yea there's a weird page layout issue, in order to skip that, there's also a "view all" link, which seemed to help for me.

good post, great read, thanks fff.
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 8:45 PM on July 3, 2008

six words = good shit, but this right here is comedy gold:

ANTHEM: This song by Born in the Flood is inexcusable. Consider: (1) It is called “Anthem,” and it is an anthem. (2) It sounds a like Bono and the Edge riding around on Sparklehorses. (3) I can’t understand the lyrics but there’s a crown mentioned. It was heretofore considered impossible for any singer to overcome these cognitive challenges in order to create a distinct and memorable song. And yet this... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 7:35 PM on March 14, 2008

oh crap. I seriously hope someone keeps the site up, because Sheldon's was the single source for all those perplexing "WTF?!" issues dealing with old specs, french bottom brackets, and obscure Sachs and Miche bits. I mean that was THE place for our shop rats to send the clueless tyro who'd just hauled some crazy prize out of the dumpster / freecycle bin. Cause christ knows *we* didn't want to have to struggle with them.

crappitydammit. I've been referencing... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 4:04 PM on February 4, 2008

ZenMasterThis, unfortunately many of us stuck in the corporate slavery world are forced by their employers to use IE.

I mean, I have a macbook as my personal machine, but so long as I'm a cubicle slave it looks as tho I'm screwed. And the sad thing is that even the IT guys at my office think IE sucks baboon ass, but they're handcuffed by corporate policy.
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 12:22 PM on February 1, 2008

goo: yes, yes it is.

fantastic find, thanks!
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 7:02 AM on January 29, 2008

thanks for posting this, dersins. Sure, the article was pretty much Wired taking a bit of sensationalist licence, as I've come to expect from them (nice summary, btw, sotonohito) but the ensuing discussion in this thread is what I come to MeFi for.
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 12:14 PM on January 25, 2008

delmoi lots of people don't have health insurance in the U.S. Age, gender, race, etc... have nothing to do with that.
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 11:15 AM on January 23, 2008

oddly enough I just yesterday read an article about the narcissistic culture of youth, believe it was on NYT. Summary: The youth of today are no more or less narcissistic or fucked-up than the youth of yesteryear. They're just more visible owing to the media + the web. Take that as you will.

and jb, if I could favourite your comment a million times over, I would. I am a woman who finds the knee-jerk "sexism" response extremely threatening to the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 11:51 AM on January 19, 2008

oh, awesome, a MeFi Seal of Excellence™ Thread!!

/pretentious hipster dork with catbox-liner degree does movie reviews.

/FPP linkdump posted to MeFi regarding same.

/fistfight breaks out over who's more pretentious: hipster dork movie reviewer, or hipster dorks who revel in mainstream lo-fi but only because it's all ironical, man.

/throwaway snide asshole comment of Arch... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 11:36 AM on January 9, 2008

griphus:

you betcha.
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 11:44 AM on January 10, 2008

arg
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 8:20 PM on December 18, 2007

scblackman, cyan is awesome (and tres mefi-esque) but goddamn, the company logo for that site you linked freaks me the hell out.
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 7:25 PM on December 12, 2007

Unicorn, thanks for the post, this was truly wonderful!! much love for the scooter chica.

fandango_matt, not that you care, but I'm 40 and these kids can dance on the lawn all they want, so long as they let me join in. I've been going to raves underground disco/house/techno/electro/trance parties since I was 19. I only managed to make it to 2 so far this year, but now that bike racing season's winding down, that's probably going to change.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 9:43 PM on November 19, 2007

bulldozer == awesome
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 7:26 PM on November 14, 2007

I sense a great disturbance in my productivity...
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 7:25 PM on November 13, 2007

wow, cool, what a nifty halloween photo!
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 8:31 AM on November 10, 2007

thanks for the links, cenoxo, I have been meaning to do a bigger museums run in Denver, and I'll definitely have to check that out!

do you still live in the area? If so, you should try to come to the Denver Meetup!
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 1:16 PM on November 10, 2007

gee this will go well...
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 7:33 AM on November 9, 2007

hm. Afroblanco's link merely makes me sad. Look at all those counties in Colorado that were heavily weighted towards Kerry, including the most populous one (Denver county).

and yet, the state still comes up as a 'red state' on the majority vote. This, my friends, is why I hate politics.
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 12:34 PM on November 6, 2007

davehat's definitely got a point tho, the OP could have qualified a bit on the title... I mean we do have a lot of non-US members on this site. Just seems a tad rude where you're implying these are the "top 101 Cities"... ANYWHERE.
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 12:38 PM on November 6, 2007

man that was freakin awesome... right up until the WordPress server choked :(

thanks bugbread.

"My own suggestion for the 4.0 edition rules: Anyone who quotes Holy Grail during a session should be made to eat their own character sheet."

a-fuckin-men.
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 8:05 PM on October 27, 2007

oh and...

desperately needs a 'nerds' and/or 'dorks' tag, kthxbye!
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 8:07 PM on October 27, 2007

thanks flapjax, I am now grinning from ear to ear as I head off to work!
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 5:55 AM on October 17, 2007

"Evidently, the key to getting rich turning your songs into commercial jingles -- without guilt -- is to just suck in the first place."

why not? Barry Manilow *shudder* based his entire career on this premise.

of course most of you kids are too young to remember his ear-bleeding hideousness anyways.
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 3:13 PM on October 16, 2007

awesome. I just got home from a cyclocross race where I was having trouble riding a fast high berm without washing out my front wheel on the exit. These guys kill me.
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 4:07 PM on September 29, 2007

WTF is a Partial Zero? thank you anthill, maybe i'm not crazy afterall. my head about exploded trying to parse that particular bit. marketspeak oy.
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 8:51 PM on September 4, 2007

not to be a pain in the ass (I truly know zilch about cars, not being a car owner) but have the hybrid companies been working to also reduce the net 'footprint' of their vehicles; i.e. toxicity / recycling of battery components, the net effect of energy used in production, blahblahblah... because last I checked (granted it was awhile ago) the sum total environmental impact of a hybrid vehicle wasn't actually less than that of conventional vehicles.

please note dear... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 10:00 PM on September 4, 2007

this is awesome, thanks loq! *bookmarks site*
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 6:21 AM on August 29, 2007

MetaFilter: unidentifiable sticky crap
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 5:33 PM on August 28, 2007

Balisong, fortunetelling isn't the only aspect of a tarot deck. likely they used them to, you know, play games with. Austrian tarot decks only have 54 cards.

the new-agey aspect of fortunetelling Tarot decks is a relatively modern conceit.

or you could, like, read enamon's link and educate yourself.
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 10:42 AM on August 25, 2007

thank you for posting this.

ahhhh, my daily dose of pop culture nostalgia, fanx mefi...
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 10:28 PM on August 15, 2007

i think it's a salient point to mention that wikipedia is no more black-and-white than anything else out there on the internet. much as we would like it to be a definitive source, i doubt it (or any other publicly-edited internet entity, ahem meta...) will ever be truly unbiassed.

that said, wikipedia did help me get a SHIT TON of work done today that involved much looking up of chemical compounds and their respective CAS#s. i don't imagine that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 5:07 PM on August 14, 2007

is it only me that imagines limericks read in Benny Hill's voice...?

it is?

right, then. that merely confirms i'm mad. carry on.
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 9:32 PM on July 23, 2007

"sorry we are over our Google Maps limit..."

fie. Metafilter FPP traffic breaks yet another website. GERROFF IT ya buggers!!!
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 6:29 PM on July 23, 2007

christ she is amazing! that Propellerheads track is my all-time verymostfave dance track evah, in a pretty stuffed collection of danceable techno, mind.

and how is it possible for anyone to look half their age at 70?!

/jealous
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 3:53 PM on July 12, 2007

um. gosh. i can feel my IQ dropping just from having watched that. but thanks, now i know.
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 11:12 PM on July 6, 2007

“She appears to be mentally unsound. The police will initiate the procedure for her medical examination,’’ said Gandhigram Police Inspector Sardarsinh Jhala.

oh fuck me up a rope. how does righteously pissed off == 'mentally unsound' in ANY industrialised nation.

okay yeah, i get it. they're a conservative small town in a non-western society. but how do they NOT expect outrage at this shit from the western... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 11:28 AM on July 6, 2007

Sk4n i think my concept was this, albeit likely badly worded:

you can get away with things in New York City or Hollywood that you'd never dream of attempting, say, Bloomington, Indiana or Provo, Utah.

India's a big country with a pretty diverse culture. I would imagine hope more mefites with useful knowledge may chime in with informative culural commentary, e.g. bookish

kirkaracha, nice, dude. way to be a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 12:29 PM on July 6, 2007

kirkaracha, i did read those comments, actually. and while they did make me roll my eyes, they at least had the benefit of some nominally respectful framing.

yours, on the other hand, came off as simply LOLNEKKIDCHIX!!11

if you feel the need to toss witty MeFi snark around today, might i advise you join the rest of the leg-humpers in the rabbit vagina thread?... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 5:29 PM on July 6, 2007

i love this thread so much that i wish to marry it.
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 1:15 AM on July 6, 2007

What's sort of interesting is how now matter how materialistic clueless the interviewed teenagers people are, they all seem convinced that their spending habits are ok, while the spending habits of their classmates everyone else are the ones that are totally overboard.

fixed that for ya. people in this country in general have some pretty amazing blind spots in their self-awareness.

try asking someone if they're a good driver... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 5:52 PM on June 14, 2007

this thread demands the 'nerdfight' tag.

that is all.
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 2:10 PM on June 13, 2007

Watch out when three goddess chicks want you to be the judge of their impromptu beauty contest.

fixed that for you, pax.
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 2:30 PM on June 6, 2007

one of the things I took away from my (admittedly highschool english 101 educated) rememberance of the Iliad was my 10th grade teacher telling us that it's very possible that oral bardic tradition, much like jazz music, may have depended as much upon nuance and improvisation as it did upon rote recital.

so i guess that means that oral bards might consider their audience and quite possibly shade the meanings / delivery depending upon where & to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 2:45 PM on June 6, 2007

zeugitai_guy: the fairytale analogy makes sense; just in the past 2 centuries alone, wasn't it shown that even these sorts of brief folktales have incurred some fairly significant edits / reinterpretations on account of shifting social mores? -- these are the sorts of nuanced improvisations i'm thinking of.

lol, i've been called a number of things on metafilter, but 'til now, succinct hasn't been one of them; thanks!
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 10:29 PM on June 6, 2007

I'd like to posit the following query...

goddammit CitrusFreak do you know how hard it is to clean lemonade out of the macbook?

well, do you?

pfeh. ...secretly wishes she had mad jedi graph skilz.
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 7:49 PM on June 5, 2007

heh, sourwookie, if foreclosure panic hits the markets as hard as the media is trumpeting about, we may just find out.
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 11:04 PM on March 20, 2007

geos: agreed, he's a ranter, and biassed. just because you disagree with someone's politics doesn't mean they can't make some valid points tho. perhaps i should have chosen one of my many other links as a lead link, but i figured that one would start some discussion.

like perhaps this link, from a housewife who tried to make a go of it as a car-free family in normal, indiana. seems like she wasn't able to do it. i feel for her, but personally (i come from the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 6:32 AM on March 21, 2007

thanks, geos, for coming back and expounding more, rather than just doing a knee-jerk 'i don't like kunstler' response. this comment is the sort of discussion i was looking for. i wholeheartedly agree, for what that's worth.

jason's_planet, no need to add the devil's advocate tags dude, i had you already figured out :] a long, long time ago on a bbs far, far away, i went by the handle 'devil's advocate', just so's you know. age has definitely mellowed me... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 8:43 PM on March 21, 2007

ewwwwwww.

Terminal Verbosity i so want to steal this disclaimer and tack it on the end of my comments like a sigline.
posted to MetaFilter by lonefrontranger at 7:58 AM on March 21, 2007