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iRider.
Is it more than just an IE shell? Could it possibly be worth paying for? Can it really do anything that Firefox can't? Discuss.
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at 10:18 AM on April 5, 2006
(49 comments)
"The implant
is designed to allow signals from the motor cortex to be collected, processed and analyzed, eventually producing an interface with a personal computer."
It seems to work. Watch the
video.
posted to MetaFilter by bingo
at 8:06 PM on January 19, 2005
(23 comments)
Yahoo
feels the
heat. Yahoo webmail users logged in this morning to find that they suddenly have mailboxes with 100MB capacity, can send emails up to 5MB in size, and have a much nicer-looking interface.
posted to MetaFilter by bingo
at 6:06 AM on June 15, 2004
(53 comments)
Defamer.
LA is the world's cultural capital. Defamer is the gossip rag it deserves. Oh, but it's much better than that. Smart, funny, ever so slightly understated satire and snappy, sarcastic commentary. [via
wonkette]
posted to MetaFilter by bingo
at 6:16 PM on May 28, 2004
(43 comments)
Trusted Computing. Microsoft and friends are proposing some major
alterations to the way that computers work, the ostensible goal being to increase security. But
others say that the real goals are much more insidious.
posted to MetaFilter by bingo
at 11:08 PM on May 22, 2004
(15 comments)
The Hillbilly Housewife.
"I am just a humble, barefoot, hillbilly woman with too many irons in the fire like most folks...You will not find nutrional information with these recipe because I do not beleive that God intends normal, everyday eating to be a burden for His children."
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at 10:41 PM on May 15, 2004
(78 comments)
"It was amazing,"
says 101, "we went to club after club. We never paid a cover, we never paid for drinks. We were escorted to the VIP tables. In Minneapolis the Geek Squad has been around for 10 years -- they're treated like rock stars. I mean, when has a computer tech ever been treated like a rock star?"
"The
Geek Squad
offers a flat-rate service. You call them with a problem; they quote you a price; they fix the problem. No matter what. No matter how long it takes. And, each agent guarantees his work -- forever."
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at 12:58 AM on August 25, 2002
(14 comments)
Kansas City invaded by giant fiberglass teddy bears.
"Usually, teddy bears are soft and cuddly; these things are hard amorphous blobs. Nobody's openly ridiculing them, though, because no one wants to badmouth a project that benefits kids, some of whom are sick."
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at 9:52 AM on May 27, 2002
(12 comments)
The Animated William Blake
"embraces both the freak and the genius, illuminating the artist's visionary poetry with juggling and physical theater." Earthly delights include t-shirts and fortune cookies.
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at 11:45 AM on March 29, 2002
(4 comments)
A feminist critique of "post-feminist" fetish.
"It was bad enough when so many feminists supported Bill Clinton...'Sex positive' feminism, at its root, is really just another manifestation of patriarchy, because it fully supports men's 'rights' to seek pleasure wherever and however they wish."
(Clean site, but includes subject matter and links that may not be safe for work.)
posted to MetaFilter by bingo
at 12:37 PM on March 16, 2002
(18 comments)
The Internet Classics Archive.
Along with the
Perseus Project, part of an expanding effort to put all the wisdom of ages gone by online. After all, it's all in the public domain, right? There are so many translations of the ancient texts, so many onlne analyses by lunatics...when you search online for that quote from the Iliad, how much discretion do you use in determining how good the translation and commentary is? What are the most legitimate online sources for accessing apocryphal knowledge?
posted to MetaFilter by bingo
at 12:31 PM on March 7, 2002
(12 comments)
Shades of Gray.
"Environmental groups sent out a worldwide call to save the gray whale from a Mexican salt plant. They got millions of dollars and thousands of new members. But scientists found no threat to the whales." From part six of a series that explores the ecology of the gray whale, as well as the many different ways it touches various cultures, and some of the moral dilemnas that have emerged as a result.
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at 11:51 AM on March 4, 2002
(9 comments)
McG to direct first Superman movie in 15 years.
The now-discarded Tim Burton/Kevin Smith collaboration made more sense to me...seems that a less confident, more troubled Kal-el, living in a darker world, would take off the campy edge Superman stories often have, and draw modern audiences (especially today's teens). But surely McG (Charlie's Angels) and writer J.J. Abrams (Alias and Felicity) will bring us a smugly self-actualized Superman in a postmodern world full of kaleidoscopic action scenes. And that will never work as anything more than eye candy...will it?
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at 11:01 AM on February 17, 2002
(45 comments)
Did Max Bickford get a v-chip implant?
"...the FCC ruined television throughout the 1990s by allowing mega corporations and multinationals to gobble up TV networks and distribution outlets, including cable and satellite companies..."
Now that the big corporations own the content, they obviously have the right to change it. It's capitalism, pure and simple, but it may also mean bad TV. Does the goverment have the right, responsiblity, or obligation to to re-regulate the industry, just so the quality of programming improves?
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at 1:38 PM on February 15, 2002
(14 comments)
Joss Whedon,
only a few weeks ago, brought audiences what was arguably the best hour in television history with the musical episode. Then, last week, he brought us
a shameful don't-do-drugs piece of drivel. Has the best-written show on television finally gone bad, along with Willow?
I know there was a Buffy thread a couple of months ago, but so much has changed since then...
posted to MetaFilter by bingo
at 9:38 AM on December 6, 2001
(54 comments)
