Am I personally financially liable for copyright infringement when the company I work for gets sued for the unauthorized use of a song in a commercial I produced?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Bathtub Bobsled at 10:17 AM on June 6, 2008 (12 comments)

What is your favourite blog?
posted to Ask Metafilter by feelinglistless at 1:21 PM on March 30, 2008 (54 comments)

From time to time, after asking a question in AskMefi, I get a great question but forget about it because of the waiting period. I'm not questioning this rule, but it would be nice to have the possibility to create a certain number of questions in advance, and put them in some sort of queue, so one will not forgot to ask some good question.
posted to MetaTalk by zouhair at 11:23 PM on March 16, 2008 (54 comments)

I first stumbled across Leoncie in open-mouthed disbelief about two years ago. When her website disappeared I imagined that we'd lost her forever, but last month she returned with her own YouTube channel. While our unfiltered, unmoderated internet has pushed a lot of "outsider art" into the mainstream, Leoncie has remained firmly stuck in obscurity; maybe these gobsmackingly low-rent videos will change that? Until today, I'd only been able to imagine the full glory of songs like Radio Rapist, or the beguiling Man! Let's Have Fun, or indeed the frankly exhausting Invisible Girl. But Sex Crazy Cop and Killer In The Park, with their carnivalesque spin on the grim world of law enforcement, are probably my favourites. Astonishing.
posted to MetaFilter by rhodri at 11:21 AM on March 10, 2008 (25 comments)

Popcards.fr is a collection of kitschy French postcards from the 50's, 60's and 70's. Kitschy barely does justice to this collection. Categories abound, including pets, humor (and I use the term loosely), lovers, cuisine and perhaps the two most interesting sections, guys and gals. [via I like via sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy]
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus at 10:37 AM on January 29, 2008 (12 comments)

Fuck Planet Earth. The extreme beauty of the popular Planet Earth series comes alive with this comedic bit that simply repeats the F-bomb to great effect.
posted to MetaFilter by mathowie at 2:27 PM on January 26, 2008 (106 comments)

TIME FOR SOME STORIES (warning: contains heavy amounts of all-caps and awesome)
posted to MetaFilter by XQUZYPHYR at 9:50 AM on January 21, 2008 (98 comments)

How can I get my hands on a Vienna phonebook from circa 1938? I will be spending a weekend in Vienna next month, and I would love to see the apartment where my late grandfather lived before fleeing the Nazis. Unfortunately, nobody in the family knows the address, and there aren't any letters or other documents to provide it. Things are also complicated by the fact that I won't be visiting on a weekday, so any archives that might have this information will presumably be closed. Plus, I don't speak German. Am I out of luck, or is there any way to track this information down in the next few weeks?
posted to Ask Metafilter by yankeefog at 7:22 AM on October 18, 2005 (39 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)

Porn in the woods. Did you, as a kid, find porn in the woods? I did, and I have noticed this is a worldwide phenomena. Why the porn in the woods? Where does the porn in the woods come from?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mr.marx at 1:01 PM on August 3, 2005 (124 comments)

"Another useful analogy might be with a clearing in the jungle. The web is certainly a jungle, and without a few clearings it is hard to see how the innocent can stay sane in there, and it might soon be hard to see anything at all." The words of poet and essayist Clive James, whose eponymous site is an online galley/anthology of breathtaking writing, art, and video interviews. My favorites include Ophelia Redpath's paintings titled after Shakespeare quotes, Laura Noble's photos of rusty things, and, of course, a collection James's outstanding poetry.
posted to MetaFilter by eustacescrubb at 5:14 AM on March 3, 2007 (8 comments)

How do you make the fried rice served in Chinese take-out restaurants?
posted to Ask Metafilter by stuffedcrust at 4:18 PM on November 3, 2006 (29 comments)

Can a n00b post to MetaTalk?
posted to MetaTalk by econous at 3:43 PM on June 27, 2006 (1 comment)