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MeTa comment: "Each time I have to flag a stupid comment, the author receives 10,000 volts to the groin." [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by misha, shiu mai baby, redfisch, blueberry, davidmsc
3 days ago

MeTa comment: "The only earthly reason I can possibly think of to eat at Black Thorne instead of some pizza joint more authentically St. Louis-style is the fact that their pizza is radically better-tasting than St. Louis-style pizza Blasphemy!..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Kimothy
7 days ago

MeTa comment: "We're riding this one out in south Houston as well. If we still have power, I will totally be playing "Rock You Like A Hurricane" on Guitar Hero while the storm rages outside...." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Ufez Jones
4 weeks ago

Ask comment: "Have you ever bitten your lip and gotten a little bit of blood in your mouth? It's got a very distinct taste. Even when a woman isn't on her period, there's always a hint of that flavor, among all the others. I, for one, am going to disagree..." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by ifjuly
Last month

Ask post: Probability question (in need of code)
favorited 2 times, recently by NormandyJack, Blazecock Pileon
Last month

Projects comment: "Shouldn't fuelly be added as an "also on" option on MeFi profile pages? Just sayin' - don't shy away from promoting a nice site." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by fiercecupcake
Last month

Ask comment: "Sorry, I didn't mean to be that obnoxious with the 'just google it' comment. Been a long day." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by jpdoane, doctor_negative
Last month

Ask comment: "Did you even try to use google to find this? A search for "gunshot sound triangulation" turns up lots of information Yes, they exist, and yes, they have been deployed...." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by spork
2 months ago

Ask comment: "Carl Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" would fit the bill. The book describes the scientific method and why it works, examines pseudoscience and why it's wrong, and also leaves one with a sense of..." [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by eponymouse, DevilsAdvocate, XMLicious
2 months ago

Ask comment: "Emphatically no. Next thing, your friend will be labeling apple pies sandwiches. Clearly, that road leads to madness." [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by bumbleintuit, onlyconnect, Nattie, amethysts
2 months ago

Ask comment: "Go through the absolute beginner section on chordie. It has lots of recognizable and easy-to play tabs. Have fun!" [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by baltimoretim
2 months ago

Ask comment: "Do I simply sign up with the new provider, they transfer my number for me, and Verizon sends me a bill after the fact? Yes, exactly. As long as the early termination fee is paid, there will be no negatives attached to my credit No, I can't..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by thewalledcity
3 months ago

Ask comment: "http://www.walkjogrun.net/" [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by omnigut
3 months ago

Ask comment: "You're right, verbal threats don't earn you respect. You earn respect by following through on your words with actions, by displaying mastery of your subject, by treating your students with respect and demanding nothing but the best from them...." [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by woebot, HighTechUnderpants, ms.v., salvia, chicainthecity, zippity, lumosh
3 months ago

Ask comment: "SavvyGraph makes searching amazon a little bit more sane." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by lukemeister
3 months ago

Ask comment: "excessive use of anti-germ products does lead to bad outcomes in terms of resistant germs That depends. Products which use alcohol to lyse the bacteria aren't going to contribute in any meaningful way to resistance. See previous answers here and..." [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by blueberry, davar, wyzewoman
4 months ago

Ask comment: "Personally, I'd prefer noon, but anytime after 9:30 or so works. It's at that point when I stop cursing at you for being an asshole, and start cursing at myself for staying up so late/drinking so much...." [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by dirigibleman, wfrgms, TheOnlyCoolTim
4 months ago

Ask post: Why do my DVD drives crap out so quickly?
favorited 2 times, recently by Green With You, JimN2TAW
4 months ago

Ask comment: "BAT QUESTED? BEAT QUEST DAY? May I humbly suggest that omitting all vowels may not be the best solution in the future?" [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by cass
4 months ago

Ask comment: "Isn't it like the situation with vitamins: possibly helpful in food, virtually no benefit shown when taken in a capsule? There's little benefit to vitamin capsules because we're getting pretty much everything we need in our diet. if 100% of your..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by asuprenant
4 months ago

MeFi comment: "jlowen, Go here to turn that privacy-nightmare of a feature off" http://www.facebook.com/privacy/?view=feeds&tab=external" [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Dillonlikescookies
4 months ago

Ask comment: "You can use an iPod Shuffle in this manner if you download iPod shuffle Database Builder. (You'll have to install Python first, which is an easy installer too). Then, you just copy your files, double click on the script, and bam - you're good to go...." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by zippy
5 months ago

Ask comment: "Here's the Featured Articles page. These have been reviewed as the best articles on the site." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
5 months ago

Ask comment: "Also, this is metafilter, so expect lots of people to tell you to get a Mac. As a fellow computational scientist and Ubuntu user, I'll suggest that you ignore them. If you're a comfortable linux user, a Mac probably isn't your best bet...." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by mphuie
5 months ago

MeTa comment: "I'm pretty sure they just planned on waiting a while for us to stop paying attention then resume their scummy business as usual. Much like an elephant, MeFi never forgets...." [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by aeschenkarnos, luazinha, cass
5 months ago

Ask comment: "My wife asked me about this a few weeks ago, and after grabbing some of the literature, I boiled it down to this: There have been studies that showed a small increase in risk for stroke associated with use of oral contraceptives (OCs). OC's,..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by blacklite
5 months ago

Ask comment: "Mike, I'm in the exact same situation. I've been contacted several times, both by local districts looking for help, and by this latest NESA search. I always send them a polite but firm letter. that is some variation of the following: I am an..." [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by ikkyu2, arcticseal, caution live frogs
5 months ago

Ask comment: "Sell your spot for whatever you damn well please. After all, you're only one guy, and it sounds like they're selling lots of spaces. One customer gets a deal, and then they can continue hosing people for however much they want to charge...." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by arcticseal, hulahulagirl
5 months ago

Ask comment: "If you're willing to pay, buy some webhosting and install wordpress yourself (it really isn't hard). Then you can install whatever wordpress theme you want. (The same goes for movable type)..." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by toekneebullard, terrapin
5 months ago

MeTa comment: "neophyte mefite asks for a pony request "Naaaay", says mathowie" [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by pantagrool, KokuRyu
5 months ago

Ask comment: "I'm a fellow Crohn's patient and biomedical researcher. I've combed the literature pretty extensively, and there is little clinical evidence that supports the use of most "alternative" treatments in CD. In fact, I've never even heard of..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by LobsterMitten
5 months ago

Ask comment: "coffeee beat me to the Blackbird suggestion - it's finger-picking fun. Some others that I play, off the top of my head: Dust in the Wind - Kansas December - Collective Soul Wake Me Up When September Ends - Green Day Kielbasa - Tenacious..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by mosessis
6 months ago

Ask comment: "Do you have colleagues who might have to debug your code someday? If so, using the language that they speak (whether that's spanish or english) will make life easier. Descriptive variable names aren't helpful if they're in a foreign tongue...." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
6 months ago

Ask comment: "That's a common mistake. First, you kill the chicken, THEN you stuff it." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by prophetsearcher
6 months ago

Ask comment: ""I could care less", used to mean "I don't care at all". (instead of the proper "I couldn't care less") That one drives me nuts. And yes, I do judge people who use bad grammar...." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Baldons, andraste
6 months ago

Ask comment: "You know those uncomfortable silences that sometimes happen in conversation? Well, with the right person, those are no longer uncomfortable. Stop worrying so much...." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by ifjuly, melorama
6 months ago

MeFi comment: "I hate April Fools Day on the Internet. Sigh..." [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese, furtive, tehloki
6 months ago

Ask post: What's there to do in Boston, anyway?
favorited 8 times, recently by hellopanda, janelikes, ewiar, aielen, Bigfoot Mandala, hilatron, bugsoup, KevCed
6 months ago

Ask comment: "Oh Jesus Christ, just be an adult and ask him out already. If he says no, you'll get over it. If he says yes, go have a good time. Ditch the catty approach and stop reading too much into everything. What you suffer from is not a lack of..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
7 months ago

Ask comment: "Increased transparency. There's no reason why all kinds of internal data from government agencies shouldn't be available to us. This goes double for budgetary items, because where we should know where our money is being spent. I don't mean the..." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by limeonaire, grouse
7 months ago

Ask comment: "It's probably some auto-formatting junk in hotmail. Are you sending your messages in plain text mode? Is he viewing them in plain text mode? Whoever decided to cruft up email with HTML mode was ruining a good thing...." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by loiseau, limeonaire
7 months ago

Ask comment: "Restore the coat by painting it with whiteboard coating?" [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by johnjoe
7 months ago

MeTa comment: "It has now been __ / _ \ | | | | | | | | | |_| | \___/ days since the last stupid MeFi callout Think Safety!" [more]
favorited 27 times, recently by flibbertigibbet, deborah, arcticwoman, rooftop secrets, theredpen, Ambrosia Voyeur, scrump, porn in the woods, nasreddin, shmegegge, tommasz, Mayor West, Malor, Tube, nooneyouknow, DevilsAdvocate, R_Nebblesworth, dismas, The Light Fantastic, JDHarper, dirigibleman, waraw, five fresh fish, iamkimiam, winna, misha, lukemeister
7 months ago

MeFi comment: "bet your buddies on MetaFilter didn't see that one yet. For your sake, I hope you took that bet." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by ObscureReferenceMan
7 months ago

Ask comment: "Well, you're half right. As jessamyn suggests, Bilirubin is one of the substances that makes your feces brown. It comes from the breakdown of hemoglobin, which, in turn, comes from the breakdown of old red blood cells. I'm not a doctor, and it's..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by hulahulagirl
7 months ago

Ask comment: "Two easy options: 1) Download Eraser, and use it to delete anything sensitive from within windows. 2) Boot off of a linux live cd, and use the shred command to delete the files and directories you want to erase. Both methods erases a file,..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by nooneyouknow
7 months ago

Ask comment: "A new keyboard costs $20. Why bother trying to fix the old one? Because this kind of disposable-everything lifestyle is what's raping our environment and using up our oil reserves needlessly...." [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by pompomtom, Miko, Solomon, Dreama, loiseau
7 months ago

Ask comment: "jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj, I'm surprised that you didn't mention East St. Louis. In my experience growing up in STL, parts of the North side are a little shady, but nowhere near as dangerous as East StL after dark. It's perennially on top of the most..." [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by mynameismandab
7 months ago

Ask post: Is MythTV any good? Is TiVo worth the crazy costs?
favorited 13 times, recently by Ziggy Zaga, altcountryman, shinyblackdog, sgass, Country Dick Montana, zazerr, Fins, JimN2TAW, ruevian, Ferrari328, santojulieta, ick, the dief
7 months ago

Ask comment: "The NFL sends theirs to Africa" [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by ManInSuit
8 months ago

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