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"Then I tried to find out what exactly an Information Architect was, failed in a brief effort (best guesses: Pretentious Librarian, Pretentious IT Guy, or Pretentious Web Design Guy, but I can't be sure of those),
Well, I can rule out the first...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Jaybo
6 ¾ hours ago
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"Sounds like a recipe for generations of shared parasites.
Or for generations of shared symbiotes." [
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8 days ago
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""Unwritten" — Natasha Bedengfield
"Wave on Wave" — Pat Green
"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" — Mary Poppins soundtrack
"Cheeseburger in Paradise" — Jimmy Buffet
"Ob-la-di,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
8 days ago
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"No, you were right, Jacqueline; my mistake! (I can has sinamin rolz nau?)" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by davemee
9 days ago
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"I need to find some typographical "errors" about cinnamon rolls to correct.
Jacqueline, you must have meant cinnamon roles, i.e., the various tasks and responsbilities that people involved in the cinnamon industry have to carry out...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by davemee
9 days ago
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"But Wikipedia is for when the answer doesn't matter. To learn the truth about something that matters, start with the library.
Starting with Wikipedia, even for something that matters, is fine, as the references listed therein are often useful...." [
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2 weeks ago
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"It's theoretically possible that the other ingredients would make a difference, but unlikely as a practical matter--as far as the question of "will it burn," spirits can be considered a mixture of ethanol and water, and I doubt there's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Monochrome
3 weeks ago
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"I was curious to see pictures of the shrine, so I poked around a bit and found some: 1 2 3" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by fiercecupcake
3 weeks ago
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"Driving without insurance: laws in all 50 states" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by GPF
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"The client doesn't care who, specifically, was responsible for the errors; only that there were errors, and now, that they are corrected, and don't happen again. Blaming someone else within your organization is unprofessional, and would only serve..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tastybrains
Last month
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"Is it okay to be a hypocrite as long as you are a liberal or an atheist?
Just because someone draws a line somewhere other than the extremes of "a wedding photographer must photograph any wedding he is asked to do, regardless of the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rtha
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"doesn't that make the metal radioactive?
No, no, no, a thousand times no. The short explanation is that radioactive materials are radioactive because the nuclei of their atoms are unstable. Microwaves are orders of magnitude less energetic than..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Monochrome
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"Not just a city, but Kansas is flatter than a pancake.
This actually brings up an interesting ambiguity in the meaning of "flat." The article linked in support of this is apparently measuring "flat" in the sense of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zippy
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"First: echoing all the "quit; you are not overreacting" advice above.
Second: I have no "marketable" skills - I have experience as a secretary and a BFA in writing/literature.
Experience as a secretary is a marketable skill..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by showbiz_liz, minervous, nooneyouknow
Last month
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"It wasn't as nasty as it sounds, but it did get 7 favorites in the few minutes that it lived
Some comments stay up for years and receive no favorites at all. You should be immensely grateful for the favorites yours did receive in its short..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ThePinkSuperhero
Last month
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"Covers come up fairly frequently on the green, under the tags cover or covers or coversongs. Here are a selection of the threads, for your convenience:
Why is it called a cover?
Covers better than the original
Bad covers
Covers translated from..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by the cydonian, jabberjaw
Last month
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"I should mention that the friend lived at least 500 miles away
I'm reminded of hearing the story that Penn (of Penn and Teller) once remarked that many of their effects seemed impossible simply because people grossly underestimated the lengths to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Richard Daly
Last month
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"I think prefpara and loquacious are misinterpreting "it's about the links, not about the discussions."
No one argues that MetaFilter would be just as good without the discussion, nor that the discussion is an (not necessarily the most)..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by horsemuth, ErWenn
Last month
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"And in this context, as stated so very eloquently by languagehat, there is only one correct pronunciation of read.
But if gman didn't know that, a survey-type question remains a possibility.
I'm not claiming a survey-type question is the only..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Reverend John, Blazecock Pileon
Last month
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"Said a tourist from Egypt's old land,
"A statue lies wrecked in the sand.
That king of kings, Oz,
Is forgotten because
Things didn't turn out as he'd planned...." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by ErWenn, GrammarMoses
Last month
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"The second question violated WP:POINT.
What's that? That's a Wikipedia guideline, not a MetaFilter guideline? Well, it should be. In fact, it's a good guideline for civilized people in pretty much all areas...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by confusionball, klangklangston
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"Recommended reading on this topic: The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead. Discusses both deliberately and naturally preserved bodies, including incorruptibles (and not just Catholic ones), and the people who research them,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nthdegx
Last month
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"'you' is frequently used as shorthand for 'everyone'
And answers which, individually, lead to the conclusion "some people pronounce it reed, and some people pronounce it red" would be appropriate for the question "how does everyone..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Reverend John
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"I find it immensely amusing that someone who is supposedly defending the proper use of language is arguing that "How do you pronounce read?" is synonymous with "How should one pronounce read?" Regardless of your desire to have..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Reverend John, turgid dahlia
Last month
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"To see the moon in the east around 8 p.m. would mean the moon would have to be full or near full. (Do you remember more specifically what phase the moon was in?) That might help to narrow down the dates.
Full moons during that period were on April..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rock Steady
2 months ago
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"GreggLD: Certainly many religious/social liberals post on MetaFilter, but there are many moderates as well, and several regular posters are Christians. What unites "MeFites" is... well, nothing at all. Most MeFites prefer it that way; it..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by EarBucket
2 months ago
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"The greatest accomplishments seem imperfect,
yet their usefulness is not diminished." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by salvia
2 months ago
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"Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife—chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Fiasco da Gama
2 months ago
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"There's literally dozens of "compromise" options that I've seen informally discussed, including ones like you've proposed. Perhaps one of those will happen between now and August.
But as for the DNC's official position, it appears that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Miko
2 months ago
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"Merriam-Webster also says "print out" is a verb only, and the noun is "printout."" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Nattie
2 months ago
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"Cue the inevitable "I fit the maps, so clearly they're right" and "I don't fit the maps, so clearly they're wrong" comments.
Missing from this overview, of course, is any hard definition of what marks someone as..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nicepersonality
2 months ago
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"Poking around some online dictionaries and thesauruses have given me a bit of insight.
"Lonely" means, more or less "sad due to being alone." It's actually a combination of two different concepts: "sad" and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by arcticwoman
2 months ago
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"The "we saw that we were naked, so we covered ourselves" story is a lot older than Puritanism. (Not saying that story is the origin of body shame, only illustrating that such a thing is much older than Puritans.)..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by moxiedoll
2 months ago
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"The imperitive statement, "Go to the store," contains an implied, "(You shall) go to the store."
Likewise, "There is rockets," contains an implied, "There is (a rocket launcher containing) rockets."
You..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by oaf
2 months ago
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"According to descriptivism, it's perfectly acceptable.
Depends what you mean by "acceptable." If you mean "considered acceptable by some groups in some situations," then yes. If you mean "objectively acceptable,"..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by languagehat
2 months ago
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"i'm actually kinda curious - is a caipirinha girly?
These are a recent favorite of mine, and I don't think they come across as girly. However, I think you will find that many bars (at least in college towns in the US) do not carry the cachaça..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by messiahwannabe
3 months ago
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"Nice! I am inordinately fascinated by "recent" ruins.
Here's the island on Google Maps." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
3 months ago
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"I'm asking about letting down the social mask and allowing others to see your internal struggles, insecurities, flaws, etc., rather than putting on a face that you think is most attractive.
Moderation in all things.
If what you are doing now is..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by elisynn
3 months ago
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"They're only linking to the pages. They're not actually copying the content from them. This is neither illegal nor even outside the bounds of generally accepted internet usage. Do you suppose the MeFites who make posts in the Blue ask permission..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by litlnemo
3 months ago
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"Other than Go, is there a game that cannot be destroyed by rote memorization?
"Destroyed?"
To play chess at the highest levels requires memorization, in addition to many other skills. To play Scrabble at the highest levels requires..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by peacheater
3 months ago
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"There once was a man from Peru,
Whose limericks ended at line two.
"Stopped" works better than "ended" here in terms of meter." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by boots77
3 months ago
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"Well, you'll want to start with bond lengths, which themselves are not exact and vary depending on the molecule there in. Based on these, and the structures shown, I'd say, as very rough estimates, 1800pm for tartrazine and 2200pm for Brilliant Blue..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by funkbrain
3 months ago
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"I'm not sure about appeal to motive--the Wikipedia article for that certainly defines it as the type of fallacy saulgoodman is describing, but if you click through to the sole reference that Wikipedia article cites, it defines appeal to motive as..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by saulgoodman
3 months ago
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"Caveat y is consistent with principle x because you did not contribute any time or money to scouting after you came to believe principle x. (I'm assuming you came to believe x sometime after 1993.)
Contributing money or time to them now that you..." [
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3 months ago
