Yeah, I can just see them giving the report on this.

"Alright, gentlemen. What are your findings?"

*Lead inspector shifts uncomfortably and clears his throat*

"They, um... blow up?"
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 8:45 PM on March 20, 2008

I think I prefer to pronouce it "Why", as in "DEAR GOD NO, WHYYYYYYYYYYY!"
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 11:00 AM on April 27, 2006

And then as I read Optimus Chyme's comment about satanic panic I realized I was listening to a track from Of Montreal's Satanic Panic in the Attic. Spoooooooooooky. I don't think anyone could ask for any more clear evidence of these dark forces at work.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 9:00 AM on March 28, 2006

Man, I guess I'd better go ahead and buy the rest of the albums from Rykodisc on emusic that I was thinking about getting. Squalor's probably right, I'd be surprised if those will be available there much longer.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 8:30 PM on March 26, 2006

I've been using it for a few days on my Samsung A900, and it's pretty awesome. I think the thing that I like most about it is how easy it makes using Backpack and Tada Lists from anywhere. The only thing that's a little annoying is that some sites that have WAP formatted version decide which one to show based on the browser type and with Opera Mini they serve you the full thing instead of the WAP version. It's not too much of a problem since Opera Mini can usually make the full version... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 10:51 AM on January 24, 2006

Am I the only one that loves these games but thinks that "shmup" is the Dumbest Name Ever? It seems like it's just recently come into use, and I'd like to know who's responsible for that atrocity of an appellation. I grew up just calling these things "shooters" and I'll be damned if I'm going to start calling them "shmups" now.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 1:10 PM on November 23, 2005

*drops wooden mallets*
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 2:19 PM on November 1, 2005

I believe that death is what happens when your reference count goes to zero. After that, your memory gets put back on the heap. I'm not sure if I believe in a garbage collector or not.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 3:01 PM on October 13, 2005

Wait, so you really have to enter your password everytime you go to Flickr after you merge your accounts? It won't keep you logged in and just take you to your home page? That's ridiculous. I certainly won't plan to merge until they fix that. Flickr is one of those web applications that actually feels like an application rather than a just bunch of connected pages and having to login each time breaks that feeling.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 10:28 AM on August 30, 2005

Or, if I'd actually read the Flickr blog post I would have seen:
"Q: OMG, it is really annoying to have to log in to Yahoo over and over many times a day just to get my Flickr fix! [This is not a question.] Uh ... isn't it annoying?!!?

A: Yes, it really, truly is. It's enough to drive one batty. And it's a bug. And a fix will be out soon. It's taken a while, but for security reasons we couldn't do the quick fix here. Just be patient for one... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 10:35 AM on August 30, 2005

What concerns me is how did the cops know the guy had been using the unsecured router for access? Did they check its logs (not likely) or did they just haul the guy in on the word of the network owner? What if I'm driving around, get lost and pull over in front of a house to look up directions on my laptop by connecting through my cell phone. I happen to park in front of the house of some nervous dude with an unsecured wifi network who assumes that I must be using his network and he calls the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 12:30 PM on July 7, 2005

oh... I think I see the problem. Dios is talking about something called "bandwith" while everyone else is talking about bandwidth. Bandwith is indeed personal property while bandwidth is the property of your ISP. Seriously dude, if you're going to go off about something at least learn how it's spelled. Chill out and go get a sanwich or something. /cheap ad hominem
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 2:11 PM on July 7, 2005

Possible taglines -

Freeganism: You gonna eat that?

or if you're not into the whole brevity thing

Freeganism: Your material goods are produced through oppression and are destroying humanity but can I have them when you're done with them?
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 9:57 AM on June 30, 2005

I didn't see much of an improvement over TaDa Lists until they rolled out the Backpack Mobile functionality today. Being able to access my todo lists from my cell phone's crappy little web browser is a thing of beauty. The amazing thing is, it's actually usable in that format, unlike every other WAP web app I've tried to use. Not so much for adding new items, which would be a pain, but its pretty much perfect for checking off shopping lists on the go, and... um, well probably just that.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 7:25 PM on May 10, 2005

I think that until they appoint a new pope you should be able to sin as much as you want and get a free pass, because hey, who's going to catch you?
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 1:44 PM on April 2, 2005

The sprinkles contain sodium benzoate.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 11:26 AM on March 2, 2005

That's bad.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 11:27 AM on March 2, 2005

"Once I hired a monkey to take notes for me at school. I just sat there with my mind a complete blank while the monkey just scribbled on little pieces of paper. At the end of the week the teacher said, 'Class, I want you to write a paper using your notes.' This is what I wrote: 'My name is Bingo, I like to climb on things. Can I have a banana? Eek, eek.' I got an F. When I told my mom she said, 'I told you, never trust a monkey!' The end."
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 11:37 AM on October 16, 2001

Cavatica: Actually, I can think of a more shocking place to have a face hugger pressed.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 5:42 AM on August 27, 2001

"Is you is or is you ain't my constituancy?"

"These boys ain't old-timey, they ain't even white. They used the Confederate flag as a missile!"
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 10:11 AM on August 22, 2001

Actually, I already know who I'm voting for in 2016. Viva Grizzly Adams and The Arm! May they live forever and rule us always. Never before have two more worthy candidates inspired so much respect and terror, simultaneously.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 11:45 AM on August 3, 2001

I'm convinced that Smoove B. Loveman is actually Chubby Checker's ghostwriter. Come on, ending with "You know I Love You." is a dead give away
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 12:01 PM on August 2, 2001

I've seen the pilot (its currently floating around on Kazaa) and while its not terrible, it certainly isn't the cartoon either. For one thing, I can't get past that guy from Seinfeld playing the Tick.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 4:56 AM on July 27, 2001

Umi says shine your light on the world, shine your light for the world to see. I want black people to be free, to be free. Want them all to wear Nikes, wear Nikes.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 5:32 AM on July 26, 2001

This is the obligatory post pointing out the difference between a hacker and a cracker
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 5:22 AM on July 23, 2001

I just got a new Built to Spill album (released on, unfortunately, Warner Bros) and it won't play on my computer's CD-R drive. Not just unrippable, unplayable. The audio cuts out every few seconds, kind of like a skip, but longer and more noticeable. It plays fine on my crappy discman though. Hmmm... I was wondering what was up with that, and it looks like this may be the answer
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 12:52 PM on July 20, 2001

I'm torn between love and hate. On the one hand, you have an exploding cow. What is there not to love about exploding cows? Brilliant. On the other hand, an annoying pretentious performance artist. Is it just me, or is the crucifixion-pose thing the biggest performance art cliche in the world? Not that I'm a performance art expert mind you, it just seems to border on self-parody to me. And seriously, what the hell is wrong with the Germans? I'm not sure those folks have ever been quite... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 12:36 PM on July 20, 2001

what you need a 1.7 GHz home machine for: distributed.net
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 9:36 AM on July 18, 2001

Sellersburg/Speed: please don't pester science. its busy enough working on destroying us all.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 12:53 PM on July 16, 2001

You see Doug, that's why I never buy tickets for the shit-lottery of life.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 5:28 AM on July 16, 2001

From Jairus' account it sounds an awful lot like Can-D or Chew-Z. Shades of Philip K. Dick.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 5:21 AM on July 12, 2001

I am completely entrenched in cable modem snobbery. I wasn't even aware that anyone at all was still using phone lines. How quaint.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 5:15 AM on June 26, 2001

Not that I'm a huge Amazon customer, but I've noticed that they regularly have a greater discount when you preorder something than after it is released. Is it possible that that's all it is and not some bait and switch over the free shipping. The only thing I've ordered from Amazon is a couple anime dvds, and the prices have always gone up after they were released. If you checked the same books before and after they were released, i wouldn't be suprised if they were more expensive.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 11:06 AM on June 22, 2001

when record companies control online distribution and charge for everything you hear it does me no good whatsoever. I do not want to buy mp3s, contrary to whatever record companies think. I want to buy albums. I like having a cd, artwork and liner notes. What I want the mp3s for is to hear the music first, so that I know I won't just listen to it once or twice and toss it on the floor of my closet.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 4:06 PM on June 20, 2001

i'm horrified. what kind of monsters are you people? i've never even thought of lashing out at my pc or any peripherals there of. i didn't think anybody actually did.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 2:14 PM on June 7, 2001

Shrek's not really the example I'd use to prove that point. Now, "So I Married an Axe Murderer" is another story entirely...
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 5:29 PM on June 3, 2001

On sort of a tangent here, does anyone know if ATM networks would help to eliminate this stuff, since they implement QoS and allow for better traffic policing. Or would running IP on top of ATM just leave things in pretty much the same state as they are now?
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 7:24 PM on June 2, 2001

I'm still in college, still have roommates, but I already alphabetize my cds and congratulate myself on owning such great albums, then rearrange them. Sweet merciful crap, is this all I have to look forward to? No! No! No! N... eh, oh well. *shrug* Now where'd I leave those Spaghetti-O's...
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 9:02 AM on May 19, 2001

Thats so cute I'm going to start puking up cartoon chipmunks! I could eat it up with a Paddington Bear spoon!

Serious bonus points if anyone can point out what that's from.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 6:16 PM on May 17, 2001

Modern Living #76 is the scariest thing I've ever seen. I fear for my life.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 9:57 PM on May 3, 2001

"This clip shows Danielle searching for "cool" at a Slipknot concert in August 2000. "

Good luck.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 5:38 PM on May 2, 2001

This sounds suspiciously like the Simpsons episode in which Reverend Lovejoy's wife and Maude Flanders led a crusade to cover up David's doodle at the the Springfield Art museum.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 5:32 PM on April 25, 2001

You guys are all missing the point. That little kid pissed himself!
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 6:50 AM on April 19, 2001

Back when higher level languages began to overtake assembly programming, there was a very similar "Now anyone can be a programmer" kind of thought about it. While every layer of abstraction between us and the machine code is certainly helpful in simplifying the process of writing and reusing code, it's not quite that revolutionary. The bulk of the complexity in software comes from the actual design process, not the coding.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 6:39 PM on April 5, 2001

That's more than a little ridiculous. How could it know whether or not I owned the material on CD, and was just keeping a legal copy on my computer. They'd better start sending out agents to my house to search through my CD collection without my permission.
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 8:32 AM on March 3, 2001

I agree argybarg. While I really like being able to find good new music, and check out stuff that before Napster I could only read reviews of, I tend to build up a backlog of music that I never really get around to listening to. Then, when I buy the albums I never really get to give them the time I'd like to listen to and absorb them, because I'm back on Napster getting more new stuff. Still, even without Napster there just isn't enough time to listen to all the music I'd like to. Oh well.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 6:41 PM on March 2, 2001

This one actually happened to me. Not really sure how, as I wasn't checking out kiddie porn, or any porn for that matter, and never ran any kind of .exe's. The thing is, I'm using a cable modem, yet somehow my phone bill got hit. So while I tend to doubt that i've been hit by a cracker, i don't know what else to think... Any plausible explainations?
posted to MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 10:52 AM on February 9, 2001