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"I saw this documentary about these two college guys who went to visit this guy's beach house. The guy died, and the two guys had to keep people from finding out about it. What they did was they pretended the guy was still alive. Wherever they went,..." [
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"hay ladies i havde thousand of books & a wel stockde pantry jus Waiting......... for you! plz call my cellophone #" [
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9 days ago
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"As someone who has a bullethole, I think you are underestimating the number of times you'd need to stab a 1500 pound bear before it would die
If I had a bullet wound, I'd probably work it into conversations as much as possible. Still, it seems..." [
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11 days ago
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"Can the knife shoot fire?
Assuming yes, my strategy would be to gain the high ground over the bear, by either climbing a tree (in the forest), onto a display shelf (in Target), or in that gallery where the animatronic band plays (in Chuck E...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, churl
2 months ago
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"In a sense it's not even fair, though. Can a man kill a grizzly bear? Yes. With a gun, from a hundred yards away. Because tool-use and ingenuity are human advantages. Strength, size, claws and teeth are the bear's. A human with a knife could..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
2 months ago
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"You will need:
Two (2) slices of bread
Two (2) slices of deli meat
One (1) slice of cheese
No condiments (too messy)
Stack bread, meat and cheese in some order (many people like to put the bread on the outside, meat and cheese inside, but..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by houseofdanie
2 months ago
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"I always liked A Rose for Ecclesiastes, which was a story by Roger Zelazny about this linguist who goes to an alien planet to learn their language, and preserve it because they are all going to commit suicide. Or something. Then he translates the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jgee
3 months ago
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"Ok, first we're all accused of being too liberal, and now we're accused of being too masculine? You can't have it both ways, make up your mind!
Haha, I kid. I haven't noticed any overt boysclubousity (to coin a phrase), but that may simply be..." [
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7 months ago
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"I felt the same way about doing contract work for the first time. I think you're gonna feel weird about charging money for your work until you get used to doing it. I say charge what you feel comfortable charging this time (even if by any objective..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by frosty_hut
7 months ago
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"If they work, talk one of their co-workers into letting you hide the lobster at their workstation. Put it next to the computer with a cup of coffee and a half-eaten donut. Maybe have some kind of lobster-related web site on the monitor when they..." [
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7 months ago
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"Being in Seattle, I don't really know where you could go to walk into a store and buy a micro pc out of the box in NYC, but I do know you'd pay about twice as much as you would if you bought online and snapped it together yourself.
Also, Shuttle..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by The World Famous, disclaimer
7 months ago
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"Probably better examples by each of these artists, but here are a few good ones:
Iron & Wine, Upward over the Mountain [tab]
Leonard Cohen, Bird on a Wire [tab]
The Pogues, Dirty Old Town [tab]
Josh Ritter, Monster Ballads [tab]
Neko Case,..." [
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9 months ago
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"I've been the next door neighbor plenty of times. The main problem with loud parties is not the noise, it's the feeling that those assholes next door haven't given you a second thought (the noise is a close second). So, even if you don't expect..." [
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10 months ago
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"I don't think you can expect to start a career as a developer without a serious time investment. It's not rocket science, but it does take time and effort to learn this stuff.
Especially since being a Web developer is often a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ceri richard, prophetsearcher
11 months ago
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"Weapons-grade pandemonium:
Did you RTFA? The rules specifically stipulate unconsciousness, not maiming or killing. Now, Australian Rules toddler fighting is a whole different story...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sebastienbailard
Last year
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"I read straight through with minimal note-taking, only making marks in the margins to remind me of a useful passage. At the end of the book, I go back and look at all the marginalia again and then write notes on whatever turned out to be important...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bluebird
Last year
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"I'm not an expert. I took one class.
But when they sew a "proper" (i.e. not perfect-bound) book together, they'll take (or at least they used to take) a very large sheet of paper, and print 2n pages on it (usually 2, 4, 8, or 16)...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by every_one_needs_a_hug_sometimes
Last year
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"You don't like things that are delicious
You don't like fun / awesome things
You already have dangerously high blood pressure
Psychological or physiological addiction creeps you out
You hate things that grow at high elevation.
You are mormon /..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Jaltcoh, notjustfoxybrown, ElfWord, rsanheim
Last year
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"Yeah, I hate the new tab system as well. Fortunately it's an easy fix.
In the address bar, type about:config
Then search for browser.tabs.closeButtons
Double-click on it. Enter "3" as the value.
Hey presto!..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by i love cheese, cathodeheart, deliriouscool
Last year
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"FRIENDS! LISTEN FOR THIS CONCERNS US ALL!
METAFILTER has DESCENDED from its SELF-POLICING IDEALSinto a TOXIC CESSPOOL of CORRUPTION and BRIBERY! Where anyone with TEN BUCKS can exercise PROXIMATE CONTROL over a SO-CALLED "COMMUNITY" of..." [
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Last year
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"About a year and a half ago I decided I was going to stop seeking out national and international news, and instead focus about the same amount of time learning about local news (my city and state), on the belief that what happened in my neighborhood..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Lornoi, Bookhouse, revgeorge, olecranon
Last year
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"Sure he has the technical prowess to play the piece, but where's the passion? Where's the soul?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by whatnot
Last year
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"i++ to The Walking Dead
I'll also throw some props to David Wellington's Monster Island, Monster Nation, and Monster Planet novels, because not only are they free and available online, but they're awesome...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by andywolf
Last year
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"Hidalgo, I thought about following Cory around for a while but I was afraid he'd blog me as his 'wetware avatar/shadow mahsup'.
Good point. Maybe you could interrogate him instead? We can set up a trap using a funny looking clock made out of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mecran01
Two years ago
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"Here are some internet words that may contain trends:
Podcasting
Folksonomies
Social Networking Sites
AJAX
Blogs
Mashups
Lifehacking
Machinima
Flashmobs
Follow Cory Doctorow around with a notebook some week...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by poweredbybeard
Two years ago
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"If you're using a PC, use MS-Visio and the Wireframe Stencils from Garrett Dimon. You can mock up a program very quickly and easily that way.
You could also do the same thing in Visual Studio .NET if you wanted to. It's an IDE, but you..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by smackfu
Two years ago
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"Anyhow, my question is this. Why do you do anything for you? Why do you get out of bed in the morning? What animates you? What is your point? What makes you live for you?
I'm not convinced (and thus do not assume) that there is such a thing as a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ifjuly, blue_wardrobe
Two years ago
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"Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow) has a degree in Chemical Engineering, and when on Charlie Rose he said that despite acting success, Chemical Engineering would always be his first love, I knew he was a really awesome dude...." [
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Two years ago
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"Then there's the "revolutionary" idea of shifting desktop applications to the browser. The whole Microsoft Office suite has multiple analogs in the so-called Web 2...." [
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Two years ago
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"I stand sideways in the shower because it's fairly narrow and I'm fairly not.
I also turn off the water while scrubbing up because I'm a god damned hippy...." [
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Two years ago
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"It's worth noting that the song makes more sense in the context of a retelling of Alice in Wonderland. The narrator of the song is (one can only assume) The March Hare, talking about how he can't be late. Contrast this song with the words and..." [
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Two years ago
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"My procedure for researching electronics/computer stuff is usually:
1. dontbuyjunk.com because it's got a very handy tool for drilling down into what models have the features I want. They don't actually have as many items in their catalog as..." [
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Two years ago
