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From the Improv Everywhere people comes the
Urban Prankster blog to keep track of delightful shenanigans around the world.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist
at 10:46 AM on June 11, 2008
(20 comments)
Bush interview with Politico: "For the first time, Bush revealed a personal way in which he has tried to acknowledge the sacrifice of soldiers and their families:
He has given up golf."
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist
at 4:13 PM on May 13, 2008
(121 comments)
Make your own attack ad.
The Democratic party is uploading all its "tracker" videos of the top Republican candidates out on the campaign trail, for use by anyone for anything. "The party hopes that thousands of eyes might find something the mainstream media has missed, or that a new way of juxtaposing the video with something else will be revealing about the candidates," says
the NYT. Gimmick or political sea change?
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist
at 7:46 AM on November 28, 2007
(61 comments)
Mainers: I need bar and cheapo hotel recommendations for Portland this Friday.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CunningLinguist
at 7:01 AM on October 1, 2007
(8 comments)
Help me find a "safari grill" - the collapsible square metal box my parents used 50 years ago in Africa to grill food over burning newspaper.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CunningLinguist
at 8:58 AM on August 9, 2007
(14 comments)
Approaching a stranger for whom you feel pity – good idea or lousy?
posted to Ask Metafilter by CunningLinguist
at 5:12 PM on July 22, 2007
(23 comments)
"It seems like a really original and interesting read."
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the first line of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is one of literature's most famous, wittily kicking off one of the most beloved of all classics. And yet, 17 British publishers failed to recognize it and rejected the manuscript when Jane's name and the title were changed. What happens when the gatekeepers of literature are illiterate?
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at 10:35 AM on July 19, 2007
(124 comments)
Guess who we're having for dinner? Danish shock artist Marco Evaristti lippoed some of his belly fat,
fried meatballs in it and
served it, partaking himself. He also canned some of the
Polpette al grasso di Marco and sold at least two cans for
$23,200 each. Cannibalism? Extreme autophagy? Trenchant comment on plastic surgery, taboos and consumerism? Or just really really gross?
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist
at 8:26 AM on January 17, 2007
(70 comments)
Pho
(pronounced fuh), Hanoi's signature beef broth scented with ginger and anise, is one of the world's great culinary glories. Turns out it's not an ancient dish, but a 1950s-era syncretic product of the French occupation of Vietnam, which introduced the notion of boiling beef in a
pot au feu (which may be the origin of the name). The heady, fragrant noodle soup is a global
hit, prompting an
international pho conference,
several good blogs, and a sensual national obsession: "
When Vietnamese talk of pho they think of sex: 'We say that rice is a spouse, whereas pho is a lover.' " "
Pho is life, love and all things that matter." Tips on
eating and
cooking pho - recipes and more inside.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist
at 11:42 AM on January 10, 2007
(105 comments)
Hiya, I need help. I want to plan a reunion of a large number of disparate people next spring and I need advice and maybe a tutorial on this wiki thing I keep hearing about.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CunningLinguist
at 7:45 AM on December 1, 2006
(7 comments)
NYC Mefites, a proposal: those of us who aren't going to Vegas for the Jonmc-Pips nuptials might welcome the happy couple back with a toast. Say, next Wednesday (9/27)?
posted to MetaTalk by CunningLinguist
at 6:11 AM on September 19, 2006
(23 comments)
Bought from a slave trader and put on display at the Bronx zoo:
the strange, sad story of Ota Benga, a Pygmy with filed teeth brought from the Congo to America in 1906.
Here are a couple of contemporary news accounts of the controversial exhibit. After the zoo, Benga tried to make a life in America, studying to be a missionary.
"But what he really wanted to do was to tell everyone in this country that his people were dying, and why. I think he thought that eventually they'd listen. But they never did. That, to me, is the real tragedy."
In 1916, at the age of 32, he built a ceremonial fire, chipped off the caps on his teeth, performed a final tribal dance, and
shot himself with a stolen pistol.
Creationists say the story illustrates "the racism of evolutionary theory" and "the horrors that evolutionary theory has brought to society."
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist
at 6:16 AM on August 7, 2006
(35 comments)
Yes, it's time for yet another tiresome wireless connection conundrum. If you're brave and true, come take my hand and follow me into the
posted to Ask Metafilter by CunningLinguist
at 6:29 AM on July 21, 2006
(21 comments)
Related somewhat to the post below, I'd like to thank everyone who has started adopting the custom of adding "resolved" or "updated" tags to their questions. Browsing those tags can be very interesting.
posted to MetaTalk by CunningLinguist
at 6:03 AM on June 28, 2006
(15 comments)
Does anyone have any idea why my laptop suddenly stopped connecting to any of the various wireless networks in my building, but connected immediately to CompUSA signal when I took it into the store this morning?
posted to Ask Metafilter by CunningLinguist
at 9:32 AM on June 27, 2006
(19 comments)
The fantastic new Favorites feature has made me realize I have a poll/chatfilter dilemma. I've always supported the policy of deleting stupid "what's your favorite color, I'll go first, I like blue" questions, but I've been trolling the site marking my favorites and it turns out that so very many of what I consider Mefi's finest moments are also very, very chatty.
Exhibits inside.
posted to MetaTalk by CunningLinguist
at 6:58 AM on May 18, 2006
(19 comments)
Is it too early for another NYC meetup? Everything sucks for me right now and I could use some revelry. Who wants to come out to celebrate 06/06/06?
posted to MetaTalk by CunningLinguist
at 5:17 PM on April 24, 2006
(16 comments)
Jazzfest in New Orleans: tips for a first time visitor? It's been asked before (pre-Katrina) and I've bookmarked all the New Orleans threads, but I'm asking again just in case.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CunningLinguist
at 7:24 AM on March 26, 2006
(9 comments)
Easy list-making software? I'm looking for a program that will let me generate a simple packing list that I can reuse every time I travel.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CunningLinguist
at 6:53 AM on March 19, 2006
(15 comments)
Calling all chefs: How can I "shred" raw chicken to re-create the spicy shredded chicken from my local Sichuan joints? Is it just a matter of slicing the breast into thin matchsticks? That sounds arduous and also sounds like it would produce stiff strips of chicken instead of the tender floppy shreds I'm trying to copy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CunningLinguist
at 8:38 AM on February 26, 2006
(19 comments)
That thing called love.
"National Geographic Photographer Jodi Cobb scoured the globe to document how people define love and how it fits into their lives." Some great photos and interesting commentary.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist
at 10:12 AM on February 17, 2006
(17 comments)
MefiNYC: Who wants to go see
Grumblebee's play? There's already a meetup
being planned for the 11th, so maybe we could go then, or another night altogether? The show opens Thursday.
posted to MetaTalk by CunningLinguist
at 5:50 PM on January 29, 2006
(23 comments)
Nazi swing music from the 30s.
FMU's terrific blog presents mp3s of songs by Charlie and His Orchestra, a big band assembled by Hitler's minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, to spread the Nazi message abroad even while trying to stamp out jazz and swing domestically.
"Leave it to Goebbels to take the music of The Andrews Sisters, Paul Whiteman and Irving Berlin and fill it with venomous rants against Jews, America and the British."
Vol. 1 is here. Some
history. And now I want to see
this movie about the band.
via BB
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist
at 7:06 AM on December 10, 2005
(20 comments)
Dinner Parties! I'm looking for impressive recipes. How did you last knock your guests' socks off? A few minor restrictions and links to previous great threads inside.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CunningLinguist
at 5:06 AM on November 27, 2005
(18 comments)
NYC computer repair: can anyone recommend a reliable place I can take my sickly laptop to get its
power connector fixed? Bonus points for someplace in Manhattan.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CunningLinguist
at 6:31 AM on November 15, 2005
(15 comments)
