MeFi comment:
"if NASA had been run like ANY commercial Web enterprise...
...you saying you wouldn't be the first aboard the Spāc Shutl (BETA)?" [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Tubes
4 days ago
MeFi post:
Turkish Literary Delights
favorited 11 times, recently by runincircles, RecalcitrantYouth, sleepy pete, roll truck roll, jokeefe, Abiezer, languagehat, defenestratedego, Mister_A, dyoneo, UbuRoivas
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Bet I'm not the only one that saw this and thought "Could it be...? Yes!"" [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"they hate the idea of being marketed to
About the same way Br'er Rabbit hated the idea of getting thrown in that briar patch." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Windigo, LucretiusJones
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Whomever ends up producing this thing, it better damn well not suck.. awesome book. Stephen King needs to be on board for this one, too.
You're going to have to pick one of those two sentences, please...." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by skewedoracle, EarBucket
7 days ago
MeTa comment:
"...and three years down the track
we'll be a Las Vegas lounge act
We'll be back, we'll be back
cuz we're the Boingers" [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"So the consensus seems to be that "absolutely beautiful" and "by Martijn Hendriks" are iffy, but the central point of the post ("film") is well on the mark...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Does this just about sum it up? I think it does." [
more]
favorited 37 times, recently by tehloki, MikeKD, chrismear, vac2003, josephtate, sugarfish, ddaavviidd, littlelebowskiurbanachiever, T.D. Strange, jmdodd, spaceman_spiff, lupus_yonderboy, ZakDaddy, schyler523, tommasz, Freen, merelyglib, infinitefloatingbrains, wfrgms, thisjax, bitterpants, imperium, sexymofo, monkey!knife!fight!, jokeefe, Goblindegook, derekpaco, WolfDaddy, roll truck roll, gorgor_balabala, Cool Papa Bell, drezdn, Lentrohamsanin, yhbc, Kronos_to_Earth, Ickster, Perplexity
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"you go spend years building something and then launch it one day with giant publicity. Show some respect.
If I spent years building an enormous luxury ocean liner, and launched it one day with giant publicity, and it keeled straight over and sped to..." [
more]
favorited 16 times, recently by MikeKD, shinynewnick, Reto, benzenedream, Lentrohamsanin, nev, lupus_yonderboy, ewagoner, puke & cry, Mick, yort, bitterpants, DU, jokeefe, blucevalo, nooneyouknow
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"A perfect chocolate chip cookie is one that someone has made for me unexpectedly." [
more]
favorited 13 times, recently by tehloki, arcticwoman, marcelm, sebastienbailard, scrump, BrotherCaine, wires, ErWenn, Riki tiki, ericbop, Blazecock Pileon, contessa, boubelium
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"It is not Russian, but one of my very favorite very small poems (Petőfi, of course):
A bánat? egy nagy oceán.
S az öröm?
Az óceán kis gyöngye. Talán,
Mire fölhozom, össze is töröm.I translate it this way:Sorrow? It is an ocean, vast.
And joy?..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Kattullus
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Nobody ever looks at anything before posting their next AskMe question." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Ladysin
2 weeks ago
MeFi post:
Death of a Pig
favorited 22 times, recently by ewagoner, New Frontier, ifjuly, idiomatika, MetaMan, dtp, ooga_booga, phytage, rusty, stet, Alvy Ampersand, Blazecock Pileon, Bora Horza Gobuchul, BrotherCaine, noway, AceRock, Knicke, Esoquo, CitrusFreak12, idest, uncleozzy, trip and a half
3 weeks ago
MeFi post:
You may fiddle, I may dance
favorited 16 times, recently by jeffburdges, Loser, kosher_jenny, JHarris, Kattullus, shmegegge, Blazecock Pileon, JonahBlack, mathowie, overglow, Karmakaze, kolophon, not_on_display, jeanmari, lumosh, Poolio
3 weeks ago
MeFi post:
Мотылёк - Butterfly
favorited 11 times, recently by telstar, Xere, UbuRoivas, robtf3, JHarris, redhanrahan, languagehat, lucia__is__dada, mano, scblackman, prambutan
3 weeks ago
MeFi post:
Food and Beverages in Hungary
favorited 16 times, recently by MNDZ, campheatwole, bardic, yoga, romakimmy, librarina, supercrayon, bitter-girl.com, TryTheTilapia, jammy, Slap*Happy, sciatica, timshel, orrnyereg, idiomatika, pyrex
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"I'm sure you'll get opinions on both sides of this issue, but I'd encourage you to start your journey with just Objective C, your favorite text editor, and the command line. Kochan's Programming in Objective-C book takes this approach; I'm sure..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by low affect
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"There are plenty of posts I don't approve of. I show my hearty disapproval by not reading them.
If you could do the same for comments you don't like, you'd achieve total detached coolness. And yet...." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by modofo, nasreddin, modernnomad
Last month
MeTa comment:
"This is going to be like the site redesign contest, so no matter how you vote, what actually happens is that the old tags page will end up more or less unchanged but with some extra diagonal pinstripes on it...." [
more]
favorited 4 times, recently by rooftop secrets, maxwelton, Rock Steady, Jimbob
Last month
MeTa comment:
"You're TEARING METAFILTER APART.
I hope that 'A' will do the right thing for the site and concede gracefully as soon as possible so that we can move on and begin the healing process...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Rock Steady
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Risk strains friendships. Diplomacy kills friendships and dances on the graves whilst micturating." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by cortex
Last month
MeTa comment:
"I played a gig opening for AC once in some dump somewhere in Massachusetts. I was filling in on bass in some sort of hardcore band whose songs where all more or less identical, and blessedly short, but the only important thing was you had to..." [
more]
favorited 2 times
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I've never heard of Otter Pops before, but that won't stop me tucking "Go suck an otter pop!" away as a key element in my arsenal of rhetoric devices. Also, potentially, as an illustration of the subtle differences in meaning that can be..." [
more]
favorited 1 time
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"They charged without pause for discussion
To the tune of the cannons' percussion
And the score, as you know,
Was six hundred or so
Summarily slaughtered by..." [
more]
favorited 12 times
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Silent melodies, ancient and terse
Sing sweeter than modern day verse
I curse my own pen,
For somehow since then
We've taken an urn for the worse" [
more]
favorited 18 times
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
""Poor Mariner, ruined and wrecked
Are you wiser for taking your trek?"
"Yes, I learned not to cross
Any old albatross
That happens to poop on my deck...." [
more]
favorited 43 times
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Is it kind of dickish to characterize a polite request as "whining"? I think it is." [
more]
favorited 1 time
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"Rhymezone's related meaning search is pretty cool and might make some connections for you." [
more]
favorited 1 time
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I wonder if MetaTalk might also be explained in large part by intimately cached wasps." [
more]
favorited 1 time
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Plus, I hear the guy that runs it is a handsome rogue.
...which is an anagram of "underage homos", but no-one should read anything into that...." [
more]
favorited 6 times
2 months ago
