MeFi comment:
"Valleywag's renaming of their post from something along the lines of "Boing Boing loses credibility" to Did the Internet's free-speech guardians try to hush up a girl-on-girl love affair is shitty
Fucking A. I had the vague impression..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Everyone's all happy about this bear getting saved, but nobody cares about Bear Stearns.
That's because at least this bear shat in the woods. It helped cover up the smell wall street left...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
2 days ago
Ask comment:
"Nature's Avenger is an organic herbicide made from citrus oil. It's certified organic and loses it's herbicidal properties in about four hours. The way it works is by breaking down the waxy coating on plants that helps them retain moisture. The plant..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by GardenGal
12 days ago
MeTa comment:
"The London Mayor Thread is one of my favorite threads. It was great because I learned a shitload ablout local London politics by eavesdropping on a conversation that I never would have heard otherwise. Local posts can be great if they're, you know,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by whir
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Fuck. Good luck Ms. Macefield, whereever you are. Seattle is better for the likes of you.
And if someone wants to put their money where my mouth is, I'm happy to donate if I don't get laid off on thursday. Tearing the house down and erecting..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Slarty Bartfast
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"American soldiers herded the detainees into holding pens of razor-sharp concertina wire, the kind that's used to corral livestock.
That's fucking insane. No-one would ever use concertina wire for livestock. Livestock are valuable and you don't..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tinatiga
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"When I was a child, I asked for blocks. Instead, my mother provided me with a reciprocating saw and some hardwood scraps. The gift of creativity and self-reliance was something she couldn't have purchased in any store. Sometimes, the greatest gift..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by Locative, gaspode, urbanwhaleshark, klangklangston, nebulawindphone, Blazecock Pileon, magicbus, jessamyn
4 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Oh shit, do you know what this means? It means that, in 2008, the part of Ralph Nader will be played by Hillary Clinton. I. Fucking. Love. It." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Wow. That CNN interview. Jimmy Kimmel was a condescending prick,...
Wait. Full-fucking-stop. I don't watch CNN and haven't for years but the only way I can parse this sentence is that Jimmy Fucking Kimmel is now pretending to be a fucking..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Women should taste their own menstrual blood to reconcile themselves to their bodies, declared Germaine Greer in the seminal feminist text of the 1970s.
Wow, "seminal" is *so* not the word I would have chosen there. Patriarchisterical!..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Baldons, Locative, Reverend John, beandip, Artw
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"Soergel wrote a great paper difference between a taxonomy and an ontology. Essentially, a standard taxonomy/thesaurus/controlled vocabulary has only three relationships, "broader term", "narrower term," and "related term...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by susanbeeswax
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Not too surprising really, after all you never hear people complaining about how the piano ruined music either.
Actually, people argue for hours about the ramifications of piano tuning on Western music. I have some extremely strong feeling on the..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by acid freaking on the kitty, Sitegeist, wires, humannaire, Ludi
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Man, who'd have thought we'd see the day where a cephalopod enthusiast put his foot in his mouth?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by marble
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"An elderly woman has been arrested and charged with fraud after she tried to sell a large corundum stone for $20 million, passing it off as a giant hunk of ruby crystal,
Corundum and ruby are the same..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by koeselitz
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Apropos of very little, my final presentation in Management of Information Organizations consisted of a version of 'El Paso' performed on the ukulele and lyrically adapted to tell, instead of a tale of love and death in the old west, the story of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by kimota, gubo
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"Babysit or bring them food. If you can't babysit, offer to hold the baby so they can engage in such luxurious as excretion or basic hygiene." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mosk
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's like throwing salt over your shoulder when you spill it. Pointless, but who does it hurt?
That's why I buried several bags of salt in the garden prior to putting my house up for sale. What could it hurt?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by stavrogin
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Uh, many women of the third world would be happy to stop "breeding" if they could get access to contraception, its use was culturally sanctioned and not forbidden by custom and religious law, and men would co-operate. You want the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by oaf
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"What should we call it, "difficult working conditions"?
"Enhanced Labor Relations," please." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Anything
8 months ago
Ask comment:
"Pre-nups are awesome. Basically, they're an instrument to ensure that the business aspects of a marriage do what you and your intended want them to. For example, your intended might want a pre-nup that states explicitly that you *are* intended to..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by oaf, whitneykitty, shotgunbooty, noether, gauchodaspampas
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Illegal under Federal Law.
Nahh, we issued a citizen's signing statement." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by tehloki, atrazine, Peecabu, the_bone, Malor, delmoi, RussHy, By The Grace of God, mullingitover
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Joel Salatin is a fundamentalist Christian. Remember that, it influences one's discursive style. His point is not that he can't get away with skirting the laws and regulations, it's that he doesn't want to have to get away with anything. He is a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by lodurr, lalochezia
10 months ago
MeTa comment:
"If there's interest in library science/classification theory I'd be happy to share some of the teaching load. I don't have the knowledge/motivation to shoulder the entire load but I know there's enough knowlegable people on metafilter (hildago, I'm..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by paduasoy
10 months ago
MeTa comment:
"There were hardly any geologists on wagon trains.
That's not true. Following the precedent set by Lewis and Clark each official wagon train (as certified by the Bureau of Western Expansion) was require to have a geologist, a buffalo hunter, and a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Miko, The Confessor
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"DNA can even be transferred to the cells of foetuses, as has been shown in newborn mice. Here transfer probably took place via the placenta (Doerfler and Schubbert, 1997).
Technically, this would mean that you owe the biotech companies $X..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by dabitch, tehloki, dejah420, MikeKD
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"My favorite part was when the guy fell down.
Seriously, the world needs more videos with a "Fall" tag." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Those who posit that Apples to Apples is a casual gaming experience have never played it with a group catalogers, taxonomists, and various librarians. Those people are out for blood!..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Blazecock Pileon, jragon
Last year
MeTa comment:
"While I'd rather post jokes, I should mention that when I flagged the post, my cursor got trapped in the new div. This is frustrating because I page down using the space bar and, not having my cursor in the main page, I was unable to do so.
The..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by stet
Last year
MeFi comment:
"DUUUUHH-ble.
posted by phaedon at 8:06 PM on April 26 [+]
[!]
Um, I'm stupid I guess, please delete me and allow me to move on
posted by phaedon at 8:07 PM on April 26 [+]
[!]
Um, I'm stupid I guess, please delete me and allow me to..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Frankieist, Pope Guilty, brundlefly, infini
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Did Metafilter get mentioned in the monthly ayn rand newsletter or something? Did digg turn blue? Seriously, wtf?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by delmoi
Last year
Ask comment:
"Crap, I meant to be all helpful and link to the book at your local public library, but there's some sort of session thing going on. Rest assured, they have it and I'll kick an OPAC vendor in the shins next chance I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by susanbeeswax
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I somehow suspect the involvement of the world's tallest man in this one. I'm not sure how, but I'll get to the bottom of it..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nekton
Last year
MeTa comment:
"Ha ha, The Deej caught teh gay!
I met my wife in library school. I had a metafilter account and she did not. Then matt opened signups and the doors to passion were opened! Open signups saved my marriage.
The awkward part was when I suggested we..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by arcticwoman
Last year
