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Some kids I go to
grad school with are putting on a live interactive public access show from New York tonight,
Konscious Election -- four live video feeds plus an onscreen chat room so viewers can share their comments and send questions straight to the cameramen and interviewers. If you're in New York you can see it on MNN (Time Warner channel 67 in Manhattan), or you can watch it streaming from the website! 9:30 to 10:30 PM EST.
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 6:33 PM on November 2, 2004
(1 comment)
Those of you with crazy multi-tasking skills might want to check out
Arcadia, where you play four different super simple games at the same time. Extra points for the stylishly retro chunky pixels look, which brings me right back to happy afternoons spent with my
2600!
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 2:56 PM on August 5, 2003
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Last week some friends of mine launched terroristidkit.com to, as they put it, "[poke] fun at the racial profiling, loss of civil
liberties and terrorist paranoia that is sweeping the US." Five days later
Register.com seized their domain and refuses to explain why, despite the fact that they complied with two requests for identity verification and even called Register.com to talk about it; after putting them on hold for twenty minutes, Register.com put the phone down. Today the domain is
now owned by Register.com. What the hell is going on?
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 6:28 PM on April 11, 2003
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BlogTree.com
is a blog genealogy site: "You can register your blogs and record which blogs inspired their creation." It's an interesting new way to catalog and find blogs in tandem with Blogdex's
social network explorer. Which blogs inspired you to start your own blog and have you in turn inspired anyone else to blog? The favorite blogs thread was a long time ago so those of you who've had blogs for years, which new(ish) blogs inspire you to continue blogging now? [ via
Blogroots ]
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 8:37 AM on August 4, 2002
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waferbaby's new
teen log generator produces random paragraphs each time you reload, like:
"life is so unfair :/ i need a new host. rofl! haha i wish i got an anti-bloggie, and i'm bitter. i am so not a slut and i'm annoyed. so not going to happen! i wish i was britney." (Buy yourself a webcam, hire a youthful stripper to spend some time in front of it and you may be on your way to getting everything on your Amazon wishlist.)
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 2:47 AM on February 20, 2002
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"A plan to hijack US commercial planes and slam these into targets like the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia,
was first uncovered in Manila in 1995 after police arrested four suspects in a plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II." So perhaps what happened yesterday shouldn't have been an entirely unforeseeable event.
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 11:29 AM on September 12, 2001
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Flowers in the attic, anyone?
"A 62-year-old woman who last month became France's oldest mother has revealed that her brother was the biological father of the baby."
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 12:02 AM on June 21, 2001
(16 comments)
MeFi-O!
Bingo for the MetaFilterian masses!
So very meta that it's probably too meta for MetaTalk. Made by our very own
iceberg273, you naughty boy you.
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 11:40 AM on May 18, 2001
(14 comments)
Last week, the United States lost its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission.
The U.S. has been voted out of something again,
losing its seat on the International Narcotics Control Board, a worldwide body which monitors drugs manufacture and illicit drugs trading.
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 3:08 AM on May 8, 2001
(33 comments)
Join the first-ever
Blogger Template Design Contest and you might win part of over $6,000 in prizes!
p.s. contest only open to residents of the United States, so nuts to you if you're a dirty steenkin foreigner
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 6:43 AM on April 27, 2001
(51 comments)
Have a look
at what Miss Israel will be wearing to this year's Miss Universe pageant: "The top of the silk dress, embroidered with diamonds and pearls, is covered by
an army-issue flak jacket (emphasis mine) adorned with diamonds for a so-called softer look."
Bulletproof fashion as political statement?
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 10:02 AM on April 23, 2001
(30 comments)
True or False?
According to Karl Mueller (a.k.a.
"Gus"), the FBI came a knockin' on his door after taking his
"Trench Coat Mafia" parody site a little too seriously. I can imagine it happening, but considering what a prankster he is, one does wonder whether this is all a late April Fool's joke. What do you think?
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 8:02 AM on April 20, 2001
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"High-profile P.I. Bill Dear believes he knows who killed Nicole Simpson.
It's not who you think."
Fascinating read, whether or not you have a strong opinion on the case or just a slight interest. Dear initially thought O.J. did it, but now believes the police department came to a conclusion too quickly and as a result completely missed his prime suspect. [ via
Alt-log ]
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 4:11 AM on April 18, 2001
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Fatima Polattas filed charges against Turkish police for raping her while she was in their custody; she's now
facing charges for insulting the security forces and her country's moral integrity for talking about what happened to her, and could spend up to six years behind bars. This is easily the most disturbing thing I've read all day.
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 12:41 AM on April 4, 2001
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"Suspected thief
hides in mall overnight to steal cellphones."
He took drugs to stay awake the whole night, and would've gotten away with the loot had he taken his time and not rushed out immediately after the mall opened. Mom was right -- patience really
is a virtue!
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 8:56 PM on March 25, 2001
(1 comment)
"Tired of praying and waiting for His second coming, a group of scientists aims to
clone Jesus Christ and fulfill the much awaited biblical prophecy." [via the
PDI]
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 1:19 AM on March 21, 2001
(35 comments)
Geeks (like me), welcome the new
Palm m505 -- all the style of the V series, with an improved color lcd screen and an expansion slot! Yum.
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 4:18 AM on March 19, 2001
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"What is most disturbing about these people is their banality, their normalness... It's the fact that these people are chatting and they are horribly normal, everyday people, yet they are capable of
these acts of unimaginable savagery."
Tired of politics and Survivor 2? Let's talk about
real cannibalism!
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 1:36 AM on February 17, 2001
(6 comments)
"Every school has its story, every room its ghost."
Ian Dugay writes about the terrors of elementary school; his experience might be rather particular (if you read it, you'll understand that I don't mean that in a Columbine kind of way), but he can't be the only one with unpleasant memories -- how do
you remember grade school?
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 10:44 AM on January 21, 2001
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From the Bad-Rumors-That-Unfortunately-Turn-Out-To-Be-True Department:
Britney Spears
confirms duet with Madonna. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
(I admire Madonna's knack for perpetual self-reinvention and surprising everyone with what she's cooked up next, but really, this is something I'm sure I'd be
quite happy to live without.)
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 7:51 AM on January 21, 2001
(34 comments)
Revolution in the Philippines!
The Secretaries of Defense and Finance, the National Treasurer, and the entire administration of the Armed Forces have joined the giant People Power Rally II in the streets to bring down the corrupt Estrada administration.
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 12:40 AM on January 19, 2001
(10 comments)
Remember last year's story about the plane hijacker in the Philippines who jumped with a home-made parachute and died?
Here's the story from the point of view of the crew and the flight attendant who pushed him off of the plane.
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 9:42 AM on January 14, 2001
(5 comments)
Love your dog, but don't love your dog.
If you know what I mean.
71-year-old man attacks 44-year-old son with a crowbar after discovering that his son's canine companion was also his
special friend. Dad got a suspended prison sentence; no mention at all of the son getting charged with anything.
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 11:34 PM on January 1, 2001
(11 comments)
"Mr Bush, the World Doesn't Want to Be American"
"... it is time for America's electorate to be told the blunt truth: that the present situation of the United States, with a part of its population able to enjoy a life of extraordinary comfort and privilege, is not tenable as long as an enormous portion of the world lives in abject poverty, degradation and backwardness."
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 11:35 PM on December 31, 2000
(13 comments)
Gosh, this is strange:
US Congressman Robert Aderholt (R, 4th District of Alabama) wrote to President Clinton asking him to postpone the upcoming visit of the Philippine president to Washington, "citing certain businessmen close to Mr. Estrada with alleged ''strong ties to the communist Chinese.''
The funny thing, for me at least, is that the people the oh-so-smart Rep. Aderholt named aren't just CAPITALISTS, but are among the richest men in Asia!
Errr, since when did having a chinese surname make someone a communist? And doesn't China have most favored trading status with the US anyway?
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 8:24 AM on July 10, 2000
(17 comments)
Are
Jason and
Heather secretly the same person, or is there some other reason (that escapes me) that his July 6th and her July 7th entries start out with exactly the same paragraph?
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 5:46 AM on July 9, 2000
(30 comments)
We can try who we like, but don't anyone try to try one of ours.
From the article: "The Clinton administration is offering a "Get Out of Jail Free" card to future Saddam Husseins and Slobodan Milosevics, simply in order to pander to the Pentagon and the Republican right on Capitol Hill. American diplomats are fighting a rearguard action in New York, in tandem with Congress in Washington, to emasculate the International Criminal Court that was established by the United Nations last year in Rome.
"Why does the United States oppose a way to punish the world's greatest villains? In short -- and in no uncertain terms -- congressmen such as Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms demand that no such court have jurisdiction over potential American criminals."
Silly me, I thought the law was supposed to apply to everyone or to no-one at all. Am I just being old-fashioned, or is anyone else bothered by the hypocrisy at work here?
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 8:15 AM on June 16, 2000
(13 comments)
Identity swapping makes life relative
Do any of you do the Safeway Card Shuffle? I think I probably would, but then again the level of tracking where I live is currently negligible, so it isn't yet an issue. How about where you live?
And how does this tie in to online privacy, like advertising cookies and programs like RealPlayer and GoZilla that track and report where you've been and what you've been doing?
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 1:20 AM on June 8, 2000
(8 comments)
Now this is really stupid.
14-year-old Francis Di Masi's petition to have his name legally changed to "Frank" because he gets teased mercilessly in school about it was rejected. The judge said in his decision that "Learning how to deal with these taunts [is] part of growing up."
My first name, family name and nicknames have always given other people trouble when it comes to spelling and pronounciation, so I know what it's like to grow up getting name-related grief every single day of your life; "tedious" doesn't even
begin to describe it.
So while I don't think "Francis" is altogether a
bad name, why shouldn't the kid get to legally call himself whatever he wants? I mean, if some moron can change his name to DotComGuy without a hitch, why not Frank?
posted to MetaFilter by lia
at 3:43 AM on May 31, 2000
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