Great article, thanks for sharing. The fluidity of our collective memory terrifies and enthralls me. I just wonder what other socially constructed histories haven't been uncovered and researched.
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 10:14 PM on October 3, 2008

Sometimes Japanese culture makes my brain feel like it's going to explode (with hilarious consequences).
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 9:25 AM on October 1, 2008

nitsuj,

Thank-you. Sobriety abolished. Mission accomplished.
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 7:49 PM on September 26, 2008

Your favorite internet meme sucks.
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 11:01 AM on September 26, 2008

Well, I for one feel totally assured that her former comment about Russia's proximity was just a out of context gaff.

(quietly invests in gold bullion, canned beans and shotguns shells)
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 11:48 PM on September 25, 2008

"I don't have to convince you to buy anything; you already own it," Mr. Schreiber says.

Wait...really? THAT is the business plan that is going to save the big labels?

Eh, 6 months from now, I'll go to the bargain bin at Target and buy two or three micro sd cards for a dollar. I'll wipe the shitty top-forty nonsense off them and use em for save games on my Wii. Anyone remember the days of free AOL 1.4 mb floppy disks?
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 2:17 PM on September 22, 2008

They made cassette to 8 track adaptors, it would be possible to go to 8-track from cassette; from cd-cassette adapter; from iPod car kit from iPod.

I've heard of that before. They called it a Hair Metal converter. It makes any song sound like screechy 80's butt rock.
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 10:00 AM on September 23, 2008

If you are planning on watching any of it just watch the link marked B and fast forward to 2:22. It's unreleased MB footage of Adam Savage attempting to sober up by being slapped and then footage of him running on a treadmill with 5 scotches in him.
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 11:43 PM on August 29, 2008

Alex: Jim you have the board.
Jim: Thanks Alex, I'll take "Ancient Mayan Ruins" for $600.
Alex: Deep in the heart of the Yucatan lies these caves, rumored to be the portal to Xibalba, the Mayan underworld.
Jim: What are "Creepy-ass Mayan Caves we probably shouldn't fuck with?"
Alex: That is correct, you still have the board.
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 9:40 PM on August 23, 2008

Casadevall himself agrees. " ...science is always cautious" he noted while holding a mushroom found inside of the radioactive bowels of a melted down nuclear power power plant.
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 8:43 AM on July 25, 2008

Seriously? I could excuse it if you were a seven year old or something. But the odds of a fetus signing up for mefi seem dubious at best.
Just lurk from now on dude. Please.
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 5:17 AM on July 17, 2008

Just another humbling reminder that we are all guests on this planet.
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 6:47 PM on June 4, 2008

Its cramped starfish-like inhabitants, tens of millions living arm tip to arm tip, owe their success to the seamount's shape and to the swirling circumpolar current flowing over and around it at roughly four kilometers per hour. It allows Brittlestar City's underwater denizens to capture passing food simply by raising their arms, and it sweeps away fish and other hovering would-be predators.

If only this happened with koalas.
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 2:31 PM on May 19, 2008

I support ending the WOD but I think anti-WOD folks need a hell of a better poster child than 75 people with $60 grand, a half-dozen firearms, and two kilos of coke in their bedroom.

I'd say that they make an ideal poster children for an anti-war on drugs campaign. The policy that busted them also enables them to accumulate huge sums of money, as well as necessitate the introduction of weapons to defend those huge ill-gotten sums.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 7:44 AM on May 9, 2008

Dealing pot/hash is ok by me, although it IS illegal.
Dealing cocaine is NOT ok, not by a long shot, those kids got what they deserved.

The arbitrary assignment of value by the Czar's office to different drugs is one of the elements of the drug war that makes it such a scourge. What if they had been dealing crack, would that be worse, better? The current policy says slaps 10x harsher sentences for crack, a different delivery system of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 8:34 AM on May 9, 2008

XQUZYPHYR: The problem with "crack addicted prostitutes" specifically as poster children for drug policy reform is that no one gives a shit about them. Don't get me wrong, these douche-nozzle, SMS using, asshole drug dealers are shitheads.
The reason they could be poster children is that without policy reform, they could be YOUR Southern California university drug bust tragedy son/daughter. White kids arrests spurred the Marijuana reform in the 1970 Comprehensive Drug... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 8:49 AM on May 9, 2008

The three boys, all home-schooled...

So, what we're looking for here is a factor that might have contributed to poor social skills. CLEARLY, the causative factor MUST be Marijuana.
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 7:09 AM on May 9, 2008

"so, what do you call your act?"

"THE ARISTOCRATS!"
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 6:39 PM on April 17, 2008

I would bet at least a dollar that the same people who can spew vitriolic hatred at this woman are the same people who lament how video games and non-stop media are causing childhood obesity. It's interesting how people can raise their children like veal calves and wonder how they ended up mal-adjusted and pudgy. Better yet, I bet these are the same parents who medicate their mal-adjusted pudgy children with drugs because they are mal-adjusted and pudgy. (begin recursive cycle of doom)... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 3:24 PM on April 12, 2008

Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between drug warriors and child molesters.

so true.
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 1:13 AM on April 3, 2008

For those who missed Brainy's flight of the Conchord's reference, it's
Business time!
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 6:50 PM on April 2, 2008

I seriously wonder how much of this article's traffic is comprised of people wondering if (insert favorite blog here) made the cut, as compared to interest in finding the BLOGS OF POWER!
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 3:02 PM on March 12, 2008

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posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 8:35 PM on March 10, 2008

Does anyone have access to a copy of SPSS and is willing to run these numbers? I'd love to see some of the outputs. Alas, alack, my student edition has expired.
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 4:18 PM on March 10, 2008

OCDconfessionfilter: My OCD tic is organizing things by color. I noticed this as a kid, as Halloween candy was more about making it organize perfectly, than about eating it.
This post kinda triggered a braingasm for me. I know it's terrible and extremely plebeian to do this to a library. But, it makes me so happy.
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 10:48 AM on March 4, 2008

USAFRICOM is Rumsfeld's darling love child to control Nigerian oil, and secure rights to military bases all over Africa. It's no wonder Bush is trying to charm the leaders of Africa to let the US secure a major military presence when the continent's oil reserves are taken into account.
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 11:37 PM on February 21, 2008

The best I science project I've ever come across was "How long can my goldfish survive without food?"

I just stared at it. I couldn't believe it passed the third grade ethics board.
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 10:11 PM on February 20, 2008

also, i'm nthing the sweater. Fucking Brilliant.
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 10:17 PM on February 20, 2008

I hope they eliminated the whole wave dash/ L cancel thing. That was one exploit I hated in SSB, took all the fun out of it for me.
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 10:34 PM on February 13, 2008

So does this mean the whole Jesus/salvation thing is off?

Everyone seems to be asking:
Why would God let lightening strike Jesus?

See, it was REALLY God reminding everyone that his son Jesus "took the hit" for mankinds sins. That lightening could have hit a home, a boat, or even a goat, but instead, Christ the Redeemer said "hey, a gajillion kilowatts of energy? BRING IT ON!"
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 1:13 PM on February 12, 2008

ny times:
"The long buildup to Annapolis, together with Ms. Rice’s many trips to the region, have given birth to a new verb in Israeli government circles: “lecondel,” meaning, to come and go for meetings that produce few results. The word is based on Ms. Rice’s first name."

Not an outstanding reputation to have. Much less one that recommends her for the office of VP.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 3:26 PM on February 10, 2008

I second and third everyone's thoughts. I was so excited to see a TD RPG, but the end product is a sort of hamstringed tower defense. I found that the rpg leveling aspects actually harmed the game, rather than make it more interesting. And the author seemed passionate about not being able to sell back towers in the interest of more strategy. I'm not sure what that is about. I kept waiting for it to be fun; not the hallmark of a good flash game.
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 2:42 AM on February 9, 2008

It's the way he says "Fills your face full of GOO!" that sent a shiver down my spine.
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 1:02 PM on February 8, 2008

Shouldn't this involve waffles?

See, a Belgian waffle to the face would be excellent. Not tragic and wrong, which is the theme of the game.
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 1:06 PM on February 8, 2008

This feels like a mother buying her overweight daughter skinny clothes to "inspire" her to lose weight. Lose the weight and you can eat at a nice place again. Nice, as if there weren't enough obese shut-ins already.
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 10:35 AM on February 1, 2008

The article didn't even touch on biotechnology. It mentions privacy issues and RFIDs. Yet, doesn't even mention that they are implantable. I think that bioinformatics will play a slightly larger roll in 2018 than obsolete gps technology or hi-res tvs.

Did the article even predict anything that doesn't exist or will exit within the next 2 years?
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 11:35 AM on January 31, 2008

The belt gun has got to be the most literal representation of a gun as a phallic object I have ever seen. I can just see this closeted homosexual Sheriff, looking at the Sears catalog and thinking to himself, "yeah, that's the way I want to put a bullet into a man."
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 10:04 AM on January 31, 2008

"Some see us drifting toward the all-powerful state, lulled by the sweet sound of “security.” Some see a need to curb our freedom lest it be used to shield those who plot against us. And some fear our freedom will be hard to save if a general war should come."

If this sort of thing interests you I highly recommend reading Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America". He predicted the rise in American... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 9:10 AM on January 31, 2008

Penny Arcade had it absolutely right. Different argument, same target demographic. Conservative pundits realize that demonizing the 20-30 male results in a backlash of millions of page views. Our collective indignance only fuels their drive to make more outlandish claims.
posted to MetaFilter by JimmyJames at 7:35 PM on January 30, 2008