MeFi comment:
"They're demolishing the indoor ski area? That whole concept rocks so hard--that much technology and effort to create an Ersatz Fun Experience is a thing of perverse beauty, in a way. A reminder that mankind can accomplish Great Things, as long as..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by acro
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"See thou mine own coin-purse? It hath upon it written "Foul Oedipus."" [
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favorited 61 times, recently by chuckdarwin, Pope Guilty, dirtdirt, Stonestock Relentless, hhc5, xbonesgt, mikepop, TheWhiteSkull, CautionToTheWind, hindmost, strawdog, waxbanks, zennoshinjou, dazed_one, longbaugh, ztdavis, scrump, palindromic, shmegegge, turaho, East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94, schyler523, felix grundy, sequential, Optamystic, ukdanae, suedehead, Skyanth, CheshireCat, granted, limeonaire, lekvar, reventlov, box, isopraxis, shiu mai baby, Banky_Edwards, subaruwrx, The GoBotSodomizer, Afroblanco, ikkyu2, Hactar, chugg, neetij, Slarty Bartfast, snwod, Jpfed, evilcolonel, Jilder, h00py, cadge, BrotherCaine, steef, juv3nal, John Smallberries, ymgve, marble, Krrrlson, Cool Papa Bell, Mercaptan, bibliowench
Last month
MeTa comment:
"I think this thread will be more interesting if we assume that all the people with doubled flickr accounts are actually sockpuppets for each other.
Call me old-fashioned if you will, sir, but marrying one's own sockpuppet is nothing short of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gohlkus
Last month
MeFi comment:
"In a dark basement somewhere, someone is photoshopping a steampunk version of this.
Steampunk? More like bamboopunk--this clearly calls for a tiki to be carved directly into the melon rind...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Mamapotomus
Last month
MeFi comment:
"When will they learn not to feed those things after midnight?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by aburd
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. I did. It always gets fixed within a few minutes, what's the harm?" [
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favorited 12 times, recently by Iamtherealme, Hadroed, h00py, pb, tehloki, misha, flatluigi, Dave Faris, Rock Steady, Blazecock Pileon, pyrex, boo_radley
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"You know, I found a five dollar bill one time with "Lori", "call me for sex" and a phone number on it. I can only assume she's, like, Minister of the Interior or something now...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by 45moore45
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"What's really frightening is how much Chris Hitchens looks like Ayn Rand.
[NOT OBJECTIVIST]" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by docpops
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"About a year before his death, Kurt Cobain was asked by Mr. The Human Serviette what his favourite thing about Canada was. His reply? "No Taco Bell."
A year later, Taco Bell was gaining a foothold in the Great White North... and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by the christopher hundreds
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Think for a moment. Comic Sans MS is not a Sans Serif font. It's something else. It's handwriting. Remember hand-written letters? Wasn't there something beautiful about them, each stroke specifically crafted for that specific word, delivered quickly..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tickingclock, feathermeat, Many bubbles
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Eh, so what?
Her job is to be decorative, not insightful. Frankly, I've heard plenty of CEOs and politicians and priests spout platitudes just as content-free, as constructed from a string of cliches. Many people's jobs are not to enlighten, but..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by misha, scrump, sebastienbailard, Many bubbles, ethnomethodologist, tehloki, 0xFCAF, bugbread
10 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Bah! You kids have it easy! Why in my day, we had to walk eighteen miles in the snow to get the Best of the Web, battling JRun errors the whole time, uphill both ways. And there weren't no AJAX, neither, if'n ya wanted a web app you had to refresh..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by madamjujujive, dirtynumbangelboy
11 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Hay guise, someone need to make a Single-Link-Posters Pride Club, like a pledge where we go, "we, the undersigned, hereby swear to never put more than one link in our post just to make it seem yummier despite a lame topic, for we have faith in..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Anything, Pope Guilty, Slithy_Tove, Rock Steady
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"BAGHDAD (Reuters) -- A new front has opened up in the War on Terror--and it may reach anywhere the Internet does. Insurgents from Al-Qaeda in Iraq, the Sunni Resistance and many other armed resistance groups have begun a savage assault on American..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Cyrano, straight, alidarbac, stet
Last year
MeFi comment:
"It was about a quarter past way too damn early. The phone kept on recapitulating its horribly jangly music, but there was no way I was gonna abjure that receiver off the hook just now. I needed a ziggurat almost as bad as I needed an aspirin, and I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by joannemerriam
Last year
MeTa comment:
"I have broke the surly bonds of Earth and touched the face of Godlooked at a screenshot of the MeFI admin interface.
and it seems slightly confusing that nothing happens if you click the [!] on one comment while the dropdown on another one is open,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rock Steady
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Tom Waits, "On The Nickel"
Johnny Cash, "Long Black Veil"
Sufjan Stevens, "Casimir Pulaski Day"
Simon & Garfunkel, "The Dangling Conversation"
Gretchen Wilson, "I Don't Feel Like Loving You..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Jaybo
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Since Firefox thankfully doesn't do background MIDIs on my box, I'm gonna have to assume the missing music is "America, FUCK YEAH!"" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by acro
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I think any attempt to re-create the internet today would lead to far to many (government) hands in the cookie jar and result in a huge mess.
You do realize that the Internet started as a government-funded project, right? Not that you're, you..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, Goofyy
Last year
MeTa comment:
"So this is like the "merge bug" feature in a bug tracking system?
That totally melts my mind. MetaFilter is like a bug tracking system for the web. A few more fields, a reporting tool and we're there.
I can see it now:
Bug..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by timetoevolve, loquacious, GuyZero
Last year
MeTa comment:
"You know, I'd be tempted to agree, but a video that was made in '79, won an Academy Award for technical achievement and still hasn't been commercially released due to legal shenanigans is more than your standard bar-lowering YouTube post...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by krix, chrismear
Last year
MeFi comment:
"That is (and I am almost as ashamed to know this as to share a country and province with him) Chad Kroeger, of Nickelback. Or as they're known around here, Theory Of A Nickelfault...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chr1sb0y
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Also, I'd like to think this guy is a former Coach writer wreaking his sarcastic vengence upon the show. Despite his studied nonchalance, he seems to know an awful lot about it...
Or, perhaps, he is making up that which he does not accurately..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blasdelf
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Also, The Card Cheat, for slightly beating me to the "he's just looking all this old crap up on the Internet" joke, I hereby declare you my Psychic Nemesis.
*glares*
Also, for depicting Coachy McCoacherson in a blue varsity jacket..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by The Card Cheat
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Also, for designers or artists, I believe a minimal site design serves the portfolio well by not distracting.
There's a difference between "minimal" and "impenetrable." At least if you're old-fashioned enough to believe that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by beth
Last year
MeFi comment:
"In his defense, it was a typo. The reporter should have quoted it as, "I us3d teh g00glex0rz!!!1!1"" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by 999
Last year
MeFi comment:
"The Dude and Walter (and their friend Donny, who was somehow mystically constituted from dust blowing near the seashore, and who always enters conversations a beat ahead of everyone else before leaving early to reverse-bowl) receive a briefcase full..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Fourmyle
Two years ago
