31 August 2010
The Weird Book Room I must be weird because some of these seem not so weird. Also, I like typing the word "weird."
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The Silver Swan, by Orlando Gibbons. I've been slightly obsessed with
this piece of music lately, and especially how it functioned as kind of a "swan song," the
very thing it was about.
Single life blows →Read more...
What's for dinner? I got a tad carried away last night...
The Covenant: Francis Collins, a fervent Christian, thought he had resolved the stem-cell debate. A federal judge disagreed.
IRRITATED SHOUTING RAAARRRRRR! IF ONE MORE FRIGGING CELL PHONE RINGS IN THIS OFFICE I'M GOING TO SMASH IT INTO A BILLION LITTLE PIECES AND FORCE FEED SAID PIECES TO THE OWNER. PUT YOUR PHONE OF VIBRATE YOU A-HOLES!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Here are a couple of tracks by
Les Aiglons (The Eaglets) 'Les Premiers Rockers Suisses:'
Stalactite and
Expo 64.
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Stay Free's Illegal Art compilation is a mix of
(downloadable) songs that have been legally challenged, and in many cases forced out of print, due to sampling and copyright issues.
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Get well soon, Scody! (cross-posted from mefi)
I fell in love with a female assassin: they met on a train and fell in love. Then Jason P. Howe discovered that his girlfriend Marylin was leading a secret double life – as an assassin for right-wing death squads in Colombia's brutal civil war.
30 August 2010
The Wilderness Downtown is an interactive "music video" using Google Earth to create a personalized music vid for the Arcade Fire song "We Used To Wait." It's amazing.
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OMG Cows (and cows and cows) - according to the youtube statistics, some four million people have already seen this, but I hadn't, so maybe you haven't either.
This is an unemployed commiseration thread. →Read more...
Letterheads! I love old stationery. Love it love it love it. This is a nice collection, some from the famous, or infamous.
My favorite.
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Modern Family wins the comedy Emmy. Am I missing a great show? →Read more...
Peter Madsen from Denmark built a submarine. Peter and some other engineers plan to use it to launch
a rocket into space. Their
thread at Something Awful. via
oneswellfoop.
29 August 2010
Library of Dust. Approximately 3,500 copper canisters containing the cremated remains of unclaimed patients from the Oregon State Insane Asylum. Souls remembered in beautiful corrosion.
Cornershop: "Who Fingered Rock'n'Roll?" Not sure if the band made this or not, but whoever made it got the band's aesthetic down cold.
AskMecha twitter has dropped like 6 months of @replies to me
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Happy birthday youngergirl44! WTF, we almost missed it? Hope it's been a good one!
No Beck-Palin ticket in 2012 Oh please, please, please, can't we have this? Wouldn't it be fun?
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Jim Galli's Tonopah Nevada Pictures. Mr. Galli likes nothing better than buying ancient camera lenses from eBay and trying them out on his large-format cameras: the results, to my eyes, are often beautiful -
here are some examples...
Chopin's Small Miracles: despite their brevity, the Preludes loom large musically
28 August 2010
One of those ten song shuffle threads, only this one goes up to eleven.
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Why are school websites so astoundingly bad? Public schools in the U.S., anyway. Admittedly I've looked at a
very small sample, but they all seem to have poor design and make it difficult to find anything.
Where can i go to learn about current cell phone offerings and plans? I know this is probably the dumbest question you'll hear today, but I really have no clue as I never keep up with such things.
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Google's Book Search: a disaster for scholars?
27 August 2010
Stop whatever you're doing. It is time 4 cat.
No, really.
Jean Teasdale has discovered Twitter ... and I don't know how long she'll keep twittering. In a weird way I hope she doesn't do it forever, because it's almost too much, like having Christmas every day. It's especially kind of freaky how she interacts with others, like she's real.
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"Avatar" re-release to feature several minutes of unseen footage... ... not good enough to make it into
the original version.
How being a dick may save your life! Personally, I was kind of dickish to my doctor the other day (before reading this) and yes, it helped.
Texas Tech Lessons: explosion highlights need to improve safety culture at university, initiates government oversight
Trip planning is not my forté Mr. Mirror's birthday is on Monday, and he told me this morning "let's take a trip to Chicago!". He wants to stay overnight and go to the aquarium and maybe the field museum. This sounds like fun, and I'm really excited! Except...
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You are videotaping two turtles. One of them lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
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Workin' on the Wiki I've been doing a little shuffling around on the Wiki, prompted by the recent book club activity. Can you help me think of currently active projects that should be listed, or notable past projects that should be listed?
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26 August 2010
A night of melancholy →Read more...
God I get pissed off sometimes!! Why are people so crazy?!
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Suggestions for an HTML editor with something akin to MS Office's "Track Changes"?
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Anyone else use LoseIt! for the iPhone? I know the larger MeFite community was using Daily Burn -- does that have similar functionality? Low-key diet talk inside.
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What are we all reading these days? →Read more...
Artist Randall Rosenthal carves sculptures from wood.
The results don't much
look like wood at all.
The 72-Hour Expert: everything you always wanted to know about Afghanistan ...
25 August 2010
Say whatever else you want about Julian Assange... →Read more...
Pimped Out Gimp! Anyone know where I can buy a really cool cane? Something classy, mythological, and Victorian feeling. I have been digging for months and can't find anything I really like (for less than $200).
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Did you know that you can change your Facebook language to
pirate?!!? Well, you can. And should. It's hilarious.
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My Boss Butt-Dialed Me That is what he called it.
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Sliced tomato and mozzarella salad. So, it looks like the simplest thing in the world to make, but I never have: sliced tomato, sliced fresh mozzarella, olive oil, oregano, salt, pepper. Is that it or is there something else I should add? Is there balsamic in there usually? Any particular kind of tomato I should use?
A question about men's underwear. →Read more...
Make me burp? →Read more...
Sony exec returns to his old job: playing guitar with The Stooges.
Photo Friday Suggestion: Beverages & beverage containers. That is all.
24 August 2010
HugeFilter: my google-fu has failed me →Read more...
Corn on the cob rant →Read more...
Misinterpreted Company Names During my commute, I keep seeing a sign for a company called "urbacon".
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Tales of Things With digital tracking, it won't be long before your family heirlooms can tell you their own story, or you can find out what field your carrots were harvested from...
Want to see a robot sorting socks?
This guy's like some kind of sock-sorting machine!
It's a big, Big, BIG day for Danf! A milestone birfday!
Are you a MeFi book club person? After a rather horrid thread experience, I'm taking emails in an effort to continue the book discussions.
You Have To Burn The Rope. Short game with a great ending song.
I have discovered the tip of the iceberg of the culture of people who collect demo sessions, live recordings, obscure remixes and stuffs like that.
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"it could end up the biggest neighborhood store ever." This article explains well why Trader Joe's is my favorite large retail company and the only one I actually trust (and you can too).
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23 August 2010
Covert Operations: the billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama.
Hungover owls - Owls, that are hungover.
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Thought for the day When you feel like you give a little, then you're not afraid to call a friend to ask for something.
There can only be one liner Got any one liners you want to share?
22 August 2010
Pallet House A very cool-looking temporary building made out of shipping pallets. I love the night shots of it.
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Manifold Destiny: a legendary problem and the battle over who solved it.
#FirstWorldProblems is almost always a misleading tag I think cause it seems to be a synonym for #ICanAffordThisProblem. There's all classes of society everywhere and people who can afford a certain lifestyle always have similar concerns. True privileges of the first world are almost always structural and have diffused/general benefits;
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Got new computer! Woo-hoo! What should I do with the old one?
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One cold, sunny morning in September 1998, my mother awoke to an empty house, packed a few belongings in a pink sports bag, put on her coat and shoes, locked the front door and walked away from her life. She left a note asking my dad to look after my brother and me, and headed in the direction of the local train station.
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Hi bunnies! How's your Sunday?
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I broke my brain One of those things that makes me wish, in the wee hours of the morning, that I had the mathematical wherewithal to actually work through what I'm reading here.
Carry on.
21 August 2010
Danny and Annie — Danny Perasa and his wife, Annie, recount their twenty-seven-year romance. As they remember their life together from their first date to Danny's final days with terminal cancer, these remarkable Brooklynites personify the eloquence, grace, and poetry that can be found in the voices of everyday people when we take the time to listen. Have a tissue handy.
Robot Unicorn Attack [flash game] [with awesome song]
So I'm thinking of buying a car. I'm a little overwhelmed by the possibilities. I don't have a car at all now, so I have only a small idea of what I want.
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The "I Can Read Movies" Series: Paperback book covers of novelizations of various movies.
(Not real, just excellent graphic design.)
20 August 2010
Glacier Queen. Swedish pop turned into swooshy dramatic atmospheric music.
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Eater's Remorse →Read more...
CRAP!!! (in a nice way) I just got me one of woot.com's legendary
"Mystery Bags" aka
"Bag Of Crap"!!! (aka "Bandolier Of Carrots" and many other things with acronym B.O.C.) What does it mean?
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Golden Girls nesting dolls —That is all
Ye know on earth and all ye need to know.
Relationship Drama I'm usually against putting relationship questions out to the interwebs, but I'm at a loss for what to do.
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Super Cool. New York City really knows how to do things up right sometimes.
I said goodbye to Winston on Wednesday. :( →Read more...
Song lyrics challenge! Name that song & artist:
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Into the woods without delay: Goin' to the woods for a week! Cabin! Rustic! What should I know before-hand?
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HAPPY BELATED TO BRINA AND B-DAY TO CHOCOCAT!!
19 August 2010
Help me title this photo:
The Erosion of America's Middle Class: while America's super-rich congratulate themselves on donating billions to charity, the rest of the country is worse off than ever. Long-term unemployment is rising and millions of Americans are struggling to survive. The gap between rich and poor is wider than ever and the middle class is disappearing.
Browser wars: Chrome is clearly loading a page I want, but then it immediately diverts to myspace. Anybody know what's up with that?
"Inside Insides:" Mesmerizing Resonance Imaging scans of fruit.
For the Love of Culture: Google, copyright, and our future.
Cat concerns... Not actually sure whether this is venting or advice-seeking, kids. So, the situation is that it's somewhere between 101-105F here; my neighbors are away, and I'm feeding their cats/watering their plants. I'm feeling guilty that I'm not bringing the cats into my house... but...
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18 August 2010
PA/NJ job resources? →Read more...
Crossposted to Ask Mefi Looking for inspirational photo essays. Hope me.
TELEPHONEME Awesome, awesome sound and video editing.
(Also, nothing to do w/ Lady Gaga.)
Photo Friday ADVANCE NOTICE: Fashion Clothes! Fashion! Or anti fashion! Apparel, anyway. Be ready on Friday, August 20.
Kindle picks. →Read more...
My son cooked a pound of bacon for breakfast. I am not supposed to eat bacon. These are the moments when I question life quality vs quantity. heheh
Speaking of Etsy, I found this
sparkly gem while searching for sassy hankies.
The President in Seattle yesterday I really, really enjoyed this clip. Wish I could have seen him or his motorcade . . . he was just blocks away.
Trying to remember funny movie link about plot holes. Help?
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Allow me, please, to have a little brag. →Read more...
Cooking help please? I want to cook chicken breasts so that they will be suitable for salads or wraps. I have very little idea what I am doing.
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My ex is late. Typical behaviour from him.
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Regretsy ... I am no good at crafting but at least I didn't end up here.
Forget "Karen 26 seeking father" now Danes seek nurses ... and the viral shows a nurse performing CPR with her naked breasts.
I wish I was kidding.
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It's nice out. Perfect walking around and taking pictures weather.
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17 August 2010
If you view no other online meltdown this year, you MUST view this one. In the (sorta) style of the fake whiteboard "I quit" girl, from the 'stars' of w00tstock, MeFi's Own Adam Savage, the Web's Wil Wheaton and JoCo's Opening Act Paul & Storm.
The Fourth Kind (spoilers) Has anyone seen this movie? We just watched it and I need to discuss...
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Tom Waits performs James Brown. "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" live 1987. Youtube (but it's just the audio recording). Made my day.
Etiquette lesson, the hard way. →Read more...
Plugging the Leaks Barack Obama hates leaks, and thanks to a tenacious prosecutor, the Justice Department is on its way to setting a record for leak prosecutions.
Trip to San Juan Island. . .FWIW Added to daily. . . .It is hotter here than it is supposed to be.
Poodle Exercise with Humans So apparently this video is the fave of the patients enrolled in our teen wellness (i.e. adolescent overweight/obesity) program.
There's a very good possibility that I'll be saying goodbye to my 16-year-old cat in the next day or so. Please tell me I'm not a horrible person.
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Sadly, Google Books only offers a few pages of
Don Martin's Brain Games for Kids, a very educational and stimulating book for young minds.
*sigh* I am going wireless. Goodbye land line. More sadly, goodbye to my beloved
rotary phone.
Anti-Social engineering: Scammer creates malware that claims to be a "Dislike" button for Facebook, but actually spams a user's contacts.
16 August 2010
How secure are your passwords? →Read more...
SHOUTING: AT THE SCUMBAG WHO STOLE THE IPOD OUT OF MY CAR LAST NIGHT →Read more...
I liked this Op-Ed about the quick progress of gay rights.
This is a "Couchsurfing.org = YAY!" post! →Read more...
I really want to eat at this place. If I'm ever in Pratt, Kansas, that is.
An actual good Yahoo Answer: "What are uptake and reuptake and what is the difference between them?" Today's bit of trivia.
Well served I just received an email today from my company saying that it was time for me to pick out my ten-year service award.
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Washington, We Have a Problem How broken is Washington? Beyond repair? A day in the life of the president reveals that Barack Obama’s job would be almost unrecognizable to most of his predecessors—thanks to the enormous bureaucracy, congressional paralysis, systemic corruption (with lobbyists spending $3.5 billion last year), and disintegrating media.
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Welcome to the MeFi Book Club discussion of On the Road and of the Open Yale course lectures by Professor Amy Hungerford about the book. So, what did you think?
Alright, camera people. Who still shoots film here? →Read more...
Things you've owned for a long time. I just realized that I've had my alarm clock since 1989. My parents bought it for me when I started first grade. What item(s) have you owned forever?
Three plot holes that aren't Just because this bugs me.
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J'ACCUSE! I have to inflict this earworm on you because the guitars have been scratching my ear-itch all weekend now. So there.
hope you like
15 August 2010
Superpowers. This week's episode of
This American Life was exceptionally cool... it was all about the concept of superpowers, as applied to real life. John Hodgman does a great story about asking people to choose between the powers of invisbility or flight, and another story was about a woman who decided at the age of 5 to become a real-life superhero.
Okay, strange now: I have heard "
True Blue" seven different times today. From radios, from stores, randomly appearing on a TV in the waiting room showing VH1 Classic....
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Please help me make my chicken shreddy So...I rubbed spices like cumin on my chicken thighs and marinated overnight, as per usual. My standard recipe is to bake the pieces of chicken. But for some reason, I would like to find out how to cook them so that they will get all SHREDDY and I can pack the chicken shreds into e.g. a tortilla to get me some burrittoey goodness!
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Listening to MetaFilter's Own filthy light thief's Sunday Morning techno radio show (which he does under the alternate alias of
Paul the Sasquatch... he makes these amazing MeFi posts AND has a life and 17 other side activities... I can't even wake up on Sunday Morning!) and I was wondering: whatever happened to MetaRadio?
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Cucumber Vodka: I want to make it. What vodka should I use as a base?
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Brainstorming: What's the best way to make life easier? →Read more...
End of weekend 3-point update →Read more...
14 August 2010
Tila Tequila goes to the Gathering of the Juggalos in Illinois - says " 2 thousand people ran after us, trying to kill me"
Unfunny: she looks like she got hurt. However, dude, you went onstage at a Juggalos gathering why did you think that was a good idea?
Clothing size creep! →Read more...
Don't Fear The Reaper. Since we're all admitting our uncool music crushes this week, here's mine: Blue Oyster Cult. I love them unabashedly and unironically, and have done since I was a kid.
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Happiest of birthdays to gomichild!! I know most of you are living still in yesterday, but where gomichild is, it is already 8+ hours into the day of her birthday, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOMICHILD!
Have a fabulous day, sweetie.
Ask MeCha: Plants vs Zombies →Read more...
Allll byyyy myyyyyy-se-e-elf So it's Saturday, and my partner has to work until late on a day we usually would have spent together. People are busy and I am so bad at finding things to do! What do y'all do when you are in such a situation?
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Some love for the 5th Dimension →Read more...
One of my favorite bands ever, Unrest have reunited and they played a set at WFMU. Free Music Archive has
9 MP3s available for download.
Triple MeChaBunny Birthdays! Happy Birthday Orange Swan, Nomis and DG!
13 August 2010
I like ABBA, so fire me!! →Read more...
Any recommendations for reliable gaming PCs? →Read more...
Loud cell phone assholery. I asked a guy nicely to please move away from the table where I was having a business discussion with someone because he was pacing back & forth between our table & the next one YELLING INTO HIS PHONE.
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Seized: Inside the Brutal World of America's Kidnapping Capital
Happy Friday 13th! I'm being infested with demon children. How about you?
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Inspired by LFR, a lengthy rant about my own psycho neighbors. Please join me in complaining here about your own neighbors of doom.
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*sigh* it's that time of year again... →Read more...
Happy Birthday By The Grace Of God!
Un-Suck It. Did you get a memo full of annoying business jargon? Use this search engine to define those terms and decrease the suckage.
Lately, I like to relax at the end of a long day by.... →Read more...
12 August 2010
Crosspost from MeTa: Today at work my friend Trevor told me that on Sunday (my day off) afternoon, a man and a woman came up to him and asked for 'jonmc.' He said they had 'European accents.' He told them I was out and to come back. They haven't. Which one of you people is it? Fess up. (terrapin
told me to do this)
Anyone Own a Pair Of These ? I've recently met a couple of people who say that these are the most comfortable shoes that they have ever worn . sure they're ugly, but i'm tempted to try them out. has anyone else tried them ?
OMG want This is a thread for discussing how awesome/horrible/meh those electric massage chairs are!
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Catastrophic art! Tsunamis...
floods...
alien invasions! Artist Steve McGhee has illustrated them all. I'm partial to his
plane crashes, but this
much-smaller-scale disaster is probably my favorite one.
(artist website)
Movies that will live forever on cable →Read more...
Halfway through my first glass of wine. I need help with a food pairing. →Read more...
A Comedy of Errors (minus the comedy) June 4th I ordered a new gas stove from a certain department store. I just finally got the delivery completed August 10th. I've written a timeline breakdown of how my efforts played out. I think it reads reasonably well in a trainwreck-y sort of way, and so it's inside if you care to read it.
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If you own a car, or will be owning one, what is your next car going to be? A new car for us is about a year or more off (current one has 135K), and
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There's nothing quite like pulp novel cover art.... Next summer I am
totally getting a t-shirt printed with this image.
For Jessamyn and other book lovers Again, click today before they're on to something else tomorrow. (And I promise this is my LAST Woot T shirt post!)
Geological Time Spiral - a stunning illustration.
opportunistic anthropomorphism when some inanimate object stops working it becomes 'baby' to my interior monologue, like "work with me here baby" *turns key in ignition*. This relationship ends the second it does work though.
Do you have a kick-back stretching routine? I'm getting pretty tired of having semi-persistent low-grade back/shoulder stiffness (combination of work/aging/lifelong fitful sleeping). Anyone care to share a daily/every-other day 20-ish minute stretching routine that has made life noticeably more comfortable for you?
Vegetarianism and the environment. Just because this bugs me.
A while back the World Wildlife Fund commissioned a
study (
long PDF) about the environmental impact of the food we eat. One of the conclusions was that we could reduce our environmental impact if we ate less meat. However, there were some caveats: certain highly processed vegetarian foods require a lot of land to produce.
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We are bad bunnies! Happy belated to our #1 taz!!!!!
11 August 2010
Ms. MS I have MS. Do you think it is a breach of etiquette for me to tell people the truth when they ask me what's wrong?
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I was going to ask you all for baby shower game ideas for this Saturday's SHOWER OF BABIES, but mygothlaundry
already AskedMetafilter a year ago, and I like many of these ideas.
Hee hee hee This T shirt tickles the low punster in me. (Click today, some other shirt will be on display tomorrow.)
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dear Almond Butter... →Read more...
Photo Friday Suggestion: How would people feel about "humor" as the theme for this week?
The War for Drugs: how Juárez became the world’s deadliest city
Prison Without Walls: the Atlantic explores electronic surveillance of prisoners
"The War on Brains is still being waged today." Rachel Maddow (and the laws of physics) vs Conservapedia.
I made an animated GIF of
a cube tunneling through another cube of the same size. I find it pleasantly hypnotic.
10 August 2010
Shopping as Spectator Sport It's just buying books, really, but it's still kind of hypnotizing.
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Spots v Stripes What this has to do with chocolate I have no idea, but it's great.
This is a Feeling Positive About Goals Thread! →Read more...
Wall Street's Big Win: finance reform won't stop the high-risk gambling that wrecked the economy - and Republicans aren't the only ones to blame.
If you eat a blue M&M on one side of your mouth, it will turn half of your tongue blue.
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09 August 2010
The Mussolini of Ass: GQ profiles Silvio Berlusconi.
I'm on my 4th listen-thru of Ray Lamontagne's new album, and liking it even more each time. Free stream via NPR.
hacker frustration So my gmail got hacked a couple days ago. I didn't have the info to all their questions (since I was an early adopter and have no idea who gave me my invite or what month it was) and I had to make a new account. But, the time between when they actually disabled my old gmail and when it was hacked was enough for the scammer to get access to my facebook, too. They noticed the scamminess quicker than gmail and disabled my profile right away.
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The burglary that wasn't This morning after I got past Trilby and left the house (he’s taken to sitting in front of the door when he sees I’m about to leave, in an effort to block my departure, to which my response is, “Dude. You weigh ten pounds,”) I noticed something awry.
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A Simple Step That Has Improved Things Y'all probably figured this out long ago but I just got it today, so, for other slow learners out there: how to block game updates from appearing on your facebook home page.
"A witness stand is a lonely place to lie." David Boies, one of the lawyers arguing against Proposition 8, humiliates a 'religious right' creep on
Face The Nation yesterday.
(video)
Monday Update- What's up y'all?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKO AND ELSA!!!!!!
08 August 2010
Manassas I can't help but be interested in Steven Stills' work despite its frustratingly uneven qualities, and I just today learned that for a short time he had a kinda funky, kinda bluesy band called
Manassas after leaving CSN. They seem like sort of a neat missing link - or maybe just an interesting eddy in the blues-rock continuum. Here are some of their songs:
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This mushroom cloud (1968) really does look like a mushroom. It's beautiful and terrifying. Also, a
less terrifying one.
Chipotle in adobo substitute? I'm making this
Chipotle Corn Soup with dinner tonight. The only chipotles in adobo that I could find, however, had wheat flour, which ikkyu2 cannot eat. What do I use instead?
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY REDVIXEN!!!!
07 August 2010
I think a girl may be interested in me romantically. She definitely seems interested in pursuing hanging out alone with me at least. But she makes lots of misandric and sex-negative comments to me.
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Free ebook suggestions? My Palm Pre now has pReader on it, and I can read EPub/MobiPocket ebooks. I went to Project Gutenberg to get some but was quickly overwhelmed by the possibilities. Any suggestions?
What time do you wake up on workdays? →Read more...
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06 August 2010
The wonder of Google Maps →Read more...
"I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" from the recently reincarnated Series 53: "In recognition of his contributions to dental health, the city council put a plaque on his house. He came out and scraped it off"
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So I'm about to be laid off... and I was wondering how to handle this gracefully for the next two months.
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Friday 3 point status update! →Read more...
New sidebar art! Thanks to our photographers: crush-onastick, ufez, pjern, Madamina, and Marxchivist!
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The circus came to town! There was
classic clowns, a russian couple who
changed their outfits as if by magic,
daredevil acrobatic couple, camels
you could ride,
sea lions,
strong men, jugglers,
omg elephants!, popcorn and cotton candy! What was your favorite thing at the circus when you were wee?
My advice on fixing your brakes: Lie down in the grass. Forget about the brakes and just lie there next to the car, 'cuz chances are you haven't just lain in the grass since you were a kid. Now, can someone give me advice on a SIMPLE brake pad question?:
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Live Panda Cam From the San Diego Zoo - in the upper right corner of the page.
Just A Minute... I love this show from BBC Radio 4! And it's back for the 57th season!
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looking from my window just saw the guy who went all King Kong-y on me, that I keep wondering if I should have made a statement to the police correcting the police report because it doesn't tell the half of the story, I could see him from my window burying his cat. (I knew what he was doing cos he called my dad about it that morning.) Anyhow, he was burying his cat in his back yard and loudly yelling to himself, "Don't Cry. Don't F-ing Cry."
Target CEO apologizes for donation to anti-gay candidate.
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"Urgent Assistance Needed!!!" - kellydamnit? Hello, MeCha folk! Sorry for having been a stranger, but this morning I received a rather harrowing email request from kellydamnit.
Can anyone tell me if this a spoofed spam message? Is she in some sort of mortal danger or in dire circumstances?
Thanks!
MetaShoulderToCryOn Remember the amazing elevator video
civilisation made by Marco Brambilla? Well, I learned this week that Kanye West hired him to create his
new video "Power" and I got the exclusive to show it, I had to wait up last night as they didn't dare send before the embargo was up. Posted it. I went to bed and awoke to find
it ripped all over the web (but they get culled from youtube) and nary a link or embed from adland. *sigh*
What do you cook in your microwave? It's too hot to use the oven, or the stove for more than a few minutes (like, I'll stir fry, but I won't make soups, stews, beans, etc.), so I'm using the microwave more, but I don't really have a lot of recipes because I haven't had a microwave for the last 10+ years.
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Photo Friday: Abstractions
05 August 2010
What are the most comfy sheets you have ever slept on? I just got a new queen bed, and need super comfy sheets. I'm totally clueless on things such as thread counts, different cotton types, etc.
Please help me navigate the world of home decor.
Also, cost is no object here.
Nas - Doo Rags [youtube link] [
mp3] where did they find this guy.
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Something good happened to me today All sizes welcome.
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We need another one of these provided people can behave themselves outside of MeCha.
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Do steam mops really work? →Read more...
Do you like to get terrible postcards in the mail? →Read more...
CocaCola's defends their product against charges of unwarranted health claims. "no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage."
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So long, net neutrality. Hello, "web priority." Silly people, the Internet does not belong to you. Just like everything else, it belongs to corporations.
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A Secretive Family's Success: What Makes the Aldi Discount Empire Tick
Watch this I've been looking for a watch pendant necklace. They have some nice ones on Etsy for not much money (I like
this one,
this one and
this one), but most of them don't run. Do you think it likely that, if I bought one that didn't work, that it could be fixed? They do seem to come from reputable brands.
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04 August 2010
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Lady Gaga+US Military Seems the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts.
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Been painting buns again. The color scheme of this one irks me to hell and back and it's too hot here for me to wonder why. What's your opinion? Too hot/cold? p.s. I'm thinking of finally illustrating some of my short comic scripts and submitting them to Heavy Metal or Blab or somewhere. Well Wishes and Good Lucks and Get Off Your Lazy Ass And Really Doits are all welcome. No lucky rabbit feet please, though.
Secrets of the Little Blue Box: a story so incredible it may even make you feel sorry for the phone company.
(Esquire 1971)
Why 'Yogi Bear' Makes Me Want to Retch! I love
PopMatters writer Bill Gibron, especially when he produces perfect pearls of bile like this one, about that Chipmunks movie:
The 2007 film [...]had none of the original’s retro swing swagger, nor did it try to capitalize on the Greed decade deconstruction of the premise. Instead, it went back to the buffoon drawing board, believing (rightfully so, one might add) that animals making underleg noises and referencing their own feces would wow the masses.
Car repair = $1000 less than I thought it would be. Now share something good that happened to you.
Scrooge McDuck comic book plot anticipated the movie Inception by 8 years
Some striking similarities there. (And it's a darn good comic book, to boot!)
Organization tips. Wherein we ask each other for or offer up advice about streamlining our lives.
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Photo Friday ADVANCE WARNING: Abstractions Pictures of things that aren't things. Abstracts. Blurs. Color. Shapes. Rust. What you got? Put them up on Friday, August 6.
Sometimes the real value of a movie is in making fun of it The Fug Girls have written a recap of the Jennifer Love Hewitt vehicle
The Client List, complete with illustrative screen captures. Not everyone's cup of tear of course, but it made me laugh so hard tears came to my eyes, so perhaps some of you will enjoy it also.
03 August 2010
What Do You Collect? Me? Illustrated editions. From bad to good. from mass produced to private sale. From engravings to drawings on the paper itself. Adore them, makes digging through a dollar bin much more fun. What Do You Collect?
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Webcams at the Large Hadron Collider There are currently two webcams online: Camera 7: looking at the Underground Experimental Cavern from the Saleve side; Camera 8: looking out of the window of the 1st Floor of the SCX building that houses the CMS Control room.
Dating AskMecha: because I can't find my peeps on gtalk...
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Why did the school cross the building? →Read more...
advertising rips off artist (again) They didn't even try to do anything new and different with their inspiration in this case. *sigh*
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New Yorker cartoons + captions taken from
@KanyeWest's Twitter stream =
#kanyewestnewyorkertweets
These are a few of my favorite smells... Gasoline, rubbing alcohol, those big fat Marks-A-Lot permanent markers, Home Depot, tire stores, inflatable swimming pool floats, and the aisle with all the school supplies. Yours?
[Travel Filter] Best place to get foreign money? So, I'm going to be in Toronto from August 11 to the 15th, and I have already used up my AskMe for this week (
and it was an epic one), so I'm wondering the following thing:
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Ask MeCha: book for beginning cribbage players?
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The Ghosts of World War II's Past: taking old World War II photos, Russian photographer Sergey Larenkov carefully photoshopped them over more recent shots to make the past come alive.
02 August 2010
my life has entered these long cycles now where as I slip in and out of communities the contacts/peers I had back in some era in an environment are still active contacts when I'm back at it. I guess that's not remarkable in terms of an adult life but it's a bit interesting for me, like a form of 'active nostalgia'.
Build me a great gaming machine, if you please. Here are all of the things I need, right? Pretend I know nothing, cuz I do.
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Attention Fellow Plus-Size Bunnies! I need new clothes! Where do you get yours?
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How much to charge for my tasty homemade beverages? So I've been
making ginger ale at home...
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AxMeta What software do you use to get pictures off your camera and organize them?
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I have an earworm. Would you like my earworm? Perhaps you have one already? And we could switch?
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There are certain things that do not belong on pizza. Chicken. Corn. Pineapple.
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Let's share our favorite anecdotes. Even if your friends and family have heard it a
million times, share it inside. Because if you've told it that many times, it has to be good.
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01 August 2010
TrueBloodWeekly: August 1, "Hitting the Ground" This week on True Blood, "Hitting the Ground": {spoilers} blood explosions, gunshots, dogs and wolves and hicks oh my, caged queens, moron interrogations, people are literally kicked to the curb, trips to the hospital, magical blood, glowy visions, the return of the Tiffany's girl, "we must talk franchising later," missed subtext, dungeon ceremonies, white dresses, and more blood explosions!
Twitter!!!!! I haven't been able to get onto Twitter since Friday night.
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Vacation Hangover I'm feeling disappointed.
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Happy Birthday, lonefrontranger!
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