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Davy Crockett ain't got shit on me!
Apparently, no thread is safe this week from Brockles' complaints about Americans.
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 9:30 PM on July 1, 2008
Apparently, some Americans can't tell an observation from a complaint.
Er...What?
Brockles observing a few days ago and continuing to observe for many comments with great enthusiasm that USian whining about gas prices is unjustified.
Brockles observing eight days ago that USian security theater does not apply to the rest of the world, with bonus cheap shot observation towards TSA employees.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 10:56 AM on July 2, 2008
*widens blinkers, removes filter with which he had been reading Brockles' posts, overcomes persecution complex, laments failed hope for no hard feelings, really sees world for first time, cries big fat baby tears of joy, tries to remember to "help maintain a healthy, respectful discussion by focusing comments on the issues, topics, and facts at hand, not at other members of the site, tomayto, tomahto, potayto, potahto*
Let's call the whole thing off.
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 8:28 AM on July 3, 2008
MeFi post:
Place matters
I have heard that people who are interested in being somehow involved in the filmmaking industry often move to or near the "Hollywood" portion of the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area.
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 2:20 PM on June 2, 2008
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Renaissance Dude
He's been around a while, but I'd forgotten about him. Nice post! And glad to see that he finally updated his site design.
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 6:36 PM on May 20, 2008
Interesting, but I think I will go somewhere else on advice for web design.
Yeah, it still sucks, but You should have seen how it used to look.
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 8:41 AM on May 21, 2008
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Conjuror or Barbarian?
The new update is awesome. Sometimes, all the items in the store disappear and you can't buy anything. Since you can only go to the store once a level or so depending on when you find the scroll, and since the life/death margin is razor thin at high difficulty levels, this renders the game unplayable. Comments on kongregate suggest that this is a common problem.
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 11:54 AM on May 15, 2008
MeFi post:
God-Man
My favorite Tom the Dancing Bug regular feature is the Comix Corner. That is all.
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 11:00 AM on May 15, 2008
MeFi post:
Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope
Excuse me for butting in, but I have a Macintosh, and I have just noticed that this program will not run on it. Thank you for your time.
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 2:40 PM on May 13, 2008
MeFi post:
The best Best of Best of
I believe that there are entries on this list that are inappropriate, and I would replace them with other entries.
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 7:37 AM on May 11, 2008
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"You know, there's something stirring about the peaceful transfer of no power"
The biggest lie ever sold is that the media in this country is liberal. It is in fact instinctively status quo and corporatist, and there is no liberal equivalent to Fox News.
I like to take any opportunity (as I have several times previously on Metafilter) to pimp Eric Alterman's What Liberal Media?
ornate insect's two sentences quoted above serve as a fairly good thesis statement for the book. Alterman is thorough, clear, and convincing.
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 12:38 PM on May 8, 2008
MeFi post:
The Major Little League
What made Improv Everywhere good was that their pranks were genuine interventions that brought into question everyday practices in a given space. If the pranks were inspirational, or magical, or whatever, it was only because they were, at their core, kind of scary. They walked the tightrope between creating a sense of the sublime and a sense of unease.
These latest pranks, though—this baseball game, and the Mall musical—are milquetoast acts of suburban public theatre, and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 11:07 PM on April 7, 2008
You're right, languagehat. I didn't comment on the thread because a new thing by a group whose work I'd previously enjoyed didn't do it for me, though others who I respect on a site that I enjoy seemed to like it quite a bit. Really I commented because everything sucks and since this is a thing, it follows that this sucks as well, and there's nothing that I enjoy more than telling everyone about things that (it goes (almost) without saying) suck.
I'd forgotten that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 5:32 AM on April 9, 2008
MeFi post:
Prolonging the Battle
I never thought I'd be contemplating a protest vote against a Democratic candidate, but when the general election arrives, I will seriously consider not only the candidate, but also their path to the ticket.
The two Democratic candidates have virtually identical policy positions; voting for someone with wildly different positions on many important issues, such as McCain, because of sour grapes about how the campaign in the primary went for your guy... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 8:03 PM on March 17, 2008
MeFi post:
1,000 Albums to Hear Before You Die
I think this list is perfect and if there are any changes that you would make than you have a disease of the brain, and also you are dumb and wrong and dumb.
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 1:09 PM on March 13, 2008
No Pantywaist Hit Patrol! No Father Freddy's Holy Bowlers! No Sally Mae Graham! No Wisniewski! No Alligator Sunshine Party!
This list is like the rotten puke of my rotten puke.
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 5:36 AM on March 14, 2008
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US Presidential Greatness as a Function of Experience
IANAStatistician. 1) The hypothesis tested here seems to be "There is a linear relationship between an increase in experience and improvement on the ranking list." But why assume that the relationship is exactly linear? It seems likely, for example, that additional years of experience suffer from diminishing marginal returns at a certain point. 2) I don't think a sample size of 42 is large enough to tell us anything interesting, particularly because of the cluster of data points... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 8:01 AM on March 10, 2008
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She don't... What now?
The hairstyle of the founder suggests that he is less ready for marriage than he is for body shots.
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 12:26 PM on February 27, 2008
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Bonnie and Clyde my ass...
A pride of lions!
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 3:27 PM on December 11, 2007
A contribution to charity!
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 3:27 PM on December 11, 2007
I'm not sure that I understand this game!
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 3:28 PM on December 11, 2007
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I could smother the child. I could not smother the child.
Morality is not like an object of nature that can be determined independent of our hunches.
I hesitate to wade in here, but some people think that it is independent. Moral realists think that there are such things as moral facts, and that "Killing a person is wrong" might be such a moral fact that is true or false in precisely the same way that "Moscow is the capital of Russia" is true or false--no matter what our hunches are about... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 11:12 AM on November 26, 2007
You're absolutely right about action descriptions playing a central role. There's also impact from philosophy of language and mind. You're puzzled by a central problem in metaethics--We talk about moral judgments as though they are objective things, and we think that moral judgments can be action-guiding, but we don't think that objective things are action-guiding. Just because I believe that Moscow is the capital of Russia doesn't mean that I'm motivated to do anything in particular--it's bad... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 2:41 PM on November 26, 2007
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wish I had thought of this.....
No, that's just Condoleezza entering the room.
Gross, and poor timing.
I couldn't agree more. Apologize, recant, convince us that you're not, at bare minimum, an insensitive troll.
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 1:14 PM on November 20, 2007
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Laptops, by 8-year-olds.
Is it wrong that I'm scared at how well some of these children know the QWERTY layout? Did they reference a real keyboard, or do they know by heart what I learned by wrote at an age much later?
I just realized that, though I'm a very good touch typist, I have no idea what the layout of the keys looks like exactly, and I surely couldn't reproduce the keyboard layout in a drawing without looking at one. Psychologists! Do a study and figure out what's up with that! Thanks!
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 2:17 PM on November 19, 2007
MeFi post:
Smile.
I liked this a lot. Thanks!
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 6:58 AM on November 18, 2007
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Ebb into history?
Well, I just googled mr. hands. I guess I got what I deserved.
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 9:46 AM on November 13, 2007
The first two are classics, tapeguy. Enjoy!
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 11:51 AM on November 13, 2007
MeFi post:
A terrible waste
Killing yourself is pretty dumb.
Killing yourself over MySpace? Look, deepest sympathy and apologies to all involved over the loss, but isn't there a special catagory of the Darwin Awards for that? Something like "Fatal Loss of Perspective"? No? Maybe somewhere just below "Suicide Bomber" and just above "Flunked out of University of Texas, jumped from belltower"?
She was 13. Deepest... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 11:00 PM on November 12, 2007
MeFi post:
Electrolarynx
Yeah, you're usually living on a prayer in your first post.
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 2:33 PM on November 11, 2007
MeFi post:
Ron Paul Spam
Bletch's comment fucking sucked, for all the reasons dw said, and it makes me sad that it got so many favorites.
p.s. Way to bring the jerkass, Cartography Male!
"I was trying to think of something pithy and appropriate to say but honestly troll and dipshit are the only things that come to mind"
Yes! Troll and dipshit! You go, Male!
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 5:52 AM on November 6, 2007
WHY DON'T YOU KEEP YOUR ANTI-SPITE POLITICS OUT OF IT, CORTEX.
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 12:53 PM on November 6, 2007
"Chicks dig the ron paul."
-Greg Maddux
posted to MetaFilter by Kwine
at 2:32 PM on November 7, 2007
