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I'm not having enough fun.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 4:12 PM on October 27, 2005
(29 comments)
By its own admission
the US government is currently detaining at least 26,000 people without trial in secret prisons, and information suggests up to 80,000 have been ‘through the system’ since 2001.
even 200 years ago, there was a general insistence that prisoners be charged with and convicted of a crime before they could be condemned to the lower decks of an aging naval ship.
(
prison hulks previously ).
posted to MetaFilter by adamvasco
at 3:33 AM on June 4, 2008
(43 comments)
Favrd
is a list of the best Twitter posts, based on a few simple principles, the most interesting of which is probably "by any means necessary, web-strategy, social-media, online-marketing webcocks - unaware as they are of how toxic their presence is in the arenas they cannot shut up about - must and shall be filtered out of view." That filter results in a surprisingly entertaining subsection of Twitter, a sort of super-short story collection.
Original announcement from creator Dean Allen.
posted to MetaFilter by scottreynen
at 4:11 PM on May 19, 2008
(48 comments)
Acoustic version of a previous entry.
posted to MeFi Music by robotot
at 1:33 AM on January 31, 2008
(9 comments)
The other day I happened to come upon a music video that is just so grooving, so human and so
real, that, well, it
moved me, darling.
Just check it out. After watching the clip, I learned that these guys are mostly disabled by polio (that's why several of them are in those rather unusual wheelchairs) and that they were living on the grounds of the Kinshasa zoo, which is where the clip was filmed. Then I learned that last year they were seeking to bring
a lawsuit against the UN. Then I found
some other clips. And now I am a
major fan of
Staff Benda Bilili.
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite
at 3:30 AM on April 26, 2008
(47 comments)
How have you successfully removed old grease stains from shirts using common household items, rather than specialty products I'd have to go out and purchase?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Stewriffic
at 6:05 AM on February 10, 2008
(16 comments)
How can I photoshop my kid's thin pencil drawings so that they look like they were drawn with a sharpie or thicker pen? I want to stick them on shirts at some point. Some of them are just funny and bizarre.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mecran01
at 10:33 PM on January 28, 2007
(16 comments)
Blosxom is an ultra-lightweight piece of blogging software that uses the existing structure of a file system to index and date your posts. The program itself weighs in at a scale-tipping 16.4 kilobytes, and does everything you need to tell the world about your navel. And for those things it doesn't do, there are
plugins. At the other end of the weight scale is the >160 page
annotated source code.
posted to MetaFilter by kaibutsu
at 1:37 PM on March 6, 2008
(33 comments)
How can I make myself spend less time dicking around on-line?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dersins
at 11:45 AM on February 6, 2008
(52 comments)
I'd like to take issue with
this comment (the "I was a neocon Nazi" comment) being up on the sidebar.
posted to MetaTalk by loquax
at 7:16 AM on January 29, 2008
(293 comments)
Stickk.com allows people to undertake commitment bonds: promises that they will do something (lose weight, quit smoking, etc.) or else forfeit a pre-determined amount of money to a charity. Either the honor system or a referee can be used to decide if the goal is met. The idea is related to Nobel prize-winner Thomas Schelling's concept of
strategic precommitment. More
here,
here, and
here.
posted to MetaFilter by shivohum
at 7:05 AM on January 18, 2008
(17 comments)
The Übersnack: I'm trying to find something small and dense, like a powerbar, but cheaper and tastier. It shouldn't be super-sweet, and as an added bonus it would be cool if it had some sort of buzz-factor, like ginseng or the like. This is for use in marathon writing sessions in the library, so I don't have to take breaks to eat. So it can't be messy. I could just load up on jerky and fig newtons, but was hoping the collective cleverness of the mefisphere might have better suggestions.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mecran01
at 11:00 AM on June 24, 2004
(22 comments)
I lost my car keys Saturday. I remember walking out of the van, patting my pockets, and thinking "huh. Must have tossed them in my bag." Checked later and no keys.
What's your key-finding methodology?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mecran01
at 11:20 AM on June 28, 2004
(26 comments)
"I edited this short film
set to the tune of The Zombies' "This Will Be Our Year" featuring Super 8 footage shot by my parents between 1965-1979."
posted to MetaFilter by ludwig_van
at 12:26 AM on December 13, 2007
(48 comments)
"Okay, I work for GameStop, and in one of the local stores, someone returned Spanish for Everyone claiming it was exceedingly stereotypical."
And it turns out it kinda was. It's a game for the Nintendo DS, where the framework involves an accidentally stolen DS which is taken by a kid whose father is in a limo, being chased by the police, going back across the border to Ensenada. Luckily, the kid's aunt (who apparently doesn't recognize him other than vaguely) is here to give him a ride as far as Tijuana, leaving him stranded in the middle of a foreign country where he doesn't speak the language! Fun, and it gets worse from there! Here's
The Intro,
Level 2's cut scene,
level 3's cut scene and
the ending, featuring a whole mess of cars, "fireworks" and, ahm, drug running? Of course, this'd just be a pile of YouTube links if it weren't for
The lead designer of the game popping in to share his 2 cents on it.
[via]
posted to MetaFilter by Rev. Syung Myung Me
at 5:27 PM on November 25, 2007
(45 comments)
I need a way to keep my short, paper todo list in my face. Something like a luggage tag that I could wear like a wrist band, so I could glance down and see my four tasks for the day. What else might work?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mecran01
at 11:23 AM on September 29, 2007
(23 comments)
I have a huge drop in my energy in the afternoons.
I am a healthy (except for hyploglycemic tendencies), normal weight 48 year old. Here is my current issue.
posted to Ask Metafilter by seekingsimplicity
at 12:10 PM on September 28, 2007
(29 comments)
Randy Pausch is a
pioneer in virtual reality, a
computer science professor, a
Disney Imagineer, an
innovative teacher, and the co-founder of
the best video game school in the world. One year ago he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and after a long and difficult fight
he's been given just a few more months to live. This week he gave
his powerful, funny, and life-affirming last lecture to a packed auditorium at Carnegie Mellon University, entitled "How to Live Your Childhood Dreams".
The WSJ's summary, and
a direct link to the complete video of the lecture (2 hours, and unfortunately streaming WMV). Warning: hilarious jokes about dying.
posted to MetaFilter by xthlc
at 8:13 AM on September 20, 2007
(32 comments)
Nomic, as
introduced by inventor
Peter Suber (
homepage): a game of self-modification—every move is an attempt to alter the rules governing how the game is played.
Further from wikipedia.
[A great deal more within.]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 8:57 PM on August 27, 2007
(59 comments)
We are taking our minivan with four kids, two adults, to the coast in Oregon.
My wife and I have an unresolved disagreement about which is best--a trailer, or a roof top carrier--for hauling all of our camping junk that won't fit in the vehicle. Please enlighten me about trailers.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mecran01
at 9:48 PM on July 10, 2006
(20 comments)
How can I learn to work without medication?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 8:36 AM on January 1, 2007
(28 comments)
SoupFilter: Why do soups taste better after aging?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 6:07 AM on November 25, 2006
(8 comments)
Daddy-daughter advice, or what can you tell me that you've learned?
posted to Ask Metafilter by fijiwriter
at 7:54 AM on October 19, 2006
(74 comments)
OK, I've got MAME installed, and a (pretty much) complete (15Gb) set of ROMs. I've played my old favorites... Galaxian, Galaga, Gauntlet, Sonic, Mario... but now I'm daunted by the
thousands of games I have to choose from.
So what should I play next?
(assume if I don't have the ROM I can get it)
posted to Ask Metafilter by unSane
at 6:35 AM on October 25, 2006
(35 comments)
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