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Is Google Making Us Stupid?
"My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski."
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 9:37 AM on June 10, 2008
(86 comments)
Jack Chick and his cracktasticness has certainly
been covered on Metafilter before. However, in one fell swoop, his cracktasticness has not only squared but cubed. Chick's pamphlet,
Lisa (curiously absent from the
tracts on his site), features a father who gave herpes to his little daughter and then pimps his daughter out to his similarly pedophilic neighbor (who thinks the "pretty juicy gossip" is "pretty kinky") in exchange for the neighbor's silence. Two months of abuse later, the family doctor discovers Lisa's herpes, and does not report the father to the police, because ... well, you'll see. (Makes
the Old Ones look better and better.)
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 8:06 PM on May 24, 2008
(49 comments)
A woman walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a double entendre, so he gave it to her.
Ba-dum dum.
What's green and has wheels? Grass. I lied about the wheels.
Ba-dum dum. A baby seal walks into a club.
(pause) Ba-dum dum. How many kids with ADD does it take to change a lightbulb? LET'S GO RIDE BIKES!
Ba-dum dum. A priest, a rabbi, and a minister walk into a bar. The bartender says, "What is this, some kind of joke?"
Ba-dum dum. Instant Rimshot. For all those times you need a big red Flash button that'll give you a well-timed rimshot.
(Jokes courtesy of Ask Mefi.)
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 7:10 PM on May 12, 2008
(250 comments)
"Bruce Springsteen" sings the glories of Vista SP1. I wouldn't be surprised if the real Springsteen leads a strike force into Microsoft headquarters when he sees his duplicate (complete with faux Courtney Cox in the audience) singing "See what's on employees' desktops / with AIS and M-DOP".
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 5:10 PM on April 16, 2008
(67 comments)
The antidote to LOLbushsuxx0rs.
Over the course of the past week, Slate ran a ten (10!)-piece series, "Fixin' It", in which various writers postulated how the course of various aspects of the United States' military, culture, and policies could be redirected for the better. Although the articles are not entirely devoid of Bush criticism, there's mostly a fairly rare focus on the positive actions to be taken from here onward by the next President (whether it be McCain or Obama or Clinton).
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 5:54 PM on April 10, 2008
(33 comments)
Finally, eliminate the rickroll from your online life.
I know, you're hesitant to click on that because you think that in moments, you'll find yourself on a YouTube page seeing Rick Astley doing the white-boy-80s-groove dance. (Have no idea what a rickroll is? First, consider yourself lucky, and then
wiki it, or, more amusingly,
Rocketboom.) But thanks to
Adblock Plus, subscription filters, and collaborative flagging, you can banish Astley back to the '80s where he belongs.
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 8:49 PM on March 6, 2008
(66 comments)
Bob: "
______________” Charlotte (Johansson): “Okay.”
Lost in Translation's mysterious whisper finale revealed by audio processing. (via
kottke)
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 8:34 AM on December 13, 2007
(160 comments)
New York artist
Ashley Hope's
Ripeness is All exhibit at the
Tilton Gallery recreates crime scene photographs of murdered women from the 1910s through the 1990s as oil paintings on huge 4' x 6' canvasses.
[some nsfw art]
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 4:48 PM on November 30, 2007
(48 comments)
Nowadays, if you're of a mood to be all Web 2.0 about it, to-do lists have gone past
the paper and pen with web applications such as
Remember the Milk,
Hiveminder,
Toodledoo,
Todoist,
Ta-Da Lists,
do.Oh,
Nozbe,
Treedoolist,
Vitalist,
Web To Do,
SimpleGTD,
Sandy,
Tracks,
gootodo,
Zirrus,
OnMyList,
TaskToy,
Gubb,
Nutshell,
Joe's Goals,
Tedium,
MyTickerFile,
voo2do, and
30boxes — even
plain old text files have gotten spiffied up with
Unix shell scripts to generate graphs and
reports and projects.
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 12:17 PM on November 17, 2007
(25 comments)
Regina Spektor is a Russian-born American singer-songwriter and pianist associated with the
anti-folk scene centered on New York City's East Village. Incorporating "piano riffs and integrating moans, nonsense words, groans, gurglings, or warblings," Spektor has a pretty unique voice (Seattle
P-I: "an instrument with the agility of an athlete and the flexibility of a yogi") and style which incorporates "beatbox-style flourishes in the middle of ballads, or the use of a drum stick to tap rhythms on the body of the piano or chair" (
wiki). She's got a pretty unique voice and "
Fidelity" is a very unusual and rather enjoyable music video. Someone to keep an eye on
(although Mefites already had been doing so).
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 10:00 AM on June 9, 2007
(68 comments)
Amongst the many companies with offices in Manhattan is
a multibillion-dollar French conglomerate that handles "diversified commodities, energy, shipping, real estate, manufacturing, and communications." The owner,
Gerard, is one of the richest men in the world, and, at 75, his children and grandchildren stand to inheirit a tidy sum of perhaps half a billion each upon his passing. Unless you've been in a cave for a few decades, one of them has — given syndication, perhaps even daily — been making you laugh for a long, long time. A heiress and
princess who you first met
live from New York (where she met her husband), then a yuppie in
a movie of Christmas indignities, and finally in a small,
barely aired show about, er, nothing ... meet
Elaine Julia, the multibillion-dollar heiress, Northwestern dropout,
Emmy-winning actress, and even
a distant relative of Richard Dreyfuss. And then compare her to a
certain other celebrity heiress.
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 10:06 AM on May 2, 2007
(52 comments)
A Michigan blogger recounts a rather gripping tale of him and his wife: how he ended up facing alone a difficult decision for which very few men ever find themselves solely responsible. The subject can be a debate landmine, but that's not a reason not to pass along one of the more powerful and thought-provoking bits of writing that I've stumbled across on the Web recently.
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 8:59 AM on April 26, 2007
(67 comments)
Uncle Jay Explains the News.
Sit down and let Uncle Jay explain the current news headlines to your kids. (Not really.) Yes, it's YouTube, and yes, it's a one-link post. Don't let that blind you to the fact this guy is really quite funny.
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 9:17 PM on February 18, 2007
(10 comments)
"More Vicious than Rape."
Thousands of Congolese girls and women, among the hundreds of thousands of rape cases, who have been deliberately harmed following their rape in a particular way with a brutality that staggers the mind.
[more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 2:22 PM on November 17, 2006
(117 comments)
Abu Gharib? Feh. The newest Dark Side: telemarketing abuse.
The National Republican Congressional Committee has launched a $2.1 million campaign calling individuals, including those on the Federal Do-Not-Call Registry, with automated telephone messages scripted to sound as if they are coming from the Democratic candidate up for election, in the hopes of driving away support come Tuesday's elections. "Hello. I'm calling with information about
[Democratic candidate]," the recording begins, and then pauses for the traditional hang-up. If the recipient does indeed hang up, they then receive repeated phone calls back. This manner of scripting violates
47 CFR 64.1200(b)(1), which requires that "the identity of the business, individual, or other entity that is responsible for initiating the call" be "state[d] clearly" "at the beginning of the message." The New Hampshire Attorney General
got them to stop calling those on the Do-Not-Call Registry, at least. (In their best interests, perhaps, due to
the $5,000 fine per call potentially racking up hefty fines.) This is going on at the very least in the
Pennsylvania 6th, the Connecticut 4th, the North Carolina 11th,, the New Hampshire 2nd, and nationwide.
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 10:00 PM on November 5, 2006
(143 comments)
"Don't Download This Song."
A free, and rather hilarious, download from "Weird Al" Yankovic done in the 'charity gospel' "We are the World" style, including a few gems in the lyrics like "even Lars Ulrich knows it's wrong."
Direct MP3 link.
Music video evidently coming shortly.
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 7:59 PM on August 22, 2006
(35 comments)
Spin, exposed live and wriggling.
In 1995, Brian Springer released an hour-long documentary film comprised of incredibly revealing moments caught from raw satellite feeds. Not only do we get to hear the spin-doctor coaching candidates received during various commercial breaks, there are also some amazing moments such as Larry King suggesting to Clinton that Ted Turner could "serve him," an anchor suggesting to her expert that during the L.A. riots his frank diagnosis of inner-city hope is "too obtuse," and the exclusion and exclusion of Larry Agran from the 1992 Democratic primaries — and, really, there's much more.
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 7:45 PM on July 4, 2006
(23 comments)
D.C. Loses "Superboy" Copyright Battle.
On March 23, 2006, the Ninth Circuit District Court ruled that the wife and daughter of "Superman" co-creator Jerry Siegel -- not D.C. Comics -- owned the copyright to "Superboy," beginning retroactively as of November 17, 2004. He additionally opined (but did not rule) that the "Smallville" television series infringes on their copyright.
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 11:04 AM on April 17, 2006
(38 comments)
Dr. Ross tells the Democrats to stop bending over.
Clooney: " ... [I]t drives me crazy to hear all these Democrats saying, 'We were misled.' It makes me want to shout, 'Fuck you, you weren't misled. You were afraid of being called unpatriotic.' Bottom line: it's not merely our right to question our government, it's our duty."
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 8:56 PM on March 13, 2006
(60 comments)
