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"Oh, and if all else fails, Notebookreview.com's "what laptop should I buy" forum should get you set up." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mediareport
2 months ago
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"How simple are we talking? I'm currently looking for a barebones CMS as well and from my trawling of AskMe and other places, the best solution I've found (though not optimal) is CushyCMS. Major issues include the inability to add new pages without..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zazerr
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Another problem, besides the bad acting and the overdone video effects, is that for a post-apocalyptic story, it's not very post-apocalyptic. 24's last season had the same problem—omg, a nuclear bomb went off in L.A.! But two episodes later..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by pyrex, Dr-Baa
2 months ago
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"abdulf's solution looks to be a recipe for taking one blog and splitting it into two columns; it's a purely visual treatment, and doesn't actually involve two separate blogs or a blog with two authors.
If you were to use something like Wordpress..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Elsa
2 months ago
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"I got myself a Crumpler Part and Parcel a while back for my laptop, and then separately bought a 2 Million Dollar Home for my camera (a Fuji s6000fd—not a dSLR but similarly built). I got both on sale so it came out to quite a bit less than the $200+..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by snowleopard
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Ah yes, yet another in a long line of attempts by city governments to raise funds and profile by selling the rights to cover large statues of animals in company livery, only to be semi-abandoned months afterwards when drunken louts start vandalizing..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Number 16 Bus Shelter
If you're going to name the kid after the place they were conceived, try something slightly less specific?
Or you could take the opposite, add more detail in the middle name so we know what bench not to sit on...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sebastienbailard
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Strikes me as a British version of the kerfuffle in Quebec about Muslim women having to unveil their faces in public in order to vote in elections. Every single story I read had Muslim women who wore full head coverings saying they thought having to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sebastienbailard
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The problem with public transportation is that it's utterly horrible.
Public transit works just fine when it's properly funded and managed. Hell, it even works when it's not properly funded and managed—Toronto's transit system is a mess and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by flamk
3 months ago
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"If by Halo 2 you mean multiplayer stuff, your best bet is Warhawk. It's plenty fun and has airplanes to boot (hence the title "Warhawk"). I don't know of any edutainment titles for the PS3 so far (or indeed for any console besides the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jseven
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"maybe that kid shouldn't be there.
Fine, that's fair. But even if the child should be in a special education class, that doesn't automatically make it okay that Portillo apparently took leave of her common sense. "Media monstering of a person..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bettafish
4 months ago
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"Welcome to low-light photography. There's really only a couple of things you can do to improve your shots on a dSLR like a Rebel, assuming you can't change the ambient light level:
1) High ISO. This is the easiest (and cheapest) way to reduce blur..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by dripped, peacheater
4 months ago
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"Japan tends to offer more pink cars for sale as well, mainly the tiny kei-class cars. Hell, the fact that there are Hello Kitty special edition cars means Japan is a more welcoming market for pink cars than North America, though apparently cherry..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chez shoes
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm not going to feed the discussion much more than this because I don't think either of us is going to change our minds, but essentially: the fact that there are so few female drivers in the sport, and yet there are a number who've been quite..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by agregoli
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"My suspicions that Psystar was just going to put together a well-known good Hackintosh configuration and slap some osx86 distribution on it was validated by this report that the osx86 project doesn't like Psystar either. Personally, I'd much rather..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kryptos
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"She writes about an NBC website poll that asks if other parents would let their kid try and make their way home alone, and that half said no while another 20% said maybe. I can understand why, even though I agree with her point—because knowing..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Seriously, anyone who's had even the briefest of engagements with the TTC website wouldn't be surprised if the entire world EXCEPT Toronto made it onto Google Transit...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by loiseau
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Atreides has almost exactly the opposite opinion to mine regarding the third season: the first six episodes of season three (along with the second-season finale) rank as the best string of BSG episodes for me—it made for gripping, compelling..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by cass, pandaharma, dirigibleman
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"If this keeps just one awful would-be poet, memoirist or children's author from self-publishing then it will not have been in vain.
Print-on-demand is increasingly being used for so-called "legitimate" publishing as well as the good ol'..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by malaprohibita
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"So I can't buy an Apple or a Microsoft MP3 player because I'm forced to use a specific software package out of the box, and now I can't buy a Creative MP3 player because they're a bag of dicks. Does no one make a decent no-frills high-capacity MP3..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by klangklangston
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"So many of these miss out on why the Pulp Fiction one worked: the original actually captured the back and forth between the characters extremely well. The It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia one isn't bad, but the Kill Bill one seems a lot like someone..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dizzy
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Also, how does this work on large scale? Canadian wheat farms can't be run by a couple of hipsters fresh out of Cabbagetown.
I think people have been trying to answer that question for quite a while now, but in a slightly different guise: how do..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by squirrel, LeeJay, pummelo, notashroom, kuujjuarapik, ssg
6 months ago
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"re: Akismet. More specifically, you'll want to look into integrating this package into your PHP scripts. You may also want to create at least one moderation queue in your script, and probably a frontend for the queue unless you like tinkering with..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by danOstuporStar
7 months ago
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"I've had a tiny bit of experience in the art department of a magazine, so I know just enough to be dangerous to myself and others. But when I was working there, I found the photo editor and art director both liked sites where a) they could look it..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by brundlefly, Anything, ceri richard
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"[James] Carville started hitting on me in the darkened living room (darkened because the fireplace had been the only light source). When I told him I was married he said that everything was negotiable and we should discuss it over dinner at his place...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Nattie
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I found it hilarious that your best friend in the game is essentially a crate, the gaming device most derided by Erik Wolpaw and Chet Faliszek back when their job was to make fun of video games, not help write them.
Funny that you should mention..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by regicide is good for you, maschnitz, bugbread
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"rent a flat above a shop
cut your hair and get a job
smoke some fags and play some pool
pretend you never went to school
but still you'll never get it right
'cos when you're laid in bed at night
watching roaches climb the wall
if you called..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kimota
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"A society in which the Charming Burkha makes sense seems like a harsh, repressive, strange, convoluted place.
I don't know. Not to justify forcing people to wear burkas or anything, because to me that's obviously beyond the pale, but the artist's..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by dabitch, divabat
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"You know, I should've just posted this as my first comment, would've made the whole post irrelevant: How to Destroy the Earth." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by slimepuppy
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"What was it about 1997 then for incredible indie rock albums?
I wouldn't consider Bjork or Portishead indie rock, and Radiohead/Verve only in the sense that they play rock music, but yes. Add to the list Sleater-Kinney's Dig Me Out. Or you could..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by regicide is good for you
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"But the few lame examples she can come up with are not terribly compelling, and there's no evidence of scientific rigor behind her conclusion. That's what I mean by anecdotal.
This is a recurring theme whenever the subject of American..." [
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favorited 34 times, recently by merelyglib, Penks, ShawnStruck, Skygazer, hototogisu, Blazecock Pileon, ursus_comiter, klangklangston, Kattullus, Artw, wendell, grouse, McLir
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I wouldn't mind paying $5 per month (or more) if I knew it was going to the artists that I like, and support, and actually download. But it won't. It won't go to the artists on indie labels, let alone those who self-release.
But these are exactly..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by flibbertigibbet
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Isn't this the same country thats makes you have a Canadian writer on a record if you are going to release in Canada.
Absolutely! We have absolutely no foreign music here, everything on the radio is Stompin' Tom Connors, the Tragically Hip, the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by flibbertigibbet, radiocontrolled
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh good, now Helsinki will be able to get oh-so-helpful schedule updates like these:
12 Main Street
NEXT BUS: 34 minutes
NEXT BUS: 35 minutes
Unless Helsinki has somehow managed to solve the "really late bus followed immediately by a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by oaf
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"(which isn't to say that I wouldn't support Canada placing the U.S. on a torture watch list with some force; just that I highly doubt that's going to happen any time soon.)..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The article doesn't mention any bureaucrats by name. How are we supposed to know which one will be fired for this?
It doesn't matter which one they fire, so long as they remember to call that bureaucrat a Liberal appointee first!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by anthill
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Wireless hardware in the US has been crippled bullshit for years. If Apple has shown the carriers a way to make a profit by opening up their networks (to new hardware and new types of traffic), I'll be happy.
Explain how the cripple bullshit..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by melorama, timmins, finite, mrgrimm, the dief
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh yeah, I should have prefaced that whole bloody thing with "except for the Wii."
Erm, don't bother. Just because Nintendo might want to believe it's true doesn't make it so. Think about it for a second: what's the biggest casual gaming..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Arch_Stanton, shmegegge
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Wii is outside of the loop from what is perceived as "mainstream" gaming by gamers who are no longer themselves the "mainstream."
I'm already out of the mainstream because a) I'm a PC gamer and b) because I want the gaming..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mrgrimm
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"For the consideration of searchers: noticing delmoi's comment after mine a couple of days later (yes I looked at how many people favorite my posts, I know you do it too, shut up), I thought maybe he had a point. I turned up a couple of ways to get..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lodurr
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's worth noting that the band in the "unknown" link is Get the Hell Out of the Way of the Volcano, aka Khaela Maricich, aka the Blow." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by melorama
10 months ago
