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"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..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by davehat, mindsound, liza, ageispolis
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Buffalo, etc.
favorited 17 times, recently by Xoder, roll truck roll, umop-apisdn, exlotuseater, sarahnade, the cydonian, sparkletone, Mr Stickfigure, aldurtregi, DenOfSizer, fusinski, cruelfate, LobsterMitten, brundlefly, The Great Big Mulp, tumult, DevilsAdvocate
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"Results 1 - 10 of about 3,200,000 for printouts
Results 1 - 10 of about 698,000 for irregardless" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kidsleepy
3 months ago
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"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..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by idlyadam, Optimus Chyme, LobsterMitten, facetious, BrotherCaine, dolface
3 months ago
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"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..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
3 months ago
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"Its my experience that almost all product categories fall along a roughly inverse-exponential price-to-quality curve, wherein spending more over the bare minimum gets you pretty drastically increased quality but after about the median those returns..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by avocade, lalochezia, you're a kitty!, runincircles, MegoSteve
3 months ago
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"You want this to work, or are you looking to move every zig for Great Justice?
1) As you can probably guess, if I had a choice I'd rather not run an Apple, and its experiences like this that are exactly why. I could go on for pages about how..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zixyer
3 months ago
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"Welcome to Java, The Kingdom of Nouns.
Now its been some time since I've dealt with Java, so some of this may be old and therefore no longer true, and I don't anything approaching a handle on the syntax any more, so forgive the English language..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
4 months ago
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"There seems to me to be two answers to this, depending on the question you are asking. If you are asking "Will I look like a fool in this?" Well, then, the only answer is "will I feel like a fool in this." Only you can judge..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kittyprecious
7 months ago
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"Oh, hell, I guess somebody has to mention Linguistic determinism and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which hold that the way we percieve color is to a large degree determined by language.
That is, if your language has a color for orange, then you see..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by iamkimiam
7 months ago
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"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..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by librarylis, jayder, Deep Dish, frobozz, wemayfreeze, brain cloud, crumbly, mightshould, designbot, hoverboards don't work on water
8 months ago
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"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..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by jayder, Foci for Analysis
8 months ago
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"Other than the obvious craigslist/simplyhired/monster/hotjobs route (and I do recommend that), You might consider looking in to more industry-specific employment sites like Mediabistro, Talentzoo, Engine33, and ProductionHUB...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mykescipark, roger ackroyd
8 months ago
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""Never. Maybe I'll adopt. There are literally millions of unwanted children in this world and to bring any people more into the world is probably the most irresponsible thing I can possibly imagine doing, socially, economically, and..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by nelleish, BrotherCaine, mummimamma, Famous, Miss Beth, jengineer, arcticseal, phrontist, Imperfect
8 months ago
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"Words cannot express how thoroughly disappointed I was in the article. Though considering that it was penned by the collosally over-rated Malcolm Gladwell, I suppose I should have guessed. These issues are so far beyond settled among experts in the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by 2bucksplus, jockeygirl4allAnimals!
9 months ago
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"Also, I'm not too sure about this swaddling thing. It looks to me like the whole thing is designed as way to quickly dispose of - for a few hours, at least - a child that's become inconvenient or annoying. This, especially, from the Miracle Blanket..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kmennie
9 months ago
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"a salon that will cut men's hair for a reasonable price on short notice
This is known as a "barber shop."
Maybe you were looking under the wrong heading in the Yellow Pages...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by trevyn
9 months ago
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"(I feel cold in the winter now!)
I'm in the Los Angeles area,
That makes no sense. In winter it gets down to, what, 50 in LA? Good think you've got that blubber!
I have free access to my university's gym, though I imagine I could probably..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
11 months ago
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"Speaking of bullshit, ChasFile's one word post on this was itself bullshit. You can disagree without calling the admins here assholes.
You seem to be committing the fundamental attribution error: the tendency for people to over-emphasize..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spaceman_spiff
Last year
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"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!..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mckenney, chrisamiller
Last year
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"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..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, niles
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"I went to Atlanta '96. While there are a ton of little tips and tricks I could tell you (Coke - they Olympic beverage sponsor - handles ALL beverage concessions and charged $4 for a bottle of water in 1996; I can only imagine that it will be $10 in..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by CrazyLemonade
Last year
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"Oh, and if you want a specific tip: talking to myself using imperatives as I did in my comment above helps, I find.
"It would be nice if x, therefore maybe I could y"
"I need x, therefore I must y."
This helps keep you..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by stagewhisper
Last year
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"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..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by 999, leotrotsky, tomboko
Last year
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Buffalo, etc.
favorited 17 times, recently by Xoder, roll truck roll, umop-apisdn, exlotuseater, sarahnade, the cydonian, sparkletone, Mr Stickfigure, aldurtregi, DenOfSizer, fusinski, cruelfate, LobsterMitten, brundlefly, The Great Big Mulp, tumult, DevilsAdvocate
Last year
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""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..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by StrasbourgSecaucus, matty
Last year
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"But I'm guessing he may have been an idiot, flying anywhere under 1K feet anywhere within miles of Manhattan.
There is (was, at least, been awhile since I've flown it) a sight-rules corridor running up and down the Hudson River that small general..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jonp72
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"Many larger corporations won't let their recruiters even open attachments, as the danger posed by viruses is just too high, especially in the case of Word .docs and macros. Even at those places that have the freedom to open attachments, I've found..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by metabrilliant
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"Your white GoGo boots are valuable enough to you that you don't want to mess them up, but yellow ones you don't want and would never wear again, ever?
If they are really polyurethane and therefore entirely non-pourous, you could try a washable,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by burhan
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"aubilenon: also true.
I was trying to answer the quesiton. The poster asked "what does '4-color JPEG' refer to in the context of corporate logo packages?" So I answered that question. Turns out that, yes, they are called..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Grod
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"Buy a commodity with it that the Japanese have alot of but the British have none of in Yen, and then sell that commodity in Pounds. Say, perhaps, computer chips, non-embarassing royaly, or self restraint (hey-o!)..." [
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