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WhoTubes?
Ditto DU. If somebody uploads an episode of "MTV's Crapathon" to YouTube, they've infringed the copyright. If I then watch that episode, I've broken no law. Of course, Viacom would love to change that.
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at 7:09 AM on July 3, 2008
MeFi post:
Goodbye, Netflix Profiles?
We Are Keeping Netflix Profiles
Dear [Name],
You spoke, and we listened. We are keeping Profiles. Thank you for all the calls and emails telling us how important Profiles are.
We are sorry for any inconvenience we may have caused. We hope the next time you hear from us we will delight, and not disappoint, you.
-Your friends at Netflix
All's well that ends well, it seems.
~FIN~
posted to MetaFilter by Faint of Butt
at 10:43 AM on July 2, 2008
MeFi post:
Wow-e: Malthusian Fear Mongering Can Be Annoying
It's weird and sad, but for some reason I didn't enjoy WALL-E very much. I don't know why-- I wanted to love it. I'm a huge fan of Pixar's past work, and my politics are as liberal and green as they come, but the movie just didn't move me. Maybe trying to identify with faceless, voiceless robots hits the limits of my empathy. On the other hand, maybe my suspension of disbelief was broken by trying to figure out where WALL-E and EVE got their personalities and emotions from, because they were... [more]
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at 12:46 PM on July 1, 2008
After seeing the Buy n Large website, I really want a SALL-E, a GAR-E and a WEND-E. Dammit, why do people have to do things like that to me?
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at 6:36 AM on July 2, 2008
MeFi post:
Major League Eating: The Game
Competitive racecar driving makes me sick.
That's not a ha-ha funny postironic comment. I'm serious. It's disgusting. What's next, Competitive Setting Money On Fire? Our excesses in the so-called First World are obscene enough; why does the conspicuous wasting of gasoline get so much air time?
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at 5:13 PM on June 29, 2008
MeFi post:
Candy bar cross-section ID quiz
16/20. I guessed correctly on Heath vs. Skor, guessed wrong on 5th Avenue vs. Butterfinger (I don't like those; I hate the way the peanut butter substance sticks in my teeth), and should have stuck to my guns on the Krackel vs. Nestle's Crunch.
Incidentally, my actual consumption of candy bars is quite low.
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at 8:17 AM on June 28, 2008
What does freezing do to a Skor bar? I can't imagine the texture changing much, since it's already hard toffee. Me, I love a frozen Milky Way (American) or Snickers, but the big surprise is a frozen Charleston Chew. You freeze the wrapped bar, and whack it against the edge of a table as hard as you can. It shatters into delicious little shards, which can then be unwrapped and eaten.
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at 1:40 PM on June 28, 2008
MeFi post:
Rock the streets
I echo chrominance. It was Ian's site, and specifically this page, that taught me the invaluable ditty:
Right over left, left over right,
Makes a knot both tidy and tight.
If I had learned that rhyme, oh, maybe twenty-five years ago, my childhood shoe-wearing career would have been much different.
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at 7:51 AM on June 28, 2008
MeFi post:
Push the crates off the platform. Hurry!
The crates appear to exist in only two dimensions. By this, I mean that an infinite number of crates can occupy the same space on the board. You can shove them all to one side and then push the whole collection off at once for big points. I suspect this is not how the game is meant to be played.
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at 7:47 AM on June 27, 2008
MeFi post:
Keeping it in "The Family"...
I recall listening to Diane Rehm interview Fred Rogers once upon a time. At one point she interrupted him and politely asked if he would mind being patient for a moment while they went to station identification. He agreed, of course, but that request has stuck with me, because asking Mister Rogers if he would mind being patient is tantamount to asking the ocean if it would mind being wet for a change.
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at 1:35 PM on June 24, 2008
MeFi post:
Military tattoos in the age of Iraq
It's not a fucking assassin's guild.
Assassin's guilds have higher standards.
posted to MetaFilter by Faint of Butt
at 8:21 AM on June 23, 2008
Real nice.
Hey, don't blame me. Have you seen the admission requirements for the more respectable assassin's guilds? Those guys are stringent. You can't even begin initial training unless you're fluent in at least two European languages.
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at 10:20 AM on June 23, 2008
MeFi post:
'zines v. 2.0?
Of course, any bits->trees services is a stopgap measure until a good ebook device appears.
Of course, any ebook device is a stopgap measure until we develop cybernetic telepathy and can just beam ideas into everybody's heads.
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at 10:13 AM on June 23, 2008
MeFi post:
Boring men?
People sure like saying 'non-zero' a lot.
Except, of course, for the non-zero percentage of the population who don't.
In any case, I'm boring, I was born boring, and I'll die boring. Feel free to ask me for any information you may want or need, but I'm not your goddamn entertainment committee.
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at 8:16 AM on June 19, 2008
I like rice.
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at 9:57 AM on June 19, 2008
MeFi post:
Good night, Stan
Damn, damn, damn. I've gotten to shake Tom Savini's hand, but I never had the chance to thank Stan Winston. He was one of the all-time great creature designers, no doubt about it. His Gill-Man from The Monster Squad is a personal favorite.
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at 12:23 PM on June 16, 2008
MeFi post:
Gore Vidal on The New York Times Magazine
We know that John McCain spent five and a half years in the custody of the North Vietnamese, but do we really know exactly how his time was spent while there? It's obvious from the public record that he returned a changed man, promptly abandoning his devoted wife after her injury and disfigurement in an automobile accident, and marrying a much wealthier woman whose family fortune allowed him to jump-start his political career. Now, it goes without saying that I would never insinuate that a hero... [more]
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at 9:42 AM on June 16, 2008
MeFi post:
Worlds within worlds
MMORPG Tycoon sounds like quite a bit of fun, and I look forward to playing it. It certainly sounds like more fun than any given MMORPG. Thanks, Miles Long!
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at 1:16 PM on June 11, 2008
MeFi post:
Get Well Soon Cool Hand Luke
Sad, yes, but Newman is also 83 years old, and that's a good run by anyone's standards. I'll raise a glass of salad dressing in his honor.
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at 7:01 AM on June 11, 2008
MeFi post:
What is a Munchy Box?
This is food that is meant to be eaten at 2 AM while blind, stinking drunk. The meat, potatoes, flour and grease will sit in your stomach, sop up the excess alcohol and allow you to stagger home. If you are complaining about the aesthetics, flavor or nutrition, and you are sober, you are missing the bloody point.
Three cheers for drunkard food.
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at 3:54 AM on June 11, 2008
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White Skin, Black Souls.
Okay, cross out racist and just call the comment ignorant.
You're back-pedaling, but we can let that slide.
It's unfair to cherry-pick isolated cultural practices like the ones linked to in OP and portray them as yet another example of Africa's cultural degeneracy. Sure, the continent has seen more than its fair share of mayhem, chaos (and genocide) over the past fifteen years or so, but much of this has been the... [more]
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at 1:09 PM on June 8, 2008
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"I like to see black words on white paper rolling up in front of my gaze."
I'm an impatient man, and a terrible teacher, but when my septuagenarian, former school-teacher grandmother bought herself an iMac and wanted me to show her how to use it, I couldn't really refuse. Begin several hours of "Now double-click. That means click twice. Twice in a row. Fast. Okay, good, now click on the button. No, just once."
The breaking point finally came when she had to press the Return key.
"Where's the Return key?... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Faint of Butt
at 7:49 AM on June 6, 2008
Pliskie, I thought there was something wrong with that anecdote when I was typing it. I think I meant the space bar, and in that case, the principle stands.
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at 9:57 AM on June 6, 2008
MeFi post:
Hitler defaced
Point 1: If the artistic statement of a piece of static, visual art lies in its creation rather than its final form, is it still visual art? Has it become performance art, or the remnants of an act of performance art? Or is it something else entirely?
Point 2: Anyone who refers to their own art as "a staggering work of genius" needs to be beaten soundly about the head and shoulders.
posted to MetaFilter by Faint of Butt
at 8:31 AM on May 31, 2008
MeFi post:
Peculiar corpses
So were all these saints made entirely of wax during their lifetimes, or were they transmogrified after death?
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at 4:38 AM on May 30, 2008
MeFi post:
Magic Fruit Turns Sour to Sweet
it would have the effect of making the acid produced by mouth bacteria metabolizing the sugar of sweet things taste even sweeter than the original sugar, and that would cause subsequent bites of sweet things taste even sweeter than the first bites instead of falling off in flavor as they now do. It might also serve to drastically reduce the sour aftertaste of sweet things.
This is exactly what Splenda tastes like to me. I actually want the drop-off and... [more]
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at 4:56 PM on May 29, 2008
