With the greatest of tender love and care, hyperizer, that probably wasn't worth your time posting.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 6:41 AM on April 4, 2006

Wow, auto SFW tag. Thanks Sharco.

[surfs noisy websites with impunity]
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 6:31 AM on April 4, 2006

Televised poker is a guilty pleasure. Actually quite high on an uncomfortably long list of them.

Dominos.... maybe I'll get into it next season.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 8:45 AM on April 3, 2006

Why not the top 90% of consumers?
To be honest, something better than a degenerative virus would be preferable, but I can understand the optimism. So what if the last 10% get destroyed too?
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 3:41 PM on April 2, 2006

also
"The four horseman of the apocalypse (conquest, war, famine, and death)"
yeah, where did that come from? "Conquest" as harbinger of apocalypse seems a little unfair as implies that some side wins.

And, as I recall, they don't.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 3:43 PM on April 2, 2006

I have a new hero.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 3:26 PM on March 30, 2006

previously
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 5:03 AM on March 30, 2006

But... but that's unpossible! Cheerfully mystified, however the last change made me throw up a little.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 3:50 AM on March 29, 2006

I'd never heard anything about this, and given the amount of cultural nodding I'm surprised.

Guilty or not, it's a shitty thing to destroy a man so completely that he feels the only positives arrive on his death. What happened to the "medieval" Judge Muir and his extraordinary sentences?
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 2:17 AM on March 29, 2006

[nearly the only person not impressed with the post's merit]
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 2:00 AM on March 29, 2006

I wonder how many times somebody said "Whoops" watching that.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 2:09 PM on March 28, 2006

Never heard of Ringu?
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 8:12 AM on March 28, 2006

I've never met a techie like Johnny Hughes. I really wish I had.
I've met too many Jerry Taylors.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 12:56 PM on March 25, 2006

subaruwrx - thepiratebay.org
(and utorrent.com if you don't already have a bittorrent client)

I missed the first three and the kind buccaneers were kind enough to fill me in.
I'm not usually into sailors filling me in.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 3:52 PM on March 25, 2006

"Hooray! I've been saved by the bad guys!"
How thrilled would you be?

I would think that the best aspect of this for the freed hostages is that the captors were not shot, however being aided by a tool of aggression wouldn't sit well with many pacifists, I don't think.

The Times report reminds me that the organisation has previously requested no military assistance in instances of kidnap. How much of this was humanitarian,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 6:26 AM on March 25, 2006

"The rest of us in CPT are also grateful to all those who worked nonviolently and who prayed fervently for their release – religious leaders and soldiers, team-mates and government officials, partner organizations, friends, family, children, women and men all over the world. We are particularly grateful that no one was injured in this rescue operation."
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 6:30 AM on March 25, 2006

I want these motherfucking snakes off the motherfucking plane!
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 1:35 PM on March 23, 2006

OK, you made me laugh, you can stay until next week.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 8:12 AM on March 23, 2006

Well, it's looks like this morning's abortive project in Opera, too. I'd try IE next, because "everything works in IE", so I'd be in the same boat as Artw for a while.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 1:45 PM on March 22, 2006

The liars, cheats and swindlers themselves?
Nope

China?
Too busy catching up.

God?
Non-interventional deities provide free will.

Aliens?
Busy in Iowa. Cows don't mutilate themselves.

Giant radioactive beetles?
Now you're being silly.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 3:10 AM on March 20, 2006

Nnnnnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd.

Also tabs, width:2.

Being a MS droid, the only thing I found of use in Linux editing was emacs' auto-indent which does (very nearly) exactly what I would have. I don't know which methodology it uses, I don't care; it works well, it's predictable and it's useful. As a programmer, that's really all I want.

Arguments about creating emptiness and the representations thereof are best... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 3:38 PM on March 18, 2006

Boys, boys, boys; there's plenty more empty space outside, why don't we all just put down our editors of choice and go experience it?

function (parameters)
{
  functionality;
}
unless in CSS, when it's near pointless to make containment obvious. I'm happy to sacrifice a couple of hundred bytes per file for readability.

...no, I'm going. Look! I'm almost pushing back the chair...
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 6:09 AM on March 19, 2006

A very particular form of "jazz".
Nice drop dgaicun.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 5:18 AM on March 18, 2006

dgaicun, we're not opposed to your intended links (well, I'm not), but the site host is refusing to allow direct links to the images you want to highlight. Instead of classic nudes we're being given some lovely young ladies being dealt with in a very backwards manner.

Not that there's anything wrong with that sort of thing, except in some states, IANAL.

Trust me, trying to remove this would be good for your profile.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 5:33 AM on March 18, 2006

(last comment)
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 5:24 AM on March 16, 2006

That's. Not. Nice. Mummy.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 2:29 AM on March 16, 2006

When is the match-up against Gojira?

Will they be marketing smaller versions to children for bathtime? And on which night will these smaller replicants be mysteriously activated, when all are asleep, puposed to murder or inhabit us; sliding, serpentine, into our ears and noses; the fatalities discarded as the weaker chaff; survivors' lives directed by the "master's" commands; humanity set one against another across the divides of merchandising and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 5:15 AM on March 16, 2006

Absolutely, underline this point.
How goddam attractive does a guy have to be before the entertainment press takes notice of a foreigner? Obviously the acting isn't going to help, because he's speaking Spanish, ergo it's of no interest.

I realise that, if he does get picked up, he'll be lost to us for a while in a foggy maze of remakes and relationship comedies with Sarah Jessica Parker, but when he's rich and popular he can fund his own quiet intensities... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 4:59 AM on March 16, 2006

IT IS NOT ENOUGH!

(for fuck's sake)
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 1:52 PM on March 13, 2006

"Is it even possible to post something on Metafilter anymore without someone questioning its worthiness as a post?"

You're frustration is laudable, even merited, but you may have expressed it in the wrong thread. This one is about a 13 second video of someone playing table football.
Of all the internet barrels, this is scraping one of the lower ones.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 2:44 PM on March 13, 2006

"a war supported largely on racist grounds"
Is it 'cos oil is black?
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 4:46 AM on March 13, 2006

tbm, I'm not sure that helped your position: two consecutive weekly guest opinion pieces by the same man; a liberal British ex-pat member of the intelligentsia who specialises in anti-Bush rhetoric.

How about these two?

The Tele is no wild-haired, hippie-child Guardian, is it?
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 5:24 AM on March 13, 2006

...blimey.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 6:43 AM on March 10, 2006

Who knew that flicking through endless pictures of exploding LSD slugs would be so compelling?
Good work, Gator.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 6:46 AM on March 10, 2006

"Hey, you sound really good at not being good at things. Say... I need a guy like that"
- the next multi-national VP beerbajay talks to
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 6:09 AM on March 8, 2006

The inherent problem of newsfilter: lots of people have already read the news.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 2:45 AM on March 8, 2006

goldism / wheelieman: code2000 is good
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 8:39 AM on March 6, 2006

So, much like sex lines, this is going to be a number of middle-age to elderly women getting moist.
Right?

Lip-smacking.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 9:58 AM on March 3, 2006

All I could think, throughout the film, was Nuns on the Run.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 1:26 AM on March 1, 2006

I think anything would benefit from a tagline like
"The Persian Version"
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 5:23 AM on March 1, 2006

political cartoons are not funny.
religious cartoons are not funny.
ergo: religion is politics.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 9:05 AM on February 28, 2006

OK, this one was better.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 9:09 AM on February 28, 2006

They could have left it at "We're not coming. You're not paying attention" but they really do have the jabbering, self-obsessed teenage angst thing down beautifully.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 7:56 AM on February 27, 2006

Livingstone's statement in response at the time. (Protocols linked to it above)

It's worth reading just bit of it, because the London newspapers in question are a bunch of cunts and their reporters do harrangue members of the named classes incessantly.
As it turned out, Livingstone had had quite enough because he was being pursued by a member of the anti-gay press at a party for his gay ex-politician friend, he responded in anger... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 7:16 AM on February 24, 2006

Katee Sackhoff is certainly the best thing ever to have been associated with Battlestar Galactica, save the voices of the original Cylons.
This video is the best thing to have emerged from the dust cloud of desperate re-imagining that surrounds DC Comics, just so long as you don't forget to mute it, and look away for long stretches.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 1:15 AM on February 24, 2006

"It was only a matter of time"

Yep, a lot less time than than you thought


posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 12:55 AM on February 24, 2006

JWright couldn't know there was already a thread, he wasn't able to look for it, because that would have spoiled everything.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 8:06 AM on February 23, 2006

Oh, last post
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 8:10 AM on February 23, 2006

Two fantastic links in a week, thanks Paris.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 8:04 AM on February 23, 2006

Strict XHTML to keep up with all teh h0t bl0grr k1d5, I see.
I hope Google's underemployed free-thinkers aren't the future of the web.
posted to MetaFilter by NinjaPirate at 5:35 AM on February 23, 2006