Yeah, iconomy, I came up with the same and kept checking and rechecking to make sure I'd transcribed it properly. I've got to believe that those "errors" are meaningful in some way, as Who_Am_I suggests, because it just doesn't seem like the kind of thing that designer would allow to stand otherwise.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 9:22 AM on June 12, 2008

Thanks, but no, really, I couldn't possibly. It sounds positively ass.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 8:44 PM on June 10, 2008

strike two?
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 9:40 PM on June 6, 2008

Did anyone think to store samples of that other banana before they went extinct? I'd imagine with modern cloning we'd be able to get it back.

I believe I've read/heard that there are still some Gros Michel bananas out there in people's back yards and whatnot. It's not that it's completely extinct, but rather that the plantations all became infected and so switched to the Cavendish. The Gros Michel is commercially extinct. And yes, there are banana... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 11:43 AM on June 2, 2008

Career Objective: Fail, or Unemployment Objective: Win? These are also some excellent ways to ensure that you can continue to collect your weekly unemployment check while meeting the requirement that you actively seek and apply for work.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 11:33 AM on June 2, 2008

65%, but I coulda done better if I'd cared to repeat the clips. I'm afraid I just picked at random if I didn't immediately intuit an answer. I agree that this is nothing to do with synesthesia, because the sounds had a totally different shape and color for me than the symbology he was using. (not a synesthete)
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 7:24 PM on June 1, 2008

New research suggests that the animals evolved from mammals like the sea cow

Your new research was published in 1999. Wikipedia doesn't disagree, mind, but the ink has definitely dried on that story.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 11:36 PM on May 31, 2008

I had no idea that this movie was directed by Sydney Pollack.

*rimshot*
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 3:16 PM on May 27, 2008

So...

1. Buy roll of chicken wire
2. Shape into realistic human form (it's totally easy!)
3. Place in remote setting and wait for the yuks

what could be simpler?
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 11:02 AM on May 26, 2008

Nice collection. Sanseverino doesn't make the cut?
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 6:04 PM on May 22, 2008

GoodNewsFilter I think you mean. Though honestly, how long will it realistically be before marriage becomes an equal-opportunity institution nationwide? I'm optimistic, but all those damned state-level bans do depress.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 11:00 AM on May 15, 2008

kirkaracha: I think you meant to say Vernon Robinson, yes? Vernon Jordan, to my knowledge, does not have a website, nor do I believe that he's taken a stand on homosexual alien fiestas.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 6:11 PM on May 15, 2008

I ♥ Diabolik.

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posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 11:32 AM on May 15, 2008

Long series pretty much tend to suck, amirite?
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 11:15 AM on May 15, 2008

You left out the "MeFi's own" part.

I rather assume that deep inside The Music Industry, this kind of analysis has been run for decades, secretly generating the formulas that fuel a neverending quest for the Perfect Pop Song. I'm excited for some freaky truths to be revealed.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 9:38 AM on May 15, 2008

There's a YouTube video that's essentially a slideshow of pics from the collection. Granted it's an anti-Hillary Clinton piece, but if you mute it you'd hardly know.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 12:32 PM on May 5, 2008

Given that his first post was a self-link that went unnoticed and received lots of love, it's conceivable that room is blissfully ignorant of community norms. Doesn't make it less self-promoting, mind. Off with his head.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 2:20 AM on April 28, 2008

Bah. This is horrible for containing terrible signing and for lacking the context that would help us understand what the fuck is going on in the heads of Dutch people that makes this funny. It is not porn. It's just opaque.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 10:07 PM on April 23, 2008

Who knows, wendell, it may not you so much as end in a whimper. Though I wonder, are the two mutually exclusive? Despite my own efforts, no one else is coming to the aid of Ashley Javier's neologism. Antijedite may meet a similar fate.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 2:27 PM on April 23, 2008

I do think. Thank you for that.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 8:16 AM on April 20, 2008

The thing about cosmetic surgery is that there's nothing inherently wrong with it. It's a logical extension of hair dye and hair cuts and dressing nicely and whatnot. —dirtynumbangelboy

Yes, but we've really gotten quite good at dyeing hair. A decent colorist using quality chemicals can make it appear as though you were born with those awesome highlights, haven't developed a touch of gray, or really are a natural blonde.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 2:47 AM on April 16, 2008

Yes, I'm a beauty zombie. I just want Botox instead of brains. It's all I think about.[...] So hate on, folks, and I'll just keep on lookin' great. —Evangeline

I promise, I'm not hating. My point, which ericb exemplifies nicely, is that for those of us who haven't had work done, media images of plastic surgery disasters tend to dominate our perception of it. Partly because of the schadenfreude, but also because there are very few... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 11:27 AM on April 16, 2008

Oh, cool. Yeah, I've cooked a few things from this site. Lessee...

Pepper Soup is delicious, if you have an African grocery to source the spices from. I like using a melange of peppers in it -- 1 each of habanero, ancho, poblano, jalapeno, serrano -- to create a broad, fruity, spiciness. I would recommend against getting a bag of frozen goat bits, however, as it tends to be horribly boney. It won't be quite the same flavor, but if you use beef stew... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 10:39 AM on April 13, 2008

You don’t need me. You’ve got my biggest supporter as your VP

Is Clark really that significant a player? I mean, I liked him last time out and all, but would he really be able to sway delegates to Obama? It fit nicely in the West Wing style, but honestly I've paid no attention to Gen. Clarke since '04. Has anyone else? Does Arkansas love him more, as a native son, than the Clintons?
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 10:19 AM on April 13, 2008

Yeah, it makes me feel a bit squidgy, I'll admit. But you know what sounds equally creepy?

A South Australian police media spokesman said: "The couple is being monitored."

Monitored for what? And monitored how, exactly? And under what legal authority?
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 7:16 PM on April 6, 2008

Flagged as nosefilter.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 5:53 PM on April 6, 2008

I think Kermit's talents are much better spent doing NIN unplugged than lipsynching NWA. (as seen previously on MeFi)
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 8:38 AM on April 3, 2008

Sounds like first you need to figure out how to get your skull actually donated.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 2:12 PM on April 1, 2008

Well hell, now I just gotta know, dobbs. Is this your toothy spy?
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 1:43 PM on March 31, 2008

If you don't have enough grapes to make an oenological impact this year—or don't feel like making a foxy, North American grape wine—I can heartily recommend the baking of a Concord Grape Pie or two. Sounds a bit crazy if you're not from Napes, NY, I know, but they're delicious. I made one last Thanksgiving with the last of the season's grapes and it really exceeded everyone's expectations. Skinning them was a bit of unexpected work, but lest you think otherwise, it was both important and worth... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 10:37 PM on March 25, 2008

Naples, NY, please forgive the omission of your l
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 10:39 PM on March 25, 2008

Another off-topic recipe for grapes you're not making into wine, from Mark Bittman's blog: salsiccia all’uva — sausages and grapes. That was dinner on Friday it was unexpectedly delicious if I do say so myself. I don't know where else I'd employ the bed of sauteed grapes in my cookery, but even if only in this one dish, yum!
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 12:39 AM on March 31, 2008

humanfront, those links make my head hurt.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 9:14 AM on March 29, 2008

Indigo Jones: The Daily Grind is closed, actually, but the New Seasons locations should work, and there's one a mile and a half from dersins' ICBM coords. Mmm, I think I'll make some mozzarella this weekend.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 7:19 PM on March 28, 2008

Casa Diablo's MySpace page, curiously, doesn't mention that it's vegan. I thought that was the point of it... Can't say I'm surprised at its failing, though -- that's a hell of a miserable location.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 3:14 PM on March 27, 2008

No, insanely, Quorn™ contains egg (and a competitor, Veat™ contains whey, I believe). It baffles me that companies don't go just that much further, to find a binding agent or whatever that would make the product acceptably vegan. I mean, really, why limit your market when you're 95% of the way there?
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 10:31 AM on March 28, 2008

This is far more winning than I had expected. Shit, though. Somebody else read his damned MySpace page and tell me if he does this a lot. Thanks.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 12:54 AM on March 27, 2008

I believe you'll find most, if not all, over at Shorpy as well, where they're categorized and have a bit of discussion, if not sleuthing, on most images. I heart Shorpy.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 12:51 AM on March 27, 2008

Psst! aerotive! If you add the InattentionalBlindness tag (which is apparently what this is, not Change Blindness), then this post will be linked with this one from 2004.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 12:08 AM on March 20, 2008

mrnutty: it was posted on March 18th and deleted.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 12:11 AM on March 20, 2008

I believe you mean a Moleskine, PareidoliaticBoy. You're diluting the brand.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 10:09 PM on March 25, 2008

I like that picture of the hair snare. Any scientific instrument that is essentially a raw chicken lashed to the end of a stick is cool by me.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 9:21 AM on March 25, 2008

That being said, the Profile shot is from "Cuddle Back"???

djrock3k: I thought that too, on first sight, but nay. It's Cuddeback, makers of "digital scouting cameras" for monitoring wildlife exactly like this. Can't seem to reach their site at the moment, though.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 12:36 PM on March 25, 2008

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Oh, man, I so dig Cachao. I guess I know what I'm spinning next. If you don't have any Cachao in your music collection, I can't recommend the Master Sessions highly enough. It looks like they're out of print, but you can buy MP3s from Amazon or AACs from iTunes Store. There are also several full tracks to listen to at last.fm. He really was the man.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 11:10 AM on March 23, 2008

Zounds. In addition to bridge cams, most of the boats have cams running in their wedding chapels, too. Almost to a one, they look like funeral parlors.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 1:08 AM on March 23, 2008

Remind me again, why are state run liquor stores a blight upon Washington?

They're also a blight upon Oregon. The OLCC decides what liquor's gonna be sold, imports it, warehouses it, and distributes it to (the relatively few) liquor stores across the land. It's a blight because it dampens market forces and leads to a certain boring sameness in the spirits which are available to Oregonians.

Say I have a hankerin' for... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 12:25 AM on March 23, 2008

Big dot. I think I enjoyed his early stuff the most. The City and the Stars, or maybe The Deep Range. I wouldn't recommend his last decade of works, "co-written" with Stephen Baxter. I gather it was Clarke with the big ideas and Baxter doing the actual writing... neither of them seemed to benefit artistically from the other, though I'm sure it pays the bills.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 4:47 PM on March 18, 2008

[this is not good]
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 11:09 AM on March 18, 2008

I would add that you needn't even move to the country to get started in the farming business. We've got a CSA in Portland, OR, Sunroot Gardens, that produces its entire crop by farming backyard garden plots distributed around the city.
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 3:20 PM on March 17, 2008

Wow, SciencePunk. Well done on lurking for eight months, only to lose your metafiltorical virginity with a resounding debunk. Hi!
posted to MetaFilter by mumkin at 9:23 AM on March 13, 2008