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In Utah, mob mentality rules.
A gay man either kidnapped his next-door-neighbors' two children, or he took them in because they couldn't sleep during an all night party at their own house -- depending upon who you ask. The children were gone from their own home for only ten minutes.
What is certain is that a retaliatory mob broke into drag queen David Bell's house and brutally attacked him and his lover.
But no charges will be filed against the mob.
posted to MetaFilter by punkbitch
at 12:03 PM on August 8, 2008
(28 comments)
Friday Flash Fun:
Switch is a game where you are collecting black and white balls. The catch? If you are collecting the black balls, you can't touch the white balls and vice versa. You can, however, switch colors by clicking. In later levels there is an alien that enjoys trading.
Enjoy!
posted to MetaFilter by schyler523
at 9:32 AM on August 8, 2008
(9 comments)
In a single 1931
document, electrical engineer
Alan Blumlein patented stereo records, stereo movie sountracks and surround sound. His equipment was used to make some of the
first stereo recordings at EMI's Abbey Road studios - several decades before the technology came into popular use. Blumlein went on to pioneer
405 line TV (the first wholly electronic format which won out over John Logie Baird's rival system) and to produce the equipment that made the
first outside TV broadcast possible. At the outbreak of World War 2 he was a key architect of the secret
H2S radar project. Unfortunately he was killed in a plane crash while testing the technology and the whole incident was kept secret. Hence he remains an obscure figure despite his achievements. A
recent BBC Radio 4 program contains a lot of the archive stereo footage and tells his story.
posted to MetaFilter by rongorongo
at 9:10 AM on August 7, 2008
(5 comments)
Mike the headless chicken
was a
rooster who lived for 18 months after he was beheaded. In that time he grew from 2 1/2 to almost 8 pounds. When the veracity of this was questioned, the owner brought it to the University of Utah to have it's authenticity
confirmed.
posted to MetaFilter by quin
at 11:06 AM on August 7, 2008
(30 comments)
Apology.
posted to MetaTalk by Afroblanco
at 6:50 PM on August 6, 2008
(125 comments)
so, about this post --> http://www.metafilter.com/73909/History-of-the-DC-Universe ... please read all of more inside first before looking at the post.
posted to MetaTalk by yeoz
at 4:51 AM on August 7, 2008
(45 comments)
India is big.
You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. Fortunately, somebody has rendered the whole sub-continent down to a series of maps. Want to know
who speaks what, where, or maybe the
AIDS prevalence by state? Or how about the
history of India (Flash). Or (if you're on vacation) a map of the
average rainfall and
some travel maps might help. Dozens, if not hundreds, of Indian political, climate, historical, and cultural maps to check out.
posted to MetaFilter by Panjandrum
at 8:52 PM on August 6, 2008
(14 comments)
What can I buy on the internet for a dollar?
posted to Ask Metafilter by TheArpenter
at 7:24 PM on August 5, 2008
(22 comments)
Where can I find cold-brewed coffee within a 5 block radius of East 59th St. and Lexington Ave, New York, NY?
posted to Ask Metafilter by zackola
at 6:25 AM on July 12, 2007
(7 comments)
In his new book, '
The Way of the World' "Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind claims that, after the Iraq war began, the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein, in an attempt to tie Hussein to the 9/11 attacks."
* Suskind
writes: "'It said that 9/11 ringleader Mohammad Atta had actually trained for his mission in Iraq' and that Iraq bought yellowcake uranium from Niger with the help of al Qaeda. Suskind also claims that the Bush administration had information from a top Iraqi intelligence official "that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq – intelligence they received in plenty of time to stop an invasion." After the fake letter was released in late 2003, press outlets reported it as evidence of a Saddam/al Qaeda link. "Now, if this is true, that blows the lid off al Qaeda—Saddam," said Bill O’Reilly at the time.
posted to MetaFilter by ericb
at 8:04 AM on August 5, 2008
(127 comments)
Realist Fiction by
George Saunders:
"Last night, in a biker bar, I overheard two men discussing what distinguished “realist” fiction from more “experimental” work. Although one shouldn’t generalize, I never expect bikers to be literary critics. Well, these were literary critics, and good ones—in fact, they’d bought their “hogs” with royalties from a book they’d co-written,
Feminine Desire In Jane Austen."
Experimental Fiction by
George Saunders:
"Experimental fiction is the art of telling a story in which certain aspects of reality have been exaggerated or distorted in such a way as to put the reader off the story and make him go watch a television show."
posted to MetaFilter by plexi
at 8:46 AM on August 5, 2008
(37 comments)
The Tinkering School.
"A 'real project' is where you make a thing that isn't a pretend something else. If the kids want to make a boat, that's fine, but we're going to take it down to the harbor and put it in the ocean."
[via NPR, no transcript yet]
posted to MetaFilter by fantabulous timewaster
at 10:28 AM on August 5, 2008
(13 comments)
Crunk/Southern Club style head banging high energy hip hop track. All vocals by my normal collaberator, Juicy Karkass, and his buddy Savior of
Animal Farm
posted to MeFi Music by mediocre
at 5:19 AM on August 1, 2008
(105 comments)
So I was reading
this, and thought it would make an interesting visualization for MeFi statistics. Pretty pictures inside.
posted to MetaTalk by Galvatron
at 4:48 PM on August 3, 2008
(54 comments)
Seemingly, customer service isn't what it used to be, if you can even find them. Well, no more hiding. Enter
Hard to Find 800 Numbers, an alphabetic list that eliminates the scramble for contact information. Waiting on hold for customer service or tech support is painful enough.
posted to MetaFilter by netbros
at 6:02 AM on August 4, 2008
(30 comments)
Frederick...made linguistic experiments on the vile bodies of hapless infants, "bidding foster-mothers and nurses to suckle and bathe and wash the children, but in no wise to prattle or speak with them; for he would have learnt whether they would speak the Hebrew language (which had been the first), or Greek, or Latin, or Arabic, or perchance the tongue of their parents of whom they had been born. But he laboured in vain, for the children could not live without clappings of the hands, and gestures, and gladness of countenance, and blandishments."
posted to MetaFilter by voltairemodern
at 8:23 AM on August 4, 2008
(27 comments)
I disassemble typewriters and then reassemble them into full-scale, anatomically correct human figures. I do not solder, weld, or glue these assemblages together- the process is entirely cold assembly.
{flash, sound}
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 6:51 PM on August 4, 2008
(64 comments)
Nicholson Baker reviews
Reading The OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages "And the lovely-ugly words, words that Shea didn’t know existed, leap up to his hand. Acnestis — the part of an animal’s back that the animal can’t reach to scratch. And bespawl — to splatter with saliva. In Chapter D, Shea encounters deipnophobia, the fear of dinner parties; Chapter K brings kankedort, an awkward situation."
posted to MetaFilter by vronsky
at 1:19 PM on August 2, 2008
(27 comments)
Demo of a song about being far away from the spy you love. With acoustic guitar and tuba.
posted to MeFi Music by ludwig_van
at 4:23 PM on June 30, 2006
(13 comments)
Acoustic demo about what I did during the Cold War.
posted to MeFi Music by ludwig_van
at 4:27 PM on June 30, 2006
(2 comments)
It's a cover, but not exactly. I was too lazy to figure out the whole song, so I just took the basic hook and had some fun with it. First time working in Reason.
posted to MeFi Music by itchylick
at 8:52 PM on July 21, 2008
(10 comments)
My submission to the spy challenge.
posted to MeFi Music by umbú
at 10:03 PM on July 26, 2008
(12 comments)
I know. I should use a whetstone, but I haven't really been able to get the hang of it, despite taking a class (and I know to use the honing steel frequently between sharpenings). Can anyone recommend an easy at-home knife sharpening tool that's
almost as good as a stone?
posted to Ask Metafilter by SampleSize
at 1:32 PM on August 1, 2008
(29 comments)
Spy music! Whether it's
Lalo Schifrin's theme for
Mission Impossible, or
Jerry Goldsmith's theme for
Man from U.N.C.L.E., or the greatest of them all,
John Barry's iconic
James Bond theme, you know it when you hear it. Now, for my money, the best spy music in
recent years wasn't from a spy movie at all, but an animated superhero film: the action-packed
theme and soundtrack for
The Incredibles, in which the very talented
Michael Giacchino was clearly (and brilliantly)
channeling John Barry. And of course, you'll all want to head over
here and see what your fellow MeFiers have lately been doing with the genre.
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posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite
at 7:18 AM on August 1, 2008
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