What is disturbing is that she is an actress, playing a role. So one of those roles was an adults only joke, and another role is aimed at kids. How is this any different than any other actress? That NSFW clip isn't her stating her beliefs, that is her, as an actress, playing a part.

So, when Alice Cooper was on the Muppets, that was okay - but this....isn't?
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 2:45 PM on July 22, 2006

oh, ugh. Except in circumstances where you are only known as 'Emma and Leigh's mom", ie, when you meet for the first time the parents of your kid's friends, why, oh why would anyone want to define themselves only in terms of their relationship with their children?

Remove the twee graphics and the "somebody's mommy" tagline, and these are essentially an updated version of social cards, which have been around for decades and are very useful things to have... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 8:03 AM on July 10, 2006

dog food sugar, I guess the big problem with them is that it is really only women that get reduced to being a valid human being by virtue of their relationship to other people, specifically their children. These cards are created by a man that runs his own (home based?) business, but he isn't printing cards for men that define themselves as "Matthew, Susie and Pixie's Dad" - he is specifically targeting women as needing this product.

So the underlying... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 8:31 AM on July 10, 2006

The issue isn't about having a handy way to give someone your contact info - I think everyone here, on both sides of the debate would agree that it is a handy thing, to be able to give someone a condensed list of how to contact you and that there is nothing wrong with using social cards - athought technically, social cards don't have contact information on them, just one's name. Preferably engraved by those nice people at Birks.

The bigger issue is that of context and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 9:10 AM on July 10, 2006

She is in my friends list as well. I added her because of her garden/flower pics, and for the same reason I add other strangers - I like people who have an interesting POV, and she does, beyond the 'being famous' stuff.
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 11:31 PM on April 28, 2006

I am female, and i thought this was great! I think most women don't do self exams precisely because there is that notion of, "Oh, I am probably not doing this right." I've done them, and i have had them done, but I have never seen one done, and it turns out to be very helpful. Plus the model is very cheery, which is always a plus.
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 12:48 PM on April 26, 2006

We are oddly beautiful, inside.
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 6:41 AM on July 1, 2005

Need blind admissions and schools like Harvard offering free tuition for students whose parents make under $40 000.00 a year tell me that higher education is already changing for the better. Seems to me in 2 years Joe could have lived at home, worked like a dog, and paid off enough of those loans that he could then go forward with his glorious future. Or, he could have chosen a perfectly good education at a less expensive school.

I don't think his financial folly will... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 2:38 PM on March 22, 2004

Yeah! I was a Classics major in University, so this thread makes me very happy! And while there isn't a lot of need for latin in day to day life, it is great training for logical thinking, translating your medical charts, and when listed on a resume gives your interviewer something to talk about.

And there are so many jobs listed in the newspaper for Latin speakers! Just look in the want ads, under 'Restaurant Help needed'.
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 8:18 PM on December 1, 2003

Some of the victims were found in Oregon, weren't they - a death penalty state, I think. I am generally not pro-death penalty, but I remember the fear when these women started going missing and part of me hopes he is convicted in Oregon.

I am with Orange Swan - a lot of value judgements that have no place ina murder investigation. And something about the list of Jane Doe victims just brings tears to my eyes.
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 1:21 PM on November 5, 2003

silusGROK, my heart goes out to you and your family.
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 3:40 PM on November 5, 2003

I want one of these! I am only about 5'9", but I have really long legs, and when the person in front of me reclines their seat, that seat sits on top of my kneecaps.

Frankly, airplane seats do not need to be reclined. Behaviour on airplanes is plenty tacky enough without the rudeness of the reclining people, both the to the ones who sit behind them and the ones sitting next to them.
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 12:29 PM on October 25, 2003

I hear he is a bit of adrinker.
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 5:49 AM on October 11, 2003

I vote ... seriously uncool. Uncool to disrupt the work of low paid service industry workers just to get one's jollies, and uncool because flash mobs in stores make it really easy for the people who show up to avail themselves of the shoplifting possibilities.
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 6:37 AM on July 31, 2003

I was a pretty active 3WA participant back in the day, 2 or 3 years ago - I think I might have been the first member. The board took off, and the membership grew, and between the number of threads started every day, and incessant reloading to participate in 'threaded conversations', along with other popular boards closing down (Hissyfit) and their members migrating en masse to 3WA, the bandwidth costs must be enormous. And for the last few years, the owners of the site have paid for it out of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 2:41 PM on June 3, 2003

If the consensus is that most people know they are gay from a very early age, isn't a nice idea to show kids that being gay is a normal thing to be?
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 7:25 PM on June 18, 2002

Er...most people that are gay know they are gay from a very early age ...
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 7:26 PM on June 18, 2002

I am planning on having a series of tats done on my lower GI tract - inner body tattoo, man, it is the last tat frontier.
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 8:14 AM on June 15, 2002

"nice" doesn't equal "doormat". I married the nicest man I ever met, although that isn't really proof against the whole 'nice guys finishing last' thing.
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 7:17 PM on June 13, 2002

I think the girl you are referring to is Jacqui Saburido (link found via Pineapple).
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 4:39 PM on June 12, 2002

Fly first class - I had lobster with butter sauce last time I did. You get what you pay for.
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 5:15 AM on May 20, 2002

Is this it? Because I have seen pictures of people dying their bichons to look like this. Can't get to the angelfire link.
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 8:40 AM on April 5, 2002

I love my alma mater! Of course, this doesn't beat the UBC prof who did his ph.d work on the history of beer.
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 7:20 PM on June 14, 2000

I think I want a job at Salon....firing 13 people to save 7 million dollars? Sounds like the salaries are pretty comfortable over there!
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 3:24 PM on June 8, 2000

Why is being naked such a big deal in America - big enough that exhibit viewers, who all have genitalia themselves, and see and handle both their own and their lover's equipment every day, cannot see this exhibit as it was intended?

And why is it ok to exhibit a Kouros, but not okay to exhibit a willingly nude live man next to it?
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 1:50 PM on May 25, 2000

All of this is very strange to me. A forum on Slashdot is open for the express purpose of asking Mr. Zeldman questions, and all anyone can think of, or focus on, is what he is doing with his personal site.

When people start criticising personal sites, I suddenly get a mental image of a big glass house and a pile of stones. Your mileage may vary.

Someone here brought the same personal site comments to this forum, with the comment, "I look forward... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 2:29 PM on May 15, 2000

I am confused. How is it copyright theft for Microsoft to set up a site called digitaldiva, but not theft for someone to own mattl.com, one letter off of mattel. (devil's advocate, like).
And, how they can complain about theft after taking the digitaldivas name, since there was for years a magazine called DigitalDivas, since they have been, in fact, infringing on the publication's trademark.


posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 5:11 PM on May 10, 2000

It seems strange to me, that so many comments hee are directed at how this game won't hurt men -

I don't think the point was "Will this software damage our sons", I think the point of the original post was, "How offensive IS this to women"?

My vote is, very offensive.
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 3:15 PM on May 5, 2000

Well, you know, Eric, I have been wrong before :)

I don't think that people are over reacting. This is a 'game' in which the sole objective is to manipulate professional women out of their clothing. This is more than just a bimbo portrayal of women.

And it is a big deal. It is a big deal because so many people can dismiss it by saying it is just 'another' example of this sort of thing, or 'boys will be boys'.

This... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 7:53 PM on May 5, 2000

This quote just floors me:

“I have never and will never harm a child or anyone else in any way,” wrote one complainer. “However as a citizen of the United States I have every right of downloading those files for whatever the reason is.”

What exactly does he think? That children forced into porn by adults aren't harmed in the making of those photos?

I would like to see it go one step further, and publish their... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 11:51 AM on May 5, 2000

anyone recognize john grey (mars/venus) in that photo? He used to be a big proponent of yogic flying, until he bought a phd from an unaccredited university and began calling himself a therapist.
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 9:09 PM on May 2, 2000

How very, very nice of you to point out that it is 'uncool' for a company founded in Canada to utilize a canadian domain like that.

Hello? Someone asked on this site recently why there was American bashing going on, and why people used the phrase "stupid americans"? This would be why.

There is more to the web than the english language, US dotcoms - ahhhh - I would rave more, but lets face it - Americans are stuck in the mindset that everything in... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 7:49 PM on May 2, 2000

um...what rebecca said. With an exclamation mark!
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 1:36 PM on May 2, 2000

Ah....I miss British Columbia...

*sigh*
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 2:20 PM on April 26, 2000

I was a smoker when British Columbia introduced sin tax (or higher sin taxes) on smoking, and all it did was make me a little poorer, and a lot crankier. I still smoked the same amount though, so it wasn't much help.

Government cannot regulate eating habits.
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 1:58 PM on April 25, 2000

The work he is most proud of?
MSNBC

Which, to my non designer eye, is the most convoluted, confusing looking site I have seen in a long time. Go look. Laugh. Tell me I am wrong.
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 3:21 PM on April 24, 2000

A Rock Star? Obviously, someone has confused him with Ben Brown!
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 8:59 PM on April 24, 2000

I got this one over his head...

"Do you know this person?"
..and then, on a delay, this popped up.."She could be a high school classmate"

It left me feeling very, very old.
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 11:17 AM on April 22, 2000

I don't think you can extradite a minor child. Any lawyers here?
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 5:26 PM on April 19, 2000

The more articles I read about this, the more frustrated I get. Artists don't make their serious money on album sales anyway, they make it on concert revenue, and products like Napster only help to introduce them to new listeners, and hopefully boost ticket sales.

Napster is nothing more than the new mix tape.

posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 1:33 PM on April 19, 2000

Mathowie is absolutely right...Metallica suing Napster is akin to them suing the makers of the blank cassette tapes because people use cassettes to tape music from the radio. Or used to :)

I don't believe Napster hurts the artists...if anyone gets hurt, it seems to be the huge corporations that surround the artists that may lose a little money (and that hasn't been proven, btw that Napster is hurting sales), and i have no great sentimental feeling for them.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 2:14 PM on April 19, 2000

If you want to place the blame, place it where it belongs; on American media.

Why does a story like this get so much media attention? Why is American media saturated with stories of idiotic people doing stupid things, and/or minutia about movie and television stars?

From my vantage point, having lived primarily outside of the USA, but seeing American news and television and newspapers and magazines on a regular basis, American Media makes... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 12:04 PM on April 18, 2000

Soylent Green is People!

oh...um....nevermind.

This is pretty funny, considering that urine is sterile, and women wear lipstick made with renderings from cow colons, and lets face, it, fish and birds and other waterlife crap in the lakes and rivers we drink *all the time*.
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 12:53 PM on April 17, 2000

The man pictured in this article is the very dictionary definition of the word 'dour'. I can't imagine him ....um.....frisky!
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 8:09 PM on April 15, 2000

I went. I tried it. And maybe I am just missing something really vital, but I don't get it.

As far as I can tell, what this app does is keep my linklist in a separate little window, and I don't see how that differs from just hitting the 'link' button on my browser and have them open up in a list on the left of my screen.

This site says this:

Deepleap is a free, Web-based application that provides simple, immediate access... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 5:00 PM on April 15, 2000

I love Blogger.

No, really. I realize I am jumping on the bandwagon very late here, and that whatever I do with Blogger will have been done a million times before and ten times better, and I am still fooling with it before I take my site live with it..um...very soon, but even after just fooling with it a day or two I love it.

And I am very appreciative of it, and the fact that it is free, and the fact that people I don't know worked very hard to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 10:25 PM on April 11, 2000

hahahaHAHAHAhahahahahahaha!


posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 12:15 PM on April 11, 2000

This picture was up as an 'inspiration' on one of those pro-anorexia sites as an example of the ideal figure.

Suddenly, it is not so funny to me.
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 10:42 AM on April 11, 2000

The assumption with this sort of thingis always that

#1 women are too stupid to do anything but follow what the magazines show and tell us, and

#2 anorexia is less a disease than a physical manifestation of sociatal standards.

The majority of anorexics report sexual abuse occuring before the age of 12. There are many theories that link anorexia to sexual abuse. If the government really wants to do something to help... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 5:35 PM on April 10, 2000

The phone butler is nuts! How hard is it to say (politely) "No, thank you" and hang up?


posted to MetaFilter by sperare at 4:15 PM on April 10, 2000