In the video for "Drop," off Labcabincalifornia, The Pharcyde memorized and said their raps in reverse, and then shot the video normally. The footage was then reversed while the audio track played normally, so that their mouths matched the lyrics but everything they did was in reverse.

P.S. they did this in 1995, so they win.
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 8:38 AM on July 3, 2008

It's not that there are less lame items in recent years;

It's not that there [have been] [fewer] lame items in recent years;
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 5:19 PM on May 25, 2008

I know damn well that guys wouldn't do this, (and I say this as a guy,) and this is why women should be in charge of things.

What trite, simplistic, psuedo-enlightened but ultimately sexist bullshit.

In the 1956 Australian National Championship in track and field (the event that decided who would represent the home team at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, mind you) John Landry stopped running during the 1500m finals to help when... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 5:46 PM on April 29, 2008

While the TurboGrafix16 is, technically speaking, a computer, I don't think it's what most people imagined from the phrase "old school computer."

Also? This smells totally teh fakeh
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 2:28 PM on April 19, 2008

Here's something I never understood: Why is it still espn.go.com? I mean, Time Warner has dropped 'AOL' from its name, Lycos.com shuttered its doors 10-ish years ago, and still they insist on this "We are part of the Go.com Online Portal Experience" nonsense.
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 11:43 PM on March 17, 2008

automatic shotguns

Are worthless. The heat buildup from automatic fire causes the plastic hulls on the shotgun shells to melt in the chamber. Metal hulled shotgun shells work a little better but they tend to expand too much jamming the gun.

Not to mention the fact that from the video it appears the AA12 fires from the breech-open position (mainly to ventilate all that heat), which given the round we're talking about is a hole... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 1:30 PM on March 10, 2008

This must be an Onion article or something.

"Local weightlifter intensely obsessed about something."
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 11:01 AM on December 6, 2007

I made it up to squatting 70% BW about 10 years ago, and I'd love to shoot for that -- and more -- again.

Why?

After awhile, one just starts setting arbitrary goals to hit: Benching body-weight or whatever. It may look boring (it does look boring) but it's oddly fun.

Its like that Simpsons episode where Bart is forced to [repetitive task -- I think it was stuffing envelopes] and Principal Skinner... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 2:27 PM on December 6, 2007

For more workout video fun, BTW, there was something of a minor meme circulating after the release of Frank Miller's 300 about the incredible workout regimines that the actors in that film undertook in order to get into shape for their roles. Google around for "The 300 workout" should uncover lots of videos and commentary on the whole thing, including some from CrossFit, where I guess some of the actors trained. Most are in the service of advertising the new CrossFit/Gym Jones/Rocky 3... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 2:37 PM on December 6, 2007

from that icky HP marketing shill Gwen Stefani and her Asian minstrel show

Um... the phrase "holla back" goes back much further than little miss Gwen (indeed, there really isn't much I can think of at all that actually originates with her, though a good deal [ska, "girl power" lipstick feminism, stepping, harajuku, musicians as fashion moguls] has gone through her, at least).

In song,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 6:46 AM on November 16, 2007

From hexadork's "MeFi FAQ" page:

- [I]t's up to us, the concerned citizens of the world, to take care of business ourselves. [...] Charity will not solve the problem. [etc. etc.]

and yet...

- If you snarked inappropriately on Mefi at my work, your pennance is to go and sponsor a child

[Which bizarrely and directly contradicts the entire... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 1:43 AM on November 16, 2007

Also, is it just me, or do these hexayurt guys have quite a bit of trouble cutting their building materials in straight lines?
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 1:46 AM on November 16, 2007

From a 10-question interview that goes on for five and a half pages with the hexadork himself.

[I had] a stint trying to start a Geodesic Dome company called WorldView LivingSpace with David Kinne, an incredibly talented Quality guru who taught me about Permaculture , Deming and the whole culture of quality. That left a deep imprint. WorldView had licensed a really superior dome technology from Wil Fidroeff and I’m still surprised that Wil’s dome tech hasn’t... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 2:26 AM on November 16, 2007

krilli, I was with you right up until you had to invoke Maslow. I don't know what it is with that thing, but for some reason its such a powerful heuristic that everyone from strident socialists to strident libertarians to strident social conservatives beat that damn thing into a million bloody pieces. If I had a nickel for every time Maslow's once good name is crowbarred into the polemic of otherwise intelligent people, I could buy poor Mr. Hexadork MeFi accounts till his user number hit MAXINT.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 6:22 AM on November 16, 2007

Um, but you can't actually see any of the ideas on the site? It only has a list of the ideas that appear in the catalog? This is really the best of that thing which that guy Tim had an idea for where you wire a whole bunch of computer networks together into one, giant, um, uber-net? Meta-net?

Drezdn: See also crowdsourcing, Cambrian House, and the many other, much better MetaFilter threads on the subject.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 11:42 AM on October 30, 2007

This band sucks.
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 9:23 PM on October 11, 2007

or is that comic a few years old?

I first saw these circulated a year or so ago, so they're at least that old.
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 2:55 PM on September 9, 2007

I found Chicago to be almost glaringly segregated when I visited last year, by both geography and class. I was very aware when we left a black neighborhood and entered a white one. Now, this is not to say that my own NYC doesn't have some of the same problems, as well, but even the most traditionally segregated neighborhoods in New York - Harlem on the one hand or the UWS on the other - seem more diverse than the most integrated portions of Chicago. Even Boston, which... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 11:49 PM on August 28, 2007

As a former resident of Boston, let me just say WHOA.

Hey, completely subjective, data-free anecdotes, here. And of the three, I've spent the least time in Chicago, and given that it is my axis of analysis, I'm likely doubly wrong.
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 12:03 AM on August 29, 2007

I realize that it was presented in this simplified manner in order to keep your FPP on-topic and succinct, but its probably a bit of a stretch to consider XSS l33t anything.
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 11:56 PM on August 28, 2007

Really? We're happy with this post?
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 10:28 AM on July 24, 2007

Celebrity manages to do something that thousands of other people do every day! Film at F'ing 11! In other news, Nicholas Cage ties shoes, Jessica Alba boils water.

Celebrities are AMAZING!
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 5:55 PM on June 19, 2007

Wow. I came here to comment that doing a parody of Cribs was about the most unimaginative and hackneyed comedy sketch that I could possibly conceive of someone doing, but then it turns out that somebody actually thought it was real! That's pretty incredible. So I guess not.
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 7:26 PM on June 15, 2007

FIRST POST.
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 9:58 PM on June 13, 2007

Also, it is the 18th anniversary of the massacre, which occurred in 1989.
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 11:07 AM on June 9, 2007

I was just thinking the same thing, effbot. The front page of MetaFilter is starting to look remarkably similar to the front page of Digg and Reddit.

I mean, people used to at least throw in a wikipedia link or two, to at least attempt to make it a good MeFi post, but now they don't even bother with that!
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 11:03 AM on June 9, 2007

Or you mean like Fuccillo Hyundai commercial ever made? The greatest gift of an upstate New York college education.

It's HYYUUGE!
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 12:15 PM on June 7, 2007

See also.
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 10:35 AM on June 7, 2007

Ever your faithful servant.
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 10:54 AM on June 7, 2007

quonsar: hey, i figured out a way you can do this with notepad, a browser and your taskbar switcher.

I agree. Can someone explain to me how this is useful?

Especially given that there doesn't seem to be a way to set, change, or even determine what doctype the page gets rendur-ed in.
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 2:07 PM on May 14, 2007

So far, it seems that just about everyone who has been involved in this saga so far, from the OP (bad FPP), to the "relax, its just lighthearted fun" crowd (its not; its meant as a parody to make obsessive stupid-human-trick YouTubers look rididculous), to the "its meant as a parody" crowd (its not; its insidious viral advertising) to the "I'm a non-conformist" crowd (nope; turns out your an inculcated consumer like everybody else), to the "I'm going to make... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 10:25 AM on May 9, 2007

Also, samsara, yeah, got to agree with Mr A. You pretty concisely laid out the CW that you see an editorial repeating about once a month in MediaWeek, but the reality is quite a bit more complicated. Go to Wikipedia's page on ARG's an you will see a list of hundreds, maybe thousands. For every I Love Bees (circa 2001, BTW, for those who think this is so so fresh and clean) and NIN, there are dozens of immitators that never got off the ground. For every video like this one, there are probably... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 10:31 AM on May 9, 2007

the final product reminds me more of something from the middle east than a ninja.

Funny you should say that; I had the same thought in October of 2003.
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 2:30 PM on May 6, 2007

1870 final.
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 10:20 PM on March 14, 2007

First off, your recount of the events in the FPP are entirely different from how they appear in the article. In the article the whole "see my uniform?!" incident doesn't happen until he was in court, well after he was arrested. Also, your telling makes it seem like he was going to get off with a warning until he asked the officer for ID, who then took such offense that he screamed at and kicked to the ground the historian. This is also not how things go in the article, where the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 12:56 PM on January 9, 2007

And yeah, where/how does the Iraq war ever come into play? I never see it mentioned in the article. What is the deal, here?
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 12:59 PM on January 9, 2007

Did I irk your attitude to protect police? I didnt see you state anything supportive of the historian. Take a look at yourself.

Buddy, I am no friend of the police, as just about anyone who knows me can tell you. I know you think you are striking a great blow against all us half-awake dead to the world order-following sheep who are too blindly caught up in 9/11 "patriotism" to notice that we are living under the iron rule of the new blue... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 1:44 PM on January 9, 2007

washburn writes (snidely):
Chasfile writes (angrily): First off, your recount of the events in the FPP are entirely different from how they appear in the article. In the article the whole "see my uniform?!" incident doesn't happen until he was in court, well after he was arrested.

Chasfile is incorrect in this criticism, which can be confirmed by watching the Youtube video linked to by the post.

Huh?... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 1:48 PM on January 9, 2007

I posted a similar thing a while back.
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 9:34 PM on November 25, 2006

ltracey, you wouldn't believe the depth some people will find in blade runner, Descartes is a gimme ;)

The obsession with eyes is the other Descartes tip. "If you could see what I've seen with your eyes..." ...you would know what I know, and therefore you would be what I am, and that's just ALL Descartes. There's lots more, like the empathy test machine that focuses on eyes to test for humanity, to the replicants tracking down their maker... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 11:09 PM on October 29, 2006

And yes, finally getting confirmation that Ford intentionally did a bad job on the VOs was nice, as well.
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 11:25 PM on October 29, 2006

There's an old brain teaser about a drug dealer who laundered money out of the country by buying a bunch of rare coins, putting them in his pocket, and just walking on the plane with them.
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 6:24 PM on October 29, 2006

I'm pretty sure the line Sean Connery delivers is "Your conclusions were all wrong, Halsey acted stupidly." Just, you know, since we're picking nits, here.
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 5:17 PM on October 25, 2006

Another fun little bit of trivia is the message sent by Commander in Chief of Pacific Forces Chester Nimitz to Halsey after Halsey took the whole of the 3rd fleet -- including the six battleships of Task Force 34 -- steaming off after Ozawa's decoy and leaving the whole seventh fleet and its carriers dangerously exposed.

Before encryption, messages sent by Allied forces had padding text added before and after the actual message, to increase the difficulty of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 5:36 PM on October 25, 2006

Something similar got dugg a few days back.
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 5:22 AM on October 19, 2006

"As you might imagine, we are upset with Apple for not making laptops better able to contain the blast, but even more upset with ourselves for shipping exploding batteries."

STFU. You know why everybody hates Apple users? Its a great product, no doubt; but at the end of the day, its still just a product. You aren't a superior person for owning one, and neither is the Hummer owner that many Apple owners sneer at. STFU, all of you.
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 2:54 PM on October 17, 2006

In other decades old net theory news, we should all enter a Temproary Autonomous Zone instead of Bowling Alone.
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 4:25 PM on October 16, 2006

I can think of an easier solution. During the sign-up process there should be a checkbox: Are you a pedophile? People who answer "Yes" would be prevented from joining.

While I'm sure this was said in jest, from a legal point of view its actually not that bad an idea. From a marketing point of view it sucks, but if they had this I think it would pretty well indemnify them from the spat of lawsuits almost certainly in the hopper.
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 9:35 AM on October 16, 2006

What an awesomely massive derail. I bet this thread goes great.
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 9:31 AM on October 16, 2006

MIT's digital drawing board takes this one step further.
posted to MetaFilter by ChasFile at 8:25 AM on October 15, 2006