Is this a broached levee?
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 9:17 PM on September 3, 2005

Lord, that is some ugly knitting. *shudder*. Learn to purl. Learn about gauge. Please.
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 7:47 AM on August 12, 2005

Man, the colors for May suck. It's spring! Let's be pukey green colors!
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 9:59 AM on April 20, 2004

I'm all woozy now. Neat, though.
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 2:32 PM on February 4, 2004

This is very cool. Oslo's a beautiful place, but hoskala's entirely correct about the beer (and everything else) being goddamn expensive..
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 4:56 PM on November 3, 2003

Right from that linked article: "One in five men in prison has been sexually abused, often by other inmates. Rates for women, who are most likely to be abused by male staff, reach as high as one in four in some facilities."
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 10:01 AM on September 5, 2003

The article's dated today, but the shooting happened on March 15th ("The March 15 incident almost immediately sparked an outcry in Shreveport's black community"). Is there new info here I'm missing, or is it just a slow news day in New Orleans?
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 9:39 AM on July 30, 2003

no no.. dedicated would be doing that routine with a cat.
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 10:23 AM on June 24, 2003

Finally I can play "qigong" in Scrabble (my family plays with the Oxford, not that little Scrabble dictionary). Another word that starts with q- not qu-!
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 7:53 AM on June 17, 2003

If you liked Into Thin Air, you should read Everest guide Anatoli Boukreev's book The Climb, which is his rebuttal of Krakauer's story. Basically, Krakauer accused Boukreev of ignoring the clients in order to further his personal goal of summiting without oxygen, and Boukreev's defense is quite an amazing story.
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 5:13 PM on May 22, 2003

Snopes.com debunks it.
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 1:36 PM on April 17, 2003

Oh yeah, sorry. I had to run to a meeting so my comment was terser than it should have been.

Is there evidence on that clip that it's CG, or is it just a stuffed cat? I originally thought stuffed cat, but I don't really know how to tell if something's CG (yes, I am the ideal marketing target audience..).
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 3:08 PM on April 17, 2003

Iax, the original video zoomed out at the end to show that it was being recorded on a Nokia phone, then went to a Nokia splash screen. This version has that part removed.
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 5:35 PM on April 17, 2003

From the article:

"O'Connor Kelly is well acquainted with the often bitter debate over balancing privacy rights with other interests. She joined DoubleClick in February 2000 after the Federal Trade Commission launched an investigation into complaints that the company was improperly storing and sharing private user data. DoubleClick also was embroiled in similar investigations by 12 state attorneys general and several class-action lawsuits.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 2:52 PM on April 16, 2003

What a gorgeous page. I taught myself to make chainmail several years ago through bad geocities pages - I'd have killed to have this level of detail available. And yes, it's boring, and my hands always smelled of metal. I eventually acquired a dent in my thumbnail from where I'd push the links closed. But hey, I've got some seriously gorgeous bracelets and thingies now - guaranteed to frighten any potential suitors with evidence of my obsessive-compulsive jewellery-making disorder (OCJMD).
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 9:29 AM on April 14, 2003

Just in case someone thinks I'm a superhero, I was bending 24-gauge wire against my fingernail, not coat hanger wire.. and I bought the links premade at the local bead store.
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 10:53 AM on April 14, 2003

My local indie video store has twice the selection of Blockbuster, snotty knowledgeable film student staffers, cheap prices, 2-for-1 rentals with my "I support the student radio station" card, a frequent-renter card (rent 5 and get the 6th half-price), AND they give me back a buck if I bring movies back early. I don't understand why my next-door neighbors still walk 10 blocks more to go to Blockbuster.
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 9:07 AM on April 8, 2003

Article from Oregonlive.com: "Unconnected to the investigation of Hawash are his donations three years ago to an Islamic charity now under FBI scrutiny. Last year, the U.S. Treasury Department shut down Illinois-based Global Relief Foundation, saying some money was used to support terrorist activities. One of Global Relief's founders, Rabih Haddad, is in federal custody in Michigan, fighting deportation after a judge ruled he was an associate of terrorists.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 2:02 PM on March 31, 2003

We've got them in Calgary as well.. I've accidentally wandered into stores that accept them, but have never had the opportunity to earn any.
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 3:03 PM on March 15, 2003

Or you could try to build your own, maybe with some help from this Yahoo group.
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 10:06 AM on March 7, 2003

VelvetHellvis, you forgot the Capitalised Letters of Important Words. Like in Winnie the Pooh, you know?
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 12:17 PM on February 19, 2003

Monkey Radio is back indeed, and he's doing an interesting survey of his listeners. He wants everyone to send in a list of all the albums they bought because of his radio station - tracks you liked, artists you'd never heard of, etc. He's trying to prove to the RIAA that net radio stations actually cause people to (gasp) go out and buy music!

Also apparently all the tracks he plays are from CDs he owns, which is pretty uncommon, I'd imagine.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 1:19 PM on February 12, 2003

I recall reading that they didn't have a Canadarm on board, so they were unable to spacewalk to check the damage. It's quite possible that this mission was not equipped with the necessities to do spacewalking.

Also discussed here.
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 11:12 AM on February 3, 2003

Thanks for the concrete info, ursus.
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 11:15 AM on February 3, 2003

wanderingmind, it seems to me that the smaller the binder, the higher the price. I used to try to make notebooks for university the way you make sketchbooks, but wanted small ones. I eventually found myself raiding recycling bins for blank paper and getting the paper cut and spiral-bound at the local copy shop. You might want to do the same - the copy shops usually charge a per-cut fee to use the die cutter, which gives you nice, evenly-sized small sheets, and then a per-book charge to get the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 10:47 AM on January 16, 2003

This fun list informs me that I cannot bring my catapult in either the checked OR unchecked luggage. Pity. Also, whips cannot be be checked.. in case of whip detonation in the cargo hold?

The knitting needle issue seems to be a spot decision - sometimes they'll let me on with them, sometimes they won't. I usually ask when I check in. I note that although they won't let me have 6" wooden knitting needles, they'll still let me take pencils and pens on-board --... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 7:37 AM on January 15, 2003

And of course the immense RecipeSource -- new home of the Searchable Online Archive of Recipes (SOAR). My usual method is to find 5-10 recipes for whatever dish I want to make, then mix-n-match ingredients until I come up with the Ultimate Recipe (tm).

It appears that they're still working on bringing the site over from SOAR, so please be patient if it's slow. It's worth it.
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 8:15 AM on November 27, 2002

Another graft link, and an interesting thought from the grafter: "This opened up a whole range of questions I would never have considered until this came up," Macdonald said. "I myself started to wonder whether this tree will really mean the same because it's been removed from their sacred ground, propagated by us in different soil at the University of British Columbia, and then been moved back again."
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 9:05 AM on October 31, 2002

I used to use Geiss, but it killed my computer. I should try it again now that I've got more than 16Mb RAM. It's especially good when you have a mic plugged in and noisy co-workers.

I'm really sad that Electric Sheep doesn't work on Win - does anyone have anything as simply beautiful for us poor Windows (l)users? I might have to install linux now just for that 'saver.
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 12:43 PM on September 22, 2002

We only played games designed to tire out children. My favorite was "donkey ball" - just like kickball but with a bat. Man, can you knock those red and green playground balls into the stratosphere with a bat! Once you'd whomped it a couple of blocks outside the schoolyard, you'd run around the bases accumulating runs until the other team got the ball back and tagged you out. We'd frequently have scores in the triple digits.

Another game was "star... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 9:00 AM on August 8, 2002

crunchland, thanks for the years you've taken off my life.

(bangs head on desk)
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 2:49 PM on June 28, 2002

And catnip, jennyb. Gotta get'em jacked up!
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 10:34 AM on June 21, 2002

No, but thanks for the laugh..
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 2:08 PM on June 20, 2002

I thought "Information Superhighway" was the most overused catchphrase ever, until this "War on Terrorism" thing came along. Stop. Please stop.
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 10:14 AM on June 18, 2002

banished, s/he's not ripping on anyone else's work. The "WTF" link at the bottom of the front page leads to this:

"What the hell is badphotoshoppery.com?
This site is an image repository for the many stupid images I have made. Most of these images were created in the context of something else, don't get hung up if you don't get the joke."
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 9:27 AM on June 18, 2002

Banished, yeah, I too was excited by a repository of bad photoshopping until I hit that link. :) Seems to be some sort of somethingawful inside jokery.
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 9:41 AM on June 18, 2002

Although I'm not totally surprised, it's still a little disgusting that he'd pick a film entirely about "BUY MORE STAR WARS TOYS".
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 7:29 AM on May 13, 2002

I was in Scotland last year, during the first breakout of that Kylie song, and the second-most-overplayed song was by DJ Otli (or something):

Heeeeey-heeey baybee..
(oooh, aaah)
I wanna kno-o-ow..
If you'll be my girl..

It played in the malls. It was on the radio. The kids in the playground next to our flat sang it all day long. People in the bars spontaneously burst into song.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 6:18 AM on May 9, 2002

Thanks for the link; I've not heard of Doubletake before, but it looks like there are some good articles to read there. I quite like how Carly Simon said that lyrics that rhyme make listeners comfortable - I hadn't thought about it before, but it makes perfect sense.
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 6:37 AM on November 4, 2001

I'm dual Canadian/American and I'm currently living in Scotland doing job training with people from all over the world, including some Americans.

I'd just come back inside and one of the Americans said "we've been bombed". I didn't understand what he was talking about until he elaborated that a small plane had hit the WTC and it was thought to be a terrorist action. We originally thought that a 2-seater had hit the tower.

We all started checking... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 5:10 AM on September 18, 2001

It will be able to copulate (have sex), but it will be sterile. Rough life.
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 3:35 PM on June 26, 2001

Radio Paradise is my second-favorite, behind MonkeyRadio. They play "eclectic intelligent rock" from a farmhouse in California somewhere. You can rate songs, tell the DJ why you like certain songs more than others, and see the entire playlist.

And they broadcast through winamp, NOT realplayer.
posted to MetaFilter by some chick at 9:29 AM on June 20, 2001