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On Having A Black Name
"I am a white woman, a blond, blue-eyed white woman, and I have a first name strongly associated with black women. My mother, a southerner by birth, never stopped telling me she made the name up. The fact that she truly could not remember ever hearing the name before, is a testament to the strength of southern segregation. It is likely she heard it once or twice, and simply forgot it until later. And so, even at 50 years old, I have a name that makes people do a double-take. "You're _____?" is something I have heard all my life. "Yes, that would be me," is what I say, as they look confused. I have upset the social order. Names, I have learned, are a big, big part of it."
posted to MetaFilter by nooneyouknow
at 9:06 AM on April 24, 2008
(260 comments)
The wolf
Is shaved so neat and trim
Red Riding Hood
Is chasing him
BURMA-SHAVE
posted to MetaFilter by hadjiboy
at 12:21 AM on April 23, 2008
(33 comments)
Hey MeFi, who's up for a game of
Nomic?
posted to MetaTalk by Taksi Putra
at 8:19 PM on March 23, 2008
(65 comments)
Surreal photographic Foodscapes by photographer Carl Warner.
Strawberry hot air balloons, towers of cheese, potato boulders, green pea boats on seas of salmon, spice roads, and sugar beaches populate these intricate and luscious scenes. More dishy foodscapes
(the plate rainbow = ♥!) and other wonderful visual tricks at his
Flash site in the "Fotographics" section (look for the fabulous forest of boots and the white cotton winter wonderland!).
posted to MetaFilter by taz
at 12:06 AM on February 2, 2008
(28 comments)
So it turns out that not only were we being spammed (
1,
2,
3,
4) by
the Times,
a whole lot of other people were too. We should have a Most Wanted page for webmasters to consult or something, since MeFi does such a good job at being the canary in the coal mine. Nice catch, Jess/Matt.
posted to MetaTalk by bonaldi
at 4:48 PM on January 30, 2008
(76 comments)
Announcing the Metafilter Short Fiction Anthology! Previously
suggested by
Effigy2000, the Metafilter Short Fiction Anthology is a chance for all us writer-type or vaguely-writer-type Mefites to get together and write write write! We'll be taking a "
Thieves' World" approach to our writing with each story in the Anthology taking place in a setting
first posited by Mefi's Own
L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg and then
fleshed out by himself and members of the Mefi community. All who are interested are encouraged to join in!
posted to MetaTalk by robocop is bleeding
at 5:41 AM on January 7, 2008
(166 comments)
I'll phrase this as succinctly as I can - I'm looking for
fictional US cities featured in comic books. Can you help?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kbanas
at 10:14 AM on December 28, 2007
(41 comments)
I found a piece of paper in my 12 year old son's knapsack today, covered with drawings of swastika's, "KKK", and one word, "Osama"; and yes, he admitted to doing it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by BozoBurgerBonanza
at 5:29 PM on April 24, 2007
(62 comments)
Some of the inventors and creators that died in 2007 who leave behind something for us to remember them by:
David H. Shepard (Optical Readers, Farrington B numeric font),
J. Robert Cade (Gatorade),
Herbert Saffir (The Hurricane Scale),
George Rieveschl (beta-dimethylaminoethylbenzhydryl ether hydrochloride --- a.k.a. Benadryl),
Arthur Jones (Nautilus machines),
Jack Odell (Matchbox Cars),
Raymond Douglas (Color in the NY Times),
George Kovacs (The ubiquitous halogen torchiere lamp),
Martin J. Weber (The Posterization technique),
Edwin Traisman (Cheez Whiz and McD's French Fries),
Ed Yost (Modern Hot-Air Ballooning),
Theodore Maiman (The Laser),
John Billings (The Rhythm Method),
Paul C. Lauterbur (The M.R.I.),
John W. Backus (Fortran),
Florence Z. Melton (Slippers),
James Hillier (The Electron Microscope),
Iwao Takamoto ("Scooby-Doo"),
and
Momofuku Ando (Instant Ramen).
So it goes.
posted to MetaFilter by about_time
at 10:43 AM on December 26, 2007
(13 comments)
Time to kill while waiting for Santa to arrive/dinner to digest/family to leave? Well, here's a
Very Special Holiday Episode fpp just for you. God bless us, every one.
posted to MetaFilter by miss lynnster
at 8:56 PM on December 24, 2007
(49 comments)
Send messages to friends with fun, bureaucratic fill-in forms!
Bureau of Communication has funny faux-bureaucratic forms that you can send to your friends. Whether you need to communicate a problem, send an invitation to an event, or simply apologize for a transgression, our easy-to-use forms will ensure that your message is clearly conveyed.
posted to MetaFilter by lsemel
at 9:24 AM on December 21, 2007
(30 comments)
I collected book related askMes on the wiki into
readMe.
posted to MetaTalk by shothotbot
at 8:26 PM on December 8, 2007
(77 comments)
A post about how women experience street harassment has been deleted. The one about how the psychology of exhibitionist men remains. The grounds:
This post was deleted for the following reason: one exhibitionism post per day is enough. This is linked in the thread just below this. Please don't use MetaFilter to forward your point from metatalk. -- jessamyn
My point was to continue a discussion some people thought valuable from a previous thread deleted apparently because that post was poor.
Just can't get the hang of this thing. Hey ho.
posted to MetaTalk by jennydiski
at 7:46 AM on November 16, 2007
(1163 comments)
Exhibitionism can refer to a wide range of behaviours, ranging from fun with a willing partner, to a crime when done to the unsuspecting and unwilling. As a clinical matter
exhibitionism is a
sexual paraphilia in which a person (usually a man) obtains sexual pleasure from exposing his or her genitals to strangers, usually in a public place. Prevalence of the condition in the general population is not known, but
approximately 30% of sex offenders have exhibitionistic tendencies and it is one of the most common sex offences.
Some argue that for people with this paraphilia "it should be a possible to exist happily as an exhibitionist and still stay within the boundaries imposed by our legal systems." While often the belief is that they are harmless,
research is indicating that they may progress to more serious crimes.
Others note that "exhibitionism...is dangerous in that it can produce traumatic experiences within its victims."
posted to MetaFilter by never used baby shoes
at 10:01 PM on November 15, 2007
(34 comments)
I'm looking for more sites with "porn".
Not what you think, totally safe for work.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Deathalicious
at 11:04 AM on November 10, 2007
(36 comments)
The San Diego area is in grave danger right now from two major fires being fanned by Santa Ana winds. The SD Union Tribune is maintaining
a special Google Map in real time showing what's burned, and what's in danger, who's supposed to evacuate, and where they're supposed to go.
posted to MetaFilter by Steven C. Den Beste
at 4:55 PM on October 22, 2007
(204 comments)
Just lately I was thinking of the Dutch Invasion. No, not
this one. Not
this one either. I mean
this one. There was, of course,
Shocking Blue, with their
classic hit,
Venus, and their lesser-known
Never Marry a Railroad Man and
Mighty Joe. Then there was the
George Baker Selection, with
Little Green Bag and
Una Paloma Blanca. Then you've got the very, er...
unique Ma Belle Amie, by
Peter Tetteroo and the
Tee Set. And how 'bout that
Golden Earring, eh?
Radar Love? Amirite? And of course, the inimitable
Focus, with their mega-hit instrumental,
Hocus Pocus. By now you're probably asking yourself "Why didn't they ever put a bunch of these Dutch bands out on little platforms sticking out of the ocean, and throw in some go-go girls, and film the whole thing from helicopters?" Well,
THEY DID! Those crazy Dutch!
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite
at 7:35 AM on October 19, 2007
(52 comments)
NewsFilter:
"A Montgomery minister found in his home this summer died with his hands and feet bound behind his back and dressed in two rubberized suits, an offical autopsy showed. ... The Rev. Gary Michael Aldridge was found dead June 24. Police ruled the 51-year-old pastor of Thorington Road Baptist Church was alone at the time of his death and that there was no foul play involved."
He's a
Liberty University graduate and former Liberty dean.
posted to MetaFilter by ibmcginty
at 2:55 PM on October 12, 2007
(133 comments)
