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Are there a lot of people who are recognizably as beautiful as supermodels who are
not supermodels? Or do the present mechanisms of celebrity reliably account for a majority of people who meet the criteria to be supermodels?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cgc373
at 2:42 AM on June 29, 2008
(31 comments)
Coilhouse brings us
"Assquatch Art," which they describe as "a rustic art form." Strangely, this is probably SFW.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373
at 1:59 AM on February 27, 2008
(11 comments)
Hank Stuever's 3000-word
Washington Post article thinks about
the Depression and what it means to the U.S. now.
via Snarkmarket
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373
at 12:00 AM on February 10, 2008
(25 comments)
Does anyone have a decent citation for the idea that academic politics are so cruel/brutal/intense/vicious because the stakes are so low?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cgc373
at 12:50 AM on January 12, 2008
(4 comments)
Some
web pages with
a lot of
text seem to load slowly, even over broadband, and especially when compared to the bandwidth streaming video uses, I don't understand why. Can somebody explain? (Warning: Those links load slowly.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by cgc373
at 3:18 PM on November 25, 2007
(14 comments)
Imagini Visual DNA.
A ten-webpage survey supposed to profile your personality.
[via Robot Wisdom]
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373
at 7:52 AM on September 18, 2007
(41 comments)
Algorithm.
JPEG compression explained.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373
at 6:35 PM on September 11, 2007
(32 comments)
I would like to read some literate, accurate portraits of what it's like to be an attractive person in present U.S. or European society.
posted to Ask Metafilter by cgc373
at 4:35 PM on August 7, 2007
(25 comments)
Fifty years ago, I suspect that along with Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, and Sandy Koufax, most Americans could have named, at the very least, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Arthur Miller, Thornton Wilder, Georgia O'Keeffe, Leonard Bernstein, Leontyne Price, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Not to mention scientists and thinkers like Linus Pauling, Jonas Salk, Rachel Carson, Margaret Mead, and especially Dr. Alfred Kinsey.
The prepared text of the speech delivered by Dana Gioia at Stanford University Commencement on June 17, 2007.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373
at 10:38 AM on June 26, 2007
(153 comments)
Do scientists have an accurate way to measure complexity? Are they able to compare a human body with a city, for example, and say that one is more or less complicated or complex than the other?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cgc373
at 9:33 AM on May 25, 2007
(22 comments)
The 41-year-old recognized and accepted his inclination when he was just 12 years old. It was then that he fell head over heels "into an emotionally and physically very complex and deep relationship, which lasted for years."
His partner back then was a Hammond organ—he has now been in a steady relationship with a steam locomotive for several years.
via
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373
at 5:40 PM on May 24, 2007
(44 comments)
Zillions of billionaire characters in fiction try to buy their way out of dying by funding crazy research efforts or moving into orbit or whatever—think of John Hurt in
Contact or Lionel Luthor in
Smallville. Are there any examples of such figures in reality, in history? Howard Hughes types with nothing to lose?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cgc373
at 8:53 AM on April 29, 2007
(23 comments)
Famousr is a sort of celebrity hot or not.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373
at 8:14 AM on April 10, 2007
(57 comments)
Consciousness is a mystery, and
Paul Broks thinks Nicholas Humphrey (not to mention jazz guitarist
Pat Martino) may have some answers.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373
at 1:35 AM on March 30, 2007
(25 comments)
Is no problem. Is
now thread with greatest number of comments. Needs metafilterhistory tag, please.
posted to MetaTalk by cgc373
at 4:38 PM on December 1, 2006
(40 comments)
A friend inherited a bunch of cut precious and semiprecious gemstones (peridot, amethyst, sunstone, maybe some others) and wants to know how to sell them. This is in the Seattle area. Do we get them appraised? How does that work? Who buys precious gems nowadays?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cgc373
at 6:45 AM on November 14, 2006
(5 comments)
Acoustic
OutKast cover by a Tempe, AZ musician named Mat Weedle from local band Obadiah Parker.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373
at 10:14 PM on August 18, 2006
(79 comments)
Tensor, said the Tensor asks and answers the question:
"Who's Steven?"
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373
at 8:00 PM on August 15, 2006
(7 comments)
A friend
notes that a
friend of hers noted another
person on LiveJournal who said
his brother noted that Wednesday morning "at exactly two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be: 01:02:03 04/05/06." (In U.S. notation.)
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373
at 7:41 PM on April 3, 2006
(37 comments)
Why does a microwave oven door sometimes bounce and sometimes close?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cgc373
at 8:14 AM on March 10, 2006
(17 comments)
