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Calling someone a rapist on the sole basis of an accusation made to a reporter is wrong -- and could be libelous. The allegation against
Girls Gone Wild producer Joe Francis is horrible and contains a lot of persuasive details, but that doesn't mean it's true.
posted to MetaTalk by rcade
at 6:28 AM on August 5, 2006
(112 comments)
Great Leap Forward
With the Chinese minister of extreme sports in attendance, American skateboarder
Danny Way cleared a 61-foot gap at nearly 50 mph, crossing the Great Wall of China. "I'm not a fan of heights," said Way, 31, who made five successive jumps. "The sooner I can get down from the top in one piece, the better." Daredevil sports have taken off in China, where
Flying Over the Wall events began 10 years ago, but this was the first skateboarder to make an attempt. In 2002, a Chinese bicyclist died attempting to
jump the wall when he landed outside the safety area.
posted to MetaFilter by rcade
at 7:05 AM on July 10, 2005
(21 comments)
Numbered Among the Dead
The life's work of Marla Ruzicka, a 28-year-old American activist, had become door-to-door polling in Iraq to assess the number of civilian casualties of the war. She became one on Sunday, dying in a
suicide bomb attack. "The Marines have nicknamed me Cluster Bomb Girl because I would hear of places where they had gone off," she said in a
2003 interview, "and I would ask them to help me clear the area."
posted to MetaFilter by rcade
at 6:03 AM on April 18, 2005
(55 comments)
Does anyone else want
"this is fake" added as a reason on the flag-this-post form?
posted to MetaTalk by rcade
at 9:09 AM on March 26, 2005
(19 comments)
Two weeks from today, John Kerry will win the popular vote by "23% or more" over George W. Bush, according to
5 Star Psychic Advice. See if you can do better than the spirit world by predicting the electoral and popular vote totals in the
second quadrennial MetaFilter Presidential Contest ...
posted to MetaFilter by rcade
at 9:56 AM on October 19, 2004
(129 comments)
A what-makes-a-good-post question I'd like to see other MetaFilter dinosaurs answer along with me: What are the
best and
worst links you ever inflicted on the front page?
posted to MetaTalk by rcade
at 7:46 AM on July 29, 2004
(66 comments)
A longtime Jacksonville weblogger normally devoted to wonky subjects like his
blogging software made a
frank public admission on his weblog recently: "I had an affair with another woman. My wife was a severe depressive and I was uncaring and unfeeling towards her when she needed me the most."
posted to MetaFilter by rcade
at 6:52 AM on July 29, 2004
(55 comments)
Let's have a moment of silence to remember
Creed, the
widely reviled band whose attorney once offered this
inspired defense to a fan lawsuit: "You can't bring a lawsuit against a band for sucking."
posted to MetaFilter by rcade
at 10:51 AM on June 6, 2004
(142 comments)
The
Pollo Campero discussion is a nice example of members drowning out
derailing attempts without resorting to MetaTalk (at least until I fucked it up by bringing it here). Would MetaFilter be better off without an etiquette/policy section in the gray?
posted to MetaTalk by rcade
at 6:37 AM on November 1, 2003
(69 comments)
California voters recall Gov. Gray Davis
55-45 percent and elect Arnold Schwarzenegger with
45 percent of the replacement vote. That's where the money is in the
Iowa Political Markets for tomorrow's recall election. To see how well MetaFilter's pundits fare in predicting the results, I'm offering a bribe ...
posted to MetaFilter by rcade
at 9:54 AM on October 6, 2003
(117 comments)
A bad post to MetaFilter is something that meets the following criteria: there is nothing interesting about the content on the page, and I'm only posting it to let you know
how uninteresting it is.
posted to MetaTalk by rcade
at 2:36 PM on October 4, 2003
(12 comments)
A
trademark infringement lawsuit has been filed by the owners of the
Dewey Decimal System against New York's
Library Hotel, which numbers and fills rooms based on the system: "Each of the 10 guestrooms floors honors one of the 10 categories of the DDC and each of the 60 rooms is uniquely adorned with a collection of books and art exploring a distinctive topic within the category or floor it belongs to." Call early to book Room
800.001.
posted to MetaFilter by rcade
at 6:22 AM on September 21, 2003
(53 comments)
Salon's feature on the porn chat-room vigilante site
Perverted Justice includes the lazy journalist's best friend: non-attributed man on the street quotes from
MetaFilter.
posted to MetaTalk by rcade
at 6:36 AM on September 15, 2003
(43 comments)
A minor nit, but it's misleading to use a
false anchor tag in a link, because
people will wrongly assume it's legitimate. The
Christian Science Monitor did not declare neoconservatives to be their enemies.
posted to MetaTalk by rcade
at 5:45 AM on September 5, 2003
(55 comments)
The
cover of the Sept. 4, 2003,
Rolling Stone declares Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen "
America's favorite fantasy," joining the publisher of
Olsen Twins Countdown and
Howard Stern in celebration of jailbait. "What were once adorable pre-pubescent girls on the hit series
Full House are now the forbidden fruits of blossoming teenage sexuality." (Via
Eschaton.)
posted to MetaFilter by rcade
at 6:34 AM on August 14, 2003
(137 comments)
The host of the '70s Scientology primer that brought so much joy to
Metafilter and others is passing the hat for an
unexpected bandwidth bill: "~50,000 people saw the site, and given that I do not think it is crazy to assume that 210 of them (you) can donate a dollar (just one!) to my cause."
posted to MetaTalk by rcade
at 10:41 AM on July 14, 2003
(68 comments)
"Twenty-two years ago, late in the evening one night in March of 1981, to be specific, my mother was killed in an auto accident on Foothill Boulevard in a town called Claremont." Talking Points Memo author Joshua Marshall, one of the best-known political webloggers, takes an
unexpected personal detour.
posted to MetaFilter by rcade
at 7:56 AM on June 14, 2003
(4 comments)
Alongside the gay wedding and anti-homophobia ads lured into the seductive clutches of the
Mark Foley story, there sits an ad for Texas Congressional candidate
Randy Neugebauer, a "committed pro-family, pro-life conservative who has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ." God bless Google's ad targeting algorithm.
posted to MetaTalk by rcade
at 6:35 AM on May 10, 2003
(112 comments)
One of the more interesting Senate races in 2004 is shaping up in Florida, where
everyone but the electorate appears to know that Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Foley is gay. This open secret -- which would help explain how a "dream come true" right-wing politician has a strong gay-rights voting record -- calls into question whether respecting a person's right to "stay in the closet"
perpetuates the idea that homosexuality is abnormal. (Via
Eschaton).
posted to MetaFilter by rcade
at 7:20 AM on May 9, 2003
(80 comments)
If you're going to frame a link entirely in terms of how it
relates to MetaFilter, doesn't it belong in MetaTalk's MetaFilter-related category?
posted to MetaTalk by rcade
at 5:53 AM on February 27, 2003
(18 comments)
The denizens of
Fark are having a crisis of conscience after one of their members
died in a car accident. There are only a few holdouts against the
outpouring of sympathy from the biliously sarcastic community. "Farkers, seriously - where's your irreverence?" asked Labberdasher. "Not one 'he should have gone for a Darwin award' ... ?"
posted to MetaFilter by rcade
at 5:31 AM on February 5, 2003
(60 comments)
The
inventor of the term blog is giving up his verb. "I've gotta do something else with this site," says
Peter Merholz, who began one of the first 25 weblogs in May 1998. "More essays. No blogging."
posted to MetaFilter by rcade
at 3:52 PM on February 3, 2003
(25 comments)
"Sometimes I question the wisdom of continuing on in a profession that is under siege and under valued. I am aging, I am tired and some days I don’t know how I can continue to teach the newest and brightest of our profession." Part of an
essay written last year by
Cheryl McGaffic, one of the nursing professors
killed by a disgruntled student at the University of Arizona yesterday.
posted to MetaFilter by rcade
at 6:02 AM on October 29, 2002
(13 comments)
Metafilter is
too good at breaking news not to be used for that purpose. If there really is a consensus here that the number of news links is a bad thing, one solution would be to hold all new posts for a few hours after submission so people are forced to look elsewhere when big stories break.
posted to MetaTalk by rcade
at 7:50 AM on October 21, 2002
(108 comments)
"While many intelligent people read the site and are not seduced by its methods, the overall effect is to build a self-reinforcing community of aggrieved partisans and to help break down taboos ... against the rhetorical viciousness promoted. The editors' claim that their actions are a justified response to the tactics used by others is both insufficient and, ultimately, circular."
Spinsanity describes
MediaWhoresOnline, or
FreeRepublic, or
WarBlogger Watch, or
Lucianne.Com, or
Smirking Chimp, or
Little Green Footballs, or ...
posted to MetaFilter by rcade
at 9:35 AM on August 15, 2002
(27 comments)
"The
Associated Press, which usually does not report names of sexual assault victims, stopped identifying the girls by name after authorities said they had been raped. The AP resumed reporting Marris' name Friday after she came forward and used Brooks' name after she appeared on national television Monday."
Richard Roeper and the
Los Angeles Times cover the media decision to cover rape differently than other crimes.
posted to MetaFilter by rcade
at 10:46 AM on August 5, 2002
(41 comments)
"What are we to make of the fact that the Fearless Leader of the Free World, a man brave enough to challenge terrorists in 80 nations to worldwide war, requires a general anesthetic for a routine colonoscopy?"
Spectator magazine columnist David Steinberg
raises a stink. (Found on
Flutterby!)
posted to MetaFilter by rcade
at 11:12 AM on July 20, 2002
(21 comments)
The next time someone posts with glee about a criminal being subjected to violent penile colonization, turning the discussion immediately into a referendum on the subject of prison rape (
#1 #2), I hope that person has to spend quality pound-in-the-ass time in MetaTalk as rodii's bitch.
posted to MetaTalk by rcade
at 4:20 PM on May 23, 2002
(44 comments)
At Si Tanka Huron University, a school of 400 in South Dakota, as many as 50 people may have been exposed to HIV by having sex with an HIV-positive basketball player or two of the women he slept with, according to today's
New York Times.
posted to MetaFilter by rcade
at 8:51 AM on May 1, 2002
(22 comments)
During Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah's visit to Crawford, Texas, this week, his representatives asked the FAA for his flights to be worked
only by male air traffic controllers, according to today's
Dallas Morning News.
posted to MetaFilter by rcade
at 11:21 AM on April 27, 2002
(13 comments)
Chris Pirillo abruptly
shut down LockerGnome's Usenet discussion groups because of the volume of criticism he was receiving over a new project,
GnomeTomes. "Shout your hatred for all things 'me' from the rooftops," he writes. "but don't do it on my damn roof." Would you provide a
forum where people are free to slag you?
posted to MetaFilter by rcade
at 4:44 AM on April 5, 2002
(17 comments)
Feature idea: A
last 10 link after the comment count on each front-page post, which causes the thread to be loaded with only the last 10 comments visible.
posted to MetaTalk by rcade
at 1:47 PM on March 18, 2002
(23 comments)
Take a trip with me down the Riviera (
#1,
#2,
#3,
#4), where no comment is complete without a little vicious personal invective.
posted to MetaTalk by rcade
at 7:07 AM on March 16, 2002
(141 comments)
Suggestion: Limit users to one MetaTalk front-page post per week.
posted to MetaTalk by rcade
at 1:39 PM on February 21, 2002
(95 comments)
In what can only be described as top-notch hit-whoring,
Shift magazine has compiled a list of the Web's
25 most interesting personalities. Let the thinly veiled resentment commence.
posted to MetaFilter by rcade
at 7:11 AM on February 6, 2002
(18 comments)
