MeFi comment:
"> The full Tragically Violence rings sweeter to me.
It's "tragically, Violence" in the news article, and if you think it's hard to get a telephone operator to transcribe a hyphenated name correctly, try nonstandard capitalization and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ooga_booga, Squid Voltaire
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"> ...she found a doctor in L.A. who was willing to do four for the price of two...
That's silly. Who has four breasts?" [
more]
favorited 12 times, recently by noway, pyrex, BrotherCaine, longsleeves, Monochrome, Legomancer, Perplexity, contessa, sarahmelah, griphus, drezdn, rusty
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"> If that's not bad ass, then nothing is.
You know what would be more badass? Batman doing the pentathlon." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sperose
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"By reading only your quote and not the article, I thought you were talking about Jay-Z going up against Gallagher, and that would be a whole different kind of battle. Please, when you quote something, can you please put it in quotes please?..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by TedW, miss lynnster, retronic, brundlefly
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"> That's frankly pretty amazing progress
"What you do in the bedroom is private" is also used to tell homosexuals to never publicly display affection, declare partnership, live together, or demand benefits and legal protection...." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by axon, Lou Stuells, rtha, mek, subbes, gorgor_balabala, flapjax at midnite, Pope Guilty
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"This isn't what you asked for, and it's out of print, and it's not by mathowie: Design for Community is by Derek Powazek, has a lot of good advice, and I'm namedropping it here because I wish it was in print again. Also it has an interview with..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by CruiseSavvy
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Martin Gardner is Wayne Enterprises' property management executive. He's in charge of buying and selling real estate, as well as building houses and hotels. He excels at buying low and trading high. He goes to jail frequently, but frequently seems to..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by drezdn, Blazecock Pileon, doctor_negative
9 days ago
MeFi post:
And it's day-glow orange. Srsly.
favorited 12 times, recently by Brian B., ronin21, robtf3, peppito, P.o.B., mano, bubukaba, Xoebe, zonem, sluglicker, cillit bang, jeffburdges
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"It's probably not better in pure energy-collecting performance compared to a motorized collection array. On the other hand, it doesn't require any of the energy it collects to track the sun, so that's one form of savings. It should also cost much..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"> Don't most consumer broadband connections lease new IP addresses every few months?
The leased IP will be from a restricted block of addresses. If your ISP assigns xxx.yyy.???.??? to its service block in zip code 12347, Wherever, NY, your..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by kisch mokusch, 999, flibbertigibbet, Dark Messiah, lothar
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"> was bb ever actually as great as its hype?
I wouldn't touch a question like that with a ten foot steampool punkcue. But I do occasionally see interesting things there. And since it's one of the most popular blogs in the English-speaking world,..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Skyanth, darkripper, JHarris, jtron, furtive
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"> I first read about them in one of William Poundstone's Big Secrets books
So did I, when I borrowed a friend's copy. Years later, I got a copy of my own, a cheap British reprint, and was disappointed to find it missing the chapter on the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by porn in the woods, Slack-a-gogo
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"> Imagine a paper-thin shoe, no more than two microns thick, whose only support comes from threads.
My old Chuck Taylors!" [
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favorited 10 times, recently by grubi, cmyk, Cat Pie Hurts, champthom, BeerFilter, Lou Stuells, cashman, dan g., mnsc, uncleozzy
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"I've been on the other end of this relationship before. Here is what I always wish had really happened to me and to my peers. I'm handwaving the parts where knowledgeable mentors tell you your ideas are possible and marketable, and where you have..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Cochise
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"> Still firing the person if they had no idea about a blackout seems a little extreme.
Since IBS is a service provider for news companies, they're presumably subject to the same agreements of confidentiality and competition as any other..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by dellsolace, bonaldi
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Can't this be added to this morning's other post about a faceless guy?
It's only Tuesday and I'm already tired of Mutilation Week." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by pyrex
Last month
MeFi comment:
"> why was the information sent on to an outside agency?
Because that's how an embargo works. A press release or news announcement is distributed with the agreement that it's not made public until either a predetermined time or until the..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Miko
Last month
MeFi comment:
""I use my +1 Knife of Carving to chop the gelatinous cube!"
"You now have two gelatinous cubes."
"Argh! I use my knife on it again!"
"You now have three gelatinous cubes."
"Again!..." [
more]
favorited 12 times, recently by lizzicide, phatkitten, olya, DevilsAdvocate, Anything, limeonaire, magstheaxe, JDHarper, headspace, rottytooth, Artw, growli
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The most horrible part is that this is now somebody's fetish." [
more]
favorited 10 times, recently by nomad, gorgor_balabala, liza, twistedonion, you're a kitty!, bunnytricks, artifarce, contraption, JHarris, damn dirty ape
Last month
MeFi comment:
"> a central clearinghouse for telling everyone "IMA GO POOP NOW BRB" is really all that earthshattering.
Find better friends.
This is a complaint not unlike early critiques of blogs. Just because they're in public doesn't mean..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nthdegx
Last month
MeFi comment:
"If you have things to say to people and you don't have the character to tell them until after they can't reach you, you might not be as virtuous as you think...." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by rodgerd, olya, aeschenkarnos, teleri025, agress, mr.curmudgeon, cometwendy, pyrex, Pope Guilty, urbanwhaleshark, anthill, Dormant Gorilla, nooneyouknow, aramaic, SaintCynr
Last month
MeFi comment:
"...I saw the Projects post and this one appear simultaneously in RSS and came here to make sure the OP wasn't a shill. Whoops. RSS feeds ought to show posters' names...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lukemeister
Last month
MeFi comment:
"> So, do wine experts "know" anything about wine?
It depends on the expert and what their asked. Part of the problem in that test may be in that there is no official white wine flavor or official red wine flavor. Another part of the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by [expletive deleted], Turtles all the way down
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Tour de France riders can already reach 50mph without needing drugs or bulky heat shielding around the ankles." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by eriko
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I ride a fixed gear bike. The bike has a front brake. I can go for days without using it, but I'm damn glad it's there and works. I guarantee you it works. I may add a rear brake -- it's superfluous, but the parts are lying around anyway.
I built..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mrgrimm
Last month
MeFi comment:
"> the candy-colored plastics influenced consumer product design for the next several years.
They still do. Although most of the candy-colored translucent product design I'm seeing these days is in K-Mart and dollar stores, which is probably..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Monochrome
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"From the Nerve article: "Parodies of such ads began popping up in the early '70s on shows like Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In."
Uh, what?" [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Faux Real
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I would have expected Young to put his money into boutique equipment that replicates the sound of the originals but with reliability and durability. Instead the money goes to staff employed to keep the unreliable stuff on the right side of failure...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by AdamFlybot
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"That's a relief. I can't think of a more bizarre conflict in corporate cultures than Microsoft's and Yahoo's.
Here's some backgrounding by Marc Andreesen (who knows a thing or two about how to sell the farm) on Yahoo's shareholder structure that..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by P.o.B., sdodd
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"There's still an active debate over Reiser's conduct in the trial, and whether the verdict was fair. The jokes are in bad taste, but they're not derailing the thread...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Asymptote
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"After reading Wired's report of the verdict and wrap-up of the trial, it sounds like Reiser had a chance until he took the stand.
Providing highly detailed and weird-sounding explanations for certain arbitrary behaviors and no excuse at all for..." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Dreama, JHarris, Kadin2048
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"> Poor bastard. Even if he got into the NFL people googling him would think he's a dork that writes a lot about bike seats.
That's not the half of it. I'll bet his first picks for usernames are always taken...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rock Steady
3 months ago
