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Quebec Margarine War Ends!
For 21 years Quebec has regulated the colour of margarine, insisting it be distinctly lighter or distinctly darker than butter... The stated reason has been to protect consumers from unscrupulous restaurateurs selling margarine as butter. The real reason was to protect the province's politically influential dairy industry.
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at 1:05 AM on July 11, 2008
(59 comments)
Help me learn Korean.
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at 12:34 AM on July 9, 2008
(5 comments)
I’ve seen men in fur suits masturbating on stuffed animals. I’ve seen high heels stepping on snails. I’ve seen women farting on birthday cakes. I’ve seen guys wearing white socks in two inches of water in the bathtub. I’ve seen a tutorial on how to jack-off with a pair of Keds. And I’ve seen some weird stuff, too. Isn’t there a line of some kind, where it just stops being sexy to anyone? And the answer it seems, is no.... Because there is
sexually explicit salmon hentai. NSFW.
Via FG blog.
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at 12:41 PM on June 10, 2008
(87 comments)
TeamPages
Teampages is social networking and online management service for amateur sport organizations. Its tools allow you to easily organize your schedules, and communicate with your leagues.
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at 3:00 PM on June 6, 2008
iPod / iTunes help (Windows)... After Mrs. KokuRyu dumped her iPod nano in the toilet, I bought her a new one. I had an iPod nano myself, but I lost it. Prior to that, I had an iPod shuffle, which I still own and would like to continue to use. ***Before I hook up the new iPod for Mrs. KokuRyu, do I have to deauthorize the old iPods? Is there anything I should do?*** As well, we have music libraries bought on iTunes spread across three computers, and the music is all encoded using Apple's AAC.
posted to Ask Metafilter by KokuRyu
at 1:05 PM on May 10, 2008
(6 comments)
Alien Images Appear On Wall In Calgary
"I looked out and I thought, 'Oh my gosh, I've lost my mind,'" resident Karen Henuset said of the first time she saw the specters. "So I asked our nanny to come and take a look at this, and the hair on her arms just stood straight up."(photo) (video)
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at 3:06 PM on May 2, 2008
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Mole Man to pay £300,000 for burrowing under home.
A retired engineer nicknamed “Mole Man”, because of his fondness for burrowing tunnels under his home
(video), has been ordered to pay almost £300,000 to the local council (he lives in London) after his hobby nearly caused his house to collapse
(article with a few photos). William Lyttle, 77, spent 40 years excavating a maze of tunnels beneath his
20-room Victorian property in
Hackney, East London, before the council intervened.
"I often used to joke that I expect him to come tunnelling up through the kitchen floor," said Marc Beishon, who lives a few yards from William Lyttle's house,
in 2006, when the Mole Man was first ordered to stop.
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at 10:33 PM on April 18, 2008
(31 comments)
Limited nuclear war would damage ozone layer.
Apart from the human devastation, a small-scale nuclear war between India and Pakistan would destroy much of the ozone layer, leaving the DNA of humans and other organisms at risk of damage from the Sun's rays,
say researchers at the
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics.
Michael Mills at the LASP and his colleagues used computer models to study how 100 Hiroshima-sized bombs would affect the atmosphere.
They say that their scenario – in which each country launches 50 devices of 15 kilotons – is realistic, given the countries' nuclear arsenals.
"The figure of 100 Hiroshima-sized bombs compares pretty accurately to the approximately 110 warheads that both states reportedly possess between them," agrees Wyn Bowen, professor of non-proliferation and international security in the War Studies Group at King's College, UK.
Here is an
earlier 2006 report by Michael Mills about the devastating effect even a limited nuclear war would have on the ozone layer.
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at 12:23 PM on April 9, 2008
(55 comments)
The
Every Child Matters Education Fund, a non-profit organization that lobbies for better education and services for children,
released a report (audio accompanies link text) this week that reveals that geography is as important as race and class in determining which children succeed, and which fail.
The five highest ranking states, based on such factors as child poverty, infant mortality rates, juvenile incarceration rates and the like, were all in New England, with Vermont on top. The bottom five were all in the central South, with Louisiana coming in last... States with a high tax burden did a far better job of minimizing childhood poverty than low-taxing states.
Via John Ibbitson in the Globe and Mail
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at 3:18 PM on April 4, 2008
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According to the English language edition of the Asahi Shimbun,
an Israeli airstrike against Syria last September targeted a nuclear-related facility that was under construction with technical assistance from North Korea, according to Israel's prime minister...It is apparently the first time that the intended target had been disclosed to the head of a foreign government. Original Japanese link
here.
Via the wonderful
Marmot's Hole.
posted to MetaFilter by KokuRyu
at 3:09 PM on April 1, 2008
(15 comments)
I'd like to learn more about airline flight paths around the world. Does this information exist on the web?
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at 12:01 PM on February 6, 2008
(10 comments)
I bought a Wii in Japan, but will use it in Canada. Can I still download Virtual Console games? Two questions inside....
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at 3:53 PM on January 11, 2008
(5 comments)
I am in Japan and want to buy a new cellphone to take back to Canada. I have an existing plan with Rogers in Canada, and I want to take the SIM card from my crappy Motorola and put it into a new phone brought back from Japan. How can I make sure whatever phone I buy will work with my Roger's SIM card?
posted to Ask Metafilter by KokuRyu
at 5:36 PM on December 21, 2007
(7 comments)
What modernist classical music should I listen to? I am a big fan of Sigur Ros, especially Takk and (), and I'd like to listen to something similar. I also like Amnesiac by Radiohead quite a bit.
posted to Ask Metafilter by KokuRyu
at 5:32 PM on November 25, 2007
(44 comments)
I'm trying to find a Mapplethorpe photo online: it's a black&white photo of an aircraft carrier steaming out of San Francisco harbour. Anyone know what I'm talking about? It's grainy greyscale, but the identification of the call numbers stand out beautifully.
posted to Ask Metafilter by KokuRyu
at 12:12 PM on November 17, 2007
(10 comments)
Flock 1.0 is out
Flock is a social networking browser that allows users to combine and interact with their favorite online networking sites easily. It's based on the Mozilla platform (the Gecko rendering engine), and was developed by talented folks in my hometown of Victoria, BC, which makes me proud.
posted to Projects by KokuRyu
at 5:59 PM on November 9, 2007
The Yamanote Halloween Train vs. Japanese Netizen Rage
The Yamanote Halloween Train party was planned to be held on Saturday night in Tokyo. However, sometime on Saturday morning, the Japanese megaforum 2ch.net discovered an English-language post about the event on
JapanProbe, and translated the information about it into Japanese, igniting a raging storm of anti-foreign hatred and sending over 10,000 visitors to the popular English-language blog about Japan. Scroll down for an interview with a JR employee about the event.
posted to MetaFilter by KokuRyu
at 10:18 PM on October 28, 2007
(39 comments)
SchmoozeFilter: How can I interact intelligently with VIPs and other (self-) important people at networking events? Are there any salespeople out there who can help me? (I'm a government worker operating at the interface between the operational and the political, and much of my work involves protecting sources of funding).
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at 9:59 PM on October 23, 2007
(9 comments)
Gamma rays make certain microscopic fungi grow faster
Researchers have found that melanin—the same pigment that's the natural ultraviolet filter in people's skin—might enable some fungi to harness the energy of gamma radiation as well as to shield themselves from it.
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at 8:31 AM on October 20, 2007
(24 comments)
Why does my snot taste like propane?
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at 5:58 PM on October 16, 2007
(8 comments)
The Mahikari Hoax
The Harvard Asia Quarterly tells
the story of Fujimura Shinichi, a once-renowned amateur Japanese archaeologist nicknamed 'God's Hands' (神の手） for his seemingly preternatural talent for finding artifacts, who was caught planting planting stone tools, some of which he had fabricated himself, others he had taken from other sites, at an archaeological dig in
Miyagi, northern Japan.
posted to MetaFilter by KokuRyu
at 5:59 AM on October 6, 2007
(25 comments)
GTA anime mod
A video of a Grand Theft Auto mod with gun toting anime girls and deadly Pikachu/Doraemon attacks. Via the ever-wonderful
Japan Probe.
posted to MetaFilter by KokuRyu
at 2:22 PM on September 24, 2007
(22 comments)
I need help installing a printer driver. It used to be installed, but it is not anymore. Machine has XP Pro installed.
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at 6:57 PM on September 4, 2007
(2 comments)
Kinder Morgan oil pipeline ruptured near Vancouver, British Columbia
Thick, black oil dripped from lampposts, splattered across suburban lawns and crept into
Burrard Inlet after a geyser of crude spewed from a burst Kinder Morgan pipeline Tuesday.
[google news]
Work crews ripped into the
TransMountain pipeline about 12:30 p.m., causing the oil to "explode," as one witness put it, from the ground and burble up from manholes, pouring down streets toward the ocean, according to witnesses.
Kinder Morgan bought the pipeline from a Canadian utility in 2005, and is known as a
"poster child for pipeline problems."
More
Kinder Morgan accidents.
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at 5:43 PM on July 24, 2007
(38 comments)
How should I prepare for behavioral questions in a job interview?
posted to Ask Metafilter by KokuRyu
at 2:34 PM on July 9, 2007
(15 comments)
White Stripes play Toronto YMCA
The duo of
Meg and Jack White snuck in through the back entrance of an auditorium at a downtown YMCA in Toronto at about 3:30 p.m. Thursday for the latest in a cross-country barrage of small secret shows as part of their Canadian tour. During the short set, Jack pulled four of the children up to the makeshift stage to sing and show off the masks the campers had been creating before the arrival of the rock stars. In recent weeks the band has played on a bus in Winnipeg, at a bowling alley in Saskatoon and in a youth centre in Edmonton.
Previously.
posted to MetaFilter by KokuRyu
at 8:29 PM on July 5, 2007
(52 comments)
PM Stephen Harper’s Canada Day greeting
Harper adopts a hawkish,
true-blue Tory tone for this year's Canada Day greeting, with an uncharacteristic (for a Canadian) shout-out to God:
From championships in hockey to humanitarian and
military leadership roles in Afghanistan and
Haiti, we can say again this year, Canada is a citizen of the world and we make our contribution a positive one.
And why shouldn`t we? From the natural wealth of the land that
God created, to the talents, energy and imagination of people drawn from all the nations of the earth, we are a country that has been truly blessed.
posted to MetaFilter by KokuRyu
at 11:16 AM on July 3, 2007
(75 comments)
