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Annoyingly specific question about a failed Flash installation on a Mac:
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at 9:17 PM on July 13, 2008
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Scholarships for nursing students?
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at 12:59 PM on July 1, 2008
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Financial skills building classes or workshops for a low-income person with crappy money management skills?
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at 3:50 PM on May 26, 2008
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Can I raise fish for eating in my back yard?
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at 10:31 PM on May 9, 2008
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My neighbor is very generous - too generous! Her young son and my kids play together fairly often, and each time my kids go to their house to visit, my neighbor sends my kids home with several gifts. Sometimes if she sees my kids playing in the back yard she just hands gifts over the fence. Last time it was a large tin of cookies, a box of Whoppers candies, and a Vitamin Water style drink. In the past gifts have included a hand-knit scarf, brand new clothes, a doll, a box of donuts, and a large plate of homemade fried chicken. At Lunar New Year she gave each of my kids ten bucks plus a box of sweet rolls. I don’t know this woman well at all. We’ve said ‘hi’ a few times but her English is limited and I don’t speak her language which I believe is Thai. I get the sense that our different expectations around gift giving are related to cultural differences (she’s an immigrant from SE Asia, I’m white, born and raised in California), and maybe also that she is just a particularly (or maybe compulsively) gift-giving person.
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at 10:28 AM on March 20, 2008
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Is it fair to say that the cells that a particular virus uses to reproduce itself are the cells where symptoms of the disease will tend to manifest?
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at 2:34 PM on March 10, 2008
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I was sure I remembered that Geraldine Ferraro cried during the 1984 presidential election, and that the media made the event into a symbol of why women are too weak to hold national office, but now I can't find a headline or news article from that time that mentions her crying. Am I getting this mixed up with Pat Schroeder's famous breakdown when she dropped out?
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at 1:05 PM on January 27, 2008
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Great article about methadone?
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at 6:19 PM on January 2, 2008
(8 comments)
DIY activists have been using
human hair mats to soak up the carcinogenic bunker oil that's been washing onto Bay Area beaches since the
spill. Now they're inoculating the oil-soaked mats with
mushrooms that will break down the oil into harmless compost.
See also: fungi
breaking down plastics,
synthetic dyes and
organopollutants generally.
A bit more from mushroom guru Paul Stamets.
(If you're so inclined, here's a link to donate to the non-profit that coordinated the hair mats.)
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at 2:37 PM on November 30, 2007
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The Skeleton Coast, so called for the whale skeletons that littered its shores when the whaling industry was at its peak, is now well known for the skeletons of
shipwrecks.
More. And a
a bit of description here.
Still, the coast is full of life. Each year hundreds of thousands of
Fur Seals come ashore. (Video on this site of baby Fur Seal vs. a jackal.)
(wp)
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at 3:19 PM on November 17, 2007
(4 comments)
Why do bacteria and viruses make us sick?
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at 6:35 PM on November 10, 2007
(30 comments)
Catherine Roraback was the only woman in her class at Yale Law School. She was a founder of the Connecticut ACLU, and a president of the
National Lawyers Guild. During her long career she defended labor organizers, immigrants, civil rights organizers, Black Panthers, and maybe most famously, Estelle Griswold before the United States Supreme Court in the case that legalized the distribution of birth control.
She died this week at age 87.
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at 9:43 PM on October 24, 2007
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So, it's come up a bunch of times, most recently
here. Is date.metafilter.com a possibility (or dating status in the profile screen, or whatever was last discussed)?
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at 1:28 PM on October 24, 2007
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You capitalize "The Civil War", right? And you capitalize "The Civil Rights Movement", right? Do you capitalize "The Women's Movement"? Do you capitalize "The Anti-Globalization Movement"? What about the "Spay and Neuter 'Movement'"? Is every specific movement or event in history considered a proper noun – and if not, why not? Do I get to just arbitrarily decide what to capitalize in these sorts of examples, or is there some 'rule' that only applies to historic events that hold a certain level of significance – and who decides what is significant enough?
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at 9:45 PM on October 22, 2007
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What are your favorite autobiographies? For the purposes of this discussion, I'm including "autobiographies" that were written collaboratively (like Alex Haley's
The Autobiography of Malcolm X) or that were straight up written by someone else (like Gertrude Stein's
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas). The point is, the book is written from the point of view of the subject and it's (ostensibly at least) non-fiction.
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at 3:19 PM on September 30, 2007
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My blog seems to be 'reposting' its feed regularly. Why, and how do I stop it?
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at 9:42 AM on September 17, 2007
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Susie Bright comments on the recent
NYT piece about Israeli Nazi-themed porn.
Andrea Dworkin wrote about this genre almost 20 years ago. There's a new film on the topic, which is what inspired the NY Times article.
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at 12:22 PM on September 6, 2007
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As complete a history of comedian, civil rights activist, and cross-over superstar
Moms Mabley as you're likely to find anywhere
, including audio, from Beware of Blog.
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at 3:05 PM on August 26, 2007
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Help my dad win accolades for his photography.
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at 7:49 PM on August 19, 2007
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The
antidote to the controlled, indoor world of modern kids might be
Adventure Playgrounds. Messy, chaotic, but counter-intuitively, safer than traditional playgrounds, there are only two in the US:
Listen to
Berkeley's Adventure Playground on NPR, or check out some
flickr shots.
In Europe, where they originated
from the rubble of WWII, and in Japan where they are also popular, the importance of play that involves risks is
better understood. There are
hundreds of
Adventure Playgrounds outside of North America.
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at 3:53 PM on August 18, 2007
(38 comments)
Increasing google visitors to blog?
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at 7:18 PM on August 12, 2007
(16 comments)
How can I get North American Google results while I'm in Mexico?
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at 10:04 PM on July 14, 2007
(13 comments)
Favorite blogs about history?
posted to Ask Metafilter by serazin
at 11:11 AM on June 21, 2007
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Bay Radical
Um, this is my little blogthingy. It's about the history of radical activism in the Bay Area. I have just a few entries up so far, but I'm aiming to post about once a week. Next up topics include a history of SF and Oakland Chinatowns, regionaly focused book and film reviews, and a series on the Black Panthers. Thanks for looking.
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at 3:03 PM on June 14, 2007
Fantasy feature: hover over "x users marked this as a favorite" and see the names of the people who did the favorite marking. Whaddaya think?
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at 1:07 PM on June 13, 2007
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CRUD CRUD, brief reviews from a thrift store record collection. Also,
Gibble Gabble, spoken-word record reviews, from the same collector.
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at 11:03 AM on June 8, 2007
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Yahoo user IDs make me enraged. Help before I lose my shit!
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at 10:29 AM on June 6, 2007
(14 comments)
For starters, it's not Chinese. It was probably inspired by a British fave called Hoppity, and its immediate forbearer,
Halma was invented by a Bostonian professor/surgeon. There are a number of
variants, but you're probably most familiar with the
ubiquitous star-shaped version. Inevitably, some people take it
too seriously.
Wanna play?
See also,
DIY and
stop motion Fergiliciousness.
(Personally, I prefer
Hex.)
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at 8:24 PM on June 3, 2007
(9 comments)
Some might find it difficult to believe that
this was the video to a 1984 number one hit, although it's not surprising to learn that the video was banned (as was the song, leaving the BBC in the uncomfortable position of being unable to broadcast their country's biggest hit on any of its radio or television programs). The
G rated version was directed by
Brian De Palma and, oddly, appeared (in slightly altered form) in
Body Double as a porno film within the movie.
Although
the band had other hits, notably
Two Tribes which was rivaled only by
Land of Confusion for most over-the-top Reagan representation in a music video, they have been beset with problems, primarily relating to
who owns their
name, but rest assured that lead singer
Holly Johnson is doing well in his new calling as a painter.
This astrological chart nicely (?) sums up his entire career.
Incidentally,
Katherine Hamnett, who designed the hugely popular
Frankie Say Relax t-shirts (along with Wham's
Choose Life tees which, ironically, birthed an anti-abortion moto) is still a successful designer, who continues to be active in environmental, HIV eradication, and anti-war efforts.
Anyhow, check out the wacky Relax video. But beware of naked, shaving Roman Emperors.
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at 1:29 AM on June 2, 2007
(91 comments)
Atomage Magazine, possibly the first fetish magazine, produced by clothing designer turned photographer
John Sutcliffe, who clearly had a special place reserved in his heart for head-to-toe rubberwear.
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at 10:50 AM on May 31, 2007
(6 comments)
What's your background music?
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at 11:58 AM on May 29, 2007
(43 comments)
