The Black Hebrews are a distinct religious community only tangentially related to Judaism.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 6:03 PM on May 29, 2008

Here is a cat and a theremin.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 10:43 PM on April 17, 2008

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posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 2:40 PM on January 21, 2008

I have exams this week.

Damn you.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 8:52 PM on December 2, 2007

As I recall, the voluntary nuclear disarmement of South Africa was carried out by the apartheid regime, in its last days. It's possible that the program was revived since.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 2:40 PM on November 11, 2007

Ironically, Fremer works for Stereophile, which appears to be the only audiophile publication to actually perform fairly-rigorous scientific testing as part of its reviews.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 2:47 PM on October 21, 2007

Eek - I was just in Ica about a month ago.

One wonders about the distributions of the victims - earthquakes are fairly common in those parts, and the better buildings are all designed with earthquake safety in mind. The shantytowns, on the other hand...
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 1:46 PM on August 16, 2007

I really enjoyed the Hedgehog in the Fog clip - but the quicktime seems to conspicuously cut off at 1:59 (it doesn't seem like that's the end). Is it supposed to go further?

Yes, the original is about 10 minutes.

Norstein is amazing - his 'Tale of Tales' is my favourite animation ever.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 5:40 PM on May 2, 2007

I love that the Moloko* video has subtitles added by someone who clearly doesn't actually know much russian.

* This isn't them, is it? Isn't Moloko from the UK?
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 10:08 PM on April 29, 2007

Awesome. I saw a guy playing one outside the de Young last summer, and have been wondering what it was called ever since.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 7:31 PM on April 29, 2007

I recall asking whether that was the largest goose statue in the world. I was told it wasn't.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 3:39 PM on April 20, 2007

Apparently more complete 6-part version. (youtube)
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 9:26 AM on January 17, 2007

What?
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 6:35 PM on January 8, 2007

I think I've found the problem.YouTube
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 2:34 PM on January 8, 2007

I gotta say, the 'natural attraction' butter adverts in the first link are superb.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 9:10 AM on December 17, 2006

Horses can swim.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 6:34 PM on November 29, 2006

The title The Bible has a 63.7% chance of being a bestselling title!
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 6:04 PM on November 26, 2006

Why should Jordanian law apply in the West Bank?

I was going to ask the same thing, then I realized that the poster meant: Palestinian homosexuals don't run to Jordan because the Jordanians don't enforce their own laws.

No. He means that, in the West Bank, the (pre-'67) Jordanian legal code is still in effect. Which, by the way, is true.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 11:35 PM on November 22, 2006

Double.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 10:04 PM on November 14, 2006

77.8%. I've always had lousy musical memory - I assumed I'd score lower.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 6:37 PM on November 11, 2006

Huh? There's no story here. Olmert, facing potential difficulties getting his budget passed, brought in a marginal right-wing party into his coalition. Instead of giving the head of that party an actual ministry, they made up a fancy-sounding title for him. That's it.

Nothing that I've read suggests that Lieberman has been given any actual authority whatsoever. He absolutely can't independely authorize military strikes.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 9:23 PM on November 1, 2006

This is a deliberate double post. You are an idiot.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 4:35 AM on October 12, 2006

This.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 10:11 PM on September 20, 2006

I'll bet more Lebanese civilians -- men, women and children, of any or no religion -- died in this Israeli slaughter than during "9/11"...

That's a bet you would lose.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 11:01 PM on September 5, 2006

It's an interesting article (that you linked to twice) but what the hell does it have to do with 1984?

Google suggests it's a quote from 1984, the movie.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 12:26 PM on July 2, 2006

The book says "Lenin." The caption translates roughly as "may the unbreakable friendship and cooperation between the Soviet and the Chinese peoples thrive and strengthen."
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 11:29 PM on June 30, 2006

Relevant Slate article about why simple inflation models are misleading.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 1:15 PM on June 28, 2006

So it's not this one, then?
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 10:32 AM on May 31, 2006

Regarding the wall, isn't there some sort of rule where anything opposed by both the ISM and the Israeli Settler movement is automatically awesome?
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 8:29 PM on May 28, 2006

Does 'urban farming' of this sort strike anyone else as a bad idea to begin with?
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 9:40 AM on May 25, 2006

Some was just fun, he would aim a tennis ball launcher at a stuffed animal (monkey) hanging from the ceiling and then fire the launcher and drop the monkey simultaneously for a perfect hit, thus illustrating the effects of gravity.

Ha! I remember that experiment! Poor sad old monkey...
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 6:16 AM on May 25, 2006

play around with this.

Actually, the dominant effect on the speed of sound in the atmosphere is the temperature, not the pressure. Although it's not actually displayed, I'm pretty damn sure that applet is using average temperature@altitude data, not merely air pressure.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 5:44 PM on May 21, 2006

Indeed.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 9:55 PM on May 10, 2006

You mean like Kiryas Joel?
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 11:40 AM on May 6, 2006

Do y'all really want Roy Moore, who values religion over the constitiution, to have control of the Alabama National Guard?

Isn't that somewhat disingenuous, considering that Moore is very unlikely to beat incumbent Gov. Bob Riley in the first place?
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 7:14 PM on May 2, 2006

[In the Republican primaries, that is.]
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 7:17 PM on May 2, 2006

Homosexuality is still a death penalty offence in Iran and Saudi Arabia, by the way.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 8:38 PM on April 19, 2006

Multi-billion?
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 3:49 PM on April 12, 2006

I'm pretty sure windmills (#11), pointed arches (#9), accurate calculation of the (spherical) earth's radius (#18), and pleasure gardens (#20) all long predate Mohammed (and, for that matter, Jesus), so that they can't very well be attributed to 'Islamic Inventors.'
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 9:14 PM on March 10, 2006

So, umm, is it just discharging a whole bunch of capacitors?

[Ignoring the potential fusion bit, of course.]
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 7:35 PM on March 9, 2006

That 'Stunt City' ad for degree deoderant? It was posted almost a year ago - but, back then, it was for a different brand.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 9:06 PM on February 5, 2006

This is a great post.

Also, I'll just point out that there's more good stuff on the gallery's home page.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 4:45 PM on January 29, 2006

the 'jew jersey' thing is way overblown considering it is a basic and understandable (to anyone who types) typoYes. However, a search for the phrase suggests that among a sea of typos, there are some who are using it quite deliberately. Here's stormfront, and here's a bizarre page that blames Jews for the 'crime' of Ritalin.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 8:16 PM on December 13, 2005

My thoughts about a possible explanation:
Due to the more complex life humans live, children routinely see actions which, although necessary, are, to them completely unintuitive. A young child might think that logically, putting food in the oven should be enough to make it warm (lust like the refrigerator), but they see that Mommy always twists some dials too. Likewise, they'd think that pushing a door should be enough to open it, but, for some incomprehensible reason, sometimes... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 11:39 AM on December 13, 2005

So Matthew Good is a boring political blogger now?
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 8:24 PM on December 12, 2005

Awesome - but why do these things are always posted the day before I have a paper due?
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 2:40 PM on December 8, 2005

Wasn't Alaska proposed once? They still have a lot of room up there.

I know Uganda was.

The Nazis liked Madagascar at one point.

Actualy, there is a Jewish psudo-nation up in russia near china. Obviously the soviets couldn't let there be a jewish autonomus state gap during the cold war.

Predated the cold war.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 2:02 PM on December 8, 2005

Um, there is a difference between deportation and extradition.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 6:20 PM on December 7, 2005

Do 45 million people think that the oceans are fresh water, or that they are a source for fresh water. (I can't find the actual poll question). Perhaps people were simply thinking of desalination plants?
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 9:54 PM on December 5, 2005

"Go shorty, it's your bat miztvah, we gonna party like it's your bat mitzvah."

If footage of that ever leaks on the internet, his career is so over.
posted to MetaFilter by kickingtheground at 4:46 PM on November 29, 2005