to "Stinking Badges". This might come in handy some day. Or not.
Richard Thompson "Hot For the Smarts" The Richard Thompson song "Hot for the Smarts" is wonderful and hilarious. Does anyone know where it is possible to get it/download it?
"Just find a girl, with faraway eyes..." Do you know a girl with faraway eyes?
I do. Or did rather. I only caught her eye for a brief while. Still, she was one of the top three loves of my life.
Frisbee Girl is our linguistic overlord. Yesterday, she posts a wish for
susurrus. Today, it's the dictionary.com
Word of the day.
I beg her to use her power wisely.
Glamorous Romances, January 1952, No. 57 (a complete issue--and caption contest, found via our very own joelf's
culturehole)
Re-run Re-playing Boring Radio 2 for you daylight-hours types...
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Buchanan & Goodman These guys were inadvertent pioneers and advertantly funny motherfuckers back in the early days of rock and roll. They more or less pioneered the concept of "sampling," which is the back bone of hip-hop, electronica and many other modern genres. And even got dragged into court for it.
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This is the last straw!!!! It's a drizzly, dreary day, and I need some cheering up. If you do, too, go have a look at
A Gallery of Color. It's like happy pills for the eyes.
Boring Radio 2 now playing... ...hopefully a little more organized this time. :)
Friday night shut-ins! I need you! Come and
chat!
CIA says: Slack Off Nice flickr set of a 1980s CIA manual on how to conduct sabotage in Central America.
The Onion's Revenge They recently were asked by the White House to stop using the presidential seal in satire... here's their revenge [via eschaton, kinda nsfw].
28 October 2005
Who coined "Fitzmas"? I started seeing the term about a week ago on the usual suspects' blogs:
Atrios, TPM, and
DailyKos. It's a great neologism.
Celebrated California composer and seminal Minimalist Terry Riley presents a concert of a broad range of his works. Performers will include Terry Riley, Fred Frith, Mills students, the Del Sol String Quartet, John Ingle, Sarah Cahill, Joseph Kubera, others.
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Should We Ban Boxing? The usual arguments against the "sweet science" cut many ways.
There seems to be much suckage right now I wish there was a way to give everyone some real respite from the sadness and pain, but for now, may hugs and hand holding and soft susurrus abound and take the edge off.
NYC people free? I am in NYC for a few days. I am free during the day. If anyone in the area would like to grab a drink Sat during the day, I'm buying. I'm staying at over at Cent Park. E-mail me if you are free.
(And I posted this here because I think I am suppose to take time off until Sat. on MeFi).
Ciao.
I'm off to the comic book shop To get some good trades paperbacks. What are your favorites? I thought Top 10 was fantastic
Beat, beat, I need a beat Since a mixture of uploading problems and a lack of international timezone comprehension (I thought we were five hours LATER than GMT— please don't laugh at my American lack of dateline comprehension) led me to miss the official MetaChat Mix deadline, I shall visit upon you my vengence.
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Linux: is it awesome or is it totally wack? →Read more...
Hot Autism Titles! Is this ad from Brookes Publishing Company a little ill conceived maybe?
TravelChat: Milan. The amore—it is inside.
THIS IS A SHOUTING THREAD FOR LEEJAY!
Metachat, my life was meaningless without you! No internet and no Metachat make LeeJay something something...
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It’s my birthday: Pop a
cold one, and
help yourselves to some cake.
You can party until you
pass out, but
please,
don’t drink and drive.
27 October 2005
Form as content. The subject of so many songs is the art itself...
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music box While I wait for this pumpkin cheesecake to bake, here's some more Radio Mecha.
AskMeCha: I can't get a subtitle file to play with a movie--help!!
Fitzmas Gifts? Bets and predictions: who'll get what from Fitzgerald? And who, if anyone, has sung like a canary?
Get on the record while the indictments still remain sealed!
I don't like this, but some of you girls might. Too cutesy-pie for me.
Oh my I can't even think of an approriately clever title for this video. But I can't help but be impressed.
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Winger: "Oh, it's not the speed really so much, I just wish I hadn't drunk all that cough syrup this morning."
The latest liberal atrocity
Some left-wing stooge at the MSM rag USA Today used Photoshop's sharpen tool to turn Condoleezza Rice into a demon! Will they stop at nothing?
Paranoid but not fooled. Is sanity just a shared illusion?
Researchers at the London university found that schizophrenics are not fooled by visual illusions that easily trick non-schizophrenics.
Must be all those scallywags who post inline images! (in reference to
this). But you can't see that thread right now because somewhere, a ColdFusion element is crying at its desk.
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Warriors, come out to playyyayy I totally missed this movie until a few weeks ago. They've been showing it to promote the new video game release. I LOVED it. I never saw it because it was a "boy" movie. I thought the same thing about "Jaws" and that's one of my favorites. What movies did you think you'd hate, but actually loved?
But she did it very meticulously! And she sent a cute card to announce it! She's the most organized EVAR! [Newsfilter]
another desktop? See inside.
White Sox World Champions!! The start of a great Fitzmas? We await another grand-slam victory from Illinois!
26 October 2005
"hippie shit" --i had to look this up as i got to glimpse the ad in the bookstore
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Best song about the working week. ever. From my beloved
Bottle Rockets.
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BUSH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT AWAY MESSAGES! A friend of mine put this away message up on GoogleTalk weeks ago, and it still makes me laugh. What funny away messages have you seen recently?
Greatest baseball sing-offs Given that John Cicada(sp?) just worbled in my earhole - who's the best youve heard, and exactly how behind the baseball am i? whitesox are up 3 points to nil apparently.
Uniform fetish 1) Am I unusual for having the hots for white lab coats but absolutely no interest in medical-instrument-play?
2) Is this Dana Scully's fault?
Car Karaoke! (mp3) A Renault Formula 1 V10 engine sings Queen's "We Are the Champions." (An explanation
here.)
btw TARGET LIES: i mentioned in a comment somewhere about an unusually nice letter i got in receipt of my writing them. now i know why.
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This reviewer's gonna get iced by a ninja if he doesn't look out.
Mixup Ends. All swappers will have got the e-mail now. Please don't submit any more mixes now, I simply haven't got the time to deal with them. Sorry. For those of you who got in on time: Enjoy!
I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too?
Monkeyfilter down Oops, wrong forum.
Have you ever made notes to yourself... that make perfect sense to you, but would be baffling/amusing to others?
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The NBA season begins next week. Will Darko Milicic -- the gawky European teenager who was picked second overall in the 2003 draft and subsequently became a laughingstock as he languished at the end of the Pistons' bench -- finally be
freed?
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*YAWN* sips coffee. smiles.
Improving Bittorrent speeds? →Read more...
Boring Radio is testing.... Anybody awake at 3 AM (eastern) on a Wednesday?
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25 October 2005
Superlager trading cards. I'm going to get the Amsterdam Maxinator for maximum street cred.
box radio Presuming it's working okay, I'm playing things right now. Let me know if you're listening.
Peanuts! I just finished watching It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown with Pips. As realxing and life affirming as a hit of Valium. I imagine it is to most of my generation. But the question is this: which Peanuts character are you?
Hey, MeChas! There's a group of people over on MeTa trying to organize an active World of Warcraft guild again. See
this thread for details.
iBelieve
Do you?
Actually, I don't believe but I think this is pretty clever even if it is fake.
Last.FM group stats! Hey, I'm just using this for people who missed the other thread -- you can join a MeCha group on Last.FM, and listen to our "group radio" whenever the MeCha radio is down. ;-)
But since we got enough members, they gave us
group stats, possibly worth discussion.
Top artist: Bloc Party, followed by The Shins/Beatles/Go! Team/Radiohead/Beck.
Top songs: Shins, "So Says I", Radiohead, "Karma Police", and some Arcade Fire.
Pretty indie, not overly Radiohead-y, very little Coldplay. But the group radio, which I spent a couple hours listening to yesterday, is a lot more varied than that, because it draws from the entire recorded playlist of the membership.
There's a lot of trance/electronica, and a surprising amount of classic/roots rock, like Howlin' Wolf. (I'd blame jonmc, but he's not a member -- under that ID anyway)
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Codes! Goodness gracious, I'm going crazy.
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Askmecha: Please help me stay awake. I've had about 2hrs of sleep in the past 24 hrs. I'm sitting here at work practically in tears coz i'm so tired. I can't go home coz i was sick a while back and took a bunch of sick time so it will look bad if i just up and leave. I'm on my 4th cup of 4 extra shots (yah, 4) of coffee, i now have the jitters and generally feel like crap. I also have about 6 hours to go before i can leave the office. Any suggestions?
Have you ever made notes to yourself... and then couldn't decipher them?
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Interview with an honest boss NSFW if your boss is within earshot and doesn't have a sense of humor.
Am I the only person who now chuckles whenever they see the word "consensus"? This is not meant to be a dig at anyone. I just, really, have this semiautomatic chuckle whenever I see the word "consensus" on any forum/BBS. Is it just me?
Post yer favourite strip(s) from your favourite comic(s)
Weasels Your vote counts.
Entre Nous. I'm offering
two songs for download. Both are about the same thing; something difficult to put into words. They're about the distance between two people in even the closest relationship. Do you know any other songs like these?
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*YAWN* sips coffee. blinks.
I have issues! But everybody does, right? I think, though, that my issues are reely reely bad - but perhaps they are pedestrain. It might help me to hear what other folks' issues are. Being too chicken shit to come out and share my issues, I understand if nobody shares either!
Blah!
Is this an omen? I was just about to post a call for a Toronto Meetup when the site went down.
Is this portentous of.... anything?
Now on C-SPAN2 "Intelligent Design" proponent whines about the persecution of his co-religionists.
Anybody want a desktop thingy? Here's the weird one I'm using right now, and
here's another one of those kind of faux '70s things I was doing earlier. (1024 x 768 dual monitor. Thumbnails inside.)
misheard lyric thread: simple
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the indiscretion thread: be as blunt or oblique as you like.
one rule applies: this thread is like vegas,
anything you say stays there.
Jello City! San Franciso in jello!
Wish Upon a Storm. It's raining in lots of places. Since you guys are so good about sharing music with me, I thought I'd share right back. My transcription of the lyrics
here.
Always a Goonie! I just rewatched
The Goonies last night.
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24 October 2005
"give me your cheese-- --your pop, your tired old chestnuts--"
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For amberglow I Love Paris. Les Negresses Vertes doing a tribute to Cole Porter.
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Most significant world events you remember.
The original shock-rocker! →Read more...
Hobosexuals. For lovers of old hobos, drifters, and railroad men.
NSFW.
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Dubai: The local climate is subtropical and arid, with a very high seasonal temperature variation. In summer (March to October) it is very hot, with temperatures around the 40° Celsius (105° Fahrenheit) mark during the day. Winters are much more bearable, with a drop to 10° Celsius (50° Fahrenheit) at times.
In other words, Dubai is the perfect location for a
ski resort [WARNING: volume].
Home What makes a place 'home' for you?
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I just got back from a week in new england and I see something in metatalk about a fundraiser. Cursory reading leads me to believe that Matt started a fundraiser with the goal being to get alex and dios to stop posting. Am I way off here or did that actually happen?
Minutes away from just quittin'. But fuck it, I'll maintain; someday I'll be hittin'.
Post Zombie Walk Report Cars, malls, dancing to Thriller, crashing a violence rally, and scaring a lot of people.
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Anyone know where I can get a mongoose? →Read more...
What are your three favorite smells? →Read more...
Painterly Cloud Ceilings... Has anyone ever painted a cloud ceiling? They're so
dreamy. And
calming. I'm going to attempt one myself but had to share
this kit, which has the added bonus of bunny templates.
Something new for jonmc You won't find much (if any)of this on mainstream Christian radio.
MeCha Charity Mix CD Silent Auction! (revisited) There seems to be a good amount of interest in participating. Shall we firm things up? [more inside]
This is my official birthday post. Because it's my birthday, and because I can. : )
Also celebrating today: Kevin Kline, Bill Wyman, F. Murray Abraham, Caprice, Monica, Corey Dillon, Kenny Holmes, Ron Gardenhire, Mary Bono, B.D. Wong, and the United Nations.
Classic Poem Daily A little treasure in my email every morning.
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eureka street: tell the dodgygeezer why he should make time to read this book
The Sculptor. Calatrava called the shape of his building “helicoidal”, then drew a human body, torqued like a tennis player in mid-swing. He then sketched a tree trunk. Finally, he drew a lovely spiral, and explained that what he had in mind was a tall tower that rose organically, in a way that echoed natural forms.
Santiago Calatrava's
Turning Torso,
Malmö.
* Looks in mirror. Sees fool. * I owe Jessamyn an apology for being such a jerk to her.
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I am holding Richard Price hostage. I will consider an exchange for an undisclosed number of non-consecutive, unmarked beers at a pre-established drop point.
Tea Time. I'm having a cup of
Stash Chai right now. It's heavenly; it tastes like Christmas. I found a tea shop that sells 10 bag sampler packs of most of Stash's teas. Via an AskMe post yesterday, I discovered
adagio, and now Stash. I love tea - loose or bagged, red, green, black, or white. Tea lovers, represent!
Oliver's Army: who is the Oliver referred to in the song?
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Something amazing is going to happen! →Read more...
What is it? A charming unusual objects blog.
Have you ever eaten cornflakes on the velcro moon?
iClip has nothing to do with Apple. {flash and sound}
Teleology according to Guinness. An advertising approach you won't see in the States. Sigh. [Quicktime.]
23 October 2005
What's Cookin, Good Lookin? →Read more...
AskMecha: One hour with tech support produced nada. For some ungodly reason, I can no longer upload files or send attachments through email... that would be POP or web based.
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You can say that again! "You never want to hear the word 'tear', and you never want to hear the word 'fluid'."
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How can I become a MeFi celebrity? What would I have to do to become a genuine MeFi
celeb? I'm happy with my contributions so far and I try to keep a cap on any online addictions so I have time for family and all the rest but I am interested in the process so - any "celebs" got some advice on how you became so well known?
I wanted to do something to say congrats to dabitch. So I got a friend to help me write this.
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Inspired by Smedleyman’s now-infamous FPP on MeFi, I’d like to post something which I feel is important and needs to be discussed. So without further ado, here are all 22,795 lines of Elias Lönnrot’s adaptation of the traditional Finnish
Kalevala – including the Preface, Proem, and all 49 runes:
oh damn my keyboard's broken
Mecha Mixswap. Don't forget that the deadline is Wednesday!
I'm baaack! →Read more...
TV Families. Which one are you a spawn of? Last night I was watching a rerun of
That 70's Show and realized that my mom & dad
are Red and
Kitty. You?
And if that's boring here's a great
Donnas song. (they remind me of the fluff-haired mallrat chicks I spent my adolescence lusting after)
Hear ye, hear ye. Turns out kmellis is a pretty cool guy after all.
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braaaaiiiiiins Come on out for my zombie walk. 'Going to be a blast.
Stylistic Consistency Has Got Me Down Honour. Valour. Colour. I learned to spell not so much in school (though I thank them for teaching me to spell "business" and "cat"), but from reading. And, quite coincidentally, it appears that most of my books were written by British authors. That means that, as American as I am, I learned that flavour is spelled flavour, not "flavor". However, I was not raised British, and apparently the effects of British spelling have been restricted to the "or/our" variation, "paedophilia", and "diarrhoea". I never picked up "connexion" or some of the other differences.
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It's the first annual (ever!) MetaChat Halloween Stuff-Carving Contest.
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FoodPornWatch --exhaustingly extensive list of foodbloggers and when they last updated (i was looking for paris food stuff)
22 October 2005
I checked a book out of the library and the type is fucking
Fraktur. How awesome is that?
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Three-A-Day What three things do you try and do everyday?
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Music Time. Me & the Mrs. are going to see
James McMurtry tonight
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me3dia's Charity Mix CD Silent Auction (bump): I'm really into doing this, both offering a CD mix and buying, and I don't want it to get buried.
] more inside, natch [
Fun With Jalapenos. So I sneezed while eating a veggie burrito filled with lots of jalapenos. A determined squadron of peppers somehow went right up my nose. I'd imagine getting a shot of pepper spray to the face feels similar.
Having just spent ten minutes flailing, thrashing and nose-blowing, I'm curious what similar food experiences you've had...?
Songs about Elvis There's one on the new Neil Young album, called "He Was The King". There's also "Porcelain Monkey" by Warren Zevon and, of course, "Elvis Is Everywhere" by Mojo Nixon. I know there must be others. Help a bunny out?
Time Travel Puzzle Ok, let's say you were able to go back in time - to medieval Europe (a popular time travel destination) - and you could bring one item with you... one item that would hopefully make you a formidable and all-powerful presence. What would you bring? The kicker is, you can't bring anything that relies on advanced technology(ies) to work (i.e. computers, guns, iPods, bullhorns). So what would you bring?
AskMeCha— MATH Ok. I got challenged by a friend to figure this out, and even with the combined efforts of my incredibly large brain and the large brain of my pal the math major (now an actuary), we couldn't get the solution.
There are two poles, one 15 feet high, the other 9 feet high. If you draw a line from the top of one to the base of the other, and vice versa, the lines intersect six feet above the ground. How far apart are the poles?
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it has been a good day. i thank you all and hope to eat much seafood
Ack!! Help!! Talk me into something... or out of something - or something, won't you? Kitty lust story inside.
Rocket Mania!!! I hate video games but I love this one! The fuses remind me of Dr. Seuss. My best score on Normal is 212592.
Wooooo! I'm breaking the first rule! Posting under the infulence!!! What will I type here that I'll wake up in the morning and regret?! Find out inside!
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"i want a bunny isle--" --that i can call my own
a funny bunny no one else can steal--"
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I am so stressed that my left eye is twitching.
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I don't know how to sew... but I want to make something.
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21 October 2005
HOO! Hoo-Hoo! HOO! HOO! So, we have a
Great Horned Owl living somewhere right behind our backyard now. Sweet.
Cats, you now
definitely have to stay indoors after dusk.
One Question.... Caption this pic.
"I did it for Jonny--" --it's true. i said it before, suggested it since, but i'm asking for sanctioned back up now
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Has anybody invited Miguel Cardoso over here? He actually posted over in Meta today...I would love to see my evil twin over here in the bunnypatch.
* mixes up a vat of Jell-O *
the 김치 breath was refreshing so this is sad: "I give up. I just don't think I fit in MetaKos."→Read more...
Waxhoff. And there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.
Gummer --that's Tom DeLay's Prison Bitch name. Get your own--they're all the rage in Republican circles, i hear. ; >
Minimiam pics--fab
and delish.
MeCha Charity Mix CD Silent Auction! Based on a comment in
this thread, I suggest we set up a charity silent auction of mix CDs by MetaChat folk.
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Moscow Cats Theatre 20 CATS! 2 DOGS! 8 CLOWNS! WALKING TIGHTROPES! DEATHDEFYING BALANCING ACTS! JUMPING! DANCING! ACROBATICS!
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it's already friday, and soon it will be friday night...
Radio Dodgy urbanwhaleshark. Another impromptu session happening now. By the way, please get in touch if you'd like to do a session.
For Omie Omie said he would marry me so I hereby consumate our interneted union with these two songs, very near and quite dear.
Bascom Lamar Lumsford - Little Turtle Dove
Henry Thomas - Bob Mckinnley (aka one of the best songs EVER)
Baby Bean! We had our first ultrasound this morning and I'm not sure if it can be called a baby yet as its just about nine weeks in now but I saw its little heart beating in the
ultrasound this morning and I am EXCITED!
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Turd Blossom meet Snot Flower Beware the Zombie Lesbian Bone-Eating Worms from the Deep.
Snakes on the brain So last night, I had a dream, and that python from the toilet was there.
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Guitars, Cadillacs, Hillbilly Music... What's yer favorite country (countrified is okay for you dabblers) music?
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I've been reading Flannery O'Connor all week; so this is my post about Elizabeth Cotten. It must be because
I've been Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad (mp3).
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A beautiful Perle is introduced to the world! Dabitch is a mama!!!!! Photo of da happy family inside.
Impromptu Booze-Up? Tonight Me & Divine Wino (and possibly Hugh) are going to be enjoying libations at our customary saloon (Antarctica at Hudson & Spring). Anyone else wanna come? We usually start around 5.
That shirt looks very becoming on you... →Read more...
Office Monkey Hell This thread is to highlight the hell of customer service/technical support queries. If you've ever had to work with the public lets hear your worst stories. I don't want to hear any sympathy for the public either, make a new thread if'n you want to talk about miserable customer/technical support you've had.
Important advice for future generations: 1. The titles of all the best Paul Newman movies start with H. 2. George Jones albums: buy the ones which feature a cover photo of him with a crew cut; avoid the ones which do not. What advice do you have for our children's children?
MeCha Last.FM group I went ahead and created one. We've got one for MeFi and MeFi IRC, why not one for MeCha? Especially since this has been such a musically oriented place.
There will be no forum at Last.FM.
20 October 2005
Not cool. I'm just jealous.
Carrot Juice is Murder! Coleslaw is a facist regime!
Please assuage my feelings of ineptness. →Read more...
A clinic in effective web design.
48 hours. I think this might be my first post here. Actually less than 48 hours and I'll be a married woman.
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A seasonally ice-free Arctic for the first time in 800,000 yrs? (PDF)
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This is very disappointing. No orange jumpsuit? No drunken stare?
I'm bored. Play with me. Or ask me a question. Or something.
Anyone here have a Total Fark account? →Read more...
Nice photos at Zendom. Some favorites:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6. Thumbnails and categories at "archives".
So I go to get something to eat and... →Read more...
This post has nothing to do with quonsar! →Read more...
Yell at the machine BUREAUCRACIES STINK. PEOPLE IN BUREAUCRACIES WHO DON'T DO THEIR JOBS STINK. PEOPLE WHOSE COWORKERS KNOW AND ADMIT DON'T DO THEIR JOBS ANNOY ME, WASTE MY TIME, AND AFFECT MY HEALTH IN A DIRECT MANNER.
IT'S ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU CRAZY. WHICH DEFEATS THE PURPOSE IN AN ASTOUNDINGLY LITERAL MANNER.
ARG.
This website is a non-smoking area. Please extinguish all cigarettes before entering. Fine: $100.
MeFi CD Swap Just a note to point out that this is back in action
via cmonkey. I've updated the address in the right-side mefi-related links, so you can find your way there easily any time.
I like looking at interior design books and magazines. Loft books. Nest Magazine. Etc. I also like smashing things up. So I'm curious:
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19 October 2005
Inspired by the animated character thread: Let’s say you’re the
Cobra Commander, and you need to choose an apprentice, Trump-style.
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Hank Scorpio What animated character would you like to be?
CampBlood--Horror for Homos their tagline: Be Afraid. Be Fairy Afraid.
"-- and when i win the lottery-- --i'm gonna buy all the girls on my block--"→Read more...
Strangest MeFi Meme Ever. Driving up Hwy 101 in California, I saw an 18-wheeler hauling BIG pipes. On the cab was the name "Cabrera, Corona CA", but on the BACK of the cab, visible over the load of BIG pipes were (painted professionally, not graffiti) the words "Flash Friday". Wazzup with that?
Drinkin' music Drinking music
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IF YOU DON'T LIKE SHOUTING, IGNORE THIS THREAD! →Read more...
Radio Dodgy mudpuppie. Broadcasting right now
, but just for an hour or so. Come on in.
I have mad cow. →Read more...
Metachat Mix-up. Here we go again, a little later than promised. The deadline is 8pm GMT (3pm EST) on Wednesday 26th October
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"The problem with Carlos is that once
Erich was dead, he saw the entire musical world as a surrogate. When he cancels a concert, he is killing his father, when he conducts a great performance, he is identifying with him".
Conductor Carlos Kleiber, "
elusive Titan of the podium" and
Erich's son, a perfectionist who
intensely dislike recordings ("every unproduced record is a good record"), worked only sporadically (sometimes canceling engagements at the last moment), never gave a press interview, never hired a media agent and conducted all his own negotiations for contracts. His recordings are as few as one might expect. Of his recording of Beethoven's 5th, one critic wrote: "
It was as if Homer had come back to recite the Iliad". Now, we can admire Kleiber in the "
Carlos Kleiber - The Legend" DVD set.
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You're a loose cannon, and there's no place for you on the force! I don't care if it goes all the way to the mayor's office! You got your partner killed, and you're gonna get yourself killed! Turn in your badge and your gun officer! You're supposed to be a cop, not a one man wrecking machine!
I like 80's art punk music, like the
Talking Heads and
Devo. But I'm not familiar with much else... {supplemental information inside}
Caption This Photograph This may not be safe for work. I really can't tell.
AskMeCha Looking for other peoples experiences and thoughts on undergraduate schools for non-traditional students.
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Bill O'Reilly on Daily Show For anyone who didn't see it. I was hoping they would really throw down, and they didn't so much, but there was one great exchange:
Stewart: I will say this: We do add insult to injury --
O'Reilly: You do. See? He's an honest man.
Stewart: -- but you add injury.
Orson Welles vs Findus. As requested (sort of) in the "Touch of Evil" thread. And because you're all such swell guys, have a bonus Orson:
Gonk!
NOAA's Ark - a virtual boatload of fins, fur, and feathers.
Ancient Game Pieces. I don't know if you'll like these... I'm just always fascinated by early artifacts that have to do with fun and leisure as opposed to tools (though also cool!) and houseware-type stuff.
Hey you. What's your sign?
Holy-crap-I-was- on-tv-and-here-it-is!
in French and a large download. It's about Scotland Yard.
Cartoon Brew --chock full o'
nuts cartoony and animated goodness.
18 October 2005
As difficult as it may be, I think Miss Dixie needs her own thread.
RIP, Miss Dixie. I'm sure you had a great life.
Cheers.
I have mad cow. →Read more...
It's been a wild day on Mecha, so here is a picture of unicorns (in the tradition of Boingboing).
Touch of Evil: →Read more...
Powderfinger by Neil Young. What the hell is that song actually about? I've heard it a million times and musically it's incredibly powerful, but I can't put my finger on the topic. Neil himself is mum on it. Are the protagonists frontier soldiers/homesteaders? in Vietnam? Drug smugglers? I'm baffled. Still a great song, though.
If you were president.... what song would you pick to replace "Hail to the Chief?"
I like the Kill Bill theme meself....what say ye?
See Thru Potty, Fun for the Whole Family Sadly, the Babywunder Deluxe Clear Potty is sold out. From the ad "
Never again will you need to do the finger dip-stick or slosh-n-listen test."
This Ask-Me post really pissed me off. It's a shame that such a nut-bag has such a sweet username. The guy is ready to slander people as pedophiles over a disagreement about parking spaces.
Charles Rocket Has Killed Himself. A sad final note to a career that never quite took off.
Fun with Google Translation This is the thread, in which we speak only in the sentences, which run repeated times many by Google translation are left. Hardest to understand the best one.
Please help ostracize a child. I'm not enough of a dick to do this on AskMe (on MeFi, maybe)... But since the asker seems to want to come up with names that ensure a level of either persistant mockery or overt priveliged class association, I thought I'd post my suggestions here.
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Cheney takes it up the arse! (We can't be blamed for living in hope.)
Let's have makeup sex. (I just got to the "Sometimes Metachat makes me sad" thread, and am only a little bit in.)
Dum (weeeooo) Da-da-da-dum (weeeooo) Da-da-da-dum (weeeooo) Da-da-da-dum (weeeooo).... Name that riff!
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Guvf vf gur rapelcgvba guernq. Rirelguvat zhfg or rapelcgrq. Cvpx lbhe snibevgr nytbevguz.
The Climate Mash. Bobby "Boris" Pickett returns to save the planet. [Flash] [sound] [dreadful]
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NutellaFilter: I'm confused. Does Nutella contain trans fat or not?
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Super Metariffic MetaAskMe So, my questions on AskMe lately have been "What is this tune", for tunes stuck in my head. So my question now is about those questions. Why are there so few questions like that? Do y'all not get songs stuck in your head? Or is it that you do, but it doesn't bother you that you don't know what they are? Or is it that you do, but you quickly realize what they are and who they're by? Or is it that you have some other resource for identifying them?
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Forging the future on an anvil of fire. Brainstorming ideas about discussion fora, and more mixed metaphors inside!
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Scotty's last flight. Cool, but you have to wonder about
the safety of the next folks into the final frontier.
Johnny Applejack - a new drink. →Read more...
A candy-colored clown For three nights in a row now, I've had dreams where a certain someone from my past is, y'know, reaching out for my hand and saying my name and whatnot. How would you respond to this situation?
Worldly KitKats What flavors of KitKats do you have in your part of the world? Today I found Wine and Noir.
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this post will be initiated by buffy quotes:
"SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!"
"Sometimes my life sucks beyond the telling."
quote as you will from what you will, but hey, some continuity or logic might be nice, even if only one non posting person gets it--
and hey, look, it's a new millenium
Sometimes MetaChat Makes Me Sad →Read more...
17 October 2005
mmmmm nyquil →Read more...
Where my dogs at? I've got a solo girl vocal cover of 'Straight Outta Compton' that all y'all gonna love to hate on.
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Judy miller wore a military uniform? not only did she claim to have a
security clearance she would at times don a military uniform.
Crazyness.
Welcome to the new sex. Just like the old sex. The decline and fall of the Suicide Girls.
marginally NSFW
Black Helicopters. Because satellite pictures of military complexes are interesting, dabnammit.
What font is used in the Gizmodo logo? I tried a font finder web site, but it didn't find it.
When Celebrities breed, part 87 million ...She's also strict about laundry duties: If Lourdes leaves dirty clothes on the floor, "we take all of her clothes and put them in a bag, and she has to earn all of her clothes back by being tidy," Madonna said. "She wears the same outfit every day to school until she learns her lesson."
Welp, here I am! Wait a minute, this doesn't look the Coachella Valley and the Carrot Festival therein. Maybe I'll go ask the gent in the fancy knickerbockers....
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I submit for your disapproval →Read more...
I submit for your approval. →Read more...
~~-! SNARK! thread!!!!__ ¿
Snakes on a plane --> Metachat dream. →Read more...
I'm on TV tonight! And I don't have cable.
It's fall, I'm wearing boots...
I was gone four whole days! I missed you!
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Wa min God! Se æx on min heafod is!
Secret salsa recipe? Jose
Huerta, 78, refuses to
taco 'bout it.
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral. A Halloween costume question.
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Hey dabitch! We were
paging you earlier. What's the haps, momma?
A Statement of Porpoise... and a request. Metachat was created as a place for chat and silliness and friendly banter... Very specifically, Metachat was created for indulging in precisely the sort of play that Metafilter was
not created for.
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"I still strongly believe in everything it stands for as a forum. The immaturity, the petty grievances, the self-pity and lashing out, the coke, the hookers, I fucking love it all." No not Mefi but
"I HATE THE STRAND!" Sort of a
Waiter Rant for the bookstore crowd.
Bullguard Security Nudity! Totally not safe for work! (Funny, though, in a sort of oh-my-god-ow-that-must-hurt kind of way)
AskMeCha Obscure, out of print music
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16 October 2005
Ask MeCha: How can I turn up the volume of my iMac?
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Cat People- Why is it that I'm allergic to cats yet drawn to women with cats as pets? And is there any good way to deal with the allergy?
Can't recall? Can you ever get in trouble for 'failing to recall' during a trial? I mean, if you could remember, but just didn't want to say, you'd be committing perjury, but how could they ever prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you *were* lying?
Who's on MySpace? Roll call!
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Document contains no Dada Mefi seems to have gone AWOL just as I was posting an exceedingly long and somewhat irrelevant answer to AskMefi.
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Helvetica Guy in an Arial World I have 1,500 or so fonts placed into individual folders catagorized and ready to share.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD!
FontFinder, FontFinder, find me a font. Do you know what this font is called, or do you know of one very similar to it? I have a hankering for this typeface.
Tasty mix! Or so I hope. I made a YSI mix for a cousin who's in rural Wisconsin and needs some cheering up.
But I figure that I still have about 24 of the 25 downloads left (even after posting it on my blog), so I hope that a couple of you might enjoy it too.
What's cooking, good looking? In my oven right now, roast chicken massaged with tarragon, rosemary, garlic butter, ginger glazed carrots, shallotts and asparagus.
What you cooking up this brilliant sunday?
AskMe(Cha): Today's Frank Rich
editorial (subscription only) refers to former baseball executive and current President of the United States George W. Bush's appearance last week on NBC's
Today show.
Is there a video clip of this online? If no, could someone who saw it corroborate or flesh out Rich's description?
"...where the image of [former etc.] Bush maniacally hammering nails at a Habitat for Humanity construction site on the Gulf Coast was juggled with the sight of him trying to duck Matt Lauer's questions about Karl Rove."
Funny overheard things. Share your tale inside.
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Sandy's Opera Gallery. Index of
tenors,
sopranos, in memoriam
Renata Tebaldi, autographed
photos of conductors (my favorite), and so much more.
Radio Dodgy. At 8.30 GMT tonight I'll be spinning a few tunes. If you want to know what time that is where you are then
click here.
Touching Your Life Great parody ad--"At Bush Cheney, we don't make the ..."
When looking around for information on incredibly large numbers I came across an interesting site... [MI]
How tall are you? I'm 5'3" (unless I wear chunky shoes).
It's official! quonsar has been permanently banned from mefi. Where do i go to get a refund of my 5 bucks?
15 October 2005
Lost. Because of youze guys, I've watched like four hours of this today. Non-stop. I'm my freakin' pajamas.
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1.2 killowatts!? According to the elliptical I use at the gym, I'm burning about 1100 'calories' (I'm assuming they mean food calories) in an hour, or 2200 in the two hours that I'm on the thing. Now, I also read somewhere that Lance Armstrong puts out 500 calories, and that a hockey could "do that for 20 minutes and pass out"). Yet, according to google I'm doing 1200 watts for two hours. Does this mean I'm some kind of lance Armstrong like superman, or are my calculations screwed up? Seems like most people can do 1k watts for a half hour.
I'm still full of energy after two hours on the elliptical.
Car Bling. I found this via
The Fix and jsut had to share, because it made me laugh out loud on a miserable depressing day.
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Men in kilts I spent today at Atlanta's Highland Games.
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Look On My Works Ye Mighty and Despair Unabashed self link - my house is
decorated for the season and
how!
My in-laws hate me. →Read more...
Fellas? Yeah? Fellas? Yeah? Has your grilfriend got the butt?
TiddlyWiki Add-on What's your favourite? Mine has to be this
Calendar Generator.
curse of the were rabbit it is chuffing fantastic
Singing Jocks. What could be cooler than athletes rockin' out.
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OK, this rain needs to stop.
Breed big beetles. You can love him and
hold him and call him George...
a much less objectionable Bush revision for some (nuptuates and prenuptuates alike)
Badger steaks, anyone? Or perhaps a filet de labrador?
As per the recent mega mecha irc chat here is my pumpkin, curry turkey soup.
Whoa! Check this weirdness out... →Read more...
Is there such a thing as a truly selfless act? →Read more...
It was bad enough that Bush had a phoney q & a thing with coached and rehearsed soldiers this week, but one of the soldiers wasn't even really a soldier--she was a pr person from the Pentagon.
... I mean, a public-relations person spouting the regime's line back at us? Instead, he pretended that they were all combat soldiers, not spokespeople. ...
14 October 2005
Sorry to bother you again, but (iPod ?) →Read more...
Bunny Advice Enter a yes or no question and the mysterious Advice Bunny will give you an answer
Digital Music Channels on the cable TeeVee →Read more...
iPod AskMeCha (I don't want to get beat up on AskMeFi)I think I may need an MP3 player.
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It's Friday night. It's the end of the week. In what celebratory activities will you partake?
Mansion Impossible It took me 87 years and 4 months to achieve the American dream, and so can you!
Brown pants, white sweater, black shoes. Am I supposed to wear dark socks, or light socks? (My choices are black or off-white.) Help!
I'm off to the woods for the weekend... Woohoo! See you monday!
Best of AskMe: I don't know, what
does it mean when a man puts on an anal sex video on a first date?
[Apricots.wmv] Really one of the more intense, nerve-rattling songs you'll hear involving apricots.
When I say, "Boom, boom," you say,
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Radio goatdog commences at 2:30 Eastern, 11:30 Pacific.
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Elliott Smith - Thirteen Elliott Smith - Thirteen (Big Star cover).
MetaChat Frapper group. You're either with us or against us.
Spam Comments Have Moved to a New Level I just got the weirdest spam comment ever on my blog. I had to read it twice to realize it was spam - but the links over every mention of plasma TV gave it away.
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No guns allowed in the FEMA trailer park? Well, how am I supposed to threaten somebody when I need help, then?
Here is how it is with me...
Egg Toss
Friday Flash GAMES via RW
beware: i'm making tea for this-- the limitations of me answerphones has botched the idea of prerecording, so i'm gonna do it cold, after the tea
Mine eyes have seen the glory, and yours are about to.
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Mashiro Fukuyama [some priapically NSFW] makes Samurai suits. Samurai suits as you have never seen them before.
13 October 2005
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Only 2% of black people like boosh! +/- 10%, according to wonkette. Two out of the 89 polled blacks did not like bush.
Another question. I was reading
this AskMe thread and it reminded me of a question I have often had: How much urination is frequent urination?
Yes, I'll stop now.
Yesterday I had popcorn while at the computer microwave popcorn and today the keys feel greasy. It's discusting
loose ends, frayed knots --so is papercake on his honeymoon and where is dababy and [other things i can't quite recall just right now]? (seems i screwed up my atonement despite the fasting so post what you will as i go off aforagin')
Help me save my sweater! Inside are many specifics about my sweater and its problems.
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Continuing my wacky Japanese movie theme This CG animated Godzilla film is apparently made to look like a 50's man-in-a-suit film. Rad! Click the big picture for the main trailer
Bunny of the Month Club Scroll down to "Here are some examples...."
via mefi via my fellow Rockvillian frapper, amarynth.
Stupid Major League baseball playoffs I just found out Fox cancelled House to show the playoffs. Can someone tell me when the playoffs finish, or tell me the best way to get into the playoffs, or who is the best team? Or all of the above.
New Cosmos of Photography (warning: commercial site, a few images may be very marginally NSFW). The
judges. The
gallery. The
Grand Prix. I like
Jin Ohashi. Bjork
likes him, too.
"I rub my roast." Vincent Price gets down. In honor of Gaspode's dinner last night. From April Winchell's
awesome mutimedia page.
There's a man who lives a life of danger for the MI5. And now they've given him a number, and taken 'way his name.
'A man found operating on a pigeon that he sedated with vodka...' (wrng: print pop-up)
Patriotic Posters I think
this one is my favourite. Or maybe
this one.
[via]
AskingMeCh Stupid Questions: Do either
Plep or
Blort have RSS feeds. I'm looking and looking but I can't seem to find.....
Yes, I miss you all too. I'm not dead. I do read often, just very little time to comment. It'll be better after the election. Got an extra $5 or $10 - help us out, ok?
Zombie Biology. Waste five of your precious minutes looking at a page which describes zombie biology. (via popbitch)
Chicken Soup for AlexReynolds →Read more...
I like the macqaque. I actually seem to have spelled macqaque right first try.
The New Black Black Mountain? Black Sabbath? Bah, my favorite is
The Black Dyke Band.
As heard on the BBC with a girl named Charley who likes to get dirty.
Since I uploaded it for #metachat I'll share with you non-IRC losers. Black Mountain is a retro band playing early 70's style stoner metal. Rock on, dude.
Link this to AskMe when it unfucks itself? Could some *one* link what I'm posting below to the AskMe when that server gets its fucking shit together? I can't email the asker because his/her profile contains no data too. Thanks.
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New Medical Procedure Invented →Read more...
12 October 2005
Aaaaahhhhh Well, I got home from work, rubbed the lamb roast (and how I wish that were a euphamism), shoved it in the oven, put the potatoes on, got the asparagus ready to steam and then fixed myself a very large gin and tonic. I love coming home.
Color photographs from World War I. [Takes a little while to load.] In color, the people and the places seem so much less remote from our own experience.
These also remind me of
this great exhibition of early Russian color photos at the Library of Congress.
MeCha music afficionados! →Read more...
i know this was recently posted to mefi but it was too cute not to post here too.
Dang, there's a lot of posts this morning.
Today I had to cash in my change so that I could put some money in my bank account to avoid overdraft fees caused by automatic payment on my $40,000 school loan. What depressing thing have you had to do lately?
My Space Ettiquette? Are there certain unwritten rules to myspace?
Ask MetaChat: Does the document contain data?
Wow Can Bay Area people confirm this marquee is real?
So I'm sitting in this coffee shop, typing, with my feet up on a little table.
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Hey Office Drones! What are you doing today/ →Read more...
Another AskMeCha tech ? re: overheating →Read more...
Lost Peanuts strips I always figured Schroeder was gay.
My job is currently being smurfed and risks smurfing. How's it smurfing with you?
I am reading a fascinating book: René Leys, by Victor Segalen. First published in 1922 and still regarded as a masterpiece in France, this exoticized story of conspiracy and intrigue in 1911 Pei-king grows curiouser by the page: is René, our liaison with the Forbidden City, making it all up?
What are you reading?
Dream Talk.
Talk of dreams.
What is the best overall wikipedia entry? If I may perform an anatomical sexual impossibility, I nominate the
F-word.
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AskMeCha Tech Desk? Administrator, puhleese hope me. WindowsXP for Dummies, anyone?
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Metachat Book. You haven't forgotten about it have you? The deadline is 31st October, there are more details in the link.
We See Things Differently A short story by Bruce Sterling. " This was rock and roll, I realized; that was the secret. They had all grown up on it, these Americans, even the richer ones. To them, the sixty-year tradition of rock music seemed as ancient as the Pyramids. It had become a Jerusalem, a Mecca of American tribes."
Haiku time! →Read more...
11 October 2005
scaring people with the coldest civility was necessary and has somehow relieved me
i rarely know such pleasure as the relief from pain
*phew!*
now to enjoy it--
Ms. Netherlands is Black and Ms. Nambia is White For more, see
this fark thread. if there's one thing farkers know, it's boobies.
La Brea...Tar Pits (Tar Pits!) HELP! Is anybody out there sitting on an mp3 of
"Pico and Sepulveda" as performed by Felix Figueroa and his Orchestra and featured in the movie
The Forbidden Zone, but not included on its
soundtrack?
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I lived! Just got back from an almost fifteen hour workday....at the polls.
WEEEEEEEE!
Boing. I haven't heard that since I lost the flexidisc. Hooray for the internets.
What the heck is an APR? I'm still in college, and I have no credit history...
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Playmobil - Security Check Point From the Manufacturer: "The woman traveler stops by the security checkpoint.
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Demon Ducks of Doom?
*I just found my fake band name*
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I am being driven slowly but surely insane by Bell Canada's relentlessly upbeat faux-calypso hold music.
Has your brain ever mutinied? I think my brain is trying to jump ship this past week...
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THERE IS CILANTRO ON MY PIZZA AND I'M LOVING IT!
Tell me you wouldn't do the exact same thing. "Mi an dem fi go a di party but di three of them had caps an' mi had none so mi get two mirror one behind mi and di other in front of mi an' mi trim mi hair like a cap an' go a di dance," said Housen.
Squid penis. BugMeNot: johndoe@spambob.com/123456
I'm feeling warm and fuzzy. I never know how long these things are going to last, so quick -- kisses and tickles and scratches behind the ear for everyone.
More Cowbell Nothing can be more disheartening for the modern cowbellist than to find the sound of his instrument drowned out by the overpowering volume of today's electric guitars and drums.
The Squirrelly and ASD: Fantastic entry from Defective Yeti about his son's recent diagnosis of ASD (Autistic Spectrum Disorder).
What would you do for a
Klondike bar Ipod Nano?
"They departed, the gods, on the day of the strange tide". The
Man Booker Prize was awarded Monday to Irish writer and critic
John Banville.
mmm... Saguenay Diving for lost cheese...
Dwight D Weisenheimer. What's your fake band called?
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AskMeCha: ok, how the hell do I get this baby to start coming out?
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A spanking from me Hey, before I run off to work the polls (geesh what a long day...)
If you DON'T like Pina Coladas... Here's something I hope you'll
really like...
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I love Alan Moore as much as anyone, but... Does anybody else find "Promethea" to be just a bunch of
newage bullshit? Why is it so loved?
HOLY FUCKING SHIT!! GIANT FUCKING BUNNY ATTACKS ITALIAN MOUNTAINSIDE!
TENS AND TWELVES OF STONER WOMBLY SOCIALIST ITALIAN ARTIST-ACTIVISTS MILDLY INJUREDFATIGUED! JESUS H. CHRIST IN A FUCKIN' CHICKEN BASKET! BREAK-AWAY N17 MARCH PLANNED - BRING SHERBERT AND PILLOWS!!
10 October 2005
Nevermind the Booker: "In 1979, science fiction writer L. Neil Smith created the
Prometheus Awards, to honor libertarian fiction." He went on to win it in 1982 (the second year it was awarded), 1994, and 2001. Nice return on investment, that.
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askmecha: How do I flirt? Help! I'm 26 and completely unable to flirt!
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Demotic Geek spoken here Is this
Frinky or what ? If there wa some way we could gene splice this onto Michael Berube on Critcal Theory or something ? I love love love this thread!
Something easy to listen to Timothy Monger is someone who, to my cooler friends, I just can't explain his appeal. But he seems up the alley of more than a few people here.
The Great Lakes Myth Society is the name of his band (though this is a solo track), and I recommend listening to them as well.
Warning: It's lush pop that my girlfriend thinks sounds "like Heart" (to be said in a dismissive way).
But for you MOR NPR folks who don't consider themselves too hip for anything, give him a try.
Shining! featuring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall.
POT IS SHRILL AND UNFUNNY! posted by Kettle at 12:46 PM PST on October 10 [!]
MeTa 10312, truly the turd that sprouted a flower.
Break on through to the other side. AskMeChaFilter: Why don't my MeFi posts show up in the sidebar under "Recent MeFi posts by Metachat users"? I don't hang out with the bunnies too often, and my MeCha name is an acronym for my MeFi name, but I just wanted to know how it works.
How similar are you to your internet you? Specifically, how similar are aspects of your real personality to your online personality, and how "complete" is your online personality? [MI, of course]
*** For dame, who has a tender head today. This is the opposite of a shouting thread, because we luv you. No shouting! Only whispering...
Woo. I've missed a lot...I've had no computer for a little while transitioning between home and college 1000 miles away, but I'm back now. I think I'm going to go shout in the yelling thread now!
Relationship Tags I don't really understand this, but I do dig it.
I'd like to know what's up with you guys, but I can't bear to read all that caps-locked nonsense.
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I REALLY NEED TO SHOUT ABOUT STUFF!!! CARE TO JOIN ME?!?
Pretty soldier girls from around the world. I think Israel's got the cutest girls, and the cutest uniforms. Love the sandals.
edit: very slow loading - lots and lots and lots of images.
Dead or Alive? "At first, I thought it was a little weird. Then I found myself checking it every day." - Wayne W.
Happy Birthday Thelonious Monk! Listen to some
monk all day at WKCR Columbia University radio online.
Mi Burrito... The last image on a Chipotle napkin looks a little...
suggestive when viewed upside down. Conspiracy? Subliminal imagery? Or just the observation of a bored, twisted mind?
:-)
Bored at work? A new game to play... Right now I'm bored to tears so I am playing an email game with myself and some colleagues involving the hallowed Samuel L Jackson and his incessant mortgage payment movies (Snakes On A Plane, Deep Blue Sea etc).
Your mission (should you decide to accept it) is to come up with a Title, tagline and a brief outline of a story for Samuel L Jackson to take part in whilst remaining one of the coolest cats in today's Hollywood lineup.
Bets are on: How big will
this thread get? I'm calling 180 posts.
I didn't know that "frog prince" ...was a euphemism for fellatio.
QT movie.
Historical dates and their number one songs Riffing off edible energy's
number one birthday songs post, I found out that when Apollo 11 landed on
July 20, 1969, the #1 song was "In The Year 2525" by Zager & Evans. On
June 13, 1983, Pioneer 10 became the first manmade object to leave the solar system, and the #1 song was "Flashdance...What a Feeling" by Irene Cara. On
August 12, 1981, the IBM "PC" is released, and the #1 was "Endless Love" by Diana Ross & Lionel Richie.
If my examples aren't clear, the idea was to find funny, interesting, ironic, etc. connections between the two. Care to find other/better ones?
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09 October 2005
Seperated at Mirth? or... Napolean Dynamite meets the Rally Monkey
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askmecha: Internet dating services What's the best way to introduce yourself to someone on an internet dating site like okcupid?
Adult braces fetishist Finally gets the braces he's always wanted. Scroll down for awesome pictures. And don't miss his
dentist's
not-at-all creepy site.
[via mofi if you care]
Just checking, everyone knows about
CBC's Just Concerts page, right?
Help me make a mixtape! URGENT! My best friend moved to Launaguet, France and the first week has been real rough. I'm sending her a care package and want to include a MetaChat mixtape. Please hope me!
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Brits. Put down your Bittorrents and surrender. The Daily Show invades the UK. 8.30pm daily on the new channel 4 channel. (more4). I'm quite excited.
Dick Massage (incredibly enough, SFW)
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For "Lost" fans, a screencap from season 1 episode 3. Spot anything?
Bay Area Mefites, want my Eagles ticket? I can't go, you can have my ticket for the Oakland Coliseum on 10/12. Email me if you want it (free to good home).
Idalah-Abad two ways: raucous and
reserved.
Radio Metachat gets it's own page. To celebrate I'll be doing a session in about 10 minutes time so check in and check it out.
Story of the Lovestruck Toilet Roll? Here's an AskMe to keep your eye on. Can't wait to see the answers.
Break Out The Jell-O Pudding Pops. Rockin' with the Cos.
Fritz Lederer - In the Eruv of Theresienstadt Concentration camp art.
Poignant stuff. I found it captivating and not overly disturbing, but I'm not Jewish. I think it's quite amazing actually. Your take on it might be different. I'm just trying to give a balanced heads up. [This is but one artist responding to the holocaust - lots more in sidebar] Delete this if it's been around though.
20 years ago, there was a Crisis in the
DC Comics universe. Then came
Zero Hour. Then
Identity Crisis. Now we have
Infinite Crisis. Confused?
Catch up and
get ready. This oughtta be good.
Serenity I just saw serenity. I thought it was very good, if a bit cheezy in the end. Your take?
"When sex goes out of business, so do we." Tom Ford poses with RealDolls (I presume) to hawk his new fragrance and cosmetics line. I wonder how this is gonna fly with my White Linen-drenched grandma and her mah jongg comadres...
08 October 2005
"What do you think I am, a clock?" What's your favorite punchline?
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Nothing's Gonna Change My World, Laibach does "Across the Universe" from their remarkably bizarre "Let It Be" album.
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I'm All Alone And I totally can't remember how to make myself show up on the sidebar. Hope me!
Hey, do we have any Parisian/French MeChas or MeFites?
Matt is quitting his day job. Will this mean a better performing, feature-filled MetaFilter network or just more over-moderating? I report. You decide.
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The 'Louie Louie' of mullet rock The Music post to end all music posts.
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Cheesy music --post the most cringeworthy. (i'll start you off inside to prevent brain damage to casual clickers)
I'm trapped with children. I had to open up the office this morning for a training, and the childcare staff didn't show. Now, I have a cadre of 4-17 year olds and need some creative things to do with them. All of them. At once.
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Cat ever nibble your toes? A cat chewed the toes off the right foot of an elderly woman with senile dementia while she was asleep.
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But I'm in the Church of the Poison Mind! It's a religious observance! Like peyote!
Where should we invade next? Americans share their views. What do we have against Australia all of a sudden?
HEY LADIES! I'm like, totally available!
Tom and Katie are likely to follow the church's "silent birth" guidelines. Creepy people breed too.
How do you explain MetaChat to people who aren't web addicts?
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07 October 2005
HUMMER® Laptops You'll never take it offroad either.
Cuttin up eyeballs! Anyone watching the Pixices on INHD2? Very jealous I didn't see em on tour.
Poor Condi--can't get a date , even with Fox reporters trying to fix her up
The Fiery Furnaces have a new album coming out (October 25th according to that link, which is to a fansite). Anybody heard any of it? Is there a single legitimately (or hell not so legitimately) online any where yet?
wtf? First, Bush has no right to say "Trust me." He was elected to represent the American people, not to be dictator for eight years. (...) While Bush was still boozing it up in the early '80s, (...) Both Republicans and Democrats should be alarmed that Bush seems to believe his power to appoint judges is absolute. This is what "advice and consent" means.
Sincerely, Ann Coulter.
Overheard Cell Phone Conversation (Ditmars Boulevard, Astoria, Queens, just a few moments ago)
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Specklet Claus is coming to town! →Read more...
I just bought some more mulch. →Read more...
AskMeChaFilter Does your document contain data? [more inside]
WolframTones Little pseudorandom musics made by
elves cellular automata.
Songs about the Fab 04. Many wonders within.
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THIS IS ANOTHER SHOUTING THREAD!
Pet Picture Thread! Because I just took a nice one.
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Feel it vibrate. Another funky desktop for 1024 x 768 dual monitors.
Here's the one for a single monitor. See thumbnail inside.
Bahstahn I'm headed to Boston today. I should be there through Monday. Feel free to e-mail me if you're in that area. I'm not going to call for a meetup, but hey, it's always cool to meet Metapeople.
All Things David Hasselhoff. →Read more...
The French New Wave: an Artistic School by Sorbonne professor
Michel Marie. Enjoy
chapter 1 and
chapter 6 (all .pdf files)
Another word thing How many out there use the expression "pouring down" as in "it was pouring down rain"? I have just been told that it's unusual, that most people would just say "it was pouring rain," but I'm not so sure.
There is no stage, no set. The play ends in candlelight.
watch me vanish
watch me
vanish
Tom Stoppard in Belarus.
Stamp/stamp/laugh/meat/table/laugh. it made me laugh. also I think i may have a new job.
Whoo hoo! I'm off to see
Gang of Four tonight...
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Dreaming of Celebrities I hear it's pretty common to dream of celebrities, but I don't think I have before last night. What celbrity dreams have you had?
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The Aimo Sonogram from
Duck Young Kong [if you can get through the menus]. A digital ultrasonic camera for snapping your unborn.
happy palace --art, pics, music, film, etc
A weekend off! For a change, I get to take this weekend off from working on the house (or on someone else's house, computer, car etc).
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06 October 2005
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How many of these words show up regularly in your speech?
* Dude
* Awesome
* Man (as an interjection)
* Cool
At what point do/did these words mark one as a child of the 80's (or earlier)?
i spread a truckoad of mulch today →Read more...
My flickr photostream I tagged a picture of me with 'metachat' but I have to wait for authorization before it goes live. They said I have to upload more photos in order to expedite the process, so I did. What do you all think?
Old, inherited laptops for dummies... →Read more...
Just To Add To The Fun The power just went off in the rear three rooms of the apartment. The bedroom and the computer room are fine. The landlord's son usually takes care of this kind of stuff, but he's outta town. There's a switchbox in the bedroom closet with three black switches and one green one. The third black switch makes the rest of the power go out, so that wont help. Any ideas?
I have to pee, and that made me think of jonmc. I hope they waste that little stone but good. Here's to jonmc, long may he rock.
The Saga Continues... I'm back from the lithotripsy. The good news is that the procedure was a piece of cake except for the magnesium citrate. The bad news is, it didn't seem to destroy the stone completely, so I'll prolly have to go back for more. But knowing what I'm in for makes me less agida. Thanks again for all the support.
Bill O'Reilly's history lesson. My people came from County Cavan in Ireland. All right? And the British Crown marched in there with their henchman, Oliver Cromwell, and...
I'd like to nominate the exploding python to be the metachat runner-up mascot.
Do dentists kiss? My dentist was describing the most horrible things that can go on inside your mouth. To the dentists and hygienists out there: Is kissing still sexy?
Weekday dinners. MeCha peeps. Y'all are so good with food. Help!
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Song of Pig by Xiang Xiang (Over 1 Billion Downloads in Asia)
I missed my bus. My right ovary is aching. And I'm a 3.
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Salon.com redesigns It's long overdue, and very pretty -- but wow if it isn't slower than Metafilter on Thorazine, at least for the moment.
kate bush ::falls to knees in worship::
king of the mountain
METAHOLLER!!! SO, YOU GOT SOMETHING TO SHOUT ABOUT?!! SHOUT ABOUT IT HERE!!!!!
Elvis Christ Superstar Historical Jesus scholar
John Dominic Crossan (.pdf file) has a great story to share about a class he was teaching on the resurrection of Jesus. He was taken off guard when a student spoke up and said he had no problem believing the story that Jesus rose from the grave and made the rounds with his friends three days after he was crucified. Crossan asked how he could be so sure, and the student replied that it was because Elvis had also been raised from the dead. (More inside)
Paul McCartney's got it all upside down. If you've seen this, then sorry, but it's new to me, and I'm amazed. (pictoral evidence inside)
Got bright? I've been making these colorful, kind of psychedelic, kind of '70s wallpapers lately for my deskop, and I thought I would start to share some of them here, since a few of you might be able to use them.
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Ridiculous Things You Tell Your Pets. Or, silly words that only you and your pets understand.
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05 October 2005
MeCha food Proof that a gimp like me can follow a recipe. Dee-bleedin-lish.
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great gibbering gophers →Read more...
Church Admits Bible not Factually Accurate In a stunning turn of reality, the Catholic Church has admitted that some parts of the Bible shouldn't be treated as, well, true.
More MeCha minutia: what are your "key words"?
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Common knowledge. What's a thing you didn't know that everybody knows -- and your lack of common knowledge was revealed to the world in a painfully embarrassing fashion?
Celebrity jarred! My question to you is this: how many non-famous people car accidents of this severity (minor injuries, hospital visit), are there everyday? Would it be reasonable to say there were 9,999 non-celebrity and 1 celebrity car crashes yesterday?
Rarrrrgh! Mrrrmpf! Murrrrgh!
turn your speakers on, kids! This may be the finest website ever created:
I I I I I I I I . Warning: sound.
I hate everything. That is all.
Radio mudpuppie commences at 1:00 p.m. (Pacific) →Read more...
2005 Singles I am a big fan of "pop" music, and every year, I compile a CD of all my favourite pop singles.
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Seeking 'Oh No You Di-int' animation →Read more...
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The document contains no data [And suddenly, many hundreds of people, their dark reverie interrupted, recollect that the sun is shining outside and throw open the blinds...]
Nice hand-drawn letters and things from the 2005 Graceful Envelope contest, sponsored by the US National Association of Letter Carriers and administered by the Washington Calligraphers Guild.
The
winners, the
honorable mentions, and the
children's divisions. Some of the envelopes are too frou-frou for my taste, but the beautiful hand lettering and the attention to detail are really pretty damn wonderful. The theme was "something beginning with the letter P". Links to winners of years past
here.
aaargh. Sorry... But I feel the need to moan for just a tiny moment. I just got off the phone from someone connected in some unspecified, mysterious way with a site I maintain.
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I like to embarass myself. You do too. →Read more...
Play with your food! One of my favorite things in this world is creative food photography. This is, without a doubt, my favorite:
minimiam.
The median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in MediumSizedCity is X dollars per month. The median price in MajorMetropolitanCity is 2X dollars per month. [more inside] So where do you think I should be looking to rent?
Cilantro tastes like soap. Who's with me?
04 October 2005
El Za Za Za I want Huevos Rancheros.
Ritmo Latino! "Ritmo Latino is an hour of eclectic Latin music that will leave you shaking your booty and speaking in tongues. (Really.)"
Here's a cool color blindness test... Be sure to take the whole thing. It's pretty detailed.
Art Project. I can do this! You can too.
For desire. Great Poem by Kim Addonizi. (Most of the way down the page). Geocities, so I'll also post it as the first comment.
I hate walmart My daughter was hired about three months ago to work in the Walmart photo lab. I was shocked to hear she was hired full time. Well, today I was NOT shocked to hear she has been cut to thirty hours a week just in time for her not to qualify for her benefits.
Thankfully she has an old job to go back to and a boss that will be glad to have her back (and who will give her a raise to boot) but just on principle this burns me up.
I may have to go spend some money at Target just for the spite of it all.
Water, cat food, drain cleaner, sandwich.
DJ Bligh. Our first guest DJ is spinning the wheels of steel. Check it out bunnies.
Good night and good luck. What's a good book to read on the HUAC, Edward R Murrow, Red Scare business?
The Topology of Evolutionary Biology (pdf) Google HTML. I don't understand it (at all), but it gets me a bit hot just scrolling through the equations. It's nice to ogle after visiting
Speaking Freely, which is about the current ID trial.
DJ Wanted. If you fancy DJing to the Metachat masses to test our new stream then please let me know. You'll need Winamp installed,
the Shoutcast DSP installed, a bunch of MP3s and be free to talk to me on IRC at 7:30 GMT (1.5 hours from now). Don't worry if you don't get picked this time - this is just the first of many sessions!
Magazines. I have five magazine subscriptions.
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SHOFAR TIME Gimme your biggest Tekiah G'dola!
Shana Tova, Metachat!
Contenders for best song ever. →Read more...
Hot Prospect This man from Hot Or Not has indicated that he wants to meet me. And people say I'm only single because I'm too picky. Sheesh.
Listenings for your soul patches I'm not sure which gives me more of the joybone willies: Potsie's
I Want To Believe in This One or the bedwetting hypnosis tapes.
Ask Mecha (potentially dumb WinXP question) For the first time ever (well, in 2 years), my Dell bluescreened for no apparent reason.
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03 October 2005
FEMA doesn't understand children. As if the
FEMA rap wasn't proof enough, the link is a list from the FEMA of things kids can do to help when a disaster strikes.
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Meta Tech Support Chat Can I copy the data, partitions and all, from one drive to another by doing some variant on `dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb', and if so, what variant? The drives are of different sizes (second larger than the first).
Like Hi I'm drunk. But I was thinking about human relations. IM(d)O I think that to tell someone that you like them is nicer then telling them that you love them. You can love a bitch, you can love a bastard. You can love a horrible person. But you can't like them. Like is a continuous condition, if you like someone then they are as likeable as the day you first fell in like with them.
In your lives, what person have you liked the most?
i've been clenching my teeth for two days -- it is not only unpleasant but will eventually cause the wings of my vertebra to grate my muscles:
amuse me
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Out of Five - Each week a theme, ten songs fitting that theme. Then gone forever. This week, "covers that eclipsed the originals."
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Pie in the Sky I made a mostly margarine and vegetable shortening pie crust (dairy free ya know) and as this is really my first experience doing this, any tips I should know? I'll be buying a rolling pin tonight and I have a huge bag of apples I picked at this orchard.
Help me get fatter via pie.
Radio Metachat. Just got some hosting sorted so help me test it out.
The password is Metachat - click on the little 'edit' button to add or change text.
So, um...on Saturday evening... I went on a quasi-date...
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Hey, have you guys noticed that we never post about jruns on MeFi anymore?
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Hey! Zombies! Let's Move! I'm organizing a zombie walk in Toronto, I hope you all make special arrangements to come!
A puzzle game that doesn't suck. Dyson Telescopes (yep,
that Dyson) is a fun push 'n' pull game wherein you try to maneuver the ball into the hole through increasingly difficult levels. Once you've warmed up with the first 15, you can choose further levels from links and a dropdown menu on the left.
Here you go. Knock yourself out
My favorite new comic Small boy and Monkey!
I recommend the astronaut saga which starts at #43.
02 October 2005
Interesting High Speed and Photoinstrumentation Photographs.
That's certainly a mouthful.
Some of these are pretty interesting, and for some reason I'm now thinking about our
35th president.
Ask MeCha: I... I forgot about this place completely. I was here when you guys first started out. I was here for the horse penis. I was here for the scary rabbit. I even made the carrots for the comments page. But then I left you alone for months and months without a word. It seems like you've been doing just fine without me. You've got a whole new look, and a bunch of new features. My question is this:
Metachat, will you take me back?
Flying Fish Airbrush artist Chris Coakley, a worker at Goodrich Aerospace in Everett, Wash., paints an Alaska Airlines 737, now called the "Salmon-Thirty-Salmon," to look like a giant king salmon Friday. A crew of 30 painters spent 24 days on the job.
Does this make you
horn-y baby?
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Kevin Smith at AICN talkback. Kind of funny, kind of lame, kind of sunday-afternoon-passing-the-time...
I'm neither a big AICN fan, nor a Kevin Smith follower, but it's fun watching the geeks writhe in an orgie of "OMG HE'S RAELLY HERE DO I SUCK UP OR INSULT HIM OR BOTH???!"
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Blotto-I Wanna Be a Lifeguard Forgettable new wave novelty ditty from a forgotten band--
Blotto, the pride of Albany, New York. From
Lost Bands of the New Wave Era. More Blotto
here. I wish they had "She's Got a Big Boyfriend."
Now I want to find some MP3s for the other regional bands of my mispent youth--The Reducers, New Johnny 5, and the Pajama Slave Dancers.
Wakey! Wakey! Some pounding drums to wake your ass up this sunday Morning.
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Too Many DJs. Want to be a DJ? Fancy broadcasting to the good people of Metachat? I'm looking into the idea of setting up some hosting for Radio Mecha so members of the community can broadcast whenever it takes their fancy. As a DJ you'd need to run Winamp with the Shoutcast plugin (I'd be happy to talk people through doing this). Please note that this might not happen, I'm still just looking into it.
"i'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter--"
--probably for later in the month to remind me to take care of bills and ask me if i finished that thing--
jonmc would be so proud... mr. gaspode and I just welcomed in our 1st wedding anniversary at Manitoba's. That's across the road from 7B which is where we first professed our love. And in the time honored fashion, I'm now very drunk. Salut!
MetaFilter Filter Before the $5 membership deal, how (and when) were MetaFilter accounts handed out?
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01 October 2005
Leo Kottke/Mike Gordon at the FIllmore 10/6 →Read more...
The Tennessee Birdwalk No, friends. There's no need to thank me. I was glad to do this
to for you.
Signups are officially open for National Novel Writing Month 2005 (otherwise known as
NaNoWriMo). Thousands of amateur authors (and a few pros as well) will spend November attempting to write a 50,000 word novel in thirty days.
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Mmmmmm ...mashups to makeout (and maybe more) by.
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For my fellow Italian-American MeChas If your nonna or mama sounded like this and you grew up in the 70's or 80's, this'll warm your cockles.
Unkle-Rabbit in your Headlights -- very disturbing and powerful video. (mpg, Thom Yorke is the singer)
Garnering Opinion Is it just me, or is Jennifer Garner... umm, y'know, not pretty? I like my girls with curves, personally, but she is ALL ANGLES. In this era of anti-gay legislation, isn't it odd that the conception of what's sexually attractive has shifted towards the mannish (or even manly)?
PHOTOSHOP CONTEST! I'd like you to make me pictures of
Rabbits in
Habits Links lead to some inspiration.
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30 September 2005
Dependable Renegade -- fab, bitchy pic blog
San Francisco–based Mechatters! Do you want to see Richart Thompson in two hours at the Fillmore? I have an extra ticket. If you email me within, say, one hour, with your phone number, I will arrange to meet you at around 9:30ish and give said ticket to you.
Off to Capture a Flag See you! wish me luck!
As kenko would say, this is a song you can listen to.
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Get Out Yer Hankies! Here's
one of the most shameless tearjerkers of all time. It never (especially after a few beers) fails to make me get misty. I'm sure you have some, too.
Lyrical. Maybe you already knew, but this is the best lyrics site I've ever found. And trust me, I've been looking for a while.
People suck. Merry Christmas,everyone!
UpdateFilter The test results are in!
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Every journey begins with a chubby footstep.
Quicktime, 48MB
Radio Dodgy. For a limited time. I got some new CDs today so I'm celebrating. Come by IRC and make some requests (or here).
This morning and every morning... →Read more...
Top 10 Worst Movie Sex Scenes according to Manchester Online. I haven't seen any of these movies except Showgirls, which I've tried to blank from my mind.
Get Me A Clue Filter: Having trouble finding a site that explains how to add tabs to a web site.
Read yourself Raw. Nice
profiles and
recommended pages for comics artists and their work.
Camp Songs with abominable midi. I've sung most of these uncounted times, except the Mormon ones that I've never heard of.
Origen is Microsoft's marketing campaign for the next-generation-defining console Xbox 360. Origen is also the oddly designed website of the same name.
Origen currently contains a tree surrounded by cute little bunny rabbits.
As time has passed, the tree has sprouted mysterious looking fruit.
The worst movie title ever. With the worst cast of characters.
A question about pirates →Read more...
Music for your freaky Friday. Even if you think you don't like Ween, you should give this one a shot.
Japanese Movies Abound! The Japanese Quick Time.com is a great source for inspiration
The shining redux a feel good movie for the whole family!
Everything That Creeps Creepy but beautiful (to me anyway) dioramas and sculptures by California artist
Elizabeth McGrath. My only gripe is that the pictures of the shadowboxes are a bit too small.
(Flash site, small bit of music when the gallery first loads)
I am just a little bit hungry →Read more...
29 September 2005
Giant ship model 1/10 Yamato scale model at Kure city
Length 86.29 ft. It's the perfect size for your navy. If your navy is made entirely of cats.
I still don't like Bunny Head. →Read more...
ListChat: How many of these have you read?
The Yankees Are Coming! Nothing roils Boston like a visit from the despised — and dreaded — New Yorkers (
Yankees Suck!).
To say the least -- this should be an
intense final weekend of the regular baseball season with the
Yankees facing off against the
Red Sox at
Fenway Park!
Are guys allowed to do the
penis thing?
Cool me off, I'm soooooo hot. →Read more...
Existensial Question. Why is the bus so more depressing than the subway?
Be honest. How many of you have successfully quit smoking?
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101 Things you might not know about Rock and Roll, some of which might not even be right.
I reckon it's time for a new desktop thread. here's mine!
Two things I thought of while reading the "Ten Things" thread.
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I need help. (Speculations on what sort of help not necissarily needed.)
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How deliciously absurd! →
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Food pansies. So, one of the ten things you now know about me is that I'm taking a cooking class, and in last night's class, there was in interesting divide amongst the students...
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How do people with only one sink do their dishes?
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My portrait as described by google image search. Yours?
I hereby wish quonsar a happy birthday. And bestow upon him all privileges and rights appertaining to another year successfully stood down.
28 September 2005
Surreal photography [some NSFW] flash + resizing of window + clowns + the odd elk
You know that squid theme we were discussing? I think it got loose and broke MeFi:
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://metatalk.metafilter.com/
The following error was encountered:
* Zero Sized Reply
Squid did not receive any data for this request.
I'm scared.
I just watched Field of Dreams again and I'm bawling like a baby. "Hey dad? Wanna have a catch?" "I'd like that."
MetaChat, Please Advise Now that I am getting my condo, I am looking at furnishings. I really really like
this rug. It is white. Am I doomed?
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What's a penis? I've been seeing the word penis around here lately. What does it mean? Please explain it to a non-english speaker (moi). Danke!
I just got suckered into joining a gym. I may as well use it to work on the 'ol bod. I will load every song you suggest for motivational purposes onto my Muvo for the first session. Merci!
Specklet in SF. Oct 13-16. Who wants to organize activities?
Who says we have to wear clothes? I believe Greeks believe in being natural or "without clothes". This artwork states, "Who says we have to wear clothes?".→Read more...
10 Things You Don't Know About Me →Read more...
Because it'll make me feel good... Some selections from
Ronnie Spector, the Queen Of Rock 'N' Roll.
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I am working from home today So I effectively have 3 more hours in the day (gained from my lack of commute). What wonderful things can I do in that time?
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I am now officially a man...
Huddle up! Okay, what's the game plan?
Can I remind everyone that we’re all out of MeCha wine bottles and now have to use metal cylinders instead? Can you please modify your packaging labels accordingly? We can’t afford to have a boxed theme this early before the hollidays.
"Work In Progress" from Industrial Light & Magic. In a workshop built by Terry Gilliam, two peculiar inventors squabble over their latest creation. What’s more important, concept or implementation?
Quicktime link may take time to load, worth the wait
Can I change the title of the post below to force mandatory compliance with today's theme?
Odd Elk Knot Aww, the Todd N Lokken MeTa Thread has been deleted. Remember folks, Todd N. Lokken
is straight up gangster
Can I change my underwear? →Read more...
27 September 2005
Can I change my username? →Read more...
I deleted about 20 goofball answers... in the Chinese Finger Trap AskMe Thread. Please put deleted goofball answers here, as well as any answers that were too goofball to even try to post...
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I just found $3000... →Read more...
PEOPLE WITH STUPID NAMES I HAVE KNOWN Your starter for 10:
- Helmut Boner (IBM Employee)
- Stella T. Krzelj (also IBM Employee)
- Semon Kokhlov (semen cocklove)
Apologies to our latest wine label artists. I was a bit tardy updating the most recent emcee additions! I suck. But I'm drinking
seanyboy's bunny brew right now, and it's delicious! (PS: a couple more days left, if anyone wants to send me any more.)
The Stones Return... →Read more...
Where the ladies at? I can rarely remember who is a lady-woman and who is a gentle-man here. I mean I'm usually pretty sure, but then when it comes time to post I am suddenly filled with panic and self doubt, and end up with akwark gender avoiding constructions (
like here). So anyway, can we get, like, blue
homme and little pink
femme and little.. I dunno, green other/unspecified icons beside user names?
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The document contains no data. Most annoying error message ever?
The Metafilter Drinking Game →Read more...
Bill Watterson Interviewed by Fans From Around the World (via
Bookslut)
Chairman of the Bored Halp! Work is boring, and they're working on the roof right over my head, so any time I even start to get in to the grove, someone drops a hammer or industrial air-conditioner right above my head jolting me out of it. Also I work in a cube farm and someone who gets a lot of calls has his cell phone ringer set to a midi version of AC/DC's Thunderstruck.
Guh. Photoshop experts, please help: Weird colorspace issues in PhotoshopCS. I would have figured some folks would be all over that AskMe post. Can you help? Answer here or there, either.
Testing, testing... Inspired by quonsar's streaming yesterday I'm trying a stream from here. Anyone able to try it out?
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Seattle Ethiopian Food Meetup - again Please rsvp in the MetaTalk thread, since spinifex needs to tell the restaurant how many peeps are coming.
New DJ mix! Clicky, stompy, crunchy techno.
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Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.
Ray Charles, Ramones, Pixies, Elvis Costello, R.E.M., Emmylou Harris, Jerry Garcia, and many other hi-res jpegs.
I love Natalie Dee. Share who you love.
Did you know that Pat Robertson can
leg press 2000 pounds? It must be all the
pancakes he eats.
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I'm going to tear my ears off in a minute. My coworker (the one with the perfume) has a radio at her desk.
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The Exorcist in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies.
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Happy Birthday! In honor of Google's 7th birthday, I invite you to post your favorite crappy animated Happy Birthday gif found via Google's image search.
AskMecha: Keyboard options... I am making so many typos lately and I'm really struggling wit this Dell-issued keyboard.
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33 day countdown with bunnies Strange thing from Xbox and AKQA
(yes it's some sort of ad - bewarned!). People all over are
reporting on changes, bunny-movements and speculating what will happen when the countdown is finished (all over the web. All I wanna know is,
what's with the bunnies?
. . . you know what to do...
Help with OS X's Mail App →Read more...
Object Lesson [via] Heatwole's wonderful link blog
Campheatwole, damn why doesn't he post?
This is a song you can listen to. It is by a group called "Red Pocket".
Cooking with metachat! I was bored tonight.
So I made a cookbook blog of all the killer amazing recipes everyone has posted.
Oh, and I finally stopped being so lazy and typed up one of mine.
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26 September 2005
Inspired by LeeJay's good news- What funny stuff does your family do?
My Dad would occassionally come downstairs in the morning wearing shirt, tie, suit jacket, socks, shoes, carrying a brief case and wearing hideous plaid boxer shorts- no pants. He'd say, "I'm off to work, kids. I've got the worst feeling that I've forgotten something..."
http://stream.meepzorp.com:8000/ be the first on your block! limited time offer! the qTunes® shoutcast stream!
From The Big & Dumb Department The guitar riffs are ham-fisted, the drums lumber and shamble along like drunken rhinos, and the lyrics range from dunderheaded to savantish.
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Deep Thoughts. A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby."
Hyper Frame (shockwave game)
I'm stuck on level 11
Bowling Bunnies! It's a game! crazy!
An incontinents of yellowlegs and other collective nouns for birds.
What do you get if you combine grandiose, Jim Steinman-sized rock ambitions with decidedly English-as-a-second-language lyrics?
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Grief Bacon and Dragon Fodder Looking for that perfect word? It may just not be in your language...
Cigars all around! I know this could potentially be a GYOBFW sort of thing but I'm so excited I just had to share. I'm going to be an aunt!
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Evil cats. Ok, talk to you later.
So many have you have shared lovely music. Would you please go back through your old posts and link them here? I'm a lazy Specklet, and don't want to miss anything.
It's Not The End Of The World by Super Furry Animals. I'd forgotten just how great this song is - it's beautiful man.
Cleveland MeChatters? Any MeChatters in the Cleve, OH area? We need all the members we can get for a meetup.
Iron & Wine and Calexico at the Warfield on 10/19
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Coochie coo? Bugger off with your coochie coos! "Who's a little bunnykin" you say? Take that bunnykin and stick it where the sun don't shine!
Eggplant (Aubergine) Gratin: One of my favorite recipes. Since I went through all the trouble to type it for
this AskMe, I thought I'd also share it here. You got any recipes you wanna throw into the pot?
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Ampelmaennchen I've never been to Germany and don't know much about this little crosswalk
fella except that he's determined and jaunty and inexplicably cheering. Tra la la.
no more rss? looks like the MeCha rss and atom feeds have been down since sometime on sunday.
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Wood that works [flash] I don't know if I like these or not. The patterns are mesmerising but I think the novelty would soon wear off.
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25 September 2005
Quick and dirty IQ test, that is.
Ask MetaChat: Do you use Flash on a Mac? I'm looking for Flash Mac users (with a single or double button mouse) to help me with a simple operating system specific test. It would only take a few minutes of your time and I'd really appreciate it if you could help.
All instructions are contained within
the FLA. You'll need MX 2004 or greater to open the file. The code is not malicious. If you decide to help, please reply to this thread showing your interest.
Thanks.
Scott
Ask MeCha: What is "the Divide" in Willa Cather's
O Pioneers and
On the Divide?
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HomeworkFilter: If you were to write, say, a 2-3 page (non-research) paper on anything having to do with Machiavelli's
The Prince tonight, what would it be about?
Even less evil? Magnatune was previously mentioned on
MetaFilter, and was pretty well received. Now they have gone a step further and are allowing you to share with your friends (a bit) the music you buy from them.
Listen closely - that sound you hear? It just may be the winds of change
don't hold your breath, though
I dreamed last night that DaShiv bought us all tickets to a Dodgers game, and mudpuppie, gaspode, Fris, and I were especially invited (because DaShiv loves us Metachat geek girls).
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StewieLive - I've been playing with this for the last few minutes, anyone else want to help find words that have unique results?
What's Your Blog Worth? "Some bloggers have sold their blogs to outside firms eager to gain access to the audiences these blogs attract. What's your blog worth to potential buyers? It depends on what you're saying and who's reading."
I hereby declare that MetaChat will no longer be bunny-themed, but rather squid-themed.
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While My Ukelele Gently Weeps [quicktime]. Stay for the solo. More
here.
Giant pink bunny The
dong is, I think, implied.
Getty's Looted Art, Museum attorneys say half the masterpieces in its antiquities collection can be traced to suspect dealers. Italy seeks return of 42 items.
There's been some changes to the code around here. You shouldn't notice anything apart from a slight speed increase. Let me know if you see any errors or weird behaviour. Thanks.
Do you feel lucky, punk? Now this is lucky!
A manager who was saved by his mobile phone during an armed robbery has re-opened his jewellery shop. A gunman had aimed a bullet at Darren Prior's chest, but the bullet smashed into the phone which was in his inside jacket pocket, missing the 23-year-old by inches.
Link points to a video concluding
the article.
The #metachat list seems not to be working. How will anyone ever know that I'm there, waiting?
RAIN FROM RITA IS FALLING ON MY YARD
24 September 2005
I am a little teapot, short and stout. That is all.
* bats eyelashes, gives come-hither look *
Cube Wired (flash) - Click on the people.
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Ask Mecha Help me buy a Tablet PC. [mi]
Not just one song... ... lots.
http://gabba.cc
some great stuff on there. Free to play, register to download.
right now im loving Lo fi fnk - Change channel
Smak blap indeed.
Gonna Fly Now! Pips says that when she hears this song coming through the speakers, she knows she's gonna wander into my room and find me shadowboxing or running in place. I admit it, it gets me pumped. It probably has to do with being part Italian-American, and the son of a big boxing fan (The amazing film
Ring Of Fire has a similar effect for the same reason). But the scene where he runs up the steps, and after the fight when he calls out for "Adrian!!" always has me a bit verklempt. I know Stallone has been more or less a total tool since, but he won my heart with
this movie. I'm sure you have your corny favorites, too, so I pay tribute to mine.
Hello, cowboy "Every once in a while a film comes along that changes our perceptions so much that cinema history thereafter has to arrange itself around it."
Trailer.
The JRuns It's spreading...
PopStation2 Video Review Stunt Double for the PSP
Santo: El Enmascarado de Plata (a fotonovela) Though I don't speak spanish I found this pretty awesome. And no more posts from me today, I promise!
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iCommentary iCommentary is a hastily-named Application (Written in Applescript Studio) that uses Mplayer and LAME to rip DVD audio tracks to MP3, and (optionally) place them in your iTunes library. Thank you,
Adam Kempa.
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It's Gumbo Day at Casa Taz! Kids, be happy! I'm making my world famous voodoo gumbo today... And here's where I'll share my personal recipe.
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I'm going to a wedding! So everyone think good thoughts for my very nervous friends Chuck and Alyce!
They went to high school together, and she's finally making an honest man out of him.
YubNub. I guess I'm late to the party as per usual, but this looks like a pretty smart idea to me. Explanation
here and how to "install"
here.
The word of the day is Server Error! Good morning boys and girls! Can you say, "The server response could not be read because of an error?"
I knew you could!
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Dance like there's ass in your pants. What's your favorite danceable song? The linked one is my favorite, Fela Kuti's "Jeun Ko Ku (Chop 'n' Quench)."
hot crusty baguettes. Like you had anything better to do on a Friday night.
23 September 2005
Uh... So can I just post... anything? Like, even this? Or am I about to get bunnynated?
Book Bags for our resident handbag fetishists. : >
Mecha mix-up. Did I miss the last one? When's the next one?
Sad country music songs make me cry Does that make me gay, or a lush, or what? For example, He Stopped Loving Her Today can make me tear up so much I have to pull over to the side of the road until my eyes clear.
An obscure component manufacturer somewhere in the Pacific Rim announces a major order for some bleeding-edge piece of technology that could conceivably become part of an expensive, digital-lifestyle-enhancing nerd toy.
Indie Tits. Boobies, too! [sfw]
Look, I know it's late in the day and all, so you probably won't bother,
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Image Retrieval Question: HELP! →Read more...
Dog Sauce Dogs being renowned for being picky eaters
I'd rather have chicken friend chicken... Little space bugs on Titan eat Acetylene?
Also you might want to read Titan by Stephen Baxter, which in more ways than one is looking less like Sci-Fi and more like a long magazine article that fell into a time machine.
turn around, bright eyes-- i woke up to this a few weeks ago (missed the bonnie tyler part) but give me their genie in a bottle, baby--
Giant pink bunny errected on hillside by Viennese art group Gelatin.
Why software sucks (And what to do about it) Perfect timing: I've been banging my head against a wall for the past few days because of sucky software.
Dangit Thinkgeek (et al web-shops) , I hate paying customs fees on
gifts sent to me!
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You know those times when the lights go out just briefly, maybe an eighth of a second? It happened at the courthouse today and it sparked an old thought I had when I was growing up.
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22 September 2005
Barbie's Nightmare Human Ken doll crafted from over 30 surgeries costing nearly a quarter million dollars.
Note to Firefox users: You should look to upgrade to 1.0.7 as soon as you can as a nasty exploit is currently out there.
This has been a public service announcement
Pink Bunny Invades Italy Plans to settle down for 20 years or so, or until the furries find her, whichever happens first.
Penis. (Must. Continue. Trend.)
Desert Island Books When I moved countries, I took 2 packs worth of stuff with me to start the new life. I decided I had to limit myself to 5 books (out of my many hundreds). Which 5 books would you take with you to a new country?
I vote for Vampire Bunnies. Like Matt says (follow the link...) - pirates are tired. But according to the commenters in the thread, so are zombies, vikings, robots, cowboys, ninjas, unicorns, cows, and monkeys. So what's left? Only Vampire Bunnies, because we can't make fun of gypsies anymore.
bambilambkinsschip'n'dale'turkabobsparroribs and SQUABDUCKCHICKEY!!! Hurry before we're sold out!
21 September 2005
Lost! Season Premiere : who else is getting their emotions fucked with by JJ Abrams?
Bored? Thanks to
Mr. Davis's comment I've been reading through some
old MetaTalk posts (only a few months before I started lurking). Very entertaining.
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Move Over Rapping Granny ... make way for
Hassle The Hoff.
It is being reported that
Ice-T will be producing
David Hasselhoff's first hip-hop album.
Ice-T is said to be convinced that the 51-year-old
Knight Rider and
Baywatch actor can take on the biggest names in rap.
What next?
Shit The Shat(ner)?
Kleine Potpourri: Some
glass, some
abstract art, some
impossible art, and
a thoughtful article on the subject of "Tolkein: FICTION OR REALITY?". Peace 'n' joy.
Pop [some NSFW adverts]. How do they get these shots. Is it all in the timing?
I love you people. I mean it. This place brings me so much joy. With bunnies!
I just had to say it. Hope you don't mind.
You can't make an omelet without breaking a few mirrors.
Rapping Granny (Skittles Ad, video, etc, etc)
Warm fuzzy thread, for those who might need it today.
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The Maestro! Some basic Tom Cruse Gossip, but I found the end of this article helarious.
What do you wish you could do? I wish I could control my temper sometimes. I wish I could trust that things will work out.
Ghost Stories! Anyone here ever seen one? ...or some other unexplained phenomenon/event?
The Archimedes Palimpsest. If you were putting together a palimpsest, to be unearthed and restored in the far future, what (of your work or the work of others) would you hide?
The most ginormous bunny ever! No, really. 200 feet long. Huge.
20 September 2005
What can you do? I can recite the prologue to the Canterbury Tales in its original Middle English. I can also name all the colors in Joseph's Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and tie a cherry stem in a knot with my tongue.
What can you do?
Oh my God... The Environmental Protection Agency's new rules on human testing, which the agency said last week would "categorically" protect children and pregnant women from pesticide testing, include numerous exemptions -- including one that specifically allows testing of children who have been "abused and neglected" . . .
More About Beer Katrina™, The Drink? -- Louisiana lawyers in sleazy bid to cash in on deadly hurricane.
I hear a tiny clinking and a meager "meow." If this story doesn't make you all teary-eyed you are a BAD BUNNY!
What is it called when one adds an extra syllable to a word. For example, "alcomahol", "saxamaphone".
This comment by scody reminded me of a wonderully haunting and poignant paragraph in the prologue of the classic Anglo-Catholic take on inter-war upper class England.
This really, really sucks. Apparently I'm not the only one
who thinks so. (Check out the poll to the side, too.)
Weee-ner-neee, nee neener neener noo; Ka-kang, grap; ka-dung dung, grap. Mo nock nock nee-aa-wing, boo lack-ka-bow, deedle do back-kack-ka kow back ka dranna, wanna, no; doo-dalitt-da doo-dackachanackacha-chackacha-bomp. Da-Daaaaaaaaa, a, a.... Bomp!
New for the Metachat shop! "Bunnies" baseball shirts are now available in the US store. Europeans will have to swear on a stack of bibles that they'll buy one if they want it available in the European store. Also available from
the US store and
the Euro store:
- Dingle T-Shirts and mugs Thanks me3dia
- Metachat Logo stuff
- Vampire Zombie Bunny Army stuff Thanks mudpuppie
- The KKK Took My Bunny Away stuff
- Shoutout Hotpants Thanks dame
- Meh clock [Cafepress in a choice of flavours: Vanilla or Bunny] Thanks Capn
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Does love level all ranks? Is it officially your opinion that love is a platform upon which all ranks meet? Even if the object of your affections occupies a station in the lower middle class?
Worst would-be cult-leader ever! Intense eyes: check.
Speaking slowly so they hang on your every word: check.
Ponytail: check.
Charisma, ideas: ...
From Yum to Yecchhhhh Have you found in your life authors that you've enjoyed when younger that you presently dislike/loathe/despise now that you are older?
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19 September 2005
PlaceOpedia Google maps and Wikipedia come together.
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, incidents, and dialogue, except for incidental references to public figures, products, or services, are imaginary and are not intended to refer to any living persons or to disparage any company's products or services.
A Little Miracle: the power went out... Share a small miracle that happened to you today.
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Giant Monument Erected In Honor of Metachat An
enormous pink bunny has been erected
on an Italian mountainside where it will stay for the next 20 years.
For reasons pertaining to national security, the CIA has to erase your identity and relocate you. You are asked to choose an entirely new name. What do you pick?
Let's hear it for the Stones! Kidney stones, that is.
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Whoah, whoah! Weird weather! One minute everything is perfectly still and quiet as I was sitting here in the heat with my fan blowing... and the next moment things are banging around on the balcony and outside the building, and all the doors and windows in the apartment are slamming shut. It's twilight here, and the sky is this totally weird illuminated flat grey color... Very strange. Also the lights are flickering from time to time... So I might be losing you here any second. Good thing Greece is totally not a hurricane/tornado zone...
Ask Mecha (not about Caractacus's uniform) How can I play a .wmv (Windows Media) movie on a Mac (Tiger OS)? Will any of the built-in apps do it? Can I avoid installing the official Windows player for Mac?
18 September 2005
Just back from the movies... and I think I finally have a way to describe how I feel about the Bush jr. presidency as a whole. I call it "
The Aristocrats".
Have you seen the movie? What did you think? And hell -- is it playing anywhere near you? (I know it's been banned in certain places)
Fish Puzzles Each puzzle has a little surprise in it!
(I bought one today!)
lemmings --because the Emmys aren't that wonderful at all...
wtf? I've tried to post a poem two or three times and i get this:
"Recording post...
Done.
Post not publicly published: skipping trackback, pingback and blog pings...
Posting Done..."
Hope me...i really want you all to read this poem.
Cube figures Part Lego part dilbert they're cute. Remember you are the boss. Right,I think I will go and do the personality test now : ) Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
17 September 2005
Boredom cure-izzle in da hizzle, fo shizzle.
Because I'm Hanging Around Being Lazy: The
Big Five Personality Test. I found it via
this, which is a bookmark on my loaner computer.
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I am bored. In this thread, good people of Metachat, I do humbly importune you to entertain me. I know that you are equal to the challenge.
Ask Mecha: I have to put together a list of fights historical. Rather arbitrarily, I want to limit the list chronologically -- starting from the first Athenian victory of the Persian Wars, in which a Greek soldier ran over twenty miles back to Athens with news of the victory, and ending Napoléon's last battle.
Oh, and I need to list these fights in order categorical. Can Mecha help me?
Happy Natl Day of Prayer & Remembrance ok! →Read more...
16 September 2005
I'm a monument to a good ass gone under. RED LIP
Seventeen years later I sat down on a rock. It was under a tree next to an old abandoned shack that had a sheriff's notice nailed lie a funeral wreath to the front door.
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Things in rubbers Sorry, no bunnies (unless
pig tongue counts).
You can learn a lot about someone from their
handwriting. Let's see yours.
Ask Mecha: What's your favorite/best way to find cheap airfare? I'm a total n00b when it comes to jetsetting.
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Colourstrology Navigate your birthdate, surround yourself with colour!
I say "awesome" way too much. What do you say that you kind of wish you didn't?
A quick reminder: Don't forget your contribution for the Metachat book!
What is your all-time favorite cartoon?
(Show And/Or Episode)
1-800-588-2300 →Read more...
15 September 2005
Wow, I didn't find the apocalypse too crunchy! Mispeakings. (avocado in this case)
Somebody come talk. On preview: Cool, it's January 1, 2000 again! There's so fuckin' much I'd like to do differently.
Thanks, dogdy and taz! You're the best!→Read more...
Homeless quonsar poses intergalactic mystery Or at least that's what I
thought the headline said at first glance. I think my made up one fits tho, except for the homeless bit.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the gallery of online galleries.
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Iceland Woos America With Lamb and Skyr : Whole Foods will start selling traditional Icelandic delicacies. I recommend trying the skyr, it's DELICIOUS.
omgomg Britney had her baby!!! And I could care less. Let's talk about... bunnies!
A PC Mod for all the lonely nerds. (NSFW &
via)
New York mini meetup next week anyone? I have landed a short courier gig to New York next week. Anyone for beers Tuesday or Wednesday evening?
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Is this for real? And here's the Reuters
photo.
Particle Cannon. You have a particle cannon. You can use it to destroy...
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Site Testing Some folk have said that when they post a comment they just get a blank screen. If you've had this problem then please comment in this thread and hopefully it should now work.
14 September 2005
I don't need no stinking treadmill... Fat? I'm not fat...just a little elephantine. Who ever saw a trim and toned elephant anyway?
Signed...
Maggie
I wish I could find another book... Yesterday's book thread went swimmingly, so help weretable out and cough up your "terror"izing book recommendations.
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OH MY GOD that's beyond fucked up.
Frisbee and mudpuppie! Your presence is requested in the
bay area meetup thread.
Solely, MeCha Members? You can still answer my
askme question, and read it in the comfort of your own MetachatHome™ (which is my way of saying "more inside").
Shelve the tedium, dame! There's kite aerial
photography to
see.
Spell it out I started with A, Animal's "Go Beached Whales." Pick a B artist or song and let's do the alphabet.
If you had three hands what would you do?
the Washington "Freedom Walk" Did anyone read any good detailed articles about it? I figured someone would feel the need to FPP about it after the event, but apparently not. Was it as strange as it seemed like it would be? Was the media exclusion really that successful? Pro or Con, whatever, I just want to read more about it and know what happened.
The Exorcist Convention. Pope greets convention members, urges them to continue good work
MeFi's downtime Apologies if this has been explained in detail before: could someone explain to this non-technical user why MeFi is down with such frequency? I've done some front-end web design freelance work for friends, but that's the extent of it. It's the server-end of things that I confess almost total ignorance. What is it about MeFi's particular architecture which makes it so unreliable? What would improve it? I don't mean it so much as a gripe then I do a genuine technical curiousity. Of all the sites I hit on a daily basis, MeFi seems to be down twice as much as any of them. Why is this not true of other sites?
Threadless Does Katrina Ts . Click on the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 to see alternate views/colors.
Rock the bell (.wmv) Read the entry, click the pic. Snicker.
justify your answers: should i move the computer into the bedroom/book area or keep all my major electronics in the "living area" (there is now basic cable in the bedroom)
my near future sweating depends on your honest response
13 September 2005
The Haunting of Hill House By Shirley Jackson. That's what I am reading at the moment (for the third time.) What about you?
I'm curious... what do you think? (via here, then here)
Here comes sunshine... →Read more...
*sigh* Damn thee, vile haiku:
Syllabic ineptitude,
Poetry's cheap whore.
Odd Event of the Day →Read more...
Where's Defective Yeti? All I'm seeing is a blank page. That's bad.
Seperated At Birth? Here's a good one:
Larry David and
Jonas Salk.
Bunnypants? I don't get it. Please don't tell me he has enlisted in the vampire zombie bunny army.
... a kind of camp Nirvana, or God loves Flags.
...he twirled more effusively and pirouetted more extravagantly than anyone else. He flung himself en arrière and en avant, he pirouetted under the posts and jeté -ed across the fifty yard line. He was terrific. Some people in the crowd got a little wound up, apparently annoyed that a gender boundary might be in danger of subversion on the very altar of American masculinity’s defining ritual. ...
Woohoo! Web Fun for Winos! Emcee 5 is on! Create a wine label for the Mecha Winery.
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Sixty amazing but true facts Including gems such as "In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation."
12 September 2005
Woo! Chuck Brown →Read more...
Soccer Practice [innuendo, nsfw, mp3]
Salt on watermelon? →Read more...
Home Theater System Me clueless.
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Tips for a good cover letter? →Read more...
Come Rain Or Come Shine "If the story was true that George Gershwin was his hero, then as far as I'm concerned, the pupil surpassed the teacher".
The bittersweet life of
Harold Arlen.
Olsen Twins, Activate! Form of: twin 13-year-old boys!
Got a question for Mickey? →Read more...
Join me for lunch? Here's what I ate, and what I saw at lunch today. Tell me a little something about
your lunch?
Beedogs .com is the premier online repository for pictures of dogs in bee costumes. So there.
Declaration of Revocation "The 2.15% of you who are aware that there is a world outside your borders may have noticed that no one else plays "American" football. You will no longer be allowed to play it, and should instead play proper football.
Initially, it would be best if you played with the girls. It is a difficult game. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which is similar to American "football", but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like nancies)."
Great Lou Reed Poster [see inside].
Organic HTML Grow flowers from URLs. or something.
Ask Mecha: The Korean laundry I patronize has been bought out by an Iraqi. Can Mecha help me to learn how to write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform?
11 September 2005
I am famous You can be
famous too if you like.
Craft Grrl gives you something to do with the last of your weekend.
Silber, The Light of Reason, and a blog's end When a dream dies...
(warning-sadness making--more inside)
Go hiking today! Just found this by chance and it's pretty cool. Myself, I can't decide on whether to do
this one or maybe
Max Patch.
It's saturday night and I ain't got nobody, and despite appearances, I'm not in IRC
twice.
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10 September 2005
Kisskisskissy boys I always knew
Maxim was a magazine for gay men who don't know they're gay ... yet.
NSFW coz it's got guys kissing. GROSS!
Absolutely ginormous collection of photos from this year's Burning Man.
Ask MeCha OK, i just woke up (circa 9:30), I'm still drunk from last night, and I have a lot to do today.
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Mecha Wine Labels? What do you guys think of this idea as a change of pace for our emcee collaboration? Here's how it could work: [more inside]
Metachat Mix-up Free-for-all. We've got a little bit of spare bandwidth left over from the last mix session. Please help yourselves.
Illustrator Gary Taxali. I really, really like his retrogrunge collage style. (note that there are four sets of gallery pages with 20 images each; navigate from the "portfolio" links at the top.)
09 September 2005
Pretty people posing while thinking of Oreos.
edited to add: NSFW image included in comments inside. turn images off if you are at work. -taz
Mail Art: file under "Stuff to Look At." Though I posted this to the
mefimailartswapblog-a-doo earlier in the week, I believe I've been remiss in publicizing the upsurge in uploads. Potentially, MI.
Rock out with me here. A recent cover of a long-forgotten-if-ever-known rock anthem from 1982. It's been making me happy, anyway. Had to share.
A picture of steak for starters.
Penis. (Bugmenot login: latimes/latimes.)
Really nice rock posters. That's pretty much it! Really nice rock posters.
Here and
here and
here and
here. I can actually afford most of these.
requisite courtesy introduction thing: I wonder what this button does...
Experimental Feature: Under the link for the IRC you should see a list of currently logged in users. Let's see how it goes...
"[K]nown as the taz" Only one German daily, die tageszeitung (known as the "taz") uses Berliner format, and another, the junge Welt relaunched in a size very close to Berliner in 2004, abandoning the unique slightly-larger-than-A4 size that had marked it out since the early 1990s.
How come if the white man ain't the devil...
Defensive Marriage: The new strategy illiterates are using combat the "gay agenda."
norwegian hip-hop summer hits While unsuccessfully trying to find a song that got stuck in my head while on vacation in Norway, I did manage to turn up
this video.
It's by Ravi & DJ Løv, called "E-Ore" and was a chart-topper over in the land of vikings & north sea crude this summer.
Rwanda Genocide Sorry. I have been reading a book by Romeo Dallaire. It makes NOLA seem fucking tiny. Really. Blame "Bush"? No: blame Bill Clinton for letting a half million Rwandans die.
08 September 2005
John Gruber presents The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme
Apparently, Lying is Free Speech Too An appeals court in Washington State (US-Centric, sorry) has ruled that a state law "prohibiting political candidates from lying about their opponents is an unconstitutional violation of free speech" partly because the law also allows candidates to "proclaim falsehoods about themselves". Meanwhile, the Delaware Supreme Court
heard arguments this week in a case in which they will decide whether an ISP must disclose the ID of an anonymous blog-commenter whose kindergarten-level invective against a local politician sparked said politician to sue for defamation.
So. How much of a jerk can one properly be?
Rockville, Maryland public school teacher urges "predicts" the shooting of liberal traitors "...A[n Al-Quada] WMD attack must be coordinated and launched against two distinct targets, preferably East and West (Left) Coast cities. A nuke or two, even if low yield, will devastate America. A Hobbesian 'war of all against all' will emerge as the criminal, opportunistic, and seditious elements strike out. Expect heavily armed and infuriated conservatives to launch a cleansing war against the traitors. The armed will mow down the mostly unarmed segments, especially those elements that devoted forty-plus years to anti-American hatred to destroy this country." [via
Daily Kos]
Also, Mr. Lopez-Calderon details his
"irreversible break with the Left".
Shitty video and a worse codec (VHS -> WMV) And a despicable decade. But it's some interesting John McLaughlin and great guitar playing. Feel free to add links. He is a new musician to me, and I like what I see. :-)
The ghost village of Imber It's not easy to find the "ghost village" of Imber. On maps its location is a great big blank space, and it doesn't appear on any road signs. You only know you're in the right area when you spot a single "Tank Crossing" sign about a mile south of West Lavington, and glance across to the unassuming little single-track road bearing the notice of whether the roads through the village are open or not. "Not" is nearly always the answer - Imber's only open to public access on a handful of days every year.
It's finally downloadable! My weirdest foreign language cover. Yousendit is working for me again. Enjoy! Matteo get your ass in gear and check the translation.
Don't fuck with stuff on your face. Sound advice from fellow metachatter (and my current favorite artist), Mrs. Pants.
A haiku for you:
The autumn pumpkins
Glow orange, but their vines, they itch
* slathered in ointment *
Blatant bragging. →Read more...
sticker on the subway window today: "If cops are told to shoot to kill our own citizens during an enormous disaster, those cops should turn around and shoot to kill their superiors." (pretty exact--maybe a word or 2 different)
voice of the people Dick Cheney feels the love. (WMV, NSFW)
Dictionaraoke Songs set to the pronounciation samples from online dictionaries. Don't miss Copacabana.
[ via ]
All's fair in love and war.
Out now! Katrina's first solo album - Turn the Tide
What's that? A flood? Fuck. I'm getting drunk.
I just ate a shitload of Bison Jerky...
Underpants! While donations of clothing and other household supplies for hurricane victims have been streaming in, there is a shortage of undergarments for men, women and children. Brad Graham started
the Underpants Drive, which is raising money to purchase and donate underwear -- you should help!
CrudCrud is one of my favorite mp3 blogs. He consistently posts great tunes from unexplored corners of the universe, most of them lifted from 45's that he bought for under $5.
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yo, jonmc in that deleted thread over on metafilter, you said:
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Retired Teachers Get Fingerprinted in U.S. →Read more...
07 September 2005
The buddy break-up →Read more...
Aviator Blues: A fantastic Royal Trux song that I had forgotten about until I was ripping some discs last night. To be played at maximum volume.
Kuro5hin Anybody here post (or in the past posted) on kuro5hin.org?
Just curious.
We Got Our Own Refugees! Raleigh now has 400 Refugees/Evacuees which includes 8 dogs and 2 cats.
Paging Specklet! Your expertise is called for.
Cultured Traveler Excellent articles/travel stories to anywhere and everywhere in the world. E.g.
Sacred Tibet,
Macchu Picchu ,
Manu Rainforest (I just did the latter two last month :). Click on "story search" for browsing.
If you want to play soldier with me, I will make you play it a lot longer than you had in mind. (Best DirectNIC / Outpost Crystal post yet!)
Valmeyer, IL moved (the whole town!) 2 miles. To escape flooding. The US Gov paid to move the town. A story of rebuilding and weird hope.
Ignominiously posted to MeFi with nary a comment, but the story is a really good one. (The article is good too.)
For people who like to build things out of legos (being one of those posts where people look at the link, mutter something about it being interesting but not postworthy and then go back to the world)
Navy Pilots Who Rescued Victims Are Reprimanded "I felt it was a great day because we resupplied the people we needed to and we rescued people, too," Lieutenant Udkow said. But the air operations commander at Pensacola Naval Air Station "reminded us that the logistical mission needed to be our area of focus." [mi]
Looking for Help from NYC Peeps. My best friend from New Orleans and her s.o. are Katrina victims and I want to help them find a place to stay for free temporarily in NYC while they try to pull their world together. She's an award-winning photojournalist, and he's a well-known jazz musician. They have their dog with them.
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06 September 2005
I'm Going to Die of a Shin Bruise Or, How Do I Stop Being Such a Hypocondriac Because Being Convinced I'm Going to Die of Stupid Things Is Both Disruptive and Boring?
Some more questions. →Read more...
Dingle changes its name! And we just got the labels printed up...
From last year a National Geographic article about possible doom for Lousiana's wetlands.
Skype Prank. "A profile is put up with a girl's name and picture, and put in "Skype me" mode. Within minutes some seedy guy will invariably try chatting, and there's a little program I made which will partner up people 2 at a time, and send messages from the first person to the second, & vice versa. This way both people think they're talking to a girl, when they find out, well, they're not normally too happy about it..."
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Ask Fark - there is money to be made. Sorry for my business. Preview doesn't work in Safari.
Some questions 1. Tie tacks: does anyone wear them anymore?
2. Champagne glasses: when did flutes overtake the saucer-shape?
3. Spaceballs: Is it being given a theatrical re-release? Why now?
05 September 2005
A 'jaguar' shark "I wanted to check out the mud flat between the rock outcrops. Hugo turns the sub around and…there it is, gracefully swimming a few inches off the bottom in the blue light, all in bright glowing yellow spots – my Jaguar Shark!"
Full story.
Someone please kick the box. The Katrina discussions have been mostly excellent and a great source of info. So please, Matt, press the reset button.
The End of the World. I haven't been able to get this tune out of my head all weekend.
Buy lifetime hosting, donate to Katrina aid organizations.
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Displaced designer offers bed & office for any creative displaced by Katrina.
I just wanted to find some news that wouldn't make me weep, and am glad to see that some people are trying to set up temporary lives, offices and housing for those who can not return home yet. I'd like to see this idea for all sorts of people. Have you seen anything else sorta like this? Please link it.
Eye of the Storm. Sun Herald reporters Mike Keller and Joshua Norman provide heartrending, personal photojournalism and stories from Mississippi.
Cajun Diaspora →Read more...
huh? Big white dot spotted at end of deleted thread.
04 September 2005
Jesus wrote a blank check. One I haven't cashed quite yet.
Back to Branson →Read more...
Mr. Bill Knew Mr. Bill in a June 2004 PSA for a fundraising campaign for the Louisiana wetlands. I got it off
Rude Pundit; apologies if it's been posted before or elsewhere, but I'm just so furious and this is so prescient and chilling, I had to share.
Seen on LJ Who is responsible? Who do you fire?
New Orleans spirit alive in Detroit The Regal Brass Band played the Jazz Fest even though their homes are destroyed and they don't know where all their players are.
Close to the Edge Who knew Yes! was so awesome? I get up! I get Down! Where is everybody?
03 September 2005
BUSH DOES REHNQUIST to deflect attention from Katrina failures. Administration insiders say he will nominate FEMA director Mike "Brownie" Brown for the Supreme Court post.
Atheists for ID? In this
AskMe thread,the user named Independent Scholarship makes the claim that "There are actually many ID people who do NOT believe in God." This was news to me:
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HELP PLZ Is it possible to develop Tourettes later in life? Like, real Tourettes, not just cussing up a storm because it's fun.
Stuff happens. "W. drove his budget-cutting Chevy to the levee, and it wasn't dry. Bye, bye, American lives."
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The Calamari Wrestler is an action comedy about
a young girl who falls in love with a giant squid, who is a championship wrestler. Things go out of control when an evil giant octopus and lobster scheme to take over the Championship for themselves.
Modern Rules of Advertising. Can anyone think of any more?
At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Ballmer then said: "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again.
I'm going to fucking kill Google."
Feelin' Existential: Does anyone else go through life with the sneaking suspicion that the world is just humoring you? or is that just me. I think this started when I was i kidergarten. I started halfway through the year. The other kids learned something in that first semester that I'll never know.
Red Cross records. Some of the artists on CD Baby are donating all their profits to the Red Cross. If you were thinking of buying something there then now might be a good time.
Turn, turn in my arms... I hope I did this right.
02 September 2005
Wow. Vince Laforet is one of the NYTimes staff photographers. Amazing photos from hurricane katrina. (please respect his copyright)
Anyone watching the NBC telethon? Kanye West just did a bit of an ad lib on live television and ended with: "George Bush hates the black man." Mike Meyers looked like he was gong to punch him in the face.
Project Backpack Some friends of mine put this together, and I made the link to buttons. So, I feel a little weird putting a link up on Metafilter. So I thought best to show it here. It's a relief aid of sorts for the NOLA children displaced to other states without any school supplies.
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with the return of the fall, so have i-- wow. so much has happened in a month. i have no idea where to start but for the first time in a while i get to be still.
hi.
Youth on the March "Thank you! Let me begin with some sentimental appeals to our national myths; assorted clichés coined by the state; the ideological shorthand meant to sweep your private doubts [away] of this virtual training course. This portal; this Trojan Horse that you living idiots paid for and actually rolled into your own kids’ rooms."
Lyrics to the first new Propaghandi song ("Die Jugend Marschiert") to be realeased in 5 years. Punk! (Download
here)
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What's your neighborhood's story? Every neighborhood has stories. Secrets. Things you have to live there to know.
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United Negro College Fund --they need help to provide for all the NO and Gulf students flooded out of college. They're placing them in other colleges. It's very important--kids who drop out now may never go back and it's important for their futures.
same ol same ol →Read more...
Did anybody else hear Wolf Blitzer yesterday misspeak right before a commercial break? He was talking about the people effected by the hurricane and said "they are so poor and so (short pause) black." I hope it was a misspeak at least. I wish I had recorded it.
You Don't Know Jack. So, how long until
Jack Thompson blames all this on
SimCity?
Webgeeks, help →Read more...
Queen? That's all they bloody need.
Baltimore Meetup Saturday Sept 3rd. That's tomorrow. 7pm,
Max's in Fell's Point. Of course, I was writing the post, but now MetaTalk contains no data, so maybe it will just be MeCha's there. Obviously I can't include a link to the MeTa thread, but check there later if you want to do so. Oh yeah, apparently one is to look for the stuffed shark.
What can we do? →Read more...
Gas prices in your area? What were they for you last week? This week?
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01 September 2005
Wahoo! I got 'em. →Read more...
You like fun. I like lice. I was all like "Bitch, stop playin' head games wit' me!" and she was like, "But baby, they're EDUCATIONAL!"
(I woulda made this my MeFi post today, but I already made one... Maybe tomorrow...)
quonsar questioned by US Marshals →Read more...
* hopes Gulf coast rescue efforts accelerate *
Eating for Five Big Ones (NYC) --Save money on food and donate the rest to RedCross. (don't skip the comments--more options listed there)
Really cool paper stuff! A working
pipe organ, a working
clock, a
pinhole camera,
Cinderella's Castle, Disney's
Tower of Terror, a movable
steam engine, Howl's
Moving Castle, a working version of
The Game of Life, and much much more, all found via the wonderful
Paper Forest weblog, which has links to lots of paper projects, automata, ephemera, and art. One or two of the paper templates are for sale, but most are free and online for your downloading pleasure. I just love this weblog.
The end of trauma medicine and an era of mass participation in extreme sports? Could you live longer if you trimmed off the old parts and replaced them with new one? This is BIG. This is real big. (via
Slashdot)
Koders. Search engine for finding code. I'm still trying it out but it looks promising.
10[Powers Of] • A website devoted to the famous film by
Charles and Ray Eames. One of the
Eames Foundation's sites featuring the
legacy of this remarkable
couple. I recommend
The Films of Charles and Ray Eames, Vol. 1, as aside from
Powers of Ten, it also includes a fascinating film documenting the complete dismantling of their office/workshop prior to shipping to the Library of Congress. Included also is the first draft of
Powers of Ten. See also Bruce Bryson's
web reimagining, and
another from CERN.
On Stagnant Pond CyberSalute to the Pink Flamingo
Girl talk. Tampons! Yeast infections! Yeats infections! Yeats' inflections! Slang for genitalia! We got it all, baby!
31 August 2005
Hilarity! I don't know if anyone else can do this, but watching *any* video clip on FoxNews.com while listening to *any* song from the
Carl Stalling project works
perfectly! Perfectly!
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Are they talking about
this?
Driving yourself crazy Is it a short trip?
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Rasterbation. →Read more...
What random things have pissed you off today? Me: I got caught up in a gaggle of tourists at my subway station, including some who *stopped immediately after going through the turnstile*, thus causing me to delay several seconds,miss my train and have to stand on the hot hot platform for 7 or 8 minutes. Then I got to work and found that someone had been looking for something on my desk and messed it all up. Gah!
04/19/1995 1:00 AM →Read more...
30 August 2005
Tech help needed, please!! →Read more...
Jesus brings the pot and He-Man brings the papers. Now that's teamwork!
WDSU feed from Louisiana (They just switched to another feed from Oklahoma--a bad sign--consider this a Katrina update thread)
New Years in Septembre!
I lift my mug to growing participation on MeFi and MeCha, as it's New
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Book Reminder. If you're submitting something for the Metachat book can I just remind you to put the word 'metachat' in the subject line. If you've submitted something and haven't heard from me yet then it's probably got lost so please get in touch. Thanks
pc / mac ruminations So, this is something that sticks in my mind: in some ancient AskMe thread, someone (I'm too lazy to look up), essentially responded to a Windows user who had concerns about installing updates, "if you don't trust the platform enough to install the official updates, why are you even using that platform?" /paraphrase
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Cheap Shot: Buy a $30 one-time use digital camcorder from CVS.
Mod it. Now you've got your own digital camcorder for $30.
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Boot Sale Sounds MP3 blog with music gathered from thrift shops and yard sales.
29 August 2005
AskMeCha: Things I've always wondered. →Read more...
OLD NEWS Fat Rabbits. KILLED WITH KINDESS!
Funny Bunny ... Now that we've got kitty cats in sinks
here and at
MetaFilter ... time for
something more 'site appropriate', I'd say.
This next song is about the rise of fascism: or what I learned on my summer vacation.
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Meetups on Upcoming.org I don't know if this will really take off, but here's a pointer to it anyway.
Fuck you -- you fucking fuckity fuck fuck.
What do you wear (or not wear) to bed?
Today would be a good day to fill up your tank I just got a message from a friend who works for a fuel management company (the people who supply gas to gas stations). She says that her suppliers have stopped filling orders. That means that if you do not fill up your tank today you may not be able to later in the week, or at least will have to wait in line for the privilege.
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Dogville Confessions The American release of the Dogville DVD didn't contain any of the extras included on the
Danish release, for nearly all of the 3+ hours of material is fascinating stuff, especially the hour-long documentary
Dogville Confessions, directed by
Sami Saif (.pdf file in second link). Not your typical marketing fluff piece, this is an extremely up-close-and-personal look
at the often tense conditions on the set of Dogville. Saif set up a wooden video confession booth on the set, and the stars were encouraged to record their own thoughts and feelings about working with Lars Von Trier.
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I want someone to buy me flannel pajamas. What do you want?
Thank you all for humoring me. So that went as well as could be expected.
Bugmenot ID's Plastic.com,
Fark.com,
everything2 etc. If this continues unchecked will Bugmenot kill communities?
Oh frabjous day! The AskMe search page acknowledges that
"Google's index of Metafilter is complete pants". Or that Yahoo at least deserves top billing. Here's hoping the addition is made to the MeFi and MeTa search pages, too.
Paranoia Agent Opening Credits Large, high quality AVI (59.31 MB)
Small, low quality MPG (18.18 MB)
This intro to the anime
Paranoia Agent really creeps me out. It features the main characters laughing mindlessly in various strange locations.
The show is pretty weird, too.
Official site -
Quicktime trailer.
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28 August 2005
Nerd, geek or dork? I'm a nerd, fwiw....
Be nice, it's my first post here.
Hey, Look! I'm so proud! →Read more...
For Amberglow (and whoever else) Yeah, you said email it to you. But why not share with everybody. Yes.
KLF - Justified and Ancient
JRun. Consider this a follow up to the Hurricane Katrina related discussions on MeFi and MeTa. Particularly, what can we as a community do to help?
Profiles in Science by the National Library of Medicine
How I spent my summer vacation Yes, now it can be told. I've been on the biggest case in years and a sordid and rancid tale it is. Nick Johnson of
Big Dead Place and
previously seen in the Blue has weighed in to
the battle for the soul of Professor Mills.
More news
here (you have to download the entire issue #92 as a PDF, and then go to the top of pg. 3) I'd post to the blue, but it would be a self-link.
First Monthly MeCha Projects Round-up Thread! So we've all been waiting for MeFi-projects for what seems like years now, to no avail. Instead, let's have a project round-up thread here once a month! Announce your project inside.
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I'm a Hippopotamus and I've Got Noodles on my Back
Lets all move to Menorca inspired by Italo Calvinos book "Invisible Cities", the entire hotels
interior design is based on it. Also available
the corner house next door.
Revenge of the Brick. Worth seeing for the end credits alone.
Open warfare/flamefest. Come on in and kick ass. Your mother wears Army boots!
27 August 2005
I'm Drunk. How 'Bout You? →Read more...
This is what happens... When you let someone breed an Ewok with a dog.
A mix for you. This is a smooth mostly 'mainstream' trance mix I did last night.
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A song for you. (This song, it taunts me this morning. Er -- afternoon.)
Nothin', but Nothin'. Beats Coming Home →Read more...
Adam, Eve and T. Rex Giant roadside dinosaur attractions are used by a new breed of creationists as pulpits to spread their version of Earth's origins.
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:( I apologize for the Arab News link last night. Just one Sam Adams Light and I'm a staggering, mumbling, indiscriminately linking wreck. To make up for posting politics to Metachat,
I offer you this photo of a squirrel eating a bird, via the ever lovable
fantasygoat. Enjoy.
Randomiser II. We did this
before, let's try it again. Fire up your MP3 player, set it to random and tell us the first five tracks it plays - no cheating and no skipping! I'll start us off again.
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Here are the statistics on erect penis lengths for white college men, in quarter-inch lengths...
they're heee-re! The August emcee is now completely posted. *pant, gasp*
Angry make-up sex Or, you know, gardening tips. Whichever.
The Science Monster Home Movie Catalog Awesome little website chock full of retro sci-fi goodness. Read
periodicals, technical manuals and old comics. Watch
trailers for old monster flicks or enjoy a
selection of full length features (inlcuding gems like Plan 9 From Outer Space and Attack of the Giant Leeches. Or maybe you would rather listen to some
music? My favorite part of the site though has to be the
listening room, where you can download all sorts of old radio shows. (The link to the listening room changes occasionally but is always accessible through the
main audio page.) This is just one guy's hobby site so he asks that you only download one file at a time. A treasure trove of good stuff if you're into this sort of thing.
Ramble On I gotta find the Queen of all my dreams....
26 August 2005
Did you know that at Amazon's Marketplace, you can sell a used copy of "Selling Used Books Online: The Complete Guide to Bookselling at Amazon's Marketplace"?
Just a couple of Dicks, it's Dick One and
Dick Two.
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Ladybird (aka Helen Nodding). You've probably already
heard about her
moss graffiti project, but she's got some
other projects worth checking out. Interview
here.
This post has nothing to do with politics. Just some porn rendered in stained glass. (nsfw, obviously)
Fafblog Interviews: THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY (with special guest star Hillary He-Man Clinton) -- hysterical.
End the debacle, Mrs. Sheehan. It's not the content I'm pointing out so much as the fact that it's on Arab News. Heh. I'm glad Metachat is here to give me comfort and solace in these trouvled days of confusion and downtime.
Website could not be reached.
Tramavirtual , a free mp3 compilation of new Brazilian music (via
Things Magazine).
Cats in Sinks (Photo heavy page)
What's a good name for an imaginary friend?
Compatability, it's in the blood. What's your
blood type, baby?
Okay, this is fun. It's Friday, it's Flash, and it's fun, especially if you feel like you've been running around in circles all week. Take
this test, and if you find, like me, that you ain't going to heaven (no, nope, nada)... play
Wheels of Salvation, and see if you can avoid the fiery pits of hell there.
Server Error Not only does it fall over continually, even the server error messages are gramatically incorrect.
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25 August 2005
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How many Bush Administration officials does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Ever have one of those days...... My car was stolen last night, right off of my block. This is definitely the second worst day I've had in years (the first being Nov. 2nd). Has this ever happened to you?
star sign nonsense. Was talking to a friend just now, and she was talking about how all her creative friends were a certain star sign. (no, I.m not tellling you what it is) On average, what starsign is the majority of your creative friends.
Bunny suicides I find it hard to believe that this has not been here before, but I
am too lazy don't have time to check.
AskMeCha I want to make back-up copies of DVDs
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I had a great dream (more inside) I had the nicest dream last night...we're sitting in a living room with a family we don't know. There is a big black cat curled up on the coffee table, and a teeny calico kitten named Timmy wandering around.
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How do you feel about getting older? →Read more...
What if they mated? Intentionally bad photoshopping.
Tiny Houses Could you live in
70 square feet?
Maybe a
housetruck is more your speed.
Woof, Woof, Grrr, Hai, Kerr-pow! What's a good name for a kick-boxing Russion Black Terrier? Why, Ringo Tsar, of course.
I'm calling you out Meef isn't fun anymore
Meef is a community site
+ We are all members
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What's a good name for a dog/cat hybrid? →Read more...
Whatever happened to the Femidom? The Femidom, a female condom, despite evidence of
qualities superior to the traditional condom, bombed in the UK but elsewhere has caught on as a way to give women more control over birth control, protection of their sexual health and even increased sexual pleasure.
24 August 2005
August Corpse? Hey gang,
Did anything ever come of the Corpse this month? I seem to have lost my bookmark to the text file, and the sidebar link to it is missing...or I'm blind from drinking the Dingle. ;)
Flying Spaghetti Monsterism! (I stole that from somebody.)
Spelling peeves. My writing skills are not very good, and I have terrible punctuation, but there are some common misspellings that drive me nuts. It makes me loose my mind if you catch my drift. Perhaps it could be looser, I don't know. Show me yours.
Is it just me, or do you find the MeeF less and less useful?
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Dingle Tees & Mugs. me3dia has donated his world renowned Dingle label to the Metachat shop. Go to the
US shop or the
European shop and fill yer boots - and don't forget to check out the other goodies too.
Bubble Boy Chad Super monkey ball deluxe - not that that meant anything to me though.
What's a good name for a cat? →Read more...
What about the Eyes? I got me a vampire zombie bunny army tee today, but there are no eyes. Are vampire zombie bunnies blind?
I'm back from my three-week long field trip to the Australian Outback. I brought you some
bush tucker.
Damn you J-run! I wouldn't get so pissed, except MeFi is kinda like oxygen in my veins.
I prefer it flowing and usable.
23 August 2005
Saltacol (flash game) Click and drag the frog-snail to where you want it to jump to (wait for the tracking line) and find your way through five levels. You are on a love quest and the environment is hostile. Boa viagem!
Staple gun! →Read more...
A tongue twister for you ...provided you're willing to sit through the boring story.
Carrot Top shows off his new look --more like Carrot Juiced? (maybe not safe for work or those with delicate constitutions)
What's a good name for a dog?
Dear Frisbee and mudpuppie. First time I clicked onto the link without knowing what it was. The second time, my computer logged me in automatically because it decided that's what you do when you disconnect a VPN session. Just so you know.
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The Language of Auto Emblems Although car brands are among the most powerful on the planet, most of their origins are random at best.
ACK! Server error!! ...just in time for my first cup of morning coffee after staying up all night.
Y2K bug: portent of change
Look Bunnies! As in speech, not beer.
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Improbable inventions you'd like to see: List them here.
22 August 2005
Large iPod. Larger music collection. Suggestions? (and other iTunes/iPod Qs inside)
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Help me find a comic strip... →Read more...
Taz predicted it though I can't find where here, her clear see through backpack idea is now available to buy.
Freedom bags show that you have no bomb.
Investigate songs with compatible melodies →Read more...
Losing your digital virginity: What was the first glorious illegal mp3 you downloaded? Where from? When?
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Adulthood Fantasies →Read more...
Serve 'em while they're piping hot, →Read more...
There is no easy way to contact the site admins →Read more...
Six Feet Under is now six feet under.
Why, oh why is raw honey so incredibly, indescribably good?
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Internet gag t-shirts Ok, so I spotted a pink tee with a monkey on it that read "I fling poo" and guess who I thought of? ;)
This guy had his camera with him and took a shot of "how about a nice cup..".
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21 August 2005
Puppetfilm - Stop-motion animation from Eastern Europe.
Greetings from Cedar Rapids, Iowa Dropping my son off for his first year off
college.
Dame mentions, "[wanting] a real partner." As much as dame and I fight like cats and dogs, there's a sentiment with which I can deeply relate. Do others of you feel this way?
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Computer terms that sound dirty, but aren't. Inspired by a comment by the lovely Wendell.
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Searching for pg124 of DeLillo's Americana So there I am, sitting on the couch with what could be the last pleasure-reading novel I'll have the chance to enjoy for a while (school really limits these things), when suddenly I turn the page and oh my god, it's blank! (cue dramatic music). This is tragic, really. Anyone able to break out their own copy and scan/photograph page 124 for me?
20 August 2005
Drunk and Disorderly I
looooove you guyshh ... oh, and you galsshhh, tooo ...
10 things. (including: It takes a gallon of oil to make three fake fur coats)
Metachat Voices Compilation I finally got off my butt and finished up the Metachat voices blog.
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Bagels and Bongos a lost 50s album of Jewish/Yiddish standards done to a Latin beat by Irving Fields being rereleased.
Hear a remix of one of them here (mp3)
Vegan & vegetarian brunchmeisters I need your help!
What did you want most? In your life, what's the one thing you wanted most at the time you wanted it? A bike? A boyfriend? To be a professional sock-puppet wrestler? Did you get it? What happened after? Tell me a story, MeCha.
Lessons for MeFi? “It's always been about the people who are the Well. There are no other tangible assets,” she says. --on the sale of it by Salon)
Metachat Book Collaboration piece. I'm probably going about this the wrong way, but I set up a basecamp site for everyone who wants to be part of the collaborative piece in the metachat book.
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The 100 Scariest Movie Scenes of All Time? Guess which one gets the top spot. Yep, you got it. Agree? Disagree? (Special for LeeJay!)
19 August 2005
Fever (Sarah Vaughn remix) + Pied Piper? (qt)
Metachatters: Scare the Crap Outta Me →Read more...
stuff i did while on a mecha holiday: moved all my computer stuff, dusted mightily, shaved part of head, saw movies, read books, ate food, had sex, pooped healthily, destroyed paper horizons and rebuilt new building-like piles, bathed much, prepared three corpses, fell a little more in love with steve carell over stephen colbert, gaza stripped and more--
RIP Stephen King It hasn't hit the newswires yet that I can see, but a friend of mine who works in Maine hospital just called to tell me that Stephen King died about a half hour ago. :(
I'm going to Reno. Anyone want to place a bet? I'll cover those I can.
Paris Cool ~
Excellent Photography ~
Ever fantasized about being killed by an angry car? How about catching a rogue lawyer in the act? Have you ever wanted to share the page with a line drawing of a stapler?
Here's your chance!
Wrestle the future to the fuckin' ground. Write every day, for not less than twenty or more than fifty minutes, a scene with only two voices and no other narrative description; "Don't think about what it means, don't think about who they are"; and, above all, "Don't think about what you're going to write before you do it." - An excellent (and lengthy)
article on David Milch, creator of Deadwood.
UpdateFilter Remeber the judge who wouldn't let divorcing parents expose their child to "non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals?" He's been
overturned on appeal.
Zeigeist shoutout - SF It got a little worked over and was baptized by more than one beer (taz & me3dia being the big winners there), but here it is in all of its blurry, approaching midnight, beer garden glory.
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MetaUBB This has probably been asked for before, but I'm both lazy and demanding...
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The inner workings of your brain. So this morning I had a semi-lucid dream
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18 August 2005
Leonard Cohen's broke - Interesting article on Leonard Cohen's fucked up financial situation. (Stolen from MoFi).
Purple Haze I fucking hate TSG's colour scheme but this is important.
I know this is petty. But I need a good comeback.
At last... a mecha dream! I dreamed that we were all staying (living?) in this
treehouse, basically, but it was really big, on many different levels, and looked sort of like a cooler version of a ski lodge. It was beautiful, really - huge floor to ceiling windows, glowing, warm wood (like teak) floors and walls and great lighting!
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MeTa & the 10k This comment prompted me to check MeTa. The most recent post is #9996. Who's gunning to take post #10,000?
Who wants to collaborate on something for the new metachat book? Looks like Frisbee Girl and myself are in. Also, does anyone have any suggestions on what we all could realistically collaborate on?
Look out! Up in the trees! JRUN!!! F.f.s. - right now I am at work and I can't browse... what am I gonna do?
Confused Lions Chase Small Cars After I get my Mini, I'll be careful not to drive it anywhere there's lions.
Do we have any Gene Wolfe fans on MetaChat? What are your favorite Wolfe books? How many times have you re-read them?
Quite a few pictures
here.
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On August 16th Captain Rob's Vikingship made of 15 million ice cream sticks was launched in the water... the ship passed all the ests and cruised the Amsterdam waters without any problems. [credit to
Mr. StuporStar]
Pleistocene re-wilding A plan to move big game (elephants, lions etc) to North America.
What species would YOU relocate and where?
Quonsar's been quiet on Metafilter lately... Has he been banned? Did he quit? New name?
MetaMakeMeAngryAllTheTimeFilter It doesn't work. What a bother.
DTV: Internet TV on your Mac --from Participatory Culture Foundation.
DTV is a new, free and open-source platform for internet television and video. An intuitive interface lets users subscribe to channels, watch video, and build a video library. Our publishing software lets you broadcast full-screen video to thousands of people at virtually no cost. The project is non-profit, free and open source, and built on open standards. A Windows version of DTV and a full website are well underway and will arrive in the next several weeks.
17 August 2005
Bay Area Bunnies! In case anyone's missed the posts in MeTa, tomorrow night, some folks from MeFi, MoFi and MeCha are meeting at
Zeitgeist to celebrate the joys of BBQ, booze and Bendy's birthday. Details can be found
here and
here .
Just how dark is it?: A spoilery question about the Douglas Adams book
Mostly Harmless that has been bugging me for some time...
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Tonino Delli Colli: Lifetime Through the Lens "If anyone asks me about my films and about how I created them technically, I always tell them to watch them again because everything is right there. The magic of film can't be put into words."
Tonino Delli
Colli, master
cinematographer of 137 films -- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Once Upon a Time in the West; Salo; The Canterbury Tales; Lacombe Lucien; Fellini's Intervista; Accattone; Life Is Beautiful --
died last night in Rome.
More inside.
I got an asspocket full of whiskey...
Have at thee Ghandi! Since AskMeFi isn't the best place to ask, and since there are a lot of MeFi alumni here I've a question for you all :
In a proper Fight Club style hand-to-hand fight (no weapons) - Which historical/famous figure would you most like to fight with?
This bored office worker needs to know...
The Metachat Book. As some of you may recall I did
a little survey a while ago to test if folks here were interested in contributing to and buying a Metachat book. Well there seems to be a lot of interest! I've prepared things at my end and I'm now ready for your submissions. For more info, read on
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The first set of emcee 4 is finished. Since this month's full suite of corpses is going to take a little longer than usual, I figured I'd dribble the love out. Here's one of four. (NSFW if your work is strictly strict.)
Lebowski I only have it on video. This may call for an update. Solid film for sure.
Hats. Hats made of human hair.
When you diet, do you crave certain flavors? The ones that you find in calorie-laden toppings, gravies, dressings, and sauces? Now, you can satisfy your cravings with the new
Flavor Spray Diet™! Note: opening flash animation has been sprayed with cheese™ flavor.
iPood. Geekoid babywear (so popular, they sold out). Via
daddytypes, a very nice weblog for new dads.
16 August 2005
Gallery of the Project for the OLD American Century--some really
great ones
The most elite competitors from all over the world
will gather for the event. The competition includes events based on
speed, length, and skill. There is also a freestyle event. The United States is currently selecting its
team. Watch
ESPN and ESPN2 to learn who will take home the gold in
The World Pizza Championship!
ABC & CNN have been infected by
the Zotob worm, which affects systems under Windows 2000. The
Plug & Play Buffer Overflow Vulnerability seems to be the key.
Even after all these years the little prick makes me want to puke.
What Work Is Philip Levine is an identical twin.
Eight days away from Metachat! Can someone catch me up?
Stupid CSS question How do I float an element without actually floating it.
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A couple of items... First... welcome your new iconomy overlord; ico has joined amberglow, dg and quonsar as a bunnymod, and now she can kick your bunny ass if she wants to.
Second, we still have
four slots that need players on our
latest exquisite corpse series. We had a lot fewer people signing on this time, so it turns out I set up too many sets. I suck, but let me know if you want to play!
15 August 2005
The faces of metachat. Post yourselves here, and tag with
"metachat".
Etsy --all handmade stuff to buy or sell. (
and you can search by color!)
At long last... it's a labiaplasty blog!
"word that rhymes with duck" New edition of Canadian Press handbook includes "infamous four letter word".
But the CBC apparently won't use it.
Mefi Mail Swap Internal Server Error Politics dictates that I post here about the Mefi Art Mail Swap... Updates on Images, Membership, latest Theme, and possible Protocols changes inside.
MeCha dream. →Read more...
Let's go to Dollywood. I have this hankerin' to go to Dollywood next week. Look at what you can get to
eat! If I go I'll send y'all a
postcard.
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Seattle Meetup There's a Seattle meetup tonight. Unfortunately I cannot link the MetaTalk thread because "document contains no data" - but be at the Big Time Brewery on University Way around 6 p.m.
Broken I think the 'filter is broke... Interesting screenshots inside.
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14 August 2005
Go dg! It's your birthday! : >
*insert birthday wishes, presents, cards, etc, here*
MetaFatwa The other day, on The Daily Show's "This Week in God" feature, Stephen Colbert called the declaration against extremism by a group of moderate US Muslims a "fatwa against fatwas, or a meta-fatwa."
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But I had data around here somewhere... "The document contains no data." Is anyone else getting this message today when loading Mefi pages? It's a new one for me.
I downloaded a game demo, and now I'm stuck. Can anyone help me?
It's Finally Raining And I am taking great satisfaction in my anthropomorphized cold front slaying the evil heat + humidity dragon.
Elephant throws out first pitch at Michigan baseball game. quonsar was unavailable for comment.
Spam on Blogger It looks like there are now scripts that will post comment spam to blogger blogs (even registering with Blogger to be able to do it). Will Google be able to stamp out this abuse, or will we all have to emigrate?
Strip Generator --an exceptionally cool comic strip generator.
Here's mine
13 August 2005
Garage sales! →Read more...
The Unholy Marraige is Complete! Country & Heavy Metal consummate their union: The Supersuckers honky-tonk version of
"Breaking The Law." (rapidshare, click free, follow directions) Get out your beers and make some devil horns. It don't get much better.
ARK II Warning: blurry real player video. Does anyone else remember this show? Also, for music lovers
Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space via this
fine collection of the theme songs you've always wanted.
crossposted to Mofi, albeit with a slightly different emphasis and format.
Images of Thessaloniki. Just a few. I took my new camera along when I went shopping today.
Mr. Billy Joe Shaver This song (via rapidshare, scroll down, click "free" and follow direstions, rapidshare is too slow) is one of a select few songs that can make me openly weep. I recently learned it was written after his son died of a drug overdose, making it even more resonant. I also use it people who say they hate country music. It's brought many people around.
The Duke of Slack. I was reading
this today and it made me think of all the people I've worked with who have an almost heroic aversion to work. Not just people who sit around browsing when they should be working - anyone can do that - I mean the people who really work at not working, who go that extra mile. Tell us about the ones you've encountered.
since people are in a musical mood: I proudly present "LoveCats", the Cure song, as sung by...
12 August 2005
This is to discuss the latest mix Not to post track listings, but to discuss, compliment and ask "why did you end with that song?" and "where can I get that cd?"
Mix fixit Persons whose filesystems do not allow them to include colons in filenames will find that they can't download one of the files in my mix, called "04 - John Zorn - Filmworks X: In the Mirror of Maya Deren - 13 - Nostalgia 2 (cello).mp3". Get it
here.
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Sugar in the Gourd Internet radio. Old time, all the time. From the
FQA:
The music you will hear on Sugar in the Gourd encompasses Appalachian fiddle tunes and balladry, early commercial recordings by Southern country musicians, and more recent performances by people who are trying to keep this music alive or maybe grow a new branch on this old tree. I reserve the right to also throw in the occasional blues, folk, or jazz tune that seems to fit into this tradition.
Corpse Tennis! Two new corpses for you to check out, one by
taz and me3dia, one by
ethylene and iconomy.
ARGH. Firefox + Win2K/XP problems? →Read more...
Weasels ripped my flesh I'd just like to point out that Frank Zappa is now available on itunes. In case you hadn't noticed.
I'm not accusing anybody outright, but it whomever stole the Emperor Yammamoto's Eggs did a bang-up job of messing up MetaChat's sidebar. The poor thing's spitting up a crison MySQL error, like some albino offspring of jRun.
Les orgasmes dans le monde It's Friday, silly day, y'know.
The Mad Hatter - fun stuff to do with paper bags.
Random Tunes. A little thing I've made that will play you twenty random tunes from a list of 10,000. Enjoy!
Putdown of the Year A college teacher reminds her class of tomorrow's final exam. "Now class, I won't tolerate any excuses for your not being here tomorrow. I might consider a nuclear attack or a serious personal injury or illness or a death in your immediate family, but that's it, no other excuses whatsoever!"
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I'm male, sex-negative, and a misogynist. Help me deal with my hard drive full of porn.
How to clean squid. An instructional song.
Petticoat Pond Here is a collection of Poufbunnies displaying their finery and telling us a little about themselves.
11 August 2005
Mr. Fastfinger - the way of the exploding solo.
Or maybe a bouncy/gruesome Beatle tune. I can't decide so I won't. {Flash}
The Gay Blade(rs) Sweet little short (Quicktime) film about two gay rollerbladers. Here's their
own page.
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Modern Living/Neurotica Series Odd little interactive flash animations.
The Beaufort Scale One of the most beautiful pieces of accidental poetry I've ever heard.
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I have a sad story about a baby bunny... →Read more...
I just want you to know... I can't tell if this is the best thing I have seen...
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"Git along lil' dawgies, HYAHH!"
Swedish Semen-Sniffing Dog My friend Dayv doesn't know where to start with the jokes about this article. Let's help him out.
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Mixup Reminder. The mix swap closes at 7pm UTC tomorrow. Please note that unlike previous swaps I won't be letting anyone in after the deadline so please don't be late.
The Most Beautiful New Yorkers? --as chosen by various people who are friends with people at NY Mag. (jon and dame and i were too beautiful to be included--they said we'd throw off the curve) ; >
It's my Birthday! So? What are you giving me?
Legal notice: All gifts are assumed to be implied, not expressed. No Metachatter shall be held liable for delivery or receipt of said gifts. Gift content may be used solely for information purposes, and use of any such product or service offered as a gift is governed by the terms and conditions in the agreement for that product or service as described herein. Except as provided in that agreement, Metachatters do not warrant that any gift descriptions or content contained therein is accurate, current, reliable, complete, or error-free.
10 August 2005
Quick Dumb Blog Question If you link to someone else's blog, are you supposed to ask them first? Tell them? Or is it permissible/nice/okay to just put the links up there on the sidebar and not worry about it? The etiquette of it all occasionally confounds me.
Legal threats What was the thread that Matt removed due to legal threats? Anyone know? Or can guess?
The Vampire Zombie Bunny Army t-shirt and I saw Dinosaur Jr last night. It was awesome.
Question about networking terminology. The question, about some subtle distinctions between terms, is inside!
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Hope Me MetaChat. I got my good friend a portable USB drive for her birthday and am looking for stuff to fill it up with.
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Emergency CD burning! I have about 24 hours to burn my sister a ton of music. I was planning on burning her six CDs of music through iTunes, as mp3 CDs. How do I do this?
09 August 2005
Fascination not Degradation This to me is crazy! But I curiosity to be taken as insult, so I ask here: do you have trouble with left vs. right?
I'm looking for good chord chart/tab sites for my guitar students.
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a good deed-- to wipe away the stench of Dobson--click for Cathy--
this guy's sister is being treated at this tiny cancer treatment center...
How To Tell How Gay Your Gay Son Is (fafblog)
...Place two photographs in front of your son lying face down. On the left place a photograph of Tom Welling, TV's gay Superman; on the right place the stern but genial visage of James Dobson. Flip them over simultaneously. Which does your son look at first? If he looks at Tom Welling, he is gay. If he looks at James Dobson, he is gay with an unnatural fixation for James Dobson. ...
Pepsi Blue: $20 an hour I'm tempted. . . I'm tempted. . . I want to work from home! I wonder if you have to sign the contract with blood and if so, whether they can tell if you fax it. Hmmmm.
Wherefore art thou, Pretty_Generic...? Please come home. I think the storm is over.
It's about the links! Sausage links, that is. At home I have two packages of sausage in the fridge: a pack of cilantro & peppers chicken sausage and a pack of Boars Head red hot beef links?
Which should I fry up? I've got kraut, horseradish & mustard to complement either, and I'll get beer for accompaniment.
What does it feel like? When you're exercising and you get your second wind, what does it feel like to you?
Would you post about something like this? I admire her courage, and commiserate her tragedy.
meta:AnonAskMe Seems I miss all the interesting AskMe's, so what was this one really about? "question about finding a phone number in the corner of the house"? Que?
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Huge TITS! the one fucking time i go in here and no one's there. thanks guys.
08 August 2005
Japander --celebs doing ads in Japan they would never lower themselves to do here (quicktime clips). Watch
Brad talk about his ass, and more
Helen Clare is an
upcoming new
poet, a
blogger and a seller of
corsets. That'd be enough for other less
discerning websites but this is metachat, and we demand pictures of
cute bunnies.
Peter Jennings died and I don't care;
Peter Jennings died and I don't care;
Peter Jennings died and I don't care;
The media's gone astray.
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07 August 2005
random pictures post random pictures. um. i'm bored?
Let's Go Shopping! I'm quite the retro/nostalgia fan, so running across
Malls of America was a bit of a treat.
Vampire Bunny T-shirt as modeled by Mrs Geezer
New Diablo II patch is out! Also tomorrow they are reseting the ladder. I am guessing nobody cares but me. =)
Metacosmesis --art, embroidered and otherwise. (maybe NSFW) : >
06 August 2005
Corpse Rescue! I've been bogged down on a frightening number of projects, and don't really have the time to devote to finishing a round of Corpse Tennis with the ever patient Slack-A-Gogo. Someone up for taking over to ensure a stunning final product?
Show Us Yours Show us where you surf Metachat.
Here's where I play.
Music Practice Haiku →Read more...
Copy Protection. Does anyone know of any good reliable lists available online of CDs that have copy protection on them? I'd like to get the new Goldfrapp CD but the last one I bought had protection on it leaving it mostly unlistenable for me (and goddamn it, it's just the principle of the thing!).
Brown tendrils sprouting from my plant... ? So I've had this plant for about 2 years and for the last 6 months or so there have been these brown tendril-like things growing out of the stems and shooting straight down.
Friday night tomfoolery? gaspode, mudpuppie and I can't be the ony ones up. Come and chat!
05 August 2005
Distractions and timewasters. In honor of me being antisocial and deciding to defer a night of carousing to tomorrow, I give you two completely unrelated, totally irrelevant links:
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Is YouSendIt secure/safe? (mi)
FREE! FREEDOM! I can smoke and drink and eat things! (but i still can't let the mobile phone people to talk to the instrument people)
let the debauchery begin!
THEY KNOW about the vampire zombie bunny army. What'll we do now?
Ain'T goT no how waTchamacalliT
These made the rounds a few year ago, but here's for anyone who missed them. Ultra-bizarre Japanese comics. My favorites:
6,
16,
20
Speaking of bibles... Fans of
Stryper who
pre-order their new CD through their website will get a free pocket New Testament
autographed by a member of the band!
Happy Friday #2 Flipping through old bookmarks on my computer, I found this. MeFi's slow loading for me this morning, but I'm pretty sure it was posted to there a few years ago. However, rapping furries busting out boy band moves in the park are always a good time.
Everybody's prolly seen this but, geez, it's Friday, everybody needs some cookie monster on Friday.
I would like to hear music not picked out by MeChatters, but written by 'em. Got it? Bring it!
Metachat Mixup Returns! We'll be having another online mix swap session so get your mixes ready. The deadline is 7pm UTC on Friday 12th July. Please indicate in this thread if you intend to take part.
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"It's Bible Stylish MP3 Player!" With "White Design". For great justice.
Time for emcee 4... with a twist? Exquisite corpses are yearning to be free... but what do you say we crank it up a notch this time? Instead of a totally free-form style, I'm thinking maybe we could apply a theme... and the theme I have in mind is "
How naked go the sometimes nude".
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I just got a spam that accuses Microsoft of spamming. Quote: "Trusting Microsoft to protect computer users from spam is like putting telemarketers in charge of the do-not-call list."
Most self-defeating propaganda campaign in living memory? Worst case of Microsoft bashing ever?
G-D J-Run Damn I'm too tired for this. I'm going to bed - so here's my jrunned comment on
Romare Bearden. I'm damned if I'm wasting it. Rat fink effin jruns, grr, christ, grrrrrrrr.
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04 August 2005
back pats and forethought: i found the stuff i hid for emergencies--
now if only i had hidden booze, food and--
The Dead Brothers Stomp Sounds like it could be a mid-80s Tom Waits instrumental track (until the vocals start)
See the tampon machine? It's the ladies' room, you asshat!
Spontaneous cat love thread in response to the main link in
this thread.
Cats are cute and nice and pretty! Non-sarcastically!
Thanks haxx0r dudes! I just wanted to way a public thanks to trondant and agropyron for helping me with my problem finding an admin password for an XP machine yesterday.
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Falling Blair, etc. Like the falling bikini girl, but with Blair, Bush, Bono, OBL, and others.
NO LITTLE BLUE SQUARES ON THE FRONT PAGE this is an atrocity. an outrage. monstrous. barbarity. enormity. fiendish. heinous. horror. infamy. nefarious. shocking. villainous. wicked.
Baile Funk I don't know if anyone listens to this Brazilian music, or if you saw
the recent MetaFilter thread, but I've been kind of hordeing the address of a baile funk MP3 site that I want to share.
Funky Do Morro. There are literally hundreds of MP3s accessible through the links on the left of the screen. They ask for some bandwidth consideration.
Exquisite Codec An mp3 theme for the day: Try to continue on with some element from the song before.
So, when I post, say, "Cherry Bomb," by Magnapop, reply with "Cherry Bomb" by Joan Jett or "Summer Cherry Ghosts" by Tim Monger, or... Well, you get the idea. Should be connected by artist name or song name (or general theme. As time goes on, the connections can get looser...)
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MadMeg's Digestion Notebook Mad intricate pen doodlings
en Francais.
Dane Cook videos! [
1] [
2]
Dane Cook is my favorite living comedian. His new album "Retaliation" made me laugh really, really hard.
Lost songs filter... Since everyone's already busy fossicking in their music collections, here's my request
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03 August 2005
Brandy, you're a fine girl. Does anyone have an mp3 of "Brandy", by Looking Glass that they can email me? It's one of my favorite songs, and I really want to hear it right now.
I can reciprocate with Terry Stafford's "Pocket Full of Rainbows" or "Suspicion", if you want.
NewCarChat So... which car should I buy?
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okay, i need an opinion: should i enter this on worth1000 or will i just get disqualified? it's for a ghost picture
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Shivaree video --ooo (realplayer, from Quartermass' MeFi clip link)
meet Snuppy -- the first cloned dog. (his name stands for Seoul National University puppy, and he was made from a cell taken from the ear of a three-year-old male Afghan hound.)
did you do it? i got three things done,
none on my list, but-- but what did you get done or plan to have done by time you put down your head?
Where're the bag hags at? In the spirit of Specklet's shoe post, ladies and bag carrying men, how many bags you got? What kinds? Which is your favorite? Am I the only one who gets really silly and stupid when it comes to bags?
I suspect I'm a MetaChat user, but the sidebar disagrees.
How many pair of shoes do you own? I'm a self-proclaimed Shoe Whore, but I'm wondering just how whorey I am...
Pony Request/Site Design When reading
taz's post from earlier today I finally realized how much trouble I have telling where one comment ends and another begins...
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Naff Songs What's the worst song you love?
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Why would I want to buy
your camera if it's "maliciously cared for"?
Futher Mucker! Did you ever work really hard on a MF post, then on preview have the link engine tell you it's a dupe? Just happened to me. Well can that noise, here's MY version:
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You got the touch! *banah nah NAH*
You got the power!
*banah nah NAH*
After all's said and done
You've never walked,
You've never run,
You're a winner.
*banah nah NAH*
Thoughts on the Great Experiment (which began as a comment on anastasiav's "we have a winner" post, but became too big for its britches). (more inside)
02 August 2005
We have a winner.... Well, I emailed the contest winner about an hour ago. But before I post to MeTa, I'm interested to know which link from August 1st you would have picked?
looking for the billboard photography link from here
help?
Important information for anyone who has ingested vodka, gin, beer, scrotch, or dingle within the past year.
Awesomest Sex Toy EVAH! you know you want it. that long pink tongue... admit your desire!
Captain Beefheart 6.5 MB video (AVI)
tomorrow is tidy up day: everything you've been putting off putting away, dealing with, or smacking down-- might as well get it over with, just don't sign anything
I'm posting this for the cheese factor, not because of the political stuff. I promise. (Turn your sound up.)
I just love me some gay elves. Embedded .wmv clip. Possibly NSFW if your boss doesn't like nearly naked and very gay non-human World of Warcraft videogame characters. I've been playing computer games for most of my life, and am just pleased as punch to see some
gaymers having some
fun and and sharing it around.
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Your side, my side; what, is everybody that dumb?
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Can't sleep, clowns'll eat me. Can't sleep, clowns'll eat me. Can't sleep, clowns'll eat me. Can't sleep, clowns'll eat me.
Delectable pop truffle Tuesday lives on! Devin Davis - Iron Woman (direct link to Mp3). Totally unpretentious, this song is part
John Cougar Mellencamp / part
Brian Adams with a little
Bruce Springsteen thrown in for good measure; straight ahead pop-rock the way they used to make it in 1984. Check out that sax solo!
Retake Metafilter Back To The Future Day I will regift a $25 GAP giftcard to the best Metafilter FPP on 8 August 2005-- the best FPP that contains the words "ethereal," "bligh," and "smells".
The Dreamer of Dreams A collection of illustrations from children's books written by Mary Queen of Romania (1875 - 1938). Actually, the
whole site has tons of neat stuff about
Mary (warning: page full of photos - dialups beware!) and
Queen Eliabeth, aka Carmen Sylva, quite a prolific writer in her own right.
Chill me. Post your cold photos here, and help me withstand the heat until I get my second a.c. installed tomorrow.
Who won? And who would you select?
Kometten Verbotten: Blocked! Why do new users get this message when they try to leave comments?
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01 August 2005
jrun. fix your shit haughey.
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Cattle wed in 2,000-guest Thai ceremony Farmer Amphol Wangboon was hesitant to give up his beloved Thong Khaow for marriage until he found her the perfect match and a dowry he couldn't refuse: truckloads of fresh grass, hay, maize and $2,400.
News from Colorado Pot-Bellied Pig Dies, Chicken Friend In Mourning. Unusual Couple Were Inseparable.
Pricing LPs (quick question for y'all) Hi folks; my Google-fu fails me.
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Another weird dream... →Read more...
MetaChat T-Shirts for US. They're now available in the US store, in many different styles. If you want this design in a different design or colour then just ask and I'll add it to the store.
Woohoo! MeFi tagline generator, courtesy of
cillit bang!
Eyes on the Prize. Today's MeFi posts seem to have started off with a bang. If you've got something good,
now's the time to share. (
MetaTalk thread.)
31 July 2005
French Erotic Film, or Colin Mochrie vs. Jesus H. Christ :: [flash]
no idea, sorry
Long time ago in the faraway galaxy. Star War! Chinese translations of an American classic (thrice-removed).
Anybody want to talk about tonight's SFU?
What time is it where you are? It's 4 am here and I really shouldn't be awake.
Roxette. I was trying to sort out a Captain Beefheart clip but this'll have to do instead. 20MB DivX AVI.
I'm back. I've spent a long weekend in
dabitch's hoods. God I love Copenhagen. Go there.
So did ya'll miss me? I brought
tebirkes.
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sunday morning dancehall turn up the music and drown out the voices
from the freshly linked
musicalbear
Mangina Dentata --sure, it's the best blog name ever, but parody or real?
Sunday = time for more MeCha dreams. Now with 100% more taz and ethylene! And, um, Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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bacon & eggs - in the spirit of Sunday brunch (QT)
Being drunk from the last night is like a backwards search. Reforging forgotten connections. Hopefully.
Is There a Madness to Your Method? Has anyone else here experimented with "structured random" searches? Yesterday, I tried using Google and a rule of tenths to see where it led. Here is a (self) link to
a discussion of this experiment. Anyone else have any examples? Anyone want to try ninths? Eighths? Etc.?
Logo T-Shirts Available These are in the European shop - they'll be available in the US shop within a few days. Other colours and styles available, just ask and I'll add them. Other stuff available
here.
Our Nanobots add 23 inches, Guaranteed! "You'll know the Singularity is here, Tom, when your penis really does start getting larger . . . ." -- A useful warning from Glenn Renyolds
http://www.musicsolutions.ca/video/EJ-COD.mpeg
Here'a an idea for a fun collaborative project: Write a metafilter walkthrough, as though it were a computer game (and after all, isn't it, kind of?).
This idea via myself.
What would you do if you were 23 and your doctor called with news that was going to change your life?
30 July 2005
Gravatars? Should we? stupid? how about if we let other people choose ours? a contest? poll? ...
Help Me Baby The Frost. Rock and Roll Music. 1969.
I dream there is a lover who will know that I'm faking.
"--saturday waits, sunday always comes too late--"
29 July 2005
I ate potted meat 4 hours ago... ...and now I don't feel good.
Howcome the Farscape people, Lou Gossett and Beau Bridges and the computer girl from Hercules' show are all on Stargate now? What's up? Where's Sam Carter?
I love the smell of an incoming rainstorm. That is all.
What was that horrible rock venue website? It was posted here awhile back, and it had it all; animated GIFs galore, red-on-black text, and so on.
I've recently discovered that my dad's
department at the university has a site that looks a lot like it, and I'd like to show it to him.
(He is in no way involved with the site, by the way, and he told me that he loves to hassle the department about it.)
Surely, we are told, such is a small price to pay to assure that we are not bombed into a fine paste that becomes a tasty treat for the rats and the sewer crocs. (rudepundit-filthy as usual)
News from Colorado Court: School's 'Phallic' Sculpture Doesn't Violate First Amendment. Some Say Bishop's Miter Resembles Phallus.
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Fun With Words. Overnumerousnesses, eighteen letters long, is the longest English word that consists of only letters that lack ascenders, descenders, and dots in lower case.
Honorificabilitudinitatibus, 27 letters long, is the longest English word consisting strictly of alterating consonants and vowels.
Euouae, six letters long, is the longest English word consisting only of vowels, and, also, the English word with the most consecutive vowels.
Here there are lots and lots of cool photos. Did I mention "lots"? Ten pages of thumbnails, plus more if you
click around (google translation). Photographer Kurt Salzmann.
28 July 2005
WOOHOO!!! Ever quit a job on short notice? And you marvel at going to this job day to day with no end in sight, one minute, and suddenly the world is your oyster the next?
"Recent MeFi posts by Metachat users" Cool!
Ask MeCha about the next mix →Read more...
A sort of natural Oolong. But this time, it's not a bunny, nor pancakes.
✮ ✮ ✮ ✮ too good to let pass by en toto. if you have a printer, pass out leaflets. The novelty of paper will cause much noise and delight.
Balancing Point [22MB QT .mov]
Corpse Tennis begins to show results, but tragedy has already struck...
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I've been paid a year's salary this month. Obviously, this is a mistake.
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Now there's not even a JRun error Connection refused.
Pony So omiewise
mentioned that he'd like to keep a beady eye on what folks from here post. I immediately thought "oh that's easy" rustled something up in about fifteen minutes which worked beatifully. And then it broke the site. I've got it working now though although we are rather at the mercy of MeFi's atom feed which can be a bit flaky - we'll see how it pans out. Anyway, all it does is match usernames in the MeFi posts with user names here - and that's as about as sophisticated as it's likely to get. Enjoy.
Take Back Metafilter Day!
I'm declaring Monday, August 1st as the first hopefully-not-annual "Take Back Metafilter" Day. I'm offering a $25.00 Gift Certificate from (your choice of) Amazon, Threadless, ThinkGeek, or Archie McPhee to the person who posts the 'Best' link to Metafilter on Monday, August 1st.
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You are in luck, I am not in luck... Look what God did to us man...
One of the few weeks I don't mind living in Michigan. As they say 'round here, "good sleeping weather."
Warning: [a load of error message stuff deleted]
Just thought you might like to know.
Juvenile response syndrome. Kamal Butt? Are you serious!?
Show me DQ issue 3 A magazine, I found just lying around the web. You can flick through the pages to look at the bic-pen type illustrations, and when you reach the end you'll get the credits.
If it's Thursday, it must be songs about booze, drugs, and sex.
Marsupial Mania! →Read more...
ROVE ROVE ROVE ROVE ROVE ROVE ROVE
27 July 2005
ah, recycling. yes. it's from boing boing.
so is this. Put it on paper, draw it out.
and they also said people who share music, buy music, maybe because they really like music. gee. wow. who'da thunk it.
Oh, OUCH! (image warning: this poor dog had a BAD encounter with a porcupine but is apparently healing)
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Madness songs in commercials --why all of a sudden?
"Our House" for Maxwell House, and i just saw "It Must Be Love" in a car commercial.
Newsfilter Crap :: I was going to post this to MeTa, but I'd forgotten I only get one MeTa post per week, so you all will be subject to my rant instead....
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Ask MeCha Need css/php/html-help. Please hope me.
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NY Hotels for Poor Are Under Pressure to Change Along the elegant side streets of the upper west side, the few remaining Single Room Occupancy Hotels for poor New Yorkers are under pressure to change. SRO owners are finding their prime locations can be marketed as youth hostels for young foreign travelers. And poor tenants who need a place to stay say they are being harassed into leaving.
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2 MeCha Mix questions: 1) Has the next one been scheduled?
2) In the likely event that I don't have my desktop fully internet operational, is there anyone willing to help me participate? Deep gratitude and a special, personalized mix offered in exchange.
Android Ann again One track, if anyone wants to hear more, let me know. She is... different.
Blaspomedius
I apologise! On behalf of all Brits, I'd like to apologise to the people of the United States of America for the recent release of the "Crazy Frog / Axel F" atrocity via iTunes in the U.S.
You know why birds don't write their memoirs? I do. But what I don't know is the exact wording of the reason, or the exact wording of what Calvin and Hobbes say in the following panels. And I'd like to know, preferably without Asking Metafilter.
Please Kill Me Now It's 11.06 and the heat index is is 107.
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Titanium Jewelry In London? →Read more...
Cover Song Wednesday! Today's
YouSendIt mp3 bonanza: Cover songs. The more unexpected, the better. Let's start out with a funky soul/gospel-tinged
cover of Seven Nation Army with low-down female vocals, from Nostalgia 77.
Just for Giggles. Please post the first thing - text, graphic, quote, anecdote, photo, headline, whatever - that made you laugh today. (ps: happy hump day!)
bunnypony! I have this sudden urge to be able to sort MeCha threads by if they have links in them or not so that I can go through links or chatty threads I've missed depending on time and mood. Possible pony?
Freaky deaky psychedelic weirdo illustration
All about some naked girls on intergalactic exploration
Enjoy the strange artistic style and the bold coloration
But do not browse while you're at work or face contract expiration
26 July 2005
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I HAVE CREATED A NEW SOUNDTRACK FOR YOUR NIGHTMARES
Delectable pop truffle Tuesday! A new institution. Pop song tuesday! Post yours (
You Send it only lasts for 7 days or 25 downloads, but it is easy to use)
My choice is "
Never Forget Where You Get Them" by Go Back Snowball (2002) - a collaboration between Robert Pollard (of Guided By Voices) and Mac McCaughan (of Superchunk). Delectable pop truffle goodness.
I'm hung over and my heart hurts. If I get some serious work done this morning, what's the earliest I can leave and go home?
I'm back from NYC! Did you miss me?
Charm City Cakes Check out the Groom's Cakes and the Special Events Cakes. Tasty. Baltimore. Tasty.
Music to be a dick to. I'm tired of hearing the other end: music to make you feel okay when someone's a dick to you.
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Members, grab your tools! Pick up your toys, pack your bags, and call in the vampire zombie bunnies,
we're moving here. Surely we have a glazier, a mason, a woodworker, a landscape architect and an interior decorator among us?
Metachat limericks. (Possibly not safe for work.)
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25 July 2005
Flipbooks! --make your own or just look at the others--some very fun and cute ones already up. : >
Why, why, why, why, WHY? WHY must you use the bathroom stall with the door unlocked and ajar?
F, B, D# and G# or B, F A and D? Or Eb, A, C# and G#?
Is anyone available now via email (or IRC) to help with an emergency PHP question? (An EZ one, at that...)?
Cute thing of the day Omiewise
finds Marzipan Bees. (Sorry, they are not
bunnies.)
The JRuns took my Mefi away
The Puzzled Fox is a rare 19th century Currier and Ives "picture puzzle" lithograph, with lots of hidden creatures and faces. I've managed to grab a couple of images of it from the net, though unfortunately, neither is complete. Peek inside if you feel like playing.
ShopDropping - it's backwards shoplifting
Paging mr.marx Slightly different Vampire Bunny T-Shirt as requested. If anyone would like this design on a different style of t-shirt then just ask and I'll add it to the store.
Family Guy Movie BitTorrent - for academic study of the appalling effect internet piracy has on our community.
don't eat the yellow goat, but she was without xanax and tequila made the stain greenish
Woot. I've been quoted in the Washington Post.
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Have you ever seen an anonymous AskMe where the anonymous poster ended up posting to the thread with their real username?
24 July 2005
God it's hot. 95 degrees is my ass button.
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The last 50 images posted to LJ --a script or something...mine included
this one (MAYBE NSFW)
Human ass buttons? What (seemingly benign things) really makes you loose your temper? What tiny little things make you do the human eqvualent of elevator butt?
OperaGlass. Detailed information on many operas, including: Libretti, Source Texts, Performance, Histories, Synopses, Discographies.
A participatory site, contributions are welcome
Jrun is really pissing me off this morning The bugger won't stay up. Viagra, anyone?
Bunny Shop Update: Vampire Bunny Army clothing and bags are
now available for Europe. More shopping
here.
What makes you cry? Emotional manipulation filter: Commercials? Documentaries? Movies? Songs? The puppies in that old Pepsi commercial? The human interest stories during sports broadcasts about people overcoming incredible odds? A random song on the radio?
What's that one thing guaranteed to make you tear up?
All by myse-e-elf. Don't wanna be... I just got in from a night out at the bar and I am looking forward to chat. Alas, I am left to my own devices. Do you have any idea what happens when I am left to my own devices? It's not pretty.
23 July 2005
Android Ann →Read more...
Is this going to be like that episode of Twin Peaks that Diane Keaton directed?
Peel Me A Grape Having been recently (and historically) declared one of the least romantic ladies on the planet, I'm interested in hearing what the definitions and ideas of 'romantic' are amongst the individuals in this group. Traditional? Offbeat? Overrated? Essential? Examples? (The comic and awkward, as always, are more than welcome.)
Wine and roses or PBR and paintball? Put it out there.
Sugarcrash move Mr. Sugar and keep the kid bouncing. : >
Daily Show spoof leads to firing of Broward Art Guild chief--it was bound to happen. Will they change the way they do them?
What are/were your favorite children's books? Baby shower tomorrow, and friends have, (thank goodness), requested books for their child.
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Fulfillment Service? If we had one, we could be the world's only one-stop shop for cocktail bitters and other rare ingredients.
an iPod question Actually, a few.
What does compilations mean, on the iPod menu, and how do I make one? Is it sort of like a playlist?
I made a playlist in iTunes of songs that my son likes. When I updated my iPod with the playlist, all of the songs I had on the iPod previously were taken off, and now only the playlist is on there. How do I keep all my songs on there, and add the playlist so that my son can listen to them while we're driving in my car?
Is it possible to put music on an iPod without using iTunes? If so, how?
I wish winamp would make a portable MP3 player! I'm not a big fan of the iPod so far...
Mrs.Pants' Sketchbook. Please welcome our newest member who has a superb collection of drawings and paintings.
May include bunnies.
Public Service Announcement The Ruins are awesome.
22 July 2005
Okay, it has come down to Ask MeCha. Who was the
FIRST TV/radio cowboy to whistle for his horse?
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Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus is part documentary/part road movie/part good and weird. Pentacostals, honky tonks, and Sheffield's Jesus Is Lord Country Kitchen
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One has not truly lived until one has visited the David Hasselhoff Compendium.
JazzChat I know it's been done before, but I'm looking for suggestions in the contemporary jazz segment.
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It seems to be the consensus among lady-fancying humans that Scarlett Johansson was more attractive than Thora Birch in Ghost World, and perhaps even stole the movie. But this is insupportable. Insupportable!
Harry Potter Spoiler (and now other spoilers) inside →Read more...
102 with high humidity →Read more...
Ich komme aus Egypten. You guessed it. Yes, I'm sorry, but, Ich bin, in fact,
Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil.
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Judas! The legendary
moment when Bob Dylan was heckled with a cry of “
Judas” at a 1966 concert is to be shown on
film for the first time. Now there is something I would like to see.
Bunny Hop Shop. Items for sale - all in one place for your convenience:
If you want these designs in additional options or with different placement then just ask.
My favorite horrible website happens to belong to a fine venue for live music, but the site - it's so
very bad. View in Firefox for maximum badness.
Ladies and Gentleman... Bloodhag "BlöödHag play short heavy metal songs about science fiction and fantasy authors." They also pelt their audiences with books.
Reverse AxeMe Where is it from that I know the song City Of Angles by The Distillers from Ethylene's mix? I don't have the CD or a compilation featuring it, was it prominently featured in a movie or tv show or video game or ad sometime in the past few years?
If you've posted anything in the last ten minutes don't be surprised if it's dissapeared. I've moved us over to a different database in the hope that it'll reduce the slow downs. Thanks.
Celebrity orgy. Who's invited?
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They Paraded Their Gods Through the Streets and it continues all through the summer. Fukuoka has several summer festivals, and it seems I can't go out
this month without bumping into a bunch of men parading giant floats.
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Online proxy site request Howdy. I'm behind a work proxy that knocks out a lot of sites (email, etc.). One of the sites I visit a lot (a cousin of Friendster) has been blocked today, and proxify.com won't allow me access to it because it's "interactive content", which they charge for. Does anyone know of some good proxy sites? (Not proxy servers, because I need to point my browser at the company server just to get out of the building, but http accessible proxy sites like proxify.com)
Critical Incident Stress Once more with feeling. Perfect Tommy says "Be cool. Just be cool."
MetaChat-Please Hope Me! My transitions in Corpses are sucky (which, in case you don't know, is a technical art term for "no good"). Any pointers? I'm color-blind, which I want to blame it all on, but fear that I can't.
This is a big ad. A very big ad. warning: it doesn't play all too nice with firefox on my mac.
Metachat - The Novel! After seeing that it's relatively easy and cheap to create your own books, and knowing that folk around here love a creative challenge I find the the idea of a metachat paperback book kind of irresistable. So I thought I would poll people for their opinions on this.
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Unphotographable I really like the idea behind this site, a kind of text-only photoblog, where each entry describes a picture never taken. What snapshots do you wish you had captured, but were unable, or unprepared, or not equipped to take. I, for example, would have loved to have caught a picture of the guy I saw riding a tandem
on his own one morning as I sat on the bus, heading to work. At that moment it somehow seemed so unexpected and inexplicably poignant.
Late night toad poetry →Read more...
CTS. I've been starting to feel Carpal Tunnel-like sensations in my right arm. What should (can) I do?
There was a gecko in my computer this morning. →Read more...
UNGGH!! I got a tetanus booster shot yesterday and my arm hurts like hell and is completely useless. It's kind of swollen, too.
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21 July 2005
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Ladies and Gents, The Polyphonic Spree This is what happens when musical hippies breed. (Takes a hella long time to get to the main pages, but when you get there, it's not remotely worth it.)
NY City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly Says To Watch For People 'Sweating'... (from Drudge's front page)
So they're going to start random searches in the subway tomorrow. The temperature forecast --93 degrees--aboveground. Belowground--way over 100.
People you want to see naked.
Stalker central →Read more...
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster When the band is jamming in the studio and they are all wearing headphones, what is that about? Noise cancelling or what?
People you wouldn't mind seeing naked. Bjork
Thom Yorke
Jennifer Tilly
Harrison Ford
that guy who busses tables at the Saucebox who's way too young for me
Speechify! I was particularly happy to find the
movie speeches section.
I have a new t-shirt idea. However to print on black it would need to be done in vectors. Would anyone be willing to re-work this for .ai .cdr or .fh format? Does anyone have any other ideas for t-shirts they can draw in vectors?
Technical specs are here.
People you hope never to see naked. My list includes David Letterman, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Keith Richards, Barbara Walters...
first call for audiohaul give us your poor, your tired, you're so burn out on tracks-- i know what i want, but you almost might have to ask
Mimi the Bunny Was this posted already?
Shoutout Hotpants Not as cool as dame's - but still essential for your next meet-up.
switch instruments otherwise you'll get bitter and jaded, or just pedantic
Too stupid a question for AskMe →Read more...
Too Many Questions for Askme Which one should I pick for the green? Give me answers, oh Mechazens, I plead.
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Whiskey. What's a good one?
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20 July 2005
I just killed a man with a screwdriver and I'm trying to decide what to wear to the eventual arraignment. A paisley skirt would highlight my taut, hairy calves, but green taffeta goes brilliantly with my eyes.
For the lovers. *
(*Where "lovers" = readers/music fans in the US.)
fine, i'll do it then *sigh* ignore the link per usual. just mouse on over and come right in
Press Any Key. When your computer asks you to press any key, what key do you press?
a colony of rabbits? or an abandonment of orphans? or an array of luminaries? what are we as a we?-- ambush by mefi widows
Compromise Maybe it's okay if these folks advertise on the blue.
Whacha think? Should I put
this on Bunnyscape? It made me laff real hard.
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Butterfly Alphabet Funny faces & figures in nature. I thought it was rather cute.
Otherwise,
funny faces in photobooths might be more your style.
The fifty films your child should see. The
British Film Institute has compiled a list of 50 films that children should watch by the age of 14. It includes a
diverse mix of movies from animé to Italian
neorealismo
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Google Moon Don't forget to zoom all the way in.
Lemon problem. What should I do with the juice of twelve lemons and two limes?
There must be a pony... speculations on design.
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Beer corollary. What's your favorite beer slogan?
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Beer What beers do discerning MeCha folk drink? And what does your particular favorite say about your realization as an empowered personal individual?
(First post ever, anywhere! Yipe!)
I hope it's not Illinois v. moift o'clock. Such was my thought just now.
Anyone here good with colors? I'm repainting a room on the lower floor of my house. My wife wants to give it some color other than a boring off-white.
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Post Traumatic Stress... something Note the man on the left in the foreground... (recent uses of this photo have edited him out completely)
19 July 2005
A present --brickout wise. Go there, click on custom mode, then load game, and type in
e407833735
Shopping the MeChat shop idea: so the kids and cats and farts among us want a store to call our own. I wanted to talk to PsychoKitty about her cottage industries as well-- so let's all talk shop: Meh O'Clocks? Shirts? Mugs? Candles? Dream it and we'll make it come--
Corpse Tennis: Players, meet your opponents.
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Afternoon tea? Crumpets and chat? Pop in and have a bit of whatwhat. It's pleasant and refreshing, I swear.
488 cats. That's gotta be a new record.
Jrun micturated on my carpet It really tied the room together.
Secret Agent man greyed into Edward Longshanks. I find it impossible to separate Patrick McGoohan from his early TV work.
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Rock out with your mock out Following up
this, consider:
There are three stages to a man's life. First he likes AC/DC. Then he likes AC/DC ironically. Then finally he can enjoy them unironically again.
Discuss.
greasemonkey security warning I don't pretend to understand this but if you have the greasemonkey extension for firefox installed you might want to read at least
these 2 warning list
emails. Nothing else has come up about it on tech sites yet as far as I can tell.
Addendum to my covers mix. (mp3 link) I realized I left this fine cover (by Ted Leo) of Kelly Clarkson's hit off of my mix.
Actually, I just found it online yesterday, although it's old. Enjoy.
Permanent Metachat Audioblog? Ethelyne had a great idea and I thought I would run it by everyone to see what they thought before I started working on it.
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18 July 2005
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What's with all the bannings in #metachat?
Because YOU Demanded it 2 cents from the sale of every shirt goes to the save the Capn fund.
Sky Kingdom: I think I may have found the religion for me. The giant teapot is
very compelling, as is the umbrella...
(post inspired by this boingboing post.)
So I am a vampire named YHBC, but I don't really know what I'm supposed to be doing yet . . .
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This is comical. The 1971 and 1979 versions of how computers work. We've come a long way... (from slashdot)
I have chills. They're multiplying.
screw you, clown! a classic joke that may or may not be of the level of one some people made a movie about--
original post idea: dripping in irony-- what the hell is EB on about?
Summer Reality TV. Fess Up! I know it's not "cool" or "hip" to watch reality tv uhh... ever. But you know you watch it. Admit it.
Big Brother 6? Average Joe: The Joe's Strike Back? Hell's Kitchen? Rock Star: INXS? I Wanna Be a Hilton (ok even I wont cop to watching that show!)?
What are your guilty pleasures? Did you hear about the big
scrap this weekend at the BB6 House? How awesome was the invasion of the beach by the hot guys on AJ:TJSB, when the weird dude kissed the guy that looks like Donny Wood from New Kids on the Block?
Seattle Lebowskiesque Meetup We're giving away perfectly good white people, er, caucasians, um, White Russians. Grab your balls, we're going bowling.
Unitards uber alles For those times when a top hat just won't do...it's
Chinese unitards!
Yummy! That's one big bunny.
I miss Dame I haven't seen her in a while and if she told everybody she was going to be gone I missed it...
"Bed and Board is a comedy about marriage, the desire to escape it, and the craftiness involved in running from one’s own desires. Antoine tries to achieve the 'essential' by getting married, only to attempt escape through an affair and then to duck the affair by returning to the marriage. Like a fretful child, he’s drawn to subvert whatever situation he’s in".
Writer/
director Noah Baumbach's essay on the
François Truffaut film.
(warning: main link leads to a commercial site)
So, I'm going to be in NYC this weekend. I will be there Friday-Monday. Anything interesting happening that I should know about?
Road Trip Mr. deborah and I are going on a road trip in a few weeks. We're driving from our abode to Edmonton and, possibly, Calgary. I'm hoping to make a side trip to Lake Louise/Banff. Anyway, me being me, I did a Google image search for images of Lake Louise. Then I looked for old postcards of Lake Louise. That search brought me
here (scroll down). I followed the link at the bottom to more and more and more old postcards. And as they would say in Quebec - tres cool! Then I clicked on the
site map. Holy cow on a crutch. There are tons of vintage postcards at this
site. Truly, for us old postcard freaks, a treasure trove.
Corpse Tennis, anyone? Some discussion aways back interested a few MeChatters in taking this whole exquisite corpse thing to the next level, which is, of course, one-on-one competition. And you can play, too!
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Q: How familiar is your disappointment? A: JRun
Q: How badly can a rock band sell out? A:
This badly.
Have you seen the Flickr page of MeFi Mail Art? The organizing blog is
here (and it's linked from our right-hand sidebar, for future quickclicking).
Tuskless Elephants! Horrible, and sad.
Taking the MeCha dream to the next level
I'm back from vacation I notice that MeFi isn't. JRun again.
Yes, I'm dumping all the "not ready for prime time" links I've been collecting over the past few months in one swell foop. Here's a real one -
Irregular WebComic! If you haven't been checking it every day, you should.
17 July 2005
The Museum of Soy Henry Ford had a
soy fiber suit. Who knew? Now you do.
I think Tom Friedman made history in his NYT column the other day--actual links to other newspapers in a newspaper Op-Ed not about computers or blogging? A blogvertorial?
Screw Jrun: Ask MeChat So, guys, have you ever heard of a "traditional" gift for editors? I've been asked this, but in my experience every publication handles this situation differently. What's a good present for to mark the exemplary tenure of an editor who is stepping down? Something classy and awardish she can put on her mantle, or is there actually a traditional present I don't know about? Help, bright lupines! And thanks!
Have we done this yet? Movies in 30 seconds. (Re-enacted by bunnies.)
Not Mozart I'm not religious (I've been known to give clues) but
this is my favourite piece of music. I think it says more about man than God. Hope it facilitates your chilling.
Dog day afternoon. I was quite interested to see photos of the people the movie was based on. And
here is a picture of what Ernest looked like after the sex change.
Found. Sometimes
sweet. Sometimes
strange. Sometimes
creepy.
Silkworm drummer Michael Dahlquist died in an auto accident on friday. He was killed along with two friends while they were out to lunch from work by a woman intent on taking her own life. You can read the Chicago tribune's story
here.
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girly sounds for leejay and andrew cooke some time today miss lee jay invites you to audioblog along with us
warning: lower your volume
Do you ever worry that you'll leave home without your pants? Does this phobia have a name?
Blues Before Sunrise is on right now. Click
here for a Real Audio feed. Hosted by Steve Cushing, Blues Before Sunrise is the greatest radio show in the history of the universe. Steve owns every blues record ever recorded. Sometime he'll say "Now this is the only copy in existence as far as I know of this 1932 recording..." Check it out!
The Book Spoiler Spoilers for tons o' books.
16 July 2005
Sci-Fi Friday →Read more...
Get in to IRC! Or don't, whatever. It's cool.
the spoilers of war or actually me being sad to forever miss the con *
sigh* but actually i'd like to again mention a possible mechat meet up in
october?
Mozart I'm not religious (I've been known to give clues) but
this is my favourite piece of music. I think it says more about man than God. Hope it facilitates your chilling.
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Miroslav Tichy's universe * is made of female figures -- the photographer captures women strolling through the city,
sunbathing by the swimming pool,
chatting with neighbours, or going shopping. Other women are photographed from the TV screen. Sometimes they are
unaware of the observer, sometimes unopposed, sometimes angry.
In a nearly obsessive manner, equipped with
self-made cameras build from scraps such as metal plates, crown caps, rubber bands, cardboard, scotch tape and plexiglass, 79-year-old Tichy has built a, ahem, body of work that will be shown at the Arles Festival and in Berlin.
* (some images may be marginally NSFW)
IRC FAQ What should go in the FAQ? Here's my first rough draft but I'd like to hear what you think should be in there. If you use it and find it confusing or unclear then please let me know. All corrections are welcome.
I'll update this post as we go along.
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To your left you will see links to the feeds. To your right you will see a link to #metachat (an FAQ is on the way). Up above in your address bar you'll see a little blue bunny. You may need to clear your cache otherwise the bunny vanishes.
"one of us, one of us" link us up geezah! caw. right o
emcee 3 all done now. Set Three of July's emcee is now complete, so go have a look!
OMG First ever
homicide attacks in European history. Courtesy of Fox News (where else).
Go JRun off and play in traffic.
Are you fucking kidding me?
15 July 2005
Weird. My mom took photos recently of the house of an old friend of hers who had just died.
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Finger Lakes Has anyone spent any time around this region? If so, recommendations? Looks like I'll be there for a few days in September.
A piece of your heart? (Or any other body part that seems appropriate.)
I HATE JAPANESE BEETLES. →Read more...
Audioblog on LeeJay? mlis and the kids wanna voice it up, is your blog available?
I'm going out to get some beer. Anyone want anything?
Warning * SPOILERS INSIDE * Warning
Are we not we? We are mechanisms! Are we ourselves, or our usernames? If someone else signs on as us, are they taking us over and becoming us, or are they someone else wearing our skin?
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I gave my password out on IRC I'm an idiot.
#metachat is now fully up and running
When are you? just say plus or minus. it makes it much easier to know if you're online or hiding from
the man
emcee iii ! (mostly.)
My, these corpses are exquisite! There are still two panels out on the third set, but here are the rest of the sets (by popular demand). Mousing over will show you who did what (or look at the contributor list at the end of each set), and if you click on a panel, you'll see the slice that player received, their finished panel, plus the last 15-pixel slice of their panel that got sent to the next player. At the end of each set, you'll see a link to the next set.
Violet, you're turning violet! So I just came back from seeing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and... wow. Put this movie on your list of things to see this weekend.
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What's the word for one who frequents MetaChat? MeChites? MeChatters? MCs?
The Traffic Sutras (self-linky) It's a quasi chinese (taoist) parable type thingy about how to deal with traffic. Set in bangalore, India.
14 July 2005
Let's try this again Here we are. Register your nick.
Pictures. Where is a good place to find an easily searchable index of photos in the public domain?
Is the size of a man's penis gourd a sign of
Status?
Deja vu! Server Error
The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request.
Could not connect to JRun Server.
Here lives the great music / Of humanity The Trafalgar Square vigil for the July 7 dead began at 6pm with the London-based Nigerian poet Ben Okri reading 'Lines in potentis'.
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If you see an SQL error then make a note of the time you saw it and e-mail the details to me as soon as you can. The ISP says everything looks OK now, I need to be sure that they're correct. Thanks.
Summer camp →Read more...
Conspiracy Du Jour All your
weird worries, rolled up in one handy site. You're not
paranoid, they really are out to get you.
Rabbit Field is an infestation of inflatable rabbit-like forms, filling their display space and inviting tactile interaction. They cover much of the floor, and any other available surfaces, growing in number each night over the length of the conference. Each rabbit is self inflating using a simple computer fan, and can sense its internal pressure state by monitoring its fan speed. If a rabbit is squeezed, and partially deflated, the rabbits around it respond, as if out of empathy, deflating themselves. In this way, a wave of deflation ripples out from the squeezed centre. Enjoy, you rabbit-obsessed freaks.
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Downtime. We've had a few database timeouts today. Apparently a few people who share our database server were hammering the hell out of it. The ISP has used their spank-ray and we should be OK from now on. Sorry 'bout that.
Yurt! Yurt yurt yurt! Yurt!
#metachat, bizznatches. #metachat channels now live on the standard lo-grade
Efnet and shiny new
slashnet versions. I recommend the latter.
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Pseudonyms for stage, screen, and pen. If you had a
fake name, what would it be?
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Hey, do we have lurkers too? Come out, come out, wherever you are! : >
Danger Will Robinson! A while ago I reminded people to check their browsers were up to date. Well since then there have been more secuirty updates.
Firefox 1.0.5 is out now and contains 12 security fixes. Internet Explorer is affected by one of the three security updates released yesterday so Windows users should go to
Windows Update to get themselves up to date. Be careful out there.
Stephen King, dead at 58 →Read more...
13 July 2005
If you were a superhero, who would you be? →Read more...
the amberglow's working on a puzzle each of my 25 tracks is dedicated to someone and/or something. two bonus tracks inside
Eccentricities and quirks So tell us some of your odd little habits or things you do that you deem perfectly normal but have other people raising an eyebrow...
A treehouse and some
short films. And
couches.
No, I am not insane, I just like the word "couch" and decided to look it up. Little did I know...
Anyone going to SirenFest? None of my friends are going, what should I do? :(
One-oh-five in the shade.
WHERE'S ICONOMY? i'm worried that she's not on holiday. she better be on vacation. she did three(?) emcee panels?
Which MeFites have the best nicknames? →Read more...
"Unauthorized and Proud of It" free screening. Any Mefites (a) living in San Diego, (b) attending the Comic Con there, or (c) living in London: come see a documentary I helped make.
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ask my ask me! my questions have been unsued for EVER
who needs it if gaspode doesn't want it?
All of her breath leaked out. On June 3, 2005 at 10:45 p.m. in Memphis, Tennessee, Dorothy Gibson Cully, 86, died peacefully, while in the loving care of her two favorite children, Barbara and David. All of her breath leaked out.
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Mr Crosswalk has a new friend (found around the corner from my place)
I have an issue with a Bunnyscape entry. Who's responsible for
this? It's not a bunny, it's a lamb. You're fired.
So Yahoo news says... "Bush: No comment on Rove"
Then right under that, it says:
"WorldCom's Ebbers gets 25 years in prison"
For a second my eye combined the lines, and I thought it said:
"Rove Gets 25 years in Prison"
Trillian keeps trilling at me but when I look at it, nothing seems to have changed. What is it trying to tell me? I'm not used to running Trillian on a computer that has sound.....
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Lingo, make me smile! Draw down the revolvers...
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Soul winning, anyone? Think
Bob Jones University is too liberal? Then
Hyles-Anderson College is just the place for you. The
handbook (PDF alert)must be seen to be believed.
Pancakes in Software -- I'm putting together a bit of educational software which teaches vocabulary and I'm really craving pancakes this morning. [mi]
is it worth buying a brown betty? or should i just set my hopes to a nice french press someday, for coffee, tea, or tincture? i do love those french coffee drips that sit atop a tall glass--
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Pac Man Widget This
OS X Widget's been hit with a cease and desist. If you're on Tiger and like Pac Man, grab it quick. It works pretty damn good. via Waxy.
is thomcatspike ok? what's up? he disappeared. i'm worried.
i have finally seen the phantom of the opera it would have been great if they could have removed all the andrew lloyd webberness.
The Fire Next Time Kalispell, Montana, is a little slice of America where differences over logging, economic development, and the role of government have become reasons to hate and harass. In a riveting sequence of The Fire Next Time, a radio talk-show host rails about the "eradication" of environmentalists ("green slime") as he broadcasts their home addresses. An anti-government group called Project 7 is discovered with a stash of guns and a hit list of local officials.
Alternet:
A Community Divided
(I was a consultant with the Kalispell people confronting this trouble. I wish I had cable so I could see this.)
12 July 2005
Shameless self-link/favor-asking inside. →Read more...
Shall we dance? Is there anybody out there?
Closest Calls? Anyone care to share times in your life when you nearly shuffled off the mortal coil only to be rescued at the last possible instant? I'm curious to hear other stories because this past Saturday was almost my last...
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Web 2.0 If you ever find yourself trying to explain what Web 2.0 is all about, here's a quiet, excellent example you can point to.
Bob Jones University: Residence Hall Life No Christian rock music, no unfiltered Internet, DVD players, no movie posters, no fireworks ...but bring your pistol.
Yikes MySQL error!
Error establishing a database connection!
1. Are you sure you have typed the correct user/password?
2. Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
3. Are you sure that the database server is running?
I refreshed the page and it went away. Whew!
I missed lunch today because I had to go to the Post Office.
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Steak! New York City people: where can I get a decent steak in NYC (preferably Manhattan) for a decent price? I'm thinking cheaper than a steakhouse but still good quality. And they have to know what rare means! Someone? Anyone?
Zeppelin Rules! I just bought the new Chuck Klosterman book yesterday. Along with other delights it contains a three page meditation on Led Zeppelin.
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Google question... Why are so many blogs starting to show up as news sources on Google News? Does Google pick them? Did they submit their own names? What gives?
Log on, tune in, drop out Dabitch and I request the pleasure of your company. We were both able to log on, just keep trying!
Are you happy? →Read more...
Who gets the last word on MetaFilter? I was curious, so I did a tally to see who's made the last post in the most threads. [mi]
can tuesday be pony day? or
kitten day as i really don't want anyone to start vibrating
again--
11 July 2005
eMac vs. Mini advice So I want to get my mom a Mac. Was considering a mini but someone local's selling an eMac, a computer I know zip about. ==>
A MEDIA-STUDIES POP QUIZ cute! by Simon Dumenco
New York Times reporter Judith Miller got sent to jail for:
A. Buying all that crap about WMDs, and thereby aiding and abetting the headlong rush into war with Iraq.
B. Selling her ImClone stock based on an insider tip.
C. Stealing Bono’s pants.
D. Robert Novak.
I am so alone, it hurts. There are only so many conversations one can have with oneself.
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Up in the air I just installed a wifi network in the house and am having kooky DNS problems...
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Mix-up Rolls Out. If you submitted a mix you should now have received an e-mail containing the download details. If you've been missed out then please e-mail me. You can discuss the mixes here although most people seem to have posted track listings
here.
Owie. I have blisters on my tummy. →Read more...
How friendly are people where you live? I just moved into a new house. It's been a week and no one has come by to introduce themselves. I moved from a townhouse community where, if you said "hi" to someone passing by, they would pretend not to hear you. This is all in Bellevue (just east of Seattle.)
What's it like in your part of the world?
I had a dream. →Read more...
No Karma Records MP3s I know today is the day for the MeCha Mix, and I've posted mine (it's all cover songs!), so I'm going to have more new music than I know what to do with by this time tomorrow. In the meantime, I found this site. It's filled with the kind of pop-y indie stuff that was featured on many of the mixes from June, so I thought people might like to check it out.
Recommended so far:
Lesser Birds of Paradise
Clyde Federal
Morning Recordings
Pinback
Wrens
Traindodge
Coke dislikes the real thing Coca Cola India demands "unconditional apology" from photographer who photographed four waterpitchers in front of a "Drink Coke" sign. His mistake was to exhibit his art on a billboard in the city of Chennai in south India where "coke" and "water" are touchy subjects these days.
full disclosure self-link, contains image of billboard etc
Locally famous. I've decided to become locally famous. It's about time. Kellydamnit advised against it, but I'm going to do it anyway. What's your advice?
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The Greatest Comment of the Past Ten 15 Minutes - In just one comment, I got the pseudo-self-link; replying to the argument forty comments ago; and the Nazi reference. In other words, I think I'm sooo funny. If you don't find me funny, the thread has potential for the ever-amusing-mefi-meltdown.
10 July 2005
I'm outta music... Tell me what I should search for right now to listen to while I sew:
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London Hurts ? A livejournal gone tasteless.
London doesn't hurt. Anal sex hurts when attempted without lubricant.
Afternoon y'all. I'm eating MSG by the spoonful and chatting with kellydamnit and dodgygeezer over on Efnet. If anyone wants to partake in some neurotoxins and say hello, we're
here.
Quit yer day job! What's a "night job"?
Gulf Coast People! So who is in the path of Dennis the Menace?
For love or money? ...Or both?
Inspired by some personal life evaluation I've been recently doing, I'd love to hear what fellow MeChas do for gainful employment.
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What is your favourite Beatle record?
So, frankly, I'm fucked up right now Is anyone the same? I'm chilling after many cold beverages, watching Dave Chapelle. Nice!
Stupid animation driving me nuts question. Is this the first question of this type to pass through AskMe unanswered? It's now driving me nuts as the show's definitely familiar. Anyone here know the answer? Both answers so far relate to Japanese animation. I'm pretty sure it's not... for some reason I think it's french originally, but aired dubbed.
So what? Songs? Lyrics? Gimme a break. Please...
NYCers: Did you all notice that today is one of those rare days where the sun is aligned just right at sunset to shine straight down all the streets in Manhattan?
09 July 2005
Why is it Impossible to Forget Song Lyrics? Once you've learned them - whether you wanted to learn them or you had to since they were on the radio every single day when you were 13 and riding in the car pool to school - it seems like they never go away. A lot of other things go away, like Macbeth speeches and the quadratic equation - why not song lyrics? Is there a special place in the brain for them? All it takes is one note and the whole song comes back, or at least the chorus. WTF?
Early Bodybuilding Eugene Sandow was apparantely the first modern bodybuilder (
pic1 ,
pic2 ..barely SFW). The Sandow Museum celebrates him and other historical bodybuilders. Site also has a
calculator for "Grecian Ideal" measurements for males.
More Reminders. One: Don't forget the Metachat Mix-up. The deadline is Monday 7pm UTC.
More info here.
Two: On looking through the logs for this site I've noticed that about 5-10% of users are using out of date browsers - this could be a security risk for yourselves so I'd encourage those of you who can to upgrade. Internet Explorer users should be on version 6 (except on Mac), Firefox on version 1.0.4.
Anyone tried Jobster? Thoughts? Give a brother an invite?
08 July 2005
Metachat IRC? So kellydamnit mentioned
here that we really need a MeCha IRC channel. I think it's a great idea myself. How about it? Does anyone know how to go about setting one up? I am an IRC n00b.
Tell us about your animal pals. I like the “What do you have on your desk?” type of posts. I got in from the food festival tonight and
this post made me very sad. So I want to know about your pals now or in the past.
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Orthrelm's OV: kickass or totally sweet?
FUNNY CATS (back me up here)
What Kingdom Claims You? I can't seem to find a definitive/authoratative answer online and it's driving me nuts: is yeast an animal or a fungus?
Slimy foodstuffs we know and love. Aside from okra,
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Hey London! Doing OK? Here's some useful tips about
Critical Incident Stress. (PDF)
The things to try are actually good rules for everyday life.
Walking Off the Fat, Across the Land :: This week, his 13th on the road, has been the hardest thus far for Steve Vaught, a 400-pound man trying to walk across America....
List 3 things that make your glasses fog. Stolen from the
Knowledge section of the always entertaining
Pete's Compendium of Knowledge, which has been around since the beginning of time.
I feel so violated... Last week I didn't even know it existed. I found out through MeCha, and then asked a simple question and a very kind soul from MeCha emailed it to me.
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Reminder post. Just a couple of things I want to bump back up to the more active part of the page...
Voices of MetaChat: If you haven't seen it, go visit seanyboy's wonderful thread inviting users to post sound files of their voices, and add your own so we can hear what you sound like. (It's a fantastic thread, and only place to hear genuine jonmc karaoke, and LeeJay schooling you on how to get off the couch - Maryland-style.)
emcee 3, the July edition: We still have at least three or four spaces open (
current status), so if you're interested in helping us make corpses, and didn't see the thread, email me to get in on the fun. (I've started setting up the pages for these, and they look great!)
The Ban Hammer. Can somebody who has priviledges please add my name
"Cryptical Envelopment" to the roll? I made a self link to a U2 mp3 whilst questioning Matt's browser habits. Not so impressive, I know, but worth a mention. And q, watch your ass...
07 July 2005
Damned kids! What the fuckitty fuck is wrong with the kids today?
Pizza! As one who has recently become obsessed with home-baked pizza I love this. Topping suggestions are most welcome.
Okra fans, unite. You've already
outed yourselves. It's time for us to start a crusade, and to start converting the anti-okra heathens.
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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: The Metropolitan Police Service in London is accepting calls from people seeking information on their friends and family at 0870 1566 344.
Inquiries regarding American citizens should be directed to the U.S. Department of State Office of Overseas Citizens Services at 1-888-407-4747.
You decide! wonderchicken : dick or asshole?
quonsar : thread or menace?
ParisParamus : cheesehostess or small ball of fluff?
Invention! I've been thinking about a device which has the external appearance, texture, odour etc. of a banana and yet the internal machinations providing functionality as a 'phone. A hybrid, if you will, of the two objects, their essences in complementary symbiosis. Suggestions?
I wish I was wearing a sweater. Well, not really, but I wish
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Ew! The creepy co-worker who ogles me non-stop and has no social graces has just sent me an email asking me out for "coffee or lunch"! Gah! He knows I've got a boyfriend, I've never shown any interest in him at all (in fact, I've done what I can to discourage him without yelling "piss off" to his face), but he's clueless! Quick quick! What do I reply? Yick!
London Can Take It! The Mayor's
remarks reminded me of Harry Watt's documentary
London Can Take It!. This Quicktime clip at The British Postal Museum and Archive is moving and oddly surreal today.
Cowards and murderers. Tomorrow we can talk about proximate causes and political reasons. Tomorrow we can blame the hegemony of the west for creating the conditions in which global terrorism can exist. [more]
Londoners: please check in. Let us know you're okay, and tell us what's happening.
MeCha User Mashups? For example, a mashup between interrobang and arse_hat might yield the ever-popular "arse_bang". Loquacious and Hugh Janus could fuse to form the stimulating "LoquaciousAnus", and... Well, you go now:
The One That Got Away I dunno. Seemed to deserve caps.
06 July 2005
Single shoes on the side of the road. How do they get there?
(I'm obsessed with this today.)
SA SA SA! I've *got* to find out what the name of this song is. I've heard it in Peru and blaring from some cars here in NC. If anyone has expertise in Latin music, por favor, lend me a hand. Gracias!
Fix my back! Q: My neck is killing me. WTF? I can look left, right, and up. When I crane my neck down (chin to chest), the entire back of my neck hurts as does the top 1/4 of my spine. Yeah yeah, I will go to a doctor in the morning if it still hurts. (I have not fallen or anything like that.) Any suggestions (besides "Don't look down.") to eleviate pain until then? Stretches? Positions? Bueller? Anything?
J-Run raped my dog and threatened to call the RCMP on me. I blame Karl Rove.
Essay by nutjob: $99.000,000.00 Finding weird shit on eBay: Priceless.
What is a Coyote Breakfast?
Super sweet kittens and puppies thread! Meow meow meow, woof woof woof!
Words like "fuck" and "shit" sometimes appear on the front page.
bunny thread for 7/6/05 [Edited to add: You may want to read comments before viewing.]
You can't spell y without x. Words within words.
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Ways to Remove Cat Odor? So my cat peed in my suitcase. It's one of those soft duffels with wheels. Any advice on how to remove the smell? I'm afraid a simple spray of Febreeze won't really remove the smell once the clothing is pressed in there for a long flight. Thanks for any suggestions you can give!
05 July 2005
Apropos Comics from "That's So Vader" to "Super Eye for the Reporter Guy (or Gal)"
Cicada Sounds! This is what I'm hearing outside right now. The sound of summer in Kansas. What are you hearing?
Forehead Inflation Consider yourselves entertained
stinking badges? the only one i ever liked just for itself is the suncircle nonsmoking pin. i just think it's a bit too rude for me to smoke with it on.
blogging from the pub see you later losers!
The Hooter Shooter For those whose drinking problem stems from early weaning.
Bubblewrap I found a
couple other bubblewrap postings on MeFi but not this one.
Big Black's Songs About Fucking. Play it aloud, loud. Use it to drown out any residual jingoism and the picnics of those who get today off of work, too.
I’ve got a crush on you, sweetie pie... ...all the day and night-time give me sigh... Have you ever, as adults, shared your feelings with the girl/boy that you had a crush on back in fourth grade?
Fafblog Constitutional Theater Presents: Public Religious Displays With Secular Intent!
Read It Aloud! A Parent's Guide to Creating Communications (excerpt) Read it aloud! Take it to your picnic and create communications!
VCR Online Service Manual. Read it aloud. Adjust the clock with confidence.
In search of answers to Meatbomb's
How to Start a Cult AskMe question, I found
this, which I really like. Other ideas for great "How-to" articles?
Finally, a MeCha dream The short of it: me and jonmc and peacay were chilling in my hometown in New Zealand. peacay was talking about science and jonmc about the Texas Longhorns football team. Now I know very little about football, and nothing about college football, so I don't know how that got in there. It's very strange to dream about people whom you have never laid eyes on.
de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom Read it aloud. Take it to the picnic.
04 July 2005
Memory and Place I just came back from a brief and intense road trip to my old hometown. I got swamped in memories and it was - weird. Disorienting. Like I couldn't quite step out of the sink of memories. Never having read Proust, I still think I had a couple too many madeleines. And you? How does place affect you, if you live there, or when you don't anymore?
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The Magna Carta. Read it aloud. Try and work out what the hell it means.
The Declaration of Independence Read it aloud. Take copies to your picnic.
I saw a giant bunny. Is this the correct forum to post this?
Question: (Paraphrased) I am trying to [create, write, play, perform] something good, but as of late nothing has
inspired me. I have some good ideas, some [samples, rough sketches, outlines, paragraphs, noodlings] but I just don't know what the deal is. I don't follow through. What do you do to get out of the slump?
Answer:
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Ads in RSS feeds How do y'all get rid of ads in RSS feeds? My old-fashioned solution is to un-sub from a feed that starts carrying ads, but that's whittling down my feeds to none..... Isn't there a way to adblock them by now?
i claim this day in the name of France mechat: all theories exist until disproven: my last abuse of the
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Little Chief Nipple-Twister and other odd and compelling names for flies, slime-mold beetles and trilobites.
Obligatory 4th of July thread. What are your Independence Day memories?
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03 July 2005
Pinenuts! From an unexpected source (NSFW).
i read a book once given to me randomly a long time ago, called "easy travel to other planets." i loved that book.
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The most adorable xylophone player in the world. She's just too cute. This is a few years old and I swear it's been on Mefi before although I can't find it but I just had to share.
filled with explosions and banjo music or at least a lot of yee hawing going on outside. What's up with you?
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Metachat Mix-up returns! We'll be having another online mix swap session so get your mixes ready. The deadline is 7pm UTC on Monday 11th July. Please indicate in this thread if you intend to take part. Also, I'd welcome any contributions to the Mixup bandwidth fund.
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WTF is this? (Bizarre NSFW photoshop or synthetic image inside)
In Soviet Russia, Spam eats you! Dear Bunny: I love my Gmail account, and get almost no spam - except for Russian spam, which I get quite a lot of. (No, I have no idea why.) Gmail allows one to filter with "Has the words:___", but not "Has any of the words___", which would make it pretty easy to just drop in a ton of (Cyrillic) text from a few of these, and have messages with any of those words sent straight to "Trash". Is there anything else that I can do with a filter to keep these from showing up in my inbox? Sbasiba.
Strangest experience ever (out of context).
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02 July 2005
Record setting ride in today's opening stage of the Tour de France.
Map Hacks on Crack My new favorite headline and a fun little article to boot. Maybe we'll get our surprise MeFi pony sooner than expected.
i want to believe but i'm an old fogey
twenty years, fucking 'ell
and i've seen too much
For all my Ganesh homies here on MetaChat Five image gallery pages of the sweet elephant god, plus wallpaper. And
here's a nice background article by one of my favorite writers. And
here's a wallpaper I made just for you.
capturing the way if feel via
plexi via leejay via
mefi
"--it will put itself back together whether you know it or not--"
but i'm still sorry for bringing all that pornography into our lives
"Just do it... Winning your personal battle against pornography is a tough fight." Free e-cards for pornography addicts and the people who love them.
What's your favorite Metafilter memory? So we all know that Metafilter can be a cesspool of pedantry, pessimism and snark. But it can also be touching, hilarious and joyful at times.
What are your favorite Mefi moments?
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01 July 2005
be yourself in public and don't ever apologize for having fun
Error Numbers I Hate What error numbers do you hate? I'm particularly pissed off at -2147221005 right now.
Is anyone else weirded out by this? Doesn't the suddent uproar that the new Iranian president may have been a kidnapper seem very odd/frightening?
Annexation "In a worrying U-turn, the US Department of Commerce (DoC) has made it clear it intends to retain control of the internet's root servers indefinitely. It was due to relinquish that control in September 2006, when its contract with overseeing body ICANN ended."
The announcement was made
here. Some related links:
Internet Governance Caucus,
Brazil proposes sweeping Internet Governance reforms and the somehow relevant
Brazil, The Gentle Giant Awakes.
Poor Impulse Control. Woman gets *that* casino's name tattooed on her forehead.
Time to start emcee 3 ! Are you ready to get with our Exquisite Corpse for July? Here's how it's going to work this time: if you want to participate, send an email to the address in my profile (I've changed it for this) and I'll send you your 15-pixel strip as soon as it becomes available. (
Be sure to send it from an address you check often!) Once you get your strip, you have two days to create your panel and send it to me (though if you finish sooner, so much the better!). If you are late, you may get skipped over. For the next two weeks ('til July 15), we'll continue to add participants and arrange for as many sets as we need to accommodate everyone who wants to play. After July 15, you'll need to wait for the next one to sign up.
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Bugs Bunny #1 There are a few bugs I have to sort out on this site. I don't have a lot of time available at the moment so I'm asking for help. First bug - some people seem to be unable to post images in comments. Could you all try and post an image in this thread and report any errors you encounter. The important thing is that the tag must be in this format: <img src="imagepath" /> and it must not contain line breaks (as this will insert a <br> tag). If it doesn't work then please let me know what browser you're using and copy and paste the error.
Bugs Bunny #2 This is more of a cry for help - an appeal to all the Javascript experts out there. Once again Javascript in IE has me stumped. When a comment is posted the text from the comment box is copied to a hidden form and then submitted from there (this allows the posting form to have two separate actions). For some reason in IE it chokes when you try submit a comment with more than 1500 characters. Try it in this thread and you'll see what I mean. Any Javascript wizards out there encountered this before? Anything I should try?
30 June 2005
In Hell !! This is a nice little collection of photos that people have taken of places that look like portals to the netherworld. The well in Sintra, Portugal, gave me nightmares last night. The sewer entrance in Dublin is a real heebie-jeebie inducer too...
since we're talking monkeys butt-- which is used as an expletive of awe--
where did the dog's balls come from? origins?
it better not be Agincourt again
DTE you suck! If the sweatiest, harriest, most unwashed taint in the world was suddenly transformed into an electric company, it would be Detroit Edison.
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Sex. Susie Bright expresses confusion and discomfort with "
amoebas",
her readers respond (including me). She says that the comments are collectively "the most personal and nuanced discussion of sex and aging I've ever read".
I'm a feelin' Bluegrassy... I like these fellers in the link (OCMS). I like the Gourds. I'm in the mood for some more smart, funny countryish, rootsish music... can you help a brother out?
Meltdown! Computers suck! Bring your pile-on! I want to MELT DOWN here today!
Bullets Over Las Vegas Oscar-nominated actress
Jennifer Tilly beat 600 players to win the Texas Hold 'Em event at the World Series of Poker tournament in Las Vegas. She won US$158,625 at the two-day event, which features some of the top female professionals in the world.
Gem Sweater Video, sound, and bedazzled oddness
Hot, you say? An iglooful of vintage
Chilly Willy cartoons (WMV format), from
chillywillyfan.com.
How NOT To Run a Secure National Archives :: "Garel said he had warned his bosses that rare items were going missing. The basement of the library's old building was connected by a labyrinth of underground passageways to nearby antiquarian bookshops."
Ad-free web Gawker without the ads,
BoingBoing Lite,
Page6 the Post... I see a pattern here, do you know of any more?
Back from the fireworks. Enjoying an Arturo Fuente and a Laphroaig on the patio now and I want to wish all the members from Canada and the U.S. an early happy birthday. I hope this year gives us all reasons to be proud of our young countries.
i just ate a whole bag of barbq sunflower seeds a whole damn bag! my fingernail is coming off.
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diamonds in a pile of poo it's about the material
or
some frankly bad things i'm attached to
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29 June 2005
Has anyone asked about RSS feeds? Like a metachat feed? If so, will I be attacked if I ask again?
belated Seany boys day! how
many seans can you come up with?
Cast out! You see the cast list of a film and instantly you know it'll be a piece of shit. Why? Because it stars that actor or actress that is like a curse for movies - and it's not even because they can't act - they just have the midas touch in reverse. For me it's Sean Pertwee. He guarantees a poorly scripted horror/scifi/gangster film with poor special effects and a plot that would insult the intelligence of an eight year-old. Who's your cursed actor?
dg, don't you want to ask "How?"
Gary Glitter's Official Website. Pop's most famous collector of kiddie porn has one of the greatest websites I have ever seen maintained by his fanclub. Check the news section and read up on his attempts to reenter Cambodia! Check out the Top (10) Ten! But first of all please read
this message by the producers of the site.
I have a challenge. I would like someone to make a blog entry about making a sandwich using leftovers, and then submit it to BoingBoing. Just call the sandwich a mashup and refer to your use of leftovers as remixing, and write the post is as overheated a style as you can.
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Look What's for Dinner! Yum yum yum! And many other most wonderful recipes with pictures and
helpful hints. via mofi via something awful
Strange Cover Songs I reccommend the Belgian girl's choir singing "I Touch Myself".
Best deadpan irony: I seem to recall visiting a site that had constant JRun errors, though I can't for the life of me remember where that was.
I cannot take this much cuteness. Who added this unbelievably cute bunny to the Bunnyscape? I can't stand how cute it is. Look at its cute wittle paws! CUTE!
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Poll: Bush full of shit or dirty shameless liar?
How to Fold a Fitted Sheet This is something I'm totally hopeless at.
Curious Bunny: Lawrence Lessig's rousing 2002 speech on copyright has got me foaming at the mouth. Rather than send more money to the EFF, are there any equivalant organisations in the U.K. My current concerns are primarily to do with the corporate misuse of I.P. rights and I'd like something that explains and fights for the issues from a UK or European perspective. Bonus points for organisations that are linked to the EFF and don't get bogged down in other libertarian issues.
it looks congential: could it be the answer to a
mystery?
It's STINKIN HOT here. How hot is it there?
Is this sheep a virus or dangerous in any way? I've seen it in various places over the years, now a friend's daughter wants to put in on her (the daughter's) laptop. Friend asks me if its dangerous? Now I ask you -- is it?
28 June 2005
In response to: qua? where is the mystery thread from recent comments? and hi
Title too long ... in Hell! I have a question about the Family song "Second Generation Woman". What the hell does that mean? Not only is she a woman, but her mother was too?
Presidential Address thread Just in case anyone's emotionally moved.
tetka.swf A scantily clad body falling through an endless bubble landscape. You can grab, throw and shake her too.
I'm naked. How about you?
No more JRun errors ever? Last time I got an error it said something about an "application server" instead of JRun. Does this mean that Matt permanently fixed JRun errors the same way that Microsoft fixed the Unrecoverable Application Errors in Windows 3.0?
I broke AskMe, and I really need an answer to this PHP problem.
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Nike apologizes for Minor Threat ripoff. "To set the record straight, Nike Skateboarding's "Major Threat" Tour poster was designed, executed and promoted by skateboarders, for skateboarders. All of Nike employees responsible for the creation of the tour flyer are fans of both Minor Threat and Dischord Records and have nothing but respect for both."
Artist's Pose Books? MetaArtists: Do you use pose books? Until recently I never knew there
were
so m
any. [MI]
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[Not] Requested by MLIS There ya go. The most complete copy available on the net, I believe.
Mommy, my stomach hurts ... After a boy in Bangladesh complained of a stomach ache, doctors discovered a fetus in his abdomen. Apparently, the 4.5 pound fetus was 16-year-old Abu Raihan's undeveloped twin. Physicians at Bangabadnhu Medical University surgically removed it on Saturday.
BT Oddness Lately I've been trying to download a certain TV show, and I'm getting these torrents that say the file is 350 mb, but it's apparently 3500 mb. I get to the 350 mb point in the download, and the progress meter says 10% completed. Is this a case of the networks uploading bum files to frustrate pirates?
JRUN Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
Sunday night was fun while it lasted. But I'm not likely to show up at any more NYC meetups, as
I'm now expected to behave.
It is much better to be the lightning bug, capricious and free, than the jar holder, chasing. But I chase you nonetheless. Did you know how you light up the night?
Quality check. I think we should aim for more posts of
this caliber on Metafilter. Just sayin'.
caption please -- Obscene. Never seen anything so atrocious in my life.
27 June 2005
Should I bother? This is long.
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Yearbooks just came in. I'll sign yours if you sign mine.
How to Beat Off Invaders From Space; or, What to Do When the Aliens Come.
...First, you have to forget the idea that aliens are all that. They are neither that nor a bag a chips. Who built the pyramids? Heavily beaten slaves. What is going on in the Bermuda Triangle? Homicidal whales. The probing? Do you really think that the only diagnostic tool available to beings that have traveled across the galaxy must be inserted anally? Please. ...
Gilbert and Sullivan for the 21st century.
Very engaging sketchbooks (carnets de digestion) at mad meg. You might like the creepy but well-dressed insects (les patriarches) or the fanciful blended beasts (chimères) as well. Just click on everything. One or two drawings NSFW. I wish I could draw like this with just a pencil or a pen.
Inspired by Specklet's profile - the very first drafts of
really cheesy
pick-up lines.
First Jrun of the day. Sigh
Big, fat books? I've got an Amazon (UK) gift certificate, and I want your recommendations for wonderful, "fat" books. My taste is pretty far-ranging, though I especially like sci-fi and historical fiction. some examples of hefty books I have loved are "Cryptonomicon" and "The Diamond Age" (Stephenson), "Perdido Street Station" and "The Scar" (Miéville), "The Secret History" (Tartt), "The Impressionist" (Kunzru), "Wicked" (Maguire), and "Winter's Tale" (Helprin). What are some that you love?
26 June 2005
Stella Fernbottom is talking shit about your country. I
hate your President! I
hate your country!
Uniporn (NSFW) Sculptures and commentary. Also, fairies. Hot fairies. I sheepishly admit that I got this from
memepool.
A guilty pleasures (movies) thread-- but not yet, as far as I can see, a guilty pleasures (music) thread? Go ahead- spill.
Whaja do this weekend? If you forgot about the
Okie Noodling tournament again this year, you can see some
footage of what you missed. QT
Today's Japan Times Front Page Headline Ground Self Defense Force vehicle windshield damaged in Iraq blast
Uh oh...Advance Meetup Attendance Warning Well, who'da thunk? I'll be vacationing in New York for a few days in November / December, and it occurs to me "hey, I actually know of some mefi members in New York, I could go to a meetup" (whereas while I realize there are some mefi members here in Tokyo, their names don't stick to their personalities, so if I met up with them it'd feel like meeting strangers). So then I think, "Let's look at some meetup threads and see who's in New York".
Hey, jonmc is in NY!
Hey, amberglow is in NY!
Hey..uh oh...naxosaxur.
Guess I won't be bringing my camera.
25 June 2005
Very surreal Bunny Game Ok, you're a rabbit. Wearing headphones. Or something. Its an idyllic Wonka-esqe world. You hit giant appliances with a hammer. They turn into Pengins. Or something.
Just play it.
via wonderland
post glasgow meetup thread.....
Bunnylove. Just shut up and watch it.
Flash; sound (omfg, the sound).
Misinformation. I was reading a book called Cider With Roadies by music journalist Stuart Maconie. In it he admits to writing a false story that dapper and mild mannered TV host
Bob Holness played the sax solo on Gerry Rafferty's
Baker Street. This story clearly captured peoples imagination as it still gets repeated as fact to this day. Have you ever spread misinformation for giggles? Have you lied to someone to make them look stupid? I once told David Bowie he'd look really cool doing a Nazi salute, and now the rest is history...
Ask MeatChat Advanced cable modem home self defense:
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There Are Bad Times Just Around the Corner, Or Grumps Unite.
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total chatfiller morgan spurlock's show didn't totally suck and i'm free of the meattoy/meatwad for the time being:
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24 June 2005
A question for the damned. What, if anything, in this world shakes your disbelief?
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Guilty Pleasures? What's your guilty pleasure movie? It was never nominated for an Oscar. It wasn't even nominated for an MTV movie award. But it never fails to make you feel better.
I have two:
Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion and
Eurotrip. With a side order of
Mommie Dearest.
What's yours?
Friday Silliness The Shopping Game!
(Invented by: me, Specklet) This is fun to play when you're out drinking with folks you don't know all that well, but I think it'd be fun here too. Here's the deal: you must come up with any four items that could be found at a store like, say,
Fred Meyer. (This is a store that has a wide variety of groceries, but also has sporting goods, cosmetics, electronic equipment, clothing, etc. You get the idea.) The point is that the four items be innocuous in and of themselves, but in combination would completely freak out the checkout clerk, or at least make him/her wonder what in the hell you've got planned for the evening. This can get very amusing (read: peverted) quickly.
Which Hitchhiker's book is this from? There is a line in one of the Douglas Adams books, and I personally think it is the most beautiful sentence ever constructed (kind of like that whole "cellar door" thing). Something about "the sound of the rain on the roof of the shack"...
It's the book where the gang visits the man in charge of the universe... Which one was that? And is there any place online to search full-text of Adams' work?
Motorhead plays [whatever you want]. I've often thought it would be cool
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Sometimes I feel doomed. Do you ever feel doomed? Do you ever convince yourself you aren't?
Rhyming headlines. And the stories they engender.
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GoogleFight in the boxing ring of google, Metafilter wins over Jrun. wtf?
Frequent JRuns are back :-(
Alternative Colleges Worldwide What colleges in the world can be considered "alternative colleges" (offering independent study, non-traditional schooling or grades system, etc)?
I know of way too many in the USA - Hampshire, Reed, NYU's Gallatin, etc - but I would especially appreciate names from other countries besides the US.
Also, is there any discussion in the Grue (Green/Blue) about such a thing? Googling gets me nowhere.
Thanks :)
on preview: why is the preview date set to 1st Jan 2000? o_O
How It Feels The Eels'
Selective Memory animated by
Tom Croft. Old but sweet, and an illustration of exactly how my life is going at this moment. (.swf, sound)
Supercell thunderstorm producing baseball-sized hail and a powerful tornado. From above.
Meth Recipies Post 'em if you've got 'em.
*belches loudly, scratches ass*
Dear MetaChat... Now that you all have your fix of "Best" Links, perhaps you can help me fix something.
A few weeks ago I bought this great Nikon Coolpix 5600 digital camera, and I'm really enjoying it, except for a slight problem....
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23 June 2005
Best Music Video The JCB Song posted by lemonfridge.
Best Metafilter Posts of June (so far): Back by popular demand!
Best Unappriciated Post: louigi's
Identity Theory
Best Nostalgia: Dr. Wu's
78 RPM Jukebox
Best Use of Propaganda in a Post: kirkaracha's
The Art of War
Best Use of the Letter O in a Post: grumblebee's
Doodles!
Best Page I Almost Posted Myself: pyramid termite's
African Dress Traditions
Best Tinfoil Hat Comments: mk1gti's
SpaceFilter
Best Post for Geeks Everywhere: KS's
Marvel Value Stamps
Best Pop Art: madamjujujive's
Andy Warhol Time Capsule 21
Best Overexposed Link: srboisvert's
Celebrity Ping Pong
Best Face of Mother Russia (tie): arse_hat's
Russian Urban Exploration and iconomy's
Unrealized Moscow
Most Illuminating Post: hortense's
The Illuminated Middle Ages
Best 'Possibly Offensive' content: mischief's
Monster Magazine Covers
Best Do-it-yourself Indictment: boo_radley's
Exploring Enron
Best Americana: matteo's
Lee Friedlander Post
Best NewsFilter (60 Years Overdue): zarq's
Nagasaki A-Bomb Reporting
Best Page Killed by Metafilter: Orb's
Barbie Deconstructed
Best Example of Better Living Through Stolen Office Supplies: ColdChef's
Elvis Post-It Note Mosaic
Best Impossible Dream: 31d1's
Mathmatical Paper Folding
Best Obit: peacay's
Life of Allison Crews
Surreal AskMe post Whoever it was that was doing the "Most ... post of today" stopped doing it. I liked that, please bring it back. Anyway, here's one that caught my eye.
Dear Tivo-ites, I know it's a long shot, but does anyone have a copy of this morning's Today show?
Gah, Jrun. So let me tell you about some local news.
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I can't access MetaFilter, due to errors. This makes me irrationally angry. I may post myself to the blue.
Continue the Story. The Drabbles thread the other day was wonderful...so many gorgeous little stories. Knowing what gifted writers we have here, maybe another mental exercise might be fun? Just continue the story...a word, a sentence, a paragraph. Illustrating the story or providing a graphic is good, too, if that's more your thing.
Pedantisms. You're not lecturing at the Sorbonne, you're simply chatting with a friend, maybe over a gin & tonic or two. You come out with a statement that you know is lazy and factually incorrect but your meaning is crystal clear. Your drinking buddy can't let it go - they feel compelled to correct you. I think of these statements as pedantisms, statements that bring out the annoying pedant in everyone. I hate them - are there any that annoy you? I'll tell you which ones annoy me.
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22 June 2005
Best/worst comeback you've ever spit out?
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Don Asmussen, Bad Reporter --cute editorial cartoon--part of an ongoing series--
archive here
Tales of Sleep Deprivation I'm finishing my third night shift in a row (now you know why I seem to be on Meta all the time). Shifts are 13.5 hours, meaning, after travel time home, showering, etc., I've got about 7.5 hours to sleep. Unfortunately, Outlook crashing, various work related phone calls, and paying bills means I've had only 4.5 or so hours per night (and I tend to sleep a lot). So now I've got the hazy headed sleep deprivation blues.
That said, other people get much more sleep deprived than I do, and apparently hallucinate. I never have, but a friend in high school started ranting about smelling fried chicken, even though we were in his house and there was no chicken around. So I'm wondering: what tales of sleep deprivation do y'all have? (and no embellishments, please)
Mantovani. No matter what the weather, Mantovani pursues us from climate-controlled interiors all over. A string orchestra in a cathedral? Egregious glissandi? Sign me up. Come over and give me a hand with this, Mantovani fans.
Joni Mitchell. It's the hottest day of the year so far, so I've been giving The Hissing of Summer Lawns another spin. I love it more with every listen and thought maybe it was time to buy some more Joni for the summer. Can any Joni fans offer advice for what I should get next?
Bellingham meetup If you're in the forgotten corner this Saturday night, c'mon by. I'm having cocktail hour and a few friends will be over. You can make it one of the first MeCha meetups. (I'm just across the street from "A")
WoW Kills People are so dumb.
Michael Stipe's Skull "Doug [Coupland] once told me that if you want to be remembered 100 years from now, you have to invent a haircut... I think I am the first man to have shaved his head, because my hair was thinning and it was embarrassing. So I would like to lay claim to that haircut, if I may." Is Michael Stipe the first male celebrity evar
(Sinéad O'Connor is the first woman, I guess) to completely shave his head? Can you think of others who did it before Stipe?
ass crack--not just for women anymore "They’re using their ass cracks as a lure for attention and love."
21 June 2005
Lions rescue kidnapped girl I know it's not bunnies, but this is pretty interesting.
Quick! Somebody say something funny! It's an emergency!
Lame question d'jour: Alien vs Predator. Jason vs Freddy. FictionalCharacterX vs FictionalCharacterY. Who would you choose?
Did anyone else notice that
Uncle Junior was convicted of manslaughter?
Problems with MeFi CD Swap Is anyone else having problems getting registered on the website for the MeFi CD Swap?
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Genetic Determinism as a Basis for the Defense of Homosexuality.
Your thoughts? Especially those of you who are gay and/or involved in gay rights? Posted here because I didn't think self-posting was disallowed and this community is one from which I'd like feedback.
AskMeCha (Gospel Singing and Faith No More) Here's hoping y'all can help me on this so I don't have to take it to AskMeFi and get one of those callouts that's all the rage. [MI]
first of the day. Server Error
The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request.
Could not connect to JRun Server.
Does anyone else have a Livejournal? Or am I the only one? I'm always looking for new reading material.
Mine's
here.
Drabble. Let's do some Drabbles. Write a short story containing exactly 100 words then post it here.
Fate is an insanely fun Diablo 2 clone and can be played for just a few minutes at a time if you want.
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Too good to last?
The request has exceeded the allowable time limit Tag: CFQUERY
Please try the following:
* Enable Robust Exception Information to provide greater detail about the source of errors. In the Administrator, click Debugging & Logging > Debugging Settings, and select the Robust Exception Information option.
* Check the ColdFusion documentation to verify that you are using the correct syntax.
* Search the Knowledge Base to find a solution to your problem.
* If the above fails, go to metachat.org.
20 June 2005
When is the new mix swap? I'm growing impatient here people.
MeCha Mix Project: Your Mix in Others' Words Now that we've listened to the mixes we got (for me broken puter + download limit + torrent ignorance = not all mixes), let's descibe other people's mixes.
Mr Marx: Louche Sunday afternoon confectionary goodness.
Your turn.
TYSON’S CORNER by
David Remnick.
Asked what he might do next, Tyson said, “I’m going to look into doing missionary work.” Maybe in Africa, maybe Bosnia. He was unsure how he would pay his bills. Maybe he just wouldn’t. He was sure, he said, only that the ferocity was gone. “I don’t have it in me anymore,” he said. “I can’t even kill the bugs in my house.”
Another day, another dream - this one was about mathowie and quonsar.
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Have you made the news lately? Just wondering, because this morning I had my yogurt while reading an article about dabitch. :)
TypeDrawing is grooovy. Click on the header or text in the first screen, then on the next screen click "enter" to get into the Gallery/Drawing area. Once there, click "Requested TYPEDRAWING" to see my masterpiece. To make your own, click "Drawing" (and let us know what you've created!).
Oh, the horror! Oolong would be sick.
19 June 2005
Tomkatfilter Tom Cruise's adventures in starlet seduction. Apparently he went through Scarlett Johansson, Kate Bosworth and even Lindsay Lohan before settling on Kate Holms.
EDSAC - home of the first videogame, OXO.
Scratchpad now has color. Well two out of four do. So you can draw more realistic penises I guess.
Quote of the Day: See any good ones lately? Post em here. Mine is inside.
This is fun: The "Polaroid-o-nizer" turns any image into a faux polaroid. For example,
this image becomes
this cute "polaroid".
"Holy exposition Batman! A prequel that works?!?!" Yep, I've seen Batman Begins.
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Bisexuality: Classic or Dud? Bisexuals: How do you manifest your orientation? How do you integrate your affection for each gender into your romantic life? Do you?
Het's, gays, and lesbians, how would you feel if your partner suddenly said he/she were bi?
*Waits for straight male chorus of "Honey, this is the best Christmas ever!"*
In a "post-gay" age of pan-, poly-, and ambisexuality, is bisexuality even relevant anymore?
F DUBYA What could the mystery bonus gift be? I guess you'll have to buy it to find out.
MeFi and MoFi: Teaching resources? Yes. I've started bookmarking
some recent posts for my wife, who starts teaching high school history in the fall. In among all the posts about computers and graphic novels, there are some really useful posts!
18 June 2005
Element CNT is undefined in NEWASKLINKS. Well, at least it isn't Jrun.
emcee ii, part two, is now up! Which means our two sets of Exquisite Corpses are completed, and emcee-June is finished, with 12 players and 14 panels altogether.
Here's the first exquisite corpse set, in case you missed it.
Imagine if the biggest rock band in the United States was fronted by someone who looked and sounded just like George W. Bush. note: salon link, requires viewing ad. but you knew that.
BitTorrent? Piffle! This site makes DVDs available of old otherwise unobtainable TV shows. And no eBay in sight. Keep it quiet though, I think it's meant to be a secret.
17 June 2005
Dylan tip (Bob, that be) →Read more...
Piracy, arr. All the torrents I've been using recently have resulted in a LOT more garbage data uploaded to me than in the past. From various networks and trackers. Does anyone know who's behind this? MPAA, or just random hackers? (I'm downloading TV shows).
AskMetachat [title will not fit on this line] How Do I Remove My Name From MP3's & MS Word Documents?
I do not use SoulSeek or share my iTunes b/c all documents & MP3's (or other audio format) are saved with my name in the string (C:\Documents and Settings\Joe Smith\My Documents).
Is there a way to change this so my files are anonymous?
Ain't nothin' like the real thing, baby. Robot deemed too life-like.
Best. Image. Ever. Okay, fine. Everybody's definition of what makes a good post or a bad post is different. But I'm sure we can agree on the best inline image, yes?
Best. Post. Ever. But seriously, since we've already explored the Worst Possible MetaFilter Post, what would it take to achieve the BEST? Something that everybody, left and right, oldie and newbie, techhead and luddite, blogger and blog-adverse, Mac, Linux AND Windows, Miguel and quonsar, would like? Is it possible? Something that could bring us all together?
Worst. Post. Ever. If you had to write the worst possible post for Mefi what would it be? The post that would be the biggest stinker of all time. The post that everyone would point to as the nadir of Mefi. The post that would see your name mocked across the internet for all eternity. Surely we can do better than a pair of scientoligists getting engaged.
Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics 45% of Americans don't realise the Sun is a star? 96% of candles are purchased by women?
Yeah, it's weak as all fuck but I'm bored at work and this would never get a pass on MeFi...
BlogStop: Where the last word of an entry must be used as an acronym for the next entry. Simplicity itself.
emcee ii collaboration: The first series of our emcee exquisite corpse project is up. The second one will probably be up tomorrow...
Shamelessly self-centered post I'm leaving for California tomorrow, where I'm due to run the
Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run next weekend.
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The worst album covers in the world. From the Guardian, stolen from a comment by bargle, in MeTa. Anybody got any more contenders?
Four golden rules "With films such as
Taste of Cherry, The
Wind Will
Carry Us and
10, his
digital feature set
entirely in a car, Iranian director
Abbas Kiarostami has in recent years become a critics' favourite on the international film scene, even though he has been producing a stream of magnificent work since the early 1970s. Lucky for me, then, to be one of 20 students chosen to take part in an eight-day workshop, organised by the London Film School, on digital film-making led by one of the masters of that particular species of cinema. Here are four central ideas Kiarostami had us consider throughout our week together".
when korean kids draw it out the Bunny-shaped Country and child labor
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Pride Parade June 26th Local church is having a sign-making party. Slogans are needed.
16 June 2005
I had a lucid dream last night. I think. →Read more...
300 free truetype fonts --for Windows and OSX (a mixed bag, and not great for printing, but good for online and playing around)
from that thread: lyrics anyone?
sometimes the names are not enough
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Reminder: Share The 9622v2 Love There having been a worrying downturn in new contributions to 9622v2, I enjoin, entreat and implore all and sundry to participate in this history-making endeavor.
How many hours do you work in a week? Do you get paid enough for working that much? If you work significantly more than 40 hours per work, are the extra hours as productive as the first 40?
In this thread we will only speak in song titles.
anyone want to get drunk? you don't have to have sobered up from yesterday to join in.
Animal paintings usually aren't my
bag, but
this is some
fine work, really. I want to
hate it, but
it won't
let me.
The Miracle of Life (warning: 14.6 MB QT but worth it.)
MetaFilter? Down? Holy smokes, MeFi is giving me a JRun error! What's going on? Has this ever happened before? What's the protocol? Who do I email? Bloomsday!
Lookin' for new RSS feeds What are your favorite:
News feeds? Looking for a good general news feed that would preferably lean more toward serious news, and less toward Michael Jackson news.
Humor feeds? Especially funny blogs like
Skot's, or
Lore's.
Or
Miscellaneous, just to open it up for you.
What's on your mind? If you'll forgive the overstatement. Celebrity insults: excellent curmudgeonly comments by famous people.
Gay weddings on TV Former Kid In The Hall Scott Thompson sets up weddings for gay couples. I just caught a couple of episodes. The most striking thing about the show is how the couples are so much like just any other soon to be married couples.
15 June 2005
Holy. Shit. (warning! Flash, loud music, delusions of grandeur and possibly the scariest Michael Jackson link ever: His own website.)
So, who thinks Alex Reynolds is fabulous?
think we'll make it to rabbit year? (i call it cat)
yes, it is the year of the cock--
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new rules for soldier's blogs ...Under a threat of court martial, soldiers must register with their unit commander any blog or unofficial website, including the hosting company, IP address, and the webmaster's name. ...
Campari. Who thinks Bill Murray was really drinking it straight in The Life Aquatic?
Bring popcorn. Smells like santorum.
Self-Use Ear Irrigation Syringe "....after all those years of telling doctors that there was something going on in my left ear, Ear-Clear found and removed the culprit. After 4 or 5 refills using the Master Blaster for the first time in my left ear, not only did a serious clump of wax get expelled, but also a 'twig' about an inch long (see picture). Must have been in my ear for 15 years!" Tony F.
"Pretty soon we’re going to be able kick back in the War Room, drink us some Mr. Pibb and rum, and watch as the mechasaurs destroy each other in our name." I wanna have
that etched on my tombstone!
What was your first experience of porn? Mine was a 256 colour bitmap on my harddrive-less Acorn A3010. "Wow, so women have indescipherable blurs between their legs!".
Your Going to Hell Whose going to hell? My going to hell.
(beware: music)
Well, I just got my green card Spent the last 90 minutes at the federal building in Baltimore getting interviewed by a nice INS official. My husband was way more nervous than me, because he was convinced that I was going to crack "marriage of convenience" jokes. (NB: it is not!) Glad it's over...
I agree. Way, way too many threads.
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All Mercedes drivers are (potential) terrorists. This evening, cycling home, I saw that the space betwixt Buckingham Palace and Victoria's statue was chocka with Mercedes Saloons. The police were pulling over each and every Mercedes heading away from Trafalgar Square, and searching them. Cue a horde of disgruntled Merc drivers, and a happy me.
If this continues, and the idiots that drive these huge cars through London in rush hour are forced off the road, I'll finally have something good to say about the War On Terror.
Shut down by the MAN Well, okay it was Jrun.
MetaChat, a home for my stupid questions This one is about computers, customer service, and Tekserve. Please, AskMeCha, help me gain the social skills I never had.
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This Razor...it Vibrates? Gillette's new
Vibrance razor (with disposable blades no less!). Safe for use in shower or bath! And best of all - no embarrasment going through airport security. Not that
I would know anything about
that. [
via ]
MetaChatFilterFilter Hey - my friends and I were talking last night and I started wondering: If you were chatting, what would you be chatting about?
best linx distro for lazy expert? no way am i wasting an askme question with this, so you lot will have to do instead. [mi]
Have you dreamed about anyone or anything online recently?
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Poor girl's AskMefi - OMG WorldSmart Bling Bling 19 weeks. 18 cities. 7 countries. 1 experience of a lifetime. 0 clue what I'm doing. Help!
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The Dinner Party Amberglow's suggestion to loquacious' comment in the
Farenheit 451 thread reminded me of a game my friends and I used to play called 'Dinner Party'. The rules aren't hard and fast, but the idea is this: you're having a dinner party and you can invite up to 7 people - whomever you want - real or fictional, famous or not, dead or alive. Who would they be and why?
Bumperball Harder than it looks...
UFOs. Oddly enough, "Try not to lose your marbles" indeed.
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14 June 2005
MeCha has become the dating game →Read more...
Scratchpad No More? I was just playing with it and got disconnected. Anyone able to access it?
I finally quit...eating meat. So your friend tells you that s/he has quit smoking. Your obvious reaction? Congratulations, words of encouragement, and a generally positive and warm response.
Let's do that again, but this time your friend tells you that s/he has stopped eating meat.
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Saucy! So, kids, what's
your favorite color? Mine's rabbit-nose pink. Happy hour elephant pink is nice, too.
If you were a cleverly marketed entertainment package, what would be your theme song?
MedicFilter List your favorite "Go to the doctor, dammit!" AskMe post here. (Most recent entered for reference purposes only.)
Tie a Yellow Ribbon round that old dead Pope... Does this mean Support our dead Pope? Get the Pope out of Iraq? Bring our Pope Home? My Pope can kick your War's ass?
Boy is my face red I shouldn't have made that MeTa thread.
Question: In Farenheit 451, people would learn (off by heart) one book. They would then *be* that book and could be read by whoever. If you were a book in Farenheit 451, which book would you be? (out of date meme shamelessly stolen from the internets)
Money, Music, Mixes. So we'll have another swap next month but i'd like to discuss the way
we do it.
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Did you tape or Tivo the Tonight Show last night? From what I heard, Leno showed the correction to the major gaffe in
this article during his headline segment and said my friends ad agency name... I'd so love to show it to them!
Bunnyscape: I've started a metachat bunny gallery for us at photobucket. If you find any cool wabbit art,
go to photobucket and see if you can figure out the username and password to log in with (I bet you can!); then upload the image. If you found it on the web, please include the address of the site where you found it in the "tag or title" field.
13 June 2005
Can't get my CD burner to work and it's driving me nuts. I've always just used Windows Media Player and it's always worked fine, but now for some reason, it arbitrarily closes the disc at some random point, long before the CD is done. It's maddening. I think I've wasted about 14 CDs tonight, trying to get a full copy of a MeCha mix. Is there any free software out there that'll do a decent job of burning? I don't really care if it has any other features.
not guilty eee! eee!
*grabs crotch*
Metachat Mix-up! The files are all in and everyone who uploaded a mix should now have received an e-mail with more details on downloading. If you haven't submitted a mix, then sorry but you're too late. You can use this thread to discuss the mixes as well as posting tracklistings or mix descriptions.
Meta Cookbook matildaben had a great idea in dame's
too hot to eat thread.
Share with us your absolute favorite recipie!
Weblog Woes Whenever I rebuild my MT weblog, it seems to "forget" about portions of the stylesheet. If I re-FTP the stylesheet, all is fine again ... until the next time I need to rebuild the site (say, to despam it). Can this be fixed?
Completely Bogus or Leftfield Wisdom on 9/11? "A former chief economist in the Labor Department during President Bush's first term now believes the official story about the collapse of the WTC is 'bogus,' saying it is more likely that a controlled demolition destroyed the Twin Towers and adjacent Building No. 7."
The article is by
Greg Szymanski and the link is to the original. It's being repeated verbatim at Conspiracy Planet & Collective Bellaciao but nowhere of substance.
An economist giving engineering opinion?! Ummm? Trying to get back at former employer??
So, do you ever get too hot to eat? Summer has come here in New York, and it's as disgusting as usual. (Oh, for it to be February!) All of a sudden though, I'm too hot to eat. The very notion of food nauseates me. I grew up in a hot place and have lived here for five years, but this has never happened. What's wrong with me? Has this happened to you? What do you do?
Scapegoating Outrage : USDA Forest Service claims Native American maize cultivation 1,000 years ago led to freshwater mussel decline
.
Optimistic much? So MetaChat is no longer a place to "commiserate and bitch when MetaFilter is down" (or something like that - I can't remember the exact phrasing that used to be there)? Are we
that confident that the jrun beast has been slain?
No Rock and Roll Fun. My new favourite blog.
write your own personals ad: blank is looking for blank who can blank like a blank while blanking blank on a blank--
will write my own if i have the time of this doesn't entirely suck. remember, only the truth is really funny:→Read more...
Mega Quiz: If you can't find your way through
the doors, and you only have
one typing finger left, use it to play
Inspiration Gallery's Mega Quiz, with 1500 questions in 50 categories. Game description inside...
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mony mony you make me feel like a
pony
12 June 2005
Ty Pennington and Madonna got me wondering Who would you pick for a celebrity caged death match? Two walk in and only one walks out (and gets put down like a wounded horse. So hey we all win!)
Brandon stories Do you know anyone to whom Interesting Things Just Happen? You know, the kind of person who is the life of the party because of all the neat stories he or she knows? I have known two:
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Too trivial for AskMe: Does anyone know why there hasn't been a DVD release of either
If... or
O Lucky Man!? It seems the only one of Lindsay Anderson's "Mick Travis" films to get the DVD treatment is the infinitely inferior
Britannia Hospital.
Madonna: Superbitch! Her demanding nature, fake accent and diva-posturing in this video clip are very telling.
Metachat Mix Swap: Less than 24 hours to go. Please upload your mixes by 7 pm
UTC tomorrow. See more details
here.
Moratorium on "telling" Can we have a moratorium on the expression "that's very telling"? (Voluntary, of course). It's just a way of accusing someone of something based on nothing more than a hunch, but phrasing it such that it doesn't sound like a hunch but a fact.
blogs don't verify! oh noes! Former reporter who's now a blogger and studying to teach decides to attack all blogs for not confirming accuracy, and spreads the attack around to poynter, and wonkette and mediabistro--smackdown ensues. (
this picture was the trigger)
A Killer Comeback. At 69, his face puffy and jowly,
Jerry Lee
Lewis moves so slowly backstage that you wouldn't want him near a treadmill without paramedics in the building. Watching him slumped in a chair, it's hard to imagine him being able to do anything more onstage than accept an award. Then again,
people have counted Lewis out for decades — only to see him bounce back, from delicate stomach operations and
career-threatening scandals. And sure enough, this night Lewis not only makes it to the piano but comes alive once his fingers hit the keys, pumping out that distinctive Lewis groove that is part
honky-tonk, part
boogie-woogie, part
juke joint and
all magic.
Motion Picture Purgatory Click the drop-downs top left to select a movie and see a cartoon review by Rick Tremble.
Constantine,
House of Wax,
Blade 3 and
Revenge of the Sith are worth a look.
[some images may not be safe for work]
I don't know where I am... I don't know what I'm doing here. I just know I have to get out.
The Doors is another one of those "find-your-way-out" Flash games like The Crimson Room. Not
too hard, though I'm kind of stuck on the last little bit at the moment.
Sarge Shoots: Not sure what competition
sgt. serenity is speaking of in
this MetaTalk comment (maybe
this? You can find his photos by searching "Steven Reynolds"), but you should go check out his
Flickr photos - really nice images there.
I want to draw like common people More artists should emulate Jamie Hewitt's comic version of Pulp's "Common People." I'm imagining a Marjane Satrapi version of "Silent All These Years." Or Harvey Pekar illustrating "The River." What about Britney's "... Baby one more time" illustrated by Michael Manning?
11 June 2005
Like Hitler, Like Bush 1. President George W. Bush, like Adolf Hitler, came to power legally, but not democratically. The majority of Americans and the majority of Germans did not elect either leader. Both were appointed. No one expected either one to rise to power.
2. Both are fundamentalist Christians. The problem for both these fervent Christians was how to keep power. Both Hitler and Bush court the conservative Christian right, and implicate their acts of aggression into holy war.
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Good News From Iraq™ --skylights installed in Fallujah schools!
When Does Exclusive Cross the Line to Racist? Via LA Times: "It is graduation season again. Last month, my wife and I happily participated in this privilege by observing our last child graduate from one of California's state universities. Because our daughter is African American, we had the dubious honor of attending two ceremonies — one for African Americans only, and then the next day, one for the general population of graduates. This was our third child to graduate from college, and all three universities — two in California and one in Washington — had these twin exercises."
I was quite surprised to hear about this practice — is it common in the States?
48K of Joy. I had a Spectrum when I was a kid so this site brings back all kinds of memories. You can see all the details of the old games including tape inlays and pages from magazines such as Crash. Best of all though is that you can play the games in your browser. It's good to see that
Dan Dare is as great as I remember.
MetaChatTalk Is self-linking allowed on MetaChat?
Do you work online? How many of us earn a living all or mostly online? And what do you do?
Incurable romantic seeks filthy whore.
[via ad-rag]
10 June 2005
Is Metafilter Being Hacked?
I'm starting to wonder if someone other that Mathowie or Jessamyn has gained access to the MeFi code, and is actually the source of some of the mysterious disapering comments
but then again I've had quite a bit to drink
the fringe of language "We do not talk only in order to reason or to inform. We have to make love and quarrel, to propitate and pardon, to rebuke, console, intercede, arouse. "He that complains," said Johnson, "acts like a man, like a social being."
-- C.S. Lewis
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The menu bar doesn't render right for me. See?
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Terror allegations disappear from court filing Different affidavit in Lodi, CA father-son case given to media than used for court.
The Twelve Tribes of American Politics Did you know the Religious Left is just as big as the Religious Right?
The groups that make up the U.S. political landscape are much more nuanced than you think.
Honduras art: Chamo, Céleo
Ramos, Mijke
Bos, Bobby
Handal, Roberto
Brevé, Alejandro
Corpeño, Maria Marta
Nemes, Luis Gustavo
Rivera, Ricardo
Lagos, Ana
Aguilar, and more.
Oh dear. Trendy youth pastor discovers
datetosave.com and, thinking it a geniuine site, allows the girls in his care to date boys in an attempt to lead them to God. Only - as any fool knows - it isn't a real site.
Pregnancy ensues.
JRun ning on empty
JRunning blind
JRunning into the sun
But I’m JRunning behind
-- daily JRun error is already with us.
Vrooom When I went to the bowling alley yesterday, there were a lot of cops next door at the Harley dealership. They've busted the Banditos again.
Breaking stuff. Tread carefully folks because I've made a big change to the site. You can now post images in comments. No, no, come back! You won't see them unless you click the
IMAGES ON link up there.
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Waking Dead. Now that's what I call an immersive experience (video; dubious and probably immoral Derren Brown experiment)
Musique noir The twenty-five most depressing songs.
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09 June 2005
When a crazy person from your past finds you through Google, what do you do?
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CD Swap is back! Dreama's official Metafilter CD Swap is back! D'ya think it was us made it happen?
Tell me about your workday I've always been fascinated with the trivialities of other peoples's jobs. Exactly how do you spend your day at work? How much actual work do you get done? What's your routine when you arrive? Regular coffee breaks? I need to know!
screenshots from a Soviet film, 1946 We're working on the Steppes,
before the sun comes up,
so we have bread to nourish
our athletes and heroes...
(or maybe it's 2 films?)
''I challenge people to come up with another disease so tied to poverty".
The story of Father
Thomas G. Streit, Roman Catholic priest and biologist at the University of Notre Dame, head of the
Haiti Project to eradicate
lymphatic filariasis (with an annual per-capita income of $425, Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere)
Laundry-Related Does anyone have advice on getting barbecue stains out of sweatpants?
JRun sang bass... windows sang tenor, ole cold fusion joined right in there...
Celtschmerz! I like Richard Thompson. Anyone else?
What's your favourite movie? Last New Year's I bought myself a used TV and DVD player after having lived without a TV since 1996. I'd never lived with a DVD or VCR. I also couldn't afford to go to theatres very often. So I've got a lot of catching up to do. What's your all-time-favourite, changed-your-life-philosophy, heavily-quoted-from, social-network-injoke, personal-frame-of-reference movie?
C'mon...don't be shy....show us your mug! Isn't it about time? I'll go first. Here's
mine .
Every time it deficates defecates, a kitten destroys a city. Please think of the cities.
Okay, opinionated people... Dodgy's working on producing some form of opt-in image-enabled page view (for comments at least) to allow images without risk of inadvertant knifebuttery appearing on the user logs of "safe-viewers". Also, he's addressing a "recent comments" page (which is
like this right now, and may work fine as-is). Here's where we ask what else you would like to have.
Obviously, there are limitations in terms of how much time he can spend working on everything, but basically - What do most people want the most? This will help to establish a possible do-list by priority (and feasibility).
Site notice. If you encounter any errors on this site could you copy and paste the error into an e-mail and send it to me, along with a brief description of what you were doing. I can't fix problems without it. Thanks.
metafilter's down. →Read more...
08 June 2005
Confess! Or make someone else! oh mechat, i have sinned--
point the finger, throw the stone or throw yourself down on your knees!
Blogs of War Scroll down for reviews of Soldiers' Blogs
what do names mean to you? (i don't advise clicking, but what a weird thing to find) Favorite names and handles and why? Which do you like and do your impressions:
Tell me about your hometown..... →Read more...
MetaChat Music Swap Questions about doing the CD cover. What's the best format to save it in? Will it print out the exact same size I make it on all printers, or should I make it a pdf for more uniform printing? Will a pdf take up a lot more space at Loadstream than, say, a jpeg?
New anti-rape device causing uproar in South Africa.
Metafilter is exercising! It just went for a JRun.
It is a - most - provoking - thing when a person doesn't know a cravat from a belt!
Aides.org film, tsunami vs Africa what a way to make the numbers real. QT Film.
Cold Fusion, for real For the last few years, mentioning cold fusion around scientists has been a little like mentioning Bigfoot or UFO sightings.
I like the cows. Do you?
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07 June 2005
I want to be cool. →Read more...
The Cost of Corruption An interesting series from American Public Broadcasting.
Some of the sourcing seems weak (The 20 Most Corrupt Countries source: "As defined by perceptions of business people and country analysts, both resident and non-resident.") or at least poorly explained.
Trends in change lately? is it hair cut season or is everyone just game for a change?
Wee Beasties In the
I Compute Naked thread, mygothlaundry linked to her flickr stream. I stalked ..er.. clicked on the link and found this:
Mr Bill and
Oliver - separated at birth?
Yes, this is permission to post your pet's (pets?) pictures. You know you wanna.
London Calling I just decided that London Calling is my favorite album. Do you think it's a mistake to pick that album, do you think it's a mistake to think in absolutes? I have to say that listening to
London Booted not only confirms my choice, it may have been responsible for solidifying it in the first place.
What the hell happened?! Someone please give me a detailed description of the last five minutes of The Ring. I was watching it on TV last night and for reasons I won't go into, missed everything from when she found the guy to the credits.
I compute naked. What do you eat for breakfast?
Rude Pundit. In August, the Rude Pundit will perform a one-man show at the New York International Fringe Festival.
The Rude Pundit in The Year of Living Rudely
The Rude Pundit
Writer:Lee Papa
Director: Mark H. Creter
Based on the cult blog with thousands of fans worldwide, the Rude Pundit attacks assholes and pisses on the powerful. In this (very rude) one-man comedy, he gives a scatological skewering and a pornographic wedgie to preachers, politicians, and presidents.
Anyone hear about this? Anyone going? I'd kill to see him live.
Feature Requests for the MetaFilthy Extension I want...
What's on your desktop? I'll show you
mine if you show me yours.
Why have my drop-downs disappeared? Dunno what's going on, but on my work laptop all my right-click drop-downs are "invisible" until I scroll over them - then they appear, as if by magic. Same goes for many of my file menus, except for my IE favorites which are always there. How can I fix this without resorting to the drones at the help desk?
"Everybody in the Bible is thought of as white It's reflected in all the Catholic statuary. We just say, 'Enough already.' That's simply not historically accurate. We are trying to challenge this Europeanization of the whole Bible, which is perpetuated even by the Vatican on one hand, Hollywood on the other,"
Cain Hope Felder, a professor of New Testament languages and literature at Howard University and an
ordained United Methodist minister, said in an interview.
The text of the
Original African Heritage Study Bible is the King James Version but, in a marked departure from traditional Bibles, it highlights all the passages that refer to Africa or Africans and includes commentaries putting such history and culture into context. It also contains maps of Africa and illustrations of Bible characters — Moses,
Jesus, Mary — all with dark skin and curly hair.
FL Police use Taser on 6 yoa girl
06 June 2005
Does anybody really know what time it is? What time zone is MetaChat set in? Also, because I am incapable of carrying out basic calculations, is it possible to have an indication of "current time" in whatever zone that is displayed somewhere?
Best Shock of Recognition Thread nitsuj's
Why do bookstores and libraries make me poop?
It's contagious! ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://metachat.org/index.php/2005/06/06/paranoia_the_destroyer
LazyDrunkFilter : Is there such a good thing as a good pre-made frozen margarita mix? Or do they all taste like Country Time lemonade mixed with ass? Gracias.
Paranoia (The Destroyer) I just wanted to thank a certain user for alerting me to amberglow's
comical bit of fluff from three days ago. Amber himself didn't bother to email me, so I'll give him the same discourtesy.
Losing The American Revolution A profound transformation is occurring in America and those responsible for it don't want you to connect the dots. We are experiencing what has been described as a "fanatical drive to dismantle the political institutions, the legal and statutory canons, and the intellectual and cultural frameworks that have shaped public responsibility for social harms arising from the excesses of private power." From public land to water and other natural resources, from media with their broadcast and digital spectrums to scientific discoveries and medical breakthroughs, a broad range of America's public resources is being shifted to the control of elites and the benefit of the privileged. It all seems so clear now that we wonder how we could have ignored the warning signs at the time.
Office of Cannabis Medical Access (Canada) The Office of Cannabis Medical Access coordinates the development and administration of the regulatory approach permitting individuals to access marihuana (cannabis) for medical purposes. The Office also coordinates other Health Canada initiatives related to marihuana, including the establishment of a reliable Canadian source of medical research-grade marihuana.
“You’re Jewish, aren’t you, Seymour?”. In all our previous conversations, I’d been “Sy.” I said yes. “Let me ask you one question, then,” Haig said. “Do you honestly believe that Henry Kissinger, a Jewish refugee from Germany who lost thirteen members of his family to the Nazis, could engage in such police-state tactics as wiretapping his own aides? If there is any doubt, you owe it to yourself, your beliefs, and your nation to give us one day to prove that your story is wrong.”
That was Watergate, circa 1973. The Times printed the story the next day, and Kissinger did not resign.
Seymour Hersh,
WATERGATE DAYS
Timing out, JRunning, internal server erroring, the moon in June and sleep till noon. Spend my evenings in the Van Gogh museum.
What a dream, Van Gogh museum.
The Metachat mix swap is on! If you want to be part of this months round and swap mixes online with other folk then here's what you need to do:
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Lets meetup at the top of Mt Everest. I'll take the chopper, see you there.
Spanking Jessica Cutler and Robert Steinbuch reminds me a lot of
this MetaTalk thread about pictures.
"why was he doing them in the first place? We seem to want ... privacy when it's convenient, but we also want the freedom..."
Greetings fellow butt-drinkers. I am moving at the end of this month. The room that I am moving into is slightly larger than my current room, but does not have a closet. I have a lot of things in my closet. Like latent homosexuality. Not really, it's more of an admiration for respectable men. I could use a hug. Anyways, I have a lot of things like stacks of Field and Stream, and I was wondering how you cope with possession depression. I look at all my possessions and I just cry. Because little boys like Michael Jordon fondled died for them. For the oil that went into the detergent that washes my soiled underwear.
Taking Names: Attention all metacorpses! Time to start emcee #2, which we've decided to do as an
exquisite corpse.
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05 June 2005
4th25, part of Iraq's Task Force 112 --their video and song...warning: images you don't see on the news.
This is a useful and informative list of labels releasing non-mainstream jazz.
FEATURE REQUEST Pretty, pretty-please with sugar on top could you change the tab order so that the "preview" button is first, instead of the "bold" button? TIA
Sometimes you just don't know the answer, man What do you think about people who get too eager in AskMe and answer every question, whether they have an answer or not? Some folks have racked up 1,000+ answers, many of which read like: "I don't know the answer to your question, but my uninformed guess is such-and-such."
Cheap Chips Rule! Y'know when it comes to some foods, like cheese and seafood, the more you spend, the better it tastes, generally. With chips, the opposite seems to hold true. The exotic upmarket chips like
Terra taste lousy and dull, whereas the bag of
Herr's Bacon & Horseradish Chips I just bought are positively sublime. (this is of course putting aside all the health arguments, and if you believe in healthy living what are you eating chips for, anyway?)
But it's nice to see the best stuff going to the cheap seats. I'm sure there's other examples.
What's with all the spam on the front page of the Wiki? I hate them comment spammers.
After yesterdays randomiser thread I thought it might be interesting to have a Metachat CD swap. But then I remembered what a bloody hassle it is getting CDs together, packaging them up and traipsing down to the post office. How about some private file swapping network where we could zip up some tunes and everyone could download any they like the look of? Would Waste do the job? Anything else out there that could do this? Bad idea? Good idea?
Orson scott card: asshat mefi's downness has caused me to check out
kuro5hin of all places. Ugh.
I did find this article mefites might enjoy, though about Orson Scott Card.
Metafilter: Poop Stain Connection Failure Error
the Freaky Universe of McDonald's Advertising --a bunch of ads from the 70s on. (commentary not that great tho)
Throw hardware at the problem? Mefi just had a petite mal for a few minutes, causing me to come here. I wonder, would a bigger server aleviate mefi's problems, or no?
Maybe we could all pitch in so matt can buy a new machine.
04 June 2005
pleasure of the flesh or distract me from working on stuff as i wonder what needs to be done as i missed the postal pick up
The randomiser thread killed WMP Okay, so during my 8th random song (Wilco, In a Future Age), my Windows Media playback started skipping.
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Are we allowed... ...to complain about other sites being down? Because Gmail is "temporarily unavilable". Bitch.
hiding behind little girlie noises. ok, in an attempt to be more user-friendly and less abrasive i'm asking for advice. what is a suitable way of replying to comments like "all those code thingies make me fall asleep with in 30 seconds". especially when their
homepage mentions "architecture/art/design/community"? [more]
Randomiser. A music mag I get does this as a regular feature and I'd be interested to see what results we get from people around here. Get your MP3 player out, set it to random and then tell us the first five tracks that come up and tell us a little bit about them. Resist cheating.
I'll start us off.
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Got an Ipod? Get money. Due to the sucky batteries, there's been a class action lawsuit. This is the link to the
claim form (you need your ipod's serial number)
If a Third Generation iPod plays for four hours or less or a First or Second Generation iPod plays for five hours or less, you have a “Battery Failure” for purposes of this Settlement. (i'm at about 3 hours on my 3G.)
03 June 2005
Got an idea and need help. (And y'all are nicer than AskMe.) I run an organization/website that's devoted to free speech issues.
We're undergoing a redesign. As one of our new features, I want to implement a series of "tell us about your free speech battles" interviews with celebs. (more!)
META-OUTRAGEOUS Monday morning wasn't the first time Michelle Bradford received a ride from Beaver County deputies. The office had placed Bradford, a 39-year-old homeless woman who can't speak or hear, in a motel and twice helped her go to a homeless shelter in Cedar City.
But this time, Beaver County law enforcement took her over the Millard County line to a service station at about 1 a.m., then drove away.
I found some lint in my navel. Discuss.
So what are you wearing? Me: Jeans (Acne), yellow t-shirt (Penalcode), blue sweater (Mixwell). Black noname socks, black noname undies. Beer (domestic). Semi-hardon (natural).
I am currently feeling bowel pressure. You know, I just don't think this is working out. 10% of you want to fight, and the other 90% are just completely pedestrian.
When I'm drinking at the bar, all I can think about is how much I'd rather be at home posting on Metafilter. All those wonderful quips and attempts at dry, instantly forgettable jokes, I long for them while I'm sitting at the bar having real conversations and hitting on attractive women. But alas, I am exiled, away from my computer.
Tactical posting--ok or no? So
JenLeigh posts an old story from 2 months ago smearing Sy Hersh about how he's a liar, just a judge has ordered the release of the torture and abuse pics and video that Hersh told us all about.
JRUINOUS Server Error: The Final Insult
3 million unique users a day Interesting article on how the BBC News website serves 24m pages every day. No mention of Coldfusion.
Down down down Mefi died in the middle of a post :(
Music For Servers To Break Down By. Let's compile a list. Inspired by jonmc's comment in another post, the compilation definitely needs "Don't Fear the Reaper" on it.
One wheel for children Harvard Divinity School student Zachary Warren plans to break the world record for a 100-mile unicycle ride in order to raise funds for the
Afghan Mobile Mini-Circus for Children, a nonprofit organization.
Kittenwar!!! The naught version of amihotornot - it's
WAR! Mjauw!
Metafilter is unwell It's got the Jruns again
ah, Wagner, you will ever be best as
a bugs to me, and more music burned by association
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Saucy Self Link. "
How kind of God it was to give you a body! I hope that your body will not get hurt."
02 June 2005
someone get that comment compiler of meijers or machjers or whoever
let's we what we look like in random brevity.
And where's the toggle? has no one created their own toggle page?
and where is my pipe and my bowl?
Really bad. Oh dear lord...
¡Hola Metachaterios! I am sauntering around Peru and in my brief moment of internet connectivity I just wanted to send a big garlic breathy shoutout to everyone. Consider this a postcard but you have to supply the picture. Cheers from Cusco and I raise a glass of Cusqueña to ya!
*Yawn* Server Error
The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request.
Could not connect to JRun Server.
The MeFi Cult of Celebrity So, is it a good thing or a bad thing that a handful or personalities dominate discussion on the site at a given time? Why do threads frequently stop being about whatever link was posted and instead become discussions about a given high-profile poster? Not trying to grind an axe here, I'm genuinely curious as to what people think...
This page has just been updated and I am excited.
Create Your Own Captions. Let's just say that
Brad and
Tom would probably have liked to have the negatives for these pictures, but now that we have the intarwebs, they exist for all eternity. Lucky us!
These are not the droids you are looking for. Mind control gets worryingly closer with new oxycotin results. Methinks I know what that new "Apple Store" smell is.
Purty. Colorful, fun, collage-style art by Phyllis Bramson (three pages). Kitten-loving perverto mefites should especially enjoy
this one.
01 June 2005
I know this is mean, but I can't help it. First place award for Best Portraiture by Home-Schooled Children with Parents Who Claim Questionable Artistic Provenance goes to...
These People!
This is my first post here. I could introduce myself, but I think I'll just go straight to the goods and share what appears to be a
rock sphincter with you instead. (This came from
loquacious' google image search on "
fulgurite.")
Momo! I will never get tired of that site. Click on the parts about Momo. *waits for deletion* =P
How many MeFites, do you think, would self-identify as bloggers?
Of them, how many does it take to screw in a quonsar?
Gah! The curse of MeFi strikes metachat. Looks like we got a bit of myximatosis for a while there but we're back now.
You've been waiting for this... the offical website of
Trygve Lode. He says that he's an actor, but his real claims to fame are his
Barbie autopsies, and all the uncanny ways he is able to pose with his finger placed somewhere on his face. He's also very good at posing with shiny metal things in front of one of his eyes, drawing with markers on the arms of women with long blond hair, and covering himself with fake sweat or chains, or in some cases, both.
Merry Christmas!
All of my posts are being deleted. Maybe the BOFH could email me at mean_mr_bucket at yahoo dot com.
Barbie does birth. (NSFW, flash) More in the anatomically-correct doll series.
metafilter: babbling dullards fresh off the boat time for thismorning's regularly scheduled outage.
I've added emcee #1 to the left sidebar. Do we want to talk about what to do for the next one now? An exquisite corpse or photoshop tennis kind of thing? Something completely different? The same kind of thing as edition one? What do you think?
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31 May 2005
Dumbass technophobe question How the hell do you set up Trillian for irc for MeFiChat? I've used irc, a long time ago, but I can't figure out how to set Trillian up to connect to the MeFi server.
Another day, another JRun Server Error
The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request.
Could not connect to JRun Server.
TPM Cafe launches --from Talking Points Memo (and others)--kinda like a smarter version of Huffington (or here) ; >
You want the <strike> tag? Then kiss my arse losers! Why of course you can!
This is MetaChat, right? According to Google,
these things are metas. We should chat about them.
Rumsfeld and the
Emperor. Twins separated at birth? You decide.
I knew it would suck. I seriously underestimated the power of it's suckage. Yep, it's the new Star Wars film.
[spoilers inside - like you could possibly spoil this]
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Girl Zone? I'm just curious. I know bunnies are emblematic of MeFi, but was the MeCha white bunny with pink ears selected to make MeCha more girl-friendly as a counterbalance to the boy-zone mentality of MeFi? (...not that there's anything wrong with that...)
since you're all here, you might as well look at some glass flowers
Damn and Blast Could not connect to JRun Server.
30 May 2005
Best MeFi Posts of the Past 72 hours:
Best Symbolism:
DeepFriedTwinkies's
Symbolic Gesture
Best Post Demonstrating Redeeming Social Value of Livejournal:
Madamejujujive's
Uniform Passion
"I especially liked the white-helmeted proctologist talking to the two military men."
Best Weird Resource:
Tufa's
Collier Taxonomy Post
"Unidentifiable cruft just accrues amongst it at unnatural rates....Broken parts. Found objects. Lost objects. Unidentifiable spontaneous materializations populating drawers, moving boxes, pockets and bags."
Best Story of Redemption:
dhruva's
Scattered Leaves
"In hell Otto Ege & Company are unseamed and sold to a thousand fat demons from whom they must buy back the bits with vile acts and stitch themselves together."
Best Comments Saving a Lame-ass Post Redux:
longsleeves'
Puerile Adolescent Snickering
" this is all very arcane from an eponymous blargh standpoint"
I'm not sucking up, I swear:
Taz's
Musical Curiosities, Obscurities and other Unearthed Treasures
"Edelweiss Pirates, Swing Kids & Charlie And His Orchestra"
Best Place for a Bar-b-que:
plep's
Evolution of the American Front Porch
"If porches were capable of offering what they used to offer -- peaceful places to sit and talk to family and neighbors -- people would gladly pay for them. But front porches become unpleasant as traffic increases, roads are widened at the expense of front lawns, and neighborhoods change from families you have known for years and seen on the walks every day to anonymous people who waddle straight from their front doors to their cars and back."
Best Memorial Day MeFi Meltdown More MeFi roadkill. I almost feel bad about participating in the pile-on. Almost.
Failed to connect The host 69.93.29.234 could not be contacted. If this persists, you should contact the administrator of the remote site.
Help me find out who this poet is. "When young we mourn for one woman,
as we grow old, for women in general.
The tragedy of life is that man is never free, but strives for what can never be.
The thing most feared in dreams, always happens. My life, my love, where are they now?
But the more the pain grows, the more this instinct for life somehow asserts itself.
The necessary beauty in life is in giving yourself to it completely. Only later will it clarify itself and become coherent."
JRun rabbit, run rabbit, run, run, run.
Make This Ice Cream! I hear tell that this is the world's most orgasmically delicious ice cream. Everyone I know who's made it has absolutely raved. It looks simple enough, right?
Minneapolis comes thru for Memorial Day --
...In exchange for our uniformed young people's willingness to offer the gift of their lives, civilian Americans owe them something important: It is our duty to ensure that they never are called to make that sacrifice unless it is truly necessary for the security of the country. In the case of Iraq, the American public has failed them; we did not prevent the Bush administration from spending their blood in an unnecessary war based on contrived concerns about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. President Bush and those around him lied, and the rest of us let them. Harsh? Yes. True? Also yes. Perhaps it happened because Americans, understandably, don't expect untruths from those in power. But that works better as an explanation than as an excuse.
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Hm. This seems to remind me of something... If only I could remember what. From the works of
Amanda Morley, via
Drawn! a collaborative blog about art and illustration created by mefite
Robot Johnny, and including as a contributor mefite
Hands of Manos, among
others. (see also,
this Mefi thread)
29 May 2005
Hello. Is it me you're
looking for?
[mpg] [via b3ta]
Rama Lama ding dong forever, baby
(.wmv movie file); Some knowledge of City of Heroes is helpful
ufo in Vegas --windows media--Prophet Yahweh summons one on cue.
(and you furriners can see what a local lead story on our evening news is)
Help Me Locate a Career Resources AxMe Someone posted an AxMe question about needing free online career resources. IIRC he is in a foreign country teaching students English. This was in the last month or so. Anyone remember that?
ARRRR! PIRATE SPAM! I just got this piece of lunacy in my gmail spambox. Arr. See inside, ye scurvy dog.
Girls are pretty. Despite the obvious terror of being caught you do it anyway. This is a new place for you, and you're desparate to join the community. Your hands are shaking as you type the letters into the oblivious white box. You press preview, and the you press post, and it's done. You've done it and you can't wait to see what people say. "Will they like me", you think, but you don't know. You have to wait. Happy Reposting "Girls are Pretty" day.
Update 2 for emcee Well, it looks like we're pretty much winding it up; I've received images from everyone who said they wanted to play. Now, for the details...
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28 May 2005
Too Silly for AskMe... Th' wife and I were having a discussion. Say I made a shiny red pleather outfit with a blue chest piece and yellow lightning bolts on the sleeves. Say I topped off this ensemble with an oversize leopard print policeman's cap (like the guy from Cameo wore in the "Candy" video), welding goggles, and red and white striped go-go boots. Wearing this ensemble, I go out into the street and flag down the first vehicle I see. The citizen rolls down his window and I proclaim: "As a member of the UNITED STATES ELECTRO POLICE I am commandeering your vehicle. Take me to Pizza Hut, citizen."
If the driver sincerely believes that I am part of the USEP, even though no such organization exsists, have I just commited the felony of impersonating a federal officer, or was this a lesser kind of fraud?
Internet Explorer - We discovered the web. Check out this humorous parody site created for Microsoft's browser Internet Explorer. Something tells me this won't be up for too much longer though.
Holy smokes this is a cool post! I don't want anyone to miss it. DeepFriedTwinkies, yum.
27 May 2005
Best MeFi Posts of the Past 24 hours:
Best of the Best: LeeJay's
Passion of the Tchotchkes
Best Timewaster: Sibrax's
Maze of Twisty Flash Games, All Alike
Best Philatelic Experience: chicken nuglet's
Scientific Americans Post
Best Defenestration Daydreams: nylon's
Window Standpoint
Runner-up Entry - Best Comments Saving a Lame-ass Post: Capn's
Birthday Party for Himself
Honorable Mention: neilkod's
Beeping House
I include this only becasue I'm now dying to know how it turns out
Mmmm, roach shake Not safe for weak stomachs, I'm guessing.
The page cannot be displayed The page you are looking for is currently unavailable.
MetaChat Favicon, Part 3, or maybe 4. Come inside.
Seatbelt problems This is too stupid to waste an AskMe on, but what do I do about a seatbelt that is biting into my neck? I'm not very short (exactly average for my generation and gender), but I have to scoot the seat pretty far up to reach the pedals, and the part where the seatbelt anchors onto the window pillar is not adjustable. Do I just get one of those dorky-looking sheepskin sheaths to cushion the blow? Or is there some kind of trick I can do to lower the fulcrum point?
Are you street enough? Can you purl down with these
Gangsta Knitters?
(.mov file, sound). I'd like to think they're the ones whipping up these
superhero costumes.
It's Official As of today I am too 1337 for memepool. Has anyone been there lately? In the words of a friend, "yeah memepool is totally an antiquated relic of the paleoblogoshere." It used to be that it had the cool stuff that didn't make it to boingboing, now links are up that have been on mefi for weeks.
Mobile phone advice. I'm completely ignorant when it comes to mobile phones as I've spent most of time avoiding the damn things. Now I think it'd be nice to have a smartphone, because it'd be really handy to have access to e-mail and to a basic calendar - web browsing would be good too. I already have a very good contract so it looks like I'll be buying SIM free and I've got a budget of about £250 at the most. Any recommendations? Anything I should avoid?
Update on emcee #1 collaboration. So, here's where we stand at the moment (original post
here). I am expecting one more, for sure, from amberglow, and would be happy to receive any more submissions.
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AskMeFi Hyperpost Is it me or is it really freakin' strange to have the front page turn over in AskMe in like 18 hours?? Damn. I posted a Q about this time yesterday and it's gone. pfft.
weird page cut-off
is anyone else getting the page cut-off at the bottom in an odd manner? it's happened several times. firefox 1.0.4 xp
26 May 2005
Chapelle Corby guilty Don't plan any holidays to Bali for a while, will you? If you do, it may be better to take no luggage and buy everything you need when you arrive.
Failed to connect The host 69.93.29.234 could not be contacted. If this persists, you should contact the administrator of the remote site.
Even Clear Channel is sick of Clear Channel The company has set up a fake pirate radio station [taken down, 5/26/05] in Akron, Ohio, which it's using to hurl insults at other Clear Channel stations. props to
WOXY
Goulet scrunched up his eyes and spoke rapid gibberish in a high-pitched nasal singsong, then added, "Japan would probably be the same thing."
How about that. Robert Goulet's manager (and wife, apparently) really
is named Vera.
Best MeFi Posts of the Past 24 hours:
Best Weblogs to Read Before Lunch: gilgamix's
Burger and a Slice
Best 'We Had To Burn The Village In Order To Save It' Post: dersins'
Contagious Media Madness
Best AskMe: anonymous'
Erection Post
Best Mysterious Silence: kirkaracha's
The Secret Way To War
Runner-up Post I'm Embarassed To Find Amusing: fenriq's
MLB Porn Mustache Post
Bikini Hawtness! April had a hard time finding a bikini that didn't make her look fat.
For The Foodies. Authentic Italian recipes from
Marcus Gavius Apicius' ancient Roman cookbook
"De Re Coquinaria", first printed in the 4th century AD, compiled from his recipes and notes.
Apicius was a wealthy merchant who lived during the reign of Tiberius. His colossal and extravagant banquets allegedly drove him to bankruptcy, and then suicide. He left behind a cookbook so prized that it's been preserved, in numerous editions, to the present day. I'd really love to hear from anyone who's prepared any of these dishes!
Sorry, guys, but please help me find something... The excellent article posted at MeFi about the woman who was something like the "first lady" of forensic investigation in the U.S.? She made tiny, incredibly accurate doll-house-size reproductions of the scenes of the crimes? It was a fascinating story, but I can't find it by searching tags "forensic"/"forensics" at mefi, or by any of my early desultory google searches, and I don't want to spend a lot more time looking. Anybody have it bookmarked?
Step one: Pour beer. Step two: Firmly grasp hank o'kimchi with stainless steel chopsticks (warning: lesser chopsticks may disintegrate!)
Step three: Swirl kimchi chunk in beer, washing off delicious fermented redpepper and garlic gunge.
Step four: Eat kimchi.
Step five: Drink beer.
Step six: ???
Step seven: PROFIT!
(this workshop brought to you by your happy internet friends at wonderchicken industries™! We do it so you don't have to!)
Paul Klee and the colors of war Searching for camoflage patterns to make a distinctive pair of pants, I discovered Paul Klee's connection with the Königlich Bayerischen Fliegertruppen. Depend on that Halberstadt CL IV pattern to make me some erschrokenlich pants, nicht wahr?
25 May 2005
Best MeFi Posts of the Past 24 hours:
Best Interaction Between User Name and Post Topic: blahblahblah's
100 Greatest American Speeches
Best RIP: Faint of Butt's
Thurl Ravenscroft Obit
Best NSFW Weirdness: madamjujujive's
When beefcake and robots collide
Best Parody Site: WaterSprite's
Longmire Does Romance Novels
complete with a single, weird-ass non-sequeter comment
As someone who blows up light bulbs amongst other things on a regular basis, i'm wondering where this might go once/if they venture past the obvious/logical.
What? So, this knife butt thing? What dat all about? I hate it when I miss out on new injokes and stuff.
I'm Glad You're Here.... Undeniably creepy but laughable mini movies, perfect for anyone with a Brawny Man fetish.
So, I have an idea.... Actually, I want to steal an idea.
See this? It's a collaborative... something... from
untitled.nu, and I'd like us to do the same thing, if anyone's interested. Here's how it would work: maybe every month or so, anyone who wants to participate contributes a 300x375-pixel panel (or two of the same size to be stacked side by side), and just like the example, we have serial editions of these collaborations.
I've started the first one, as an example.
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3D Pulp Fiction I found this via Audioscrobbler, somehow.
All the world will be your enemy, prince of a thousand enemies, and when they catch you, they will kill you.
24 May 2005
pony request! new post,
profile, and
logout/
login links at the bottom of the page?
Best MeFi Posts of the Past 24 hours: Best of the Best: billysumday's
baseball post
Best Pop Culture Post: boymilo's
History of the Batmobile
Best Camoflaught of a Newsfilter Post: ktoad's
NH Zombie Attack
Best Religion Post: mediareport's
Virgin Mary Post
Posted with many apologies to Y6Y6Y6 and his great mfdistilled project.
What's the most boring website you've ever been to?
This'd have to be my submission.
OMG !!! Phil Spector outweirds Michael Jackson
Argh! The connection was refused when attempting to contact www.metafilter.com.
Is this what Metachat is going to become? Is Metachat a place to just air pathetic partisan hatred merely because someone has different politics? Or should it be a lighthearted place to chit-chat? I submit that it should be the latter. At Metafilter, we can see how pathetically invested people can be with their politics to the point they can only hate The Other, but maybe we should keep that kind of black-hearted poisoning out of this light-hearted place.
The force is strong in this ... Arghhhhghh. In which two people discover that fluorescent tubes filled with petrol do not good light sabres make. (No video, sketchy newsfiller story, blah)
what a day to forget my cyanide capsule Remember the whole un owen debacle? I recall someone posting links for emergency financial assistance or loans, and I can't find them for the life of me.
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This database lists all the companies registered in Britain. I'm currently keeping myself amused by looking for stupid company names and I think
PUKEKO DESIGN SERVICES LIMITED is pretty unbeatable.
42 Below Vodka says "thank you" to Britain: Your great nation invented cricket for the Aussies, rugby for the Kiwis and Robbie Williams for the gays.
Thanks Monkeys
Lightsaber fights. Using glass tubes. Filled with flaming gasoline. What could possibly go wrong?
An Image Puzzle. Just find the url to the next page, printed somewhere in the image. Easy!
At least...I think it's easy. I can't get past the all white one.
People with damaged frontal lobes cannot detect sarcasm. This could explain a lot.
23 May 2005
Meet Yuebing :: Did you know that
Oolong's owner got
new rabbit? Her name is Yuebing, and (guess what!)
She can balance things on his head.
Listen... I know we haven't known each other for that long, but it feels like I've been with you forever. You're the only meta site I check anymore. MetaChat, will you marry me?
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Found City Folksonomy does googlemaps does Manhattan.
Don't Convert to the Jedi Faith "I suspect that Lucas realized, after writing 'Good is a point of view,' that all his friends actually believed that. So he had to make it clear that moral relativism was the right way after all—so he had Obi-Wan say that absolutism was a Sith thing, even though in the actual story, the best of the Jedis show an unbending commitment to absolute Good. It’s a terrible thing, I suppose, for a writer to invent a religion and then discover that he and all his friends are on the wrong side of it".
Also:
Darth Vader's Karma.
Quiz:
The Religion of 'Star Wars'
Get thee to a corsetiere This is one freakin' all encompassing site. I can't believe just how much information they've got stowed in here. Obsessional to the point of fetish.
Methods of Becoming a Horse But why a horse? Why not a unicorn? Or an elephant? Or a weasel?
KAT <esch> I think metachat is gay.
spam casserole. Okay, I just this minute got a silly spam that made me laugh, and I'm pretty jaded about surreal spam. Contents inside:
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Brits Statistically most European Europeans.
French Statistically least European.
(From the lies, damned lies and also copied from SlashDot department)
Favicon, part II So, more to chew on: I've added Wendell's (2a), but the problem I have with this one is that without the ears showing up so well, it's hard to tell it's a bunny - it looks more like a bear to me. I've also modified the original bunny image to be a bit more elegant (2b); I tried about a dozen different things to get a pancake in there as well, but they all looked like doody. The closest I could manage to a non-doody was 2c. Plus I added two more possibilities: a very simple "MC" for MetaChat (3), and a stylized pancake, with butter (4). (I totally threw out the bunny head, which we all agreed wasn't good).
Calling all Mac users: I've had a report from new user ethylene (welcome!) that the links on the grey bar up there aren't clickable on Firefox 1.0.4. Anyone else seeing this problem?
22 May 2005
howcome? hands on the comments pages? grabbing the bunny? a peta guy? ???
Enough with the Drama Queens, here's a Comedic Queen (Not the best parody band ever, but, hey, they're German!)
Was your meat smarter than your pet? Apart from the fact that it's in the running for the worst headline in recent memory, this article brings up some interesting points. Apparently pigs and sheep are more intelligent than dogs. Then again, dogs can't give us bacon. What do you think? Should our food supply be limited to less intelligent species?
The JRuns are cured Looks like the site is back up again.
Is this the way to Amarillo? (
UK version) (
Iraq version)
Got a few grand laying around? Why not spend the day in a jet, screaming like a little girl?
Oh, but it's not a crusade...sure (big pic from us marine corps--look at the barrel)
Blair Hornstine Redux? "...all is not perfect in the lives of Pawel and Joanna Keblinski and their daughter Julia, 17, a Shenendehowa High School senior."
If an infinite number of monkeys given an infinite amount of time could type the complete works of William Shakespeare, it'd probably only take about six monkeys three months to write Internet Explorer. I've introduced a whole bunch of fixes today to get around the dismal browser, and I've tested them as best I can, but I might have introduced some other problems so scream in this thread if you see anything. Thanks
Secret Stash? I've been spending time lately at plep- and blort-ish sites like
Exclamation Mark,
growabrain,
Cynical-C, and was wondering about other, lesser-known blogs that regularly unearth neat visual/historical stuff.
Jrun away! Cannot connect to jrun server 10:26 am EST
Here are three possibilites for the metachat favicon. I'm not crazy about the last one; I think it doesn't read that well, and looks maybe too much like the playboy logo.
21 May 2005
Ask MeCha: I remember seeing an ad for a new CD/DVD burner that could also print a label directly onto the top of the disk. I thought it was an awesome concept, but I can't seem to find info about it anywhere. Anyone (all 12 of you) know anything?
Pentagon vows to probe Saddam photos Officials promise to spare no rod in exposing the root of this bulging controversy.
I've made a Ta-da List for MetaChat. Please let me know if I've left off anything that has been mentioned in previous posts. Also, I think the IE-highlighting bug is in the CSS, which is really messy. I'm going to try to work that out today, so if you see the site suddenly go wonky at all, it'll probably be me trying out a fix.
Everybody puts on their pants one leg at a time. Question is, which leg do you put on first?
20 May 2005
Let's Talk about quonsar, dios, and Alex Reynolds some more.
Puppet account roll call: Don't be shy. Admit your puppetude.
Will anyone clean up the Santorum on the Senate floor? Republican Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania said Democrats have abused the filibuster.
"The audacity of some members to stand up and say 'How dare you break this rule,'" Santorum said on the Senate floor Thursday.
"It's the equivalent of Adolf Hitler in 1942 saying, 'I'm in Paris. How dare you invade me. How dare you bomb my city? It's mine.' "
Boxers or briefs? Now we know. The liberal media releases images of Sadaam Hussein in his underwear.
Advantage: no one.
Spankin' clean! I may live to be a
hundred.
Tunes: Heard Von Iva yet?
[Stream MP3] [MP3] [QT Video]
Pirate pride, ninja nay-saying Last week was the beginning of Ninja Respect Month and also Pirate Pride Week, a scheduling conflict that is equivalent to hosting a presidential address the same night as the World Series.
Here's a video of me dancing at my wedding, for those who are interested.
via the greatness of
the everlasting blort
oh, no! oh, no! What happened to
genefilter? I'm bereft!
Quonsar - So he has a reputation as a "metafilter terrorist" and some say he has a "withered, blackened soul". Yet he gave me CSS advice in MeTa once and was helpful via IM. I think he is just misunderstood and needs a hug. Group hug, everyone?
Beer! Is this a good place to post arbitrary self-links when I've been drinking? Because I like drinking, and I like posting, and I like linking myself, and I like the prefix 'meta-' a whole lot. These are some of the things that I like.
Oh, and beer. Man oh man, I like me some
beer.
Site news: Images can no longer be posted to the front page or to comments. Sorry about that, but a whiny minority of fascist mind control freaks complained that they don't want to look at lacerated anuses. Jeesh, grow a thicker skin people.*
* Note for the hard of thinking: I'm being sarcastic.
Three William Shatners. Singing Rocket Man. Very bad.
The Golden Age has passed I remember when MetaChat was cool. I has now been ruined by all the new people.
Good once, now bad Let's make a list of things that used to be good that have become bad.
19 May 2005
Security/Privacy Gap I'm getting automated e-mails whenever someone posts a comment to my previous thread--which is nice--but the mail messages are coming in "From" their individual addresses.
NSFW (pony) Content Inside →Read more...
Dear buttes, Could you please stop posting the naughty pix? Thanks.
Censorship already? So "Come on over and post about anything you damn well like." didn't really mean what it says?
I can sort of understand the dirty short story (kind of), but what about the lorem ipsum thread?
is there a metachat lofi? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
A krunkified version of the Jackson 5's ABC (mp3) A krunkified version of the Jackson 5's ABC, to bring a little light to this already spooged-on place.
Logo. Agreed re: money shot.
SelfLinkaPalooza. I was wondering, If you could self-link any site onto Metafilter, then which self made site would you post? Go on... embarrass me with the exquisite talent of the metafiltarian.
Feature Request: MeFi Status Indicator As long as this is meant to be kind of a side space for folks when MeFi is down, how about some kind of graphical icon on the main page that represents the current status?
It's good to be square. Maybe this helps with the shakes? They're cute, at least.
AAAAAAAAGH. JRun error. *shakes* *bites nails, chainsmokes, licks the palm for guava*
Oh great, now it's timing out. Poo.
This is a neat idea. Thanks for putting in the time, money and effort into putting this together. At the very least, it will help us figure out whats going on when Metafilter is down!
God, I hate IE so much I really do.
Is Mefi down? It might be....
About the Third of Six. Since it will be the topic
de rigueur for the next few days, let's just get it out there. So if you've seen it, say so. If you've anything to add to
the multitudinous reviews, feel free. If you just want to slag on the franchise as a whole,
you've had plenty of opportunity.
About the page.... There's all sorts of stuff that still needs to be done; as you noticed, the righthand links don't work and the logo isn't linked, etc., plus other little "beauty items" that need to be taken care of. Lot o' stuff; but I couldn't get into the site this morning when I had time to do some of that, and then I've been out all day, but I plan to take care of most of these items tomorrow morning (for you 'muricans, that would be late tonight). In the meantime, somebody give me a beer!
Foolsss YOU
FOOLS!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!? Me, not much... I just had some
coffee.
Make this a Metafilter user-defined CSS. Until Matt does his damn redesign.
The New York Times on the Web An excellent site for general news and op-ed pieces. Check it out, friends.
Also,
WikiPedia.
And
Google. A nice search engine.
Oh, and
MetaTalk, where you can complain about the inconsequential and draw attention to yourself, to get what you deserve (like goths).
Dios Can we premtively ban Dios?
Favicon pony I want a favicon. A little bunny or something.
Wurstteppich . I love Mortadella. C'mon couch potatos lets furnish our house with food.
Helping helpful links The "helpful links" along the right side of the page all point to the same (presumably incorrect) place.
Pancakes So who here likes pancakes?
MeFiSwap "Don't forget the
MetaFilter
CD Swap!"
I have not forgotten, in fact I've been checking every day since May 4 to try to sign up for the latest round. Any news?
Huh. Extremely nice job with the CSS! However, goths still suck :(
The bunnies are restless. Metachat officially launches. Post what you like.
Pretty site Hi taz, I love the way you
design your sites! Nice bunny!
(*waves at taz & dodgy geezer*)
18 May 2005
Groundrules People It Is OK To Mock:
Button-down Abercrombic Republicans
Fratboys
Pirates
People It Is Not OK To Mock:
Goths
Gays
Ninjas
See stavros - it does work
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