MeFi post:
Artifacts from the Future
favorited 45 times, recently by Monochrome, fizzix, mikespez, damo, reductiondesign, sleeping bear, sentient, Del Far, Araucaria, griphus, stet, parilous, donovan, jmdodd, mikeh, kurmbox, Heatwole, Cassilda, nicolin, slimepuppy, chuckdarwin, jontyjago, davemee, myopicman, PostIronyIsNotaMyth, omarr, ottereroticist, cribcage, Robin Kestrel, RikiTikiTavi, zippy, ddaavviidd, jkaczor, Kronos_to_Earth, sciatica, hal9k, MikeKD, drhydro, jack_mo, intermod, Minus215Cee, _dario, plexi, omegar, drezdn
10 hours ago
MeTa comment:
"abqnative: Hey, Mefite, what's your usernumber?
vachement: 61047.
abqnative: No way! Mine's 64008!
*they laugh heartily*
Y!A user: *laughs nervously* ...I don't get it.
abqnative: We're both expressible as the sum of two cubes!..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by librarina, artifarce, typewriter, drezdn, Bromius, seanyboy, Hadroed, tomboko, lukemeister
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I got a kick out of this Metacritic user review:
K BASS gave it a 1:
I do not know what movie everyone else saw but the WALL-E I saw with my two children ages 13 and 9, offended me and my kids on so many levels. We felt we had been cheated and..." [
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9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Here's what I never understood about this argument: Israel allows gays to serve openly in their military with no restrictions or hush-ups or anything. And yet the Israeli military is just about the most kickass fighting force in the Middle East,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Senor Cardgage
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The EPA made the changes in two steps. First, in 2004, the agency cut the estimated value of a life by 8 percent. Then, in a rule governing train and boat air pollution this May, the agency took away the normal adjustment for one year's inflation...." [
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11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I find this entire situation hilarious. It happens every month or so, whenever a Wikipedia is mentioned in any notable media source (the funnier, the worse), and l33tpolicywonk's use of "lockdown" just hit the nail on the head in terms of..." [
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2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
""For fuck's sake, Clinton even managed to get this right.
spiderwire: "Bill Clinton didn't exactly "get this right," though he didn't necessarily get it wrong, either. For example, being squirrelly under oath or pardoning..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by zardoz, phrontist, Blazecock Pileon
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"a robot made out of meat: "How did McCain vote?
He didn't, as far as I'm aware.
Sometimes in legislative business you have to vote for imperfect legislation because it's the best that you can get. It was important that a version of this..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by jock@law, kittyprecious, spiderwire
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"If you go by population alone, the sheep are already firmly in control.
I pity whoever may be foolish enough to challenge them." [
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2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"krinklyfig: "That seems like sound policy! Give our rights away now, but have faith that someone will win an election and give them back later! History teaches that's usually the way these things go. Even if Obama has to be corrupt now, he can..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by skammer, spiderwire
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Blazecock Pileon: "Via Reddit:
1. "He voted to re-affirm and extend the PATRIOT Act.
2a. "He does not support the Iraq War but has voted to continue funding it. 2b. He does support the Afghan War.
3. "He now supports FISA..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by skammer
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Slap Factory: "I don't think that's accurate. He actually proposed on the floor of the Senate in January 2007 (when he was positioning for the Democratic nomination rather than a victory in the general election) that he wanted all combat troops..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by skammer, EarBucket
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Hooray for YouTube!
Wall-E at work
EVE's arrival
FOREIGN CONTAMINANT
Dancing
The Repair Ward
The Space Pod
Directive (spoilers)
All 6 promotional..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Mike1024, rzklkng
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I just installed a great Firefox extension that does much the same thing using Google Translate. You just press Alt and click on a word to get a little pop-up bubble with the translation, or highlight a section to translate it all. You can also..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by miss lynnster
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I remember that story well, kosher_jenny. Though I always took it to be more of a gross-out "gotcha!" than something really disturbing.
You want disturbing? I'll give you disturbing:
HAROLD
by Alvin Schwartz
(Requisite creepy..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by supercrayon, whir, olya
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Just when you thought the story couldn't get any more interesting, as the two, man and bear, made it to shore a person with a backhoe showed up out of nowhere according to Warwick. They loaded the animal into the backhoe and then into an FWC truck...." [
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3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"I got the 16GB Touch, myself, and I'm very happy with it. I had a competent (if aging) phone already, and didn't want to be tied down to AT&T. Plus, my campus is drenched with signal, so the lack of EDGE wasn't a problem. And although it seemed..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mooza
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"cowbellemoo: "Oooh, and anyone else dig the 'evolution of art' thing during the credits? Cave painting > hieroglyphics > Renaissance > Impressionism > Modernisme mosaic > ?"
Don't forget the 8-bit sprites at the end.
I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Maybe they're all just really weirded out by something... something RIGHT BEHIND YOU.
o_O" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by grabbingsand
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"I believe it's the same principle that makes iPod click wheels and iPhone touch screens work. So I guess you could operate your iPod touch with a hot dog stylus, if you were so inclined. It would leave some pretty nasty prints, though......" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pinback
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"All that talking about the theme and I didn't even link to Psyche Rock. For shame!" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"This sounds largely symbolic. Now, if the state government over there has anything to worry about, it's the goddamned feral chickens on Kauai. They're everywhere.
Watching.
Plotting.
Clucking.
We think they're harmless. But they have us..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dawiz
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I love the Creature Creator, but I realized I was feeling a little creatively challenged as I was downloading it. So I pulled up a list of unusual English words as inspiration! Some choice ones I found so far:
chirotonsor - "An alternate..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by artifarce
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Flunkie: "He lost the popular voteThat is only true if you count the Michigan votes for her, and zero Michigan votes for him."
And you have to ignore all the caucus states. That's why Clinton said that she had recieved the most..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by tachikaze
Last month
MeFi comment:
"One day soon, without warning, you will be confronted with a cryptic text written in bone-white letters, surrounded by a deceptively soothing shade of blue. The blue will lull you into a sense of peace and security, but the words it bears are fated..." [
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"When I was a kid in elementary school (Florida, as it happens), there was a boy in our class by the name of Puck. His last name was about as bad.
You can imagine how that turned out for him.
He was treated as a goofy slob by everybody,..." [
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favorited 32 times, recently by lalochezia, papafrita
Last month
MeFi comment:
"cjets: "now let's just hope to God that HC doesn't get a VP nod.
Why? He won. But she's a close second. In fact, she's the strongest runner-up in democratic primary history. What better way of demonstrating unity among democrats than to name..." [
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"I think it's pretty amazing that Obama will be accepting the Democratic nomination forty-five years to the day after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream Speech". I mean, goddamn that is some potent symbolism right there.
Also, WTF..." [
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favorited 21 times, recently by liza, grapefruit, notjustfoxybrown, Telf
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I've mentioned these quotes previously, but what the hell, they're relevant:
Suddenly, from behind the rim of the Moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate sky-blue..." [
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favorited 24 times
Last month
Ask comment:
"yay dinosaur comix!
And here's the Wiki article the alt-text of the comic refers to." [
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favorited 1 time
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Cities are not people. But, like people, cities have their own personalities: in some cases one city has many different personalities -- there are a dozen Londons, a crowd of different New Yorks.
A city is a collection of lives and buildings, and..." [
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favorited 4 times
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I pressed the button and heard the word: "Sig-net".
Oh, easy, I thought. Signet, like the book company. A signet ring. I typed it in.
But then, the definition -- a young swan? And a warning: "Please pay careful attention to the..." [
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favorited 3 times
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Ragma: ""I feel sorry for those who are atheists. Rather than being smarter, atheism reflects a poverty of thought, and a lack of appreciation of the universe, including of love and evil."
That is pure gold. Who didn't laugh? Show..." [
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"There's also Metasoft Wordfilter for all your hilarious snark word processing needs." [
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"I don't understand. The point of GWAP's games is to process computer-unfriendly tasks like image identification and linguistic analysis using input from many thousands of people, yes? So what's the point of sticking those tools behind a registration..." [
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"Holy crap!
I was reading this post in Google Reader, and in absentminded boredom typed out "↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A".
And I was rewarded with NINJAS.
FUCK. YES...." [
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Last month
Ask comment:
"The Dune series covers tens of thousands of years of human history, including tremendous social and political upheavals. There are also a handful of characters that survive from era to era and help to create a unified narrative.
The Space Odyssey..." [
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favorited 1 time
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'd like to see an Encyclopedia of Internet Philosophy.
"whut is the sound of 1 fag lollin???"
"Top 10 Chuck Norris conjectures"
"lolrus living: the search for the bucket inside us all"
"longcat is long...." [
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2 months ago
