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Green Jelly
Three Little Pigs is more than decent, its adequate.
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 6:12 AM on July 25, 2008
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Defender Of The Favicon
Okay bear with me for a minute... a few months back I figured out how to turn firefox into a movie theater, this favicon thing reminded me of the idea.
If you open up each one of the links below in a new tab and then press and hold Ctrl Tab to cycle through the tabs you'll see what it was like to ride the T in Boston two years ago during the Boston Marathon. It's worth the work... I promise (might be best to close this window once you have them all up for a continuous... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 5:05 PM on July 15, 2008
HAHA anthill that's genius, I need an edit button.
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 5:59 PM on July 15, 2008
MeFi post:
Anger Management Gas Station
Why did this post have to get derailed by some douche from the UK who just can't understand why we are upset about high gas prices? Hey buddy from the UK, you don't have to compare every frigging aspect of your life to that of people in the US to make us feel marginalized, thanks. I want to fight you.
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 7:44 PM on June 29, 2008
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And the winner is...
The Libertarian Party: important proof of concept while simultaneously useless.
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 11:13 AM on May 21, 2008
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IBM's next 5 in 5
Wow, you guys will never be happy. We have airplanes, internets, cell phones, cancer treatments, nuclear powered submarines, solar powered cars, video game consoles, bullet proof vests, night vision goggles, THE HUBBLE TELESCOPE!... I feel like George Jetsons grandfather. Who knew the future would also bring people dissatisfied with the amazing technologies at their feet, its nothing short of strange.
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 8:40 PM on May 19, 2008
How did you, a pithy commoner, afford a nuclear submarine?
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 9:15 PM on May 19, 2008
Shit I used pithy thinking it meant something bad. Just know, Ubu, I meant petty. Also, I am joking. And you might not have a submarine but I bet you've flown and own a cell phone.
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 9:24 PM on May 19, 2008
Thats why my nuclear sub is my office.
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 9:42 PM on May 19, 2008
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How to talk to the dead
I love how people misunderstand the word dead. It means things are over, done for, finito. Death = the end of the life of an organism. If "dead" people can still talk, well then they aren't dead.
Alive, alive, alive, dead. Not alive, alive, alive, dead, alive, hey did you want to ask me a question, dead.
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 1:09 PM on May 11, 2008
Her web design consultant was a dead guy.
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 1:13 PM on May 11, 2008
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An hour with "the happiest man alive"
Excellent, I absolutely love this. I'm in the middle of reading Tropic of Cancer and Miller's writing is blowing me away... stuff like this:
"It was this morning, on our way to the Post Office, that we gave the book its final imprimatur. We have evolved a new cosmogony of literature, Boris and I. It is to be a new Bible - The Last Book. All those who have anything to say will say it here - anonymously. We will exhaust... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 2:30 PM on April 6, 2008
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High-Tech Lightning Watching
I was just about to strike you with a lighting bolt fogster... and then I read your plead for gentleness.
This is very cool. I had read somewhere a figure of some insanely counterintuitive number of lighting strikes per second globally, nice to see that fact visualized.
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 9:27 PM on April 1, 2008
It seems we are all very huge nerds, congratulations us.
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 9:31 PM on April 1, 2008
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Horton Does Some Pretty Cool Art
Nice, the comment I posted about an hour ago in the monkey bike riding thread gets ripped off and used as a fpp by KevinKomsvold...
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 5:25 PM on March 30, 2008
Dude, I raised that elephant. My whole life has been spent preparing to post that video to the front page.
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 5:44 PM on March 30, 2008
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Notstalgia vs Hindsight?
Kid: Mortal Kombat, on Sega Genesis, is the best video game ever.
Billy Madison: I disagree, it's a very good game, but I think Donkey Kong is the best game ever.
Kid: Donkey Kong sucks.
Billy Madison: You know something? YOU SUCK!
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 3:37 PM on March 29, 2008
MeFi post:
Life in the Future
I've always liked Rushkoff's take on futurists: they suck.
Q: How do they (futurists) get inside our consciousness and make us fear being left behind, or not being cool enough, or being too fat, or being too ugly. How do they do that through the Internet?
Douglas Rushkoff: Well one way is they remystify the media that we've just demystified...(i'm not gona copy and paste the whole article)
People predicting the future =... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 10:40 AM on March 24, 2008
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Learnding
I am now in a weird mood, thanks.
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 8:24 PM on March 16, 2008
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This is very beautiful, and yet very untrue.
So if metafilter is only blue when people are reading it... what color is it when nobody is paying attention?
or
Metafilter reeks of the internet.
wow why am i so annoying
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 7:54 PM on March 14, 2008
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Harvard boosts open access for faculty publications
I'm interested in how this would affect the web on the whole. This would open the floodgates to much better content which could be disseminated and discussed in ways never before possible. One of my professors says that the average number of readers of a faculty publication is somewhere around 12-14 in total. All this quality research is being done and published but almost nobody reads it! This is a great step in the right direction.
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 8:54 PM on February 17, 2008
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Michael Carlson's Big Night
Now, to answer the original question: "What do you do when Charlie Trotter and a party of twenty of the world's best chefs come to dinner?"
Well I would tell them politely that I never invited them to dinner and that they should probably just leave. Maybe point them towards a supermarket so they could pick up some DiGiornos and brag about how its not delivery.
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 4:14 PM on February 14, 2008
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Meathook Through The Nose
I've done the research, this is actually Captain Hooks' great great grandson Jimmy Hooks. An intense yearning for nternet fame has rendered him utterly harmless which I think we can all agree is a good thing.
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 9:32 PM on February 11, 2008
MeFi post:
totally postmodern bro
Hey ZachsMind... that should be a fpp. Haha what I posted should not. I think we got this backwards. That is all.
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 12:21 AM on January 19, 2008
MeFi post:
The Internet Party (Video)
Cracked is the website trying to be college humor. Why strive to be something that sucks in the first place? rhetorical.
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 7:23 PM on January 17, 2008
Metafilter was the guy asking for 5 bucks at the door.
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 12:08 AM on January 18, 2008
MeFi post:
Sweep the Leg
Man that music was terrible, and it didn't even start until halfway through the video. Should have just left the music out altogether.
posted to MetaFilter by pwally
at 12:47 AM on January 20, 2007
