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Guess who needs boots like
Marilyn Manson?! Yours truly! Here's the problem, it seems to be a
very standard design but we need to try them on and take them home rather than buy them online and wait/pray it works out. Where (greater boston)?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 2:08 AM on January 3, 2008
(20 comments)
"Hundreds of thousands of Americans have endured tours of duty in Iraq. They are returning home with a new word on their lips. It will have an impact on the American Experiment,
inshallah."
posted to MetaFilter by Firas
at 3:51 PM on December 7, 2007
(52 comments)
"Trotsky lived on after Stalin, and to some extent is still alive today, not because young people want the world he wanted: a phantasm that not even he could define. What they want is
to be him."
posted to MetaFilter by Firas
at 8:21 PM on November 11, 2007
(75 comments)
This question is dumb, (but so am I). I need to find a trivial bit of apparel but can't think of the most direct way of going about getting it. If you check out this
video around 0:25 (or 2:13
here), I need that thingie on the bassist's wrist. It's like a wristband but it's thicker goes up the forearm a little more. Were you in the Boston area where would you go to find something like that that doesn't involve just random stores + hope?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 12:12 AM on October 23, 2007
(11 comments)
On the internet, nobody knows the G-strings aren't yours. Or how murderously they infatuate. Or whom they're
infatuating.
posted to MetaFilter by Firas
at 10:21 AM on August 23, 2007
(85 comments)
Suggest some 'love' songs with an uneasy obsessional edge to them?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 9:57 AM on August 22, 2007
(103 comments)
You know, as the guy who has trouble pointing out that you just cut in line in front of him, I gotta say
wtf davy? Is it that hard to imagine that there are people who actually are insufficiently assertive—problematically so—and that this may cause trouble with partners who don't feel they're 'manly' enough? The world doesn't view everyone the same way so it's a bit too much to ask that everyone refuse to project anything besides hesitant soppiness.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas
at 5:23 PM on July 24, 2007
(80 comments)
So a common subplot in a lot of movies is that the protagonist has a dull life and suddenly a romantic partner sweeps in and changes EVERYTHING. It spans genres from
The Mask to
Stranger Than Fiction (and of course the romantic comedy / chick flick industry would go broke without it.) I guess Cinderalla is the archetypal story here. I'm sort of curious about what larger connections there are to this thematic convention—like has anyone written about it, maybe focused more on Cinderalla and gender studies or psychology etc.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 7:29 PM on July 13, 2007
(8 comments)
Mystery Equation:
x2+y2=(1-z)z4
A friend of mine has a bet regarding whether anyone can figure out what it represents. It's supposed to be mildly romantic. Ideas?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 4:34 AM on June 16, 2007
(30 comments)
"You are the first person to sit right next to me."
What does that tell you? "That you're smart."
Marilyn Manson isn't doing industrial howls anymore, but still has all the melancholy you could ask for. Fun interview by Polly Vernon.
posted to MetaFilter by Firas
at 8:30 AM on June 12, 2007
(69 comments)
Environmentalism, globalization and national economies, 1980-2000 [
Schofer and
Granados in
Social Forces, Dec 06] Triple-punch! (1) "We find no impact of environmentalism on foreign investment and trade. Firms and investment do not appear to be fleeing countries with strong environmental standards." (2) "While it is common to assume that environmentalism targets industry, the agricultural sector may be [negatively] affected more significantly." (2) "[S]ociologists influenced by world-system theory [posit that] the relationship between environmentalism and growth could be spurious: environmentalism does not cause growth, but rather coincides with the economic success of core nations. However, broader results do not support this."
posted to MetaFilter by Firas
at 11:36 AM on May 19, 2007
(6 comments)
Libya is a desert, yes, but if you trace your fingers through the moonlit sand and listen, carefully, you may hear ancient whispers: of
Apollo's love of Cyrene; of prehistoric hunters making Rock Art [
1,
2,
3], back when the Sahara was wet; of Phoenicians subdued by Greeks, of Romans followed by Byzantines, all leaving
ruins that Libya is famous for [
Cyrene,
Leptis Magna,
Sabratha,
et cetera]; of desert soldiers in World War II, remembered in
Graves and
Memorials; of the occupying Italians, who responded to
Omar Mukhtar's resistance of the Fascists by rounding Libyans into
concentration camps; of the camps' prisoners, one of whom wrote this
famous poem: "My only illness is the torturing of our young women, with their bodies exposed ... how my speech has become subdued, the humiliation of our noble and leading men and the loss of my gazelle-like horse..."; of
more culture, more
memories from this land that witnessed the wrenching passion of all man's history—whispering in the very dust that made his soul.
posted to MetaFilter by Firas
at 8:52 AM on May 14, 2007
(18 comments)
Wardrobe software. Has nobody done this? Wouldn't a social webapp for clothing be fiercely awesome?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 11:36 PM on May 12, 2007
(20 comments)
Feel free to put me in my place if this is way too trivial an issue, but I've been posting more recently and can't help but notice the little tip below the posting box, and—I know this is trivial, sorry—can we replace the two hyphens with a dash? kthx.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas
at 6:58 PM on April 13, 2007
(67 comments)
The Hostile New Age Takeover of Yoga
[
print version]. Standard "omg commoditization" rant, but has a delectable anecdote wherein someone mistakes clingy navel-gazing for reflection. ("What part of
no don't you understand?" his note said. "I never want to hear from you again.")
posted to MetaFilter by Firas
at 11:11 PM on April 6, 2007
(103 comments)
Late last year (November?) I saw Brad Pitt with a sort of patchwork of highlights on the cover of one of those major gossip magazines at a supermarket checkout. Which magazine/issue was it--or more to the point, where can I find an image of Brad Pitt with that look--or even more to the point, is there a more precise way of referring to it than 'patchwork of hilghlights'?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 3:19 PM on March 18, 2007
(4 comments)
CluelessFilter, MassachusettsFilter: "Mobil station at exit 17 off 495 in Franklin". Totally lost about how to find out whether this location is even vaguely accessible via the
MBTA/commuter rail? I can plug in an address at the MBTA site but I have no idea how to find nearby addresses or that of the Mobil station at that particular exit.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 11:07 AM on February 2, 2007
(11 comments)
In Toni Morrison's '
Beloved', there's some part where—I think a guy gets to sleep with someone he's wanted to in a shed or something—so a motif about this guy's heart being like a closed black tinderbox or somesuch is brought up and upon that moment, he feels that there's a beating heart in there with red blood & the works. Ring a bell?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 5:02 PM on December 12, 2006
(10 comments)
Looking for a web-based FLV player (ideally want it to approximate the youtube one.) For-pay is fine. The usage has to be just 'pass your flv url to the player and it plays' (ie. not something that requires manipulation in Macromedia Flash to work.) Any pointers? Thanks.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 3:05 PM on October 27, 2006
(5 comments)
Hummer Ad
strikes all the wrong notes. Tofu-eater feels insecure upon seeing an unrepentant meat-muncher, goes buys a Hummer to 'Restore the balance' (previous tagline: 'Restore your manhood'.) Somehow the ad agency forgot that you're supposed to get the message of "Feeling Down on Yourself? Buy Our Product, Show it Off, You'll Feel Better!" across
subtly, not explicitly.
posted to MetaFilter by Firas
at 3:13 PM on August 15, 2006
(107 comments)
Did Sylvia Plath write any villanelles besides 'Mad Girl's Love Song'?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 3:53 PM on June 20, 2006
(5 comments)
Cluelessfilter: So I got an income tax refund and the only organizations marked on the check are 'United States Treasury' and 'Treasury / Financial Management Service'. Where is such a check cashed?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 12:31 PM on May 31, 2006
(21 comments)
Rhapsody Distributes Their Music.
So you're a blogger mentioning a song and wondering whether to link to iTunes or the Amazon album page? Link to Rhapsody: U.S. based listeners get to listen to 25 whole songs for free (per month).
posted to MetaFilter by Firas
at 5:52 PM on April 13, 2006
(35 comments)
So, the Achilles' heel of Social Networking is the 'What Now' Issue. Once you've listed all your friends publicly, which doesn't solve any problems you had in the first place, you're pretty much left hanging. Ideas about getting around this problem in building a social networking app?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 12:19 PM on April 4, 2006
(13 comments)
In Boston area. Want to rent a laptop for a week or two. Budget maxes at $100. Realistic?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 4:36 PM on March 8, 2006
(10 comments)
Dear crafty gnomes of Mefi, riddle me this: my laptop (Vaio PCG-FRV27) just had a fit and died. What may the problem be?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 10:40 AM on February 14, 2006
(11 comments)
The current
firefox search plugins for Mefi were written ages ago for the built-in site search (hence they don't work anymore). Can any of our hotshot code cowboy members look into making one that uses the yahoo search? I'm particularly looking for one to search AskMe.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas
at 2:56 AM on February 10, 2006
(5 comments)
Why is "some of my best friends are black/jewish/gay/whatever" seen not only as unconvincing when it comes to disclaiming bias but also as a stereotypical response by one who is biased?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 9:31 PM on January 25, 2006
(41 comments)
The Year in Culture:
a different kind of 2005 roundup—influentials are asked to mention significant cultural points of the year. Hitchens on intelligent design ruling: "Just for once…one can hear the lucid tones of reason, detachment, culture, and irony"; Gladwell on the Streets: "the British take an African-American musical form and wonderfully reinvent it" (again); others muse about rare high points in South Park, or of Brokeback Mountain and the future of movies, or the Rove-esqueness of Cindy Sheehan, et cetera.
posted to MetaFilter by Firas
at 10:05 AM on January 7, 2006
(17 comments)
Epigraph Filter: Writing an essay on the reasons for the Iraq invasion, thesis is that Bush and Co. had an aggressively nationalistic / Hobbesian worldview which combined with Democratic Imperialists (Wolfowitz et. al) found conviction post-9/11. Can you think of a relevant quote or poetry excerpt to stick in the beginning?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 7:59 PM on December 19, 2005
(12 comments)
What does this mean? "If only centuries delayed, / I'd count them on my hand, / Subtracting till my fingers dropped / Into Van Diemen’s land." From
Emily Dickinson. Apparently
Van Deimen's land = Tasmania, once a penal colony... but if your fingers dropped from fatigue, why would they drop there?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 4:46 PM on November 18, 2005
(20 comments)
I have a bunch of tasks I can rank by imminence, completeness, and rate of activity. Is there an interesting or useful way to visualize them rather than three sorted lists?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 4:43 PM on October 3, 2005
(5 comments)
I'm looking for a large-ish general (or political) textbook store in, or accessible from, Boston, preferably one open on Saturdays and/or Sundays. Basically, I need to acquire the book "Comparative Politics: Notes and Readings" by Bernard Brown (9th Ed.) ASAP.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 2:48 PM on February 25, 2005
(7 comments)
QuoteFilter: is there a well-known phrasing of the concept that 'the three (or bough, or branch) that does not bend with the wind gets snapped'? I wouldn't be surprised if it's a proverb shared across many cultures.. it doesn't have to be limited to the three/wind metaphor. Bonus points for Latin or attributable quotes.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Firas
at 2:51 PM on December 4, 2004
(8 comments)
