I don't trust my digital speedometer. I miss the dial, which at least felt to me like it wasn't pretending to accuracy that wasn't there.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 6:18 AM on May 8, 2008

The rest of the hilarity is spread out over multiple blogs and, shudder, livejournal posts. I just decided to pick a representative example.

I haven't noticed a lot of complaints about the content of Glamourpuss, but I also haven't read it because it didn't sound very interesting, and I prefer my pinup-style art to be more vintage. this review was not too impressed.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 12:17 PM on May 6, 2008

What got me into comics was a huge tome we had in the house of reprints of the origin issues (Golden and Silver Age reboot) of most of the DC heroes. The thing was like a phone book and by the time I inherited it from my brother, it didn't have a cover any more. I'd love to find a copy of that, now.

Then I went to college and had access to a huge comic book library (they bound them every 20 issues like journals and had most major titles since the 60's.) I got to do a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 7:08 PM on May 7, 2008

I'm trying to recall what a typical outfit was for me in my teen years. I was nowhere near as goth/trendy as the folks in most of these. Of course, most of these were teens in the 90's and 00's. Circa 1988, I had long hair with big (but not gigantic) bangs, big glasses, and a habit of dressing for comfort.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 6:19 AM on May 6, 2008

See, I've never even seen that Wolverine panel. I just know about Charles Xavier wearing a black leather collar. Silly me!

I'm pretty sure that sequence was in New Mutants, not X-Men.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 6:29 AM on May 5, 2008

Are there any other sources?
posted by Anything at 1:25 PM on March 4

Yes, there are.

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posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 10:50 AM on March 4, 2008

I've called in sick when I wasn't exactly once in my life. I used my cell phone (so the caller id would not show the out of state number) and just used the good old "I'm not feeling well today." Since I had previously come in to work on a day that I was too ill to come in under my own power (seriously... I made someone come pick me up and drive me in), I had a certain amount of credit there. My primary concern was that, having previously seen what I considered "still well... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 9:20 AM on February 12, 2008

You brought down Yahoo! 250 points!

360º, surely.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 4:58 PM on December 22, 2007

I had so thought this post was going to be a reference to this.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 9:46 AM on December 7, 2007

I remember the singing pills. In fact, I remembered all of the lyrics to it. Thats... frightening.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 10:08 AM on December 4, 2007

Wasn't there a recent post here that did the same with a 1970's Sears catalog?

Actually, I rather like this coat, assuming that the pointy collar is a result of the shirt underneath. And if you smoothed the texture instead of the popcorn knit, this would make a great superhero costume.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 6:11 AM on November 29, 2007

How the hell could you struck your stuff down the disco in those shoes without coming out with a pair of broken ankles

Well, first off, I'll second the comment that women dance around in heels that high all the time. Also, it's not as bad as it looks. The platforms under the toes means the heel isn't as high it looks for the purpose of weight distribution. And both the toe and heel platforms are wide enough to provide decent balance.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 10:06 AM on November 29, 2007

The first anorexic I ever knew was a boy. He'd been pudgy until he joined the wrestling team, at which point he dropped weight at an alarming rate. The constant obsessive weighing required for competition seemed to have triggered something. At first it just seemed to be a careful manipulation of what his weight class would be, but he dropped below the necessary threshhold and kept the obsessive behavior even in the off season.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 6:46 PM on October 31, 2007

Oddly, folks keep hearing my name as "Olivia". My actual name, despite a sharp drop in popularity over the last fifty years is still twice as common. I don't know what that's about.

Giving kids their mom's maiden name as a middle name is also an alternative to hyphenation in cases where the mother did not change her name at marriage. I know a few folks who've done that. Both of my brothers did that, as both of their wives kept their maiden names.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 4:51 PM on October 28, 2007

Consider that most of the books are from Harry's perspective. Schoolkids usually have a hard time realizing their teachers are people, let alone have personal lives. Unless Dumbledore were really freaking obvious about it, there's no reason Harry would have noticed, and thus no reason to put it in the main text.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 9:07 AM on October 20, 2007

Was there ever a time when a book made waves like this?

You mean like Harry Potter?
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 11:48 AM on September 24, 2007

Are american teens treated like kids or something?

Are you kidding? American adults are treated like kids!
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 1:31 PM on September 19, 2007

Very true! The map brought back memories of my sneaking into the Hofstra computer lab to play Advent (I think it was Advent - it was a long time ago, and I'm old). Then, I think I found Zork in college. Good times...-ObscureReferenceManAh, indeed it was ADVENT. I remember playing ADVENT as a little girl, connected via a creaky old modem to the mainframe at Dad's work.And all you whippersnappers need to be dropped into a maze of twisty little passages, all alike...... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 12:34 PM on September 18, 2007

Is Zork that famous? - damn dirty ape

Yes. Yes it is. And what were you told about getting off the lawn?
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 5:19 PM on September 18, 2007

What is all this, anyway? I don't understand. It all looks like some kind of popularity pyramid scheme or something. Whatever all these invites are, I have a feeling I'd prefer to remain uninvited.I'm sure some of it is to generate "buzz". It encourages the services' adopters to send emails to all of their buddies advertising the service. I suspect that they think "invitations" feel less spammish than just plain promotional matterial.It's also a way of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 5:45 AM on August 29, 2007

First of all, since when has it been a problem that the other person is moving the bed around too much (maybe with 3 in a bed this is a bigger deal...)? And of course it would only damp vertical movement, not horizontal.You've never shared a bed with a restless sleeper? It's not an issue for me at home, but I've run into it when sharing hotels while traveling.
But even more fundamentally, a foam mattress is crap. Foam compresses, leaving you a) lying on the hard supports beneath and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 7:42 PM on August 18, 2007

(And, indeed, the opening night crowds he describes likely didn't know book 7 was set mostly outside Hogwarts.)

Really? 'Cause I knew, from the point at the end of book 6 where the main character said they weren't going back for the next year.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 9:15 AM on August 11, 2007

But it was palpable, I heard more than a few people talk about how they "avoid going out" on that weekend as though it's common knowledge that scary gay people are temporarily running the asylum so you shouldn't venture into the sun lest they "get" you.

It's a funny thing. The only major NYC parade I can stand being in the city for is the Pride parade. All of the rest of them set off my claustrophobia.

As... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 3:01 PM on August 8, 2007

I fail to grasp. Who is Harry hurting?

A fair amount of it is snobbery -- anything that is popular must be trash.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 12:46 PM on July 18, 2007

When will you people learn that the only reason morons like O'Reilly and Coulter say this stuff is so people like you will get outraged, post it to sites on the interwebs like Metafilter etc to create more outrage, give them fame and sell their lightweight books?

This isn't outrage; it's raucous laughter.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 7:44 PM on July 9, 2007

I can't read most of the links (WebSense seems to think they're porntastic), but:

Aren't bullet bras and girdles uncomfortable?

Not particularly, as long as they fit properly. The versions made with modern textiles are also often more comfortable than the 1950's versions, as we've got better strong stretch fabrics to take the place of some of the boning.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 6:00 AM on June 27, 2007

I know Martindale Hubbell does it by asking other lawyers. Of course, that system conveniently doesn't have bad ratings. There's no way to distinguish someone who wasn't reviewed highly from someone who just never got the questionnaire sent out at all.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 9:57 AM on June 18, 2007

I knew all of them, and use maybe half of them. I think, though, that the authors are asserting that a well-educated person should have run across those words by the time they graduate high school, not that all students should be given that list to memorize absent of context.

My vocab story? I had a lawyer ask me to hide some content on one of his documents. I send a note back telling him I'd elided the offending bits. He sent me a note back thanking me for doing the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 10:55 AM on June 13, 2007

What's funny is that Riemann waited until 2007 to raise this objection to "womyn", as if nobody thought of it in 1975.
I'm female and a feminist and I've always thought 'womyn' and 'herstory' were silly. I can't say I raised my objection in 1975, precisely, as I was still learning to read that year and didn't have a very sophisticated sense of etymology or spelling at the time. Pretty much as soon as I was old enough to get it, I thought the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 6:36 AM on June 13, 2007

I used to browse in libraries organized by Dewey Decimal. I found that, for school papers, it was pretty convenient to find one book that was useful. Then I'd stand at its DD number and riffle through adjacent books. It worked a treat.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 5:56 AM on June 11, 2007

I just watched the first episode on YouTube. It has promise, but Amanda Tappings fake british accent is painful.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 12:06 PM on June 3, 2007

Funny this should come up. Just this weekend, a friend got an uncut sheet of $2s. (Legal tender, if you cut them, but usually sold to collectors for framing). He also got a pair of scissors. He says he plans to cut them one by one as he uses them...
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 4:35 PM on May 29, 2007

My Star Trek Club has been doing Star Trek themed paintball twice a year since the late 90's. (photos technically from 2000, and yeah, those are kind of self-links). Y'all missed Spring Paintball, but if you want to fly out to the east coast, tkchrist, there will be another this Fall.

Most of them have been Star Trek scenarios, but they've done Babylon 5, Stargate, and a few others. When I was 29, I got to be a runner in the "Logan's Run" scenario... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 10:42 AM on May 23, 2007

Smackwich, does Nebraska have a coast?
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 3:32 PM on May 23, 2007

Sadly, the endings of a few of the episodes of Strange Luck seem to be cut off. And I thought I'd finally get a chance to see the rest of that series.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 7:43 AM on May 20, 2007

This is bullshit and a typical example of journalistic contempt for facts when they get in the way of a good story.

Is it just the timeframe that's questionable, or also the pictograms-as-precursor-to-characters part?
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 7:19 AM on May 18, 2007

This post seems... questionable.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 7:52 PM on May 13, 2007

I choose to complain that the first square bracket in the parenthetical comment is facing in the wrong direction.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 3:11 PM on May 10, 2007

It's a funny thing. Most spiders aren't venomous to be a serious issue to humans, and I know how to identify the ones native to my area. So I'm generally the person who shoos the screaming folks away, gathers the spider on some paper (or, if necessary on my hand) and moves it away from the house/tent/crowd. Spiders eat the actually nasty bugs -- they're our friends!
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 5:39 AM on May 7, 2007

sometimes at night (cause the sun rises and sets based on my zip code) a sea monster pops up in the background.

If I remember this right, the little easter egg thingys happen at 3:14 am.

I didn't loose any of my personal settings. I don't know what's up with that.

On preview - I'm not nuts about the three columns thing either. I'd love the option of two (or four), or even being able to control column width.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 10:35 AM on May 1, 2007

The mysogyny in the article really comes out in this passage:Of course, lying is nothing new in the world of medicine. As late as 1970, doctors infamously withheld cancer diagnoses "for the good of the patient." (After all, they figured, these patients were doomed anyway, so what good would knowing do them?) This ended when it collectively dawned on doctors that, good intentions notwithstanding, paternalism was probably not the best approach. But given the nondisclosure policy... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 6:12 AM on April 27, 2007

Erm, nothing in the article actually confirms they were stealing from her.

She asked them what they were doing, and they told her they were there to haul away scrap metal from her property without her permission. That's what "scrapping" is. You don't think that qualified as confirmation of theft?
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 6:46 AM on April 20, 2007

And in the 'nobody ever thought of that" school - does anyone but me remember the pilot of the short-lived X-Files spinoff "the Lone Gunmen"? The one that aired in the Spring of 2001 and featured some villains planning to crash a plane into the WTC using the fuel as the main explosive? Just me? I must have imagined it.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 8:09 AM on April 18, 2007

Hee. It's so cute when outsiders discover slash for the first time...
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 6:54 AM on April 11, 2007

A friend of mine had his done at adafruit in NYC. (He got an anthromorphic bunny samurai.)
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 12:10 PM on April 4, 2007

Google is also directing folks to swim across the Atlantic today, too. So maybe they're just getting punchy over there.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 10:14 AM on March 30, 2007

It turns out they put a bunch of comics on their server at once -- a few months at a time -- and rinse and repeat a few months later. The URLs aren't particularly obscure, so you can access everything they've put up there.

That's because the ones you're linking to are already written (and published). They have two tracks - backissue and new.
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 2:05 PM on March 24, 2007

When did "fkn" become the cool word?

It's fowl language - cause it rhymes with 'chkn'!
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 9:50 AM on March 19, 2007

Maybe feminists aren't agitating about the selective service because there's no active draft right now, making it a less important issue than, say, agitating to have the women already in service allowed to take combat missions, serve on submarines, etc. Does agitating to be allowed to take higher risk jobs in the military count as "egalitarianism when that would be to the disadvantage of women."

Consider also that feminists are more likely to be left-leaning,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 10:41 AM on March 16, 2007

It's... kind of wide, isn't it?
posted to MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 6:09 AM on March 13, 2007