Okay, law librarian here, and I'm chiming in not only because I've helped out a number of folks in your situation, but also because at least a few others here have suggested you come visit one of my colleagues out in sunny Southern California. Before you do, please know a few basic things.

Mis-filing or other errors in your service of notice can fatally damage even the most meritorious of claims. Since some of your claims allege fairly serious harm, the first thing... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by deejay jaydee at 9:02 AM on August 7, 2008

Post it to projects
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomad at 9:38 AM on August 7, 2008

Nashville Tuning.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bunnytricks at 5:28 AM on July 15, 2008

>Facebook is the worst (widely used) website I know of. [...] Makes myspace look good by comparison.

Funny, I was going to switch your two examples. Crappy third-party apps aren't really Facebook's fault.

Site: Facebook
Status: Good
Why: Consistent look and feel between pages; minimal downtime, especially considering the number of users; well-moderated

Site:... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by xbonesgt at 12:25 PM on July 15, 2008

To be clear, removing IndexIgnore should fix the problem. If you want to not list indexes in other directories, you should replace "IndexIgnore *" with "Options -Indexes". This should cause "Options +Indexes" to work on subdirectories (this should be put in an .htaccess file in opml_archive). I haven't tested any of this.
posted to Ask Metafilter by null terminated at 10:21 PM on March 25, 2008 marked best answer

Okay. But this isn't just a sandwich. It's a sensory experience. You must follow the recipe to get the total effect.

Firstly, I used Ploughman's Dark Soft Wheat & Rye Bread. It's a local one, but It's fairly dark in colour, has a thin but meaty crust and no bits-of-oat nonsense. It's still quite fluffy for a dark bread, but it has a rough texture especially on the crust which is crucial for the contrast.

I used Oliviani olive spread, you... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Dillonlikescookies at 9:31 PM on June 21, 2008

You can always embed a style sheet in the HTML document.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dagnyscott at 1:49 PM on May 22, 2008

I bet he has a bitchin' fedora collection.
posted to MetaFilter by sourwookie at 7:59 PM on May 20, 2008

This could be kind of cool if you could hook it up to the Back and Forward buttons on your browser. So whatever page you're on now, you could peel from the left side and see the page you were just at. Looks like this guy's already done the hard part - now you just need to hook it up the the cache.
posted to MetaFilter by echo target at 12:06 PM on May 19, 2008

That's the world's first flying dildo to be made entirely of polonium
posted to MetaFilter by thirteenkiller at 4:08 PM on May 19, 2008

To be fair to mahagonyslide, there's no identifying information in his profile. Also, a lawyer would have charged him $1000 at least to write a letter.

No worries, mahogonyslide, if the letter doesn't get them off your back then you consult a lawyer. Usually, they send these out to scare people and they certainly achieved their goal.

BTW ... in the future DON'T ADMIT TO ANYTHING in a letter to a lawyer. That was your real mistake.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by bananafish at 3:18 PM on May 16, 2008

What happens when two hypnotic handshakers vie for supremacy? Probably like something out of a Three Stooges skit (with only two stooges).

For some reason I envision it being like the famous I Love Lucy chocolate conveyor belt bit, only instead of chocolate its possessions (keys, wallet, phone, etc) and instead of a conveyor belt its each other's pockets, and they keep pointing and asking each other for directions and shaking hands and taking things... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by CitrusFreak12 at 8:55 PM on May 11, 2008

I make somewhere between a quarter to half my income as a stage "mentalist" whose act somewhat resembles Derren Brown's--though not to his "magic handshake" level--so let me post a clarification, a bunch of caveats, and as much information as I can without making my colleagues mad at me.

(Paging The Deej! Hope me fellow magician!)

First, there are three very different forms of hypnosis being talked about... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Ian A.T. at 3:32 AM on May 12, 2008

ebay
posted to Ask Metafilter by furtive at 7:24 PM on May 11, 2008

ProCon.org claims to be an unbiased source for facts about issue. But after looking through a lot of the site, it suffers from exactly the same problem as I pointed out in the recent thread about journalism; namely, presenting one person from either side of an issue or fact without endeavoring to determine which party is correct is not helpful and, frankly, isn't even all that unbiased.

Consider: is teaching the "debate" about evolution by... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Justinian at 6:20 PM on May 10, 2008

I'm always suspicious of sites like this, having been taken in by some in the past, so I always go snoop around now. I usually expect them to be some kind of Republican front with a hidden agenda slicked over, ultimately trying to sell something slimy. That doesn't appear to be the case here. Could even be the opposite. Who knows, but I just like to know who's paying and what their motivations are if I'm going to read a word of whatever they're saying. I'd like to think I'm too savvy to be... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Askr at 9:45 PM on May 10, 2008

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Science! at 9:27 PM on May 9, 2008

I have the same problem with this that I have with most of the VBS videos and Vice in general; they get footage, yes, and access, but it seems more like I'm being brought along on tour with a bunch of wealthy bored urbanites who are bragging about the strange and dangerous places they've been, pointing and saying, "Wow, that is so fucked up! Isn't that fucked up? Aren't I courageous and cool for being here telling you how fucked up this is?" Yes, they go to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by louche mustachio at 7:20 PM on March 24, 2008

In the sub-basement of what was once an industrial park, the server continued asking questions to the void. The network was long-gone--the ethernet cables vaporized right where they emerged to the surface--but this didn't stop the server. It had a queue.

The third wave of bombings had collapsed the ceiling, destroying almost all the other racks in the room, but the server remained. It was closest to the large metal cage that held the enormous emergency power supply. It... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Ian A.T. at 5:20 AM on March 17, 2008

Small note: the "high interest" savings accounts won't be for long, with the massive cuts we've seen recently. My Emigrant Direct account has gone from 5.15% down to three point something, and will drop again in a few days with the cut from yesterday. It's still a good idea, but it's probably worth the effort to look for something a little higher return.

For instance, just to check out, look into a tax advantaged bond fund. It's liquid, and might be earning... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by cschneid at 8:32 AM on March 19, 2008

roll truck roll: What I'm saying is, Matt needs to write us each individualized About Me prompts.

About roll truck roll. What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? I mean, was there some kind of truck thing involved? Sounds like something out of a country song. Do you just happen to like country songs, or what? Go on, spill it.

About eyeballkid. What's the deal with your nickname? You like to think you're like... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by koeselitz at 2:56 PM on December 12, 2007

We. Like, the People of Metafilter. We're good at saying what we think about ideas.

We usually think they're bad.
posted to MetaTalk by koeselitz at 4:10 PM on December 12, 2007

Iridic Lovecraftian? Perhaps, but I associate H.P.'s style with vast, paranatural, ahuman presences. The horror here is different, I think; it's psychological, suggestive, as personal as the individualized silhouettes in the rock. The threat here is not that of a malevolent presence, but of a hole, of an absence - of the grave prepared for you long before your birth, and the inescapable fate that forces you into it.

I read it and thought, who made this... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by aeschenkarnos at 2:06 PM on December 11, 2007

How about Boston's "More Than A Feeling?" Something in my brain says "mustache band" when I hear Boston, though I'm not sure if that's accurate. Anyway, the chorus is perfect for a three person shout-along.
posted to Ask Metafilter by otolith at 2:56 PM on December 6, 2007

Free As In Beer, of course.
posted to Ask Metafilter by cmonkey at 9:43 AM on December 4, 2007

Ole Fortran Malt Liquor, a favorite among robots.
posted to Ask Metafilter by cosmicbandito at 9:48 AM on December 4, 2007

Most interesting is the note at the very bottom -

"Unmailable- must be forwarded by express."

Post Office'll get you ever time.
posted to MetaFilter by IndigoJones at 5:00 PM on December 2, 2007

The first one probably dates back to the Roman Empire, and is signed by order of one Biggus Dickus.

Et Tu, motherfucker?
posted to MetaFilter by jonmc at 5:11 PM on December 2, 2007

Sounds like Dick Cheney.

Nope; while the Cleveland Spiders did try to recruit him in 1898, his aversion to drafts of any sort won out in the end.
posted to MetaFilter by Alvy Ampersand at 5:30 PM on December 2, 2007

[More, sorry]

From 1895: "A Philadelphia scribe, in commenting on the rowdy ball playing of 1894 in the League ranks, says: "We could fill pages with evidence of the rowdyism indulged in by the majority of the League teams during the season of 1894, and that, too, if we were only to confine ourselves to the local reports of the season at Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and half a dozen other cities." As the Cleveland Leader hadit, in... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Miko at 6:48 PM on December 2, 2007

Could you and your identical twin from a parallel universe actually hold a back-and-forth conversation in a perfectly symmetric room, or would you just talk over each other for eternity? (Assume quantum theory is bullshit)

This question has plagued me for years. Please assume that "randomness" in physics is only an illusion, or, if you like, that the same random occurrences are recreated on the opposite side of the room.

So imagine two... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by equalpants at 1:59 AM on December 2, 2007

Yes. Okay, the first problem is that you will believe that the other person you are seeing is you basically. The person mirrors everything you do exactly, so you would think it were you. However, IF you were prepped before hand that the thing you see in there is someone completely different, then you can figure out how to talk. You know why? Because of free will. Because of the ability our brain has to randomize perfectly symmetrical experiences.

So, I thought about this,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by markovich at 2:34 AM on December 2, 2007

Please do not withhold rent. That is a violation of your lease and can result in a legitimate eviction. As a general matter of course, never withhold rent without discussing the matter with a lawyer. You could be entirely in the right and still end up on the street.

As for an answer to your question, I agree with Brockles. This is possible defamation of character and should be dealt with as such.

When your lease finishes, also consider moving somewhere else.
posted to Ask Metafilter by saeculorum at 9:28 PM on December 1, 2007

Heh, my co-worker has christened* dinosaurs "Jesus Dragons", which I think is super.




*pun intended.
posted to MetaTalk by Mister_A at 11:46 AM on November 30, 2007

I AM HU AM
posted to MetaTalk by cog_nate at 1:25 PM on November 30, 2007

not exactly what you're asking, i think, but the novel turing has the best description i have ever read of what it's like to die, and know that you are dying:
the candles are put out one by one, but you fight back, you light them up again. perhaps the colour of your nursery wall goes first, perhaps the name of your linear algebra tutor, or the shape of his fingers. you sweat, you get it back. you find the pathways, you reactivate them, you get it back. but another neuron will go... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by andrew cooke at 11:28 AM on April 14, 2006

I don't think anyone would want to buy someone's old underwear.

Are you new to the internet?



People will buy anything, especially on eBay.
posted to Ask Metafilter by fire&wings at 4:37 PM on November 30, 2007

Trying to negotiate this balance of pros and cons is the reason I don't have an mp3 player - what kind of person am I if I assume that I, and I alone, can make the best choices for what I hear, and that serendipity should be trumped by being sated with the familiar? I can listen to my music whenever I want on my computer, which I can take with me almost everywhere as it's a laptop. To me, that's enough for now; I've discovered lots of cool music by listening to the radio being played in the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mdonley at 6:21 PM on November 29, 2007

it could be either a pro or a con: never eating in a crappy restaurant (pro) versus wasting time reading reviews of every restaurant in a ten block radius (con)

Not relying on your own judgement or ever taking a chance. Con.

To me almost nothing, nothing is more annoying in my privileged, middle-class American life than people who can't ignore the often unnecessary intrusions of others (do you really need to... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cyrano at 6:38 PM on November 29, 2007

When I was in high school all the computers had software that allowed the IT goons to take screen caps (unlike, say, VNC which lets you watch in near-realtime). I had a plan to write a little javascript app to replace the text on web pages with little animated gifs that used this exact principle (which I found in some visual perception paper) to display the letters (the letter forms are random pixels, but constant, the background is random but changing rapidly). They would see nothing but static,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by phrontist at 2:45 PM on November 29, 2007

Asperger's is like Ron Paul. On the internet, everyone has it and everyone supports it.
posted to MetaTalk by Stynxno at 1:32 PM on November 29, 2007

I'm almost ashamed to speak up here, but I'm one of the drumming types. I almost never even notice when I'm doing it, but when the guy down the hall spoked up - nay, screamed - that I was driving him nuts with it, I was able to start toning it down. I don't think I do it much anymore.

or maybe I just don't notice it.

In any case, there are apparently some folks who apparently have to be...kinetic or they can't work either. So I'm with agregoli on... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by jquinby at 11:03 AM on November 29, 2007

(The error is that it's impossible to locate them relatively when THEY ARE IN HIS BELLY.)
posted to MetaTalk by klangklangston at 2:27 PM on November 19, 2007

I'm not sure that means that sliced bread was the greatest invention. It could instead mean that there were greater things before that, but this is the greatest invention since 1928. If that's the case, this could be correctly applied to multiple things.

Things and How Great They Were Particularly Vis a Vis Sliced BreadThing Greatness When GTSSB?
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Wheel 100 6000 BC... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by aubilenon at 2:34 PM on November 19, 2007

Because they learned how to use computers before Microsoft introduced that feature in XP and assumed they needed it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by damn dirty ape at 1:01 PM on November 15, 2007

Talk of Super Mario Bros. always brings a smile to my face. If it weren’t for those games, my childhood would have been a lot less exciting. I grew up as a carney. My parents were carneys and my grandparents and great-grandparents were carneys. My father was a concessionaire who sold food at fairs all over the U.S. and Canada. He sold popcorn, cotton candy, snow cones, candied apples, funnel cakes, and fiddlesticks to name a few. We lived a very nomadic sort of life, traveling around the country... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by inconsequentialist at 7:54 AM on November 9, 2007

Well, at least we agree on one thing.

PLO CHOPS R DLISHOUS?!!
posted to MetaTalk by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 9:20 AM on November 8, 2007

jedicus - you're a computer science lawyer that raps? Awesome.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nylon at 4:21 PM on November 7, 2007

So, what, my Google homepage will want me to join the humans to fight the zombies now?

I think all of MySpace and Facebook's applications should be evidence to anyone with some sense who's making a social application: if you let the users customize it, or god forbid, encourage them to customize it, without very strict limitations, then, on average, they will take a shit on the internet.
posted to MetaFilter by TheOnlyCoolTim at 2:31 PM on November 1, 2007

cortex: "One day, I too shall be old and infirm, and I shall wear <font color="#AA00FF">."

Deprecated HTML? Wouldn't suicide be a more graceful exit?
posted to MetaTalk by Plutor at 4:24 PM on March 19, 2007