I'm pretty certain that's the most disgusting edible thing I've ever seen. Up there with that 20x20 In-N-Out burger that did the rounds a few years back. Yeeeuch.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 10:11 AM on June 17, 2008

Less the Washington Post, more Techcrunch (which gets syndicated on the Post). Interesting to see this come up; I wonder if the Post will clarify?
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 5:43 PM on June 16, 2008

I went to see this exhibition a couple of years ago. Tony Benn's in particular was inspiring, I thought.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 7:49 AM on June 12, 2008

This is exactly the kind of thing APIs are for. I want this integrated into Excel, stat.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 10:36 AM on June 8, 2008

I can only agree with Charlie Brooker's assessment of everything.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 9:04 AM on April 20, 2008

Other potential candidates for this technique include:

Pauly Shore movies without Pauly Shore
The Actor's Studio without James Lipton
ALF without ALF
Steven Seagal movies with everything edited out except for Steven Seagal
Dancing With the Stars without a sense of intense self loathing from all involved
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 6:42 PM on April 12, 2008

This just seems so mean. I mean, his movies are totally full of shit, no question. But let the man make them. But also:

I'm terrified of what would happen if he turned his hand to, say prog-rock or theme-restauranteurism.

I'm strangely excited.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 12:54 AM on April 8, 2008

This is really lovely. What an awesome find; thank you for posting it.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 2:15 PM on January 28, 2008

I love how Something Awful does what it says on the tin.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 1:46 PM on December 10, 2007

If the Democrats don't run with these - and they really, really, really should - can we maybe petition those concerned to grant permission for the rest of us to print them and run them everywhere? Newspapers, magazines, bus shelters, anywhere we can get it across? I'm not sure about We Didn't Start The Fire, as suggested above, but they also sure would make a great script for a TV commercial.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 3:35 PM on December 9, 2007

There is no point in living another day, for as long as I live I will never see anything cuter. Thank you, I think.

Also, squeeeeee.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 9:58 AM on October 28, 2007

This is a really good idea; the publishing industry is really hurting at the moment, and I wonder if this will open the floodgates.

Finding fiction online is a real pain; there are things like the New Yorker fiction section online, but I really wish there was a central repository for long and short form online stories, or even just links to them. (Or non-technical non-fiction, come to that.) Hell, if I had any contacts at all in the mainstream publishing industry, I'd... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 6:52 AM on October 19, 2007

Awesome to see my friend Paul among the singers, and I know he and edith were very pleased to take part. Bit o' class.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 9:03 AM on August 30, 2007

PS: So what did you use to record it?
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 9:11 AM on August 30, 2007

I can confirm that nomic as a drinking game is a great deal more fun if you're not completely absorbed by the theoretical machinations of the game proper. That said, in the long run you'd probably do better by just drinking something and, y'know, having a chat.

It's kind of one of those games for people who think they're really, really smart.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 3:59 AM on August 28, 2007

Apparently America has obesity problems?
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 4:45 AM on August 17, 2007

Harry Potter is just one symptom, but is nowhere near the cause. The fact is, the world has changed; there will definitely always be a place for books, but it's a different place to what it was ten years ago. Publishers and booksellers alike are scrambling.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 3:17 AM on July 9, 2007

Trader Joe's ftw. They can come to England any time they like.

Where Whole Foods may have a good impact is on the other supermarkets; I can see their lines being influenced by chains like this - assuming it has some success - to be less .. well, less unrelentingly crap.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 4:14 AM on June 29, 2007

I got a hug from Ray Davies once at a vegetarian restaurant in North London. It was exciting.

But not as exciting as when I met Timmy Mallett when I was 8. Holy god, I nearly had an aneurysm.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 2:28 AM on June 11, 2007

Pre. Ten. Tious.

Ow.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 3:18 AM on April 30, 2007

Bookcrossing is probably worth a mention here, being a well-loved and fairly long-standing community.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 10:05 AM on August 7, 2006

Heh heh heh, your username is quite appropriate.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 2:22 AM on July 18, 2006

All hail the arockalypse!
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 3:41 PM on May 20, 2006

Okay, so what did they do to that dog to get it to ride that bike ..?
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 4:28 AM on May 13, 2006

Also see: nomic.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 12:55 PM on May 5, 2006

Yes, but ... was Netscape really a threat to Microsoft's market?

Hell yes. Internet Explorer's deathly ActiveX technologies and OS binding is there for a reason - not to provide ammunition to kill Netscape with, but because both companies saw where the future of computing was going to be. (This is absolutely not about viewing web pages; networked applications are the ultimate in software-as-a-service and will be a mammoth, competition-killing cash cow... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 4:27 AM on April 28, 2006

sindark: Aww, I used to live there too! Next to the vicarage.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 8:47 AM on April 27, 2006

From What Infocard Is and Isn't:The browser, which also has to be up-to-date, recognizes that this object has a “type” parameter that identifies it as an InfoCard request. It therefore triggers the InfoCard dynamic link library (DLL) module.Subtext: hello proprietary Internet Explorer extensions!

It's a solution to a slightly different problem, but I'm going to sit here and whistle the OpenID song for a while.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 3:33 AM on April 23, 2006

There is a school of thought that says, "some people on the Internet have too much time on their hands".

However, please. There's a motherfucking goat on the motherfucking pole.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 9:48 AM on April 9, 2006

Ha ha, goat there first.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 10:01 AM on April 9, 2006

MetaFilter: Just pretend I'm saying all the stuff everyone else already said.

And also, if I had any free time at all, I'd be playing this with at least some of it.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 7:50 AM on March 8, 2006

You liberal pussies!!11 Why do you hate America?

Better?

Oh God, now I feel ... why, I feel like I want to go subvery democracy with my business ideals and evangelical Christianity! Who should I lobby first?
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 4:23 AM on February 10, 2006

Could this be the future of curriculum development?
But still, I think the field in general is in desperate need of some skepticism.

The problem in much of the e-learning scene is that they'll grab hold of a technology without fully understanding either how it works or the full implications. There are a lot of tech-wise people out there - Dave Cormier, Stephen Downes and George Siemens to name three - but there's also a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 9:12 AM on February 9, 2006

KJS: You're right, and this is true in any arena. But assuming you're going to use e-learning at all, there are two sides to the coin. You can't have the technology without knowledge of the pedagogy, and you can't have the pedagogy without knowledge of the technology. Problems arise in both cases, and ideally you've got to have (1) a team with good knowledge of both (often not the case), and (2) a willingness to explore both new technology and pedagogy as they arise. Web software is becoming... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 9:37 AM on February 9, 2006

Meehan is not the only politician toying with the Wikipedia.

Let's not kid ourselves that it ends there ...
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 12:00 PM on January 29, 2006

Maybe they can borrow that Burger King guy.

I'm not sure the Subservient Chicken is our best hope for peace in the middle east?
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 7:18 AM on January 20, 2006

It's an invasion!

I never dreamed that it would turn out to be the whales. They've always been our friend.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 7:04 AM on January 20, 2006

If people don't want their stories syndicated then maybe they shouldn't syndicate them with the really simple syndication system.

delmoi: Exactly. More than anything else this seems to be people jumping on the RSS bandwagon without realising what RSS is actually for.

That said, it opens up a can of worms for weblog providers, many of whom - LiveJournal is a big example, and I assume Blogspot and Wordpress.com... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 9:17 AM on January 19, 2006

I believe the purpose of RSS is to allow readers and writers to communicate more effectively.

For sure, and usage without credit or linkback is categorically wrong, and because the ownership of the feed goes to its author, they should be able to remove it from any aggregator (by force - i.e. .htaccess - if required). But I don't see why it's wrong to use content placed in a format designed for sharing it.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 9:28 AM on January 19, 2006

(I'm slightly playing devil's advocate here - I can see that it's undesirable and a lazy verging on irresponsible business model. But I think different people expect different things about RSS, and possibly the model or the format might have to change to accommodate.)
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 9:32 AM on January 19, 2006

...expect different things from RSS, that should be. And micropayments! Possibly. Some way to specify what's acceptable use, anyway.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 9:34 AM on January 19, 2006

In other news, the church has decreed that medical experiments cannot be performed on cadavers as they are in the image of God. Pigs will suffice.

Now, who's for plague?
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 8:54 AM on November 29, 2005

A high profile Paypal that isn't Paypal? That would be a Very Good Thing.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 2:28 AM on October 12, 2005

Utterly depressing. What I find most unpleasant about the account is the way the police tried to fabricate some of the events in order to make him look more guilty; that he was playing with "wires" (computer cables, which they found in his bag but he didn't remove) and that he didn't get on a train when he passed.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 3:20 AM on September 22, 2005

Of course not. Go work at Starbucks, workshy terrorist scum.

I think the civil liberties movement needs some really good PR. It's not good enough to have a bunch of Internet enthusiasts talking on their weblogs about how we're all losing our freedoms; these stories need to get out, they need to be presented in a way the public can relate to, and we need to make people realise it could happen to anyone. People have fought for centuries for the freedoms we now enjoy, and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 4:12 AM on September 22, 2005

Surely this is a swift suicide for Opera ... although, are they still getting money from licensing on embedded devices?
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 3:13 AM on September 20, 2005

Especially not Firefox.

Out of interest, why not?
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 3:39 AM on September 20, 2005

As a sort of aside, these photos are some of the most amazing I've seen. Particularly the window shot about a third of the way down.
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 9:33 AM on September 12, 2005

.

I think we'd better cross our fingers for a new generation of honest politicians in the Labour government. I know it's a vain hope, but this one's going fast. :(
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 12:40 AM on August 8, 2005

I think, depending on the nature of the third party, they're almost certainly giving them away ...
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller at 12:36 AM on August 8, 2005