[this is FUCK!]
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 7:03 AM on May 15, 2008

I wonder if MetaTalk might also be explained in large part by intimately cached wasps.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 8:42 AM on May 15, 2008

I would move Demerit #2 to the Merits list, and Merit #11 to the Demerit list. Other than that, seems pretty solid.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 8:30 AM on May 14, 2008

Also, Merit #2 would be "automatic win".
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 8:36 AM on May 14, 2008

I never noticed it before, but that word has a double meaning!
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 8:50 AM on May 14, 2008

I prefer the cover to the original thank you. God damn I've had that stuck in my head far too long.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 6:34 AM on May 14, 2008

I need to be somewhere with maniacs and fiddles like right now.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 6:37 AM on May 14, 2008

I was prepared to decry it as blasphemy, but that Killswitch Engage Holy Diver is pretty much aces, not to mention the video is hilariously diotastic.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 6:43 AM on May 14, 2008

Here. Ten covers to metalize your morning.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 6:55 AM on May 14, 2008

That's definitely a difficult business model to mess up. You give them $10, they give you something.
You'd think it'd be hard to mess that up, but: Verizon.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 1:11 PM on May 12, 2008

"Ozzy, working at the height of his considerable vocal powers, ..."

...no, as I suspected, it's impossible to begin a sentence that way.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 5:02 AM on May 12, 2008

Indeed, the use of so clear-headed a verb as "thought" is probably an error there.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 6:29 AM on May 12, 2008

I got a laugh from it. I got tagged angsty mad quiet neo-pagan outsider weirdo - all fair enough - and put overwhelmingly in the 18-21 and under-18 age brackets, which I sure as hell won't complain about.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 2:27 AM on May 8, 2008

Hey shit I just got tagged with goth this isn't funny anymore I want my money back.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 3:51 AM on May 8, 2008

If you ask to see the most trustworthy faces you get pictures of dogs. I'm cheered to see this one has been rated "good lookin" and "hot stuff".
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 6:02 AM on May 8, 2008

Does anyone else think Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead with Vampires sounds really kind of stupid?
Yes, clearly should have been werewolves.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 7:06 PM on May 7, 2008

That pigeon cannot consent to being hugged by that macaque. It is a horrible abuse.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 3:40 PM on May 7, 2008

[But] if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast. --Leviticus 20:15.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 4:12 PM on May 7, 2008

(Needing to add a particular third-party widget to one specific browser so that you can hack it in your own browser doesn't cut it, no.)
aka "The MetaFilter Model"
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 1:57 PM on May 7, 2008

(Personally, most of my email time is in PINE, so glitzy high style isn't a major priority. I had a student in here who was obviously distracted by my pine window and kept glancing it with an apparent and growing mix of suspicion and horror. Finally: "Yes?" "I don't know how you read that." "What do you mean?" "It's so... it's... I mean... it's all text.")
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 2:08 PM on May 7, 2008

Wolfdog, wouldn't it be cool to slap a green-phosphor skin on gmail, with, like, all that text?
Dude I would be like totally whoa. (I prefer amber to green, but the basic premise is solid.)
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 3:34 PM on May 7, 2008

I would call it face-turning, not vertex-turning, but I would also have lost most of the bits so he can call it whatever he wants.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 3:22 PM on May 5, 2008

posted not 2 hours later
Well, the puzzle was described years ago and has been available to play with in virtual form for a long time, so that solution probably wasn't cooked up in the 2 hours after the announcement of the working physical model.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 4:47 PM on May 5, 2008

DU - Katsuhiko Okamoto's small run of 4-layer Master Pyraminxes sold for somewhere $600-$1000 a piece, as I recall, though I can't seem to document that at the moment. I think Jason (the pentultimate guy) might have similar goals in mind.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 5:18 PM on May 5, 2008

I've honestly not entirely digested how the mechanism works - and more than the molding and all the physical processes it is the design that impresses me. But it looks like each of the twelve faces causes motion at a distinct level that it "owns", and the pattern of interlocking on that level makes the other related faces turn simultaneously at the same time. So each level's tabs encode the motions for one kind of face twist.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 1:45 PM on May 6, 2008

Yes, it's a dodecahedron, it just has cuts. Might as well say Rubik's cube isn't a cube because of the cuts.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 5:01 AM on May 7, 2008

Shannon's work gave rise to the idea of a perfect graph in graph theory, which led to the Strong Perfect Graph Conjecture Theorem - the upgrade of which from conjecture to theorem is one of the most impressive but unremarked feats in recent mathematical research. An account by Paul Seymour (pdf).... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 6:04 AM on May 6, 2008

Glad you don't disapprove too strongly.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 6:18 AM on May 6, 2008

The graphs in question here are just sets of points (vertices) some of which are connected to one another by lines (edges). Being "perfect" is a coloring property, and it's a little bit subtle, but here's a quick run down:

1. Graph theorists (and their friends, the mapmakers) like to look at a graph and figure out the smallest number of different colors they need so that they can give each vertex a color and no vertex is next to another one of the same color.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 6:56 AM on May 6, 2008

I feel like I've had a guy who looks just like Douglas Hofstadter, only with a black goatee, jump out of the bushes, beat me into a stupor and then explain chaos theory to me.
Incidentally, I personally would describe that as "my best day ever", but I recognize that's not the default position.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 7:12 AM on May 6, 2008

I'll take your Bratz and raise you four Whorses.
What a nightmare. One of the principal, generally agreed-upon benefits of shacking up with animals is that at least they don't shop.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 11:48 AM on May 5, 2008

I realize this is now a considerable tangent but one link led to another, and, well - the words "not child-safe" have seldom been more accurate.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 1:13 PM on May 5, 2008

I think when this first appeared one could have made a Dokken reference and seemed timely.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 9:46 AM on May 4, 2008

I clicked through kingfisher's link and got a list with "Gay Collie" at number 6. Amused as I am, I don't think I'll be filling out the name-change forms just this morning.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 5:13 AM on May 3, 2008

dwarves and tequila
The greatest album Riot never wrote.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 5:14 AM on May 3, 2008

Perl is the one more language widespread almost as the BASIC and having almost same bad glory. It has written Larri Wall. Look what moustaches he has.

That's very hard to argue with.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 2:14 PM on April 30, 2008

Are there any languages created by women?
The answer's in the link, say Grace.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 2:48 PM on April 30, 2008

If this had gone undiscovered, my mind (reluctantly) says no-one was really harmed and I can't come down with a judgment of it being "immoral" in any sense I understand that word. It's the fact that other people who had cared about her would find out and have their memories of her so catastrophically violated, that's what's unconscionable to me.

If someone has prior consent from the deceased, is necrophilia acceptable?
I think... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 2:39 PM on April 30, 2008

If anyone wants to steer me to a large version of this wallpaper (ideally without "ubuntu" squatting in the middle), I would be grateful for the steerage.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 10:04 AM on April 28, 2008

Now I get occasional urge to pet, or possibly sleep on, my monitor.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 7:19 AM on April 29, 2008

If you're in a bad fantasy novel, there's always bioluminescent stuff on the walls of the caves to weirdly light your murky progress. It's one of the major tip-offs.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 7:08 AM on April 29, 2008

The anti-wolf-defamation league will be in contact with you shortly.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 5:48 AM on April 24, 2008

This is excellent fodder for name-the-movie games.

A few people are knocked unconscious, some are knocked off a cliff by a wolf, a girl bites a boy's arm, some people are kicked, a boy is flung into a lake by a boar, a girl steps on a man's face and men beat others with hoes and clubs.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 12:08 PM on April 21, 2008

This is just excellent.

A man yells and throws things around in a hamburger shop threatening to burn it down.

Satan (he's a large, red, horned creature) sprouts out of the ground, it threatens two men, and they argue and compete with each other.

A male mouse accidentally pulls a female mouse's pants off and we see her modest underwear. Some female mouse characters wear tight... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 12:19 PM on April 21, 2008

I think this is actually better than movies.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 12:20 PM on April 21, 2008

If you can't imagine off the top of your head a dozen or so different erotic ways to ride a horse then Oh dear! I've said too much already.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 12:35 PM on April 21, 2008

This is a pretty awesome plot summary:Waldemar Daninsky goes to Tibet to look for proof that the yeti exists. He gets captured by two vampire women who turn him into a werewolf. Waldemar's friends are then kidnapped by a witch, and later, he fights a yeti.I think what catches my eye there is that "later, he fights a yeti" could be appended to many films' descriptions, entirely to their benefit.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 5:03 AM on April 21, 2008

Why does everyone still go on about how hard the babelfish puzzle was? It isn't hard. It was never hard. The endgame has some pretty hard stuff. Spellbreaker is hard. Beaureaucracy is ridiculously hard. But getting the fish was never hard. Yet it somehow persists as the iconic puzzle from HHGG if not the entire Infocom output.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 3:30 PM on April 18, 2008

Inifidel was "Advanced"? Really? That ending was pretty diasppointing, though, especially since it's "punishment" for something the player doesn't have any role in.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 5:36 PM on April 18, 2008

There was a Fresh Air interview about a month ago with Eliot Van Buskirk in which he said (I may be paraphrasing), "...yeah. I think the people who are buying the most music don't actually really like music."
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 2:36 PM on April 18, 2008