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Those Wacky Swiss
is this different from the magic eraser? cause that shit rules
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at 1:57 PM on July 25, 2008
MeFi post:
You may fiddle, I may dance
That was totally great. Favorite part: "They love gadgets, and they love to hang-out in the kitchen."
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at 5:23 AM on July 16, 2008
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And it's day-glow orange. Srsly.
I'm confused too, it seems like a good idea, but in the video, they say: 'double the power of existing solar cells!' in the article it says:'We were able to substantially reduce light transport losses, resulting in a tenfold increase in the amount of power converted by the solar cells.' and again in the article it says:'... the focused light increases the electrical power obtained from each solar cell 'by a factor of over 40'Which is it? 2, 10, or 40?... [more]
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at 7:23 AM on July 14, 2008
MeFi post:
Capturing Fireworks
“Get some black foam core and set your camera to bulb. Start the exposure when the fireworks start with the piece of foam core in front of the lens. Every time a burst happens move the foam core out of the way. You will get multiple firework bursts in one exposure”
that was the best tip, definitely doing that one. i, like box, am also curious about fireworks mode on my canon s3is.
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at 10:10 AM on July 4, 2008
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Music of the spheres
I just emailed the professor who wrote a paper about the AKR, requesting a long sound clip. I'm gonna make a song with it.
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at 8:41 AM on July 2, 2008
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Harshing your mellow
loquacious: You forgot that at Trader Joe's, all the weed would be prefixed with "Trader Jah's". And goddammit, if they put weed next to those dark chocolate covered almonds, my heart would stop.
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at 6:41 PM on July 1, 2008
rtha: that idea brings tears to my eyes
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at 7:16 AM on July 2, 2008
MeFi post:
Gone, like a train...
sonascope: not to step on your dreams, but jumping on trains that are stopped is an easy way to die. when a long consist starts up again, the slack in the couplings adds up as the train moves forward, and could easily jerk you right off the catwalk and onto the tracks.
on a note unrelated to decapitation, i took amtrak from NYC to portland oregon a few weeks ago. it was really awesome and way better then flying (if you get a sleeper, anyway). far and away better then... [more]
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at 2:13 PM on June 30, 2008
MeFi post:
Full Astern Ahead
Is it revolution time yet? Please let it be revolution time.
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at 8:16 AM on June 27, 2008
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The Website Is Down!
fucking sales guy. i hate sales guy.
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at 1:50 PM on June 24, 2008
majick: we had a tier1 tech, and all he was allowed to do on our major mail server was run kerberos admin, passwd, and xemacs. "what could go wrong?" you would rightly ask. well, he left his xemacs running and disconnected, which caused xemacs to spin infinitely and take up 100% CPU. this caused the server to choke to the point where it was a challenge to do an ls. you can never win.
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at 2:29 PM on June 24, 2008
MeFi post:
Firefox 3: Hot or Not?
holy crap, FF3 is WAY faster. i love it. anyone notice that gmail doesn't freeze up for a bit when you close the tab, like it did with FF2? wonderful! and i didn't have to finagle it to get my (windows media based (ugh)) xm online radio thingamabob working. thanks, mr. mozilla!
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at 12:06 PM on June 17, 2008
MeFi post:
Birthrate Ballyhoo
zachsmind: That irony was the basis for the movie Idiocracy. At any rate, my SO and I are sticking to one, max, and not for at least 10 years.
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at 10:57 AM on June 16, 2008
MeFi post:
beardo
dammit! all i can grow is some worthless scruff! is there rogaine for beards?
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at 6:39 PM on May 27, 2008
MeFi post:
Earthquake lights
thorzdad: I actually fast forwarded to see, heh.
That is really freaky and cool looking. I hope some dudes smarter then me can glean some knowledge from it.
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at 11:26 AM on May 20, 2008
MeFi post:
The Affairs Of Men
Well, is there an evolutionary purpose for marriage? Does marriage improve our ephemeral fitness? I'm gonna say no, but I'm a computer dork, not a biologist.
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at 8:30 AM on May 20, 2008
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More than just a sore taint?
Here's a few questions off the top of my head:
How much energy is used actually making the car? What about the bike? How much energy is the machinery using to extract the raw materials? How about the energy used in shipping oil vs. shipping food? Energy used growing the food? What about other fluids in a car other then gas? What if I don't eat more and just let my overweight self lose pounds? What if we add in all the extra energy used to create and maintain the roads for the cars?... [more]
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at 1:49 PM on May 14, 2008
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Wall stickers to stick on your wall
Mister_A: turn your monitor around and peel off the back. sometimes its a pain so you may need to fold it a little to get the corner off.
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at 8:33 AM on May 13, 2008
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Nigerian Scammers
I wonder how many times a fake laptop was bought with a stolen credit card on ebay, shipped to a non-existent address.
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at 5:08 AM on May 9, 2008
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SKATE EVERY DAY
kristinahoge: What are you getting at? It says in wiki that his father was a distant relative of the Spiegel catalog guy (cited from his biopic). Should I not watch his skate videos now? Please advise.
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at 1:12 PM on May 7, 2008
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Sorry, Alaska and Hawaii. Build more roads.
I wonder how much heat that amount of black pavement sucks up compared to fields and trees (and yes, i know some of it is concrete). What kind of environmental effects would the result of that have? At any rate, that's a sweet visualization.
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at 2:56 PM on May 2, 2008
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Photobombing
hahahahah I've done this so many times at Disney and other places with faces like these. This is honestly one of my favorite pastimes, although I prefer making it look like I actually belong in the picture, so I look like a missing family member/friend that no one knows about.
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at 5:30 AM on May 2, 2008
MeFi post:
New China?
Du Shaozhong, deputy director of the city’s Environmental Protection Bureau, told reporters. “Just tell everybody they don’t have to worry.”
Did he do the Jedi hand-wavy thing when he said that? Who wants to take bets on how many marathon runners are going to cough up blood?
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at 7:07 AM on April 23, 2008
MeFi post:
The Major Little League
Megafly: I'm pretty sure it was not taken up. Lame, 'cause I was in the Grand Central one, pretty prominently.
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at 7:15 PM on April 7, 2008
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The Art of Memetics: Pirate Edition
Will it help the sales of this book? Yes, because its grabbing at all that "HEY LOOK WE ARE TORRENTING THIS BOOK THATS WHAT ALL THE KIDS ARE DOING THESE DAYS" publicity. Will later books distributed in this format work? Mabye.
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at 3:19 PM on April 1, 2008
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TMI LOL
The worst at this is that David Archuleta kid on American Idol (yeah I watch it, wanna fight about it?). He's got some sort of lung issue that gives him that great voice, but also that awful intake of breath. It's all I hear.
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at 10:34 AM on April 1, 2008
MeFi post:
three pointer
wait, does this mean i got rickrolld, if i watched others get rickrolld?
my brain hurts.
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at 4:28 PM on March 21, 2008
MeFi post:
Art of TekkonKinkreet
Those are some great illustrations. Can I gel wallpaper sized ones anywhere?
posted to MetaFilter by Mach5
at 6:53 AM on March 19, 2008
MeFi post:
She loves me yeah, yeah, er, no!
It's too bad she won all that money. I thought, with Pauls' powerful lawyet, she didn't have a leg to stand on!
I'll be here all night
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at 7:00 AM on March 18, 2008
