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In light of yesterdays events with Lehman Brothers, Merril Lynch and AIG and all the hubbub with the the "Mac" banks, I'm pretty confused about the economy. I'd like to spend the day reading up to understand the entire situation, starting with the housing market leading up to Bear Stearns and culminating this weekend's events. Could someone please recommend some key articles that will help me wrap my brain around this entire situation?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Telf
at 7:46 AM on September 15, 2008
(16 comments)
Suppose you killed somebody...
How would you dispose of the body without getting caught? Would you dump it somewhere? Bury it in the backyard or basement? Dissolve it in lime? What? What would your master plan be that would allow you to get away with it?
And no, I haven't killed anybody and I'm not planning to - I was just curious.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ashbury
at 5:48 PM on June 13, 2004
(74 comments)
80smusicvids.com - Like totally bodacious collection of over 1000 music videos from like the raddest decade. Choice.
posted to MetaFilter by carsonb
at 1:34 PM on September 6, 2008
(61 comments)
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
Or is it simply a near fetishy love for a supercar? I guess if you're going to drive something like this, you're going to want to take good care of it. I picked this link because of the amazing amount of detailing he went into... um... detailing. The pictures themselves are worth it.
I think this guy ended up with a car that's cleaner than when it first left the factory.
posted to MetaFilter by jcterminal
at 9:24 AM on August 12, 2008
(110 comments)
Plane crashes in to the word trade center.
Apologies for not linking to anything besides the main CNN page but there are no full stories on this yet. The plane crashed into the building about six minutes ago, from what the TV is saying. We are about sixty blocks north and we can see the smoke over the skyline.
posted to MetaFilter by karen
at 5:58 AM on September 11, 2001
(492 comments)
2 July 1863, second day of
Gettysburg. Sickles has pulled his III Corps -- without orders -- off of Cemetery Ridge and positioned it a half mile in front of the rest of the Union lines. Longstreet smashes the hapless III Corps and its men are in full flight. Hancock rides back and forth inside the gaping hole left by Sickles. Below him, almost 2000 men of Wilcox's brigade are charging up the slope. They will gain a foothold on the ridge and be reinforced by Lee. As Longstreet pins down the Union left, Lee will roll up the center and right of the Northern army and chase them from the field. He will then march on and take Washington before turning north along the eastern seaboard. Lee will capture and burn Philadelphia and Boston in his March Along the Sea, chasing the Northern government from city to city until Lincoln finally sues for peace and the union is no more.
Suddenly, a line of blue-coated soldiers comes into Hancock's view. "My God, is this all the men here? Who are you?" "
1st Minnesota, sir." "See those colors?", says Hancock, pointing at the flags of the oncoming Confederates, "Take them."
posted to MetaFilter by forrest
at 5:45 AM on July 2, 2008
(82 comments)
In case you haven't noticed, the
cat scan thread is back. It'll be back again, I'm sure, in a year. And you know what that requires?
posted to MetaTalk by eriko
at 6:19 AM on July 14, 2008
(117 comments)
Do you enjoy classic 2D platformers? Then boy, are you in luck! The
indie game community is thriving, and a good majority of its games are exactly that. I've spent many hours playing these unique, beautiful, and often exceptional projects, and there's quite a few - more than I can count on my fingers! - that could stand toe-to-toe with the finest contemporary games. Inside is a list of some of the greatest indie platformers, based on community recommendations and my own experience. Enjoy!
posted to MetaFilter by archagon
at 3:28 AM on June 24, 2008
(48 comments)
Babyweb 2.0 - looking for an online app/site to keep track of baby's feeding/pooping etc schedule.
posted to Ask Metafilter by gomichild
at 12:12 AM on May 29, 2008
(14 comments)
Fascinating account
(w/ pix) of a motorcycle journey through Angola. Stumbled onto this from the Black Flag forums and have not been able to stop reading it.
posted to MetaFilter by jcruelty
at 9:29 PM on May 26, 2008
(40 comments)
Harder, better, stronger, faster
- Hilty and Bosch, often called the masters of locking, pair up with Co-Thkoo to serve up 10 riveting minutes of dance. The routine to Daft Punk's classic starting about midway in the clip is brilliant. [more]
posted to MetaFilter by madamjujujive
at 1:04 AM on April 1, 2007
(54 comments)
Well, young folk, there was a time, y'know, when bands would put their band name on the kick drum head, so the audience could see the name of the band, y'see? Why, best as I can recall, the
The Yardbirds did it, and
The Zombies, too. And
The Hollies. Oh, and did I mention
The Yardbirds? Well, my memory's not what it used to be... oh, and there was those boys from Liverpool, used to sing about
Kansas Cty so well, why, you'd think they'd actually
been there! Now, there was this one band called themselves the
Spencer Davis Group, but I never could figure out why, cause it was that little Winwood fella just outta knee pants who was the star of
that show!
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite
at 8:08 AM on May 17, 2008
(20 comments)
On May 13, security advisories published by
Debian and
Ubuntu revealed that, for over a year, their OpenSSL libraries have had a major flaw in their
CSPRNG, which is used by
key generation functions in many widely-used applications, which caused the "random" numbers produced to be extremely predictable.
[lolcat summary]
posted to MetaFilter by finite
at 10:01 PM on May 16, 2008
(81 comments)
Womb Quake
Follow along with me on my adventure of giving birth to my first kid in Japan. The actual main event will be posted via cell phone updates by a couple of brave souls seeing the event through with me (or more likely outside of the room with celebratory beverages flowing). Also has information leading up to and after of what it's like to have a child here. Estimated due date is May 14 - but I could burst at any time! More fun and excitement than a barrel full of monkeys really.....
posted to Projects by gomichild
at 7:09 AM on May 12, 2008
How should a college freshman prepare for an internship to Japan in two years? What options are available?
posted to Ask Metafilter by F Mackenzie
at 2:10 AM on May 4, 2008
(13 comments)
Iwase Yoshiyuki
"In the late 1920s, young Yoshiyuki received an early Kodak camera as a gift. Since the main livelihood of the town came from the sea, he gravitated there, and soon found a passion for "the simple, even primitive beauty" of
ama – girls and women who harvested seaweed, turban shells and abalone from beneath the coastal waters." "By the late 1960s, they had disappeared. This body of work stands as the final, most comprehensive visual document of the life and work of these divers."
[NSFW]
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian
at 10:45 PM on March 27, 2008
(48 comments)
What's the safest possible thing that I can do with my money?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Afroblanco
at 12:18 PM on March 20, 2008
(29 comments)
Bobby Dunbar was a four year-old boy that vanished in 1912, while on a fishing trip with his family in a Louisiana swamp. For weeks, searchers combed the area looking for him. The lake where he went missing was dynamited. Alligators were captured and had their bellies slit open to see if the body was inside. Nothing was found except a set of child's footprints leading to an old railroad trestle. Eight months later, the police found Bobby in the company of a drifter with a horse-drawn cart. He protested his innocence but was arrested and charged with kidnapping. Another woman came forward and claimed Bobby was, in fact, her son. But she was an unmarried fieldworker, and her claims were dismissed. The crime became a nationwide
media event and the boy was returned to his parents, and their hometown held a parade in his honor. Bobby returned to his life. Ninety-one years later, Bobby Dunbar's granddaughter uncovered
the truth.
posted to MetaFilter by smoothvirus
at 7:22 AM on March 19, 2008
(79 comments)
It's not OK to
dismiss an entire country because you couldn't
resist making a lame joke.
posted to MetaTalk by gomichild
at 7:48 PM on March 18, 2008
(130 comments)
What should I expect as a heavily tattooed person traveling for a month in Japan?
posted to Ask Metafilter by youthenrage
at 9:29 PM on March 6, 2008
(10 comments)
How skilled are supermarket sushi chefs and are they lonely?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jeremias
at 8:35 AM on March 4, 2008
(17 comments)
The
Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section was comprised of four session musicians operating out of the tiny northern Alabama town of town
Muscle Shoals.
Just four unassuming crackers who happened to have provided the funky underpinning for a
huge number of hit songs by, among others,
Aretha Franklin,
Wilson Pickett,
Paul Simon,
Joe Cocker,
The Staple Singers ,
Jimmy Cliff and
many, many others. Hey, they were the
house band to the greats. Big respect to the men from
3614 Jackson Highway!
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posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite
at 6:18 AM on February 24, 2008
(27 comments)
