Just to highlight this to everyone who's not a DC local, as exogenous pointed out above, Nick -- the owner of Murky -- had one of his two locations shut down by the DC government a few months ago because he had neglected to pay his DC taxes for 21 of the prior 24 months. So to frame him as any kind of hero here is a bit silly; in the end, he's a dick who, in trying to create a totally pretentious coffee hangout, also decided to fuck one of the communities he served to the tune of nearly half a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 7:52 PM on July 14, 2008

OK, follow me here. Murky Coffee's roasted beans come from Counter Culture Coffee.

Counter Culture Coffee has a page describing the "perfect iced coffee", at the bottom of which is a promo link to Imbibe Magazine's "2008 Ultimate Summer Drinks Guide".

At the bottom of the sidebar on the fourth page of that guide (marked page 42 in the PDF) is the following paragraph:

"Some cafes don't... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 6:51 AM on July 15, 2008

I also love, for pure irony's sake, that the current top post on one of the blogs Nick co-authors is all about how putting red wine over ice isn't heresy.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 7:02 AM on July 15, 2008

Those comments in the LJ thread about how the $670 price is via an Amazon affiliate are mine, and I'm stickin' with them; this really does appear to be the author misunderstanding the search results and ascribing some sort of malice to Amazon when none exists.

To make sure to explain here: the author initially searched for his item on Amazon using a browser that wasn't logged into Amazon, and the search returns had his item for $670. It appears that this return was... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 10:59 AM on April 15, 2008

Jesus, this has become tired so incredibly fast. For those who haven't seen it, here is the high-res version of the photo; it's clearly his hand and a fishing rod.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 10:09 AM on April 11, 2008

FYI, you know meningococcemia isn't a "blood disorder", right? It's a bacterial infection; calling it a blood disorder is sorta like calling the flu a lung disease.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 5:15 PM on March 8, 2008

stbalbach, I'm confused -- did you accidentally forget to paste in a link to a page (any page at all!) backing up the point of your post, that this train is going to be built? Because as most have pointed out, the whole point of this here website is to do that sort of thing. If you forgot -- i.e., if your comment that "blogish sites" were verifying your info is to be read that links to those sites were supposed to be part of your post -- then pass them along to the site admins, and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 10:15 AM on February 13, 2008

My wife is on Ravelry, and *raves* about it -- apparently, the folks behind it have recently quit their jobs to concentrate on it full-time, so I hope it makes it!
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 11:38 AM on July 21, 2007

So for the non-New-York-inclined:

- the cathedral on the left is St. John the Divine, the towering spire just left of center on the horizon is Riverside Cathedral;
- the large red brick building just in front of that cathedral is John Jay Hall (one of the dorms at Columbia University);
- the smaller red brick building in front of John Jay and more or less centered on it in this photo is the swank-as-hell mansion that's given to the current... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 7:29 AM on July 19, 2007

The problem is that they're usually still burning and not something you ought to stick in your pocket or throw into a trash can pull of paper. The safest way to get rid of one usually is to drop it on the ground and grind it out with your foot.

So it's everyone else's problem that your habit leaves you, a few times a day, with a flaming bit of paper and filter that you have no better way to put out than to throw onto the street... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 8:35 AM on July 5, 2007

145. Plaintiff contends that the institution of marriage transcends judicial intervention, and its definition should not be made the subject of political experimentation in state laboratories.

That's just priceless.... especially coming from the guy who is asking for judicial relief based on how he feels his own constructs of marriage affected his ability to pass the Bar.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 1:55 PM on July 3, 2007

Also of note is the fact that he's claiming his own time as attorney's fees, it seems -- even though he's not an attorney admitted to the Bar. Hmmmmm.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 1:57 PM on July 3, 2007

Alas, Megafly, they're both referred to as "she" -- I had to read it twice to find that, but it's true.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 3:05 PM on July 3, 2007

Just a little background -- the request from Schlesinger came as a direct response to the Watergate break-in, due to the involvement of present and former CIA operatives. There was quite a bit of backlash against the Agency as a result -- given it's charter of not engaging in operations on American soil, and (obviously) not engaging in operations that were clearly illegal by US law -- and Schlesinger's idea was that if he came clean about other activities which were... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 10:52 AM on June 26, 2007

I'm sorry, this is just a patently awful story. Maybe it's because my training is in peds, and thus I've only worked in pediatric ERs, but I can't ever imagine someone being treated this way in the placed I've worked. Whatever the backstory, whatever the excuses, this is plainly awful and negligent and abhorrent and wrong.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 9:43 AM on June 3, 2007

FYI, when I was a med student at Columbia, Lattimer came to speak to my group of students rotating through urology -- and brought the penis to show us all. It was, to say the least, creepy.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 7:37 AM on May 21, 2007

Wow, amazing post. I'm late for work now because I *had* to read it; thanks for that!
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 6:23 AM on April 3, 2007

Seriously, learning about that Alanis cover might've been the best thing in this thread -- I honestly think it's awesome -- if it weren't for the American Greetings e-card link. That shit is *fantastic*... I wish Christmas were tomorrow so I could spend all night sending that card to people.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 4:00 PM on April 2, 2007

That's pretty cool, but I was expecting an actual video taking from a satellite rather than a reconstruction from topographical mapping data.

Oh, and three blind mice, you win the award for laziest snark; you couldn't have even been bothered to hover over the link. That's pretty damn sad.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 6:53 PM on October 24, 2006

[this is good]

Honestly, this might be the only answer if our various levels of government are going to continue to allow pharmacies and emergency rooms to deny women access to something safe and legal.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 11:18 AM on October 22, 2006

Very, very cool -- but Tim's website makes the baby Jesus cry.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 8:15 AM on September 19, 2006

(Anyone notice that ArunK threw his little stinkbomb out there early this morning, and then vanished? Seems to be Trolling 101; fortunately, a reasonably good discussion has come out of it, one that's taught me a few bits about the immigration process that I didn't already know.)
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 7:53 AM on August 2, 2006

[This is good] I love projects like this; they have such far-reaching consequences, such amazing goals, and a majesty about them that is indescribable. I'd LOVE to take a tour of Tunnel No. 3 someday; thanks for all the links.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 7:52 PM on July 29, 2006

33, can hear it fine.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 3:26 PM on June 12, 2006

(That's on three different computers, all with high-quality speakers that likely reproduce it faithfully.)
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 3:26 PM on June 12, 2006

Wow, that was lame. That is all.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 9:19 AM on June 5, 2006

I love this. These guys are awesome; some of the outakes on the EepyBird website are fabulous.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 4:24 PM on June 3, 2006

Mach5: damn, empath beat me

That's why the preview button exists, Mach5, that's why the preview button exists. Of course, you used it, saw that empath posted the link, and still posted it again... fascinating.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 5:42 PM on June 3, 2006

Yeah, that's pretty damn cool; thanks for sharing the link.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 7:06 AM on June 1, 2006

Shutter, the same juggler in this vid also has a bouncing routine on YouTube, which I thought was pretty cool.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 1:31 PM on June 1, 2006

It's HIPAA, people, HIPAA! And 6:1, it doesn't matter if someone can identify themselves in a posting/article/whatever, it's if someone else can identify them. In the post of mine mathowie linked to, I'm certain that my patient's mother can identify her (of course, I also know that she reads my site and happily obliged me), but that's not the point.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 5:33 PM on April 10, 2006

Devils, this is the story. Glad you liked it.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 8:49 AM on April 11, 2006

I'm sad to say that I don't specifically know how he's doing! I became his pediatrician at that point, and then finished my pediatrics residency training in New York City in mid-2003. I'm now at the end of my pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship training in Boston, so I'm not his doctor anymore. (Of course, that's a *good* thing, since I'd only be his doctor right now if he had cancer or a serious hematologic condition!)

All that being said, I spoke with the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 10:44 AM on April 11, 2006

Yeah, I'm not sure why this is so intriguing a link -- it's a freaking antiseizure medicine. And this isn't something new to America; we've been using Diastat (rectal diazepam) for years here, and there really isn't a family with a child who has a serious seizure disorder that doesn't have a dose or two of Diastat in the house. As a resident on neurology, the very first thing you asked a parent who called in frightened because his or her child was seizing was "do you have Diastat there?... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 1:26 PM on April 8, 2006

Moonbird, sorry, but you're wrong. Sure, if you're not in a position to know why someone's seizing, and don't have any information about how long it's been going on, then all recommendations are to just keep the person safe and let things ride. Perhaps your specific situation has never warranted it, but there are thousands upon thousands of families out there who know when, why, and how to give rectal diazepam to those in their care with seizure disorders; it's not impossible, it's not even a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 6:00 PM on April 8, 2006

You mean mortality?

Nope, elpapacity, I mean morbidity -- undesired results or complications that aren't death (which would be mortality).
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 1:48 PM on April 9, 2006

Yeah, according to the Star-Telegram's simulation, some amount of lean in the implosion was intentional -- the structure of the northwest corner of the building was wired to be destroyed first (at 8 seconds into the demolition), the back wall at 10 seconds, and the southeast corner at 12 seconds, all to direct the building into the pre-dug trench along the northwest corner.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 11:17 AM on March 19, 2006

Great commercial -- but weird that they distribute it zipped up, since the size is nearly identical (being that they're using already-compressed video).
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 5:51 PM on March 4, 2006

That's damn cool; I just came across it independently, and actually came here and searched before I posted it to the front page. I agree that the legs are eerily creepy in their movement -- I thought it looked like it was prancing across the ground, excited to be given its pack mule tasks. The two cycle engine noise also rooted my brain to RC airplane and go-kart memories...

When someone gets off their ass and develops long-lasting and durable batteries, this thing is... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 5:21 PM on March 4, 2006

Pretty damn stupid, alas.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 12:03 PM on February 27, 2006

This gets my blood boiling, mostly because of those goddamn cousin who are looking to profit on the back of a man who cared for and lost his committed partner. May they all find misery and loneliness for the rest of their days...

(However, I'm excited that all the news stories I've been able to find about this appear to be derived from the same Columbia News Service dispatch -- I didn't realize until I found the source article that the "Columbia" refers to the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 9:21 AM on January 21, 2006

(And of course, "cousin" = "cousins". Perhaps I should caffeinate?)
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 9:21 AM on January 21, 2006

Yeah, I don't get people being upset or weirded out by this. Why shouldn't our government have a well-defined vocabulary for the metadata that it collects? Why shouldn't incident records from disparate jurisdictions be annotated using the same vocabulary, and in the same manner? Hell, the healthcare industry -- which depends on having access to its data in a reliable way if it wants to be able to use it for research -- has incredibly intricate schemas and data storage models, and there are... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 5:20 PM on January 13, 2006

Oh, and I'll second kookywon -- the governmental healthcare agencies I've worked with are very into open-standard file formats and open-source software. Unlike many other groups and organizations, these agencies are excited by the idea of having their formats vetted by many other people, improved upon, and used to further research and patient care.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 5:23 PM on January 13, 2006

Wow -- now that the folks at SANS are endorsing Ilfak's patch, and have provided an MSI file suitable for mass-distribution via policy files, there really is no excuse for this not being on every sysadmin's critical installation list first thing tomorrow morning. And since Microsoft has indicated to SANS that no patch will be forthcoming from them until around January 9th (read the end of that SANS link), there's really no point in waiting any longer -- just install the third-party patch now,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 9:37 PM on January 1, 2006

This question may be a bit naive but is this that much of a worry to those running a good virus software?

Yep, it's a huge worry. Lemme explain. The vulnerability is that WMF files allow the execution of random bits of code under the right circumstances, and a user's computer can be directed to display those files during completely normal computer usage (e.g., just browsing the web, or reading email). That's not what screws up your computer,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 10:48 AM on January 2, 2006

Loquacious, I have verified that I, too, can manage to get my AV software to alert me to a potential exploit, despite the fact that I have Ilfak's patch installed (WinXP Pro SP2, all hotfixes). I just cc:ed you on an email to Ilfak asking about this, but I suspect that the reason both of us see this behavior is just that our AV software is being a bit overreaching, not that we were actually vulnerable. On this machine, I'm running Symantec NAV, and the trojan identified was Bloodhound.Exploit.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 10:52 AM on January 2, 2006

timefactor: Are there any reputable sites with "safe" versions of the exploit that one can use to test one's vulnerability?

Yep, here are a few: Harmless WMF-Exploit test files, a few other test files.

Note that your antivirus software might complain that they have found exploits on those pages, but that's not because Ilfak's patch isn't working, but instead because your AV software is using heuristics to scan the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 2:18 PM on January 2, 2006

Also, viewing this file (a WMF file generated by Kevin Gennuso, vetted by SANS) on a protected system should cause no wrongdoings, but on an unprotected system, will launch the calculator (specifically, calc.exe) and quit Explorer (explorer.exe). On all my systems on which Ilfak's patch has been applied, I get nothing at all; in a VMware image of an unprotected system, I get a calculator and a quit Explorer process.
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 2:21 PM on January 2, 2006

The good folks at SANS are now providing a good MSI installer of Ilfak Guilfanov's patch for use in corporate, distributed-installation environments. The SANS site is a bit overloaded right now, but I'm a bit loathe to mirror the MSI (since two MSIs have been pulled in the past 48 hours for silently failing on older operating system versions, and if this one gets pulled, I don't want to still be providing it).
posted to MetaFilter by delfuego at 8:28 AM on January 3, 2006