According to Obama's "Blueprint for Change" he plans on delivering fireside chats via webcast.

In the same paragraph he also says that he will make his national security officials hold town hall style meetings to receive citizen feedback which is sure to make lots of great soundbites.
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 3:25 PM on October 9, 2008

I don't think there was much ironic posturing in this video. Just because a few kids go to concerts wearing glam rock shirts and alf pins doesn't mean the whole scene is so obnoxiously self conscious.
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 12:38 PM on June 26, 2008

That is super awesome.
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 10:31 PM on April 7, 2008

I love how in the first google return the first and only response is someone telling him to use a special forum they have for introductions. That exchange sums up my entire experience with community BBSs. Three quarters of all posts on those things are basically devoid of any thought, they're just knee-jerk reactions. I think in the future I'm going to carefully attend to live conversations, studying them to see if my friends idle chatter is similarly pointless.

And why... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 9:54 AM on April 1, 2008

bjork24: Check your local arthouse movie listings, and you'll be able to see all of the animated and live action Oscar nominated short films on the big screen.

Except, of course, they aren't even coming to my state. I'm disappointed, really, YouTube does a horrible job of capturing the beauty in these shorts.
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 2:53 PM on February 2, 2008

Ahhh, that's what I enjoy. The injury and death of my friends recreated in a poorly written second-person piece of crap. Can we stop this now?
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 6:12 AM on June 1, 2007

14,700 for complaining

I'm not going to say I didn't chuckle at that.
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 9:53 AM on April 5, 2007

My God! that's some amazing stuff right there
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 6:57 AM on December 29, 2006

Dude, I think the guy behind me was filming the screen...
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 3:34 PM on July 14, 2006

In the morning when you finally go
And the nurse runs in with her head hung low
And the cardinal hits the window

In the morning in the winter shade
On the first of March on the holiday
I thought I saw you breathing

Oh the glory that the lord has made
And the complications when I see his face
In the morning in the window

Oh the glory when he... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 1:18 PM on July 12, 2006

That is a straight up stunning article. Thanks for posting it.
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 4:32 PM on July 9, 2006

posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 1:54 PM on July 9, 2006

I don't know mecran01, how about the original author? The one who didn't get a three book deal in high school and a picture deal from dreamworks based on plagiarized work. I bet she cares.
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 7:14 AM on April 24, 2006

I came into this thread looking for some really solid information about Chavez and found nothing but annoying partisan sniping, then people denouncing the partisan sniping, then more partisan sniping. Can anyone link some good information about Chavez?
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 2:21 PM on February 26, 2006

thanks Godesky, I will read and return!
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 2:43 PM on February 26, 2006

Kwantsar, if i understand that situation correctly, Chavez is merely selling oil at less of a profit. Although the profit he is losing could be used to benefit the Venezuelans, he is not actually taking money from them per se. From what I've read so far (I have much more thanks to Godesky), this is just another step against the Washington Consensus.
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 2:47 PM on February 26, 2006

Er, just to explain slightly better, Chavez is showing how a government run oil industry can supply more oil at a cheaper cost to the poor versus private industries.
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 2:49 PM on February 26, 2006

Kwantsar, try applying that argument to any charitable action performed by governments. The U.S. Government gives billions of dollars in aid a year. They could be using this money to help the homeless or curing aids or cancer. But they aren't. Does that mean they're donating the money at the expense of those citizens?

You're looking at a cost-benifit analysis, right? Well, why don't you try examining the benifits too?
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 3:09 PM on February 26, 2006

See, now I'm part of the left, and I didn't know I hated cheap energy! Thanks to kwantsar I know now what I'm supposed to believe!
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 11:16 AM on February 27, 2006

I think flash 8 just broke my computer :(
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 6:53 AM on February 1, 2006

Wow, someone is a Grumpy Gus. I'm so sorry that everyone's standard of great was unable to live up to your own. I liked the photos, why should I care if they aren't so complex technically?
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 7:56 AM on January 23, 2006

To me this really resembles the mood stimulators in Blade Runner (the book, not the movie). You could simply dial a mood you wanted to feel and the BAM! instant emotion. One of my favorite moments in that book is when the wife dials up depression just because she feels she should experience it every once in a while.
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 8:08 PM on December 27, 2005

double
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 3:46 PM on December 26, 2005

^Although nice to see again^
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 3:47 PM on December 26, 2005

Wow, someone missed the joke.
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 12:18 PM on December 25, 2005

23/30
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 3:52 PM on December 22, 2005

They took the Wrens off!? Haven't they been ignored long enough?
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 9:57 AM on November 30, 2005

We previously talked about The Simpson's decline in this thread, and a lot of people made some very good points.
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 8:41 AM on November 30, 2005

very cool, excellent link
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 9:26 PM on November 20, 2005

Wow.


I laughed
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 2:05 PM on November 10, 2005

This puzzle makes me sincerely mad and I just registered.
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 11:55 AM on November 4, 2005

It says what the song is right at the beginning, it's Breathe Me by the artist Sia.
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 11:49 AM on October 2, 2005

Any church that needs the funds should take it, and church that doesn't should pass it along.

It's called the christian thing to do (and this coming from a jew).
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 9:31 AM on September 27, 2005

Since when has it been appropriate to format an op-ed column like a series of slogans? I don't need every point she makes (if you can call them points) surrounded by two lines of white space. Also, she says that all recent acts of terror against the west have been committed by Arabs but then goes on to mention McVeigh, The Unabomber and those wacky kids from Columbine, does that make sense? She should be fired for her lack of intelligence rather then her lack of empathy.
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 11:21 AM on September 20, 2005

Do we need one of those fark [obvious] tags?
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 11:29 AM on September 17, 2005

Flagged as noise and moved on
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 2:23 PM on September 14, 2005

Pete and Pete was the best show ever!

There I said it, now let me go get this president out of my nose.
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 10:27 AM on September 13, 2005

There's always FabChannel which has tons of good performances straight from the Paridso in Amsterdam
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 7:27 AM on September 11, 2005

Add this to the list of random things I want to see some day. (Some one out there is keeping track of that list, right?)
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 9:28 AM on September 5, 2005

y6y6y6: Ummmm...... I'm sorry to say, but this guy is a fruit cake. I suddenly understand why New Orleans is in trouble. If people like this clown are in charge, we're lucky it wasn't worse.

I am so confused, did we read the same transcript?
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 9:36 AM on September 2, 2005

mystyk: Georgia O'Keeffe
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 9:59 AM on August 18, 2005

So wait, Neil Gaiman wrote "Good Omens" with Terry Pratchett, and his new book has much the same premise as Pratchett's "Small Gods"? Should be a good read.
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 9:08 AM on August 17, 2005

Mine was all rainy :(
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 12:07 AM on August 15, 2005

This article vaguely points out a huge flaw in the current system: Half the time, the people voting on the bills haven't read them. The Rules Committee trashed the original PATRIOT act and passed on a completely different one. They then had a vote on it a few hours later. We're talking about a bill that is over a thousand pages long. No one had time to research any of it, most of probably couldn't even read it in that time. Any system that allows people to pass laws that they have not even read... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 9:00 PM on August 13, 2005

Paleocon, don't you think your overreacting to a joke post? Or do you not have a sense of humor? Or do you just want attention? I'm guessing attention.

Anyway, are all those quotes real?
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 8:01 PM on August 12, 2005

And nofundy wins the prize for completely misunderstanding the post and then making a sarcastic comment deriding it.

On a different note, I wonder how the satellite could have made such errors, the article notes that it drifted out of place, but how does this account for measuring nights as days?
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 9:47 AM on August 12, 2005

I thought some of it was funny
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 8:27 AM on August 12, 2005

If I was more political I might raise a point about this one, concerning modern events, but that's really not my style.
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 7:47 AM on August 12, 2005

what the hell happened to the swap? Wasn't I supposed to get someone's address?
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 5:28 PM on August 11, 2005

I'd rather just mount one of these babies on my desk.
posted to MetaFilter by cyphill at 11:21 AM on August 1, 2005