MeTa comment:
"I think it may seem less international because everyone in the US is crapping balls over the election and the economy melt-down, so the front page is kind of reflecting that.
If we revisited this in December, I'm sure it'll return to normal.Come..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by languagehat
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"From McCain:Under my guiding hand, Congress developed a wireless spectrum policy that spurred the rapid rise of mobile phones and Wi-Fi technology that enables Americans to surf the web while sitting at a coffee shop, airport lounge, or public park...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Oddly, when I had similar problems with YouTube, I was able to fix them by updating my laptop's WiFi drivers. Can't hurt." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mistsandrain
Last month
MeFi comment:
"pedantic: I love that list of premature obits. My favorite so far:Dick Cheney (US Vice-President) in the CNN.com incident. The draft obituary, which had been based on the Queen Mother's, described Cheney as 'Queen Consort' and the 'UK's favorite..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by No-sword, Countess Elena, pinothefrog
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Please explain this to me as if I were a six-year-old.Doing stuff on the web is harder than it should be. Ubiquity is trying to make complex multi-step tasks into easy 1-step tasks.
When it's finished, you should be able to type a sentence into..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by goodnewsfortheinsane
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I actually hope that this is a viral ad for something, because otherwise it's an incredibly mean-spirited character assassination. To dedicate a whole website to the personal and professional failings of your boss is just low. It's one thing to..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by every_one_needs_a_hug_sometimes, kryptondog, weston
Last month
MeTa comment:
""Median age may be too high?"That's exactly why I like MeFi so much. It feels like this place is full of grown-ups." [
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favorited 18 times, recently by melorama, Industrial PhD, magstheaxe, nushustu, Meatbomb, nickyskye, paisley henosis, fantabulous timewaster, Metroid Baby, MythMaker, Nattie, Who_Am_I, fourcheesemac, pyrex, Mick, marsha56, waitangi, konolia
Last month
Ask comment:
"Hello, and welcome to the Upstate! (I live in Spartanburg.)
Brandnew is right. One of the key teachings of Christianity is that only those who have "saving faith" in Christ will go to heaven, and everyone else is going to go to hell...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jpdoane
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"dear internet at large - not everything has to be rounded.
I'm glad you think that because there are no rounded corners in this design.
I like it. It looks much better and easier to use. And they got rid of the dots, which were very confusing..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kev23f
2 months ago
MeFi post:
The Incredible Shrinking World
favorited 23 times, recently by MythMaker, howrobotsaremade, jabberjaw, cbuddha, urbanwhaleshark, andywolf, salvia, KingoftheWhales, markdj, Araucaria
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This is where the "Your favorite band sucks" catch phrase comes from.
Personally, I think that he's pretty clever, especially accounting for his age, but MetaFilter tends to react badly to music posts unless everyone involved in the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Greg Nog, Del Far
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"A couple of years ago, I listened to an interview with James Randi, the skeptic who famously exposed faith healer Peter Popoff and who runs the Million Dollar Challenge. This part of the interview, starting at 40:10, made me about as angry as I've..." [
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favorited 21 times, recently by vira, adamp88, axon, Optimus Chyme, snwod, JHarris, sotonohito, Avenger, DreamerFi, khaibit, orthogonality, shmegegge, Blazecock Pileon, jagalt, lord_wolf, teleri025, Benny Andajetz, rocket88, tippiedog, DU, bitterpants
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"OMG! The crazy religious compound controversy in Texas was entirely made up by marketers as a stunt to promote these new fashions!
It makes total sense: Ladies' fashions have, over the last century or so, been trending towards baring more skin...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by briank
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"I have been going every 3 or 4 or 5 years, mostly due to costThat seems like not changing the oil in your car for two years to save money. It's ultimately going to cause problems.
Preventative maintenance is much, much cheaper (and, in this case,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Twicketface
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm appalled!
at the overuse of "First They Came for the Jews."
Verizon discontinuing its newsgroup hosting ≠ the systematic slaughter of the Jews in Germany.
Chill...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Artifice_Eternity, champthom
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I am skeptical.
For starters, this page has the Microsoft Frontpage look to it, which screams "I'm a crackpot." (I do not know why bad web design so often correlates with bad thinking, but it does.)
And, of course, there's the..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by taursir, marble, Robin Kestrel, lalochezia, waitangi, Dormant Gorilla
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"Honestly, I'm encouraged every other time I watch one of the TED talks. It's nice to know that there are smart people with solutions to many of the problem in the world. For example, Craig Venter wants to design bacteria that turn CO2 into fossil..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by CrazyJoel
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"While God forgave him, he still lost his firstborn son for his sin.
WTF, God?No kidding. When I was raised in this stuff, I somehow never noticed these kinds of injustices. Now I look at stories like this and wonder how I could have missed them...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by captnkurt
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Being God sounds like a good job. If I were God, it'd be really good. I wish I were God.
posted by WalterMittyEponysterical?
breath: This is actually the issue that broke my faith as a fundamentalist Christian. I realized that the only way to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"My grandfather died a few years ago, and I chose not to go look at the body. I don't regret it much. He's not going to care either way anyways, and no one in my family objected, so there wasn't any social obligation to go up and look. I stayed in my..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by hulahulagirl, cass
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"I find that when you're trying to break yourself of a bad habit, it often helps to replace it with something else.
So, here's something to experiment with: The next time you find yourself about to nitpick over something petty, stop for a second,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by softlord, chicainthecity
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"I'll leech onto this question because this is a cool idea. Jedi's scanner suggestion doesn't seem to support OS X. Are there any recommended multi-platform scanners?
There is a Mac Version of this scanner, the 510M.
I think the reason that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hwyengr
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"WYFF-4! Yay! My local station gets to report on... oh.
A South Carolinian doing something spectacularly stupid.
*sigh*
South Carolina: We're not all idiots...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chiababe
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Where are all the Christians speaking out about the hijacking of their religion?
In their churches and schools. Where else would they be?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I was brought up in right-wing fundamentalist churches and attended Bob Jones University.
Kyleg is right. The people I associated with think that the Pentacostals are, at the very least, in error doctrinally. They condemn most televangelists as..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ornate insect
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Bunnytricks: No kidding. I still go back and look up quotes from SMAC. I love the narrators, as well as the playable characters.
In all, it was kind of a disappointment coming from that to Civ 4. You have Leonard Nimoy, who may be a great many..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by somanyamys, JHarris, papafrita
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Also: anyone who thinks that "right" and "wrong" apply to art may need to go back to school, maybe take an art class, do a little water color... I don't know. Something. So, As long as I call it "art," I can do whatever..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by tehloki, where u at dawg, oaf, zixyer, junebug, roll truck roll, EarBucket, MythMaker, marble, Jpfed, Help, I can't stop talking!, bookish, showbiz_liz
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Here's the way I see it: if you're absolutely the most skilled, amazing, one of a kind person in your field, and you get paid the most ridiculous amount I could possibly condone under any circumstances, it would come out to, say $200 an hour. And..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Perplexity
5 months ago
MeFi post:
Lakota Indians Declare Independence
favorited 31 times, recently by salvia, tehloki, DataPacRat, entropone, katiecat, cathodeheart, ronin21, divabat, Hobgoblin, hippugeek, ronv, PareidoliaticBoy, liza, unixrat, mr. strange, mike3k, spiderwire, ryanfou, arnold, desjardins, padraigin, raztaj, christopherious, teleri025, johnjreiser, newdaddy, popcassady, chunking express, milarepa, typewriter, nicolin
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The one person I felt the most sad for was Gerda:Gerda couldn’t believe that cancer was cheating her of her hard-earned retirement. “My whole life was nothing but work, work, work,” she told me. She had worked on the assembly line in a soap factory,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by papafrita, malaprohibita
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Ooh, ooh, are we posting bizarre YouTube videos today?
Here's one that I like: Super Smash Brothers: Brawl characters dancing to a Swedish song called "Caramelldansen...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by danb, tehloki
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Also, this kind of stuff underscores the need to keep as many different species of plant and animal as possible alive. Every extinction means the loss of a unique set of solutions to a lot of different physical and chemical challenges, the loss of a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by homunculus
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Here's where I get off the crazy train:4. Emotion. The insecure man will be repulsed by an emotional woman, and the confident man will be attracted. Remember, this isn’t about faking anything, like tantrum, emotional outburst etc. etc. but rather..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by klangklangston, niccolo
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I listened to the first track or two, and I love it so far. When I imported the MP3's into iTunes, it couldn't find any album art, so I cropped the first page of the book into the appropriate size and uploaded it here in case anyone else wants to use..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by takeyourmedicine
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"konolia: If he would only change his position on abortion, I could see myself voting for him.
I'm in a similar position of liking pretty much everything about Obama but abortion. I'm going to vote for him anyways, because the President doesn't..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by nooneyouknow, ericthegardener, chiababe, mer2113
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The church decided to come up with its own lottery and so the feast of St. Valentine featured a lottery of Saints. One would pull the name of a saint out of a box, and for the following year, study and attempt to emulate that saint.See, this is what..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nooneyouknow
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Maybe I'd buy Brawndo... if it came in a ROCKET CAN!" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wires
10 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Two different religions doing two different ridiculous things. Ergo, two different posts." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
10 months ago
Ask comment:
"Oh, and don't worry about onalark. In the comment thread of every great post is someone says "<nasal>I'm sorry, but you seem to have overlooked a rule...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by TheManChild2000
10 months ago
