ITS NOT A BLACK NAME. ITS OUR RANCH. ITS OUR HOME. WE ARE FREEEEEEE
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 12:04 PM on April 24, 2008

I didn't see Be Kind Rewind but I thought the whole point was that the amateur remakes were comically bad? This one was impressive!
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 7:44 AM on March 31, 2008

Surprising that she can sing like that sitting down!
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 5:47 PM on March 15, 2008

I tried jumping out of a plane and I recall there was no big SNAP recoil when the parachute opened. I believe it unfolds and inflates in stages over the course of a couple of seconds, which results in a more gradual slowing down than the movies make it seem.

Good Lord you people are wound up tight.

Well, this post *was* supposed to amuse us or something, right? Forcing your cat to participate in your extreme sports hobby is... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 11:00 AM on March 15, 2008

the economy above subsistence-level farming is moribund due to the lack of infrastructure and capital

There's a great TED talk about how the infrastructure that's missing is market infrastructure. Due to a lack of communication technology, transportation networks, pricing standards, regional stability, and quality certification, small farmers are at the whims of the tiny pocket markets where they happen live and this gives them no control, a lot of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 9:57 PM on February 27, 2008

What are singles supposed to learn by doing this?

Seems like it's more of a "live the way we want you to for 30 days" kind of challenge than anything else.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 3:43 PM on February 27, 2008

My wife and I tried this twice last year, before the whole church challenge thing, and while it was fun while it lasted, both times our experiment ended with a UTI.
posted by you just lost the game at 4:12 PM on February 27 [+] [!]

Rack up another eponysterical post for this thread... someone tell the jackass who maintains the index.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 5:03 PM on February 27, 2008

Thanks for all the added links, everyone. I had no idea this was such a genre out there!
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 3:38 PM on February 15, 2008

I am sympathetic to everyone who has significant web hosting bills to think about and was hit hard by this, but as a more casual "vanity domain" Dreamhost customer, and a happy one at that, my attitude is to chill the fuck out and give them a chance to work things out. It was a royal fuck-up, a one-time pooch-screwing that arose from more or less a typo. And - big surprise - it's proven a little more complicated to undo than irate customers would hope. But don't let your reaction hinge... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 11:21 PM on January 18, 2008

SO not looking at this...
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 11:55 AM on January 9, 2008

While calling it a "Home" nuclear reactor does generate interest (and some ideas for a King of the Hill plotline) it does not appear that this is intended for single family homes.

Toshiba has developed a new class of micro size Nuclear Reactors that is designed to power individual apartment buildings or city blocks.

To jonjacobmoon's question:

WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU GOING TO PUT... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 9:12 PM on December 22, 2007

Try and explain to the people who live near Yucca mountain that nuclear has no environmental impact.

Yeesh. Try explaining to the people who live near Yucca mountain what an environment is.

Sorry, now I'm snarking. I realize it's a slippery slope, but I've never considered anyone's unqualified desire to live in the asshole of the world a convincing reason to hinder a more rational domestic energy policy,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 9:16 PM on December 22, 2007

The solution is obvious: an in-car nuclear reactor.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 2:05 PM on January 6, 2008

None of you got even a little twinge of pride and hope from Obama's speech?

I liked the part where he shouted out his wife. That was genuine. If he let himself be like that more often, I'd like him a lot more. He's way too put together.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 11:38 AM on January 5, 2008

Giuliani is out of the news just now because he's hanging back

I don't get this on two counts:

1) Isn't there time to campaign in every place you need to? Maybe not but I don't know very much about it and it seems crazy to step back and give your opponents this kind of press.

2) Even if Giuliani hasn't visited Iowa, stepped out of a train and kissed some babies, yadda yadda, isn't he still the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 12:57 PM on January 5, 2008

I swear this is the VERY FIRST TIME I have ever cheered at the words "what a fag" in the comments section of a blog post.

With huge apologies to fags everywhere.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 10:00 PM on December 27, 2007

Any first female PM of a muslim nation gets a candle lit by me. I don't give a shit how nepotistically her fortunes derived. Is any American who labors under GWB really going to get uppity on that issue?
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 9:55 PM on December 27, 2007

It sounds like the main point of this post is that it's not any kind of water-related sensation that makes waterboarding torture. Not water in your sinuses, not water up your nose, not some feeling of holding your breath.

What makes it torture is the autonomic, visceral I'M DYING reaction it teases out of your nervous system. Sounds like some serious psychic and physical shock.

I have to ask. If this isn't torture, what is it? Seriously, I'm not... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 9:57 PM on December 22, 2007

This is not a huge human rights violation or a good reason to cancel Xmas but it is pretty fucking jacked. 3rd party sites are going to send pings to Facebook so people there can see what you've been up to on those sites? Nuts. Stupid. Retailers will spam the shit out of this capability. And for Facebook's part... it's just hubris. Bad feature. I don't give a crap about Facebook for the most part but for people who do, this is lame. There's no way to pre-emptively opt out of this feature... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 11:40 AM on November 21, 2007

Now if he had said "Why don't you shut up, you sweat from a baboon's balls," that would really have been something!
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 6:54 PM on November 13, 2007

isn't the whole raison d'etre of the U.S. policy in the region the establishment of democracy? ...Backing Pervez et al surely doesn't help the cause.

Neither does backing Saudi or Israel. But we're in the middle of a long transition out of our Cold War strategy in the Mideast, which was to back anyone who wasn't already aligning themselves with the Soviets.

That's at least a straightforward proposition. I frankly don't quite... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 9:08 AM on November 4, 2007

They shoulda made the window bigger and offered less zoom. Maybe there are people who really need to examine the paint flakes one at a time, but I didn't find much that was discernible past like 10% zoom.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 9:44 PM on October 29, 2007

I can't take a dump!!
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 9:37 PM on September 7, 2007

I would be surprised if the prosecutors let Vick off with anything less than one year in prison because the public outcry would be enormous

HAW. HAW. HAW.

Where is the public outcry about hundreds of other things of greater importance? I have no doubt that we've arrived at a point in American culture where someone can admit to torturing animals to death but still carry on a public career like this. It'll be swept under the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 9:55 PM on August 20, 2007

I mean, WTF, OJ? What was that shit about?

Well, for one thing, that shit was about not admitting guilt because admitting guilt meant life in prison or the death sentence, not *maybe* a year behind bars.

Who knows? If Mr. Vick was literally fighting for his life, we might see another huge long clusterfuck trial over this, too. But odds are that, given that the kind of prison time we're talking about is probably less than such... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 10:01 PM on August 20, 2007

I hope it's an overstatement to say he's become obscure. Maybe it's just because I'm from CA and an English major but I got fed good helpings of Jeffers growing up. I guess he needs to have one of his poems appear in a movie, or to have a Helena Bonham Carter movie made about him, or something...

Jeffers is one of those poets who appeals even to people who hate poetry.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 7:38 AM on August 9, 2007

Disgusting that he simply copied and pasted the same response onto the 8020 blog and this Flickr forum:

"There have been a lot of questions from the community today about us rewriting history and we think it is important to say that we have no intention of rewriting the history of JPG Magazine. When 8020 was created we felt a photography magazine was a perfect first title to start with..."

Um... craft corporate communications much?... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 12:35 PM on May 16, 2007

Paul's wife responds for him. seems to be confusing a case of friendship ruined by business - a very old phenomenon - with some new internet-age phenomenon.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 9:53 PM on May 16, 2007

I mean, really, you all say he made a bad business decision, but truly, people, he is a good husband. Why can't you understand that???
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 9:54 PM on May 16, 2007

The topiary house number near the curb is awesome. Completely. I'm not so sure what's terribly "original" about topiary, though...?
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 3:28 PM on May 16, 2007

I guess metafilter left the cutting edge a while ago.

Get posting and take us back there.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 2:30 PM on April 21, 2007

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posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 8:37 AM on April 12, 2007

great post, karl!
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 11:05 AM on March 24, 2007

"One is none. Two is one. If you really need one, no less than three will do. Bring five."
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 11:11 AM on March 18, 2007

It amazes me how this article attempts to effect some shock and outrage, yet reads like porno for pedophiles:

wouldn't the different colors of lipstick smear together, destroying the desired rainbow effect? Not once, however, has another question been posed: How many boys could successfully receive seven blowjobs in an hour? Surely even the adolescent male at the peak of his sexual prime needs at least a few minutes to reload. One would assume that the first... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 10:18 AM on March 18, 2007

Man, the Pacific Rim is FUCKED UP.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 9:39 AM on March 18, 2007

So more or less the surveillance society is bad because it reveals to the police:

1) the color of my eyes
2) that I'm into watersports
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 10:46 PM on March 11, 2007

I hate bitchfests about who's blacker than who.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 3:12 PM on March 4, 2007

"Hey my man, how you know this song?"
"I grew up in the suburbs, man, I can't help it!"
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 8:27 AM on January 29, 2007

someone was going to do it, weren't they?

Oh come on, pyramid_termite. Someone was going to steal that car with the unlocked doors, weren't they? Someone was going to eat that pie on the windowsill, weren't they? If it wasn't you, the very next man to come along would have shot that stray cat for sport, wouldn't he?

Thanks for stooping to your lowest expectations of folks and validating/exemplifying them for everyone watching.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 11:28 PM on December 29, 2006

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posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 2:00 PM on December 21, 2006

(that's what you do instead of a . when you're glad the fucker's gone)
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 2:01 PM on December 21, 2006

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posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 12:17 PM on December 13, 2006

there is something that you absolutely never hear from a male friend who is hymning his latest (female) love interest: "She's a real honey, has a life of her own … [interlude for attributes that are none of your business] … and, man, does she ever make 'em laugh."

Now, why is this? Why is it the case?

It's not. It's total bullshit. I have a few significant exes in my history of dating women, and I often cite one of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 8:54 PM on December 12, 2006

Am I missing something? Is it funnier that it's a real-country-nobody-knows instead of a fictional-country-that-sounds-like-a-real-one?

I totally agree with you, actually, though one thing did just occur to me. If he uses a real country, he can say afterward: 'Obviously none of this is true. We know that. Anyone who does a little research will know that. It's verifiably farce.'

If he doesn't use a real country... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 12:21 PM on November 16, 2006

This is no instance to debate valid use of force. These are some lousy cops and they should be fired for the sake of good ones who need to occasionally defend a valid and professional application of force.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 11:08 AM on November 11, 2006

That's about the stupidest thing I've ever heard, vorfeed. Have fun getting shot.
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 11:10 AM on November 11, 2006

LOL
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 11:12 AM on November 11, 2006

posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 9:33 PM on November 6, 2006

mrow
posted to MetaFilter by scarabic at 11:09 AM on November 3, 2006