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MeFi comment: "For example, a couple months ago they aired a Lewis Black stand-up special ... with every commercial break being the same minute-long ad for Girls Gone Wild. Someone has a modern studio with lights, cameras, and mikes, decades of experience in..." [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by fleacircus, Pope Guilty, GamblingBlues, An Infinity Of Monkeys, Lesser Shrew
4 days ago

Ask comment: "Backup your files before playing with them, and setup up a test directory to play with some sample files before you begin. As many wise computer scientists have said before, "Shit happens"...." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by seanyboy
10 days ago

MeFi comment: "re: http://www.brownharrisstevens.com/detail.aspx?id=364979# Type: Triplex Penthouse: Yes Rooms: 16.0 Bedrooms: 5 Laundry in building: Yes Thank god there's laundry services available. It would get old very quickly if you had to lug your..." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by sondrialiac, furtive
11 days ago

Ask post: On the Mundane Aspects of Imprisonment
favorited 4 times, recently by waxbanks, chrismear, nooneyouknow, limeonaire
3 weeks ago

Ask comment: "Go to Wang Fu Jing, or some place with a lot of foreign books, and get a small English - Russian guide. With this, you'll make a ton of friends. You've got two things in your favor: a desire to learn the language and two hundred bored Russian..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by ceri richard
Last month

MeFi comment: "When is youtube going to get permalinks? If you want to be all googly about it, you'd do it something like this. 1. The URL for videos will be http://www.youtube.com/watch?l=grover_learns_the_meaning_of_pie 2. There will be a server that..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by SeanMac
2 months ago

MeFi comment: "With perhaps greater consequences, the earthquake has been seen by Chinese as the government losing the "Mandate of Heaven", as the fall of previous administrations That is in complete disagreement with what I'm hearing in the media here..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
3 months ago

Ask post: Canada's IT Market
favorited 2 times, recently by blisterpack, lumiere
4 months ago

MeFi comment: "It's not just Shanghai... They have most of Hong Kong mapped, Xi'an, and Beijing. Click on the first blue link on the menu bar at the top for a list of the cities mapped. The cities are named in Chinese, but you can look up the characters in..." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by typewriter, kliuless
4 months ago

Ask comment: "Late to the party, but I would recommend going through this tutorial that teaches you Ruby. If you read this and do end up going through this tutorial, please give me some feedback. I'm a professional coder who started on a TRS-80, so I don't have..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by sweetkid
5 months ago

MeFi post: Design To Order
favorited 10 times, recently by banterboy, ronin21, yoga, parmanparman, lsemel, Ben Light, chunking express, kandinski, jkaczor, nicolin
8 months ago

Ask post: MLM Scam / Traditional Chinese Translation
favorited 1 time, recently by divabat
8 months ago

Ask comment: "I think the way the world of work today works is that people are assigned a task and they are to perform as best they can. For certain jobs, like data entry, engaging parts of the mind that would be disengaged would allow one to delay the onset of a..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by melorama
10 months ago

Ask comment: "I went the opposite way, from London to Hong Kong (where I am now) via the Trans Mongolian. I spent the majority of my time in China. I have memorized my passport number after writing it down 40 times in the past four months. There's a lot of..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by saturnine
11 months ago

Ask post: Can I eat a live wasp?
favorited 9 times, recently by panoptican, Iamtherealme, qvantamon, revgeorge, matteo, 10ch, Terminal Verbosity, desuetude, LarryC
Last year

MeFi comment: "There's more to it than presenting snappy narrative -- you don't need an audible good-bye because the visual cue of hanging up the phone signifies the end of the conversation. If you were writing a radio play, you would need to write in the good-byes...." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by undule
Two years ago