MeTa comment:
"A couple of months ago, yarrow suggested we add Related Posts links to the blue, like the ones we now have for AskMe. A few people liked the idea but mathowie kinda glossed right by it. I'm not sure he saw it. I like this idea as well as I like..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by batmonkey, BinGregory
7 hours ago
MeTa comment:
"You know, I think philip-random may be onto something with CLASSIC FILTER. Maybe pb can whip up some way to allow old posts with still-valid links to be "promoted" to the present front page and reopened for comments for a month, as if new..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rock Steady
more than 12 hours ago
MeTa comment:
""Under a Palin-McCain regiment, you will kneel before Zod."" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kattullus
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"O excellent thread, thou canst not abandon us to our own musing. Thou must gird thyself and prod us into further far-reaching glower and castigation. Thy nature crosseth us and maketh us to weep. We did not deserve thee, O thread, but we have made..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by shiu mai baby
7 days ago
MeTa comment:
"thehmsbeagle asks whether "there's a way to, post-comment, express discomfort without people feeling that their joking good time is infringed upon," a way "to be able to say 'Hey, that went too far' without people feeling attacked...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by LobsterMitten, dash_slot-
11 days ago
Ask comment:
"®@, you might be interested to know that Gary Wolf, who wrote that article, now moderates a site under Kevin Kelly's umbrella of sites called The Quantified Self. They've recently started a wiki, although it appears to be having some present trouble...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Shebear
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Yes, mediocre, I believe this woman may, in fact, dig you. You will know for sure once she learns about "Punch 'Em In The Dick." If she pretends to punch you in the dick, she likes you. If she actually dick-punches you, well. It will be..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by thejanna, rtha
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh, and this comment: Tina Fey and Sarah Palin are remarkably similar. Except Tina Fey is really hot and Sarah Palin is really not. IMO.
Uh, that's backwards. Sarah is smokin', and Tina is just...well, Tina.
It may be overkill, but I am..." [
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favorited 31 times, recently by AsYouKnow Bob, perilous, shmegegge, Dormant Gorilla, gladly, arcticwoman, jonp72, Morrigan, duende, LobsterMitten, agress, dhartung, octothorpe, John Kenneth Fisher, Ambrosia Voyeur, self, rtha, holgate, mrzarquon, Midnight Rambler, electrasteph, ltracey, nikitabot, maryh, Drab_Parts, East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94, chrismear, longdaysjourney, pxe2000, davidmsc, bunnytricks
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"I loved this:
/dork
Who am I kidding? I am never really going to close the dork tag.
And this John Cage anecdote.
I'm bizarrely proud of my early championship of felix's trickle-charging story-telling bear story.
mathowie's Pixies..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Joey Michaels
Last month
Ask comment:
"Then you want an en-dash, stenoboy: "climate change–related."" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by smich
Last month
MeTa comment:
"There must be a painkiller in here. Give it to me immediately.
Why is this properly capitalized?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spiderwire
Last month
MeFi post:
HistoryShots—information-related history graphics
favorited 11 times, recently by now i'm piste, Mr. Palomar, junebug, ericbop, ErWenn, Songdog, Sys Rq, bach, Rykey, interrobang, Rumple
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"We went more than twenty-four hours without a MetaTalk thread. That's what I think." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by loquacious
4 months ago
MeFi post:
Explaining the JPEG Algorithm
favorited 37 times, recently by heeeraldo, jjwiseman, Termite, Homeskillet Freshy Fresh, luge, verysleeping, Hal Mumkin, kandinski, benimoto, papafrita, 517, four panels, ruby.aftermath, rks404, dbiedny, jperkins, Roger Dodger, Haruspex, Blazecock Pileon, Obscure Injoke, nicolin, melorama, davemee, jkaczor, kiltedtaco, sputgop, Tripps
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Don't try to get all facty on us, cortex. We want facts, we know where to go. Here, we want blood." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by gen, limeonaire
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"There's probably a word for not being surprised at all that an internet discussion about lesbians has devloved into a series of predictable puns and innuendo...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pope Guilty
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Eh, I quoted this elsewhere recently, but it's appropriate, so here it is again: The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as you go along. If you try to come back after doing a paragraph..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by misha, 15 step
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Making a Portishead post without linking to this very decent Guardian piece or to this this good piece in the NYT doesn't make any sense to me.
The album—which I've heard twice now—is different, spikier, weirder than their first two, which I loved..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hypersloth
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Also, please spell "doughhut" as "DOUGH plus NUT" and shoot me in the face once or twice with sprinkles. kthxbye" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kwaller
6 months ago
Ask comment:
"Norman F. Cantor is good at this. The Civilization of the Middle Ages is a standard work, but for me, the behind-the-scenes gossipy historiography in Inventing the Middle Ages made a more vivid impression...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by paduasoy
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Pollomacho, an appropriate beverage for such a libation would be a two-liter bottle of Mountain Dew.
Man, this is making me sad today." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wires
6 months ago
Ask comment:
"Yeah, apophasis is the broadest term, and paralipsis is the rhetorical move." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JimN2TAW
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Yeah, pjern, you kinda shot yourself in the foot presentation-wise, with a leeetle too much editorializing. A mystery meat link would have worked better in this case, I think.
As far as the pictures, I guess I don't see the Kincade connection so..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by agenais
7 months ago
Ask comment:
"I was too late to recommend Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men and Star Maker in an earlier thread, but I can by golly manage it here! They're novels and they encompass the whole history and evolution of humanity—in the first book—and then the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by iceman7
7 months ago
