Just what the fuck is a huckleberry friend?

Wikipedia says that it might be a reference to an earlier scene in Breakfast at Tiffany's.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 3:20 AM on April 21, 2006

To get the Real Audio files working:
Download the linked ra file
http://www.audrey1.com/grahamspage/moon_river/play-audrey.ram for the Audrey Hepburn version
Open it in a text editor. There'll be a URL pointing to a domain that no longer exists
http://grahamspage.audreyhepburn.org/moon_river/audrey.ra
Take the basename of that URL
audrey.ra
And prefix it with http://www.audrey1.com/grahamspage/moon_river/To get... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 10:27 AM on April 21, 2006

The pictures on that page are timing out. I think these might be the same.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 2:21 PM on October 25, 2005

U Can't Touch This
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 1:00 PM on October 22, 2005

Is there a web-based version of Google Talk?

Meebo supports GTalk.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 8:08 PM on October 6, 2005

...he wore a brooch
made of pure gold with twin tubes for the prongs,
and on the face a work of art: a hunting dog
pinning a spotted fawn in agony
between his forepaws—wonderful to see
how being gold, and nothing more, he bit
the golden dear convulsed, with wild hooves flying....

XIX.268-274, p. 360; Robert Fitzgerald's translation
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 3:18 PM on September 26, 2005

Strange how the styles of penmanship changed so much in the course of the note.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 6:52 PM on September 14, 2005

Could this be related to the theory that birds are descended from dinosaurs? If so, they've been evolving for quite a long time.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 10:02 PM on September 12, 2005

That's idle speculation from idle personage, btw.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 10:42 PM on September 12, 2005

iTunes now has AAC VBR.

C_D: It ain't a proprietary jack. Calm down. Also, you really have no understanding of Apple if you hope that they'll include all that crap. Hell, they rolled their own lossless codec.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 4:50 PM on September 7, 2005

This is better: "How to Win Arguments, As It Were" by Dave Barry.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 6:59 PM on September 5, 2005

What you talkin' 'bout, Willis?!

Also, this isn't so much sick as ignorably dumb. Why be angry at something that's dumb?
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 5:47 PM on August 30, 2005

Hey. What's this gmail username thing and how do I get one?

I think Google's opened up registration and that now you just have to sign up for a Google account.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 5:44 PM on August 24, 2005

Civil_Disobedient: With the official client? I don't know. Any third-party client should do it. I can log two accounts in using Adium for OS X. Try Gaim if you have Windows.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 7:11 PM on August 24, 2005

Call 911.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 8:06 PM on August 24, 2005

Civil_Disobedient: You can run multiple instances of Google Talk.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 12:06 PM on August 25, 2005

I eat Chinese General's for lunch.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 4:10 PM on August 21, 2005

*Generals...
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 4:10 PM on August 21, 2005

Cooool.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 6:08 PM on August 20, 2005

Anybody know how to run Flash as the desktop on OS X?
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 6:08 PM on August 20, 2005

Answering my own question: SaveHollywood can run Flash files (and movie files) as a screensaver, and Backlight can run a screensaver as a desktop background.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 6:21 PM on August 20, 2005

I just gave that a shot. Apparently, for both our solutions, it doesn't play in the background as smoothly as it does when in the foreground. I think the upcoming version of Flash player will remedy that.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 6:26 PM on August 20, 2005

riffola: Hot damn!
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 7:41 PM on August 20, 2005

Windows only? Oh, hope belied!
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 7:43 PM on August 20, 2005

I find it amusing (because it's ultimately ridiculous) that something said 55 years ago could resonate so well, in my mind, with the present.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 2:24 PM on August 17, 2005

I love soccer, and I thought it was average. That airport one though - that's a classic.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 11:17 AM on July 30, 2005

No RSS feed, no worth! Ya heard?!

Otherwise, pretty good.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 9:45 PM on June 29, 2005

You have to admire the handiwork.

Yeah. You really have to hand it to him.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 7:11 PM on May 24, 2005

Whatever happened to that idea of "The New Sincerity" or whatever?
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 3:26 PM on May 23, 2005

Ah. The ol' swoop 'n' poop.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 5:04 PM on May 19, 2005

It'd probably overheat.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 6:27 PM on May 17, 2005

Mr. Kottke had an entry on this, based on this post at bblog. bblog also has a recent post on ASOT.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 7:03 PM on May 17, 2005

I wouldn't say that he's a troll. He says some reasonably interesting things.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 7:35 PM on May 17, 2005

Speech Accent Archive – "This site examines the accented speech of speakers from many different language backgrounds reading the same sample paragraph [in English]."
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 7:19 PM on May 17, 2005

I know. It's just there for reference.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 7:23 PM on May 17, 2005

I'm only here for the post title. Nice one.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 9:54 PM on May 14, 2005

Seems over-dramatic. What's with that damn music with the anxious choir nowadays?
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 9:15 AM on May 8, 2005

If I say "I hate Bush, I hate Bush, I really hate bush" and play Mary Had a Little Lamb in the background, I wouldn't call that a song.

That's just a dumb comparison.

"Effective" as political commentary. You can agree with the sentiments, but it's a trite, poorly written song that won't change anyone's mind.

At this point, changing anyone's mind isn't a motivation to be "effective".
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 11:54 PM on May 4, 2005

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

That first Jefferson quote made me think that, just like the US Government, if these pseudo-Republicans didn't like the church they attended, they'd probably find ways to overpower and change that too. With that in mind, it seems that their motives are more personal than religious - they just happen to have a bunch of friends that think the same... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 9:07 AM on April 11, 2005

Just happened upon this today: Family Circus re-captioned with Lovecraft prose.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 6:01 PM on March 28, 2005

kenko, yeah, I think Borges did a better job of explaining Judas (Google cache - you're on your own with the formating).
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 1:19 PM on March 24, 2005

Beat me to it, nofundy. Damned!
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 11:05 AM on March 9, 2005

Andrew Bujalski's new movie is premiering, and it is all kinds of good.

New? Ha. I saw that in 2002. Nonetheless, it really is all kinds of good. That's awesome that it's playing at SXSW.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 11:01 AM on March 8, 2005

Wow. She was on The West Wing as that guy's brother. I didn't even recognize her. Her face got pudgy. But that's cool. Actually, it's wonderfully fine.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 10:42 PM on February 25, 2005

This is amazing, y2karl. I appreciate this. Makes me want to go The U. of Tulsa, and volunteer to put all this on the internet.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 7:56 PM on February 22, 2005

There are ports for various operating systems for some of the games.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 8:47 PM on February 21, 2005

So it's not contradictory if I like the Coldplay song but not the Sum 41 song, right? Good.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 5:31 PM on February 21, 2005

Well...I'm unimpressed by how impressed you are by that guy's, uh, unimpressedness. So...try harder next time.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 5:59 PM on February 21, 2005

How f'ed up would it be if the Sum 41 video was the forwards version of the Coldplay video? Way f'ed, I'd say.
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 6:03 PM on February 21, 2005

I'm Not There [mp3, 4.7mb]
posted to MetaFilter by bitpart at 6:58 PM on February 19, 2005