Wired magazine gets lamer. Film at 11.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 6:45 PM on July 22, 2008
I continue to be flabbergasted at how many damn college students take badminton for credit. TONS AND TONS OF THEM.
Because required PE classes suck and badminton is generally the way to fill the requirement with the least possible effort. You don't need to change, you don't need to go off campus or somewhere far away, and even at MIT I was one of only two people in my class spastic enough to look uncoordinated while playing badminton.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 6:01 PM on July 22, 2008
I'm sure they all still tasted fine.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 5:15 PM on July 22, 2008
That REM video cracks me up every time I watch it.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 6:51 PM on July 16, 2008
I wonder if anyone has told Herb London about Open Courseware.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 4:01 PM on July 9, 2008
I had a discussion pretty recently about how the best way to stop terrorist attacks on planes is on the planes themselves. I was thinking along the lines of heavy duty doors to the cockpits and special training for flight attendants. I suppose watching every passenger at all times and arresting the ones who can't sit still might work too.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 4:46 PM on May 30, 2008
This seems like it would make for some really great excuses:
"I'm sorry I'm late for work today, but I accidentally opened my ghost bottle and now my keys and tv remote keep going missing"
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 12:37 PM on May 29, 2008
im in ur internetz, wearin' out ur lolz
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 4:17 PM on May 25, 2008
(sorry)
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 4:18 PM on May 25, 2008
I watched this movie at least once a week when I was little. I always loved the scene where Grover talked with the suit of armor. And all the scenes with Ernie and Bert. Actually, I loved the whole movie. Sesame Street used to be awesome.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 1:06 PM on May 25, 2008
Firing Jay Bennett was not the first time Jeff Tweedy had had a major falling out
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 4:49 PM on May 23, 2008
umm didn't mean to post that right away/at all
Anyway, I think firing Jay Bennett has allowed Wilco to move past folk rock albums with weird noises and go back to just making good folk rock albums. See Sky Blue Sky, which I didn't like at first, but has certainly grown on me.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 4:52 PM on May 23, 2008
I recognized damn near all of those memes. Which means I probably need to get out more. It was still a neat video.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 10:53 AM on May 23, 2008
Makes me wish Ali/Foreman was captured using high-speed film.
This show comes close.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 4:46 PM on May 21, 2008
How I envy professors in other disciplines! How appealing seems the straightforwardness of their task! These are the properties of a cell membrane, kid. Memorize ’em, and be ready to spit ’em back at me. The biology teacher also enjoys the psychic ease of grading multiple-choice tests. Answers are right or wrong.
This author seems to know about as much about science as the students she complains about know about writing. If all science teachers... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 4:38 PM on May 21, 2008
That was really cool. Thanks.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 2:47 PM on May 21, 2008
This is pretty cool. I'd like to someday visit the museum of burnt food, although I'd probably steer clear of the cafeteria.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 5:42 PM on May 19, 2008
Is it actually possible to get a layer all the way off?
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 11:57 AM on May 19, 2008
Oh. That made it way more lame.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 12:06 PM on May 19, 2008
I will eat nothing but yogurt for a year if they make one last commercial where a tiger breaks into a dayspa or something and eats those bitches.
I will eat nothing but yogurt for a year if they make one last commercial where all the "it's generic female experience good" were all vaguely misogynistic.
"It's glass ceiling good"
"It's being seen and not heard good"
"It's subservience... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 8:53 PM on May 11, 2008
Excellent idea. Wretched website design.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 12:41 PM on May 11, 2008
How can they tell?
The folks operating the site said so. I think it would be cool to keep it going indefinitely and see how much the plot winds up changing. I can only imagine it getting worse, but it would be an interesting thing to follow.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 6:12 AM on May 6, 2008
The lunches at your school look amazingly like the lunches at my school. The pizza especially.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 6:06 PM on May 5, 2008
Ewoks would have ruined it.
Unless Billy Dee had been rocking out on a drum kit made from Ewoks. Now that would have been cool.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 8:08 PM on May 2, 2008
I'm surprised they didn't incorporate the billion invitations for stupid groups that people keep sending me.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 9:18 PM on April 30, 2008
Metafilter: If my eight-year-old self could see the joy with which I now consume spinach, he'd pray for an early death
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 3:54 PM on April 27, 2008
Sweet. Ten bucks if you post this to chief delphi and get a discussion going about whether this sort of drive would be legal in FIRST.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 6:16 PM on April 15, 2008
This is a million, billion times better than dodgeball.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 9:25 AM on March 17, 2008
If I had encountered one of those ads without having seen this thread, I probably would not have thought twice about licking my magazines. I also eat food that people leave in hallways after meetings though so I guess sanitation isn't a huge priority for me.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 7:41 AM on February 15, 2008
Even better.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 11:40 AM on January 26, 2008
When you put it that way.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 11:51 AM on January 11, 2008
It's also happening in Boston on Saturday. I'm waiting to see how the cops manage to turn it into a bomb scare.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 4:25 PM on January 9, 2008
It's not really a hippie sport anymore. What's great though, is that even at a competitive level, the sort where people spend all year training and are in great shape and totally obsessed, there's still this huge culture of sportsmanship and fair play. Players are responsible for making the calls themselves and in my whole first season I only witnessed one call that either team got bitter about. Everyone is just way more concerned with having a good time than winning first prize and the way to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 4:54 PM on December 13, 2007
I liked that. I've never heard John Updike speak before. I like that his speech flows as nicely as his writing.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 4:21 PM on November 15, 2007
I was pleasantly surprised to realize that this was not a compilation of clips of Jon Stewart "acting gay."
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 2:45 PM on November 14, 2007
The New York Times on YouTube comments:
He uploaded his commercial to YouTube, where it received four stars out of a possible five and comments that ranged from "That's awesome," followed by 16 exclamation points, to "Makes me want to buy one and hack it."
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 12:48 PM on October 26, 2007
I'm still waiting for instructions on how to invade a small country from XKCD. I'm sure Mr. Munroe has figured out by now how much control he has over basically all the nerds on the internet. It's only a matter of time before he decides to use this power for something bigger than silly pictures on rollercoasters and in showers.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 5:41 PM on October 10, 2007
Metafilter: the elderly fall over and die all the time so biking is probably not much more dangerous than say, going to the bathroom.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 11:59 AM on August 26, 2007
Requiem for a Toy Story
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 5:14 PM on August 15, 2007
The way the text has been appearing reminds me a bit of an Ouigi board.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 6:51 PM on August 14, 2007
They're missing Queequeg and Ishmael.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 6:33 AM on August 14, 2007
That's really neat. It reminded me of some researchers I heard about who were observing how insects navigate in order to apply it to UAVs. That was how I added AI to my list of things I want to study in college.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 10:57 AM on July 22, 2007
That reminds me of this.
As in, you pay him and he draws stuff for you. Except he'll draw anything.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 6:17 PM on June 20, 2007
The Washington Post recently ran a similar article about teen's shopping habits using NOVA kids. Their results were slightly less depressing.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 9:15 AM on June 15, 2007
My computer science TEXTBOOK pointed readers to a wikipedia page for further information about something. Wikipedia is good for looking up a reference I didn't understand, or finding search terms but citing it in a book seems sketchy. That said, the yearbook editors at my school this year looked really silly when they got a bunch of "fun facts" off the school's wikipedia article and didn't verify them and then realized after the yearbooks were passed that some jokers had just made them... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 8:42 AM on June 15, 2007
I couldn't tell if the cat was enjoying itself or was just too fat to escape.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 7:49 PM on May 22, 2007
This one is funnier.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 4:37 PM on April 26, 2007
This post made my day.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 8:20 PM on April 23, 2007
I'm glad they've abandoned the 11 minute guitar noodling marathons for this album.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 8:19 AM on March 11, 2007
We excluded all data pertaining to the fifteen cats who gave birth while viewing the photographs. The reproducibility of the GAVE BIRTH/DID NOT GIVE BIRTH data will be addressed in a separate, future study.
I think it's a pun. Either that, or I'm really tired.
posted to MetaFilter by martinX's bellbottoms at 5:15 PM on March 9, 2007
