koeselitz - thank you for articulating that, I do agree with what you have said there and acknowledge the hopeful aspect of what you've pointed out. it helps to understand better where you were coming from than just your first comment which I'd taken... [
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4 ¼ hours ago
its in a democracy, dharavi that is
the juxtaposition of the differing energy levels in sweden and dharavi as quoted taken together your sentences viz,
Who even cares what the next disaster, or financial movement, or technological advance, or... [
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4 ½ hours ago
I'm sorry if its serious/fighty in nature, but I just can't help laughing out loud while attempting to stifle it so as to not wake up the house at half past 4am
*choke, gurgle, escaped guffaw*
doesn't work for me, i keep seeing bunny rabbits... [
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4 ¾ hours ago
they could learn from the Finns, with all due respect, who've embraced teh snow and winter that when I first moved the embassy here handed me a pamphlet called "Snow" (how to deal with winter) adn I have friends emailing me pix of lamps... [
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6 ½ hours ago
About three months ago I completed field work documenting practices among the lower income demographic in random small town india for a certain arctic nation's forest industry (printing, paper, the future etc) - interviews with families earning USD... [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Tchad, Goofyy, kaspen, decathecting
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7 hours ago
in the meantime
MetaFilter: "I am thinking of you, I care about you, I hope you are well." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jgirl
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11 hours ago
Has anyone met him in person? Does he talk like that in real life? If so, how'd you manage not to beat him senseless with the nearest monitor?
posted by madajb at 10:45 PM on January 6
He's really fun in person. I was lucky enough to be in... [
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more than 12 hours ago
this is the only thing I think of when I read the words women of afghanistan [
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2 days ago
the company said. “Like any responsible member of the meat industry, we are not perfect.” [
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3 days ago
Metafilter: slightly-sleazy older person who helps you fumble through your first sexual experience.
NO!!! [
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favorited 1 time, recently by IndigoRain
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5 days ago
creative dissatisfaction, that elusive fire in the belly
favorited 19 times, recently by Helga-woo, blogenstock, nicolin, aldus_manutius, muymuy, rbf1138, limeonaire, hal9k, idiomatika, dng, Hugobaron, atropos, Juicy Avenger, condour75, ranchocalamari, ShawnStruck, Multicellular Exothermic, typewriter, ixohoxi
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5 days ago
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i never knew him nor noticed his posts. I ask myself why do I find myself mourning an invisible stranger. i find the answer is the sense of community that Metafilter provides all of us who drift from place to place yet secure in the knowledge... [
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5 days ago
But when you're saying stuff like "Terrorism is rare" - come on, man. Doesn't a sensible, rational person, arguing in good faith, have to admit successful terrorist attacks are rare in part because of security?
if I recall correctly, at... [
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7 days ago
Defending the nation from temptation
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9 days ago
I wonder what the next decade will be...
/start ramble
here are some dots (trends?) I've been seeing - very broadly, very rough, could be wrong:
1. open source options, creative commons IP, freemium models
2. transition towns, preference... [
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9 days ago
mobile companies have been fighting price wars to bring prices down - In India its per second billing for prepaid accounts at one paise per second (its unconvertible to any hard currency since one rupee is 100 paise and one USD is somewhere around 47... [
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favorited 4 times, recently by kev23f, anildash, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing, limeonaire
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9 days ago
my 72 year old father is my hero. in the past week my laptop was DoA and then the trusty desktop died two days after i got home from HEL. He was thrilled with the chance to fix the desktop again - its a Dell 2004 model bought in the USA with 110V... [
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10 days ago
sien - agree on Africa's future but re: the book you mention, my cynical take on its reviews and surrounding articles were that it was a way to create a buzz for investing in the African market aimed at Indian big co's (i'm not complaining btw just... [
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10 days ago
Also, your title is truncated at 138 chars not 140.
posted by Rhomboid at 5:49 AM on December 26
metafilter: every character counts [
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10 days ago
the quality of your twitter experience is wholly dependent on whom you choose to follow.
I didn't get twitter when it first came on the scene and big name bloggers went on about it, some going as far as to choose tweeting over blogging... [
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10 days ago
when i caught myself saying "when I was your age..." to a thirty something research manager trying to finish his PhD [
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13 days ago
ladies menu / blind menu - the only decent search result I could find [
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2 weeks ago
To dye for
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2 weeks ago
Aww man, I was hoping for an actual suicide machine; some kind of webby 2 app that overloaded the person's machine causing it to explode and kill them at their command.
Because I could base a really low budget horror movie around that premise.... [
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2 weeks ago
REF Lucire - I've followed the founder Jack Yan's blog for some years now, its a legitimate New Zealand based magazine [
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2 weeks ago
(cracks fingers and prepares to reminisce)
That website evolved from an initiative in 1998 when I joined The Second City's corporate promotions arm, Second City Communications. Headquartered on the other side of the bar, over the staircase leading... [
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3 weeks ago
we have living wills to determine how we will leave this world when the time comes. Mine states that unless the feeding tube is large enough for a piece of pie, I don’t want to be hooked up to it. Harold, of course, says his can only be connected... [
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Last month
In addition to what explosion said, here's a link to an article on teh setting of the poverty line (paraphrased) [
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what if M$ decided to use this model to legitimize the gazillions in India and China? even at 1cent usd which is about 5 rupees... [
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2 months ago
;p
REculture: A post consumption economy
Repair, reuse, repurpose, recycle ~ exploring the informal businesses at the BoP [
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2 months ago
