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Sexual Healing.
"Sad stories and otherwise freaky tales from Florida's last sexual surrogate." A longish article, and fascinating.
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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 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)
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)
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)
H1t3r pwnd UK, USA!
A gunnery has been discovered, buried beneath a metre of iron-rich
Normandy soil. It was likely part of a ruse on the part of the Axis forces: a fake gunnery was also built, less conspicuously, and
it took the abuse. It was forgotten -- or the memory at least buried by the locals and those who fought there -- until recently. Now it appears to explain some puzzles about
Bloody Omaha [
pic].
posted to MetaFilter by five fresh fish
at 12:57 AM on February 7, 2006
(49 comments)
Choose your own adventure! You are the manufacturer of a premium product. Wal*Mart wants it. They want it cheap. Do you buckle to their demands and out-source, reduce the build quality, and make money on volume? Turn to page 67. Or do you keep your American employees, increase quality, and make money by targeting the higher-end market? Turn to page 28.
The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart.
posted to MetaFilter by five fresh fish
at 10:59 AM on January 19, 2006
(55 comments)
Simultaneously the
best and worst building demolition ever. IMO, the best. In the opinion of the wrecking crew... probably the worst.
posted to MetaFilter by five fresh fish
at 6:19 PM on January 1, 2006
(31 comments)
Canada boots out its government: the
Non-confidence Vote. A binding, non-confidence vote is being tabled and the minority parties -- which collectively hold a majority of seats -- agree to support it. It's also a bit historical: it has been more than a century since a general, binding non-confidence vote has been tabled all by itself, unattached to a big-issue item like the budget.
posted to MetaFilter by five fresh fish
at 12:42 PM on November 23, 2005
(134 comments)
Filmgeeks -- and I know there are many on MeFi -- may wish to check out
smallformat, the magazine for Super8, Single8, and 16/9.5/8mm enthusiasts. It's mother is the long-established German magazine of the same name. First issues went out the door only a few days/weeks ago.
posted to MetaFilter by five fresh fish
at 3:18 PM on October 26, 2005
(14 comments)
A Loon.
Sometimes when you open your mind too far, your brain falls out.
WATER:Flowforms, Vortex and- Implosion in Water was my entry point, having foolishly searched for "laminar water flow" whilst thinking about a fishpond project.
posted to MetaFilter by five fresh fish
at 8:20 PM on September 5, 2004
(20 comments)
The Toronto Healthy Houses
is "off the water grid." Potable water via rainwater collection; all other water use via black- and grey-water recycling. The
home-builder will be living in one of the homes and will sell the other. These houses also provide their own electrical energy.
Times, they are a-changin': the Healthy Homes are being developed using research funding from the
Canadian Housing and Mortgage Corporation, which is becoming very active in finding better ways to build affordable, efficient, liveable housing.
posted to MetaFilter by five fresh fish
at 3:14 PM on August 20, 2004
(9 comments)
Mindguard
... protects your mind by actively jamming and/or scrambling psychotronic mind-control signals and removing harmful engrammic pollutants from your brain. It also has the ability to scan for and decipher into English specific signals so you can see exactly Who wants to control you and what They are trying to make you think.
posted to MetaFilter by five fresh fish
at 9:11 AM on July 6, 2004
(11 comments)
Four letter words.
Mapped alphabetically to three-space, that is (ie. the 3space axes are the second, third, and fourth letters.) Interesting to see which initial letters tend to map to verbs, which to nouns, and suchlike. A nice example of data visualization.
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at 8:50 PM on June 10, 2004
(11 comments)
The War on Drugs
hasn't been working at all well. So let's make it even less sensible: harsher penalties, invasion of privacy, all that jazz. The proposal is surreal, but fits in with the rest of US Drug Policy: rapists aren't denied federal funds for post-secondary schooling, but pot-heads are; you can spend more time in jail for dealing weed than for murder; gonna deal pot, ya might as well deal speed, it's the same jailtime. And now... let's encourage dealers to sell pot with more carcinogenic tars!
[link goes to NORML, possibly NSFW, danger: encourages political activism]
posted to MetaFilter by five fresh fish
at 10:34 PM on November 26, 2003
(16 comments)
Our drunk-driving premier
has refused to resign because it "was on personal time." What kind of standards does your state or province demand of its leaders? Do your politicians get to sleep around, drunk drive, snort coke, cheat on their taxes, and so on? (Or, rather more to the point,
are they allowed to continue in office once caught?)
posted to MetaFilter by five fresh fish
at 1:04 PM on January 13, 2003
(48 comments)
