MeFi comment:
"The Warren Buffet and Soros interviews are required viewing (at least, for understanding the past week or so). Both of them are brilliant high-level view. I was thinking about putting together a combo "Old Wizard" FPP with both links (maybe..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MaxK
4 ¾ hours ago
MeFi comment:
"According to this old slang dictionary, "pissing against the wall" could mean people who are drunkards, not just "males" which some later translators of the bible interpreted it as. Interesting to watch the mis-interpretation of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
4 days ago
MeFi post:
The Fifties: an invention of Sha Na Na / Scottish Highlanders / Rondald Reagan
favorited 41 times, recently by cirocco, Pigpen, longdaysjourney, mippy, dejah420, mike3k, millipede, tehloki, digitaldraco, ericbop, binary, SuperSquirrel, diamondsky, Hat Maui, Joey Michaels, acro, oozy rat in a sanitary zoo, object-a, LobsterMitten, box, yonation, Haruspex, lisawin, ZenMasterThis, UbuRoivas, Turtles all the way down, carbide, JHarris, Goofyy, bunnytricks, liketitanic, msalt, Sticherbeast, brookedel, SmileyChewtrain, scody, batmonkey, yonyonson, Vaike, TheOnlyCoolTim, limeonaire
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Everyone realizes how praiseworthy it is for a politician to honor his word and to be straightforward rather than crafty in his dealings; nonetheless, contemporary experience shows that politicians who have achieved great things have been those who..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Amanojaku, amarie, darkstar, rokusan, jenkinsEar
6 days ago
MeFi post:
Online Literacy Is a Lesser Kind
favorited 27 times, recently by longdaysjourney, zepheria, lunit, Jaltcoh, UbuRoivas, needled, adrianhon, the_very_hungry_caterpillar, SuperSquirrel, aldus_manutius, Foci for Analysis, Sticherbeast, BobsterLobster, jeffburdges, manguero, hgws, LobsterMitten, davar, five_dollars, limeonaire, skyper, carter, demon666, protorp, fleetmouse, mduda, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"JackFlash: "Oh my, a real, live professor from Goucher wrote a book, with footnotes no less. Just what we need, another Camille Paglia to intellectualize our pop culture for us. Next up, a book about how the Beverly Hillbillies invented not..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tomboko
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
""annotation" consists of selectively quoting other experts annotations. So you have this hodge-podge of approaches and perspectives. For example annotation #12 of "The Tinderbox"12. Dog: The dog can symbolize loyalty or vigilance..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by shavenwarthog
10 days ago
MeFi post:
What caused the Viking Age?
favorited 12 times, recently by manguero, hap_hazard, mike3k, babybuns, Cassilda, lisawin, Green Eyed Monster, smitt, six-or-six-thirty, infini, nicolin, LobsterMitten
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Do you work for Ebay? 2 out of 6 of your FPP's have been about Ebay, and this one came right on the heels of a negative Ebay post." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by finite
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I've been on a reading binge of books about the 1930's and can recommend any/all of these as easy to read, entertaining and interesting:
The Thirties: A Time to Remember (1962), Not So Wild a Dream (1947), Since Yesterday, the 1930's in America..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Smedleyman, Scoo
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I do suspect the patty may be original but there's definitely shenanigans going on with that bun.
Actually McDonalds meat is not bad, health wise - it's 100% meat nothing added, as good or better than ground beef from the grocery store. The..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ErWenn
2 weeks ago
MeFi post:
Slow Food Nation '08
favorited 20 times, recently by P.o.B., Telf, Rora, New Frontier, lahersedor, pracowity, mewithoutyou, salishsea, andywolf, Kifer85, ourobouros, jammy, wander, lesChaps, jgee, entropy, sacre_bleu, jeffburdges, mduda, longdaysjourney
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Neat.
Somewhat related, Wired magazine has a profile this month of the most incredible personal library I've ever seen. Mr. Walker's Library of Incredible Collectibles...." [
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favorited 18 times, recently by lysistrata, schyler523, Sandor Clegane, peacheater, graventy, dejah420, campheatwole, chelegonian, mrmojoflying, T.D. Strange, zueod, mai, Alvy Ampersand, nikitabot, nickyskye, vronsky, amyms, miss-lapin
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"buzzman: "Coal is still making much of our electricity, right?"
News Scientist had a study out this week showing that, even using 100% coal-fired electricity, an electric car produces less CO2 than a car would running on gasoline (all..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by rongorongo, buzzman
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Sidhedevil: "Michiko Kakutani knows more about books than almost anyone in the United States of America. Seriously, whether you like her writing or not, and whether you agree with her opinions or not, you cannot fault the woman for a lack of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by matteo
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"plexi: "The New York Times has a proper obituary up:
Improper. No substance, faux-Wallace style. A Michiko Kakutani piece ("She has been known to write reviews in the voice of movie or book characters"). I hope someone with more..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by lalochezia, lalex
3 weeks ago
MeFi post:
People who live without TV
favorited 27 times, recently by manguero, yohko, agregoli, idiomatika, therubettes, roombythelake, limeonaire, HaloMan, BrotherCaine, Haruspex, Jenny is Crafty, firevoice, elizardbits, apdato, Quidam, seawallrunner, pb
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"how could a child this young make it past the "selection" to be an inmate?Roma (Gypsy) and Jewish children, the first to be placed in any Nazi concentration camp, arrived at Ravensbrück in 1939. Though the statistics on the number of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chuckdarwin
Last month
MeFi post:
Classic music too serious
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"verstegan: "Ross is a bit vague on dates, but his argument seems to run as follows....This simply can't be true."
Well, the New Yorker article is basically a summary of two books that just came out so I imagine there is more detail...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LooseFilter
Last month
MeFi comment:
"mrnutty: "A book review is a great post?"
Ahem.. the New York Review of Books is "book reviews" like caviar is "fish eggs" and truffles with chocolate are "candy bars". May your pallet be exploded with new..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nickyskye, DevilsAdvocate
Last month
MeFi comment:
"pretty much every guy I've known with a certain amount of money to toss around ends up paying for sex.
They are paying for sex, but mainly they are paying for the girl to go away afterward. Hookers make getting off [the bus] painless - other than..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by BrotherCaine, limeonaire
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Tired of dealing with Amazon..
Tired, yes. The 1-click ordering and free 2-day Premium shipping is wearing me out, I can't keep up with my pile of books that I have to drag myself in my pajamas every day to the door step to retrieve...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by champthom
Last month
MeFi comment:
"A really ugly list cutnpaste from a text file of some free online education sites
Berkley podcasts
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/
Merlot
http://www.merlot.org/Home.po
Search engine for online presentations
http://mediasite.com/
MIT video..." [
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"This should be on the front cover of Make magazine." [
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"If it doesn't work for you, or you hate Microsoft, we all want to hear about, please post and let the rest of us know. Thank you." [
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favorited 13 times
Last month
MeFi comment:
"From Bklyn: "Theroux has written some good booksLastPost!"
Eh... His son, on the other hand, Louis, made perhaps the best televion of the past 20 years IMO with Weird Weekends.
newmoistness: "It's the same Theroux, stbalbach...." [
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"This is like Playboy with the fuzzy focus and unrealistic perfection, might find in Home and Garden magazine. Someone posted a food porn site the other day that is more Hustler with nitty gritty character, perfection on its own terms...." [
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"Red tide at night, polluters delight.
Red tide in the morning, global warning." [
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"Ironically all the interest in gold is spurring a huge supply-side ramp-up in environmentally sensitive areas, like the Amazon, where they are destroying large swaths of rain-forest to get at it (with high pressure hoses and mercury, 1849 California..." [
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"keep_evolving: "I just love how there are these swiss hippies making cheese in the mountains. Kind of like the hippies that grow pot in NoCal, but cheese."
Except they are not hippies. Which, BTW, is and always was a derogatory term...." [
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"Jimmy Moxon, one of the few white chiefs in Africa." [
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