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Itchy McItchy

The Itch: The New Yorker's suprisingly interesting Annals of Medicine article which includes the story of a woman whose scalp itched so badly she scratched through it. And then through her skull.
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 2:26 PM on June 24, 2008 (89 comments)

"Now with more time-suck!"

I know that there's a dedicated cadre of Team Fortressers out there. Anyone playing Call of Duty 4?
posted to MetaTalk by nevercalm at 8:01 PM on June 5, 2008 (48 comments)

Why does Netflix want me to have no internet connection?

Why do flickr and Netflix kill my internet connection?
posted to Ask Metafilter by nevercalm at 11:05 AM on April 10, 2008 (12 comments)

Little boxes, little boxes...

I live in Brooklyn, and I'm moving. I need boxes! The usual liquor store route is failing me, utterly. Grocery boxes always seem wet and/or greasy. Anyone know any great secrets, or the best places to buy cardboard in bulk?
posted to Ask Metafilter by nevercalm at 2:32 PM on April 2, 2008 (29 comments)

Gave one, finally got one.

Today a mysterious box arrived, which turned out to be my long-lost OLPC! Are there any other Mefites playing around with them?
posted to MetaTalk by nevercalm at 9:49 AM on March 26, 2008 (28 comments)

Our outflow will run with many colors.

My wife paints with oils. We're buying a house with a septic system. Will cleaning brushes in the sink be a problem?
posted to Ask Metafilter by nevercalm at 8:52 PM on March 25, 2008 (8 comments)

They left when?

We have a "joined" date in user profiles. Can we have a "left" date for the pushers of the big red button?
posted to MetaTalk by nevercalm at 4:36 PM on March 3, 2008 (98 comments)

Googlewell?

Does the thread of all threads (Givewell) break Google Reader? Or is it a feed settings thing here? Or (more likely) am I doing something wrong?
posted to MetaTalk by nevercalm at 9:43 AM on January 6, 2008 (25 comments)

On the Limits of Self-Improvement, Part I

On the Limits of Self-Improvement, wherein Christopher Hitchens delves into "an entire micro-economy based on the pursuit of betterment."
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 12:50 PM on September 27, 2007 (24 comments)

I'll take my eggs easy over while I read my mazagine.

LinguisticsFilter: A friend of mine tends to unintentionally mix her words at times. What is this called? Examples within....
posted to Ask Metafilter by nevercalm at 5:07 PM on August 15, 2007 (22 comments)

Google-white=blackle???

Google goes to the dark side. Meet Blackle.
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 6:04 AM on July 27, 2007 (69 comments)

Got to get mah jong on.

Any mahjong playing MeFites in Brooklyn/NYC? [more inside]
posted to MetaTalk by nevercalm at 8:13 AM on July 18, 2007 (10 comments)

Möbius strip unravelled

Mathematicians solve the 75-year-old Möbius mystery.
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 6:26 PM on July 17, 2007 (29 comments)

"That is the most aquatic ice cream I've ever had in my life."

Kevin Cooney visits Namjatown's Ice Cream City, where he treats himself to such frozen delights as octopus, squid, shark fin ramen, curry and snake flavored ice cream. via
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 1:35 PM on July 6, 2007 (4 comments)

Halberstam's last column.

David Halberstam's last column, The History Boys - Politics and Power, is in this month's Vanity Fair magazine. In other news, the student driving him at the time of his death, Kevin Jones, has been charged with vehicular manslaughter. (Previously)
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 6:14 AM on July 5, 2007 (21 comments)

A perfect stealth invasion force.

The duck diaspora: thousands of rubber ducks condemned never to know the quietude of a suburban bathtub, which have instead spent 15 years wandering the world's oceans like aquatic Cains. Previously
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 6:24 AM on July 2, 2007 (25 comments)

OK boys, no hitting below the belt.

And in this corner, weighing in at 30706, is Big Bad BeeeeeeeePeeeeeeeee! And in the very same corner, weighing in at 52373, is CeeeeeeeeeePB! Or, you know, things are getting a little ugly over in the "The UK is one big terror magnet thread...."
posted to MetaTalk by nevercalm at 1:51 PM on June 30, 2007 (37 comments)

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Someone, O someone, please tell me more about the person in this picture. (Referenced here, and apparently something of a meme I missed out on...)
posted to Ask Metafilter by nevercalm at 10:35 AM on June 28, 2007 (12 comments)

When is a kilogram not a kilogram?

Scientists will use perfect silicon spheres to determine how many silicon atoms make up a kilogram, and this will be used as the new international prototype — bringing the kilogram into line with other base units such as the meter. The current international prototype, a lump of platinum and iridium, is securely tucked away inside a French vault.
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 8:56 AM on June 15, 2007 (45 comments)

Let's get ready to....um....rumble.

Not at all satisfied with the "Maxim Hot 100," the editors over at AfterEllen decided to ask their readers to assemble their own lesbian and bisexual-oriented Hot 100.
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 11:40 AM on June 13, 2007 (104 comments)

MetaFatty?

Do MeFites really look askance at fat people?
posted to MetaTalk by nevercalm at 3:56 PM on May 22, 2007 (124 comments)

None if by land, two if....oh, it's all so depressing.

The Emos are coming! The Utah ABC affiliate has the skinny on the newest thing that's killing today's children. Emo. (No, not THAT Emo.)
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 3:50 PM on May 22, 2007 (139 comments)

The secret Iraq documents my 8-year-old found

The secret Iraq documents my 8-year-old found. With a couple of keystrokes, you too can read the hidden history of the Coalition Provisional Authority, America's late, unlamented occupation government in Iraq.
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 10:31 AM on May 18, 2007 (50 comments)

The kindness of MeFi.

Never mind "best of the web," this thread is surely the best of MetaFilter.
posted to MetaTalk by nevercalm at 8:16 PM on May 3, 2007 (105 comments)

Postcards from Gitmo

Gitmo in Black and White. Some great photography with narration and chilling stories from the Gulag at Guantanamo Bay. (Has sound. Maybe NSFW, if your workplace is squeamish about our foreign policy)
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 7:44 AM on March 22, 2007 (15 comments)

Apple's New Starmaking Power

Music's New Gatekeeper - From their Silicon Valley cubicles, Apple staffers have become music's unlikely power brokers.
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 7:32 AM on March 10, 2007 (21 comments)

That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld, Revealed - Parts 1 and 2. A nice, brief historical roundup of the man who - in the words of John McCain - is "one of the worst secretaries of defense in history."
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 9:39 PM on February 20, 2007 (40 comments)

Next Up: Nuclear waste reefs

Artificial reef off Fort Lauderdale coast now an ecological disaster. Then: A 1972 Goodyear news release proclaimed the reef would "provide a haven for fish and other aquatic species,' and noted the "excellent properties of scrap tires as reef material.' Now: "They're a constantly killing coral destruction machine."
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 9:50 AM on February 19, 2007 (44 comments)

Competition. Integrity. True grit. Performance enhancing drugs.

Cheating at the Daytona 500. Blood doping in cycling. Rampant use of steroids in professional baseball. Don't even bother with the Olympics. Is the idea of professional and amateur competition doomed, is looking at this as a symbol of something larger about our culture(s) valid, or what?
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 7:36 AM on February 16, 2007 (49 comments)

Pazz & Jop 2006.

The 2006 Village Voice Pazz and Jop critics poll is now online: 494 music critics picked their favorite albums and singles from the past year. It's the first poll since Robert Christgau was unceremoniously let go from the paper. How did they do? Is this thing even relevant anymore? See for yourself: here's the lists and "xgau's" essays since it started.
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 5:22 PM on February 7, 2007 (29 comments)

Dick Cheney's quiet coup d'etat

TPM's David Kurtz: I've gone from being open to the idea of an Imperial Vice Presidency to being convinced that historians will debate whether something approaching a Cheney-led coup d'etat has occurred, in which some of the powers of the Executive were extra-constitutionally usurped by the Office of the Vice President. More about the Vice President, Richard "Dick" Cheney.
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 4:45 PM on February 4, 2007 (51 comments)

People with lots of time have novel takes on Star Wars

Two new takes on the world of Star Wars: "The public choice economics of Star Wars: A Straussian reading"; and "A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope:Reconsidering Star Wars IV in the light of I-III." Were the Jedi actually useless and powerhungry? Was R2-D2 the true hero of the rebellion? Most importantly, where do people find the time to come up with this stuff?
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 7:18 AM on January 27, 2007 (86 comments)

Paul Theroux's America

Paul Theroux's writing is, at it's best, a long, dreamy meditation on a place, it's people, and the time he spent among them. His latest piece, an op-ed in the New York Times about America in 2007, is no exception.
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 7:26 AM on January 3, 2007 (99 comments)

AskMe vs Slate's Explainer?

Slate's Explainer is generally a pretty entertaining and interesting read. Now, they've posted a list of the questions they couldn't answer this year. I was wondering whether some of the AskMe crowd might just be able to knock a few off the list.
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 7:41 PM on December 21, 2006 (52 comments)

Sharing two monitors with a one-monitor switcher?

I'm trying to add a second monitor to a PC/Mac hardware-sharing scenario.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nevercalm at 5:15 PM on December 19, 2006 (7 comments)

Aloysius. AKA Mr.

Snuffy has a posse. From his hero (Big Bird, of course, as well as "John William Konevich II's Bald F***ing head and those who worship it") to his friends (the Notorious PIG among them) to his friends' comments, Mr Aloysius Snuffleupagus' myspace page is thoroughly entertaining. (previously on MeFi)
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 12:37 PM on October 8, 2006 (7 comments)

James Frey, in case anyone still cares.

James Frey, in his first interview since the whole I-sold-a-memoir-about-my-non-existent-life flap and extremely public Oprah smackdown. (previously mentioned in various posts)
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 11:24 AM on September 17, 2006 (56 comments)

OK, so is this guy magic, or what?

I need a little help figuring out the odds of a baseball pool scenario actually occurring. (And correctly constructing this question, it looks like).
posted to Ask Metafilter by nevercalm at 6:58 PM on September 7, 2006 (18 comments)

iTunes, why do you hurt me so?

I need to fix 200+ song titles in iTunes.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nevercalm at 11:05 AM on July 25, 2006 (6 comments)

Recommend some great books for me, please. (MetaFiction?)

I need some recommendations for great fiction. And yes, I've read all those other threads.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nevercalm at 2:30 PM on June 29, 2006 (38 comments)

How frequently are MeTa posts both deleted and...

How frequently are MeTa posts both deleted and zapped from existence? [more inside]
posted to MetaTalk by nevercalm at 12:26 PM on June 19, 2006 (60 comments)

Photo club, O photo club...

A few friends and I are kicking around starting a photo club, both to keep us shooting as well as to help each other with critiques and whatnot.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nevercalm at 1:12 PM on March 10, 2006 (7 comments)

‘I am,’ I said, to no one there, and no one heard at all, not even the chair.

Neil Diamond’s long, serious career: Whether rockin' the sold-out Garden, sitting alone writing his lyrics, or among his 19,033 friends at MySpace, Neil Diamond might be more serious than most people give him credit for. (previous thread)
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 2:43 PM on January 12, 2006 (39 comments)

A whore that sitteth on many waters...Joe Bageant!

Joe Bageant's observations on people and politics in today's America are insightful, savage, and hilarious.
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm at 2:15 PM on January 10, 2006 (41 comments)

Help me tame my mane!

BeardFilter: I've recently grown a beard. It's getting scruffy fast....
posted to Ask Metafilter by nevercalm at 4:25 PM on January 4, 2006 (20 comments)

WTFilter - Is anything wrong with the NewsFilter?...

WTFilter - Is anything wrong with the NewsFilter? Ariel Sharon had a massive stroke over 1.5 hours ago, and there's nothing in the blue? [more inside]
posted to MetaTalk by nevercalm at 3:20 PM on January 4, 2006 (46 comments)

YoGA! YoGA! YoGA!

NYCYogaFilter: Any NYers who attend yoga classes? Do you have a school or teacher to recommend?
posted to Ask Metafilter by nevercalm at 7:02 PM on November 25, 2005 (5 comments)

NewsFeeds. Just don't get it. Help me to. Get it, that is.

Please help me get the most out of newsfeeds/RSS/Atom/etc in order to best utilize my limited web time.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nevercalm at 6:26 AM on November 16, 2005 (18 comments)

Best camera phone for a photographer, and why?

Phone photographers. Lend me your ears, and your answers. Who/what is the best?
posted to Ask Metafilter by nevercalm at 10:59 AM on November 8, 2005 (15 comments)