I fed many frouts corecctly to the animas but still things came to a upseting ending.
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 4:01 PM on July 18, 2008

They edited out the part where a grinning dwarf dressed in red burst through the wall and cursed her.
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 8:05 AM on July 3, 2008

"Yeah, the whole "I grab a pic" thing bugged me too. Let me just run out and cut and paste my way to stardom..."

Ehh. Practically all artwork copies or outright steals to some extent; Picasso famously condoned it, and Shakespeare was notorious for it. Van Dijk's picture is good in a completely different way than the original photograph is, and in this day and age I don't see anything inherently more corrupt about massaging in a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 12:08 PM on June 30, 2008

Hint, hint. If you're stuck you can get hints by typing 'hint' and following the menu.
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 3:34 PM on June 18, 2008

Zachsmind: you can be pro-gay and still be homophobic.

Dersins: This word you keep using, I do not think it means what you think it means.

I don't want to speak for Zachsmind, but I think it's quite possible for someone to be intellectually/politically convinced that it isn't right to discriminate against LGBT people, while still getting freaked out/made uncomfortable by the thought of hot steamy homosmexings.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 11:47 AM on June 13, 2008

bravelittletoaster : Also, I am apparently considered "transgendered", according to the trannie manifesto, even though I think the whole thing is a fetish and those freaks are clinically insane.

Psychologists have disagreed with you on this since, what, the 1980s? Just because someone else doesn't "have zero interest in living my life as if I possess either a male or female gender", doesn't mean you can play the puritan and throw... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 4:18 AM on June 16, 2008

Absolutely astounding.. definitely in a different league than your bog-standard head/tail-light trails. Reminds me of the train scene from Spirited Away. (warning: mild spoilers)

I'd love to see a video version of this.
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 9:35 AM on June 12, 2008

How long can one of those suits keep you alive up there?

I'm thinking... long enough to crap yourself at least once.
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 8:58 AM on June 12, 2008

Ahhh, heh... man, I used to play around with Buzz all the time. I found the visual layout of the machines page, where you can move them around and link them up in endless combinations, really helped create interesting sounds and feedback loops and such. After a while I tried FruityLoops and a couple of others but although they had a lot more features and you didn't have to program anything with hexy-codes, somehow it just wasn't as fun to mess around with. I'll definitely be watching this with... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 2:43 AM on June 9, 2008

Yeah, I think someone must have got their articles mixed up at some point. The majority of ISPs, here in the UK at least, currently offer some kind of deal where you accept a monthly cap, and pay less in return; I can only presume it's the same in many other countries too. For casual "check email and the dailies" use, it's never really noticed - end of the internet this ain't.

Rather more worrying for the future of the net is the precedent set by Virgin Media... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 7:12 AM on June 4, 2008

A 5 gb monthly cap works out too about 2,041 bytes per second. Barely faster then a 14.4 baud modem (unless I made an order of magnitude mistake somewhere).

I don't think you did, but that would only apply to someone who was using the net every second of every day. 5GB a month is about 170MB a day, or about 240MB a day if you take a couple of days off per week. That's plenty for the average email-checking, MSN-browsing parent.
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 7:20 AM on June 4, 2008

shmeggege : "Never mind that the overwhelming majority of total internet usage in america (I can't speak for elsewhere but I'd imagine it's similar) is kids and high schoolers and college students who email less than they text and youtube and facebook more than they read the news. Hi! The internet is different than it was when you started using it!

Ehh, I'm not saying capped internet is for everyone, especially not a cap as low as 5GB -- which is... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 3:25 AM on June 5, 2008

Detaining people without trial for any length of time is a shameful and uncivilised practice no matter how many people it's done to, but the scale of this is especially horrific if it's even within several orders of magnitude of that 26,000 figure. Hopefully the US will soon have a sane leader who'll pull the curtain back and expose this kind of abuse -- enough that the public will no longer be able to wilfully ignore it, and other nations (including mine) will no longer be able to support and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 4:57 AM on June 4, 2008

omeone really needs to pull the huge plastic guitar out of neustile's butt.

No. It's making him/her write wonderfully long sentences!
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 7:04 AM on May 29, 2008

Great stuff! In reply to gc, I kind of agree, but at the same time I think it was partly the lack of thumbnails that had me compulsively thumbing through nearly all of Nedroid's (super!) pictures. It's like reaching into a tombola!
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 7:22 AM on May 27, 2008

YouTube took the attack ad down -- anyone know of a working link?
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 6:28 AM on May 26, 2008

Did they actually reshoot the videos with Crocker, Zonday etc? I thought it was just clever CG lip-resynching...
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 1:39 PM on May 23, 2008

liquorice : Okay, maybe I'm weird but in that last image of Karin Schubet (8th image down), in the reflection of body on the door don't her girly bits look more like boy bits?

If you mean the third image in this post, then um... no, you're just weird, not that there's anything wrong with that. :) It's the top of her right thigh (her reflection's left thigh).
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 9:26 AM on May 23, 2008

Hear hear, Happy Dave. I was a kid when New Labour were elected, and I'll be voting for the Lib Dems. It's where my politics lie and, although they don't have direct experience in leading the country, at least they aren't entrenched.

Although a Tory win is probably pretty inevitable, I think the Libs could find themselves in a much stronger position, at least relative to Labour, after the dust has settled.
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 3:04 AM on May 23, 2008

Yes. I consider myself a nerd.

Somehow it seems a little more believable coming from him.
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 3:10 AM on May 22, 2008

I get that the manufacture of poly-vinyl chloride (PVC) involves chemicals which are very unpleasant (I mean, all of the good solvents are really really bad), but listing it with 'scary chemical names' found in products? Really?

To be fair, polyvinyl chloride is even more dangerous than the dihydrogen monoxide currently flooding our water supplies.
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 8:22 AM on May 21, 2008

Good-freaky.
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 3:12 AM on May 21, 2008

“I think people will embrace it. They’ll see it as an opportunity for their children regardless if they’re Shia or Sunni. They’ll say their kids deserve a place to play and they’ll leave it alone.”

Mm-hmm. And what's more, God himself will shit a beautiful rainbow at the opening ceremony.
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 3:02 AM on May 21, 2008

Just headsup as a one, this post better when you in the voice internally of Toki Wartooth it read do is.
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 11:47 AM on May 20, 2008

And seriously, when you hear "gay" on a WoW server, I think 99.3% of the time it's not homophobia, it's someone using it to mean "lame" or "stupid" or "something I don't like".

That's homophobia; it isn't some arbitrary co-incidence that it's the word "gay" that's used in that way. It's homophobia-light, but it's still based on setting gay people aside as something inferior, ugly, and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 4:15 AM on May 16, 2008

But really for those who like it - Are you actually enjoying the piece or just amazed at the novelty and dedication shown?

Firstly, even if it is on novelty value alone I don't think that would mean people were "not actually" enjoying it. If the content itself was unremarkable and it was just a technical excercise, it would still be a valid and impressive piece of work.

But secondly, why would a novel technique... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 4:41 AM on May 14, 2008

A tripod would keep the camera on the same depth to the subject as the previous frame, while still allowing for pans, tilts, and zooms.

I don't know, if he'd done that I think it would have looked more like it was just CGI or projection or superimposition or something. The fact that each shot is done manually makes it clearer how the motion/animation is arising out of a long and repeated public act, which gets integrated into the piece itself. I like... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 8:13 AM on May 14, 2008

Very variable art-work, but it's a moving story. Thanks.
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 4:37 PM on May 9, 2008

This is absolutely shitty behaviour from the cops, and indicitive of poor discipline from above failing to restrain the violent urges and unprofessionalism of some piggish individuals.

(But it isn't fascism).
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 2:19 AM on April 29, 2008

posting blog comments is pointless. Attack the officers in their homes, attack their families, attack them where they believe they are safe, until they have the fucking fear of God in them. That will produce a properly domesticated police officer.

No. This will produce an extremely angry, bitter, paranoid and insecure man with a gun and with no clear target to vent their frustrations on - until the next punk on a bike rides a red light past him. What... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 3:46 AM on April 29, 2008

also, it accepted "T*TS" where * was one of the wildcard letters. trying to think of a word that fits there other than the obvious and i'm not coming up with anything.

I can think of a word other than the obvious.

Tits.

(Also tots, tuts, tats, Tets).... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 2:30 AM on April 29, 2008

the fact I cannot buy booze in the grocery store or anywhere on Sunday in Sweden is a crime against human freedom and dignity which I can never fully embrace.

Aren't there about 20 US states with the same restriction?
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 6:13 AM on April 21, 2008

Maybe I'm just biased against affable and disconnected Eton conservatives, but it seems to me that Boris Johnson's main selling point has been that he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing or talking about, which makes him cuddly and funny and easy to identify with. And I have to admit, he is a witty guy. But not, you know, a good mayor.

Nowdays he's at least being a bit clearer about some actual policies. Here's the ones I can remember off the top of my... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 9:38 AM on April 20, 2008

cytherea : I doubt that physics is going to allow us a chemical battery much denser (or cheaper) than what we have now, but perhaps we'll get lucky with some other, as yet undiscovered, mechanism.

This guy is doing some interesting work on that.
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 2:54 AM on April 9, 2008

And using LSD for migraines? Whooboy. Talk about one of the worst ideas in the long, sad history of bad ideas.

No, not really - for this use, LSD/psilocybin are taken at sub-psychedelic doses.
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 2:38 AM on April 9, 2008

I'm quite agnostic about Ebert, but I'm curious:

he fails the 'Starship Troopers' test quite badly

.. the who-the-hey-the-what-now? What's the 'Starship Troopers' test?
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 8:22 AM on April 2, 2008

Fuck Rush Limbaugh (note to my imagination: don't imagine fucking Rush LimbAUGH GOD MY EYES) but... it seems pretty dodgy to be hauling him up for a court just for what he says on the radio. I don't agree with what he was urging people to do, but it's a flaw with the system that needs to be fixed, rather than used to nibble away at the right to free speech.
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 4:48 PM on March 28, 2008

This gave me a happy, and happened today: BBC Radio 4 news presenter Charlotte Green gets the giggles.
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 5:01 AM on March 28, 2008

Although, like any one person's experience, it's drowned in the sea of tragedy that is a world war, I can imagine how the guilt must have been heart-wrenching for Rippert. It's bad enough to live with having killed one of his favourite authors, and one whose work had contributed to starting his life as a fighter pilot. But once you start questioning who of your enemies you would shoot down and who you would spare - especially in hindsight, knowing it was all pointless anyway - it must have made... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 10:01 AM on March 17, 2008

emelenjr : what is the purpose of the first step involving the blue? Couldn't you do the whole thing in black?

It's for workflow. You can do the blue-line work more roughly and with more revisions and without having to be especially economical with the lines. Then once you're ready, you can do the (more-or-less) final black-line work in a way that's closer to one single, confident flourish, with the previous (blue) lines showing you were to go without... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 8:57 AM on March 13, 2008

COBRA!, I went to your profile but I don't see a link to sweet comicky goodness! Do show!

Also be advised that, unless I'm too late, your next comment will be your 1000th on the blue.
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 9:11 AM on March 13, 2008

If someone smoked salvia like marijuana, I would honestly be quite scared of them.
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 2:49 PM on March 11, 2008

PenDevil : Actually I'm suprised the US hasn't build the world's tallest (and strongest transmitting and most sensitive receiving) Wi-Fi access point in Guantanamo.

For free? Surely you jest, Mr. Devil. That would only encourage Communism!
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 3:04 AM on March 7, 2008

Manic, brilliant.
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 2:56 AM on March 6, 2008

StupidSexyFLanders : That explains a lot about McCain's obviously pro-crow agenda.

If he's paying them off then I guess it would be kind of a quid pro crow arrangement.
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 7:18 AM on March 5, 2008

You know, I met Prince Harry once. Did you know that he's killed more than 30 people? Great guy. Great guy.
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 2:21 AM on March 3, 2008

alaisdar : We should never be afraid of applauding right and proper behaviour

Our dashing and red-cheeked warrior prince was helping to exacerbate an unwinnable and meaningless guerilla war that will only create battle-hardened fanatics and inflame them, justifiably or not, to attack us and purge our influence from the region. Meanwhile we grind out a steady stream of dead civilians and destroyed infrastructure, not to mention the casualties and costs... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 8:19 AM on March 3, 2008

Sys Rq : Didn't they do this exact same thing with what's-his-prince back in the Falklands?

Prince Andrew flew helicopters there.
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 9:19 AM on March 3, 2008

I'm not the biggest NIN fan, but I have to love them for pulling this off. Listening to the torrent now.

Ditto! I may or may not buy this album, but for any band I was really a fan of I would take them up on an offer like this within 5-10 milliseconds.
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 2:57 AM on March 3, 2008

I wasn't really a Velvet Underground fan before, because I hadn't really heard any of their stuff. Now I have, so I am. Thanks!
posted to MetaFilter by Drexen at 1:18 PM on March 2, 2008