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Rapidly-moving short stories?
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13 days ago
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You may ask yourself, how do I work this? David Byrne on robots
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Last month
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"I wish that this "quoted for truth" meme would bugger off back to DailyKos or wherever it came from and never darken metafilter's door again, in either full or abbreviated form...." [
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"The enterprising necromancer will easily be able to obtain human remains by manufacturing them from their natural source: the accursed, hated living. If he or she is willing to venture briefly onto land, such a dark lord could raise a small squad of..." [
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Last month
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"Has anything ever been added to the social apps based on that wiki page? It seems more like a graveyard for ponies, especially because there's no way to indicate how popular any of those social applications actually are are amongst mefites. I'd..." [
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"Of possible interest is sfmunicentral.com, which contains both a live snapshot and an explanation of that cryptic Muni map that you see in most of the downtown stations. Fun fact: the whole thing is generated by having a web cam(!) pointed at a..." [
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2 months ago
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"Ooh, it's the perfect excuse for me to post this link: George Saunders, Victor Pelevin, and why surrealism has become the framework for our mediated lives...." [
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2 months ago
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"Philosophy Bites features a bite-sized, accessible interview with a philosopher on a particular topic once a week or so. I don't have much background in philosophy and I really enjoy it...." [
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2 months ago
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"I assumed the shotgun was for hunting the poor. I mean, what do you guys use yours for?" [
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2 months ago
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Sitting With Fire
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2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Hi everybody, editing the wiki is very easy. You just hit the "edit" tab near the top (you may need to create an account first). I've often wished that the boyzone page there was a little more substantial, and I would encourage other..." [
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3 months ago
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"For a little background on the boyzone stuff for users who may have missed the epic threads of, uh, last November, there are a few links on the wiki that attempt to summarize what was a long and sometimes contentious discussion - that page could..." [
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3 months ago
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"Additionally, it is quite a disingenuous rhetorical technique to say "I could talk about what a liar this person is, and I could trash them, but I won't."
Thanks to AskMe, I happen to know that the formal name of this particular..." [
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3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"you wouldn't find it at all odd or inappropriate if the Pope came out with a "position" on fingernail clipping?
When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast..." [
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3 months ago
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"No fixed pushers, and no magnet skateboards."
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3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"premortem: when I've got multiple tabs open and I close the one I'm on, it will automatically go to the tab listed to its left.... not the last tab I was using.
That's the way I prefer it, personally, but if you install the Tab Mix Plus extension,..." [
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3 months ago
MeFi post:
6 Differences
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4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Class Goat, once you get to level five you will see the swoondles. It takes a little while to get past level one, you sort of need to think laterally but not overthink it. Just keep trying...." [
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4 months ago
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"I have found that the show is immeasurably more irritating now that I've read this post about the Lost writer's script style from MeFi's own Matthew Baldwin. Also: McSweeney's handy synopsis (spoilers ahoy).
In regards to the main article, I..." [
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4 months ago
MeFi post:
The Last Stand 2
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4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"do you have any fucking idea how hard it is to smoke beer?
I don't think you're using that beer bong correctly." [
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4 months ago
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"The most useful thing I've found about Last.fm is that you can easily get your information out of it via RSS, so you can export that information to something like SonicLiving, which can email you if a band you listen to is about to play a show nearby...." [
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4 months ago
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"I agree with everything orthogonality said. MySQL does have the advantages that it's more user-friendly, plus it's got much better docs (last I looked) and a larger userbase (meaning a more active user community, helpful when you have questions, and..." [
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4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I just wanted to drop in and, apropos of nothing, declare that this SF Bike Coalition slogan bugs the hell out of me. One fewer car! FEWER! Damn you, bike advocates!
On the other hand, I think every FPP post I've ever made has at least one typo..." [
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4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Maybe I'm drunk, but the simulation link just shows me a blank screen and some music playing in the background. Do I need to start peeing on my monitor to start the game?
please answer..." [
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4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"David Hadju was recently interviewed by (mefi's own) Sound of Young America. I haven't read his book, but it sounds pretty interesting; among other things it dates the moral panic arising over comics back to their early origins in the late 30's,..." [
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5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"What are the economics of bike stealing anyway? Why do people steal them, and what do they do with them once they're stolen?
Here's a somewhat interesting article from a San Francisco alt-weekly about this topic: Chasing My Stolen Bicycle. It..." [
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5 months ago
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"If you want to rely on your semi-obscure MetaFilter fame (and I would, personally) I don't think you could do much better than a stencil of the wolf from Be Safe and Smart on Metafilter. Seems like it would be easy enough to either photoshop out the..." [
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5 months ago
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"For the Loma Prieta I was in a video game arcade in Berkeley and probably a good 1/2 of the patrons just kept playing their games, blase as could be. I thought it was fun, personally, though that's undoubtedly because nobody I knew personally was..." [
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5 months ago
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"Great post. One of the things that interested me about this case was the heavy layers of irony - the Bush administration arguing against the state of Texas to spare the life of a convict, on the basis that the US needed to respect international law...." [
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6 months ago
