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No Sufjan, No Credibility
the kind of record you listen to several times and marvel at its ambition, scale, and quirk, yet one that rarely finds its way off the shelf (or accessed from the hard drive)
Actually, no.
posted to MetaFilter by driveler
at 11:12 AM on July 12, 2006
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Artifacts of culture? Or artifacts of barbarism?
Some perspective on diamonds from John McPhee:
At room temperature and surface pressure, diamonds are in repose on an extremely narrow thermodynamic shelf. They want to be graphite, and with a relatively modest boost of heat graphite is what they would become, if atmospheric oxygen did not incinerate them first. They are, in this sense, unstable - these finger-flashing symbols of the eternity of vows, yearning to become fresh pencil lead.... [more]
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at 1:15 PM on July 10, 2006
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Crying babies
I just happened to browse her Monkey Portraits and End Times photo galleries a few days ago and thought they were both fantastic, the lighting in particular. I'm surprised they're controversial.
posted to MetaFilter by driveler
at 10:39 AM on June 28, 2006
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JerryC
In the 90s spent hours and hours memorizing sweep-picked arpeggio patterns like those in the 'sweeping technique' video.
JerryC is certainly talented, but there are kids like him practicing in their bedrooms all over the country.
If you like this kind of stuff and want to hear it done as well as it ever was, do check out the band Cacophony, in particular their album Speed Metal Symphony.
The album pretty much just... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by driveler
at 6:38 AM on May 29, 2006
/I spent hours
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at 6:40 AM on May 29, 2006
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Absolutely, positively getting there overnight
Does anyone know if this is real? It would be easy enough to take radar data and then just animate fake little black dots on it as if they were planes.
posted to MetaFilter by driveler
at 12:54 PM on May 15, 2006
Well, this seems to be where it was originally posted and the freight pilots there believe it, so it's probably legit. There's also a link to a cool video of 25 hours of FedEx ops.
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at 1:18 PM on May 15, 2006
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A Delicate Situation
I want to know what he rated it.
Considering the well-beaten path to Delicate Arch and the hordes of tourists that hike out to it every summer, any claims of 'protecting natural features' are disingenuous.
I think there are two legitimate reasons for the NPS not to allow climbing on Delicate Arch:
- keeping climbers from ruining the view of the arch for everyone else
- keeping inexperienced... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by driveler
at 10:02 AM on May 9, 2006
There are highways leading to Yosemite. I guess that means that any attempt at protecting Yosemite's natural features is disingenuous, and anyone who wants to develop that land should be allowed to. Right?
The most distinctive features of Yosemite National Park, El Capitan and Half Dome, are climbed all the time.
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at 10:15 AM on May 9, 2006
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As Slow As Possible.
They should create a live audio stream of the organ so you can listen to it online.
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at 12:27 PM on May 4, 2006
Pitchfork gave it a 10.0 so now it's seeding like crazy on all the torrent sites.
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at 1:25 PM on May 4, 2006
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Polar bears, hippos, and sharks, oh my... god
In other news, at least 99.9 percent of all species of plants and animals that ever lived are now extinct.
The only difference is that, now, we are responsible for the extinctions and we can choose whether or not to do anything about it.
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at 9:09 AM on May 4, 2006
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The Death and Life of a Great Person
I read the Death and Life of Great American Cities and thought it was filled with sloppy thinking and sloppy writing. The content of the book could have been condensed into a long essay. Hugely overrated.
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at 10:24 AM on April 25, 2006
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earth year?
With regard to Hawaiian honeycreepers, it's a little known fact that, since the European arrival there, more bird species have gone extinct in Hawaii than on all the other continents combined. About three-quarters of the bird species found by Hawaii's first explorers are now gone.
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at 12:24 PM on April 23, 2006
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Fighting
Considering that our military constantly runs war scenarios and that this is a seven-year-old document from a public biennial workshop on these kinds of things, I'm not that impressed.
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at 1:43 PM on April 20, 2006
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The pleasure of finding things out
His voice...I kept expecting him to say 'I even got... when I was, when I was very small... I even got lost in Coney Island. But they found me, on the... on, on... on the beach. And we used to sleep on the beach here, sleep over night. They don't do it anymore... things changed...see. They don't sleep anymore on the beach.'
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at 3:37 PM on April 17, 2006
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Argentina On Two Steaks A Day
Yeah. When I was in Chile a few years ago I had an 'afternoon steak' like the author described. It was huge, delicious, and cost something like $4.
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at 11:44 AM on April 12, 2006
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iRider
It's cute that they expect people to pay for a web browser.
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at 10:32 AM on April 5, 2006
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Missile or plane?
So what do missile theorists think did happen to Flight 77 and the people on it?
posted to MetaFilter by driveler
at 3:22 PM on April 3, 2006
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Flickr April Fools
Do you have to be logged in or something to see the cats? I just see a random assortment of photos.
Anyway, photo.net's most rated are usually an order of magnitude better than flickr's most interesting.
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at 12:06 PM on April 1, 2006
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New York Magazine's Mark Jacobson has an excellent...
From wikipedia:
Humans naturally respond to events or situations which have had an emotional impact upon them by trying to make sense of those events, typically in spiritual, moral, political, or scientific terms.
Events which seem to resist such interpretation—for example, because they are, in fact, unexplainable—may provoke the inquirer to look harder for a meaning, until one is reached that is capable of offering the inquirer the required... [more]
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at 2:34 PM on March 20, 2006
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Veedub representing deutschland
Unpimped by a nihilist! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
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at 1:20 PM on February 23, 2006
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So High Friday
Someone posted this video a few days ago, but the thread was deleted since the link was to pleix.net, who made the video and who have been linked here several times.
I think the post should be left up, since the video and song are so damn cool people are just going to keep posting the link anyway.
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at 12:15 PM on February 17, 2006
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The blue brainteaser
riffola, in rot 13:
ohvyq n frzv-pvepyr, tbvat pybpxjvfr nobir gur onyy naq chg gur hc-chfure orybj gur onyy'f fgnegvat cbvag.
Gur onyy snyyf ba gur hc-chfure, tbrf nyy gur jnl nebhaq gur unyscvcrf, gura obhaprf bss vg ntnva, vagb gur gnetrg.
posted to MetaFilter by driveler
at 10:42 AM on February 16, 2006
That was the hardest level I got by the way. Since there are no hints on the site, it might be cool if people post them in this thread, with spoiler warnings.
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at 11:08 AM on February 16, 2006
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Indonesia - new species discovered
'It seems sad, that on the one hand such exquisite creatures should live out their lives and exhibit their charms only in these wild inhospitable regions, doomed for ages yet to come to hopeless barbarism; while on the other hand, should civilized man ever reach these distant lands, and bring moral, intellectual, and physical light into the recesses of these virgin forests, we may be sure that he will so disturb the nicely-balanced relations of organic and inorganic nature as to cause the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by driveler
at 10:13 AM on February 7, 2006
