While I can still use passes, I flew around the world 01/10/05-01/22/05, visiting my brother in Perth and relatives in London.
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 3:13 PM on March 10, 2005

hey troutfishing.

Ever consider the possibilty of salt use in the wintertime propping up haline circulation? I haven't tried a calculation but am guessing the amounts would be way too small. Just a thought.

/lives by a salt mine
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 4:12 PM on February 23, 2004

Good stuff. Wait, thats ... my summer job!
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 6:23 PM on December 11, 2003

Some of the results from the geographic literacy survey are pretty amazing, like 1 in 5 people being albe to locate Sweden. Also, why aren't each of the self-locations 100%? There is usually only one option on the right continent...
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 8:05 AM on November 15, 2003

The Trans-Canada has a similar setup for grizzly bears near Banff. (greenways, that is)
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 2:02 PM on November 10, 2003

Why don't the airlines just donate their empty seats?

The airlines are mostly still in a good bit of trouble from reduced passenger traffic. A good moneymaker is to charge much-inflated last minute fares to people traveling on short notice to funerals. I assume the same good will applies here.
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 9:51 AM on November 7, 2003

What the fuck is the white house doing photoshopping press releases?! And with lesser quality than a centrally planned photoshop department, for shame.
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 6:34 PM on November 6, 2003

First letter of word : other letters :: 0 : 1 doesn't seem to work with/without punctuation, backwards/forwards, original sequence/verse, or any combination of these for the 00001-11010-->A-Z system. ASCII looked good until i got the End of Transmit value.
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 11:08 PM on October 28, 2003

or with 0 and 1 reversed
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 11:08 PM on October 28, 2003

*passes into sleep trying to figure out which hexagram looks most like a Whopper*
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 11:14 PM on October 28, 2003

My pants are off. Do you love BBQ sauce?
This comes from reading Quicksilver and biased I Ching.
Will our fearless leader Matt play along? He's swell.
Hoping you pick up the beat, Quonsar. So cute.
George Bush belongs in a kennel with Karl Rove.
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 4:35 PM on October 29, 2003

Yeah, I too will be disappointed if this is it... I mean I thought the reason it was so incoherent was because ed had to match a binary code or something; if not, well...
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 5:26 PM on October 29, 2003

from the article you linked Alison:

Agents of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs (ICE) said that so far they have photos and documentation to confirm only 38 items from the museum are still missing. Although they suspect additional pieces may have been stolen, they declined to speculate on the scope of the additional uncatalogued items that may have been looted.

not knowing something is lost doesn't mean it is found
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 6:05 PM on September 28, 2003

Truman made the ( horrendous ) choice to incinerate hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians

toasty
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 12:21 PM on September 4, 2003

The problem with invasive species is that they are put into a new environment without any of their old predators and diseases. Therefore they thrive and they "outcompete" the native species because of an artificial advantage.

It really comes down to idosyncracies in the environment that the species is introduced to whether it becomes a problem, not such a sure thing as you think. Many ecosystems are robust enough to resist invaders, this... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 10:42 AM on June 6, 2003

Ignatius: I am incredulous of the cool implementation of the radical ideas outlined in PNAC. The level of political sophistication and journallistic spin achieved is amazing, to obtain such broad-based support for ideas either immoral or detrimental to their supporters. Now, how can we use these superpowers for good?!
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 10:37 PM on May 30, 2003

When will you guys wake up & smell the new coffee. When the next election is stolen?

IMHO the GOP is going to legitimately win in 2004. As Winston Churchill (maybe) said, the most compelling argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 5:54 PM on May 25, 2003

turned my sister's Volvo into a bong

care to elaborate?
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 7:27 PM on May 14, 2003

Amazing as it is, apparently there are only 4 PalmFacts.

Seriously though, I think this sort of visual symbol of excessive wealth is a suprising window into international finance; it gives you a view through the other end of the gas pump. Perhaps their benefactors will be gracious enough to raise the sea level just enough to dampen everyones enthusiasm?
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 2:31 PM on May 13, 2003

Mark Doner -

1. The US doesn't just print money when it needs to buy things. Last I checked, the inflation rate was very low.
3. The US has a trade deficit, which means more dollars leave the US than come back into it -- it is 'losing' money on international trade, not 'making' money.

The idea is that these two combine to benefit the US; dollars are printed to buy things overseas, and inflation is low because these... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 3:58 PM on April 23, 2003

Dollars are transferred overseas (physically or otherwise) to procure goods and services, supply drops at home. The money stays abroad where it is amassed or circulated. In response to increased domestic demand, the central bank (I admit you've got me there) increases lending, based on national collateral, to major banks which then circulate the money (physically or otherwise) into the economy. Bottom line is an unchanged domestic money resevoir and a net increase in capital.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 7:35 PM on April 23, 2003

Lingle said raising the state terrorist warning level would unnecessarily scare people. She also said she is concerned people would begin to ignore the alerts if they fluctuate often.

sounds like good advice for the DHS
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 5:19 PM on March 3, 2003

This happened a few years ago in much the same place, with the "benefit" of a slew of nikes washing up onshore on Vancouver Island. Minus the amusing side effect of a brisk size trading marketplace in remote areas, this mostly just means a bunch more trash on the beach. With container ships working on the probablility of most of their high-stacked loads like this arrving safely, flotsam and jetsam fluxes on the coast are here to stay. Blows: nicest part of the world, IMHO.
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 8:37 PM on February 26, 2003

How do you know that the guy who's spending $20K on a cellphone isn't also giving away $500K to various charities

the 20K would help just as much
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 8:57 AM on December 16, 2002

Yeah, except for coastal cities, like Toronto, Montreal and Vancover.

I assume this is a reference to rising sea levels, by which only Vancouver would be affected.
posted to MetaFilter by copmuter at 12:32 PM on December 14, 2002