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Given the recent episode 7 spoilers from the soundtrack, there may be more to this then people are giving it credit.
posted to MetaFilter by roue at 7:30 PM on November 1, 2015

I hear you, tofu_crouton. My Old Spice deodorant is called "Savage BloodRoar" or something of the sort, there is a picture of a bear having warp spasms on the packaging, and I have to assume that rather than the "botanicals" womanly hygiene products are said to contain, it is made with real mulched-up apex predator parts and a bit of their puissance will transfer to me when I use it.
posted to MetaFilter by prize bull octorok at 4:46 PM on October 22, 2015

I will always remember Jan Hooks for her pitch-perfect portrayal of an overly perky Alamo tour guide in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.
posted to MetaFilter by duffell at 7:47 AM on October 22, 2015

SO I'M FRIENDS WITH THIS WOMAN WHO IS A NORMAL AND SMART AND REASONABLE PERSON. THE OTHER DAY I WAS TALKING ABOUT THE CAPS LOCK KEY AND HOW IT'S ONLY REALLY APPLICABLE ONCE PER YEAR, ON CAPS LOCK DAY, AND SHE ASKED "BUT HOW ELSE WOULD YOU CAPITALIZE ANYTHING?"

IT TURNS OUT THAT SHE HAS BEEN, HER ENTIRE LIFE, CAPITALIZING THINGS BY TURNING ON CAPS LOCK, TYPING ONE LETTER, AND THEN TURNING IT OFF.

I ASKED HER ABOUT THE SHIFT KEY AND... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by special agent conrad uno at 1:01 AM on October 22, 2015

YOU'LL HAVE TO SPEAK UP!
posted to MetaFilter by not_on_display at 10:37 PM on October 21, 2015

I also hear good things about this guy, Goldie Wilson.
posted to MetaFilter by Muddler at 10:47 AM on October 21, 2015

The Tyranny of Structurelessness is a good read on this sort of thing. One of the main points being exactly what tocts is saying — that a leadership structure you can see, discuss, understand, and teach people about is better than an unofficial and half-secret one whose existence you're supposed to deny.
posted to MetaFilter by nebulawindphone at 6:15 AM on October 20, 2015

Actually, no, it's like we lost any kind of left wing power, leaving corporate types free to demand the kind of total, immediate, soul-level obedience that you would expect in the stricter kind of medieval monastery. They really can't conceive of why anyone would like to have any kind of spiritual space left for anything outside their hobby/fetish/business.

Capitalism is expropriation all the way down - your land, your labor, and at this point, when land and labor have... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 5:24 AM on October 20, 2015

I already have a stockpile of cytotec, but I think I'm going to buy some more. I also am going to drop $80 and buy a manual vacuum aspirator.

I admire this doctor, and others like him, greatly, but I believe that that women simply have to reject the gatekeeping of the medical establishment. The internet has made this easier than ever.

It's absurd that we are giving surgical abortions to women who are well within their first trimester. You can... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Athene at 2:00 PM on October 19, 2015

I wish we could have an undercover gotcha video that would lead to universal healthcare or something worthwhile.

I can visualize a gotcha sting operation that might have some political impact: obviously unqualified people (criminal/violently insane/revenge seekers) buying handguns.

That being said, there is a lot more personal risk to be had pissing off gun-nuts than there are reproductive rights advocates.
posted to MetaFilter by el io at 11:26 AM on October 19, 2015

"How can I apply the core tenets of Six Sigma to my marriage?"

Step 1: get a box.
posted to MetaFilter by escabeche at 9:50 AM on October 18, 2015

So I got bored, and decided to take a look at the first 25 articles posted on Metafilter:

Cat-Scan.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, or why.
❌ The original cat-scan.com is gone, site has fittingly enough been taken over by MetaFilter Memories

As if you couldn't get enough of the JenniCam, now there's the JenniShow. It's fairly boring,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ymgve at 4:00 PM on October 15, 2015

...And on the pedestal these words appear:
"You've made it: Jam Central Station,
the central depository for all things Space Jam."
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
posted to MetaFilter by prize bull octorok at 3:32 PM on October 15, 2015

I do like how, when viewed from one angle it looks like steps leading to the top of 1 WTC but from the opposing view it's almost completely blocked by it, which is a nice way to inter greater with a neighbor (aside from that one view where it looks like it's about to fall over.)

The overall design of the WTC plaza is a bit ...Caprica City for my tastes. Mass Effecty? It seems like it won't age well but anything that hangs on long enough becomes an icon , it's just a bit tame.
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 4:27 PM on October 12, 2015

Some quick thoughts:

Rich people are more visible than working people. They have larger social networks, they are broadly speaking more popular (for obvious reasons), and their jobs (typically jobs coordinating subordinate workers rather than themselves directly producing anything) put them in positions where large numbers of people are forced to pay attention to them in order to make a living. Although there are few of them, they occupy the position that the baseball... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by You Can't Tip a Buick at 12:53 PM on October 10, 2015

When I was doing hospice volunteer work, we were told that the vast majority of communication is nonverbal. This was evidenced to me when I had a long series of intimate and cogent communications with a hospice resident who spoke no English to my total lack of Chinese (of any variant).

This was followed closely by series of encounters with someone who had no verbal language. Followed by a novitiate in a silent monastery with sign language from 1098 -- where the... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by janey47 at 12:52 AM on June 23, 2013

borborygmi, I loved those old Council Of Doom homepages, and I'd make a FPP about them if they still existed on the internet. Here's a classic exchange from the linked site:

BRAK: Hello, Mr. Hand Towel Puppet!!! You smell like feet.
HAND TOWEL PUPPET: Hello, Brak. We finally meet. There's so much to tell you but the most important thing is... you should know that the rest of them condescend to you. You must escape and find your truth path in life.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by JHarris at 3:04 PM on October 8, 2015

Not for the first time I'm surprised at how, when an interviewer asks a question that probably represents a fairly widely held viewpoint in the world; when that question elicits a fascinating and eloquent response; and when the interviewer has the professional savvy and guts and openness to criticism to use the response in her copy, which she certainly didn't have to do, thereby permitting us to discuss the whole thing in the first place…

…this apparently makes her a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by oliverburkeman at 9:54 AM on October 8, 2015

The Brak Show is the greatest television show ever created in any genre. I will bow up hard on anyone who disagrees. HONOR IS AT STAKE.
posted to MetaFilter by echocollate at 5:48 AM on October 8, 2015

I once worked somewhere that had a higher-than-average security check for when you called tech support. They asked you about five of these questions - and then asked you to WRITE YOUR OWN question. When you called tech support, they would read you two of the pre-selected ones, and then the one you wrote.

At the time I filled that out, I was feeling a little oppressed by the corporate lifestyle, and so for the self-generated question and answer, I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by EmpressCallipygos at 9:22 AM on October 5, 2015

Okay, the last time this happened, I was genuinely confused about whether the dress was blue or white. But I don't see why we're arguing here. The dress is blue. It says so right in the story.
• do NOT contact me with unsolicited services or offers
posted to MetaFilter by oulipian at 9:56 AM on October 3, 2015

Chances are, when we get more information about the shooter, he'll fit the profile if an injustice collector.

But regardless of his prior mental condition, his ability to hurt and kill would have been lessened if this country were not in the grip of the gun power and its agenda of stoking fantasies of violence so as to have a ready market for its product. Ecrasez l'infâme.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Cash4Lead at 10:17 PM on October 1, 2015

We don't know a whole lot about the shooter yet, and I'm not sure that I even want to know more about him (or give him the media attention that every one of these cockroaches ends up getting), but early reports are that he was tied to 4chan. With that in mind, I can't help but think of two articles: the recent write-up of neoreactionaries and Dan Auerbach's essay on Anonymity as Culture.

Anonymity as Culture (a-culture) is what typifies interactions on 4chan and other... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by codacorolla at 9:29 PM on October 1, 2015

I think there's a reason people shut down and wait to die when they get older. I'm 45 and I didn't see any of this coming. Seriously, if you'd told me that the "silent majority" would become the wacky nut job religious bigot party and that the left would somehow champion the Pope against anti-science conservatives I would have laughed.

Thank god we still have a two party system.

This seems to be a movement I don't understand combined... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cjorgensen at 10:02 AM on September 29, 2015

Thanks, Stan. Good job.

During the years 1968 and 1971 I sat in a room in northern Japan (Hokkaido) watching four and sometimes five Soviet launch sites--these sites were tasked to our field station. They all lay just barely over our radio horizon. In those days the very names of the Soviet sites were classified TOP SECRET CRYPTO, but you can google them now, a thing I still can't quite do without feeling creepy. Those years were characterized by many launches per month... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mule98J at 9:29 AM on September 26, 2015

Don't forget Soviet Fashion Show. Wendy's was on fire back then.
posted to MetaFilter by RobotVoodooPower at 4:21 PM on September 26, 2015

I was at U of Colorado at the time, and the university's president, Gordon Gee, was an Herb doppleganger, and was often accosted by people seeking the reward.
posted to MetaFilter by Schmucko at 2:49 PM on September 26, 2015

There's not enough popcorn in the world for this.
posted to MetaFilter by longdaysjourney at 7:06 AM on September 25, 2015

This is the one that always stuck with me.
posted to MetaFilter by jeffamaphone at 10:00 PM on September 23, 2015

Look at this fuckin' thing!

New universal New Yorker cartoon caption?
posted to MetaFilter by vorpal bunny at 2:14 PM on September 23, 2015

Boston area guy on a boat spots a sea monstah.

Malden, specifically, for those of you playing along at home.

His concern for it being injured and suggestion that they call the aquarium made me smile - Mass townies get all kinds of condescension and ridicule, but he seems like a good guy.
posted to MetaFilter by ryanshepard at 10:02 AM on September 23, 2015

Ha! That first link is mine. :-)

I was obsessed with HA! as a kid, based solely on the promos they ran on MTV as the fledgling station was gearing up for national syndication. I even started a petition to get it added to the local cable offerings, to no avail. I was really bummed (in that abstract teenage way) when they gave up and merged with the Comedy Channel to become Comedy Central.

Years later - after posting this AskMe... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mykescipark at 1:27 PM on September 23, 2015

Almost every person who empathically tells me that yeah, it sucks that my business cannot exist any longer, but they care so much about privacy

It's not just about privacy. It's about a lot of things. It's about not being bombarded minute after minute, hour after hour, by ads for things I would never consider buying, that I would never want. They're collecting all this data on me, and they think it's profitable to show me an ad for a new Audi, or an... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Jimbob at 4:19 AM on September 23, 2015

Yay more idlewords! I love Maciej's presentations/writing, can't wait to see what he puts together from his upcoming Antarctica trip. Adding a previously: Web Design: The First 100 Years.

Came across this recently and I think it's relevant here too: "We Own You" - Confessions of an Anonymous Free to Play Producer.

And if you are a whale, we take Facebook stalking to a whole new level. You spend enough money, we will friend you. Not... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by xqwzts at 2:30 AM on September 23, 2015

"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't go to yours."
posted to MetaFilter by HuronBob at 2:30 AM on September 23, 2015

I hope there's a villain who tries to explain to the Black Panther why the Civil War wasn't about slavery.
posted to MetaFilter by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates at 3:12 PM on September 22, 2015

I'm annoyed that, having dodged the first two universal captions, two of mine could fit the new one
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 8:50 PM on September 22, 2015

Umpty-thousand years ago, I used to have a job where I sent films weekly on my so-called 'VIP circuit': the President and Vice-Pres, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Chiefs of Staff of the Army and of the Air Force, plus a few others --- this was so far back in the dark ages, kiddies, that I was sending them 16mm films, because it was not only the pre-DVD era, it was pre-VCR. They used those 16mm films at the White House, at Camp David and onboard Air Force One, because 16mm is far... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by easily confused at 5:59 AM on September 20, 2015

One of my all-time favorite films. This is a really great overview of some of what makes it such an impressive piece of art to me. Always wished it had reached a wider audience. My wife and I went out to see this on our first date after our son was born, and that long, single tracking-shot battlefield scene was so tense and kicked our overprotective new parent instincts into such high gear, we put off the dinner plans we had made for after the movie and rushed home immediately to check on our... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by saulgoodman at 7:45 PM on September 19, 2015

WHoa! What a twist ending!
posted to MetaFilter by Mister_A at 10:39 AM on September 17, 2015

The word "hero" gets thrown around a lot these days...


Sho does your mother, Trebek!
posted to MetaFilter by TheWhiteSkull at 10:59 AM on September 17, 2015

Hah! This actually happened to me only a few weeks ago, and it was almost exactly as described in the article. I was browsing Yelp for new restaurants, and found some intriguing place called "Ko's" located somewhere in the LES with no phone number or address. There were lot of interesting pictures and glowing reviews that made it sound like some secret dinner club. Even some random person on Chowhound cryptically mentioned it. After posting my own thread on Chowhound, nobody had any... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by pravit at 4:49 PM on September 15, 2015

Nobody asked me whether I wanted to support a business model based on advertising, they just built the content and surrounded it with ads. I never agreed, and continue to not agree; there is no moral EULA that says that if I consume their content, I have agreed to their business model. I am perfectly happy with a world of subscriptions, public support, and amateurism. I am sympathetic for anyone whose livelihood is disrupted, just as I am for any technological disruption, and will do what I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by chortly at 7:47 PM on September 14, 2015

I don't feel bad for sending most e-mail to the spam bin, I don't feel bad for skipping commericals with a DVR, I don't feel bad for using adblock on shitty manipulative ads, I don't feel bad for using noscript and ghostery and many other things.

I'm not here to be advertised to.
posted to MetaFilter by the uncomplicated soups of my childhood at 6:51 PM on September 14, 2015

maybe a print analogy to online advertising circa 2015 would be if every full-page ad in the newspaper were printed with ink that would smear all over your hands and clothes and smelled really bad.
posted to MetaFilter by vogon_poet at 6:44 PM on September 14, 2015

Surely better than the "50-year old Ukranian maid leaves her drunk boyfriend" stories that often get published in the New Yorker.

Here's the piece I'm submitting to Analog. It's called "Typical New Yorker Story...or is IT? "

There was a maid, a third generation Ukrainian, who lived in the City.

A maid, I said, but be... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Iridic at 9:25 AM on February 11, 2009

Wow, today has been too much. Oliver Sacks, Wayne Dyer, and now Wes Craven?

true. bad day. but nothing like Nov-22-1963.
posted to MetaFilter by philip-random at 11:44 PM on August 30, 2015

However the GMC Denali truck will now be the McKinley.
posted to MetaFilter by w0mbat at 4:05 PM on August 30, 2015

I also wanted to say that the podcast episodes of Radiolab that feature him represent a high point of this new medium. When the history of the internet is written, the opportunity for a large number of people to listen in on an intimate conversation with an incredibly interesting person who has little interest in self promotion will be considered a revolution in how humans are able connect with one another in a very meaningful way.
posted to MetaFilter by Slarty Bartfast at 11:15 AM on August 30, 2015

I guess the point under all my words above is that managers know they're doing something bad, know that they're not benefiting from doing bad, and keep doing bad anyway. The thing that this article is missing, and the thing that phrases like "gets it from both sides" is missing, is an awareness that managing capitalist processes is actually a moral wrong. Knowing that one is actively committing moral wrongs makes one anxious.
posted to MetaFilter by You Can't Tip a Buick at 1:32 PM on August 30, 2015