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Hi, is there a way to post a video to YouTube but have it link back to the original posting site? And can I post a video and NOT make it available for embedding? Thanks,
posted to Ask Metafilter by etaoin
at 11:32 AM on October 10, 2008
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Earlier today, there was a posting about geographical knowledge, with links to an online series of tests. The posting seems to have disappeared. I can't find it in the archives or through a site search. Can someone point me to the link or the site with the tests? I'm having no luck finding the one I want through Google. Thanks.
posted to MetaTalk by etaoin
at 4:17 PM on February 20, 2008
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A LIFE or DEATH STRUGGLE
with MRSA recounted almost real time. Best to start with the original posting, linked at the beginning, and then
go back. Read from the bottom to get the sequence. It's a terrible story, made worse by the stupid accident that led to the struggle. I accidentally ran across this blog before the fight was over and am shocked by how things went.
posted to MetaFilter by etaoin
at 7:40 AM on October 30, 2007
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Leaping Through the clouds
40 years ago yesterday, 18 experienced recreational skydivers took off in a converted World War II B-25 flying at 20,000 feet, intending to land at
Ortner Field in Wakeman, Ohio.
Expecting to free fall and then pop their chutes at 3,000 feet, after passing through the clouds at 4,000 feet, they instead plunged into Lake Erie, five miles from shore. FAA rules then and now
bar skydiving through clouds, for obvious reasons.
The plane's pilot wasn't rated to fly the craft but he also received bad information about his location from an air traffic controller in Oberlin: the controller mistook a Cessna observing the jump from a couple of miles away for the B-25.
Two skydivers, one of whom had used his Styrofoam-lined helmet as a flotation device, were saved from the waters by a passing boater; 16 skydivers drowned.
Oddly, one skydiver had told people the night before that, given a choice, he would take
drowning as the way to go. He did not survive.
The tragedy remains the
worst recreational skydiving accident in history. (Sub. required.)
posted to MetaFilter by etaoin
at 6:17 AM on August 28, 2007
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So Much for Privacy
The Columbus, Ohio, Dispatch, has been asking for, and receiving, access to school databases that include such information as children's names, telephone numbers, ages, birth dates, addresses, grade levels and assigned schools. No one seemed concerned until Chris Valentine, president of the Dublin school district board of education, sent e-mails home to parents. The
Dublin News wrote about it; the Dispatch editor Benjamin Marrison
defended the request this way: "How ironic that during Sunshine Week, an annual reminder of Americans' rights to public records, controversy swirls in Dublin over the release of such records." And
Doug Clifton, former editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, weighed in.
posted to MetaFilter by etaoin
at 11:39 AM on March 12, 2007
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Htting the Jackpot
A destitute post-World War II vet living in a shelter will receive $11,000, thanks to a man whose hobby it is to search old government claims' records. Tomorrow is officially Veterans' Day, formerly Armistice Day and best remembered by this
poem written by
this field surgeon. The line between Memorial Day and Veterans Day
seems to have blurred over the years. Unfortunately, there are ever more
veterans to remember, including those who have come home from Iraq and Afghanistan
profoundly injured.
posted to MetaFilter by etaoin
at 7:18 AM on November 10, 2006
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MEDIA MISTAKES?
Byron Calame, public editor of The New York Times, wrote a piece recently about how a faulty Page One story went unchallenged. He notes that despite a questionable premise, the story went uncorrected for a week, and even provoked a piece of art on the Times' op-ed page. Calame's piece gives us a tiny bit of insight into editorial mistakes and correction policies in the media, particularly when challenged from the outside. You get the sense of a behemoth bureaucracy in motion, difficult to head off, harder yet to correct. The Times itself collected some of its more ridiculous errors in its book
Kill Duck Before Serving a few years ago. But less amusing is what law professor Eric Muller found. In early May, he heard Fox News' Judge Andrew Napolitano telling a story meant to illustrate how out of control the federal government's commerce-governing powers have become. Though Muller researched the supposed case Napolitano reported and found nothing in the legal archives, and asked Napolitano for more details,
Napolitano has yet to respond.
posted to MetaFilter by etaoin
at 6:33 PM on May 25, 2006
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Iraqi Insurgents
are running a different kind of guerrilla war. And at least one
Iraqi sniper is apparently playing havoc with coalition troops.
posted to MetaFilter by etaoin
at 3:32 PM on August 7, 2005
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Legitimate Job Test or Something Wacky?
H.J. Cummins of the Minneapolis Star Tribune writes about personality tests--never meant to screen job applicants--being used or misused by employers.
Test sample items:
"I see things or animals or people around me that others do not see."
"My soul sometimes leaves my body."
"I have a habit of counting things that are not important, such as bulbs on electric signs, and so forth."
posted to MetaFilter by etaoin
at 5:26 AM on June 30, 2005
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Afghan Children Burned
Correspondent Jim Rupert and photographer Moises Saman of Newsday have just done a magnificent report explaining how and why Afghan women and children are increasingly getting burned by exploding kerosene lamps. One of the problems is that the black market is sometimes selling aviation fuel--far more combustible at lower temperatures--as regular kerosene; women and children, who usually have lamp lighting duties, are getting maimed when the lamps explode.
posted to MetaFilter by etaoin
at 4:01 PM on June 27, 2005
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Book-readin' bad guys
This makes me safer already, knowing the feds are spending their time checking on who's reading about Osama bin Laden. Just &*##$@! brilliant work.
Law enforcement officials have made at least 200 formal and informal inquiries to libraries for information on reading material and other internal matters since October 2001, according to a new study that adds grist to the growing debate in Congress over the government's counterterrorism powers.
In some cases, agents used subpoenas or other formal demands to obtain information like lists of users checking out a book on Osama bin Laden.
(snip)
posted to MetaFilter by etaoin
at 7:06 AM on June 20, 2005
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Southeast Asian refugees,
like other immigrant populations, have had a mix of experiences and successes since they began arriving in the U.S. in the 1970s. Among the refugees, two groups, the
Mien and the
Hmong, tribes who
populate the mountains of Laos and Thailand, fled when the Communists took over. Today, some
Mien, also known to some Asians as the Yao, continue to live in
China, where they are a recognized minority group and elsewhere. Large numbers of the
Mien people have settled in Portland, Ore., and California, and appear to be doing pretty well. The
Hmong settled primarily in Minneapolis and St. Paul because their military leader,
Gen. Vang Pao settled there. You may have read about the
Hmong man who killed six white hunters, claiming racial animosity, but before that occurred, the Hmong themselves have experienced
one tragedy after
another.
posted to MetaFilter by etaoin
at 6:52 AM on March 29, 2005
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