Eeeeeaaaaarrrrrthq-q-q-quaaaaaake!
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 9:54 AM on July 22, 2008

Half a favorite for the whole "Is he being exploited or is he a nuts-slapping genius" quandary, half a favorite for me imagining a talking glove extolling the virtues of an unfortunate post-delivery birth bag.

Goddammit, Metafilter is the best site in the history of everything.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 8:54 PM on July 18, 2008

"Zombie" and "Christian" are redundant, AMIRITE?!?

Not until the Second Coming.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 11:24 AM on July 18, 2008

I bet James Bond would kick his ass at the biathlon.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 9:00 AM on July 16, 2008

Thanks for posting this.

Are we alone? The Stanley Kubrick extraterrestrial-intelligence interviews -- although the interviews were not conducted by Kubrick himself -- offers a pretty good peek into questions Kubrick was curious about and prevailing contemporary leading scientists' sentiments regarding AI, extraterrestrial life, etc. The bit in the introduction regarding Carl Sagan alone makes it worth reading.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 9:28 AM on July 15, 2008

Other sites of interest that are linked from the Free Music Archive are Excavated Shellac ("world", folk and classical), the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project (previously) and Penn Sound (previously, mainly Poetry).... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 6:56 AM on July 15, 2008

DU, true enough. But you work at a university, right? If so, you may have access to DRAM. Unfortunately, it's not free and my university doesn't have a subscription to it, but it sounds so kickass I've been pushing my boss (the library's de facto collection development person) to spring for it. Check it out.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 7:48 AM on July 15, 2008

Don't quit your day woozle, Jeff.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 7:24 AM on July 1, 2008

For the record, I do like (most of) Jeff Dunham's work. But this, not so much.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 7:37 AM on July 1, 2008

Let's just round this out, then.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 6:38 AM on July 1, 2008

Remind me, did BB make a big fuss about Digg taking down that key per the DCMAs request?

Yes.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 2:09 PM on June 30, 2008

...this thread is mostly seen as an opportunity for the usual LOL.

The temptation to hop on the LOLICOPTER is just too strong, spock.

(Sorry. I'll show myself out.)
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 10:01 AM on June 30, 2008

Could somebody please please introduce Dimitri to Aleksey Vayner? I'm sure they'd hit it off right away, then go around bench pressing the shit out of things, running charities and corporations, diagnosing passive-aggressive personality disorder, solving mysteries and bagging elegant women.

They never play games, because nothing is impossible.

Let the romance begin.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 7:51 AM on June 27, 2008

F*ck this Windows-only garbage.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 3:18 PM on June 26, 2008

Best use of the "semiconductor" tag ever.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 7:07 AM on June 26, 2008

Best use of the "semiconductor" tag ever.

Until, I suppose, Optimus Prime does this same thing in his vehicular form.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 8:52 AM on June 26, 2008

56 megs

of unbelievable awesomeness.

Thanks, stbalbach.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 8:33 AM on June 25, 2008

Heck, for the instant-gratification crowd, the potential pool of free e-books just grew a whole bunch, so maybe you will notice it. :)

Indeed, and if you think Google's only aim was to produce this list, you've got another (extremely amazing) thing coming.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 8:55 AM on June 25, 2008

banhammer

?
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 8:59 AM on June 25, 2008

Nice post, but no love for Gish?
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 7:41 AM on June 24, 2008

Thanks for that Harold McGee link, grobstein.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 9:51 AM on June 20, 2008

Thanks, homunculus, for posting the McClatchy articles as they come out.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 4:30 PM on June 18, 2008

Is "NOT HOPPY ENUFF!" the beer equivalent of the tough-guy hot pepper eaters "NOT HOT ENUFF!"?

Yes, and there is a fairly cruel irony at work here.

I enjoy IPAs and have brewed more of them than I can recount at the moment. I also know a ton of the "NOT HOPPY ENUFF!" guys. Probably two or three tons, truth be told. Backslappers all, just real men's men, you know. Guys that'll taste an IIPA... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 2:30 PM on June 17, 2008

Say hello to Silenus for me.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 4:34 PM on June 17, 2008

I love a red haired dog
I love a blond haired dog
& a salacious barking brunette
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 4:32 PM on June 17, 2008

Does that about cover it?

Three words: talking koala mascot.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 9:04 AM on June 17, 2008

Thanks for posting this. I regularly make sauerkraut, and have been meaning to give kimchi a go for some time now.

For those of you looking for some good hot pepper schaudenfreude, watch this.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 11:50 AM on June 12, 2008

For the briefest of moments after seeing the words epic, theft and amiga, I thought the post was going to be about a Keef the Thief sequel. Rats.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 6:44 AM on June 12, 2008

OBAMA / ATREIDES 2008

[in Voice]: Obamination!
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 11:55 AM on June 9, 2008

The lighting, like shinynewnick mentioned, was what I noticed most about Crystal Skull. My friend and I were both wondering why everyone was glowing.

Thanks for the reminder about Frogtown, quin. It's been the better part of a decade since I last saw that one. Have to check it out again soon, I could use a laugh.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 11:36 AM on June 9, 2008

yath, here you go.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 11:37 AM on June 9, 2008

Sweet Christ I'm glad I don't work in circulation.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 8:37 AM on June 9, 2008

NAHSUIEHIORHFPLTSARNQUSCISGITDWCFSPIAMPBIILAATCCIUNATPMICILHAEDD

umdiddle iddle iddle umdiddle aye
umdiddle iddle iddle umdiddle aye
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 1:21 PM on June 6, 2008

Ratbatspider, in Dynamagic color!
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 12:43 PM on June 6, 2008

I don't get "Pizza Heart".

That is an odd one. Maybe it's a take-off of "Pizza Hut"?
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 11:29 AM on June 6, 2008

Drawing a line between two points and calling it a 'streak'.

Mistaking the meaning of "streak".
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 7:43 AM on June 6, 2008

I don't know if Steve Martin is an example of a "grown up" comic, but he did a (glorified) dick joke better than anything Apatow or Sander has done or ever will do.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 10:10 AM on June 6, 2008

Nice. Very Gastroanomalies-esque.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 11:26 AM on June 4, 2008

Whatever. We feed out of troughs here in the US.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 6:49 PM on June 2, 2008

*Buries case of Orange Jubilee MD 20/20 in the desert, right next to all the copies of the Atari 2600 ET game.*
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 6:56 AM on May 30, 2008

Fucking brilliant.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 4:08 PM on May 28, 2008

How would you keep it cold though?

Just put ice inside it.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 4:19 PM on May 28, 2008

Better yet, put ice inside a freshly washed Nalgene or glass water bottle, then place the bottle inside the watermelon. That way, it won't water down the melon booze slurry.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 4:21 PM on May 28, 2008

Any time you want some moonbeams, Gamera is the thing.

Nice post.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 6:21 AM on May 23, 2008

Fightin' men and monsters set, Rex Dart: Eskimo Spy!, and KTLA predicts seem to have been left off the list.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 6:36 AM on May 23, 2008

Don't know how the Klack Industrial Saladoos commercial (commercial starts ~8:20) and SPACOM! got left out, either.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 9:35 AM on May 23, 2008

Could there be any more goose poop in ZachsMind's front yard?
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 9:18 PM on May 24, 2008

Shut yo mouth!
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 6:27 PM on May 24, 2008

FANFUCKINGTASTIC POST, by the way.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 6:28 PM on May 24, 2008

Don't forget Brian Robinson, who hiked the Appalachian, Pacific Crest and Continental Divide trails in less than a year.
posted to MetaFilter by cog_nate at 12:15 PM on May 18, 2008