I wonder if the new superman movie will go something like this:

Superman: "I can do anything, and nothing can kill me!"
Villain: "Not even you can stop this, also I will kill you"
[Villain does something and tries to kill Superman]
...!
[Superman stops him and doesn't die against all odds]
Everyone: Hooray!

Good Christ, it's fucking Superman, who gives a shit.
posted to MetaFilter by Uther Bentrazor at 10:16 AM on September 23, 2008

Also includes footage of two men consoling each other outside a failed brokerage.
posted to MetaFilter by tkolar at 5:03 PM on September 22, 2008

any major dude, if it was a year from now and I was saving for retirement typing this from my house I'd agree. But, I have a little more than I need right now for closing costs, first property tax payment, first homeowners insurance, etc. If I wait that could mean 12 more months of paying my landlord's entire mortgage and then some and having only my obscene heating bills due to her 100 year old windows to show for it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kellydamnit at 8:46 PM on September 17, 2008

I'm kind of hesitant to take financial information from a site who's header is "News - Analysis - Conspiracies"
posted to MetaFilter by a robot made out of meat at 7:04 AM on September 17, 2008

This was linked from the last post, but this is a version with much better audio:

5 Guys In A Limo.

Boy, it's sad to lose that guy. A voice so omnipresent that it almost defined his time.
posted to MetaFilter by Malor at 11:25 PM on September 1, 2008

I don't even know what "center-right" (much less "conservative") means anymore.

Are these the center-rightists who are for (e.g., PNAC) or against (e.g., paleo-cons like Pat Buchanan) Empire?

For unrestricted capitalism, or wary of desecration of "traditional values" for corporate profit?

Libertarian or Communitarian? Racialist or that strain of Fundamentalist Christianity that hates gays but... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by orthogonality at 11:47 PM on August 27, 2008

The messed up thing is that a sixteen year old gymnast in the Olympics is probably already over the hill, and can remember being better. What's THAT like?

Speaking as a professional ballet dancer who probably peaked at 20 and retired at 23, it fucking sucks.
posted to MetaFilter by sixswitch at 9:34 AM on August 20, 2008

You know what's worse than biting into an apple and finding an RFID?
Biting into an apple and finding half an RFID.
posted to MetaFilter by MtDewd at 6:05 PM on May 19, 2008

1 in 10, from IBM Research...Racetrack memory stores far more data in less space at faster speeds than current storage technologies, consumes less power, generates less heat, is practically indestructible, lays waste to Moore's Law, and according to IBM "potentially unleash[es] applications that nobody has even imagined yet."

In layman's terms, imagine your iPod being able to contain your own personal Netflix and run for weeks on a single charge. Because it has... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by edverb at 7:52 PM on May 19, 2008

You know what's worse than biting into an apple and finding an RFID?

Being raped to death by Reavers.
posted to MetaFilter by ROU_Xenophobe at 8:16 PM on May 19, 2008

I'll never forget some of the horror classics of my teenage years: the first Halloween, The Shining, The Changeling, and the first Friday the 13th (the final moment of which, when a naked and seaweed-covered Jason leaps out of the lake to drag the sole surviving teenager out of the rowboat, scared the crap out of me every time), to name a few. Some of these movies were more, uh, challenging than others to watch.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 5:17 PM on August 12, 2008

This is pretty. I really like the architecture of it--the chords that you're spelling out. It actually shares some of the harmonic vocabulary of an old tune by Preston Reed called Cane Bay, but with more shifts that almost sound Romantic*.

This is certainly a matter of personal taste, but the bursts of quick notes sometimes pulled me out of the reverie of the slower arpeggios. I really liked the tune, though.



*19th... [more]
posted to MeFi Music by umbú at 5:46 PM on August 12, 2008

I don't know if this has been done before, but since so many mefites are so good with words, we could have a challenge/competition - announced/held in Metatalk - for people to write lyrics that the musicians on here can pick and choose to write and record music to? Having done this for non-musicians before, I think most people are delighted to hear their words put to music.

Or, have a rap-style beef in here between two well-known Music mefites, where... [more]
posted to MeFi Music by Ira_ at 7:56 AM on August 1, 2008

I‘m sipping a scummy pint of cloudy beer in the back of a trendy dive bar turned nightclub in the heart of the city’s heroin district.

What club, on what street, in what city? I want to call bullshit on this guy so bad my dick hurts, but I can't even. Why is he intentionally obfuscating these kinds of identifying details throughout the whole article? I mean, come on: Standing outside an art-party next to a neat row of locked-up fixed-gear... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by The Straightener at 7:11 AM on August 1, 2008

I have a feeling this is less rooted in political ideology and has more to do with a long-standing undiagnosed mental illness.

That also sums up this nation's last eight years.
posted to MetaFilter by Astro Zombie at 11:27 AM on July 28, 2008

@arcanecrowbar: Don't shoot the messenger. I didn't invent the topic. I just put it to music. :)
posted to MeFi Music by hillelc at 11:08 AM on July 8, 2008

Didn't this tune knock "feels so good" by Chuck Mangione out of the #1 spot on the pop charts back in 1977? I swear I remember roller skating to it.
posted to MeFi Music by umbú at 6:32 AM on July 9, 2008

I'm in a very similar - I mean very similar - situation and my kids are similar ages to yours. My daughter smoked, got through college, is holding down a professional but hideously low paying job and is doing pretty well despite the brokeness factor but then aren't we all? I will say that time does help; that she's far more human now at 25 than she was at 19 and, actually, she's really great and I totally adore her, which is something I might not have said and would have thought was impossible 9... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mygothlaundry at 8:05 AM on July 9, 2008

Wanna have fun with an Evangelical Lutheran? Ask him who really inspired the holocaust: Darwin or Luther.

It is fun to imagine asking some contrived "type" of person a loaded, dishonest question, and the laugh at the stupid answer you imagine they will give. Stupid imaginary Evangelical Lutherans! (The answer, incidentally, is neither. Saying Luther "inspired the Holocaust" goes far beyond any justifiable... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nanojath at 11:06 PM on July 7, 2008

I am with you as well, dobie. In fact, to kick things off, I hereby pledge to comment on every music post in the month of July.

What? You think I can't do it? You think there'll too many songs to listen to? Go make me a liar, then!
posted to MeFi Music by danb at 8:26 PM on July 3, 2008

Most of the people from my generation and younger--I'm 25--are more thoroughly and effectively indoctrinated by the mass media and consumer culture than any other generation has ever been. Those younger than myself often don't even have the benefit of having a relative around who grew up before the rise of mass media, as I did. Is it surprising that after going through thirteen years of "education" and listening daily to shrieking, shouting, singing, clanging advertisement, these... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by sonic meat machine at 12:59 PM on June 17, 2008

If you have a good idea, people will say "That's a good idea" instead of pretending they don't hear it until a white male says it.

You may be interested in this list of privilege lists (able-bodied, average-sized, straight, male, and more!)
posted to Ask Metafilter by Jeanne at 6:24 PM on May 29, 2008 marked best answer

Your value isn't constantly assessed by others based solely on how you look and the level of painstaking detail you take in your beauty routine. You aren't expected as a general rule of thumb to remove all hair from your body, without question or complaint. You aren't expected to spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars on products to enhance your face and hair, at risk of being told you look unprofessional. You didn't watch the majority of your friends struggle with eating disorders and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by SassHat at 9:08 PM on May 29, 2008 marked best answer

Dammit. BBCode screwed me.
posted to MetaFilter by cgc373 at 4:37 AM on June 11, 2008

I don't know, but my Halloween tradition is: if you have a costume, you get candy, if you don't have a costume, you get a potato.
posted to Ask Metafilter by aubilenon at 9:53 PM on June 1, 2008

"Glad I didn't voice my ignorant point of view in front of a bunch of people who might know something about it, because that would have been embarrassing. Phew!"

The WoW guild I run with my wife has over 150 accounts, close to 400 members total, has 11 scheduled guild events a week, and the members are pushing me to get shirts and mugs printed. I've been playing since launch, have six 70s with three in full raid epics, PvP in both BGs and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Ragma at 1:27 PM on May 15, 2008

Shit, I couldn't even get through the first half of the trailer. I was too embarrassed for them.

These people are freaks, by choice, and not the good kind

Bingo. And a pre-emptive dismissive yawn to anyone who gets offended by that truth.

I don't think anyone could legitimately claim I wasn't something of an authority on whether the majority of WoW gamers "admittedly have no life and are... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ten pounds of inedita at 2:12 PM on May 15, 2008

Ani DiFranco has run her own record label for about twenty years now and was famously perplexed when Ms. magazine framed it in terms of her financial success.
posted to Ask Metafilter by clavicle at 6:53 AM on April 5, 2008

"With, among other things, 5.75 grams of caffeine."

Really? It's 100% caffeine? Each serving has enough caffeine to, at the least, send you to the hospital?

You'd think, maybe, the reporter would take a second to think about it. It's like when you're solving a word problem in third grade, and you calculate that Johnny can mow 450 lawns in an afternoon. Maybe you stop and think to yourself, "that can't be right, can it?" Jesus fuck.
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 8:46 AM on May 12, 2008

Unlike other music which we all love.
posted to MetaFilter by wemayfreeze at 10:01 PM on May 12, 2008

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him,
Horatio. A fellow of infinite herb, of most excellent fancy. He
hath borne me in his sack a thousand times. And now how abhorred
in my imagination it is! My smoke rises at it. Here hung those
lips that I have carb'd I know not how oft. Where be your shake now? your bowl? your flame? your flashes of merriment that
were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your
own coughing?... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints at 6:22 AM on May 9, 2008

I once smoked from a human skull with Varg Vikernes in a forest clearing under a full Norwegian moon while Bathory's "Under the Black Mark" played from Euronymous's still blood spattered old boombox. Everything was cool, you know, just sort of kult and necro until Varg told me the weed was heavily dusted with powdered goat penis, at which point he unleashed the gnomes and things kind of went downhill.
posted to MetaFilter by The Straightener at 6:40 AM on May 9, 2008

I went in for the voiceover on those Activia spots.

It's funny - the specs on the ad copy for products targeting women are always, "young, hip, with a natural, easy-going personality", or something similar, and the engineer always gives direction like, "Just real natural, like you're sitting around talking with, say, your mom."

So, setting aside the obvious challenges of conveying youth and hipness for a moment, and being a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by TryTheTilapia at 7:01 AM on May 10, 2008

"I don't really have time for the video either. If you click through, she's a law professor not an economist or sociologist: it seems like a long time to spend listening to an amateur talk about something outside their expertise."

So if she was, in fact, and economist or sociologist rather than an expert on economic law and bankruptcy you would swallow it at face value? Or perhaps you would find another reason to disregard her research... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Dillonlikescookies at 5:53 AM on May 1, 2008

Not a transcript, but my notes from the lecture:

1. Though household incomes have increased over the last thirty-five years, median incomes for males have actually dropped by $800. (Women make less still.) Household incomes have only increased because both partners are working.
2. Household savings have gone from 11% of take-home pay to -0.8%, while the contemporary family has negative savings: revolving debt has risen from 1.4% of annual incomes to 15%. From... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea at 8:22 AM on May 1, 2008

This is reminiscent of College Humor's Internet Commenter Business Meeting.
posted to MetaFilter by christonabike at 9:03 PM on April 30, 2008

You do have to go counter-intuitive.

Interestingly, no. At this level the market demands non-linear value.
posted to MetaFilter by blacklite at 6:26 PM on April 28, 2008

Um, wow. I personally think anyone who thinks bicyclists should be required to ride on the [road], rather then the [sidewalk], are idiots. How often to cyclists cause serious injury to pedestrians?

Riding on sidewalks is not a good way to get around a city, for pedestrians or cyclists. It's just not a sustainable model of bike transportation, which is why it bothers me. It keeps cities from educating people on how to ride correctly and designing... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by footnote at 11:59 AM on April 27, 2008

I allow my 5 year old daughter to do a lot more things than most parents will allow for their kids of the same age. Things like: using the toaster, cutting with a blunt knife, operating household appliances that aren't likely to boil over on her, crush her, or remove limbs, make telephone calls by herself, leave the yard to go 3 houses down to her friend's yard without me hovering over her, use the bathroom in public places with me standing outside the door waiting, and going to different... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by howrobotsaremade at 8:43 PM on April 11, 2008

This seems like a good place for a "back when I was a kid" response.

When I was in middle school and high school, I would roll a pillow into a sleeping bag, tie it onto the handlebars of my bicycle and yell, "I'm going campin', see you tomorrow!" Sometimes I would hear a response, other times I didn't, I would just pedal off into the woods anyway.
One day, some friends and I found a twotrack that we never saw before,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NoMich at 10:20 PM on April 11, 2008

The big change is that discourse is shifting to the comments sections of blogs, YouTube, FaceBook, etc. And people are reading these as well as writing, even if it is often like an open mic (or a bad conversation) where they are mostly waiting their turn in the spotlight.

Nobody WE know, of course...
posted to MetaFilter by msalt at 3:41 PM on April 26, 2008

klue: Unless the aim of the protesters as of late has been to kill whatever sympathy for the Tibetan cause there is in China, and if we take the argument that change in China has to come from within at face value, I don't see what good has come of it.

Exactly... I think the torch protests if anything have probably resulted in worsening the situation for the Tibetan people. The Chinese people aren't so much angry at the Tibetans for wanting... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by destrius at 9:43 PM on April 19, 2008

Until that fatefu day comes when you can download pussy, I am fairly certain that dudes will continue to make and perform music.
posted to MetaFilter by Senor Cardgage at 4:11 PM on April 11, 2008

In defence of my big lil country, it should be noted that Italy produced 4 Billion Liters of wine in 2004, while the tainted batch is 70 million liters. Assuming that the production didn't increase (but it my memory serves , it did) that would mean that the affected production is 1,75% of the production.

A drop in the bottle indeed, most of which is certainly being chased right now. Additionally, we are talking about very unexpensive wine that is unlikely to be bought... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by elpapacito at 5:28 PM on April 9, 2008

Eight-year-olds, Dude.
posted to MetaFilter by isopraxis at 11:02 AM on April 4, 2008

They also have Halo and Lost, which I really enjoyed.

It's a cool program when it comes to seeing the fruits of other people's labor, but I can't make so much as a diddy in it myself. The interface is just too imprecise. It makes me pine for SimTunes, an old Maxis title similar to this but much easier to use. You "painted" the notes in a 2D space with little colored squares, then had "Bugz" that represented various musical instruments run over the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 3:27 PM on April 1, 2008

I've really been loving GarfieldMinusGarfield lately.
posted to Ask Metafilter by smithygreg at 5:00 PM on March 31, 2008

Jimi Hendrix - Castles Made of Sand
posted to Ask Metafilter by wabbittwax at 6:53 PM on March 31, 2008

I've been outside. It's overrrated.

Traditionally Outside receives extremely high ratings by those who like to see others play it, and these people are in many cases comfortably ensconced Inside themselves. Outside was released many years ago, it was in fact the first massively multiplayer game, and yet it has always managed to avoid the double-edged Retro tag. In its favor, continual user updates have kept Outside current; there are always new things... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by aeschenkarnos at 4:19 PM on March 30, 2008

Wow... fuck that....
posted to MetaFilter by Navelgazer at 6:05 PM on March 29, 2008