I thought the skipping of seven and eight was to fit the signature, not really to make it rhyme. If I am counting this right, the original is written in 4/4; something had to go and I think it was seven's two syllables that did it in.
As for the video, the Sesame Street rendition has a couple throwbacks to the original, which I thought was well-done.

I've caught myself counting Feist-style as I close up at the bookstore I work in, usually with dimes (which I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 11:46 PM on July 16, 2008

lupus: head here for an alarmingly complete collection of lyrics. It's got a-sides, b-sides, unreleased stuff, multiple versions, live adlibs, covers, and who knows what else.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 7:58 PM on July 14, 2008

while I'm not l_y, I will take an opportunity to post this photo of me in a monocle, sort of sneering.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 2:00 AM on July 15, 2008

I think I know how the cats got wedged in the scanner.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 1:37 AM on July 14, 2008

did the internet run out of lolcats?

DOES NOT COMPUTE.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 12:50 AM on June 28, 2008

He's there to take pictures, not fuck the best man.

so that's what I've been doing wrong.
Damnit.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 12:11 PM on June 20, 2008

ohgodshidethisfrommyparents.

seriously. if they're home, there is a movie, a soundtrack, or the indian radio playing.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 10:48 PM on June 16, 2008

apropos of nothing: Michael Savage called Obama an "Afro-Leninist"; it makes me think of him with a big mustache and even bigger hair.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 3:20 PM on June 14, 2008

On the bright side, now I've got some ammunition against those dykes the other day who were telling me at great length how icky & ugly penises are.

well, yes, at great lengths they are a bit self-parodying but the rest of the time they're not so bad.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 11:32 PM on June 5, 2008

FYI, fellow mefites: it's a PDF link, and the article in question is approaching ten years old.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 11:35 PM on May 28, 2008

I posted the note because I thought it was convention that PDF links be noted as PDF links, and also because I did a couple double-takes (especially re: dollar values) that were cleared up when I read the date.

I didn't mean for it to be a "OH BOO TO OLD ARTICLES" as much as a "hey be aware of this piece of context" - sorry.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 10:57 AM on May 30, 2008

i was holding it in, until the end, when I saw that he was six months older than me.

.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 11:31 PM on May 24, 2008

in the film, Iron Man fights Arab "terrorists" who are being supplied and supported by a corrupt American defense industry bent on increasing profits by fomenting terror and fear.

I dunno how "Arab" they were; there was at least one reference to the mishmash of languages in the camp (from Urdu to Hungarian, I believe) and more often than not the terrorists were actually speaking Hindi.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 2:11 PM on May 16, 2008

if you mash the button rapidly at no fixed frequency, it's like Aphex Twin!
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 7:36 PM on May 12, 2008

biggest difference between me and my teen self: I have braces now.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 4:30 PM on May 12, 2008

Hasn't it always been the duty of the Court Jester to tell the Emperor that he's not wearing any clothes?

Jon Stewart naked? Link plz.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 12:08 PM on May 8, 2008

late to the party, I know

WolfDaddy: That's not gaydar. That's just deduction.

Gaydar is that pinging sensation that goes off in your head when the guy sitting next to you in the movies puts your hand in his lap during a Mel Gibson movie.

That seems more like "action stations" to be honest; everyone at attention and straining to clash. Gaydar (in my experience) is... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 9:58 AM on May 5, 2008

47% Yankee.
Also Canadian.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 11:10 AM on May 2, 2008

no posts or comments since 2005, and now a spam link?
I think this is stranger than usual...
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 1:38 AM on April 28, 2008

a cursory search of xtube proves your thesis, empath.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 12:03 PM on April 24, 2008

This entry won.
I thought it was well put together and produced better, but didn't make up for the general awesomeness of Rube Goldberg machines.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 4:36 PM on April 22, 2008

a) 34/34. Got Arial versus Helvetica (and Bembo and Andale Mono) but nailed it anyway.
b) to go further with boombot's explanation, Mrs. Eaves (the face) is an update of the original Baskerville by Zuzana Licko, who didn't want to name it Emigre Baskerville (as is the standard for reworkings of faces) because it was actually fairly different; thus the font was named after his eventual wife.

More on Mrs. Eaves, direct from... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 10:09 AM on April 14, 2008

three blind mice: A potentially explosive situation, of course.

I thought you were joking, but it turns out that grain dust can and does explode [wikipedia link].

Also, it's weird and more than a little sad to think that so many of our historical moments are captured on grains of silver nitrate embedded in gelatin and that so many things can easily destroy them.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 10:59 AM on March 30, 2008

soundofsuburbia: I really should've proofread that.

I'm working my way through some Heller books at the moment; you could probably spin typos as "an earnest attempt to redefine the perfectionism inherent in design by introducing glaring flaws to distract from the subtle ones." or possibly "de-academicization and redemocratization of design by removing all gloss, from paper to content and anywhere in between.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 11:21 AM on March 24, 2008

addendum: lest I get accused of pulling a nasreddin, I'm referring to Steven Heller.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 11:24 AM on March 24, 2008

I... goddamnit.

.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 6:57 PM on March 18, 2008

As far as entry into my pants is concerned, Sheik > Sheikhs.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 12:49 AM on March 16, 2008

there's a lot more information and commentary out there than the two blogs you've linked to:Ars Technica coverageEngadget LiveBlogThe iPhone SDK Scorecard, from waffleDaring FireballMacWorld coverageGizmodo on the release of firmware 2.0 (and how Touch users will have to pay again)MacDaddy admits right off the top that he hasn't even touched the SDK yet, and obviously one of the Mozilla developers will post something incendiary about the fact that the extension framework... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 1:24 AM on March 7, 2008

I remember a lot of these from childhood, and also that I liked them then.
If only I'd clued in earlier, I wouldn't have wasted a bunch of time in denial.

sidenote to JP, if she ever sees this which I doubt but it's the internet so who knows: our time together was far from wasted; it's not that I didn't love you, and it's not that we didn't have a lot of good times together (the night of my birthday, that time I tried to surprise you with... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 12:45 AM on March 7, 2008

schroedinger: I'm pretty sure tampons in your ears don't help anything.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 6:18 PM on March 5, 2008

that was fantasstic.

thanks.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 10:02 AM on February 27, 2008

you know what else I love? People taking a newborn meme (a memebryo) and beating it to death within a few minutes of it's birth.

you know what else I love?
...you.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 6:51 PM on February 20, 2008

Achewood, on a similar mission.

also: is it just me, or has she already dropped a couple clues as to a location and a bit of a routine with the dress shopping and the Starbucks/Hollywood sign?
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 4:02 PM on February 10, 2008

blazecock: The Body from Season 5 always, always gets me, and, for that matter, a bunch of my male friends.
We've agreed that if you don't tear up at least once during the episode, you're a robot.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 3:51 PM on February 9, 2008

There's also a Gizmodo article with a couple sample pictures. Also one of the commenters mentions "Incidentally, that brick building on the right in the zoom image is at 55th St and the pic is taken from 34th! Most impressive."

Anyway: to my understanding, these lenses are made to order, 3 or less are produced a year, and Canon says that there are more than 12 and less than 20 worldwide.

Oddly enough, I don't actually want one - my... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 12:31 AM on February 8, 2008

The Sasquatch festival has the Cure and REM rumored to head the 2008 lineup. Last year, it was Arcade Fire and Bjork.

Also, I'm sort of surprised it's not all Radiohead all over the place, seeing as they're touring this summer.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 9:49 AM on February 6, 2008

whenever Helvetica comes up, I'm reminded of this Douglas Coupland quote:
"Helvetica essentially takes any word or phrase and pressure-washes it into sterility. I love it." (from here.)

HuronBob: the author isn't sure whether this was another way to tie the movies into the Woody Allen brand, or whether it was like Kubrick's full-steam-ahead love of a font; without insight from Woody Allen it's unlikely that we will find out.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 4:33 PM on January 30, 2008

I'm torn on the film vs digital thing.
On the one hand, photo class and the darkroom are some of my favorite memories of high school, and I can understand the nostalgia for them, as well as the craftsmanship required in all the steps between exposure and print. I loved the strange language of fixer and developer, toners and bleaches, the precision of mixing chemicals: "72 degrees! 1 part developer to six parts water! Shake four times, tap twice, repeat!" and the seeming... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 12:17 AM on January 29, 2008

tilts the argument towards film.
I meant to say digital. It's difficult to restrain pen and tongue in a media that involves neither.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 12:18 AM on January 29, 2008

Though I identify as "gay" for the convenience of others, I am more like a bisexual drag king trapped in a man's body. If that makes any sense.

[swoon]
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 9:35 AM on January 24, 2008

I'm just not exactly sure why in their infinite wisdom they previously developed plugins for winamp, windows media player, itunes, etc yet they refuse or are incapable of creating one that can analyze the data stream of WMP11/Zune software streaming to aforementioned device and strip out the metadata from there

Is it last.fm that handles that, or other developers with access to the API? I remember both iTunes/iPod plugins I used (can't remember the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 11:27 AM on January 23, 2008

streamed data via streaming music players in general, I meant.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 11:27 AM on January 23, 2008

have there been any published studies based on this research? What is it that they're researching that could justify hunting a thousand whales?

sidenote: are whales tasty?
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 12:45 AM on January 16, 2008

I think it's been slashdotted; a post on the same thing is on the Slashdot feed.
(I got it from a non-MeFite friend who said they were up; maybe he saw it on /.)
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 7:03 PM on January 12, 2008

local(puny)human: bah. you didn't insult me based on my profile information, or use obscure british slang or tell me to take a flying fuck at a rolling donut. :p

on topic: Warren Ellis' comic Fell featured a death by enema in the first issue, which is readable (legally!) here. It's one of my favorite comics and also a really neat format experiment... maybe that'll be my next FPP.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 9:16 PM on January 12, 2008

local: oh, no, I got that... I was expecting more profanity and general curmudgeonliness from a reference to bruce.

Although, I suppose that would be more of a channelling of him; in any case, thank you. Twice.

:# (I'm smiling... with braces!)
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 12:54 AM on January 13, 2008

while not involving edible eyes, I was reminded of this.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 3:37 PM on January 9, 2008

itchy: wow. I have the same boxers.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 12:58 PM on January 9, 2008

you make it seem like there are no excellent horror movies, or excellent hip-hop.

while I can't say much about the former, I disagree with the latter.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 11:16 AM on January 9, 2008

damnit, above comment was meant to follow nasreddin.
posted to MetaFilter by heeeraldo at 11:17 AM on January 9, 2008