MeTa post:
The 2008 MetaFilter election prediction contest
favorited 13 times, recently by giantfist, sien, box, beagle, Mick, Dr. Zira, jacalata, scody, arcticwoman, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing, sambosambo, crossoverman, mullingitover
Yesterday
MeTa comment:
"The US Presidential Election effects everyone in the world to some extent and so I bring you a new carion cry: no effectation without representation!
I think you mean either "clarion cry" or "carrion cry...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by enn
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I've got to think about this some more, but I still believe we're not seeing much detail about how Paulson and his team will go about doing deals. I'm hoping they'll drive a hard bargain. We're certainly giving them all the tools necessary to..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Megami, weston
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"And it's a little absurd right. I mean, two weeks ago these guys had no idea that anything was wrong, and now we should just hand over $700 billion dollars for them to spend however they want, with zero oversight whatsoever.
What worries me the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by of strange foe
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Becker's argument strikes me a textbook example of the libertarian tendency to ignore all the data contradicting their position, on the assumption that no one has implemented real libertarianism yet. His first objection- that preventing people from..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by teraflop, nicepersonality, axon, R_Nebblesworth, bpt, AceRock, aeschenkarnos, Falconetti, tachikaze, dyoneo
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Its tempting to go grab a bunch of links to the nuttier things she's said and respectfully post them, but I suppose it won't change anyone's opinion. I sympathize with her, like I sympathize with every parent that's lost a child. But that doesn't..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by runincircles
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"That analysis misses some of the most interesting differences between their web platforms.
Most prominently, Obama uses jQuery, while McCain seems to basically limit himself to hand-rolled Javascript. This honestly probably suggests that..." [
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favorited 37 times, recently by yeti, liza, epersonae, gruchall, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, tippiedog, mrgrimm, yonation, agress, theiconoclast31, roll truck roll, kev23f, snwod, xena, GeckoDundee, the dief, like_neon, Leon, minifigs, finite, seanyboy, greta simone, loquacious, MikeKD, Mister Cheese, crawl, Richard Daly, Lesser Shrew, Deathalicious, spaceman_spiff, empath, gemmy, mullingitover, salsamander, orthogonality, nicepersonality, Optimus Chyme
Last month
MeFi comment:
"As far as I know, this story hasn't been reported in the media, but it is true. When Madeline Albright visited North Korea in 2000, one of the gifts she brought was a Playstation and a large library of games. Kim Jong Il loved it, and immediately..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Servo5678, matildaben
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Your "let them know" link is broken, which is appropriate, IMHO, since that's not really what MeFi is for." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pope Guilty
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Having now read through a few chapters of the Mazur's ebook, I have to say that there may be an interesting story in here about research suggesting an increased role for epigenetics in evolution, but it's completely obscured by Mazur's paranoiac..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by Telf, lalochezia, binturong, nasreddin, Inspector.Gadget, delmoi, fleetmouse, jeffvc, orthogonality, Blazecock Pileon
Last month
MeFi comment:
"For the record, making a weak post while intentionally being an asshole about it is, in fact, not endearing." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by longsleeves
Last month
Ask comment:
"There have been requests for a BookFilter subsite before. If you guys want to try to start a MeFi book club, just let me know what the first selection is and I promise to participate in the first round...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by chicainthecity, papafrita, Mmmmmm
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I think gamers should feel lucky that they patronize the only mass entertainment medium that is able to charge $60 per product. That may sound like a bug, not a feature, but the book, film and TV (excluding HBO) industries all face much more..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Smart Dalek, KokuRyu
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I loved the fact that on the night of the IN/NC primaries, the network momentarily eschewed fancy graphics in favor of Tim Russert explaining the math with a marker and whiteboard.
That's been his schtick for ever since election night in 2000. It..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by davidmsc
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I love DaShiv too. It's ruined my chances of parole, but nobody blocks my sun during exercise hour, fuck the warden's rules." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by ryanrs, sperose, theredpen
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Interestingly, several posters in this thread may be skirting dangerously close to endorsing Tony Blair's vision of liberal interventionism.
I've started working on MeFi posts about the situation in Zimbabwe several times over the past three..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Belle O'Cosity, jb
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Relatedly, it's important to note that this is just the Vatican astronomer responding to an interviewer's questions. This person has no authority whatsoever to speak for the RCC.
Not in a doctrinal sense, but the Vatican astronomer has long been..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by signalnine, DevilsAdvocate
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Mugabe's criticisms of sanctions are incoherent. The U.S. sanctions are basically personal financial and travel restrictions against a small number of specific government higher ups and the businesses they directly control. I'm not sure about the..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by 1adam12, Artw, n_s_1
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I feel bad for Yahoo. They've got some great engineers doing some great work- their YUI javascript library is seriously high quality (and has led the field of Javascript toolkits in several areas), their engineers have been at the forefront of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by damn dirty ape, treepour
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It sounds like this might be relevant to any kind of research in which people are asked the same question more than once, and inconsistent answers are thrown out- a standard technique in opinion polling, I believe...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by roll truck roll
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"In re: Stynxo...
these democrats or "independents" like to believe that they have the critical thinking skills to see the world objectively and to make a valid and progressive judgement of how the US really is. And these individuals sip..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mattbucher
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Don't forget the MetaFilter redesign contest. If you visited the site before, you'd hardly recognize it." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chrismear
6 months ago
MeFi post:
Free Congress
favorited 14 times, recently by drill_here_fore_seismics, moonlet, rkent, jeffburdges, longdaysjourney, ifthe21stcentury, plexi, l33tpolicywonk, spaceman_spiff, mazatec, ethel, revgeorge, jlweber, estherbester
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"That's the problem with lossy compression." [
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favorited 41 times, recently by pyrex, flibbertigibbet, tehloki, petsounds, blueberry, tarheelcoxn, blackturtleneck, rcade, Songdog, scrump, JHarris, blind.wombat
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"He also helped the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador lie to congress about the infamous story about babies being removed from incubators before the first Gulf War. Lying before congress to goad the country into war for a foreign power's benefit..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This app is fun, but definitely isn't a substitute for reading about the issues and their positions. Three examples:
I took the statement "An additional carbon tax on fuel will effectively reduce pollution" literally, since as far as I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nax
8 months ago
Ask comment:
"What program is reading the XML? If your XML parser supports XInclude, you can put your common elements in their own file, and then xinclude them from the real document, like so:
toaster.xml
realdoc.xml
This won't allow you to override..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jouke
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Another, even more depressing way to think about this claim: pick a random bacteria from the jar, before the maximum population was hit. When, in the history of that bacterial society, was it most likely to have been alive? Answer: right before..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nasreddin, gum
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"A big part of the problem is that the studios permit the theaters to take little to none of the box office revenue (I think the studios basically take all of the opening weekend gross, and the percentage then decreases each week). This makes the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rottytooth
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I just finished The Golden Compass two nights ago and yeah, it kicked ass. Hopefully, the media will try to set up a grudge match between these films and Narnia, because these stories will kick C.S. Lewis's ass. The four Pevensie kids get their..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by grabbingsand, unregistered_animagus, JHarris
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Are we doing actual predictions? I'll stick my neck out. First the easy stuff
No one will attack Iran
The number of U.S. troops in Iraq will never go lower than 120,000
Clinton wins the Democratic nomination, Romney wins the GOP nomination,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
10 months ago
MeTa comment:
"That "close your account" button has turned out to be a bad idea.
I'm not sure what the point of it is. Is it supposed to be a clever way of ridding the site of melodramatic people? Lots of websites provide a way for users to delete..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yerfatma
10 months ago
MeTa comment:
"If I understand this correctly, I really don't like it. In a general sense, email is a universally accepted standard for electronic messaging, and there's a huge array of tools out there to help people deal with it efficiently. Specifically:
Users..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by desjardins, mediareport, jack_mo, misozaki, Ethereal Bligh, By The Grace of God, blasdelf, Rock Steady
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This is why Pope JP II's decision to remove the role of the Promotor Fidei (Devil's advocate) from the canonization process was dumb. Before 1983, canonization was an adversarial process, with basically one lawyer ("God's advocate")..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Falconetti, Abiezer, the Real Dan
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I expect the large majority of new Windows desktop apps to be XP compatible well into the next decade, including games. Which ultimately is good news- restricting the functionality of desktop apps will hopefully make web apps more attractive in..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, hal9k, BaxterG4
Last year
Ask comment:
"I think it's hard to come up with a more evil sounding name than Kaiser Permanente." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tristeza
Last year
MeFi comment:
"The White House will continue rattling its saber, and leaking threatening stories like these to gullible journalists. But they won't attack. Gates is reportedly smart enough to have argued for closing Guantanamo, and he's been non-commital about..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ageispolis, Baby_Balrog
Last year
MeFi comment:
"There have been two related stories I've thought about making MeFi posts about lately, but didn't get around to. One is the massive refugee flows (possibly more than 3 million people) from Zimbabwe, mostly into South Africa. Because neither the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Abiezer
Last year
MeFi comment:
"That story actually just reminded me of how poor most video game criticism is, compared to, say film or book criticism (I'm a Metacritic addict). Video game critics seem to love to complain about things like the quality of the voice acting, or..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by BrotherCaine, billyfleetwood, Baldons, jjwiseman
Last year
MeFi comment:
"If you care about this, tell Reid to call the senate into immediate pro forma session to prevent a recess appointment.
You underestimate this administration. I'm willing to bet money that the appointment already happened this weekend, probably..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, amberglow
Last year
