MeFi comment:
"For a nice example of how involving yourself in state and local politics can offer a much better return on your investment (whether it's time or money) see this Atlantic article on Tim Gill from last year...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Miko
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"In my job, I've noticed that non-native speakers of English often struggle with the metaphor-heavy finance and macroeconomics vocabulary. As in the video, for example, a "soft economy" is not soft like pillow, which is good. It is soft like..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by ST!NG, metaldark, argh, Dark Messiah, Perplexity, Lou Stuells, parhamr, orthogonality, spaceman_spiff, Mil, davemee
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"This should be a lot better. I like lots of pictures of the exact same thing and this just isn't doing it for me. The things are just too different. Snowmen? A dumpster? Luckily, there's Flickr and there are certain things that have a force that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by xil
Last month
MeFi comment:
"It's comforting to know that she is open to being Senator Obama's running mate, should he ask. I am open to being Salma Hayek's husband, should she ask. And I am also open to having my chief job duties changed to tasting ice cream and taking naps and..." [
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favorited 55 times, recently by grapefruit, lalochezia, allkindsoftime, blueberry, shinynewnick, flibbertigibbet, rongorongo, graventy, Monochrome, Telf, davros42, marble, redfisch, contessa, skryche, Lizc, confusionball, Asparagirl, clockworkjoe, acid freaking on the kitty, oneirodynia, Penks, billypilgrim, gofargogo, Lou Stuells, jepler, agress, kableh, showbiz_liz, Nattie, strawdog, ericthegardener, drezdn, suedehead, teleri025, fantabulous timewaster, The Bellman, EarBucket, Dormant Gorilla, sperose, cavalier, FelliniBlank, cashman, shiu mai baby, MegoSteve, desiderandus, Optamystic, rodgerd, streetdreams, Locative, scody, rokusan, delmoi, Rock Steady, aeschenkarnos
Last month
MeFi comment:
"What's the big deal? Doesn't Google already know all of our health problems from our search history?
what's with all these red spots on my arms should i get scared?
my foot hurts so bad after a car ran over it last night
gimme some..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks, rongorongo, Dormant Gorilla, Your Time Machine Sucks, k8t, kiripin, Optimus Chyme, Dillonlikescookies, jokeefe, xthlc, sutel, lalochezia, peep, jtron, escabeche, Rhaomi
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"To read this article you will need to update to the latest version of Flash." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zippy
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"Edgar Schein is kind of the go-to resource for organizational culture stuff and he's a great place to start for how to think about this sort of thing. His basic points echo what Sweetie Darling said...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bonheur
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"I would price this as a series of 16 cash-or-nothing binary (or digital) call options (there's a maximum of 16 home games in the NBA playoffs), but I'll use some simplifying assumptions here.
Suppose the non-Lakers team does make the playoffs and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by onalark, mullacc
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Sometimes I'm really surprised that Matt hasn't gotten mad enough to replace the whole site with a picture of some hard disks being crushed under a truck tire and a message that says "metafilter's gone - for links go to kottke or something...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by WCityMike, Riverine, agregoli
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"This is a little URL trick.
You would normally send this URL to them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml2Ae2SIXac
Replace the "watch?v=" with "v/" and send this one:
http://www.youtube.com/v/ml2Ae2SIXac
It gives a video..." [
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favorited 39 times, recently by strangememes, herbaliser, GalaxieFiveHundred, ohcanireally, iamkimiam, omegar, spinning jennie, lioness, punchdrunkhistory, wfrgms, chrismear, Lentrohamsanin, flibbertigibbet, flod logic, popechunk, belladonna, 913, RussHy, Roach, pardonyou?, your mom, terrapin, jeanmari, Jorus, tractorfeed, pinksoftsoap, Ambrosia Voyeur, Asbestos McPinto, peacheater, Orb2069, Jaltcoh, essexjan, Happy Dave, headspace, violette, misha, jamaro, ethel, spec80
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Should Matt do this, I think he should also update the time and date systems to be more inclusive of people who don't feel the need to succumb to the "traditional" Gregorian calendar hegemony or just choose to use more progressive..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Locative
8 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Oh my god... the person who favorited a comment is single... do they like me?... what if I post another comment and they do not like it?... I know, today I will post a comment in all lowercase, to show I'm casual, not uptight, just normal, right? But..." [
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favorited 19 times, recently by spaceman_spiff, bitter-girl.com, adamrice, mitzyjalapeno, fallenposters, allkindsoftime, deborah, gsteff, nasreddin, Ethereal Bligh, haunted by Leonard Cohen, dreamsign, pompomtom, andifsohow, iamkimiam, Anything, vronsky, koeselitz, shmegegge
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Activist hedge fund casts Accusatory 13d Filing. CEO and Investor Relations defends by casting Nonsensical Powerpoint Presentation at Analyst Meeting. Lose a turn and 30% of holding's value...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pastabagel
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Is it just me or does every subculture documentary seem to have people describing it, rather inarticulately, as "whatever you want it to be"?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by invertebra
Last year
MeTa comment:
"The obvious solution is that for every change Matt makes or argument on MetaTalk, Metafilter should just split in two: one for people who agree and one for people who disagree. Orthodox Metafilter (orthodox.ask.metafilter.com) for 7 day Ask posting..." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by litlnemo, arcticwoman, luftmensch, Spike, sveskemus, Bugg, JMOZ, Mister Cheese, gsteff, Plutor, brain cloud
Last year
Ask comment:
"From 2000-2004 (~12,000 games), about 58.8% of games ended in an odd number.
For extra inning games in that period, I have 1,012 games. Games that ended with a difference of:
1 run: 732
2 runs: 146
3 runs: 74
4 runs: 33
5 runs: 15
6 runs:..." [
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favorited 1 time
Two years ago
