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Auntie Establishment

The Contrarians is a CBC radio program about the things you can't say. Stream it live Tuesday mornings at 9:30 or Wednesday nights. Past topics include feminism, peace keeping, hip-hop and (caution: irony) copyright reform .
posted to MetaFilter by Capn at 7:50 AM on August 9, 2006 (17 comments)

You won't like this

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posted to MetaFilter by Capn at 12:52 PM on August 26, 2005 (34 comments)

Bouncy, flouncy, fun

Big Balloons!!!
posted to MetaFilter by Capn at 9:06 AM on August 25, 2005 (44 comments)

Hey you kids, get off my lawn!

Today is my 30th birthday.
posted to MetaFilter by Capn at 10:40 AM on May 27, 2005 (83 comments)

Still a dick, only now there's two of them

How about a little deus ex machina to lighten up your Tuesday? By now, we all know that Superman is a dick. Did you also know that he was a crypto fascist who was not above a little water supply tampering?
Apparently, even for superman, being super smart does not make you super wise [via]
posted to MetaFilter by Capn at 8:13 AM on April 26, 2005 (21 comments)

[to do: think up weak "choppers" pun]

Reclaiming the economic usefulness of the American worker as patriarch is a lot of weight for a little pizza cutter to bear. [via]
posted to MetaFilter by Capn at 10:17 AM on April 22, 2005 (21 comments)

People of the United States, why is everyone yelling at you???

Beware! We will take over television studios, kidnap so-called commentators and broadcast calm, well-reasoned discussions of the issues of the day. The manifesto of the Unitarian Jihad.
posted to MetaFilter by Capn at 3:00 PM on April 14, 2005 (79 comments)

There's a world going on, underground.

Detroit: city of auto manufacture, crime, Motown and... mining? Take this with a grain of salt, but beneath the city of Detroit Michigan, there is a vast underground mine.
posted to MetaFilter by Capn at 10:18 AM on April 4, 2005 (13 comments)

Point of interest sir, it also means bloody

Have you checked your humors today? Not the gunky jelly stuff in people's eyes, the other kind.

Are you melancholic, phlegmatic, sanguine, or choleric? Are you a salamander, gnome, nymph or sylph? Earth, water, air or fire? Elf, Ninja, Pirate or Dwarf? (arrrr! buckets of blood! flagons of phlegm and barrels of black bile!)

If nothing else, the theory of humors adds to one's arcane vocabulary.
posted to MetaFilter by Capn at 2:17 PM on March 23, 2005 (16 comments)

Intro, setup, gag

The Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge. How hard could it be to post a comic every day, 5 days a week. How long could you keep it up. How about for a $1000 prize? Some big names are playing. (because they axed)
posted to MetaFilter by Capn at 1:55 PM on March 1, 2005 (15 comments)

[bleeping noises]

I've lost R2! [inspired by]
posted to MetaFilter by Capn at 8:04 AM on February 28, 2005 (9 comments)

Unintended Consequences

Cane toads in Australia. Zebra Mussels in The Great Lakes. Purple Loosestrife in Canada (and the introduction of another alien species to control it, I don't know why she swallowed the fly).

Invasive species, threat or menace? You decide.
posted to MetaFilter by Capn at 12:09 PM on February 25, 2005 (27 comments)

Ook

A gallery of gorilla (and ape, and chimp, and monkey, and bonobo) comic book covers via Neil Gaiman's blog
posted to MetaFilter by Capn at 12:17 PM on February 22, 2005 (14 comments)

Can we rastify him 10%?

[Re: merchandising] "That's the ultimate goal of all kids programming, if we score, it's a gold mine."
posted to MetaFilter by Capn at 12:46 PM on February 16, 2005 (14 comments)

Consumer Frenzy

Buy Nothing | Buy Everything. On the one hand, curbing conspicuous consumption, but on the other hand... oooooh, shiny.
posted to MetaFilter by Capn at 7:44 AM on November 26, 2004 (36 comments)

Would you like that thought wrapped up? No thanks, I'll think it here

That book is inappropriate We don't cotton to that kinda thing on my ferry son.
posted to MetaFilter by Capn at 12:25 PM on August 11, 2004 (60 comments)

cringe

THIS IS NOT WHY WE WANTED ROBOTS
tinyurl used so as not to ruin the joke, link is to gizmodo, safe for work, but may cause a freakout.
posted to MetaFilter by Capn at 12:19 PM on July 7, 2004 (65 comments)

We have your best interests at heart

SOMA, Orgy-Porgy, Centrifugal BumblePuppy help!
posted to MetaFilter by Capn at 11:50 AM on June 18, 2004 (17 comments)

Eat it! EAT IT!!!

No Escape!
It's in your your music, plastered all over your public spaces, in your movies, on your clothes and in your art,
it's over there --------------------------------------------------->
(as long as this is the first story on the main page), it's in your books, in your schools
It everywhere except inside your body... until now
posted to MetaFilter by Capn at 7:58 AM on June 8, 2004 (21 comments)

Come on, don't 'cha wanna know what's next?

Your favourite band's favourite band sucks. Slate article discussing iTunes' celebrity playlists. via gizmodo
posted to MetaFilter by Capn at 11:09 AM on May 31, 2004 (32 comments)

People's Glorious Redistribution of Web Pages

Let us say you are the premier of Alberta. Let's say you made some ill advised statements suggesting that public car insurance is the kind of socialist claptrap the forced Pinochet to stage a coup in Chile. Let us further posit that you were pursuing a degree at the time and had recently turned in a paper (word .doc) on that very topic, and presented it in the provincial legislature to back up those statements. Would you not then want to be pretty sure you hadn't plagiarized large chunks of your essay from the web?
posted to MetaFilter by Capn at 8:41 AM on May 13, 2004 (43 comments)

And one for yourself?

Passport to the Pub Initiate yourself in the strange and subtle rules and customs of the British pub. (via The Old New Thing, strangely enough)
posted to MetaFilter by Capn at 10:14 AM on May 11, 2004 (17 comments)

Bummer of a birthmark, Hal.

Are you trying to auction your brussles sprouts again? Take the picture from one one panel cartoon, add the caption from another, what do you get? Something almost funny. (Via bOINGbOING)
posted to MetaFilter by Capn at 10:19 AM on April 26, 2004 (13 comments)