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Freeways Without Futures
I actually consider it a little bit sad that freeway-demolishing efforts are Norquist's calling card, when they seem to me to be the weakest element of his New Urbanism toolkit.
In my opinion, Norquist did wonders for Milwaukee. When I lived there, the city made the leap from a slightly beleaguered rust-belt city into a glistening metropolis -- seriously, if you haven't been to Milwaukee in a decade or two, check it out. The downtown and third ward areas were turned... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by eschatfische
at 10:28 AM on September 28, 2008
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The state of hipster typography
How can this thread have gotten this far without a mention of Rushmore, or the other Wes Anderson films that really originated this colored-pencil typographical affectation, at least in their DVD releases?
posted to MetaFilter by eschatfische
at 7:20 AM on September 5, 2008
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Shepard Fairey, Plagiarist?
This FPP reminds me of the one where various riffs from Stereolab songs were compared with similar riffs by musicians that they were referencing. Yes, of course they do. Soon you'll tell me that Disney (and co.) didn't create the characters of Pinocchio or The Little Mermaid. Or that Weird Al didn't write the lyrics for "Like a Surgeon." Or that Frank Sinatra didn't record the first My Way.
In short: of course his work references prior work. The name... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by eschatfische
at 3:17 PM on March 18, 2008
Er, that example was supposed to be Weird Al writing the music for "Like a Surgeon." I'm quite confident that Al wrote the lyrics for that one.
posted to MetaFilter by eschatfische
at 3:18 PM on March 18, 2008
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What is Mechanical Turk?
Wow. If this is a scam, it's a great one. If it's not, it's kind of creepy.
Case in point: the domain's registered on GoDaddy to an "MTAI, Inc.". The Hostmaster's E-mail address is a HotMail account. Making it reek of scam. Yet the IP space it resolves to is Amazon's. And the images are loaded directly off of the Amazon server farm.
Very, very odd stuff.
posted to MetaFilter by eschatfische
at 9:22 PM on November 3, 2005
And the images are loaded directly off of the Amazon server farm.
Oops. The thing about this which keeps this practice from reeking of scam is that the images are custom "Mechanical Turk" images, and have "mechanical-turk" in the directory structure on a legit Amazon server.
posted to MetaFilter by eschatfische
at 9:26 PM on November 3, 2005
MeFi post:
An earlier generation of VoIP.
Mr. Cat is comedy gold, I tellya.
Looks like I screwed up the Online! Traveler link with a nested HREF -- it was the same as the main link.
posted to MetaFilter by eschatfische
at 9:21 AM on October 7, 2005
MeFi post:
Coats
What on earth is the name of the first song in this clip? It's killing me.
posted to MetaFilter by eschatfische
at 8:25 PM on May 12, 2005
MeFi post:
David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE
For Lynch, that's a relatively detailed and clear plot summary. What was the one for Blue Velvet? "The love of a boy for a girl is a worm" or something?
My awakening to the world of art and cult films came reading the monthly HBO guide at my childhood home and coming across the absurdly concise plot summary for BLUE VELVET: "Curious teen finds severed ear."
"That," I thought to myself, "is... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by eschatfische
at 3:48 PM on May 12, 2005
MeFi post:
Guilty or Innocent?
Now, I need to admit my bias. I went to high school with Alan, sat behind him in Geometry and English, talked with him on occasion, and always thought of him as upbeat, smart, kind and slackful. While Derf wrote of his creepy experiences in high school with Jeffrey Dahmer, my interactions with Alan were the exact opposite; Alan was the kind of guy who was into bands like They Might Be Giants, The Cure, had a focus on theater production; he seemed to have a pretty stable life. If I'm not... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by eschatfische
at 6:59 PM on February 16, 2005
MeFi post:
Nothing--you're screwed.
Er, what *is* the security risk of the Windows command interpreter (cmd.exe)? Is it just to make it hard for people with rootkits? Seems to me that you'd want to keep it around for ping and ipconfig, at the very least.
posted to MetaFilter by eschatfische
at 4:20 PM on December 13, 2004
MeFi post:
You won't.
The director of many (or all?) of those ads was David Fincher, which explains the awkward juxtaposition of the jubilant, feel-good soundtrack and of the dark, creepy visuals.
Also, those ads were for the Bell Labs division of AT&T that was spun off into Lucent; not the curiously bathetic version of AT&T that just pulled out of the consumer landline market. They're honestly not as far off as I had expected.
posted to MetaFilter by eschatfische
at 7:08 AM on October 31, 2004
