*chuckles lightly*

That was pleasantly funny. Thanks.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 9:53 AM on August 6, 2008

Wow, they aren't taking the criticism too well. Amazingly, the CEO is noting that "The product was strong enough to launch," and that they didn't need a beta label.

Wow.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 4:46 PM on July 28, 2008

Good lord almighty, Banksy is ridiculous. Pest control indeed.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 10:31 AM on July 24, 2008

Fat is one area where it is completely acceptable for a bunch of strangers to sit around making moral judgments about someone they don’t know - often with a lack of basic respect or empathy, with little knowledge about the science around this issue, and with no knowledge of an individual fat person’s particular circumstances.

This is not true. Individuals--and the state--make moral judgments all the time on the basis of identity. The demonization of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 3:02 PM on July 14, 2008

I like BoingBoing! I like that it's their personal perspectives, I think they have interesting perspectives. I think there's no reason for them to be the blog of record, or have the corresponding pressure not to, say, blog about their books. If I ever write a book, I will blog the heck out of it.

o_0
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 3:08 PM on June 30, 2008

Pollan's high horse might make sense from a developed world perspective, but in the 2/3rds World, nutritionism is essential to everything from preventing the rickets you see here to helping kids' bodies uptake HIV/AIDS drugs and inoculations.

Don't know if you read the linked article from Pollan in the previous comment, but nutritionism is his specific term for reducing foods to their component parts and basing the whole value of a food on nutrients... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 2:21 PM on June 10, 2008

Previously, though this post is much more accurate.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 7:09 AM on May 27, 2008

Wait, where is the stereotyping in the linked video? I usually catch those things, but I don't see any there. No racism either. Just a pretty delightful Tina Turner impression. Please advise.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 3:45 PM on May 25, 2008

Boys, boys! We don't need to fight--you can use Pandora and Last.fm at the same time!
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 10:56 AM on May 21, 2008

express approval of a song in something other than binary values.

This is something I've wanted in Pandora for a long time. And your other point as well, actually. I wish I were somehow preternaturally familiar with their algorithm so that I could ration my skips and thumbs-downs with less anxiety about how it truly affects a given station. *sigh*
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 11:00 AM on May 21, 2008

This is good. I like this.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 4:47 AM on May 17, 2008

Will nobody think of the celebrities?

Stynxno will!
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 8:33 PM on May 16, 2008

so you're just getting an assessment of lay opinion of the meaning of the polls, results, and general trends, expressed as a probability

Part of the reason why these markets have such great predictive value is because they are not an aggregate of "lay opinions" or a reflection of the general population; the vast majority of IEM's traders in the 2004 presidential election market were "well educated, affluent, white, male Republicans.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 11:42 AM on May 16, 2008

Because Republicans are just great at making predictions.

Erm, when it comes to mainstream U.S. politics in the context of prediction markets, it seems that the well-educated, affluent, white, male ones are, yes.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 12:47 PM on May 16, 2008

Also related: I recently attended a screening of the documentary Second Skin, which "takes an intimate look at computer gamers whose lives have been transformed by the emerging genre of Massively Multiplayer Online games." Fascinating subject--there's much much more to be explored.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 11:20 AM on May 15, 2008

I think I'll read these over a niiiice big glass of discounted orange juice.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 1:34 PM on May 14, 2008

Oh my god. This is amazing. That song with Rock Hudson transcends awesomeness. Oh, Bea Arthur...love her!
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 4:26 PM on May 13, 2008

I was actually contemplating asking in the green for this, but does anyone know where you can buy this material to make your own?

That was my first thought, too. Some quick googling brings up this and some stuff from HP as well as others. This tutorial uses wallpaper and glue (which I wouldn't want to try, but looks rather easy), and some others which use vinyl. None of those tutorials are very extensive, though. Looks like I'll be doing some... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 11:21 AM on May 13, 2008

As noted, it's been done. And I hate to forget about the children, but this is far more exploitative of those stuck in the complex maze of cocaine capitalism. Anyway, my curiosity as to the obvious way in which hiptards will attempt to consume this led me to this gem of an Ask Yahoo question and best answer combo.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 8:53 AM on May 12, 2008

Why didn't the blogger call them "nigger mcmuffins"? Does the moron even know what a "ghetto" is?

Oh my, yes. It astound me that people still use this construction; just the other day I emailed the mods over rewording an AskMe (help me make a a ghetto something-or-the-other!!). I've found "bootleg" to be the perfect alternative to using "ghetto" as an adjective--both less offensive and more fitting.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 2:50 PM on May 10, 2008

Women can get laid anytime they want.

I guess I've been doing it wrong. :(
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 5:50 PM on May 9, 2008

Come out and meet your doom, for we are Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 4:20 PM on May 9, 2008

Student of Man, this isn't the first time that you've lashed out at the Western media over what you see as their interpretation of the situation in Zimbabwe. If you find the debate one-sided, do you care elucidate the other side(s)? I have yet to come across a Mugabe apologist, and I'd love to hear what they sound like.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 12:03 PM on May 8, 2008

My knowledge of this issue is limited to Cory Doctorow's occasional hysterics about US-style copyright enforcement beginning to ingrain itself in Canada, so it's nice to hear that the government seems pro-user (though Bell Canada's throttling of their commercial customers is worrisome). Here's Michael Geist at the Public Policy forum in April on the "...'copyright myths' that have misleadingly cast Canada as weak on intellectual property and promoted the introduction of new copyright... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 7:02 AM on May 7, 2008

For the record, I don't think Dave Sim hates women.
The man is not a misogynist.

Wait, what? I'm not familiar with the guy, but just scanning his "tangents" betrays a deep-seated animosity towards women:

If abortion is, as the feminists insist, a matter of a woman having control over her own body, then I think a public demonstration of a woman willing herself to become un-pregnant... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 2:07 PM on May 6, 2008

Also, a few blogs about bacon, most of which have been mentioned on MeFi previously.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 12:26 PM on May 4, 2008

Yeah, I pretty much meant my favorite. My favorite food. Sorry about that.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 1:34 PM on May 4, 2008

Okay seriously, bacon is entering pirate/robot/ninja/monkey/zombie/ohgodinternetpleaseshutup territory.

I get that, and almost didn't make the post because of a similar feeling. But I really want to try some of these recipes and I thought that because it's mostly recipes that it was a bit less navel-gazy than just BACN ROX and I wanted to share. Maybe not.

Meanwhile, rtha, if your candied bacon recipe is truly as orgasmic as... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 5:50 PM on May 4, 2008

I came across this during a short foray into the LJ community during OpenSourceBoobProjectGate and had a inexplicable half-moment during which I considered posting it to MetaFilter. Decided not to because, you know, it's a tl;dr livejournal post.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 5:17 PM on May 2, 2008

I found another online Warhol-izer that's a bit more complex. Here's a really nice exploration of what this "Warhol" style really consists of and thus how it can be achieved in Photoshop. This is a simpler but nice Photoshop Warhol tutorial--and another, and another, and another, and a sorta of shitty one for the GIMP. Wheee!! Tons more at del.icio.us.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 12:27 PM on April 14, 2008

Gmail custom time. I lol'ed.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 11:19 PM on March 31, 2008

okay, as a feminsit she's not keen on the idea of using women's bodies to sell things. understood. but if she's not into the idea of using veganism to sell women's bodies, would she prefer they use meat? what precisely is the relationship that bothers her vegan side?

The issue is not that they're using veganism to sell women's bodies, it is that they're using veganism to excuse the selling of women's bodies. Your question assumes... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 4:23 PM on March 27, 2008

Also, some think of vegetarianism/veganism as a feminist issue. See Carol Adams' The Sexual Politics of Meat and The Pornography of Meat.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 4:23 PM on March 27, 2008

Triple Canopy is nice except for the unscalability; the keyboard shortcuts especially are a considerate touch. But that Rosa B interface is all. Kinds. Of. Fucked. Up. Who wants to feel anixety about whether their mouse pointer might drift two pixels off of a text box? (unless, of course, it's fun and whimsical!)
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 10:54 AM on March 24, 2008

I really thought that if and when this story ended up here, MetaFilter would be better than to snark about sexual assault along with the rest of the internets.

I really did.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 8:44 PM on March 17, 2008

watchin u. srsly. watch dem back.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 3:25 PM on March 5, 2008

Oh dear me I love Linda Barry so very, very much; I must now alarm my roommate by jumping up and doing the funky chicken with all the groove God has so graciously given me.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 7:48 PM on March 2, 2008

I'd noticed long ago that every ostensibly literate liberal arts college attendee/graduate I know triumphantly tacks Marquez up on their facebook profile as an emblem of their erudition. It's annoying. I love the guy, but I'm not about to lump my reading habits in with everyone else's on Gawker's Most Annoying Liberal Arts College list. (got enough of those characteristics as it is...)... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 1:23 PM on January 25, 2008

Slate Magazine made many of the same arguments when Time named him Man of the Year back in December, an argument fleshed out further by the author in Foreign Affairs.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 9:11 AM on January 18, 2008

Similar, if more sinister, idea sold by ThinkGeek here; an alarm clock that donates money to a cause you disagree via WiFi with each time the snooze button is pressed.

The SnuzNLuz uses the very complex psychological phenomemon known as 'HATRED'.

Yeah, so, the psychology is a bit more simple as well.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 7:40 AM on January 18, 2008

got cut off somehow...
...Basically it’s human nature to wish harm upon your enemies. Similarly, it’s human nature not to give your enemies gobs of cash so that they can grow big and dominate the world with their totally wrong, stupid and invalid point of view. ThinkGeek realized that. That’s why everytime you hit the snooze button, the SnuzNLuz will donate a specified amount of your real money to a non-profit you hate. The problem of sleeping in... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 7:42 AM on January 18, 2008

jesusfuckenchrist I wish there were a way for me to express my deep and undying love for Mike Sho and the rest of The State crew. I'd give good money for a DVD of the low quality episodes residing on my hard drive.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 4:35 PM on August 6, 2007

p.s. i don't believe in god but i do like data kthx
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 12:24 PM on August 5, 2007

@oaf: A recent Economist article on drug companies, patents, and the effects thereof, focusing on compulsory licensing.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 9:04 AM on June 18, 2007

I'm usually turned off by mashups, but these are great - nice post.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 10:52 AM on May 23, 2007

She stalked a friend of mine. She's fucken insane.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 9:45 PM on January 4, 2007

Damn, that pacman one confused the hell out of me.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 7:27 AM on July 20, 2006

shy gypsy slyly spryly tryst by my crypt?????
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 7:40 AM on July 20, 2006

timory...the clue is "pacmaN"
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 7:46 AM on July 20, 2006

mathowie writes "I guess the FDL license that wikipedia is licensed under allows for commercial reuse like this?"

"Wikipedia content can be copied, modified, and redistributed so long as the new version grants the same freedoms to others and acknowledges the authors of the Wikipedia article used (a direct link back to the article satisfies our author credit requirement). Wikipedia articles therefore... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 7:42 PM on July 18, 2006