MeFi post: Boing Boing Finds 21st Century Trotsky?

apparently her loose tongue is what kicked all this off

inserts gratutious reference to the Long Tail
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 1:34 PM on July 5, 2008

In Irish myth a banshee was a female spirit who wailed if someone was going to die.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 7:20 PM on July 5, 2008

I'm going to take 1914 as the over/under on the number of comments ... unless it turns out that redacted is Dick Cheney. Then the sky's the limit!
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 9:34 AM on July 6, 2008

In 1602
Violet sailed the ocean blue
Now teh Interwebs R all askew...

I got nothin'
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 11:13 AM on July 6, 2008

Mefi Babyzone is a must for the site, much like Yahoo!ligans.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 5:26 PM on July 6, 2008

The New York Times weighs in today.

What, nothing about how Mefi commenters are smarter and better-looking than BoingBoing commenters?
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 7:37 PM on July 6, 2008

The NYT might want to rethink their 'Poof! You're Unpublished' headline.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 7:51 PM on July 6, 2008

'Poof' has another meaning.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 8:52 PM on July 6, 2008

'Poof' has another meaning.
Get a life!

*gets a life, goes 'poof', leaves thread*
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 4:05 PM on July 7, 2008

wendell,

I looked up 'foop' in Urban Dictionary, and I really wish I hadn't.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 10:19 PM on July 7, 2008

I think Xeni Jardin's posts have been the best thing on BoingBoing in recent years.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 5:37 PM on July 8, 2008

1726
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 7:57 PM on July 8, 2008

It does seem like an extreme way to get attention.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 9:01 PM on July 8, 2008

Every July, the thoughts of Mefites turn to ... never mind.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 9:18 PM on July 8, 2008

I prefer baby-bat-in-bra posts (from BoingBoing, naturally).
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 9:13 AM on July 9, 2008

If Playboy weren't stuck in the 60s. they'd be looking for the hottest LOLcats on the web.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 6:11 PM on July 9, 2008

1805: Battle of Trafalgar. 38 years later, London pigeons are overjoyed.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 8:08 AM on July 10, 2008

I'm getting haggard just reading all these comments.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 4:41 PM on July 10, 2008

mwhybark,

We must not let our crossing become this.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 6:10 PM on July 10, 2008

This is the middle of the thread, batgrlHG!

That's right - we have only just begun to snark!
- An American in mental recession
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 5:08 PM on July 11, 2008

The Late Unpleasantness begins.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 6:57 PM on July 11, 2008

Of course, this means MeFites better prepare for War

I'm really not that worried about facing steampunk weapons.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 7:55 AM on July 12, 2008

The 'unpublished' logo on Violet Blue's page is the greatest thing ever.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 12:09 PM on July 12, 2008

How did 1879 pass with no mention of Trotsky again? I'm disappointed with you people.

Sorry, I was busy fighting other factions.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 2:05 PM on July 12, 2008

Our own interrobang was on that shit two weeks ago.

I missed that. The vacuum cleaner is new, isn't it?
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 2:08 PM on July 12, 2008

Too bad that Unununium, the official chemical element of Boing Boing, was renamed.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 4:21 PM on July 12, 2008

When the assassination of the posts about Violet Blue took place, most expected the war to end quickly.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 11:57 PM on July 12, 2008

goodnewsfortheinsane,

It took me a while to realize you were talking about JC Superstar. I thought you'd uncovered the most shocking revelation yet.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 9:15 AM on July 13, 2008

I'm worried that, now that their value is known, our mods will be offered enormous free agent contracts and will bolt to other sites. In the worst-case scenario, they all go to BoingBoing and, having drunk the Kool-Aid, engage in an orgy of disemvowelment of the entire web.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 8:12 AM on July 14, 2008

cortex is on vacation. He couldn't deal with 1984.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 11:45 AM on July 15, 2008

Barack Obama, promising change and an end to disemvowelment, is sworn in with his running mate, Violet Blue.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 2:15 PM on July 15, 2008

Warren Ellis's comment that ticked off Jorn:

no-one’s going to do a better job of being the internet’s copy/paste editors than the BoingBoing crew anyway

At Metafilter, we not only copy and paste, we cut — deeply.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 10:17 PM on July 15, 2008

2080: Cory Doctorow's latest novel, "It's Jake With Me," is translated into Klingon.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 9:09 AM on July 19, 2008

Another sign of the decline of civilization: My local library doesn't have George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris in London, but it does have Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 3:45 PM on July 19, 2008

Takuan wtf.

It's a fine line between FTW and WTF. Well, actually, it isn't.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 8:03 PM on July 20, 2008

cortex: To read and discuss. What on earth do you think my intent is?
Takuan: to judge and preach perhaps

Cortex don't preach, I'm in trouble deep
Cortex don't preach, I've been losing sleep
But I made up my mind, I'm keeping my steampunk, oh
I'm gonna keep my steampunk, mmm...
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 4:21 PM on July 21, 2008

MeFi post: Italian metal band Fratello Metallo's lead singer is a Capuchin friar

A Capuchin monkey that sang metal would be even better ... and Cebus is a cool name for a band.

Nice post.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 1:23 AM on July 19, 2008

MeFi post: Something Awful Forum Hilariously Hijacks CBC Anthem Contest

I'm thinking Carmina Burana (Hoser Remix) would work.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 7:29 AM on July 18, 2008

MeFi post: So, how do you spell it?

If only Xeni Jardin had mailed a pasty to Violet Blue....
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 9:24 PM on July 16, 2008

MeFi post: The oldest joke in the book - really!

"[The images show] ducks pecking at someone's buttocks, baboons and cats out of control, animals riding on top of other unlikely animals, baboons playing instruments, and animals drinking and dining."

I had no idea the ancient Egyptians had invented the Internet.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 9:05 PM on July 16, 2008

MeFi post: "It was beautiful, kind of like abstract art"

BTW, the 'moons' Galileo discovered were the two sides ('ansae', Latin for 'handles') of Saturn's rings. With his primitive telescope, they looked like blobs. He also discovered the four big moons ('galilean satellites') of Jupiter, among many other things.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 8:11 PM on July 16, 2008

MeFi post: New Hi-Res Mars Pix

Devils Rancher,

Yes, they're taken with a stereo camera at visual wavelengths.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 7:48 PM on July 16, 2008

MeFi post: Now is the Winter of our Discontent

idiosyncratic lingo? You mean Portuguese?
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 7:38 PM on July 16, 2008

MeFi post: Bryant Park Project Deemed a Failure

You know what other morning experiment they could get rid of? Steve Inskeep.

When NPR announced that they were replacing Bob Edwards, I was disappointed, but I think Steve Inskeep and Renée Montagne do a much better program than Edwards did.

I like The World better than any program produced by NPR, though.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 10:15 PM on July 14, 2008

... although Wait Wait is almost as good.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 10:17 PM on July 14, 2008

MeFi post: science

calls in the Zamboni

*penalizes jonmc for high-sticking*
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 9:42 PM on July 13, 2008

MeFi post: Major selling point: Trash can lids

where's the "best" place to buy purely on a $cost/benefit ratio (transportation to work, stuff to do, proximity to other stuff to do, violent crime rates, access to soft drugs, laziness/liberality/competence of the police, the corruptedness of the officials, age demographics, &c&c.

porpoise, you need to specify whether you want more or less of those things before I can answer.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 8:38 AM on July 12, 2008

MeFi post: ...for players and plastic surgeons

Too bad it didn't say '404 boobs not found' ... not that I'd count them all.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 8:18 AM on July 10, 2008

MeFi post: Wordchamp: hover over a foreign-language word and get its definition

Snarkless question: Why is this better than just using Google Translate?
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 9:57 PM on July 5, 2008

MeFi post: Journey to the center of the brain

cortex must be cerebral, since he deals with the Big Big Questions.
posted to MetaFilter by lukemeister at 9:54 PM on July 4, 2008

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