MeFi comment:
"It's interesting reading the comments in BB's current top thread. People are trying to slip references to this in sideways. Right now, I'm seeing:
Those sure are some colourful off-colour gummies! Funny, a lot of things on Boing Boing seem to be..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by zippy, Baby_Balrog, DU, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, liza, humannaire, roystgnr, furtive, JHarris, Blazecock Pileon, shmegegge, Leon, spiderwire
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"That's fucked up. A Mars bar is the same as a Milky Way. *pouts*
Almonds, man! Fucking almonds!
Actually... Holy shit. I haven't had a mars in years, and I just realized (via wikipedia) that the US version of the mars bar I was used to (and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"What I missed from NCFOM were the usual Kubrick references. No more time for a quick in 'n' out, anymore.
I suppose There Will Be Blood handled that for both films...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"First they came for...
The Socialists.
The Communists.
The Terrorists.
Piglet.
Imus.
Michael Medved.
the drunk drivers.
the fat people.
the redneck trolls.
the skeptics.
bandwidth.
the toddlers.
Hillary Clinton.
the homeschoolers...." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by willie11, rusty, Aversion Therapy, nasreddin, sixswitch
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Fuck. That's it.
NO ONE ON THE INTERNET CAN EVER USE THAT NIEMÖLLER BIT EVER AGAIN. IT'S PLAYED. IT'S THROUGH. FUCKING STOP IT, OR I'LL MOTHERFUCKING COME FOR YOU...." [
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favorited 79 times, recently by willie11, Caduceus, Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks, spaceman_spiff, olya, bravelittletoaster, lazaruslong, mosk, flibbertigibbet, ymgve, revgeorge, sidesh0w, migurski, shinynewnick, Stylus Happenstance, bitter-girl.com, Leon-arto, hydropsyche, misha, CruiseSavvy, humannaire, ekstasis23, Lentrohamsanin, ZakDaddy, sondrialiac, sleepy pete, The Great Big Mulp, lizzicide, graventy, WinnipegDragon, Reto, rusty, Skorgu, tommasz, dellsolace, pardonyou?, sadiehawkinstein, snownoid, Kinbote, dabitch, Songdog, bumbleintuit, tomcooke, mad bomber what bombs at midnight, Smart Dalek, ruelle, nasreddin, imperium, Jpfed, bowline, kingbenny, ghost of a past number, nervestaple, jmdodd, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, stenseng, The Light Fantastic, phrontist, bertrandom, Mid, TheOnlyCoolTim, sixswitch, hjo3, Meghamora, sutel, loquacious, UbuRoivas, dosterm, gsteff, ZaphodB, bunnytricks, LucretiusJones, penduluum, Drastic, dirtynumbangelboy, Blazecock Pileon, FelliniBlank, drjimmy11, lysistrata
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"If the dems play things right, they have a legitimate chance at Georgia in the fall. With Bob Barr potentially splitting the vote, and a huge African American turnout...
Making McCain fight for Georgia would feel really sweet, is all I'm saying...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Slap*Happy, grabbingsand
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Do Republicans have a sense of design?
Ugh." [
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favorited 18 times, recently by oaf, lupus_yonderboy, interiority, raztaj, ZaphodB, ymgve, Senor Cardgage, turgid dahlia, Sangermaine, chiababe, glycolized, Optimus Chyme, mikedouglas, BrotherCaine, Blazecock Pileon, doctor_negative, JBennett, cashman
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"My opinion is that some of you, have a axe to grind with the police and officials at the school, probably from some encounter other than reading about this one incident. Look, I not condoning what they did, but I can sense hostility way beyond the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Clay201
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"My guess, not any more than any other large family falls apart. It's life, and honestly while western culture may frown on it... 8 really isn't anything incredible
Sextuplets really are extraordinarily rare, and having so many children of exactly..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by BrotherCaine, mek
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"If this had been a rock concert where this had happened, the national guard would have shot a few kids, and concerts would be forever banned.
Altamount was worse (four deaths). No national guard, no concert ban...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, jonmc, doteatop
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Politically, he's weak. Why he's weak, we can discuss. I've thrown out that it's because he's politically inept.
He's going to outraise McCain by between 300% and 500%. Just throwing that out there...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by EarBucket, brain cloud
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I've said Obama is weak, because he is.
He's raised more money than any candidate in the history of American electoral politics. He will outspend McCain in the general by a factor of at least three.
But money doesn't matter in the American..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tachikaze
Last month
Ask comment:
"So Class Goat and fantabulous timewaster have given two different descriptions of the second law. CG's description is based on classical thermodynamics while ft's is based on statistical mechanics. It is one of the most remarkable results of modern..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by fantabulous timewaster
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Man, what a weird sense of the sacred. You know, it was a cheesy, profit-oriented development 100 years ago, it fell apart, and now it's going to be a cheesy, profit-oriented development again. Turn, turn, turn. The cyclone ain't the fucking Taj..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Freeman Dyson the spaceship guy?
The only person by that name in Wikipedia, if you'd like to read some biographical information. I worry about dogmatism in science, and I think things like MrMerlot's "Well its semantic...." analysis..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Dillonlikescookies, turgid dahlia
Last month
MeTa comment:
"What do you want the moderators to do?
Nonresponsive noise often gets pruned from AskMe threads.
Frankly, I think that incomple's mistake was including the line "I'm looking for any suggestions to ensure success, or warnings about why this..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by TheOnlyCoolTim
Last month
MeTa comment:
"The corpse in the library writes "Ooh, is this the Emily Dickinson thread?""I hide myself within my flower, "CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP"
I think you're confusing Deep in the Heart of Texas with The Yellow Rose of Texas. Yellow..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ShawnStruck
Last month
MeFi comment:
"OMG, #8. Those preinstalled shitpiles. So, so useless; so, so painful. Why do they even bother? Why do they spend the money? It just doesn't make any sense.
Seriously: have you looked at some of those Sony media management packages he talks..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Kind of Ben Franklinesque.
I've never had a beer in my life...
So this made try and look up to origins of that Ben Franklin quote about beer's existence indicating that God loves us and wants us to be happy.... Looks like it's a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I think we've lost sight of what news is. News doesn't take a side. That's propaganda.
It's worth noting that this is a uniquely American view. Most Western European news providers have an explicit viewpoint; the argument is that by making the..." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by jlbartosa, Monochrome, streetdreams, flatluigi, aqhong, liza, JHarris, owhydididoit, bettafish, workerant
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Am I reading this right? They're trying to turn a violation of the MySpace TOS into a federal crime?
That's scary as fuck, people." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by wires, namewithoutwords, crabintheocean, arcticwoman, etaoin, Jilder, vbfg, loquacious, rokusan, orthogonality, crunch buttsteak, oaf, MikeKD, fleetmouse, grouse
Last month
Ask comment:
"If the monitor was in a public place, then yes it would be that simple (in some jurisdictions there may be an issue of privacy but a setlist isn't a person )
But if it is a fixed expression of an idea, its a copyrighted work, and one cannot make..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Murakami knows the market, that's for sure. He recently had an exhibition touring the US that featured the gift shop as its centerpiece. He has boldly and proudly sold out from day one...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by melorama
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I wonder if the global food crisis can be solved by using ground up greedy wall street bankers, mortgage brokers and "the giant global poo of money" as fertilizer.
Let's do a quick back-of-the-envelope.
Right now, the limit on..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by bpt, Canard de Vasco, Popular Ethics, peppito, rusty, morganw, nebulawindphone, Floydd, penduluum, odinsdream, felix, Leon, darth_tedious
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Also, Mr. Nissan's name wasn't always Nissan; it was originally נִיסָן, which is usually Romanized as 'Nisan'. Of course, the car company's name was originally 日産....
Wouldn't unicode domain name resolution make the world a kinder place?..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Guy Smiley, eritain, neetij, koeselitz
Last month
MeFi comment:
"How is it possible to design a sanction so as not to hurt a country's economy?
How about personal travel and financial restrictions against a small number of specific government higher-ups and businesses they directly control?
This whole debate..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by 1adam12
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Speaking of which, anyone notice how AV Club comments rank *just* above YouTube in stupidity?
Wow; I completely disagree. They're mostly cogent and literate, and real idiots tend to get shouted down. There's certainly a lot of cattiness and..." [
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favorited 6 times
Last month
MeFi comment:
"She should go back to prison and serve out the rest of her sentence. Anything else justifies every other inmate breaking out of prison. Anything else justifies every white collar criminal walking off their golf course prisons and onto a waiting jet..." [
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favorited 3 times
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"In Michigan, they found something strange among the group's graffiti: the word 'Sinsiniwa.' They couldn't figure out what it meant until a few months later when they arrived in Dubuque, Iowa to investigate the death of Matt Kruziki. His body was..." [
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favorited 1 time
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Help, I'm trapped in a bad revision of Les Miserable.
This reminds me: I recently heard someone refer to an attitude of blind worship of the law without regard to true justice as Javertian. I thought it was a great coinage: "The Javertian..." [
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favorited 5 times
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"No.
This is a technique that men use to sexualize and objectify women in their daily lives. It's extraordinarily distasteful and offensive, and I hope for the sake of all the women around him that your friend learns to stop doing this...." [
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favorited 23 times
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"Here's a pretty comprehensive review from back in '71 that basically rules out any concerns about genetic damage:
From our own work and from a review of the literature, we believe that pure LSD ingested in moderate doses does not damage..." [
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favorited 1 time
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I thought I was sick of campaign stories; thanks for restoring my interest in political news!
The Nazi stuff was good enough, but the obsession with porn and dildos is really the icing on the cake. Add in the dragon and demon imagery, and this..." [
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favorited 1 time
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"As much as I try, I can feel little but schadenfreude. Sorry, Mr. Bob.
The CIA’s Counterterrorism Center gave Castelli his head. Lady, ever the good soldier, went along.
"I was just following orders."
It turned out the CIA boys..." [
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favorited 9 times
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"If a single pie in the face of Thomas Friedman--regardless of whether or not he deserved it, and regardless of whether or not it's a valid form of protest or just an an empty and counterproductive stunt--can elicit the strong reactions it has..." [
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favorited 3 times
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm so sick of the arrogant pundit class and all the empty talk about "going green" that a million pies probably isn't enough.
Could you imagine the carbon footprint of a million pies, though?! Completely unsustainable...." [
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favorited 1 time
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Here in Japan there's an entire industry of afterschool cram schools, and far from being paid, the students (or rather their parents) fork over plenty of yen for tuition.
Even the impoverished minority students in underfunded inner-city Japanese..." [
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favorited 1 time
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Do we want people that are motivated only by short-term money to go to college? A college degree is wortwhile in part because it sets the recipient apart from people without another four years of education - if we were to encourage otherwise..." [
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favorited 3 times
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I have this very ugly feeling that in a couple of years some of these Bush appointed CIA aparatchiks are gonna find themselves getting a bullet in the brain. You can't piss on these field agents with out some repercussions.
Actually, I'd be most..." [
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favorited 4 times
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Some context for this:
This program is one of a species of incentive based poverty-alleviation programs technically referred to as "conditional cash transfers". They've been used a lot over the past ten years in Latin America, with some..." [
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favorited 1 time
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Well, I think the state of Georgia can safely ignore your self-satisfied indignation in considering how it seeks to improve the education it provides to disadvantaged adolescents...." [
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favorited 1 time
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I realize it is difficult to ask a young person to decide how much they value education for their own sake, but it is better than bribing people to get through high school.
You make a completely unjustified value judgement here: that it is better..." [
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favorited 1 time
2 months ago
