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I grew up on Stephenson and Gibson so there's a tiny part of me which believes /b/ will eventually save the world.
posted to MetaFilter by fullerine at 12:30 AM on December 9, 2010

Just chiming in another alternative, Aviary has a Firefox plug-in that does this as well, but also, if you add "aviary.com/" before any URL it'll do the full page screen capture as well open it into an image editor on their website.

Por ejemplo~
posted to MetaTalk by french films about trains at 9:42 PM on November 20, 2010

There's lots of camps like this as a parent. There are strict anti-gun toy camps, strict anti-gender stereotype camps, strict anti-television camps, strict anti-Elmo camps, strict anti-marketing to kids on food labels camps.

You can join any of them. They're always looking for new members.

For us, that shit's fucking exhausting. I think dogmatic feelings about parenting; when put up against a screaming baby, cleaning poo, or carrying a... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by A Terrible Llama at 8:09 AM on July 5, 2010 marked best answer

She is looking a gift horse in the mouth. Nay, staring it.

If one is given a gift, and one gets angry, one is simply very very likely to be wrong.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by krilli at 5:16 AM on June 1, 2010

Maybe they appropriated his fixed gear heritage, DU?

"Meh" to the hipsters. It's not about some collection of preferences being arbitrarily labeled as hip, at all. It's not being lacto-ovo-vegetarian, or messenger bags, or anything else. If there's one thing common to hipsters, it's that their involvement with things they enjoy comes in at a false, ironic level. Rather than true engagement, it's about an attitude that delivers a lot of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by adipocere at 4:49 AM on May 28, 2010

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posted to MetaFilter by mathowie at 7:55 PM on May 28, 2010

So, tomorrow if anyone at work asks me what I did last night, I'll say: "I didn't do a thing, but a website where I regularly post links about comic books and toy soldiers saved a couple women from being victims of an international sex trafficking ring."

I'm not sure how I'm going to explain that.
posted to MetaTalk by marxchivist at 4:00 PM on May 20, 2010

flapjax FTW.

The median age for first selling a novel is around 35 -- meaning the majority of working novelists are somewhere north of 50. It takes time to learn enough about human beings to have something interesting to say about them. It's also a profession that lends itself to introverts.

Some of us can perform on stage -- but most of us can't. To make matters worse, storytelling doesn't lend itself... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cstross at 4:33 AM on May 3, 2010

I'm pretty sure that methocarbamol is prescription only down there. If you've got a bad back/muscle aches it's pretty awesome. Look for Robax Platinum, or generics at drug stores.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Kreiger at 6:33 AM on April 23, 2010

Oh, Morrison & Foerster, a large law firm (> 1,000 attorneys), uses mofo.com instead of morrisonfoerster.com. Oddly enough, they own morrisonfoerster.com but it doesn't redirect to mofo.com, instead it shows a generic placeholder page.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jedicus at 8:50 AM on September 24, 2009

my greatest fear is how our government is going to respond. more erosion of freedom in the name of security. mark my words.
posted to MetaFilter by rebeccablood at 10:10 AM on September 11, 2001

The only useful axiom I know, was given by Schopenhauer, in Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung. Zweiter Band, Erstes Buch, Kapitel 17, stating that nobody should even try metaphysics, without knowing what physics had already made clear.

It's not an axiom many philosophers go by.

And this is why I am a science historian, not a science philosopher, though there are no strict boundaries between the two.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by ijsbrand at 6:34 AM on September 10, 2009

I don't understand why this article is so focused on the costs of things like coffee machines and televisions. It detracts from the actual take-away, which is that there's a school experimenting with replacing library stacks with digital readers. Which is good --- we need early adopters to try new things so we can learn from their failures. And this will fail. They don't have enough digital readers: Every student needs one. And I suspect the digital readers' libraries are woefully... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by qxntpqbbbqxl at 4:09 PM on September 4, 2009

God botherers have a problem with Dawkins? What's that got to do with Dawkins involvement with this petition? Cause they'd totally approve, except, darn, it's DAWKINS!!!!!!!ONE!!UNO!!!

Dawkins position is not just all about "gay" - it's about hated minorities. Why Dawkins? Because he has a special angle - in his view, it hurts science. And as such his involvement is totally not arbitrary. He opposes the religious world view, because - among... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by VikingSword at 10:36 PM on August 19, 2009

They don't understand the medium. If they did, they'd leave a gore-spattered mess after the victim was dispatched or dragged off scene, and let the reader click the banner to see what the hell that was. By tossing up the logo, there's no incentive for click-through.

You can either advertise for saturation - show the product (character, in this case) and logo everywhere you can - or you can advertise for viral - get people engaged and interested, and lead them to a site... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Slap*Happy at 8:24 AM on August 20, 2009

Having watched a few of these town hall videos, I keep seeing this same pattern come up with the questioners. Their questions usually go:

"Hello. Here is a relatively salient point about the health care proposals. My question to you, elected official, is OBAMAHITLER SOCIALISM DEATH PANELS KENYAN?"

I mean, go back to the NECN video with the full 15 minutes of Frank vs. his constituents. The woman starts off with a good point -- most... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dw at 8:23 AM on August 19, 2009

Everyone does coke on the weekends.

In the words of Aurthur Miller:
"Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up."
posted to Ask MetaFilter by McGuillicuddy at 6:11 PM on July 5, 2009

My son's two and has never listened to anything but our own music collection. What's interesting is that recently, he heard a "kid's song" from a Sesame Street album and after one listening had it totally memorized, but when given the opportunity to listen to the album again, chose a Tom Waits song instead. I don't know what this means, but it was interesting. My dude loves:

the aforementioed Tom Waits (his voice seems to be really appealing to kids)... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by rumposinc at 6:33 AM on April 28, 2009

I think songs that are playful with a fairly clear melody might be appreciated.
Perhaps things like:
Eels- I Like Birds
Feist- 1234
Islands- Rough Gem
Sigur Ros- Hoppipolla
Sufjan Stevens-Chicago
Moxy Fruvous- King of Spain
Joanna Newsom- Spout and the... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Kirjava at 6:40 AM on April 28, 2009

She might like the Zombies. This Will be Our Year and Time of the Season are two of the songs from the awesome album Odessey and
Oracle.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by schyler523 at 6:55 AM on April 28, 2009

Not a parent, but I introduced the 3 year old girl I nannied to a few albums, to counteract her Hannah Montana obsession. Her favorite songs from those were:

Kooks, Always Where I Need to Be
Magnetic Fields, The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing

and for bedtime:

Paul McCarney, Calico Skies
Weepies, Gotta Have... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by bluestocking at 7:02 AM on April 28, 2009

See You On The Moon! is a compilation of kid-geared songs with some really great indie rock folks (Great Lake Swimmers, Sufjan Stevens, Broken Social Scene, Mark Kozelek).
posted to Ask MetaFilter by oulipian at 7:22 AM on April 28, 2009

You love reading eh? So did this guy called Borges who spent the last decades of his life blind. He was director of the National Library then. He had a small army of readers who read to him. He continued to write. He composed and revised in his head.

...Borges was appointed Director of the National Library, the job of his dreams. By this time Borges was going completely blind; interestingly two of the previous directors of the National Library had also been... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by vacapinta at 4:41 AM on April 1, 2009

What's that area of London like?

Expensive.

I'm staying at the Hilton London Kensington, which appears to be reasonably close to at least a couple of tube stops.

Snark aside, in the area of transit advice, that hotel is deceptively not-so-close to a tube stop. At least, not a useful one. The closest tube stop to you is ostensibly Olympia (called Kensington... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by generichuman at 9:01 AM on November 19, 2008

The main way to learn this stuff if there aren't classes in it is to design a project yourself -- something that will motivate you to mess around with it -- and learn the ins and outs of it. I don't know you, but I do know a lot of librarians and I've found that sheer force of will and a general good attitude will go much MUCH farther than "tech skills" in terms of what you'd need to know to be good at a library job. One of the things about tech generally is that it changes, so while... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jessamyn at 5:06 AM on October 27, 2008

Can you blame us, Pastabagel? What's your take on the bill, if you've had time to digest it?
posted by Mister_A at 2:10 PM on September 29

I trust no one. I say pass anything that allows the government to profit from the buyout and mandates some congressional oversight. There's no time to do the bill right, it's too complex and too massive to slap together even in a week.

So we need to elect Obama. After... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Pastabagel at 11:28 AM on September 29, 2008

It is an old maxim and a very sound one, that he that dances should always pay the fiddler. Now, sir, in the present case, if any gentlemen, whose money is a burden to them, choose to lead off a dance, I am decidedly opposed to the people’s money being used to pay the fiddler…all this to settle a question in which the people have no interest, and about which they care nothing. These capitalists generally act harmoniously, and in concert, to fleece the people, and now, that they have got into a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kirth Gerson at 11:13 AM on September 29, 2008

Well, I do not think doctors carry all wisdom - there are lots of alternative ways out there that are effective yet not "approved" by conventional medicine.

Conventional medicine, subject to the scientific method, is not a conspiracy to exclude anything vaguely alternative-sounding. You can either demand that the health care you receive and self-administer is rigorously scrutinized and scientifically valid or you can join the... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Inspector.Gadget at 8:01 AM on September 15, 2008

The feeling steam punk arises in me is not one of revulsion or annoyance. It's a very distinct feeling that the English language does not have a good expression for. In Dutch it's called plaatsvervangende schaamte which literally means "place exchanging shame". Shame felt on behalf of someone else, shame you feel someone else should feel. I'm embarrassed for them.
posted to MetaFilter by phrontist at 8:00 AM on May 8, 2008

This isn't only a billing problem, but it's also a medical one. At that hospital, your husband and his brother almost certainly have 1 medical file. Information such as allergies, medical history, etc are now all in error. This could compromise your husband's care if he should need it.

Approach the hospital with two problems. First, they incorrectly released his brother's medical information to your husband. This violates the brother's privacy rights. Second, there... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by 26.2 at 3:39 PM on March 3, 2008 marked best answer

No, I don't think you need to do this. I think it's nannying and weird. Libraries post the copyright notice you refer to on their photocopy machines because they are nervous rule-following types. There are no copyright issues with internet content that are the library's business or responsibility.

Your boss is wrong and putting notices on computers about what to do with content is not the library's job and leads to a slippery slope where the whole monitor is covered by... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jessamyn at 10:16 AM on March 2, 2008

First of all, you can replace older style R12 refrigerant with new, ozone friendly R134a refrigerant, although you may need to find and fix the source of any leaks for systems which have already lost their refrigerant, to have a repair that lasts. This isn't as big a problem on some systems, as it is on others.

If you have a 16 year old Taurus, your A/C was designed and originally delivered with R12 Freon refrigerant. Ford used R12 refrigerant... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by paulsc at 9:43 PM on July 17, 2007 marked best answer

Stadium events, both for television and in general for sports, are extensively scripted before the event begins. I work for Texas A&M University in the Athletics department, and every one of our games features a flyover by an air wing with at least one former-Aggie member. My job role doesn't directly deal with the video department, but my office is next door.

The answer: Everything that happens except the game itself is scripted.

When the... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by SpecialK at 12:40 PM on February 5, 2007

First, be smart from the very beginning. Pulverize all teeth, burn off fingerprints, and disfigure the face. Forcing a DNA test to establish identity (if it ever comes to that) might introduce the legal/forensic hurdle that saves your ass down the line. An unidentifiable body can, in a pinch, be dressed in thrift store clothes and dropped in a bad part of town where the police are less likely to question it. I don't reommend that disposal method, I'm just saying an easily identifiable body is an... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by scarabic at 6:27 PM on June 13, 2004 marked best answer