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posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 11:11 PM on July 24, 2008

I continue to be amazed at the level of hate for the Segway.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 1:46 PM on July 23, 2008

Poor kids. Some of you really got your hopes up, didn't you?
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 5:42 PM on July 23, 2008

Traffic ground to a halt the other evening at Constitution and 15th Street in NW DC. A tourist miscalculated the curb and fell off his rented Segway. He was hurt enough so that he didn't just get back up. Luckily, all of the DC Segway tour company (named "Segs in the City) make all of their riders wear helmets and take a 30 minute operating course, and I imagine they make them sign disclaimer forms that are as long as your arm.

Segway Crash... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 6:34 PM on July 24, 2008

Not to bite the hand that feeds me, but google does seem to give way too much weight to blogs. I mean, for a handful of various search terms, one of my blogs consistently ranks in the top 10 results, but one of my client's sites can't manage to rank in the top 30 for stuff they're actual experts and paid professionals in doing.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 9:04 AM on July 23, 2008

Awesome, juv3nal ... now, where is a list of spammy sites to filter out?
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 1:30 PM on July 23, 2008

amirite?

It really depends on how quickly your pneumatic actuators react.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 12:55 PM on July 23, 2008

people. have some self respect. don't eat anything that looks so much like dog shit.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 3:21 PM on July 21, 2008

I can tell there isn't a strong 'slow food' contingent here.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 7:42 AM on July 23, 2008

Your soundtrack is better, Gavin.

And anyone who has ever played RCT knows that the crash video won't work. You need a bathroom, and maybe a cotton candy stand somewhere if you expect your guests to come back.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 6:04 AM on July 22, 2008

Seriously. Just think of how much gold they could have amassed in WoW in the time it took them to do that.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 7:39 AM on July 23, 2008

I don't know. I find these less interesting and animated, and mostly just annoying.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 10:03 AM on July 22, 2008

From the same site == Bubble Tanks 2
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 8:59 PM on July 21, 2008

To all the people who are sneering at the "coffee addicts" behavior ... you're as bad as the barrista. So, if it's not the caffeine, what's your excuse?
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 1:17 PM on July 14, 2008

You must be a proud american then, Zouhair, by making such a stupid and chauvinistic generalization.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 3:24 AM on July 15, 2008

The foodies over on Serious Eats mostly seem to side with the barista.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 7:28 AM on July 17, 2008

Murky Coffee Barrista responds.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 8:22 PM on July 19, 2008

This is fucking war.

One where you guys have adopted self-imposed attrition.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 6:46 PM on July 17, 2008

I lost both of my parents to cigarette smoking -- one to cancer, the other to emphysema. I don't think you really need the impact.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 6:20 PM on July 19, 2008

I bet he could easily sell a notebook of his drawings for a villa in France, if only France wasn't overrun with sodomite pedafiles.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 6:12 PM on July 19, 2008

So have these all closed because of over saturation, or for other reasons?
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 4:09 PM on July 18, 2008

nm. read the second link. jumped the gun, I guess. too much caffeine.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 4:10 PM on July 18, 2008

I've seen plenty of indie coffee shops come and go that had no Starbucks in the vicinity.

Running a business is tough. Running a business in the food industry is even tougher. The profit margin in the restaurant industry is notoriously minuscule. There are a million reasons why a business fails, but having to compete head to head with a huge multinational corporation is even more of a burden, even if that multinational corporation has desensitized... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 5:56 PM on July 19, 2008

This is why I hate Metafilter.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 3:55 PM on July 18, 2008

how does one create their own patterns?

The only thing thats missing is a tab to upload your own images, which even registering doesn't seem to let you do.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 6:31 AM on July 17, 2008

I bet they don't really want you linking directly to the images, especially since they're backgrounds (bandwidth), but they really ought to let you link to your profile and a page of all your creations.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 6:42 AM on July 17, 2008

You're making some great ones, taz. I just "liked" a bunch from you.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 2:09 PM on July 17, 2008

Next version, I guess.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 11:59 AM on July 18, 2008

Man makes a mistake. Full coverage, plus Norm with the 5-day, at 11.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 8:07 AM on July 16, 2008

81 comments and no one said anything about him eating humble pie?
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 6:47 AM on July 17, 2008

Dude, if this were even remotely clever... but they're crude and stupid. Are you high?
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 12:49 AM on July 17, 2008

I guess none of you numbskulls have figured out that the site won't let you link to specific images, and it replaces all of them with the banner.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 6:35 AM on July 17, 2008

I like that it doesn't seem to break the back button. Pretty neat. Thanks.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 5:26 AM on July 17, 2008

“What he’s doing is brilliant. He’s allowing the dough and other ingredients to fully soak up the liquid — in this case, the eggs — in order to get a drier and firmer dough, which bakes to a better consistency.”

What he's doing is not letting it soak up the liquid. That would happen in a half an hour, at the most. I think what he's really doing is allowing what liquid there is to evaporate. I would suspect that adding a little less egg white at the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 7:53 AM on July 16, 2008

why does the vacuum process work?

Well, maybe the excess liquid that evaporates in the first batch ends up being extracted by the pressure of the vacuum and remains in the plastic bag?

I suspect two different things are happening with the two processes. With the 36-hour wait, they say that the dough ends up crumbly. With the vacuum, the dough ends up "elastic." How can they both end up with the exact same result?
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 8:37 AM on July 16, 2008

You can be all these superheroes and more. Just play City of Heroes.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 7:58 AM on July 16, 2008

It's a shame what people do for the sake of jingoism.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 4:01 PM on July 15, 2008

I thought it was interesting that the one of the directors said that he thought that Radiohead was the only band visionary enough to take the risk of shooting a video in these different forms of radar.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 11:41 AM on July 14, 2008

I couldn't help think of Metafilter, and particularly this thread, while watching this.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 3:53 PM on July 15, 2008

I've been to Voodoo Doughnuts. It is completely overrated. It's in a really divey part of town, and their products are inedible. If that's the best doughnut shop on the west coast, that's really saying something.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 2:46 AM on July 10, 2008

Isn't Voodoo Donut the place where they were talking to Anthony Bourdain about how they had to discontinue a Nyquil donut because it turns out you can't serve medicine with food?

That's the one. The fact that Bourdain didn't instantly proclaim that their donuts were crap compared to even the chainstore donuts out east caused me to lose all respect for him. Voodoo Doughnuts would have been more appropriately featured on Andrew Zimmern's show.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 12:15 PM on July 10, 2008

In the 1997 movie classic, L.A. Confidential, "the fictional TV show Badge of Honor, on which Sgt. Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) is the technical adviser, is loosely based on Dragnet. Throughout the film, fellow officers tease Jack by saying 'Just the facts!', which is Sgt. Joe Friday's famous line from the series." IMDB.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 2:36 AM on July 10, 2008

flash in the pan.

Well, you're welcome to deride it all you want, but since books like The Difference Engine were published in the early 90's, the genre is hardly a flash in the pan, no matter how much you hate Cory Doctorow.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 11:14 AM on July 7, 2008

Well, I did say you can deride steampunk it all you want, but that I thought calling it a flash in the pan was off the mark. You're more than welcome to hate it for whatever reasons you need to hate it for.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 1:39 PM on July 7, 2008

Fuel costs inspire era of dirigible dreamers.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 2:11 PM on July 7, 2008

On a related note, can someone out there who has bought an iTouch tell me if they're disappointed they didn't go for an iPhone instead?
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 8:23 AM on July 7, 2008

Tor disagrees.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 6:21 AM on July 6, 2008

Yeah, but good luck to him trying to find a job. Maybe he can telecommute.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 11:41 AM on July 5, 2008

I bet the Freepers, if they even care, would feel just as stunned as we do if they looked at this thread, which is filled with as much hate as theirs is filled with love of the man. Surely we can't be talking about the same person, can we? It's ironic that they seem to debate whether Helms was a polarizing figure.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 6:05 AM on July 5, 2008

One third is fucked in the head to the other two thirds, no matter who your advocate is.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 11:38 AM on July 5, 2008