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Sexual Healing.
"Sad stories and otherwise freaky tales from Florida's last sexual surrogate." A longish article, and fascinating.
posted to MetaFilter by five fresh fish
at 6:26 PM on July 3, 2008
(109 comments)
R.I.P., Arizona Parking Solutions.
Guy parks car without displaying his pass.
APS boots car. Guy dollies car
into his garage and invites APS to reclaim their boots. Or not; their choice: either way, they can't tow, he won't pay the fine, and he really doesn't need to be driving the car. This catch-22 upsets the owner. And eventually
APS goes off the deep end, booting nearly everyone's car in the community. The media becomes involved. And we become witness to a business owner suiciding his own business.
posted to MetaFilter by five fresh fish
at 7:55 PM on June 18, 2008
(131 comments)
I wish to insert a namespaced XML document into an (X)HTML web page. The "XML Data Island" trick is verboten. There appears to be two ways of accomplishing this. Both continue to elude me.
posted to Ask Metafilter by five fresh fish
at 5:44 PM on May 15, 2008
(16 comments)
Photographs → 3D Model of Landscape? I've seen software demos of 3D information extrapolated from photographs — so how can I use this tech to map my house-on-a-hillside into a relatively accurate Sketchup 3D model?
posted to Ask Metafilter by five fresh fish
at 5:40 PM on February 24, 2008
(8 comments)
Dumb question: does this "remove from activity" link I'm seeing on
MyComments do what I think it does?
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish
at 1:22 PM on January 27, 2008
(29 comments)
In Canada is it legal to require a blood test for (A) employment; (B) group insurance eligibility?
posted to Ask Metafilter by five fresh fish
at 10:26 PM on January 10, 2008
(15 comments)
A short and simple post:
one link to Leather Oaks. Enjoy the leather and rubber fetish of a high-fashion—modelling gentleman.
posted to MetaFilter by five fresh fish
at 9:00 PM on November 7, 2007
(31 comments)
Camera recommendation, please. Will be used exclusively for macro photography. Full-frame photographs of products from the size of a desktop computer to the sized of a BB. No great need for fancy features, just good digital images. Whatcha recommend?
posted to Ask Metafilter by five fresh fish
at 8:01 PM on October 18, 2007
(19 comments)
Clicking links ≠ open in new tab/window?
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish
at 8:24 AM on September 9, 2007
(10 comments)
Are these people qualitatively different from us? "I would think yes," says Hare. "Do they form a discrete taxon or category? I would say probably -- the evidence is suggesting that.
Psychopaths. They form about 1% of the population. They enjoy the excitement of power. Some choice
bits from Hare's book. The obligatory
Bush link, but, hey, it's got the test sections and the sad truth is that we do have some psychopaths in positions of power, though probably not the Presidency. [Gosh this is getting long] It turns out there's a
biological basis for it. Here's the
DSM description and some
detailed analysis/description (gosh,
I identify with some of those traits!) And here's some AskMe
fodder, "Are You Involved With A Psychopath?" And because of that lust for power... well, it could well be
your boss.
posted to MetaFilter by five fresh fish
at 4:07 PM on May 28, 2007
(112 comments)
These days
mefi tags all look about the same size (Opera 9.x, OS X). Is tweaking the math easy enough that the tag sizing could once again be a useful indicator of relative popularity? If not, no biggie.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish
at 12:25 PM on March 18, 2007
(26 comments)
Whu?
Bill O'Reilly does a respectably good interview with...
Marilyn Manson! This is surprising on so many levels. And the content, superb. Well worth the viewing.
[video link] via Cyberdork via Reddit
posted to MetaFilter by five fresh fish
at 7:50 PM on February 28, 2007
(63 comments)
Ouch.
You know that kid who just won't accept responsibility for his actions? Keeps making excuses, or denying the plain facts, or insists he never said such a thing...
Mom, you are soooo unfair!... Some of the Press haven't grown out of it. Glenn Greenwald gives them a spanking.
posted to MetaFilter by five fresh fish
at 9:18 PM on January 6, 2007
(99 comments)
I'm hoping this is a tiny pony request. Size of the cuddlier guide horses, p'raps. It is this: a [+] tag on the dateline of mefi front page posts. Clicking the [+] would add a link to one's Favourites tab.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish
at 2:29 PM on November 13, 2006
(20 comments)
I'm thinking about being waterboarded, just to see what it's all about. How can I do it correctly, ie. not end up dead?
posted to Ask Metafilter by five fresh fish
at 4:38 PM on October 28, 2006
(31 comments)
Meat is Neat.
We are but tiny machines. Remember the YouTube video of a funky animation of cellular activity? Here it is with a voice explanation of what's going on. Absolutely mindblowing.
some sort of embedded video, dsl-quality with sound. see here for other forms
posted to MetaFilter by five fresh fish
at 8:19 PM on October 27, 2006
(35 comments)
The ways in which AJAX breaks things.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish
at 3:12 PM on October 22, 2006
(25 comments)
Are teenagers the same around the world and through all cultures?
posted to Ask Metafilter by five fresh fish
at 10:42 PM on September 23, 2006
(20 comments)
How do I convince the boss that we need to deploy an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project.
posted to Ask Metafilter by five fresh fish
at 11:20 PM on August 16, 2006
(10 comments)
The Importance of Punctuation.
A single misplaced comma in a 14-page contact costs Rogers Cable a couple million dollars, and could have cost them tens of millions. Remember, folks, punctuation has meaning!
posted to MetaFilter by five fresh fish
at 8:37 AM on August 7, 2006
(56 comments)
BC Motorcycle Riders and Lawyers: is lane-splitting
actually illegal in BC, or
assumed illegal?
posted to Ask Metafilter by five fresh fish
at 3:01 PM on July 15, 2006
(15 comments)
Background music for a store... free, unencumbered, appropriate, and available through the net?
posted to Ask Metafilter by five fresh fish
at 6:49 PM on July 4, 2006
(18 comments)
Where does Mexico end and the USA begin?
posted to Ask Metafilter by five fresh fish
at 6:23 PM on June 26, 2006
(29 comments)
Whenever I visit http://www.metafilter.com/index.cfm?sortby=mycommentedthreads the page load stalls at about 36kb for a good ten to twenty seconds.
Every time. What's up with that?
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish
at 8:14 AM on June 14, 2006
(12 comments)
Tips on driving a 20' moving truck...
posted to Ask Metafilter by five fresh fish
at 8:02 AM on June 9, 2006
(21 comments)
How the hell did Fuzzy sink this
hole-in-one?! It hangs for looooong seconds in the rough, then
accelerates directly to the hole. I swear, there were magnets involved!
Quite possibly the most amazing hole-in-one ever.
posted to MetaFilter by five fresh fish
at 11:15 AM on June 4, 2006
(54 comments)
Please tell me everything about shipping and receiving for small business...
posted to Ask Metafilter by five fresh fish
at 1:55 PM on April 18, 2006
(7 comments)
Whatever happened to the idea that soon we'd be able to flag a thread as "watch," so that one doesn't have to post some crappy comment just to ensure the thread appears in one's "My Comments" list? There are many threads I wish to monitor, and few I wish to actually comment upon.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish
at 9:46 AM on March 17, 2006
(11 comments)
Back in the day, what did contemporary viewers of
The Andy Griffith Show feel about the show? Was it good and wholesome, or sordid and immoral? Was it 'funny ha-ha' or 'funny omg i can't believe they just did that!'? Realism or surrealism? Sitcom or soap? And all that jazz.
posted to Ask Metafilter by five fresh fish
at 7:45 PM on March 3, 2006
(24 comments)
Imponderables: Many (most?) liquids ("things"?) will crystallize when cooled slowly. Why not Jello™?
posted to Ask Metafilter by five fresh fish
at 5:07 PM on February 23, 2006
(11 comments)
A monstrous discovery
suggests that viruses, long regarded as lowly evolutionary latecomers, may have been the precursors of all life on Earth.
"We haven't even begun to scratch the surface. The numbers are mind-boggling. If you put every virus particle on Earth together in a row, they would form a line 10 million light-years long. People, even most biologists, don't have a clue. The general public thinks genetic diversity is us and birds and plants and animals and that viruses are just HIV and the flu. But most of the genetic material on this planet is viruses. No question about it. They and their ability to interact with organisms and move genetic material around are the major players in driving speciation, in determining how organisms even become what they are."
posted to MetaFilter by five fresh fish
at 3:57 PM on February 17, 2006
(60 comments)
Married to the Wrong Sex.
A short, poignant article on a gay man's decision to marry heterosexually, because it's what his family and society expect.
posted to MetaFilter by five fresh fish
at 8:31 AM on February 15, 2006
(176 comments)
I gotta young teen who, sad to say, isn't a great strategist and so on. Consequently, he gets his ass kicked in most every competitive-style board or card game. Got any recommendations on great cooperative-style games?
posted to Ask Metafilter by five fresh fish
at 9:10 PM on February 9, 2006
(24 comments)
