Clay201, that's probably the real danger with it. It's rife with opportunity for abuse, not only from the "good guys" but also from any and every one that has access to the system that isn't a good guy.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 8:06 PM on July 12, 2008

Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker and Tits.

RIP, sir.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 10:21 PM on June 22, 2008

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posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 10:48 PM on March 18, 2008

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posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 10:38 AM on March 4, 2008

Echoing many other posters here; Trent's music has become less and less interesting to me as the years have passed... more because I don't like the messy, layered heavy metal that he's done for three albums. However, this album, instrumental and ambient, is exactly what I've wanted to hear from him for years.

So I get to buy a NIN album that I like for the first time in nearly ten years, for just $5? Hell yeah!
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 7:05 AM on March 3, 2008

I don't know, hellbient, but I would not recommend asking the question.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 7:02 AM on February 14, 2008

Now, I just want the mac patch to exist :)

/me looks longingly at his Fallout 2 image file.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 10:02 PM on January 16, 2008

Thanks, unmake; I should have put that in there, but somehow it slipped my mind.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 1:44 PM on December 10, 2007

SLYTP!

that is very funny and definitely an accurate representation of my kitty, too.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 3:07 PM on October 23, 2007

So, logically, enterprising Mefites should one-up them, right?

Right?
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 9:41 PM on August 18, 2007

ColdChef and porpoise, this is just what the doctor ordered.

Your scene -- variations notwithstanding -- is in here. It made me a happy teenager when I saw it.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 9:44 PM on July 16, 2007

chicken

Gods, I miss the Parking Lot is Full
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 7:17 AM on May 21, 2007

On non-preview, and reading the damned post links (I just looked at the domains, and didn't recognize anything! Honest!) I'm, well, gonna tuck my tailfeathers in and flee this thread before I embarrass myself again.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 7:18 AM on May 21, 2007

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posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 9:30 AM on April 12, 2007

For those who have not had the experience (of skydiving -- fortunately I've never had the experience of a total malfunction like that...) me & my monkey has it right; his main had deployed partially, and what his friend said in the second part is that part of the main assembly had hung up on his reserve bridle. This is, as the interview says, a one-in-much-more-than-a-million chance.

Regarding presence of mind... Late this past summer, I went... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 5:57 PM on February 13, 2007

autodidact, it's interesting that you would refer to Mac users in that way; a significant fraction of the Mac users I know, and knew prior to switching to the platform myself (relatively recently) are computer scientists -- there's a higher fraction of Mac users in CS than there is in any other segment of society I've seen, arts included.

Would you characterize computer scientists -- undergraduate, graduate, professor, and researcher -- as brand whores or marketing victims?
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 5:26 PM on February 6, 2007

Well, that was dumb. Two minutes of my life I won't get back, wasted on random "Men are dumb, women are flaky" bullshit.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 6:58 PM on February 5, 2007

[this is good]
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 7:50 AM on October 6, 2006

I, for one, laughed, cried, and grew as a person.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 10:39 PM on August 22, 2006

(Not from the post, from this thread.

And, come on: Googly eyes on the Rock? That's comedy gold!)
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 10:40 PM on August 22, 2006

lifeless, I suspect that the reason people are unimpressed by this prank is the fact that, unlike the post-its, the rellim, or the foil pranks, the IT people in this prank make no secret of their dislike for the target.

The other three all have as a fundamental component affection for the victim.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 7:05 AM on August 9, 2006

[this is good]
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 6:35 AM on May 19, 2006

mr_crash_davis, I apologize. I've obviously got a long way to go before I can claim my level-10 curmudgeon status.

/me hangs his head in shame.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 10:11 AM on April 9, 2006

It really is a shame that, when I order pizza, I don't get it delivered by you, loquacious.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 10:20 AM on April 9, 2006

Interpool isn't, though.

Hinternets (for the old, musty Geocities pages full of pictures of the owners' cats).

Iterro... no.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 2:06 PM on April 9, 2006

You know, I'd try to shepherd this conversation, but I think that the nature of our discourse might just <echoey>saaaaave Metafilter</echoey>

And possibly the whole Intermabob with it.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 8:51 PM on April 9, 2006

No, man... that stuff leaves streaks.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 6:38 AM on April 11, 2006

I loved No Cure for Cancer until the first time I heard Bill Hicks do it, and do it better. And first, of course.

Pretty much put an end to my Leary fanboy days.

I'd heard the infamous "Loses it" show long before I ever saw it, but the prancing around the stage screaming abuse at the crowd remains one of the funnier, if less intelligent and witty, moments in Hicks' career, in my books.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 6:45 AM on March 29, 2006

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posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 10:39 AM on March 28, 2006

fungible writes "Anyway, she's the inspiration for countless black metal songs."

I'm vaguely disappointed that the google music page didn't turn up Cruelty and the Beast, which is a surprisingly good (if you're into that sort of thing) bit of sclocky black metal.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 12:10 AM on March 19, 2006

I'll give the poem some credit, but for christ's sake, languagehat nails it. Reciting poetry into a cellphone != great art.

Not worst of the web, but a potential Cruel.com candidate nonetheless.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 11:01 AM on March 5, 2006

I know I've seen this before, but that predates my MeFi involvement. You mean this has never appeared here? Well, except for in comments?

Madness.

Funny stuff, though.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 9:19 AM on February 11, 2006

Hey, armoured-ant -- No shame there. This is a great golden oldie, and apparently pretty novel.

I just love the intro voiceover.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 10:46 AM on February 11, 2006

bonehead writes "We're hardly perfect: Bell is just about the most evil company in Canada, and Rogers (the major cable provider) one of the most incompetent (they can't combine home cable and home phone service, provided over cable, on the same bill, for example)."

You may want to note, as well, that our ISPs are using traffic shaping software to clamp down on uses of the internet that they disapprove of... like competing VOIP services,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 7:08 AM on February 2, 2006

That's a cheery thing for first thing in the morning. I have to say, though, the mix of caustic humour, misanthropy, and sensitivity that S*P manages is why I'm still reading it.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 7:16 AM on January 28, 2006

It bears asking -- of a lawyer -- what exactly Google can do to combat this? What are their options?

Also, which search engines complied?
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 6:49 AM on January 19, 2006

freebird writes "We met at a Black Flag show ..."

Thanks for that. That was...

Nice.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 6:20 PM on January 14, 2006

I have to ask: What is it about this that is racist?

These are reasonable questions -- from observation, there hasn't been much in the way of a unified Muslim answer to the atrocities committed in its name that haven't had some undertone of blame. Which is not to say there hasn't been any at all, just that it has been somewhat muted.

I would suggest that those of you that are viewing this questioning as "racist... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 11:11 PM on November 13, 2005

wakko: This is easily the stupidest of the five.

Why is that? What is it about the Palestinian nation that makes it a stupid question to ask?

I've wondered it -- I don't believe that Islam has a lock on fanatical violence (viz: Oklahoma, Ireland) so it does suggest the question, don't you think?
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 11:15 PM on November 13, 2005

I'm sorry -- is that debate?

Ad hominem attacks against someone that asks questions like this do not obviate the need to have them answered. There is a lot to be said for actually responding to them, assuming that a response is possible.

I'll admit, this discussion is unlikely to go anywhere; on one side we have the knee-jerk "Anything that questions Islam is racist" folks, and on the other, well, we have... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 11:25 PM on November 13, 2005

mediareport, when 14 women are gunned down in a fit of mysogynistic rage, reaction is pretty close to unanimous.

When Pat Robertson says that God is punishing the USA for allowing gay marriage, condemnation is nigh universal, from the middle of the road of all religions.

In the north american culture, the middle of the political field vocally condemns the actions of the extremists among themselves. See,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 11:42 PM on November 13, 2005

delmoi writes "ChrisR: If someone asked 'How come all you black people are always rapping about shooting people? And howcome there's no Black outrage about this?' That's obviously not a serious question that needs answering."

I don't agree that the analogy is valid. None of those questions were asking "Why are you all killers" or anything of the kind, but rather, "what are the reasonings of Muslims that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 7:09 AM on November 14, 2005

meehawl, how does one make use of that hash?
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 5:30 PM on October 28, 2005

On the bandwagon...

I'll offer N dollars (where N is an arbitrarily large, nonnegative real number) to anyone who can prove to me that they aren't interested in my money.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 11:54 PM on October 18, 2005

Eeegh. That's clever enough that I'm going to have to play the "it was only satire" card at this point, forcing you to donate N dollars to a charity that I would have chosen in my name.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 7:26 AM on October 20, 2005

I'm inclined to ask -- were there actually episodes that had no tagline, or was it just slightly dodgy capturing on the part of the album owner?
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 9:21 AM on June 19, 2005

chococat writes " So...get to the point...
"Goth was already lame in the '80s, kind of superLame now, and if you are middle-aged? Pretty tragically lame.
"BUT, that said, I don't think these creepy middle-aged Goths (especially the man, yikes) should have been denied entry into this crappy movie."

I was going to say something on the subject, but other than gender, and my having come a decade later to the party,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 11:15 PM on May 17, 2005

I'm a bit fuzzy on all the ipod hating turning up here and elsewhere on the net.

angry modem writes "Ahh yes, the uninformed consumer."

HTuttle writes "iPods are the AOL of portable music listening.
"Happy now?"

I've looked at other solutions, but salad spork really does have it right -- the aesthetics of the ipod stem directly from the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 8:57 PM on April 27, 2005

My god...

Based on your answers, you are most likely a liberal.

The only possible explanation is that Liberty is the root word of both Liberal and Libertarian.

That was quite the quiz. It's interesting to see a questionnaire that doesn't insult the intelligence of the user.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 9:25 AM on April 20, 2005

Don't forget that he's a regular contributor to Top5.com as well. He's a funny guy, our Pat.
posted to MetaFilter by ChrisR at 9:46 AM on March 30, 2005