I liked Danny, the Champion of the World when I was a kid. Later in life, I read "The Champion of the World." Then I read "Pig." Then I stopped eating meat for a while.
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 6:07 PM on July 22, 2008

I like how when you try to post "brng bck vlt bl" it says "Comment rejected. The text you entered is wrong."
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 1:01 PM on June 30, 2008

caddis: the latest news in The Times reports that Miniboing has raised the chocolate ration to 20 grammes a week. We Love Little Brother!
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 1:08 PM on June 30, 2008

I like BoingBoing. I still go there every day. But I now never, EVER want to be a part of the "community" there thanks to their moderators (who I'm sure are all really cool in real life, etc.).

Sure, MeFi may be messy, but as languagehat and jscalzi have illustrated, MeFi messes can be cleaned up by those who feel responsible. By contrast, TNH and those who subscribe to her moderation philosophy look at messes and either claim that it's supposed to be like... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 12:23 PM on July 2, 2008

jeblis, that is funny, considering Xeni's earlier comment, although you might have invited disemvowelment depending on how you suggested it. Certainly my short experience attempting to post non-snark on BB suggests that TNH & Co. do not take criticism well.
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 3:41 PM on July 5, 2008

Then the devil is 1606, then the devil is 1606, then the devil is 1606... the devil is 1606.
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 1:48 PM on July 6, 2008

Joel Johnson, you seem like good people. Kudos to you.
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 9:48 AM on July 20, 2008

You know what? It's their sandbox. I just don't like having sand thrown in my eyes.

I'll be over by the slides.
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 5:32 PM on July 21, 2008

On the off chance this FPP doesn't get deleted, let me say that Richard Cheese's cover of "Ice Ice Baby" is a great song. It argues that hip-hop wasn't the next rock, but was in fact the next lounge.
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 8:12 AM on July 21, 2008

From Hell is one of the scariest, most gripping things I've ever read. I literally found myself terrified of turning the page to see the villain's face... and yet I was compelled to.

J.G. Ballard short story collections can be hit or miss, but when they hit they hit.
posted to Ask Metafilter by infinitewindow at 7:42 AM on July 21, 2008

Verbing weirds language.
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 4:51 PM on July 18, 2008

My previous advice.
posted to Ask Metafilter by infinitewindow at 10:05 AM on July 15, 2008

I liked Steven Kochan's book Programming in Objective-C. It's the first time I actually understood objects, what they store and how they work. The book starts with procedural programming and then moves into objects at a decent pace.

Mr. Kochan has a new one coming out in time for fall semester that covers Objective-C 2.0.
posted to Ask Metafilter by infinitewindow at 9:06 PM on July 13, 2008

Tube, did you blow my valedictorian mind in 1994? 'Cuz I'm pretty sure I remember something to do with tubing at that show.
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 9:02 PM on July 13, 2008

Alternate Zoobilee Zoo intro.
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 11:49 AM on July 13, 2008

Holy crap. Here's a guy who knew how to live life, and he had the health problems and kids to prove it. Here's to you, Rocky, the man who showed me what heaven could taste like.

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posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 8:42 AM on July 13, 2008

CDs and DVDs are recyclable. DVDs, in fact, often contain elemental gold and silver.

California Recycles in West LA definitely takes discs. I couldn't get in touch with anyone in Santa Monica's city environmental programs division who could tell me if they recycle optical media.
posted to Ask Metafilter by infinitewindow at 3:46 PM on July 10, 2008

If you want to do them for free, Best Buy now recycles optical media. The intake bins are in the front of the store, although I imagine there's a limit to the amount of media they can take.
posted to Ask Metafilter by infinitewindow at 8:15 PM on July 10, 2008

I would like to hear what interrobang has to say about his fellow punctuation.
posted to MetaTalk by infinitewindow at 5:14 PM on July 10, 2008

Interesting article. The difference between a dialect and a language used to be a navy. The article would have us believe it's a Unicode file.

The problem, though, is that if you need a tool to be part of a culture, then your culture takes after the ones who made the tool. Look at Sequoyah—he wanted to keep Cherokee culture distinct, and his alphabet was supposed to be key. Yet every Cherokee I've ever met is as American as apple pie.

The... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 5:17 PM on July 8, 2008

It was funnier when Get Fuzzy did it. "Fourple platinum" indeed.
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 9:29 AM on July 8, 2008

McCain = {Republicans} ∩ {old white men} ∩ {Presidential candidates who have not won}
Bush = {Republicans} ∩ {old white men} ∩ {Presidential candidates who won}

Gotta be careful with those negations.
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 7:32 PM on July 7, 2008

I admit, it was disturbing hearing the music of my youth for the first time in a long time in every. single. Las. Vegas. casino. on my last trip there. And I think that's what it is... when a song becomes friendly to advertisers and fodder for drunken latetwentyandthirtysomethings, that's when it's classic rock.

In other news, objective research proves that popular music reached its peak of creativity and emotional resonance when you were 13 years old.
posted to Ask Metafilter by infinitewindow at 10:45 PM on July 6, 2008

Anecdotally, my working and short-term memory vastly improved about two months after I started SSRIs. So something about them is repairing neurons, for lack of a more precise term. Like ltracey says, maybe the trophic factors mentioned in the article only work in the proper concentration of serotonin.
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 9:05 PM on July 6, 2008

Reading the Words From Below linked from the final installment made things clear but not nearly as interesting. I was hoping for a cool story about subjective mental and cognitive experiences--something like "The Empire of T'ang Lang"--but alas, this was not the case.
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 4:23 PM on July 5, 2008

In the pilot for Twin Peaks, there is a bar fight to a cheesy 50's-sounding ballad sung by Julee Cruise. To me, anyway, the "whoa-whoa-whoas" over the pointless violence engendered feelings of gloom and hopelessness unequalled in the rest of the series.

I know you don't want to hear about Tarantino-isms, but his juxtaposition of Bobby Womack's "Across 110th Street" and Pam Grier's resolute tears near the end of Jackie... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by infinitewindow at 1:11 PM on July 5, 2008

phunniemee, I love love love the bluegrass Ode to Joy at the beginning of Raising Arizona.
posted to Ask Metafilter by infinitewindow at 3:33 PM on July 5, 2008

More music, from the second page of the first link.
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 5:49 PM on July 4, 2008

Human echolocation in the modern day. Previously.
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 10:51 PM on July 4, 2008

Water absorbs heat very efficiently, and fat functions as insulation. I hypothesize that warm muscles work better than cold ones, and in cold water with all else being equal, insulated muscles work better than uninsulated ones.
posted to Ask Metafilter by infinitewindow at 7:13 PM on July 4, 2008

Floating Dragon by Peter Straub is about a haunted town. It has the great line "I believe in old houses, and I believe in the values they represent." Other good ghost stories by Straub include Julia, Ghost Story, The Throat, Mr. X, and Lost Boy Lost Girl. Straub is a master of the modern gothic, and I highly recommend all his novels from Julia on.

In the same vein (heh heh),... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by infinitewindow at 2:14 PM on July 2, 2008 marked best answer

I sometimes have sensations that sound and feel like spinal fluid moving through my neck and skull vertebrae when I'm hungry.
posted to Ask Metafilter by infinitewindow at 4:33 PM on July 1, 2008

I love these new milk bottles. It means more room in the fridge for orange juice, lemonade, pomegranate juice, etc...
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 1:03 PM on June 30, 2008

dawson, I was going to mention those (from Coble Dairy in Salisbury and Lexington, NC). I loved 'em, my family loved 'em, my summer camp in Blowing Rock loved 'em, and I still miss 'em.
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 1:35 PM on June 30, 2008

Ah, The Real Ghostbusters. Good times. The cartoons were so good I built a Ghostbusters HQ out of Legos and made my own two-part episodes. Sadly, the cartoon made me wonder for the first time why the world was in dire trouble EVERY EPISODE. Peter "Garfield" Venkman made me cynical.
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 8:05 AM on June 25, 2008

Holy crap, it's Angelyne!
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 2:57 PM on June 24, 2008

Holy crap, this is awesome. I really, really like this.
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 1:15 PM on June 24, 2008

1. My gold standard is Verbatim. Part # 94854 for 50-pc single-layer 8x DVD-Rs. Part # 95123 for 20-pc dual-layer 8x DVD+Rs. I use these every day in a mixture of Pioneer, Apple and Sony burners. The failure rate is less than 2%. I don't have longevity data, sorry.

2. The discs will not work any better in a different drive.

3. The polycarbonate and metal in the discs is recoverable. See if you can find a local plastics recycler that will take discs.
posted to Ask Metafilter by infinitewindow at 11:29 AM on June 24, 2008

Hair changing from light blonde to ash-brown (or mouse-brown) is fairly common in Caucasian populations (at least where I grew up). Also common is eye color being bright blue at birth and changing to brown as the child ages.
posted to Ask Metafilter by infinitewindow at 8:28 PM on June 23, 2008

Wait a second... this is from the Sunday Mirror. I thought that the Sunday editions of respected UK papers were basically no better than the US's Weekly World News--printing dubious articles that report secondhand information from anonymous or mistaken sources in a way that helps them avoid being sued for libel. UK MeFites, what's the real scoop?
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 7:24 AM on June 23, 2008

I think Barry Adamson's cover of "Man With The Golden Arm" changes the time signature of the original in parts, and makes it less interesting. One of his rare missteps.
posted to Ask Metafilter by infinitewindow at 10:07 PM on June 21, 2008

Beardman, NIN also released a remix of "March of the Pigs" in straight 4/4 throughout as opposed to 7/4 and 4/4.
posted to Ask Metafilter by infinitewindow at 8:51 AM on June 22, 2008

That's nothing. Look at what happens when you microwave your cell phone like popcorn.
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 7:07 PM on June 20, 2008

I liked the part where he farted.
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 10:02 PM on June 19, 2008

Social stigma of out-of-wedlock births has decreased. This is a Good Thing. However, social stigma of poorly raising your child has decreased as well, which is a Bad Thing.

I would love to read MeFi comments from teen parents about this post, but I probably won't because they're busy being parents and regretting their poor life choices (not necessarily the big baby choice, either).
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 3:48 PM on June 19, 2008

Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
posted to Ask Metafilter by infinitewindow at 10:19 AM on June 19, 2008

I believe it (mostly). Haven't you ever done something crazy and wild at your job? One that makes a good story later on at the bar, or years later at a cocktail party? Haven't you made the story sound a little better than what actually happened? Didn't you laugh about it with your buddies?
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 9:50 AM on June 19, 2008

Trader Joe's: salmon fillets, white wine, sea salt, lemon pepper, dill leaves, rice, frozen veggie mix. Makes two servings--one for immediate eating, one for lunch the next day.

If you have frozen salmon, put one fillet in the fridge to defrost while you're at work.

Make two servings of rice according to package directions. Add two servings of frozen veggies to the rice before covering and simmering.

Poach your salmon... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by infinitewindow at 1:31 PM on June 18, 2008

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posted to MetaTalk by infinitewindow at 10:35 AM on June 18, 2008

A co-worker has a buddy in the free ATM business and he agrees with genial. He adds that for purchased/leased ATMs, a bit of the surcharge covers data access, ACH membership and cash transportation, but it's a small fraction of the surcharge.
posted to Ask Metafilter by infinitewindow at 10:17 AM on June 18, 2008