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Does Webkinz actually suspend accounts if one has not registered a new webkin in the past 12 months?
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at 3:29 PM on July 16, 2008
(4 comments)
My new crosscutting paper shredder manual suggests using shredder lubricant sheets twice a month, or every 30 minutes of active shredding. Naturally, they also sell these
lubricant sheets.
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at 12:27 PM on June 20, 2008
(14 comments)
The Origins of Cybex Space
Just in case you are in need of ....
" a preventative against the evils engendered by a sedentary life and the seclusion of the office."
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at 11:06 AM on May 12, 2008
(20 comments)
I was very surprised to read a former political reporter's
statement that the Obama campaign might offer to pay off the Clinton campaign's debt if/when she drops out of the primary race.
posted to Ask Metafilter by R. Mutt
at 6:21 PM on May 7, 2008
(6 comments)
Is the strap on my Etienne Aigner handbag upside down?
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at 6:39 PM on February 9, 2008
(7 comments)
In older films, ill people are sometimes shown with an ice pack on their head. Presumably to bring down a fever? Did people really do this back then, or is the ice pack merely a comedic signifier?
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at 4:54 AM on December 18, 2007
(18 comments)
I
love scallions. I mean, I should really do the right thing and propose. But the one thing holding me back is that small, clear blob of gel/fluid that sometimes oozes from the joint where the hollow green section meets the solid white section while chopping. What
is that stuff?
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at 6:37 PM on December 10, 2007
(11 comments)
About once a week, my MacBook Pro wakes from sleep with a 1" black band on each side of the screen. If I restart it at this point, the black bands will go away. What is going on?
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at 6:13 AM on December 2, 2007
(2 comments)
To what extent does the idea of a "Catholic Left" still exist in the United States?
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at 6:04 AM on November 24, 2007
(25 comments)
The Brooklyn Museum's
Feminist Art Base presents online the work of over 150 artists
"whose work reintroduced the articulation of socially relevant issues after an era of aesthetic formalism", including
Janine Antoni,
Tracy Emin,
Ghada Amer,
Ida Applebroog,
Sue De Beer,
Guerrilla Girls,
Yasumasa Morimura,
Carrie Moyer,
Eva Hesse,
Pipilotti Rist,
Sheila Pepe,
Faith Ringgold ... and of course, an online tour of
The Dinner Party, and a
Feminist Timeline.
posted to MetaFilter by R. Mutt
at 7:24 AM on November 5, 2007
(19 comments)
Martin Puryear
: artist, Peace Corps alumni, MacArthur Foundation Award recipient. A retrospective of his artwork (1977-2007) opens at The Museum Of Modern Art today. Also
online here.
posted to MetaFilter by R. Mutt
at 7:01 AM on November 4, 2007
(8 comments)
Glorious homemade applesauce ... a BIG, delicious, very warm bowl of it is on my counter. Do I let it cool before refrigerating ?
posted to Ask Metafilter by R. Mutt
at 5:32 PM on October 14, 2007
(18 comments)
What level of education/training is typical of suburban and small town police officers in the US?
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at 5:04 PM on August 27, 2007
(4 comments)
Elizabeth Murray,
a New York
painter who reshaped Modernist abstraction into a high-spirited, cartoon-based, language of form whose subjects included domestic life, relationships and the nature of painting itself, died yesterday at her home in upstate New York.
(Images)
posted to MetaFilter by R. Mutt
at 8:19 PM on August 12, 2007
(7 comments)
What was that incredible, small, reverse three wheeled racecar that blew past me on the NJ Turnpike this morning?
posted to Ask Metafilter by R. Mutt
at 5:48 PM on August 11, 2007
(10 comments)
What is the best, least expensive way to research the industrial history of a factory building in the
Gowanus area of Brooklyn, NY?
posted to Ask Metafilter by R. Mutt
at 7:40 AM on April 25, 2007
(7 comments)
Full disclosure, the main link and story is to LA web site, LAist, which I am the editor...
posted to MetaTalk by R. Mutt
at 5:45 AM on February 14, 2007
(239 comments)
Terrorism finger puppets!
Uncanny crocheted likenesses of Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong Il, Ahmadinejad and George W. Bush.
posted to MetaFilter by R. Mutt
at 10:41 AM on January 31, 2007
(21 comments)
Is there a name for the act of seeing (projecting) something that is questionablely present? (For example, seeing the face of God, or Elvis, in the burn marks of your toasted bread.)
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at 10:44 AM on January 17, 2007
(9 comments)
Why don't corporate ad campaigns "go negative" in the manner of political ad campaigns?
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at 6:51 AM on November 1, 2006
(33 comments)
Is there a book or website that details early attempts to assemble fossilized bone into animals/dinosaur skeletons?
posted to Ask Metafilter by R. Mutt
at 10:54 AM on September 1, 2006
(4 comments)
Jason Rhoades,
Los Angeles artist, died Tuesday. He was 41. Rhoades was included in the 1995 Whitney Biennial and showed frequently in the US and Europe. Some of his work:
1,
2,
3. Also
here.
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at 2:45 PM on August 4, 2006
(18 comments)
Should one floss before brushing, or brush before flossing?
posted to Ask Metafilter by R. Mutt
at 8:28 PM on August 3, 2006
(34 comments)
So if I were to post
this article about someone attacking R. Mutt's "Urinal" with a hammer, would that be considered a "One Link News Filter Pseudo Self Link FFP" ?
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at 2:57 PM on January 18, 2006
(24 comments)
Loans over $10,000 require collateral ...
(NYT link gen) The SBA (
loan officers wanted ), which runs the federal government's main disaster recovery loan program for homeowners, has rejected 82 percent of applications. (17,463 home loans approved, 77,000 rejected - though some must get rejected in order to receive smaller FEMA grants...)
posted to MetaFilter by R. Mutt
at 6:08 AM on December 15, 2005
(49 comments)
NYC Subway Warning
The New York Police Department is investigating what it deems a credible tip that 19 operatives have been deployed to the city to place bombs in the subway, and security in the subways will be increased, sources told ABC News. Also
here.
posted to MetaFilter by R. Mutt
at 3:01 PM on October 6, 2005
(112 comments)
Plancher de Jeannot:
Jeannot moved his bed to the dining room, next to the stairs, and began carving the oak floor: 'Religion has invented machines for commanding the brain of people and animals and with an invention for seeing our vision through the retina uses us to do ill...
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at 6:59 PM on October 3, 2005
(12 comments)
Is thumb sucking by young children consistant across cultures?
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at 10:23 AM on August 24, 2005
(6 comments)
Has anyone ever been sued unjustifiably for a post on Metafilter?
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at 8:36 AM on August 10, 2005
(72 comments)
Are all animals basically symmetrical? Even a lobster, which has specialized claws, seems to be basically symmetrical. More specifically, are there animals that are clearly not symmetrical?
posted to Ask Metafilter by R. Mutt
at 6:04 PM on August 8, 2005
(15 comments)
Droit de suite
"Whenever I have met a dealer or a collector, they always seem wealthy; and whenever I have met an artist, they seem poor." -Chris Bryant, a British MP, during the discussion of a new law by which a living artists or their heirs for 70 years after their death will receive a cut of about 3 per cent whenever a piece is sold. Also
here .
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at 12:09 PM on July 26, 2005
(31 comments)
I'm looking for a history of the western, scientific reaction to the platypus. Specifically, but not limited to, George Shaw's suspicion that the animal was a hoax. I have found many bits and pieces , but am looking for for the whole thing stitched together - thanks.
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at 8:43 AM on July 15, 2005
(7 comments)
An*l Bleaching Cream
... courtesy of the Village Voice. (no photos, but one would have to say, NSFW)
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at 4:08 PM on July 13, 2005
(55 comments)
Elmo Strikes Back?
Investigators at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are examining payments to two Republican lobbyists that were not disclosed to the corporation's board, and whether Mr. Tomlinson had the authority to approve the payments.
PreviousFilter.
posted to MetaFilter by R. Mutt
at 6:25 AM on June 16, 2005
(4 comments)
"We're going to hit houses, dude,"
(NYT Reg. ),
Alone in their 50-seat commercial jet, the two young pilots decided to see what it could do...A few minutes later, though, both engines were dead, and the pilots were struggling to glide to an emergency landing at an airport in Jefferson City, Mo. (or the non-registration Jefferson City NewsTribune
version, or the NTSB
site)
posted to MetaFilter by R. Mutt
at 1:45 PM on June 14, 2005
(48 comments)
Wired for Books
HUNDREDS of uncut, behind-the-scenes AUDIO (!) interviews (scroll down) by Don Swain. Douglas Adams, William Burroughs, Joyce Carol Oates, Henny Youngman... to name just a few.
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at 4:58 AM on June 10, 2005
(14 comments)
