[Answer to "I can haz glenn beck nao?" is still HELLZ NO please stop that here, thank you.]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 2:35 PM on November 13, 2009

Does the US still charge you to be on the registry if you're a white guy?

Or a white lady, but they get grants pretty frequently to let people sign up for free and then you're signed up for life. I signed up recently after a MeTa marrow drive and I'm happy I did.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 9:49 AM on November 11, 2009

[fixed the link!]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 9:31 PM on November 10, 2009

I fail everything, but I did have that invisiclues book!
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 8:07 PM on November 10, 2009

"Well we had one rock in the road and now we have no road. The mountain has came off. It was unreal" Wowie, neat video.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 6:57 PM on November 10, 2009

[removed the broken link in the post - OP if you want us to fix it please get in touch.]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 12:27 PM on November 10, 2009

Then, once you'd raised $20,000 take it public. The hard thing now is that for all of the public notice this thread gives you it is to only raise another $5,000.

Kickstarter only funds you if you hit your goal though, which encourages people to make their goals realistic. You can go over your goal but if you're under you get nothing.

I opted to fund this a while ago. I hope geociti.es goes live soon.

Also I fixed the links.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 6:56 AM on November 9, 2009

In the interests of full disclosure: jscott has has exactly two comments deleted from MeFi.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 4:10 PM on November 9, 2009

[few comments removed - not at all okay. be kind to each other, thanks.]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 4:37 PM on November 5, 2009

But many people in this thread are arguing that

My take is that it's a few, they're not the majority, and that ALLCAPS sarcastic responses are not helping people find common ground.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 10:21 AM on November 6, 2009

I walked to work today and didn't even take a picture! I just walked! I didn't know it was trendy! It was a mile! It was nice.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 3:08 PM on November 4, 2009

[comments removed - that's a week off, please don't, thank you.]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 2:09 PM on November 4, 2009

I'm not sure if people are supposed to know who she is or what, but I found the Wikipedia article about her to help me make a bit more sense of possibly why you made this post.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 7:18 AM on November 3, 2009

Mail carriers is the best option so far. I'm not sure who else has the potential to be organized effectively at a national level with that sort of coverage [rural locations will be poorly ocvered by Fark and MetaFilter].
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 3:57 PM on November 2, 2009

[comments removed - very seriously shut up about profile pics and act like someone from metafilter please, thank you.]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 8:44 PM on October 31, 2009

[few comments removed - this is an edgy post, sure, but text dumps of journal articles is a weird way to respond. please go to metatalk or come back tomorrow.]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 9:02 PM on October 30, 2009

[few comments removed - bravelittletoaster, drop us a note if you want to take this to MeTa but you can't stay here.]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 7:27 AM on October 31, 2009

Pretty interesting. His opinion really seems to be the hrm index way and yet at the same time the Home Office is distancing itself from him saying "Prof Nutt's views are his own and do not reflect the views of Government. The Government is clear - we are determined to crack down on all illegal substances and minimise their harm to health and society as a whole." which sounds an awful lot like saying "it's bad because it's illegal and illegal because it's bad."

Here's... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 11:16 AM on October 29, 2009

[comments removed - natalie portman crossover fantasies, sort of icky, maybe better for metatalk?]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 8:32 PM on October 28, 2009

[comments removed. stop with the lulz assfucking or go right to metatalk, not okay here.]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 1:57 PM on October 28, 2009

[bunch of comments removed - try again folks? no one is making you comment here.]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 12:56 PM on October 27, 2009

I'm not even going to put this in small text: if you can not comment on MetaFilter without calling someone a retard, do not comment on MetaFilter. Thanks.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 12:40 PM on October 27, 2009

[removed a few comments - CRESTA if you need to get ahold of us, please use the contact form, other folks, be cool, thank you.]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 10:06 PM on October 26, 2009

[few comments removed - seriously??]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 9:03 PM on October 26, 2009

[comment removed - respectful discussion - the grit-loving mod.]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 8:58 AM on October 24, 2009

[few comments removed - please don't start with the "oh yeah you're from here and...." stuff, it's toxic to discussions, thanks.]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 3:17 PM on October 23, 2009

I'm more than a little shocked at some people's reactions.

I would like to respectfully suggest that you haven't been reading the same threads here that I have been reading, then.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 11:22 AM on October 22, 2009

Actually, let me explain slightly more.... you included a pullquote on the front page of MetaFilter that talked about women being stripped naked forced to eat shit. Now, some of us may be able to sit back and read the article and ruminate on what's going on there and view it sort of abstractly and as something that is happening far away. Other people can't. Other people have some sort of visceral reaction and don't know what to do with it and humor is their outlet. Other people, it makes them... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 11:25 AM on October 22, 2009

[fixed spelling]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 9:14 PM on October 21, 2009

[All spelling is now fixed]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 7:50 AM on October 22, 2009

Dear MeFi cynicism brigade: we already know your feelings on xkcd. There is no reason to repeat them in this thread, which is clearly for the fans of said webcomic, who think this is fucking sweet.

Thanks,
jessamyn
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 8:58 PM on October 21, 2009

dANAH bOYD IS DISPLEASED.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 7:23 PM on October 21, 2009

[few comments removed - hugs available in metatalk for people who appear to need them.]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 5:18 PM on October 20, 2009

A three-l llama is a fire.

only up here in New England!
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 5:15 PM on October 20, 2009

[a few comments removed - troll elsewhere please, thank you]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 4:11 PM on October 20, 2009

"[A]t the root is the failure of departments of English across the country to champion, with passion, the books they teach and to make a strong case to undergraduates that the knowledge of those books and the tradition in which they exist is a human good in and of itself. What departments have done instead is dismember the curriculum, drift away from the notion that historical chronology is important, and substitute for the books themselves a scattered array of secondary... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 10:53 AM on October 19, 2009

the English Dept. to Linguistics is like apples to sea cucumbers.

I did both in undergrad and decided to follow neither into a Masters degree but I found that my studies of semantics and my studies of postmodern blabityblah actually sort of informed each other fairly well. Linguistics is sort of broad, so parts of it have a lot to do with literature and parts have very little to do with it.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 1:30 PM on October 19, 2009

Would have enjoyed this more if it were starring Domokun.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 3:32 PM on October 18, 2009

I was all set to be all "WTF atheism isn't a religion" but he pretty much addresses this in the atheist section. Plus I like this entry.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 3:04 PM on October 18, 2009

Crash just seems to be the word that biologists use to descibe a rapid populaiton decline. So you can mix it with other words -- mouse crash, lemming crash, crab crash -- to make funny combinations. The big deal is that when you have one species pretty much dependent on another for food, the crash of one population really affects the other. So these owls moved south instead of just staying in Canada and dying, but it's still a pretty majur disruption.

This whole post... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 12:35 PM on October 16, 2009

Any New Englanders into owls would do well to visit the Vermont Raptor Center

And then stop by my place for snacks because it's just a few towns over from here. Promise no mouse bones.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 1:13 PM on October 16, 2009

I would hug an owl
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 4:05 PM on October 16, 2009

The Metafilter mods are deleting comments that have differing opinions on abortion.

What? Don't do huge textdumps. We're apolitically against textdumps.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 3:14 PM on October 15, 2009

And jock@law, take it to MetaTalk if you want to. Smalltext rants are still rants. No one is forcing you to read MetaFilter or this thread specifically. If you'd like to have a discussion without calling everyone names, go ahead.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 3:17 PM on October 15, 2009

and anyone else who would like to make this into an everyone vs jock@law, sorry that's off limits also.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 3:23 PM on October 15, 2009

I think I failed thoroughly on all counts.

All is forgiven.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 3:35 PM on October 15, 2009

I'm honestly incredibly disheartened to hear this from you, especially from a librarian who I'm sure was slightly different in thinking a few years back when the government felt it was really important to start monitoring everyone's library records.

Don't get me wrong, I still think this is a terrible horrible invasive impractical and rude idea, but I wasn't clear that people even understood what was actually being requested and what was not being... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 5:19 PM on October 15, 2009

[let's please stop with the "who should get revenge-killed as a result of this legislation" okay? thank you.]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 9:48 AM on October 16, 2009

[few comments removed - this went bad pretty much out of the gate. please discuss albright without fantasizing about her gorey death, thank you]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 6:56 AM on October 16, 2009

No, not longboat time.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 5:57 PM on October 15, 2009