MeFi comment:
"Ooh, ooh, I got one! Imagine a scandal involving hydropower concerns!
We can call it "WaterGate".
... what? Why are you looking at me like that?..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by spiderwire, loquacious, quin, Nattie, The Ardship of Cambry, scody, darkstar, brain cloud
Almost 4 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"The quintessential Indian fantasy also appears to be a woman who speaks in Comic Sans." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by bunnytricks, you're a kitty!, gen, delmoi, schyler523, JHarris, dabitch, mrbill, silence, bitter-girl.com, bonobothegreat
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Am I the only one who reads "FTFY" as "Fuck that! Fuck YOU!"?
It took me forever to understand such harsh reactions accompany seemingly innocuous correction statements. And actually, now that I now the truth, I think my..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by misha
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Dearest neighbor:
We have been watching this situation unfold for more than eight years now and, needless to say, we are very worried.
Dearest neighbor,
Kindly the shut the fuck up. Just as much as you don't like us meddling in your affairs,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Balonious Assault
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Well, it's good to see there's finally an Obama ad that's calling them liars and trying to put to rest the "maverick" branding.
On a side note, at the moment, everytime this page is served up fresh it's almost 4 megs of bandwidth ......" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The prototypes of the programs used to crack industrial banks were developed for Screaming Fist. For the assault on the Kirensk computer nexus. Basic module was a Nightwing microlight, a pilot, a matrix deck, a jockey. They ran a virus called Mole...." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by ymgve, jlbartosa, Sangermaine, stenseng, rusty
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Mister_A, the top speed is just 6 kilometers an hour (about 3.5 mph). Save outrunning for another time; you can out-leisurely-stroll this thing." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Mister_A
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Blockquote blockquote make me happy
Blockquote blockquote test test test" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chrismear
2 months ago
Ask post:
Living in Berkeley as a Grad Student
favorited 12 times, recently by rzperllian, The Shiny Thing, panic, casaubon, ninjew, not me, ilikecookies, nonmerci, limeonaire, melissam, Slarty Bartfast, Weebot
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"I'm no parent, but I'll offer up a quote I quite liked from the book Underground by the Australian author, Andrew McGahan:My mind went back to a conversation I'd had years ago with an old friend. He was a long-lapsed Catholic, but he had decided to..." [
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favorited 48 times, recently by Cobalt, Dormant Gorilla, Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese, JohnYaYa, cotterpin, Frankieist, codswallop, Melinika, huskerdont, Mayor West, omegar, lioness, numinous, cdadog, bitter-girl.com, Mick, furtive, RobotHeart, blueberry, cmyk, speedo, Liosliath, aroberge, deadmessenger, xorry, Arthur Dent, Roach, lia, pointystick, redsnare, notsnot, ColdChef, lizzicide, drycleanonly, randomination, aclevername, ms.jones, JaredSeth, footnote, grouse, nursegracer, largecorp, Brandon Blatcher, qvtqht, makonan, Nickel, TheOnlyCoolTim, Malor
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The real ceiling cat stares down with unwavering and accusatory eyes. Papercraft ceiling cat is smiling and nonjudgmental.
Unwavering.
Accusatory.
Ceiling cat may not approve...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by MikeKD, Greg Nog
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I appreciate this, but I would appreciate it way more if there was some basic sorting functionality (esp. by rating, maybe genre).
I agree, Grobstein, so I did something about it. Here's an Excel file with all the data. Or, if you'd prefer a..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by ftrain, KAS, vytae, lukemeister
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I, for one, cannot stomach anyone taking the piss out of Australians in threads. Which is why I came down under in order to do it to their faces.
... and frankly, they kinda seem to like it...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Which also makes it likely that the PLoS was extremely eager, perhaps too eager, to publish this sensational paper.
Wow, I didn't see that you could check out the referee's comments until you pointed it out, but upon reading them I definitely..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by delmoi
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Rumple, according to everything I've read, modern humans don't appear to have been in Palau for much more than 3 or 4 thousand years. Fitzpatrick (2002) says that as of 1998 the earliest dates found in Palau were around 2000 BP, but offers an older..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kuujjuarapik
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
""The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."" [
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favorited 9 times, recently by slimepuppy, fearfulsymmetry, the luke parker fiasco, mecran01, Orb, Xere, myopicman, markr, swerve
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Yes, Neuromancer, but when was the last time you saw static on a TV screen? All I ever see is a flat blue screen anymore.
Fair enough, paladin, but I refuse to stop loving that metaphor! Conjures up a grey sea day perfectly.
Alright, I'll try..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by nasreddin, Turtles all the way down, hal9k
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"No citations, no reputable scientific sources, nothing but a psychic medium and his reptilian alien buddy.
... well, I'm convinced!" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by melorama, Pope Guilty
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I found the timezone part of this one appropriate, as I downloaded the podcast to keep me awake until 3 AM, so that a post on the green would be seen by Californians first thing in their morning. Eerie timing! Maybe not so eerie as the Dyatlov..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ColdChef
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Did someone mention flying a plane even lower? Not entirely on topic, but damn I love this stunt: flying a plane upside down under a bridge. Now that's some dangerous flying...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by deborah
7 months ago
Ask comment:
"I've actually stored cash in a computer before. I don't remember the reason why I did it, originally, but I ended up completely forgetting about it for nearly 2 years. Imagine my surprise -- and delight! -- to open up my desktop tower for some..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by astrochimp, lukemeister
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I can't believe I have something to contribute to a thread that's (partially) about white dog poop, but when life gives you white dog poop you just gotta make white-dog-poop-ade:
When I was a young and stupid kid in Tennessee in the early 80s,..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by granted, Kickstart70, papafrita, enamon, bunnytricks
7 months ago
Ask comment:
"amyms, sounds like a great time (and excuse) to transfer the primary decorating duties to the kids, then! "You're old enough to decide how the decorating should be done; have at it kids! Mom's going to just sit here with some wine and direct..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Orrorin, Madamina
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Hold up, while I collect some of the back story necessary for me to understand the relevance and significance of the pics ...
Black Mass
a ceremony supposedly celebrated during the Witches or Black Sabbath, which was a parody of the Christian..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by kuujjuarapik, Terminal Verbosity
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Attention artists: Missed Connection comics should be submitted here. Connections will be accepted until December 2007. Please do not post to MeFi front page as the individual comics completely lack the impact of the accumulated ones Thank you...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Greg Nog, GrammarMoses, nicolin
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Harvard Classics online, in case you're curious about exactly what's in these five feet (and which ones make good Capra movies, etc etc etc)." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by brookedel
Last year
MeFi comment:
"When I was a kid I had a book that contained hundreds of pages of multi-paragraph descriptions of interesting places all around the planet (sort of a portable geographical Wikipedia for kids in the 80s). The Wieliczka salt mines really stuck with me..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by perilous
Last year
MeFi comment:
"It says research into techniques such as giant mirrors in space ... would be "important insurance" against rising emissions ...
Wernstrom!!..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, amethysts
Last year
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"Small Population Isolates: a micro-simulation study, N McArthur, IW Saunders, and R Tweedie (Journal of the Polynesian Society) 1976:85 307-326 is a purely stochastic study of reproduction rates using historical Polynesian life and fertility tables,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by scalespace
Last year
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"(I am in no way affiliated with these folks...) I've had some fantastic success with these two sites for getting both international and domestic airfares:
CheapAir
Airfare..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ontic
Last year
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"I was sent abroad to a very far-away 3rd world location, the cost of which would run into the multi-thousands for tickets alone. I have piss-poor credit, and it won't improve for 5 or 6 years (however long it takes for credit to improve from stupid..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by donajo
Two years ago
MeFi comment:
"For much better covers of metal music, people should try out Fade to Bluegrass, instead. Bluegrass covers of Metallica. Not the easy-listening, watered-down, bluegrass-lite type of instrumentalism you hear in "Jump", either.
In fact,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ejoey
Two years ago
