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Let's say you're putting together a mix of your favorite
obscure 1990s pop/rock music. What are the top couple of tracks you'd be sure to include?
posted to Ask Metafilter by iamisaid
at 1:31 PM on July 2, 2008
(71 comments)
The Man Without a Face
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"A Jehovah's Witness who for decades refused all surgery on his horrific facial disfigurement has been given hope by a British doctor and new medical technology." from the Telegraph.co.uk. (Possible NSFW or bad for the squeemish)
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle
at 9:28 PM on June 23, 2008
(78 comments)
"There is no reason that the Internet should be lawless,"
President Nicolas Sarkozy told his cabinet, as
Culture Minister Christine Albanel presented
a new bill designed to encourage responsible use of the Internet. The legislation would set up a new administrative body that would receive complaints from the music and film industry and track down offenders through Internet service providers. An e-mail warning would be sent to suspected downloaders followed by a registered letter. After two strikes, offenders would risk losing their Internet subscription for up to a year. "We know that we are not going to eradicate piracy 100 percent, but we think that we can reduce it significantly," Albanel told a news conference.
posted to MetaFilter by three blind mice
at 12:55 AM on June 24, 2008
(147 comments)
"When my daughter Alison was born, in the tradition of a new parent, I began to photograph her, initially in a separate and private body of work. However, in the process of documenting Alison's growth, I developed a passionate interest in human relationships and capturing intimate moments in the lives of family and friends...." A haunting photographic essay from
Jack Radcliffe.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 9:42 AM on June 24, 2008
(45 comments)
The Itch: The New Yorker's suprisingly interesting Annals of Medicine article which includes the story of a woman whose scalp itched so badly she scratched through it. And then through her skull.
posted to MetaFilter by nevercalm
at 2:26 PM on June 24, 2008
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Teach the Controversy.
Because we know that the earth sits on giant elephants which in turn ride an even gianter turtle.
posted to MetaFilter by cerebus19
at 11:25 AM on June 16, 2008
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R.I.P., Arizona Parking Solutions.
Guy parks car without displaying his pass.
APS boots car. Guy dollies car
into his garage and invites APS to reclaim their boots. Or not; their choice: either way, they can't tow, he won't pay the fine, and he really doesn't need to be driving the car. This catch-22 upsets the owner. And eventually
APS goes off the deep end, booting nearly everyone's car in the community. The media becomes involved. And we become witness to a business owner suiciding his own business.
posted to MetaFilter by five fresh fish
at 7:55 PM on June 18, 2008
(131 comments)
"We like to play gladiator. You know what I mean? Let two gangs beat each other up without weapons, and the winner gets to deal on the corner. Or, we grab a bunch of muggers, or maybe two crews who steal cars, and tell them, “Okay, you all fight each other — the one still standing gets to avoid jail.” I know: it sounds awful, but believe me, this really works."
Cops tell Freakonomics "
the things that cops do to keep the peace that no one wants to know about.”"
posted to MetaFilter by plexi
at 7:44 AM on June 19, 2008
(92 comments)
Pregnancy Boom at Gloucester High
As summer vacation begins, 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies—more than four times the number of pregnancies the 1,200-student school had last year. Some adults dismissed the statistic as a blip. Others blamed hit movies like Juno and Knocked Up for glamorizing young unwed mothers. But principal Joseph Sullivan knows at least part of the reason there's been such a spike in teen pregnancies in this Massachusetts fishing town.
posted to MetaFilter by swift
at 1:59 PM on June 19, 2008
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"I've switched from building my own installations to painting ones I've found".
NewArt Tv interviews artist
Cindy Tower at one of her many makeshift studios in the industrial ruins of East St. Louis, where she's covertly creating paintings as part of her
Workplace Series. "We need to find a way to
sell more paintings so I can hire you full time", she tells her bodyguard, Edgar. Until then, most days she makes do with a dummy.
posted to MetaFilter by stagewhisper
at 3:41 PM on June 19, 2008
(9 comments)
The Milgram Experiment Today?
"Students commonly assume that, even if
Milgram’s famous experiment sheds important light on the power of situation today, were his experiment precisely reproduced today, it would not generate comparable results. To oversimplify the argument behind that claim: The power of white lab coats just ain’t what it used to be. Of course, that assertion has been difficult to challenge given that the option of replicating the Milgram experiment has been presumptively unavailable — indeed, it has been the paradigmatic example of why psychology experiments must be reviewed by institutional review boards ('IRBs'). Who would even attempt to challenge that presumption? The answer:
Jerry Burger, a psychology professor at Santa Clara University. With some slight modifications, Burger manage to obtain permission to replicate Milgram’s experiment — and the results may surprise you."
[Via MindHacks]
posted to MetaFilter by homunculus
at 4:35 PM on June 19, 2008
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I'm a straight, white, upper middle class male. I'm aware that this automatically means I generally have an easier time than people with a different sexuality/race/class/gender. That said, I'm probably unaware of what these benefits are.
What does this 'privileged' status do for me that I don't even notice?
posted to Ask Metafilter by twirlypen
at 4:19 PM on May 29, 2008
(92 comments)
The military judge presiding over child solider
Omar Khadr's case has been
replaced. Khadr's lawyer claims the judge, Colonel Peter Brownback, was fired because he “threatened to suspend proceedings in the case of Omar Khadr if prosecutors continued to withhold key evidence from Omar's lawyers.” Defence officials claim Brownback was planning to retire.
Although Khadr was only 15 when he was captured, and is the only Western citizen still being held at Guantanamo Bay, Canada's Conservative government has refused to seek extradition or repatriation for him.
posted to MetaFilter by cdmckay
at 8:08 PM on May 29, 2008
(72 comments)
"People are talking, but no one is really listening. For all the fun and fantasy that can be had following this election on the internet, the overriding impression it gives after a while is of tuning into thousands of people as they sit in their cars and complain about the traffic."
David Runciman on "The Cattle-Prod Election."
posted to MetaFilter by nasreddin
at 12:56 AM on May 30, 2008
(52 comments)
Peculiar corpses: "
Incorruptibles remaining free of decomposition have baffled scientists to this day. These bodies are discovered in many different environments, including environments that would typically cause an accidental or deliberately preserved corpse to decompose rapidly." The photographed examples seem to all be associated with Christian faith. Hmm. "[At Oratorio di San Lorenzo] in Palermo, however, corpses are treated as characters in a play":
The Museum of the Dead, reassuringly less preserved.
posted to MetaFilter by nthdegx
at 4:25 AM on May 30, 2008
(67 comments)
6 Differences
is an extremely simple and oddly soothing Flash game with nice background music.
posted to MetaFilter by whir
at 12:19 PM on May 30, 2008
(25 comments)
Explore the playful side of invention and the inventive side of play in
Invention at Play. Learn how play connects to the creative impulse of both historic and contemporary inventors.
posted to MetaFilter by netbros
at 5:48 AM on June 1, 2008
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Cheer Up Emo Kid!
Writer
Ekaterina Sedia argues that the lack of a consistent definition of homosexuality, conflation of sexual orientation and gender, conflation of heritability and inherited, conflation of correlation with causation, conflation of biology and genetics, non-random recruitment for twin studies, and other factors make the argument for a genetic basis for homosexuality and other complex human behaviors "not only misguided, [but] downright foolish."
posted to MetaFilter by joannemerriam
at 7:36 AM on June 1, 2008
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Another Paul Graham essay,
Cities and Ambition. This one's one of his better ones though. His claim: each city sends its inhabitants a distinct message about how they should live their lives. New York City sends the message that you should be richer. Cambridge sends the message that you should be smarter. Berkeley sends the message that you should live better. Consequently, the city you live in has a profound effect on what you strive for, what you value, and how you channel your ambitions. Place matters; choose wisely.
posted to MetaFilter by decoherence
at 6:52 AM on June 2, 2008
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Enka is popular Japanese music which started to become popular in the Showa era after World War II. Until very recently, it's pretty much been popular only with the older crowd or in karaoke. Recently, though, a popular young star from Philadelphia has brought about a resurgence with the younger crowd. Look at
his videos and be
amazed.
Presenting Jero.
posted to MetaFilter by greasepig
at 7:36 AM on June 2, 2008
(18 comments)
The Big Picture
The Boston Globe launches a new blog focusing on a large single image from the day's news. It's kind of surprising how rare it is to see a really big photo on newspaper sites these days and this blog makes the simple concept work.
[via mefi projects]
posted to MetaFilter by mathowie
at 8:05 AM on June 2, 2008
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