31 October 2010
He's Not My Brother Halloween comic for you.
Um... boo? My husband, Mr. Cupcakes, waited until the last minute to buy a pumpkin. By the time he got to the store to get one, they were completely out. Being a creative guy,
this was his solution.
End of the silicon honeymoon: The love affair that technology firms had with America’s president is fading fast
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30 October 2010
Anyone at The Rally today? We need to live through you.
OMG trippy lizards. Cool music videos from Japanese band COS/MES.
29 October 2010
Friday Night Question! Chosen randomly from
The Book of Questions:
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The Whelk's Webcomic Pastiches: Cat and Girl,
Achewood,
Dinosaur Comics (totally pitch-perfect AND
well-timed). OF COURSE, I have suggestions of others he should do...
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More costume talk So, I don't have any ideas. But I started thinking about going as a song title.
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Will Germany now take centre stage? Its economy is booming, but its strength poses new questions
Are there places that never have gloomy (very overcast) days? Like, in California or Arizona, for example, are there people who have never had the experience of looking out the window in the morning and thinking "What a gloomy day" or, if it doesn't strike them that way, at least hearing someone else call it gloomy, dreary, etc.? Especially without it being actually raining at the time? Or are overcast days just such an infrequent occurrence that it's actually a nice change when it happens? (which I can understand if it's been too hot out, of course.)
Dawn of the Ted. Warning: contains scenes of graphic teddy-on-teddy violence.
28 October 2010
Borderland: Sex trafficking on the China-Myanmar border
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Songs. In the key of me.
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Time Traveler in Charlie Chaplin Film? I confess I can't come up with an explanation, either. It's a trending topic on Twitter today.
Here's the film.
Thursday Kyoot. Baby lions at the zoo learn to swim. (
Video)
Watch in the video wherethe baby lion goes :-O when her bum touches the cold water for the first time. Eeee!
SUPERSTORM! A picture of the storm that produced the lowest non-hurricane barometer reading in the US.
WTF? I promise I will never be this type of FarmVille player. So sad.
Photo Friday ADVANCE: ??? I'll throw the floor open for suggestions, but I have these three to offer:
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27 October 2010
I come back to IRC after a couple years and it's dead. Come chat, if you want. West Coasters especially encouraged to apply.
Have you ever noticed a change in your voice as an adult? A few months back,I started noticing that my voice sounded ever so slightly different to me. A teeny bit lower. Very subtle, and no one commented. I wasn't sick and there wasn't any other obvious explanation. I kept forgetting the change and being surprised when I spoke.
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The 7 Most Unintentionally Creepy Places on the Internet from cracked.com. OK, it's debatable, but for sure, some of these are creepy.
Minor Identity Crisis? Since I dropped the "Wendell" alt-name last year it has felt odd to see my real name on the few pieces of writing I've gotten published or web-lished.
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Pre-Rally Thread The BF and I leave tomorrow on our roadtrip to DC/Baltimore for the Stewart/Colbert rally. I. AM. SO. EXCITED.
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Does everyone already know about pixlr? It seems pretty cool to me.
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I think this is fake, but maybe it's real This is chock-full of content, so if it's fake someone put a lot of time into it. Check out the Intros in "Studio 1".
(LOLflashwebdesigners)
Another good -for-one-day-only link. I realize this is a spoof, but I actually do believe this is the central R message this midterm season.
26 October 2010
UserNotes GreaseMonkey script (by jacalata) I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question or not, I'd guess that it's surely it's as good as any place to start.
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Cross Post for Extra Help I have put it off long enough - well, actually, the deadline's breathing down my neck - and I need insurance help. Boring! Yet crucial! Hope me.
Hmmm. I need to analyze this situation very, very carefully.
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A Protocol of Barbarity The online whistleblower platform WikiLeaks is posting close to 400,000 US military reports from the Iraq war on the Web. The logs show in detail how brutally the war was waged and the helplessness with which the United States acted.
If I can make it here... So it looks like I'll be moving to NYC. I sign
the lease tonight!
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Last chance to buy a cool T-shirt. The web page doesn't say it, but R. Stevens has received the C&D and
must stop selling this shirt after today. You have a few hours left to stand up to copyright assholes who want to kill parody with lawyers AND get something that will make smart people laugh at your chest, for 14 USbucks (including shipping).
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The Haunted House(s) on Crowley Place - Two brothers who love building mechanical set-ups and enjoy Halloween are continuing to increase their holiday set-up.
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Mayberry Overload. Those of you who grew up with weekly or even daily doses of Andy and Barney may be interested in getting all 8 years of
The Andy Griffith Show for less than 100 bucks, today only.
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"Social networking software, now there’s a term that should scare the piss out of anyone with an IQ over 40. It means the database as hive reality."
25 October 2010
When proper punctuation goes (hilariously) bad... "MERLE HAGGARD: The documentary was filmed over three years. Among those interviewed were his two ex-wives, Kris Kristofferson and Robert Duvall."
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Take Back Halloween A site dedicated to ideas other than "Sexy _______" for women's Halloween costumes.
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Right across the street from me. (warning: graphic image) I saw the police car arrive but couldn't see what it was about.
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Total TMI about my nose problems. I think I am going to have to go back to the cute ENT. Stop here if nosebleeds gross you out.
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Dentists Husband got a raise and then we went through insurance drop/add, so we added dental.
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Speaking of personal clothing style . . . what are you wearing today?
The Online Threat Should we be worried about a cyber war?
Status 3-Pointer. Since I was late to
the last one, here's my update for today.
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MeTa Book Club Chooses Our Next Book Hi all: What shall we read next from the Open Yale syllabus?
Monster Meter iPhone app . Monster Meter puts fast, easy monster detection right in the palm of your hands. You can scan any room and verify if there are monsters hiding there, or if you and your child are safe. Just explain what Monster Meter is and how it works then put it to good use.
Personal Clothing Rules Are there certain types/features of clothing that you just refuse to wear? Mine inside.
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pix So I was arranging/cleaning out various files and I noticed some NYer cartoons lying around:
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24 October 2010
SHOUTING POST: WHY ARE SOME PEOPLE SUCH LOUD WALKERS?
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From China, The Future of Fish Meet the Chinese tilapia, a bland food product that grows fast and sells cheap. Environmentalists hate it, but Americans keep ordering more
It's raining at the airport, so that means Another round of Ask The Whelk Anything!
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What's for [insert nearest meal here]? Steel cut oatmeal with butter, brown sugar, and honeycrisp apples I dried myself.
You?
23 October 2010
Embarrassingly clueless. Hope me. A friend just gave me her scanner. She told me I'd have to go on the Epson website to download stuff for it so it would work. I downloaded and installed drivers for it, was that what I needed? Now what?
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Europe 1890 I've downloaded a selection of chromatographs from the Library of Congress. They're mostly photographs of traveling sights in Europe deftly coloured in.
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Yet another decorating brainstorm As posted about
previously, I have been planning to wallpaper the hallways at Swan's End. But idea of shelling out what I'll probably have to shell out has always made my thrifty little heart quail.
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The Golem, a 1920 silent horror classic, with a new musical score by Black Francis of the Pixies.
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22 October 2010
Trilby, Hitchcock-style You may feel a cold chill down your spine.
Friday Night Question: another random query from
The Book of Questions...
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You in SF? wanna drink at me? I'll be hanging out at Li Po in Chinatown in like an hour. Come for the cheap drinks, stay for the Cantonese pop jukebox.
Charismatic strangers: Hopper edition Seemed apropos that this showed up today in my art of the day widget. I love Hopper.
IT'S CAPS LOCK DAY AND MY BIRTHDAY. IT'S MY CAPS LOCK BIRTHDAY.
Oh, how I do miss mefi's old image filled caps lock day. SHOUT IT OUT.
Here I am. Rock you like a hurricane.
Are You Sure You Want To Quit The World? If you were desperate and hopeless enough to log on to a suicide chat room in recent years, there was a good chance a mysterious woman named Li Dao would find you, befriend you, and gently urge you to take your own life.
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Photo Friday: Charismatic Strangers
21 October 2010
My mobility difficulties will keep me from seeing David Sedaris when he does his show at the theater at Cal Poly next week...
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On Punctiation - a poem, by
Elizabeth Austen. This poem, and some recent email, has made me question alternative punctuation. Most notably, what is the use of the tilde?
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Dog adopts kitten. Does what it says on the tin.
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The recently-added caption feature at YouTube is the best thing at the bottom of a screen since Joel, Tom, and Crow.
Why can't we just copy what works? Germany, not China - is the leader in exports.
So instead of chasing this hollow 'American Dream' why aren't we embracing the virtues of work?
oops A series of accidentally dropped cameras.
Lyrics game! here we go:
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20 October 2010
I recently got this phone. I had to call 1-800-COMCAST. I had to google a photo of an old school phone keypad to figure out what numbers go with what letters. Hmm. This seems like poor planning on the part of the phone designer.
And so it begins. Got my first holiday catalogues in the mail today.
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Well hey, it's a Welcome New Users thread! Turn the page and feast your eyes on the new meat, bunnies.
what? you thought bunnies were vegetarians? Welcome to:
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How do you call people out? Piggybacking on the discussion from below, how do you ask people to stop saying or doing something that's offensive to you?
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24 HOUR CONAN O'BRIEN LIVE WEBCAM! But Conan's not on it; it's just feeding the passings-by in a hallway by a stairwell in the offices.
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Photo Friday ADVANCE NOTICE: Charismatic Strangers Pictures of people you don't know. Street photography. Sneaky crowd shots. Stranger portraits. Coming to a metachat near you this Friday, October 20 22.
I need to make lunch and dinner to eat at work tomorrow. This is a common problem I have. What are some things I can buy at the store today that involve minimal preparation but will make a good meal tomorrow? My go-to for this scenario is usually cold cut sandwiches, but I'm looking for other suggestions!
A Freebie From The Pixies to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their album 'Doolittle', they are giving away a free 4 live song sampler
Tea Party Nationalism "We know the majority of Tea Party supporters are sincere, principled people of good will. That is why the NAACP—an organization that has worked to expose and combat racism in all its forms for more than 100 years—
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Wednesday 3 point updates 1. The Chef cooked an amazing dinner for my mum's birthday. Lamb so tender we didn't have to carve it - just used a fork to serve and so many different salads and vegetables. I'm incredibly lucky to have such a great guy, and am still in the schmoopy stage of the relationship.
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Shingles sucks. I am beginning week 4 of this wretched affliction with an incredible sensitivity to light and the feeling of hot knitting needles penetrating my eye, piercing my brain and exiting the back of my skull. I do think I will have some rather distinguished looking pox scarring on one side of my nose. Well, back to my cave.
Higher, Colder, Deadlier Mont Blanc is Western Europe’s tallest mountain, and the world’s deadliest.
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Widely Venerated Pop Staples You Can Not Stand? For the purposes of this question, said music act has to be at least a decade and change old.
19 October 2010
Gorgeous painting entitled "Tabby Cat" This popped up today on my igoogle page "Art of the Day" section. I've never seen it before.
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I am thinking of signing up for metafilter again if only to help a friend find a job. Anyone know of something for a talented programmer anywhere in the world?
as a Karate Expert.. finish the sentence
Anachronisme. A brilliant "re-working" of a very familiar scene.
"Maximum: two falcons per seat." Fascinating that this is common enough to have specific regulations.
I Love My Hair! A Sesame Street writer's tribute to his daughter.
18 October 2010
How Facebook Decides What to Show You Code cracked by a 1-month Daily Beast project.
Recommend me a new book. Thanks to bearwife and gaspode, I just finished The Historian and I loved loved loved it (thanks, y'all!). Can anyone recommend something similar? Looking for something Gothic-y, intricate, long, and well-written to keep me enthralled on these spooky pre-Halloween nights.
You are allowed to adapt any literary work into a 2 hour play What do you pick and why?
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A vs. AN Question: When writing a date as MM/YY, do you use the article that goes with reading the date as numbers or the actual month?
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The MeTa Book Club discusses Frannie and Zooey -- and the
Professor Amy Hungerford lecture about it. So, what did everyone think?
Oddly popular pictures. What's your single most uncannily popular picture on Flickr?
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17 October 2010
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"This is for you, mom. This is what happens when you try to get between me and cake."
Guerrilla Trucks: why rebels and insurgent groups the world over love the Toyota Hilux pickup as much as their AK-47s.
16 October 2010
At what duration does a night of drinking turn into a 'bender'?
The Dirtbombs "Ever Lovin' Man" Damn I love this song. Here are a
couple of
videos of them playing it live.
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Love stories In the Guardian.
Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors—to a striking extent—still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? Dr. John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science.
15 October 2010
Extreme Dog Facelift article brought a tear to my eye.
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OMG BUNNIES! ...you may need to see
this to explain the joke.
Friday night question! Time for another random query from
The Book of Questions:
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You do a thing and forget and then you check a Flickr feed and you're at the top The question for this evening is, of course, what music would you have for the sounder k of your teen Vampire movie.
confession I have a problem with double/triple negatives in sentences. but it's not a straightforward problem
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Class, Anger, Social Status and the Office. Disclaimer: I know the lady who wrote this, but it fits my own experience of working in an office and how I felt so out of place in there.
This is a Friday .mp3 Shuffle Thread. First ten on your player of choice, no cheating. Go!
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Drones. A 6-track drone music sampler from Free Music Archive. (The first track is sorta harsh, but the rest are really lovely.)
Colbert/Stewart + Halloween = ?Costume? i will be in dc for the Sanity/Fear, but it's also H'ween!!!
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Just finished reading Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, and I think Metafilter's own Adam Savage would be a clinch to play Walter. That is all.
Miracle Under the Alps After years of work deep under the surface of the earth, drilling on the Gotthard Base Tunnel is set to be completed on Friday. It will be years before the first trains roll through the 57-kilometer-long tunnel, but given the difficulties workers have encountered, it is a wonder they have come this far.
In case you missed it on the blue and other places around the net, you should really see
this video of a councilman from my city. (Caution: Have Kleenex handy and be prepared to hug strangers afterward.)
14 October 2010
A girl just threw an egg at me from a second story window above Buffalo Wild Wings. I am irate and have no idea what to do.
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This fate could have been avoided if you had had a
Sassy Gay Friend.
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Need worlds awesomest pdf So I signed up for scribd to test something out for work.
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This cracked me up. Happy fall, motherf@&#ers!
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Bagels, and whitefish and petit-fours, oh MY! I bitched to MeCha back in January that there aren't any old school bakery/delis around where I live. Not true, apparently!
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The Prague Astronomical Clock celebrates its
600th birthday with an amazing, illusion-filled light show.
Geocaching = heroin I don't understand this, but I have to come clean: I have suddenly, inexplicably become hooked on geocaching.
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BRAINSTORM TIME I have a friend who just started Army basic training. What sort of fun things can I send to her in letters?
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Impressive. Most Impressive. Out this month, the slick coffee-table tome
The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back chronicles the complete tale—from pre-release to blockbuster success—of what’s become the fan favorite of the Star Wars series.
Every now and then vendors are invited into the office, where they set up in a conference room for a few hours and sell their products. Usually it's children's books or horrible handbags but today it was ...
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The Daily Nail completes 365 days of nail designs. Flip through, she did some amazing stuff.
13 October 2010
Just. So. Wrong. (SFW) But I lol'ed anyway.
7 Things You Really Don't Need to Take Photos of I'm sure some of our Friday Photographers might disagree!
Phil & Co sing "Tra La La" (from 1984) - if you've heard Gunther's "Ding Dong Song", you might find this Dutch group's big hit to be rather familiar. Song is in English, and is slightly risque (SFW though).
partisan rant so I've been listening to republicans on Bill Maher's show lately alright
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Photo Friday Advance: Not Yours - Your pictures of things that are not yours - not your house, not your kinds, etc.
But please no pictures that aren't yours, k?
Shooting for the Sun: from his childhood in segregated Mobile, Alabama, to his run-ins with a nay-saying scientific establishment, the engineer Lonnie Johnson has never paid much heed to those who told him what he could and couldn’t accomplish. Best known for creating the state-of-the-art Super Soaker squirt gun, Johnson believes he now holds the key to affordable solar power.
12 October 2010
Tuesday Night Lyrics Challenge. . . The only common demonimator . . .I love all these songs.
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human 8-bit video - Hollerado, a Canadian indie band, makes an OK Go sort of video for their song "Americanarama". It's cute, and also, I am tired just imagining how much they must've had to practice to get it in one take.
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The Treatment: why is it so difficult to develop drugs for cancer?
11 October 2010
Here's a chili recipe. Post yours too! We are talking about Cincinnati Chili over in IRC, so here is my recipe:
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I'm such a sucker. I now own an apron exhorting me to CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!
In the cards: how teenage poker prodigy Steven Silverman won, and lost, millions
The writer's job is to get naked. Harry Crews on writing, part one.
Part two. (YouTube, about 15 minutes total)
A stunning example of the recently-added Latin capabilities of Google Translate.
Turtles Take Brooklyn Cross-post from IRL. Hope to see some of you fine bunnies there.
10 October 2010
Mile End Delicatessen -- Flickr Set Mile End Delicatessen is a new-school Jewish deli in downtown Brooklyn where I had lunch today. I included some other shots that I took during my postprandial stroll.
Internet [Relay Chat] Forever! I am cleaning all the things. Won't you come keep me company?
The Race to Buy Up the World's Water: should private companies control our most precious natural resource?
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The Bureau of Communication handy forms for all occasions
RIP, Solomon Burke Mr. Solomon Burke, who was arguably the last living link to an age of soul music that has now passed, has just died. Rest in peace, you beautiful singer of songs.
NYT Obituary.
Wiki page.
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The Exorcist - The original trailer.
09 October 2010
AskMecha: Would adding 2 GB of memory to my existing 2 GB have any noticeable effect on my computer's performance? I don't do gaming. I might do some photo editing in the future.
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Later What does procrastination tell us about ourselves?
08 October 2010
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Hey, it's time for a Friday Night Question! Here's a random selection from
The Book Of Questions...
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OMG! BUNNIES!! BY POPULAR DEMAND!!! Jon Rosenberg's "Scenes from a Multiverse" comic has a thing where readers vote every Friday for their favorite toon of the week and he 'revisits' the characters and locale of the most popular the following Friday. Well, the Bunnies Planet (previously here) won for this week and is running (or hopping) away with the voting again! Even in the scifi/hipster/cynical/weird world of webcomics, the Bunnies Rule!
OMGWTFROTFLMAOBBQ II: TARDIS!! Last night, I saw the Tardis for the second time.
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Hope pls - Calling all bunnies to IRC.
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Matthew And The Sleeper being the photographic tale of a young Alaskan cradling a fish of epic ugliness in his arms underneath a light grey sky. The
rest of the shots in the photoset ain't too shabby either.
Sesame Street: Smell Like A Monster - Grover spoofs the Old Spice commercial!
Talking Podcasts. Do you have a regular podcast routine? Ones that you listen to every day/week? What are your faves?
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Ask MeCha: Help me design a business card.
The Rise and Fall of Viktor Bout Viktor Bout, who has been dubbed the "lord of war" and the "merchant of death," has had his fingers in many bloody conflicts over the years. The Russian arms dealer, who has been in a Thai prison since 2008, is now likely to be extradited to the United States. Will he reveal the names of his backers?
07 October 2010
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A customer service exchange that would be a classic scene in one of those surreal or very-meta movies.
OMGROTFLMAOBBQ!!! Moment of the Day A couple just brought in a newborn for bloodwork. The baby's middle name was "Danger". One word: HEROES.
Food photos and their "secret" set-ups - a Flickr discussion with pictures of food, and the actual setting.
Home Buying for Dummies: Please Hope Me! I found a house I really like and I'm trying to figure out if I can afford it. I spoke with a mortgage consultant who pre-approved me based on my credit score and ran numbers with me for different scenarios. He keeps pushing me to complete a loan application. Is that normal? Or is it premature unless I am really ready to buy this house (which I'm not; I am going back to look at it again with my parents on Saturday). I don't really want to be applying for a huge loan until I know that actually buying the house is a realistic possibility. Can I make an offer prior to applying for the loan, since I'm pre-approved? Is that normal? Also, the pre-approval was in July, is it still good?
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$15,000 Gingerbread House by
Dylan's Candy Bar, owned by Dylan Lauren (daughter of Ralph Lauren).
I know this world is killing you... So I have Elvis Costello's "Alison" on constant repeat...
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So, I finished "Avatar: The Last Airbender" for the first time yesterday night.[Spoilers ahead!]
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The Gentle Art of Poverty: how to live in Southern California on $2,000 a year. (The Atlantic, 1977)
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06 October 2010
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Haunted cabinet door. So last night I noticed there was a scary face in the wood grain of the cabinet door. I was talking to my girlfriend, standing by the sink, about some crap or other. I turned to the cabinet to trace a graph with my finger, and just stopped in mid-sentence.
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Photo Friday Advance: Pets! No internet all day, dubious internet now, therefore, in the minute & a half I have online, let's say PICTURES OF PETS YAY for this Friday October 8.
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Hit-and-run victim was quiet and dependable, co-workers say The
St. Petersburg Times writes a quietly moving obit for a local man, in response to an internet troll.
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Censorship at its Finest: Remembering. Risha Mullins on her experiences with starting a book club in the Montgomery County public school system. (
Mirror)
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05 October 2010
we dare you not to laugh at 31 foods with misspelled names - Well, don't take it as a challenge or anything. But it cracked me up so I had to share.
The End of the Story: Robert Jordan died before he could finish his sprawling, thirteen-book fantasy epic, so his widow hired a thirty-one-year-old fantasy novelist to finish it for him.
THIS IS A SHOUTING THREAD. BRING ALL YOUR RANDOM SHOUTINESS HERE.
A Race that I won't be running A five mile foot race up and down the steps of Pittsburgh's Northside including
"[t]he largest stairway, Rising Main, has 330 steps – same as a 17-story building!" Pittsburgh's steps are actually legal city streets often with houses on either side and street signs. They show on maps as regular streets which can really screw you up when you're driving around trying to follow a map or Google.
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In a couple of weeks I will have my second annual Whole Day in NYC Without Baby Or Husband day. I've been looking forward to this for a while.
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Lyrics challenge - seasonal edition! →Read more...
I'm buying a down comforter online TODAY Hopefully on Amazon, so I can get it shipped 2-day for free on PRIME. What kind should I buy?
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04 October 2010
Monday 3+ point update! →Read more...
Facebook photo tagging Do you have friends/relatives who tag themselves on photos they don't appear in?
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As the World Burns: how the Senate and the White House missed their best chance to deal with climate change.
I can't attach anything to my Hotmail emails Is something going on with Hotmail today? Or am I clueless about something since they changed the format?
03 October 2010
This is definitely in my top ten list of most surreal internet moments I've ever had A little while back I posted that the Onion's "Jean Teasdale" had gotten a Twitter account to promote her book, and commented that I "hoped she wouldn't do it forever because it was almost too much, like having Christmas every day".
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Go ahead. Drive me crazy.
The Bride got RickRolled. . . We were at a wedding yesterday,
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Not implying cause and effect of any kind, but... I'd just like to say that for the past 2 days I've had an earworm of Breaking Up is Hard to Do.
AskMecha: What sort of meat would be good with Blackcurrant Dijon Mustard? It's the
Fallot brand. What's the best choice for this? Roast pork?
Some Pig! Heritage Auction Gallery is auctioning
the original illustrations for Charlotte's Web. I want one.
Creating his 'Living World in a Box' Dave Jones, entrepreneurial game designer known for Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings, talks about getting beat up by Scottish gangs as a kid for achieving a high score in Galaga, how GTA originally had dinosaurs roaming its city streets, and his new open-world MMO game, All Points Bulletin.
Sufjan Stevens -- "Traffic Shock" I don't remember the BQE ever being this melodic!
27 December, 1943 A scanned picture of my grandfather in New Guinea during WW2.
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02 October 2010
On BART tonight I witnessed, for the first time outside the movies, a
shell game in action. It was awesome.
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Mapping Ancient Germania: Berlin Researchers Crack the Ptolemy Code A 2nd century map of Germania by the scholar Ptolemy has always stumped scholars, who were unable to relate the places depicted to known settlements. Now a team of researchers have cracked the code, revealing that half of Germany's cities are 1,000 years older than previously thought.
Nightmares I don't get nightmares often, but when I do they are super-intense and often leave me shaken for the whole next day. And now I've had two in a row.
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AARGH automatic wondows settings! Help! A friend of mine was visiting from Italy and used my laptop. Now anytime there's a link to anything vaguely Google, Facebook, Kayak, etc., as soon as I click on it, it leads me into his settings. So if I try to "like" something it comes up automatically as "Federico piace X".
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Garfield Linus Garfield... A semi-self-post and a lo-o-ong story.
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01 October 2010
Friday Night Question! Time for another random question from
The Book of Questions:
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What is the prettiest candy?
Help create a homebrew recipe book My friend & neighbour,
Scott Russell, is looking for people to
send him their favourite craft beers from all U.S. states and Canadian provinces for the second installment to his awesome book, "
North American Clonebrews." See the last paragraph in the title link for more information!
Rubber Stamp: how Charles Goodyear became the first name in rubber.
I got laid off today. In the end I wasn't ready, even though I was terminally miserable there. But now it's all over with and I don't know what to do next but at least I got a bunch of office supplies and I can look at
Daily Bunny all day. Yay?
Recurring Dialog I know someone that insists on having the same verbal exchanges over and over again. Perhaps they were funny at first, but after the fiftieth time it gets a little old.
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Waking Up is Hard to Do. . . The singing anesthesiologists.
Friday TV-talk watercooler thread. What shows are you watching right now? Are they great shows we should check out if we haven't already? Are they guilty pleasures? Are they disappointing you this season so far?
Minor gmail irritation. My gmail is set to show a snippet of the contents of the emails. It used to show a snippet of the last email in the conversation. Now, however, it's showing a snippet of the first email in the conversation, no matter how many later emails there are. I liked the other way better, but I can't seem to find a setting to fix this. I am minorly annoyed.
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