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Paris Responds
John thought he would be clever and use Paris in his campaign ad... Paris one-ups him with an even BETTER ad..(slyt) maybe NSFW if females in bathing suits are frowned upon..
posted to MetaFilter by HuronBob
at 6:42 AM on August 6, 2008
(182 comments)
Are you a young middle-class creative type (probably white) who has chosen to live in an urban neighborhood that your parents would have shunned? Have the families that formerly lived in your neighborhood (probably not white) been pushed out by soaring rents and real-estate prices to the city fringes or suburbs? The
New Republic on
demographic inversion.
posted to MetaFilter by digaman
at 8:43 PM on August 2, 2008
(64 comments)
You'll have had your Meetup
Edinburgh -this August !
(Silvery Robot Men not included)
posted to MetaTalk by sgt.serenity
at 6:02 AM on July 27, 2008
(25 comments)
London picnic meetup!
posted to MetaTalk by goo
at 9:53 AM on July 27, 2008
(55 comments)
Having taken some personal time out myself, and thus looking at things from a non-contributor perspective, is it possible that we can avoid terms like douchebag, asshole, dickwad, etc. These are violent words that make the reader take a step away.
I am not saying they should be banned, but they really do have a proliferation within the site that is off putting to someone who might wish to contribute.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx
at 3:37 PM on July 25, 2008
(169 comments)
How was the music video for Feist's song "1234" (
YouTube) made? Post-production magic? Perspective illusion? Gondry-like gimmickry?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tulseluper
at 4:24 PM on April 25, 2007
(16 comments)
Cat-scan.com
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.
posted to MetaFilter by jokeefe
at 12:41 AM on July 14, 2008
(186 comments)
London meetup, Saturday 26th July?
posted to MetaTalk by TheDonF
at 9:32 AM on July 13, 2008
(28 comments)
Show #28 is a call in show, featuring answers to questions from a dozen or so members that left messages on the call-in line. It runs about 50 minutes long.
direct link
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie
at 3:21 PM on June 13, 2008
(56 comments)
I think
seofeed should get a preemptive five dollar refund.
posted to MetaTalk by bunnytricks
at 4:13 AM on June 13, 2008
(172 comments)
42 days and a
resignation. The day after the British Labour government narrowly won a parliamentary vote to extend the time that the police can hold people for questioning without charge from 28 days to 42 days, Tory frontbench MP David Davis has
resigned his seat. David Davis is a senior member of the main parliamentary opposition party - who strongly opposed the 42 day bill - and has stepped down to fight a by-election for his own constituency to start a debate over "the slow strangulation of fundamental British freedoms by this government".
posted to MetaFilter by ArkhanJG
at 4:41 AM on June 13, 2008
(39 comments)
Article in UK newspaper The Independent about two members of Nottingham University, U.K., Rizwaan Sabir and Hicham Yezza, who were arrested last week on terrorism charges and held for six days before being released without charge. The reason was that they had downloaded a terrorist manual from a US government website, which MA student Sabir needed for his research into terrorism, and which was approved by his supervisor. His friend Hicham Yezza, former student and current administrator at the university was arrested for helping to print out the 1500 page document. On release Yezza was then immediately rearrested on immigration charges and now faces imminent deportation, despite being a resident of the UK for 13 years and currently in the process of applying for citizenship. A
campaign is currently underway to prevent this.
posted to MetaFilter by leibniz
at 1:29 PM on May 26, 2008
(85 comments)
There is someone with or using my name at one of the Yahoo services to access Asian porn sites.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrleec
at 2:31 PM on May 15, 2008
(30 comments)
Contrary to what you probably think you know about hypnosis, it can be done very quickly and can be used to convince someone to do something they normally wouldn't--like, say,
giving away their wallet, phone, and keys to a stranger (English mentalist
Derren Brown). What's happening here is known as a
handshake induction, a technique pioneered by American psychiatrist
Milton Erickson. There are
other methods of rapid induction hypnosis. These methods, along with techniques of verbal suggestion, are used by practitioners of
Neuro-linguistic programming, a field which some have associated with Mr. Brown's performances, though
he denies it. I wonder, though, how he manages to get a cashier at a dog track
to pay out on a losing ticket?
posted to MetaFilter by flotson
at 8:31 PM on May 11, 2008
(84 comments)
Reefer Madness.
The Kingwood teenager's story of decapitating a corpse and using the head to smoke marijuana was so outlandish that at first Houston Police Department senior police officer Jim Adkins did not believe it.
posted to MetaFilter by three blind mice
at 3:40 AM on May 9, 2008
(106 comments)
The Day the Music Died
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) [...] has also been warning anyone who would listen that they should not “purchase” encrypted music from these services, since if these services go under then all that “purchased” music will no longer… what’s the word… “play”. But mostly people ignored them (and me), because, you know, Microsoft was at the center of it all, and nobody ever got fired for “buying” from Microsoft.
posted to MetaFilter by desjardins
at 2:18 PM on May 7, 2008
(67 comments)
If you were doing research in the 60s, You might've heard of Polywater,
A form of water that exhibited wide variety of interesting characteristics and existed under identical conditions to that of normal water. Eventually debunked, none the less is a fascinating story. Naturally one draws parallels to Vonnegut's ice nine, but did you know there
actually is an ice nine? In fact, there's
twelve to sixteen types of ice,
depending on your opinion. More recently, computer simulations have indicated
water may structure itself into icosahedra, which, incredibly, is
the platonic solid (described over 2000 years ago!) representing the element water! And if you don't know what an icosahedron is,
I bet you've used one before. One of the most ubiquitous,
and arguably most important, substances in our lives, our
understanding of water is far from complete.
posted to MetaFilter by Large Marge
at 10:34 PM on April 29, 2008
(39 comments)
Hey, there, London. I'll be visiting from May 16 through the 26th and would like to drink with you.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet
at 12:09 PM on April 28, 2008
(81 comments)
"As a great architect once said, 'Buildings should look like what they are'." John Jessop became so frustrated with the red tape required for his company to get permission to build a farm shed,
he submitted a sarcastic application . Read his full "Planning Application for Erection of Agricultural Implement Shed"
here [pdf, 3 pages]. No word yet on whether the shed was approved.
Via.
posted to MetaFilter by amyms
at 5:55 PM on April 24, 2008
(27 comments)
In Vestimentis Ursum.
Designer Matt Kirkland peels off the fur of mechanized stuffed animals to take a look at the robots lurking within.
posted to MetaFilter by hydrophonic
at 8:39 PM on April 24, 2008
(25 comments)
This must be the
creepiest tv host ever (possibly NSFW). Perhaps it's a joke, perhaps the guy is sozzled?
That is all.
posted to MetaFilter by krautland
at 2:20 PM on April 23, 2008
(106 comments)
The financial turmoil of 2007-?: a preliminary assessment and some policy considerations
(pdf) "All episodes of financial distress of a systemic nature, with potentially significant implications for the real economy, arguably have at their root an overextension in risk-taking and in balance sheets in good times, masked by the veneer of a vibrant economy. This overextension generates financial vulnerabilities that are clearly revealed only once the economic environment becomes less benign, in turn contributing to its further deterioration."
A scholarly, sane, relatively brief, accessible-to-the-layperson, and mostly apolitical look at the current turmoil.
posted to MetaFilter by Kwantsar
at 3:31 PM on April 23, 2008
(36 comments)
The wonders of technology! Browse the web, access your email, telephone your clients - all with the aid of a 7 inch touch screen. It's the
iPhone!
posted to MetaFilter by Neiltupper
at 2:25 PM on April 14, 2008
(24 comments)
