MeFi comment:
""I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the V.P. does every day?"
-- Sarah Palin, on being the possible vice presidential..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by showbiz_liz, phrontist
6 minutes ago
MeFi comment:
"EarBucket: "Palin's a Hail Mary pass, but it's the right play. She's got some pretty serious negatives, though. She'd seem to negate McCain's experience argument"
maudlin: "The only things I can think of right now that would work..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by malaprohibita
3 ¾ hours ago
MeFi comment:
"scody: "Beware! Beware the hubris of elitist set design!"
MOAR LIKE SATANIC SET DESIGN, AMIRITE" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nfg
9 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"And I got a kick out of CNN's on-screen schedule just now:
NOW: Former President Bill clinton
NEXT: Stay-At-Home Mom
LATER: Joe Biden Accepts V.P. Nomination
What a tough act to follow. How will Biden manage?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by patr1ck
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Denver Police Halt Plot to Assasinate Obama
CBS4 has now learned at least four people are under arrest in connection with a possible plot to kill Barack Obama at his Thursday night acceptance speech in Denver. All are being held on either drug or..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by brain cloud
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Some random thoughts:
- I like how Biden's got McCain beat in terms of Senate service by nearly a decade. What was that about experience, again?
- Biden actually advised Kerry to choose McCain as his running mate last time around. Sure, McCain..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by tehloki, wastelands, teleri025, minervous, susiepie, headspace, Dragonness, mecran01
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"verycashman: "I think the best thing that has resulted from this so far is CNN's "zomg I broke the story" John King getting knocked down to mere mortal when his little zoom map board broke on him just now.
He was pounding on it with..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Those eyes! There's always something wrong with the eyes.
Also, I like how they try to distract you from the subtle creepiness of the normal model by following with the blatant creepiness of Horrible Sunburn Lady, Creepy-Toothed Sock-Head Girl,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by sir_rubixalot, sugarfish, Malor
9 days ago
MeFi post:
Artifacts from the Future
favorited 58 times, recently by kradeki, banter, tracert, ruelle, mike3k, todbot, drill_here_fore_seismics, graventy, boost ventilator, Mrmuhnrmuh, danb, webmutant, waxpancake, madamjujujive, 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, plexi, omegar, drezdn
10 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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favorited 43 times, recently by graventy, starzero, Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks, wires, AceRock, neetij, snowleopard
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"ZachsMind: "Brian Williams hasn't proven shit to me yet"
But he does come tantalizingly close.
Also, here is the post-9/11 clip mentioned in the article. Despite Stewart's protests to the contrary, I still think it's one of his finest..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by chiababe, CitizenD, Foci for Analysis, ZachsMind
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Good stuff. Reminds me of that faux-pharma segment on the Colbert Report.
Side effects may include:
dry mouth
bad humours
testicular myopia
Phantom Hands Syndrome
nostril inversion
hairy uvula
mild kidney explosions
warlock hump
Scrappy..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Heh, this post also reminded me of a school project I did with some friends way back when. We had to design a Powerpoint presentation for some corporation, explaining its products and business model and such.
Thus was Keystone Pharmaceuticals born,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Weebot
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"I found a bookmarklet awhile back that does this. Here's the code:
javascript:var a='';for(var ln=0;ln<document.links. length;ln++){var lk= document.links[ln];a+=ln+': <a href=\''+lk+'\' title=\''+lk.text+'\'>'+..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Deathalicious, chrisamiller
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"quin: "So... I wonder what that $1 bill is doing now. Is it still hanging out with the fish-hook, or was that just, you know, a one time thing for the photo?"
You know, I was going to be all clever and plug the bill's serial number into..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by quin
4 weeks ago
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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favorited 34 times, recently by Fenriss
Last month
MeFi comment:
"BEING COOL: A How-to Guide
The concept of coolness was founded on the following axioms:
Only cool people can determine if people are cool.
Uncool people do not understand the concept of being cool.
It is uncool to discuss what makes people cool...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wires
Last month
MeFi comment:
"PlusDistance: "Can we at least agree that Obama wants his family to be protected?"
Pffft. You Obamaniacs are all alike. Just eat up the propaganda, buy into that slick image without thinking. Can't you see that ol' Barry hooked up with..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by Dreama, Reverend John, scrump, Greg Nog, Muttoneer, dw, empath, Pope Guilty, turgid dahlia, five fresh fish
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Also, while I'm thinking of it, here's a very amusing Daily Show interview with author Jonah Goldberg, whose book Liberal Fascism inspired the National Review commenter in the last link in the FPP...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by hellslinger
Last month
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
Last month
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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favorited 13 times, recently by Sangermaine, KingoftheWhales
Last month
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
Last month
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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favorited 10 times, recently by Ctrl_Alt_ep, parhamr, sebastienbailard, delmoi, khaibit, jimmythefish, Faint of Butt, Korou, BrotherCaine, flapjax at midnite
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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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favorited 1 time, recently by stavrogin
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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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favorited 17 times
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
2 months ago
