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Round Numbers!

Only a little over a year ago, anonymous had asked 1500 questions. As of today, that number has doubled. By my calculations if this trend continues then by the year 2055 life on earth will have ceased to exist!
posted to MetaTalk by ND¢ at 9:08 AM on March 14, 2008 (84 comments)

Satin sheets = rich apparently?

Sure I've got money, but what I really want is cock.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 5:37 AM on February 19, 2008 (17 comments)

Don't push me, 'cause I'm close to the edge...

I just received an anti-Huckabee push poll. Who was it from?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 6:35 AM on January 17, 2008 (11 comments)

Infant CPR classes?

Do you know of any free or cheap infant CPR classes?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 1:53 PM on January 3, 2008 (9 comments)

Metafilter Mix CD Swap: Best of 2007 Edition Tracklists

A little over two months ago, I proposed a Metafilter Mix CD Swap: Best of 2007 Edition. Twenty-three people decided to participate and swapped CDs containing their favorite songs from 2007. In that thread it was suggested that after the swap concluded “yall make a thread with your final tracklists and commentary, or otherwise publish them where I and others could read and DL accordingly.” Of the twenty-three participants, seventeen decided to share their tracklists, which you will find inside. Rock on.
posted to MetaTalk by ND¢ at 8:37 AM on December 14, 2007 (103 comments)

I assume that they will all begin with the words "It's Britney, bitch."

MeFiSwap: Best of 2007 Edition.
posted to MetaTalk by ND¢ at 6:55 AM on October 17, 2007 (102 comments)

I’ll write about every R.E.M. song, eventually.

Pop Songs 07 is a blog by Matthew Perpetua, founder of Fluxblog, in which he is attempting to write about every R.E.M. song eventually. With the recent release of Stereogum’s tribute to Automatic For The People, Drive XV, (free mp3s of covers of every track on the record by a range of indie rock acts) he was asked to write an essay about the album: Sweetness Followed: 15 Years After Automatic.
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 7:57 AM on October 16, 2007 (53 comments)

Made to be Broken: laws you can ignore

American Lawbreaking. "This series explores the black spots in American law: areas in which our laws are routinely and regularly broken and where the law enforcement response is … nothing. These are the areas where, for one reason or another, we've decided to tolerate lawbreaking and let a law—duly enacted and still on the books—lay fallow or near dead." The first two entries are prescription drug abuse and internet pornography.
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 7:19 AM on October 15, 2007 (84 comments)

Software needed to create a DVD from multiple video sources.

I am attempting to create a DVD using several different file types. Can this be done, and if so, what software do I need to do it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 7:31 AM on September 13, 2007 (5 comments)

bin Laden transcript

Transcript of the most recent Osama bin Laden tape. [pdf]
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 1:54 PM on September 7, 2007 (177 comments)

Legal information online

The Law Library of Congress’s Guide to Online Law includes legal information from over a hundred different countries and all fifty states. The Legal Information Institute has guides to 130 different areas of law. The Armed Forces Legal Assistance site is also a great resource for basic legal information, aimed at service members, but often generally helpful, on topics including consumer law, family law and trusts and estates. Your State’s Bar Association may also offer information specific to your jurisdiction.
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 6:27 AM on August 29, 2007 (20 comments)

Why would room temperature water be coming out of the faucet when I turn on the cold water tap?

When I turn the cold water tap, the faucets in my upstairs bathroom are putting out room temperature water. How do I fix this?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 9:17 AM on August 23, 2007 (15 comments)

Anywhere you go, I'll follow you down. Anyplace but those I know by heart.

I would like to make a mix of "post grunge" modern rock type music. Gin Blossoms, Toad the Wet Sprocket etc.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 6:36 PM on July 26, 2007 (71 comments)

What do you want to read next?

Metafilter now has a group at LibraryThing. Inspired by the reaction to this thread, jbickers has set up a group with the name "Metafilter" at LibraryThing. Please join if you care to swap reading lists, see what books fellow MeFis own, etc. For maximum coolishness, sign up with the same screen name you use here.
posted to MetaTalk by ND¢ at 12:43 PM on April 30, 2007 (122 comments)

How do you pronounce Vafai?

How do you pronounce the last name Vafai? I think that it is Iranian.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 6:46 AM on February 12, 2007 (8 comments)

Stephen Colbert v. The Decemberists

Stephen Colbert has a “Green Screen Challenge”. The Decemberists have their own green screen challenge. Colbert calls them idea stealing jerks and issues a "Second Green Screen Challenge": "to edit me into the Decemberists' green screen challenge... Let's see how well they perform their trademark brand of hyper-literate prog rock when I'm slicing off their legs at the knee." Now the Decemberists are saying that awesomely wielding lightsabers was their idea, and that Colbert must have copied them, and they have the "Decemberists vs Stephen Colbert Guitar Solo Challenge".
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 7:08 AM on December 1, 2006 (61 comments)

U.S. Presidential Line of Succession Plot Device

I have decided to participate in NaNoWriMo, but I need help with a plot point involving the U.S. presidential order of succession.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 7:07 AM on October 10, 2006 (14 comments)

How can I fix my neighborhood's erosion problem?

What are the best ways to fix a neighborhood's erosion problems, and how do you convince builders and developers to take those steps?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 6:41 PM on September 4, 2006 (11 comments)

Cheek it out!

Jowling is when you shake your head from side to side as quickly as possible while a picture is being taken. It has been around for awhile (previously kind of), but we squares are just now finding out about it, and it is cool.
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 6:36 AM on September 1, 2006 (36 comments)

Ideas v. Actions

I need ideas for an alternate history novel that I am thinking of writing. What changes history more, ideas or actions?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 7:14 PM on August 9, 2006 (39 comments)

Law as Art?

Law as Art? is a recent article that discusses artwork that deliberately incorporates the law as an intrinsic element of the work itself, including Consideration, Disclaimer, Terms and Conditions, and A Selection of Interesting Secrets from Various Stages in my Life.
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 6:44 AM on July 28, 2006 (6 comments)

I'm going to make you squeal like a scruffy nerf herder.

Here is a guy playing the "Star Wars" theme on a banjo.
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 6:18 AM on July 27, 2006 (60 comments)

What it's like to lose a son in the Iraq war.

Never Coming Home is about the families of five young men killed in Iraq. Slate presents a short documentary that focuses on the bereavement of the parents, or in one case, a brother. This portrait of grief and sacrifice is brought to life through the use of still photography and the recorded voices of family members.
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 10:31 AM on June 12, 2006 (27 comments)

Danger Doom The Occult Hymn EP available free from Adultswim.com

Danger Doom "The Occult Hymn" EP available free from Adultswim.com [More Inside] but that is pretty much it.
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 10:16 AM on June 9, 2006 (40 comments)

I like the look of Metafilter. It is an attractive...

I like the look of Metafilter. It is an attractive site. The only part of it that I hate with a passion is the "You just flagged something, good for you" page. It is an eyesore. I hate its whiteness and the lack of words on 90% of its surface. Let's make it a pretty color and spread the words out some. What do you say?
posted to MetaTalk by ND¢ at 12:44 PM on June 5, 2006 (33 comments)

10 Stories

Ten Stories the World Should Hear More About.
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 10:21 AM on June 2, 2006 (28 comments)

But What About Us? Student Photographs from the Corridor of Shame

"But What About Us? Student Photographs from the Corridor of Shame" is a traveling photography exhibit that follows up on “Corridor of Shame: the neglect of South Carolina's rural schools" [wmv], a 58 minute documentary that tells the story of the challenges faced in funding an adequate education in South Carolina's rural school districts. The documentary tracks the evidence presented on behalf of eight school districts in Abbeville County School District v. The State of South Carolina [pdf]. The exhibit is a powerful demonstration to the needs still unmet in South Carolina's rural schools. Only five pictures and captions are on the website now, but most of the pictures appear inside with permission from the copyright holder.
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 6:12 PM on May 10, 2006 (28 comments)

Help me share these exibits.

Please help me find or make this exhibit large enough to read.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 4:03 PM on May 8, 2006 (6 comments)

Happy National Day To Prevent Teen Pregnancy! The Human Race is Dying Out.

Today is the National Day To Prevent Teen Pregnancy. In the past decade, possibly no social program has been as dramatically effective as the effort to reduce teen pregnancy. Between 1990 and 2000 the U.S. teen pregnancy rate plummeted by 28 percent. This is great, except for the fact that this may be in part due to a decrease in male sperm count that will cause the human race to soon become extinct. It is also somehow related to the extinction of the taint. Previously.
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 8:52 AM on May 3, 2006 (48 comments)

Adult Swim Fix: Something You Don't Need a TV to Understand.

Adult Swim Fix. Streaming full-length Adult Swim episodes twenty-four hours a day online. Seven archival episodes will be available at all times, while premieres will continue to debut on Fridays, two days before they appear on-air.
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 7:16 AM on April 27, 2006 (24 comments)

Why everyone's naked, no one really knows, but you don't have time to sit and ponder.

Naked Melee Armageddon. You have roughly five seconds before the melee begins to load the screen with as many people as you can. When an alien and a human meet, they fight. They destroy each other with axes, explosions, ninja moves, electrocution, etc. No matter the outcome, both the winner and loser vanish. The only way to win is by outnumbering the enemy. [via]
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 1:25 PM on April 13, 2006 (27 comments)

Books about Zombies.

Zombies are hot right now. Help me ride the zeitgeist by suggesting good books about zombies.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 7:55 AM on March 17, 2006 (29 comments)

Internet Success Story: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are a band that, less than a year ago, were making music without the help of a record label, pressing CDs themselves and selling them at concerts and on the Internet. Then the following happened: June 9: Dan Bierne writes about the band on his MP3 blog, June 14: Pitchfork Media posts a review of the song "In This Home On Ice", June 15: Blogger Gothamist posts an interview with the band, June 20: Blogger Stereogum announces the band's show at the Knitting Factory, June 21: Gothamist reports that David Bowie was in the audience at the Knitting Factory show, and June 22: Pitchfork posts one of a slew of reviews of Clap's first album. Now, they've been named to dozens of critics 'best of' lists, they're playing Conan and Letterman, and are about to embark on a new tour. Why choose today to post an article about a band blowing up written in November you ask? Because their tour kicks off tonight at the 9:30 club in DC, and you can listen to it live.
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 6:44 AM on March 8, 2006 (140 comments)

Help me make an 80's country music mix CD.

Help me make ND¢'s 80's-ish Country-ish Mix Volume II.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 6:09 AM on March 2, 2006 (29 comments)

Random Rules

Random Rules , a new[ish] feature of the Onion: A.V. Club. They ask a rocker/writer/comedian/whatever to set their MP3 player to "shuffle" and comment on the first few tracks that come up. This probably could have been very boring, but it actually ended up kind of interesting. See Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse call Belle and Sebastian a “one-fuckin'-trick pony”. Enjoy David Cross waxing poetic about R.E.M.’s Murmur. From the main link, read the description of the raw sexual chemistry that existed between David Berman of the Silver Jews and the actress that played Ginger on Gilligan's Island.
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 6:01 AM on March 1, 2006 (137 comments)

Morrissey Investigated by the F.B.I.

Morrissey Investigated by the F.B.I. The former Smiths lead singer was interviewed and taped. The FBI was apparently trying to determine if he was a threat to the government.
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 3:43 PM on February 23, 2006 (89 comments)

Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten 1932-1964

Creative Americans: The Carl Van Vechten Photographs Collection at the Library of Congress consists of 1,395 photographs taken by American photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) between 1932 and 1964. The bulk of the collection consists of portrait photographs of celebrities, including many figures from the Harlem Renaissance. Portraits include those of Tallulah Bankhead, Salvador Dali, Truman Capote, Dizzy Gillespie, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Eartha Kitt, and Joe Louis. They are all available in medium or high resolution JPEG’s or uncompressed archival TIFF versions.
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 12:39 PM on February 17, 2006 (10 comments)

Force Feeding at Guantánamo

U.S. Force Feeding Prisoners at Guantánamo [NY Times]. In response to hunger strikes, U.S. military authorities have taken tougher measures to force-feed detainees. This is accomplished using the sometimes deadly restraint chair, also known as the "we care chair". Well, that's what they get for being terrorists, right?[pdf]
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 6:16 AM on February 9, 2006 (169 comments)

Buying a newly built home

What are some advantages and disadvantages of buying a newly built home?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 12:59 PM on February 2, 2006 (19 comments)

Live Music From NPR.

NPR’s Live Concert Series site offers recordings of recent live performances by James Brown, Sinead O’Connor, Iron & Wine and Calexico, Son Volt, My Morning Jacket, The White Stripes, M. Ward, Sigur Ros, Bloc Party, The Decemberists, and live tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. ET, Colin Meloy.
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 8:05 AM on January 27, 2006 (46 comments)

Homemade Cleaning Solution for Braun Syncro?

Anyone know a recipe for a homemade refill for a Braun Syncro electric razor cleaning cartridge?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 7:10 AM on January 26, 2006 (8 comments)

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Political thinking isn't really 'thinking'. Neuroscientists have now tracked what happens in the politically partisan brain when it tries to digest damning facts about favored candidates or criticisms of them. The process is almost entirely emotional and unconscious, and there are flares of activity in the brain's pleasure centers when unwelcome information is being rejected. Via Slate. This jives with past research about the difference between democrat’s and republican’s brains.
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 10:52 AM on January 24, 2006 (50 comments)

The Oil Spot Strategy

What is the "Oil Spot Strategy", and is the U.S. following it in Iraq? Scholars, pundits [reg. required] and politicians have been calling for a strategy in Iraq based on the one the British used during the Malayan Emergency for awhile now. There have been indications that the U.S. has been listening. It sounds like a good idea, the only problem being that it is estimated to take about ten years to work [2nd section].
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 7:40 AM on January 19, 2006 (11 comments)

Mommy, where do deleted comments go after they're...

Mommy, where do deleted comments go after they're deleted?
posted to MetaTalk by ND¢ at 6:20 AM on January 13, 2006 (17 comments)

Space Nerds Rejoice!

Stardust@home. The Stardust spacecraft (discussed recently here) should land in Utah early Saturday, carrying in its hold a sprinkling of grains of interstellar dust. Researchers are seeking the public's help in pinpointing the submicroscopic bits of dust. Participants will sift through the hundreds of thousands of pictures of the roughly square-foot collector plate.
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 1:26 PM on January 11, 2006 (21 comments)

Dark Tourism

Katrina Tours! As has been widely reported, tours of the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina have begun. What motivates people to engage in "dark tourism"? Is it harmful or helpful to the region? Is it just plain creepy?
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 8:57 AM on January 5, 2006 (32 comments)

Bugs

Bugs. Orisinal has been linked to several times, but this game was so fun that I had to share. NQFFF: Not Quite Friday Flash Fun.
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 12:50 PM on December 29, 2005 (29 comments)

What websites would you want to remember?

What websites would you write yourself a note to remember if your entire memory of the internet was about to be erased?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 9:01 PM on December 6, 2005 (32 comments)

Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2005

Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2005. In a speech given on November 10th, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales introduced proposed legislation [pdf] that would go one step further in criminalizing copyright infringement. The RIAA thinks its a good idea.
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 8:47 AM on November 23, 2005 (35 comments)

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