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This pledge idea is so gay.
posted to MetaFilter by salmacis at 7:09 AM on February 26, 2010

I thought it was hilarious when I saw it live in 1934.
posted to MetaFilter by decagon at 8:21 PM on February 24, 2010

Some years ago I needed to talk to Thompson for an article. I cadged his home number from a friend of a friend, who would not give it over until after he had spent fifteen minutes warning me about how a call to Hunter was likely to unfold. Hunter will probably be drunk. Hunter will be angry, or unintelligible. Hunter will ask you to send him something odd, or send him money. Hunter will ask you to come to his house to fix something that’s broken. Hunter will almost certainly not answer your... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by william_boot at 3:55 PM on February 18, 2010

boy talk about airing dirty laundry
posted to MetaFilter by boo_radley at 3:35 PM on February 17, 2010

So this is one of those "Woolf in sheik's clothing" stories, is it?
posted to MetaFilter by GenjiandProust at 4:14 AM on February 7, 2010

I know you're busy but you should find time to build it this year because I love Harper's and magazines need help and I don't want to see you disappear.
posted to MetaTalk by lazaruslong at 11:41 AM on February 5, 2010

Metafilter: The Metafilter of the Harpers of the Internet
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee at 12:54 PM on February 4, 2010

Posting a chatlog between two friends as an interview is ridiculous.

Interesting. I really enjoyed it, I just didn't think of it as a I Ask/You Answer sort of formal thing. It seems appropriate to The Awl which I think is a blog. So... makes sense given the format. The thing that makes this all interesting to me is that, besides the fact that Choire and Paul are both MeFites, that they're friends and so talking informally. Paul's got a certain amount... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 12:26 PM on February 4, 2010

Old media: one person who has little-to-no professional experience with his topic talks to a bunch of people he's identified as (i) having professional experience with the topic and (ii) willing to talk with him. This person then takes all of their opinions, swirls them around in his/her head, carefully constructs a piece of writing that frames the issues in the way that s/he understands them. S/he then has an editor either (i) change the 'their's to 'there's and/or (ii) changes the meaning of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by one_bean at 3:28 PM on February 4, 2010

watch me.
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 3:09 PM on February 4, 2010

Used to be men were men and women were women, and a man could call something whatever he wanted, and language was short. Terse. Manly.

A dog was a dog. Not a "labrador" or a "pavilion." Men were "sirs" and women were "ma'ams." People caught germs, not "e. coli" or "H1N1." Presidents had names like "Nixon," not made up garbage like "Obama."

Now, liberals are... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mccarty.tim at 6:03 PM on December 14, 2009

I am not looking forward to this sex tape leaking.
posted to MetaFilter by Windigo at 10:26 AM on October 2, 2009

So this is six years old.

It would probably cost a lot less than $20 to see Busta Rhymes these days.

And a lot more to see Les Paul.
posted to MetaFilter by Alvy Ampersand at 8:52 AM on September 25, 2009

Yeah, I'm flagging this, too. A pdf download on some scummy, skeezy site that I've never heard of which seems to be trying to replicate itself the moment I go there? Why would this make a good FPP? Isn't this particular pdf linked somewhere that doesn't stink of rotting flesh?

And is a single rough script for a TV show that I've seen already really worth a post, either?

I admit that I'm probably biased because this is the billionth time... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by koeselitz at 5:34 AM on April 17, 2009

I like how the article's writer gets more and more modest the further I read. Without giving it away, the best part is at the end, where the viral ad campaign cures global warming, treats cancer and wins a Nobel Prize for Literature.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon at 2:56 AM on April 7, 2009

Whoever excessively talks about the grandiose beauty of nature needs to watch this video on a loop for a few hours.

What, you have a problem with the ravenous predator staring at you with their huge black eyes framed in a white death-mask, bobbing back and forth on spindly, impossible legs? Their eyes forever watching and judging with cool and remote intelligence? Waiting for a moment of weakness to pounce and tear with bony wings and powerful claws?
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 9:17 PM on March 30, 2009

OMG OMG RACCOON HAND IS COMING FOR ME
posted to MetaFilter by Ian A.T. at 9:16 PM on March 30, 2009

I'm much more interested in listening to tracks my fellow MeFites recommend.

Well, Paul Ford fits that description.
posted to MetaFilter by flashboy at 4:49 AM on March 19, 2009

Almost more troubling is the presence of the other deputy, who makes no visible effort to aid the girl or control his colleague. Appalling.
posted to MetaFilter by Graygorey at 4:41 PM on February 28, 2009

I'm prepared to forgive the occasional bit of plagiarism, but there comes a point when someone has replicated so much content that it's time to invite Deckard to the retirement party.

and by "Deckard" I mean the revolutionary forces of Mefistan, and by retirement party I mean "lug out the longboat and bitch about it for 5000 comments until the blogosphere takes notice for a few minutes and maybe Time magazine uses the plagarism as a throwaway example but... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bunnytricks at 9:10 AM on February 23, 2009

Is that guy who reviews every single band in six words going to do it again? I hope so.
posted to MetaFilter by awfurby at 1:02 AM on February 23, 2009

WIN
posted to MetaFilter by wowbobwow at 6:22 PM on February 14, 2009

I wrote this one. Researching that was one of the oddest phone calls I've ever made. "Can confirm for me that Reverend Graham has calculated that Heaven is 1,500 cubic miles?" "Let me just check... yes, that's right, 1,500."
posted to MetaFilter by The corpse in the library at 2:05 PM on February 14, 2009

Hmm, you can pass HTML through the search and it displays it. A non-malicious example. Note: it won't work if you have No Script running.

I personally don't know what someone could do with that, but it seems insecure. And lazy.

With that said, this is great.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by defenestration at 1:51 PM on February 14, 2009

This place is turning into Markovfilter.
posted to MetaFilter by stavrogin at 1:45 PM on September 28, 2008

I think that was from his memoir, Surely You're Trolling, Mr. Feynman.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 11:44 AM on September 17, 2008

Under the simple header "In Memoriam", Harpers has gathered DFW's contributions to their magazine and moved them from behind their subscription-wall, including his stories "The Depressed Person" and "The Awakening of My Interest in Annular Systems" and his essay "Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise". (They're mostly PDF scans.)... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Doktor Zed at 12:05 PM on September 15, 2008

Oh, goodie. Another browser to check XHTML and CSS against.
posted to MetaFilter by signal at 4:19 PM on September 1, 2008

I scream at my lack of previewing, but no one can hear me...for I have no mouth.
posted to MetaFilter by never used baby shoes at 9:09 AM on July 25, 2008

hellojed: Bah, Amiga OS 4 was better.

Fie! T'was the work of Satan! The last truly good OS was Workbench 1.2!
posted to MetaFilter by evilcolonel at 7:34 PM on July 24, 2008

Bah, Amiga OS 4 was better.
posted to MetaFilter by hellojed at 5:09 PM on July 24, 2008

At least the employees aren't forced to eat Tofutti.
posted to MetaFilter by Sys Rq at 10:08 AM on July 5, 2008

tl;dr
posted to MetaFilter by LordSludge at 9:42 AM on June 10, 2008

For what it's worth, Obama uses a Blackberry.
posted to MetaFilter by The Bellman at 3:05 PM on June 9, 2008

Guess who wins?

Everybody who doesn't have to commute in New York.
posted to MetaFilter by Faint of Butt at 11:28 AM on June 3, 2008

I heard he was knocked off.

sorry
.
posted to MetaFilter by hal9k at 5:57 PM on June 1, 2008

How quickly a franchise can fall into disarray when the original creative minds behind it move on.

A little history lesson:

Konami pioneered the Music/Rhythm game market through its Bemani division and the series of games it produced: Beatmania, Dance Dance Revolution, GuitarFreaks, DrumMania and more. The trademarks of the series were its emphasis on the reproduction of music and its use of non-standard inputs as a way of playing the game: a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by unsupervised at 10:18 AM on May 29, 2008

I don't really have much of a comment on the whole spying thing, but Harper's online weekly review is pretty cool.
posted to MetaFilter by eclectist at 4:44 PM on May 27, 2008

I make somewhere between a quarter to half my income as a stage "mentalist" whose act somewhat resembles Derren Brown's--though not to his "magic handshake" level--so let me post a clarification, a bunch of caveats, and as much information as I can without making my colleagues mad at me.

(Paging The Deej! Hope me fellow magician!)

First, there are three very different forms of hypnosis being talked about... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Ian A.T. at 3:32 AM on May 12, 2008

Oh. My. God. The amount of uninformed, alarmist crap in the FPP article is astounding. Let me give one small example. I spent four years as an economist at the BLS, in the office responsible for researching methodologies for calculating the CPI. I worked on the article's principle target: hedonic adjustments to the CPI. The CPI uses code I wrote to make hedonic adjustments. So I feel somewhat qualified in saying that the article is just plain wrong in its criticism of hedonic adjustments -... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dilettanti at 9:45 PM on May 5, 2008

This is really serious. Burma accounts for a large portion of the worldwide heroin supply and hence a substantial part of the CIA's funding.
posted to MetaFilter by telstar at 4:51 PM on May 9, 2008

Oh, the jokes are starting.

Y'know what the pivotal evidence in the trial was?

Hans' diaries. Seems he was really into journaling.
posted to MetaFilter by Viomeda at 3:41 PM on April 28, 2008

That sweet cherub was simply looking into the camera and asking people if they had a soul. Some of you say yes, some of you say no.
God bless his precious heart and the gift that he has given by Our Saviour.
posted to MetaFilter by Stonestock Relentless at 9:30 AM on April 14, 2008

probably a great way to get into the right college program

through the wall.
posted to MetaFilter by Zed_Lopez at 9:06 AM on April 8, 2008

From hydropsyche's link: As one Republican source put it, "To some people, that's even worse than being a Democrat."

Great. Now I'm not just depressed, I'm entirely angrified. Thoroughly, completely, and violently angrified.

These stupid fucking pieces of fucking shit. Wreck my country and call me unpatriotic? Fuck them all straight to hell in a bucket of cocks. I hope they... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by rtha at 9:56 AM on April 3, 2008

This will distract from the craziness of McCain's ideas.
posted to MetaFilter by oaf at 6:07 AM on March 31, 2008

This part really unnerved me:

Hitler: Mein Hund hat keine Nase.

Audience: Wie riecht er?

Hitler: Schrecklich.
posted to MetaFilter by tkchrist at 2:53 PM on March 22, 2008

I appreciate this, but I would appreciate it way more if there was some basic sorting functionality (esp. by rating, maybe genre).

I agree, Grobstein, so I did something about it. Here's an Excel file with all the data. Or, if you'd prefer a text file, you can have that too. Enjoy!
posted to MetaFilter by barnacles at 10:38 PM on March 13, 2008

huh? previewed that eight times. whole list HERE
posted to MetaFilter by morganw at 8:45 AM on March 17, 2008

Meat The Beatles is a COOKBOOK!
posted to MetaFilter by hal9k at 10:36 AM on February 7, 2008