Knew it, shouldn't have indulged in the whim of this "pinterest" nonsense. I click "unlink" for Facebook, save, nothing happens. I get redirected to the main page, facebook photo and friendlinks intact. I get so frustrated I choose "delete account"....again, nothing happens. Redirected back to my main page, self's facebook photo serenely mocking me.
posted to Ask Metafilter by keasby at 8:01 PM on February 11, 2012 (6 comments)

Are Maxwell's laws dimension independent?
posted to Ask Metafilter by DetriusXii at 4:17 PM on February 11, 2012 (5 comments)

Belbury is an English market town with a picturesque 11th century church, and some notable modernist architecture, including the Polytechnic College. None of which exist except in the constructed world of the Ghost Box record label, whose founder Jim Jupp records under the name Belbury Poly, and publishes the Belbury Parish Magazine.
posted to MetaFilter by reynir at 8:57 AM on February 11, 2012 (5 comments)

10 Responses To The Phrase "Man Up" (transcript here). More spoken word and rap by Guante: Handshakes. Neutral: An Open Letter To Michele Bachmann. Love In The Time Of Zombies. Confessions Of A White Rapper. A Prayer For Indie Rappers.
posted to MetaFilter by flex at 11:04 AM on February 11, 2012 (25 comments)

I would like to explore the films of Werner Herzog, whose work I have never seen but whose person I find immensely entertaining, in interviews and such. What are the first few films I should watch, and why?
posted to Ask Metafilter by slappy_pinchbottom at 7:59 PM on February 10, 2012 (39 comments)

Why does cheese taste better when it is melted?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Happydaz at 5:07 PM on February 10, 2012 (18 comments)

There were ways to find the tangent to a curve, and the area under one, in an ad hoc manner before the birth of calculus. It was even known that these two were inverses of each other.
posted to MetaFilter by Obscure Reference at 12:10 PM on February 10, 2012 (17 comments)

A student group has a novel idea to reduce college costs: pay nothing up front, instead paying out 5% of their income to the UC system for 20 years after graduation.
posted to MetaFilter by reenum at 12:47 PM on February 10, 2012 (123 comments)

What (and where) is the best current thinking on the future of the labor movement in the United States?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kensington314 at 1:58 AM on February 8, 2012 (7 comments)

Bobcat Goldthwait, ex-comedian and purveyor of such how-did-that-ever-get-made entertainments as Shakes The Clown and World's Greatest Dad, presents his newest film, God Bless America, a nasty piece of wish fulfillment.
posted to MetaFilter by fungible at 8:30 AM on February 7, 2012 (75 comments)

Pro-looking video interviews. £500. Ideas for camera and mic? I'm looking for a video camera + external (lapel?) mic combination that will allow me to record 5 - 10 minute, high quality head and shoulders interviews in a studio. I've only got around £500 in total (I'm in the UK).
posted to Ask Metafilter by dowcrag at 2:38 PM on February 6, 2012 (3 comments)

Lets talk about best practices for business email signatures.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kimberly at 11:11 AM on February 6, 2012 (30 comments)

Can we have a moratorium on context free posts on how weird and crazy one of the "axis-of-evil" members is while there's a significant probability that US arms will be used against them?
posted to MetaTalk by ennui.bz at 12:58 PM on February 5, 2012 (39 comments)

Carla Bley Big Band, Jazzfest Berlin, 1995: On Stage In Cages [13m52s], Setting Calvin's Waltz: Parts (a, b, & c) [27m45s], Who Will Rescue You? [8m]
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 4:00 PM on February 4, 2012 (8 comments)

Kids, don't ever challenge your English professor to a rap battle.
posted to MetaFilter by timsteil at 8:23 AM on February 4, 2012 (75 comments)

This is the perfect recipe for those of you who like to enjoy a big bowl of macaroni and cheese for dinner and absolutely nothing else. It’s beautifully flavored, creamy, cheesy, and with the smokey bite of crisp salty bacon on top?? Oh man, you guys are in for a treat — I’m not even kidding. It’s amazing. (previously)
posted to MetaFilter by Trurl at 7:48 PM on February 3, 2012 (111 comments)

If you have a taste for a certain flavor of North American, 20th century rebelliousness, you may enjoy a photo blog called The Acid Sweat Lodge. Contains some NSFW images. And lots of bad-assery.
posted to MetaFilter by BoringPostcards at 7:20 PM on February 2, 2012 (20 comments)

WAT. - A lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash 2012, on the peculiarities of some popular scripting languages. (Single video link, around 4 minutes in length.)
posted to MetaFilter by Slap*Happy at 2:12 PM on February 2, 2012 (35 comments)

I'm shopping for an HDTV, and might have lucked into an excellent deal on a Panasonic TH-50PF30U "digital signage display". Help me understand the difference between a consumer plasma HDTV and a digital signage plasma HDTV, because this is the first time I've heard of the latter.
posted to Ask Metafilter by churl at 12:57 PM on February 1, 2012 (10 comments)

Of six-pack abs and real girl bellies: thoughts after viewing xoJane's "Real Girl Belly Project" ("Show Us Your Bellies!", photo gallery part one, photo gallery part two).
posted to MetaFilter by flex at 10:35 AM on February 1, 2012 (145 comments)

Lawyer in a career rut. I need to get some advice, but from who?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous at 11:23 AM on January 31, 2012 (8 comments)

In his essay “The Dead Mule Rides Again,” Jerry Leath Mills argues:

. . . there is indeed a single, simple, litmus-like test for the quality of southernness in literature, one easily formulated into a question to be asked of any literary text and whose answer may be taken as definitive, delimiting, and final. The test is: Is there a dead mule in it?"

Mills’s convincing textual evidence draws on over thirty authors, but declares Cormac McCarthy ”unchallenged king of literary mule carnage.”
posted to MetaFilter by Fizz at 5:51 AM on January 31, 2012 (35 comments)

In October, 2011, Grace Brown put up a tumblr where victims of sexual abuse can post a photo of themselves holding a quote from their attacker.
posted to MetaFilter by gman at 5:28 PM on January 30, 2012 (112 comments)

Swole.me is a completely free automated diet planner that creates meals according to your goal calorie intake and how many meals you’d like to eat per day.
posted to MetaFilter by netbros at 2:40 PM on January 30, 2012 (51 comments)

Sharon Montrose does lovely, wonderful, and sometimes whimsical portrait photography of rescued baby animals.
posted to MetaFilter by quin at 10:00 AM on January 30, 2012 (14 comments)

Looking for a high-quality, wall-mounted, manual pencil sharpener. Any recommendations?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Chrysostom at 8:03 AM on January 30, 2012 (5 comments)

Do you have tips or resources that would help an overly earnest "nice guy" type navigate political maneuverings at work?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous at 7:08 AM on January 30, 2012 (9 comments)

78 78s - In Search Of Lost Time - is a streaming mix of beautiful 78s from around the world, collected and curated by Ian Nagoski. "I started sifting through boxes of junky old 78s that no one else wanted about 15 years ago, and almost right away, I made a rule: Anything that wasn't in English, buy it."
posted to MetaFilter by carter at 6:00 PM on January 29, 2012 (15 comments)

In the late 1970s Jorge Luis Borges edited a 33-volume series of fantastic tales by many authors, from Jack London to Pu Songling, Leopoldo Lugones to Henry James. The series was called "The Library of Babel," after the Borges story of the same title. In 2009, Grant Monroe found a directory of Spanish-language science fiction, fantasy, terror and mystery stories, listing the contents of the 33 volumes -- JLB's own favorite weird tales both well-known and obscure -- and began tracking down links to each of the stories, one by one: "Searching the Library of Babel".
posted to MetaFilter by finnb at 2:15 PM on January 29, 2012 (11 comments)

Are there any Firefox/Chrome plugins that remove facebook/G+/Twitter/etc from other websites?
posted to Ask Metafilter by apip at 3:19 PM on January 28, 2012 (13 comments)

MeTa Book Club: It's our last book from the Open Yale syllabus! And that book? Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer.
posted to MetaTalk by bearwife at 5:14 PM on January 28, 2012 (9 comments)

Cats On Film brings us My Day, By Jonesy. What's a cat to do when all the can-openers seem to have their attention focussed on the giant hairless kitten which just burst out of one of their chests?
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 5:48 PM on January 27, 2012 (8 comments)

StateTable:  US/Canada  states, provinces,  territories and minor possessions as CSV, SQL, HTML form elements, PHP arrays, and more. All the countries in the world, as a text list, CSV and API (from the very handy and open Factual).
Also: FreeMapTools, including “how far can I travel from any point on the Earth in a certain time, using a form of ground transportation?”, and “If I dug a tunnel straight through the planet, where should I emerge?” (previously)
posted to MetaFilter by Bora Horza Gobuchul at 4:07 PM on January 27, 2012 (11 comments)

I discovered Crystal deodorant a few months ago. I had tried literally every other unscented deodorant on the market and could not find one that held up all day. It turns out that the damned rock you rub on your pits is the greatest deodorant ever, and it had been on the shelf the whole time. What other miracle products are sitting on the shelves at the market, unnoticed as I pass them by in favor of products that are more well known or have bigger advertising budgets?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Balonious Assault at 5:12 PM on January 26, 2012 (66 comments)

Japanese scientists think they may have an explanation for how a three-dimensional universe emerged from the original nine dimensions (plus time) of space: the universe had nine spatial dimensions at its birth, but only three of them experienced expansion. A Hollywood sound designer tries to explain ten dimensions. Efforts to portray an eighth dimension have already been explored.
posted to MetaFilter by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates at 8:05 AM on January 26, 2012 (60 comments)

I am looking for the right router. Difficulty: two-story house, MacBook plus PC, with WP2 desired. Suggestions?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Riverine at 4:37 PM on January 26, 2012 (5 comments)

Here's a 30-second Video of a Snoring Dormouse. [SLYT]
posted to MetaFilter by Devils Rancher at 7:05 AM on January 26, 2012 (39 comments)

Time Tracking: So I have this new job where we have to keep track of what we are working on. I have never had to do this before. I want something that will popup every 15 minutes and allow me type a little description and have a timestamp. I'm on a Mac with Lion.
posted to Ask Metafilter by sio42 at 12:56 PM on January 25, 2012 (17 comments)

Do you have any advice or testimonials for someone new to wet shaving?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Jeff Morris at 12:20 PM on January 25, 2012 (24 comments)

How the Glock Became America's Weapon of Choice The Glock was created in 1982 by a curtain rod manufacturer named Gaston Glock. Glock didn't like the handguns available on the market and decided to manufacture a new gun from scratch.
posted to MetaFilter by modernnomad at 10:51 AM on January 24, 2012 (123 comments)

Finland votes – as visualized by national broadcasting company, click Sivakoikaa! (Ski!). (About the candidates). First round of Finland's presidential elections has finished with Sauli Niinistö (conservative) and Pekka Haavisto (green) winning 36.7% and 18.7% of votes. If no-one wins over 50% in the first round, the second round will be held amongst the top two candidates two weeks later. Haavisto has steadily doubled his share in polls, where Niinistö has halved his share from his best polls. Among his other achievements in international peace and being green, Haavisto could be the first openly gay elected head of the state.
posted to MetaFilter by Free word order! at 1:28 PM on January 22, 2012 (26 comments)

Germany has the economic strengths America once boasted. 'Germany with its manufacturing base and export prowess is the U.S. of yesteryear, an economic power unlike any of its European neighbors. As the world's fourth-largest economy, it has thrived on principles America seems to have lost.' 'Germany's economy looks like that of the U.S. a generation ago. In 1975, manufacturing accounted for about 20% of the United States' economic output, or gross domestic product, about the same as in Germany today. Since then, U.S. manufacturing's share of GDP has slid to about 12%.'
posted to MetaFilter by VikingSword at 11:28 AM on January 22, 2012 (85 comments)

In honor of Squirrel Appreciation Day 2012, I present the Albino Squirrel Preservation Society. Start a chapter in your area! (Previously on MeFi)
posted to MetaFilter by hermitosis at 2:19 PM on January 21, 2012 (17 comments)

The 5 Stupidest Habits You Develop Growing Up Poor (sl Cracked list)
posted to MetaFilter by TheWhiteSkull at 12:42 PM on January 19, 2012 (368 comments)

iMovie HD. I am having to upload a lot of 4-5 minute videos to YouTube for a project I'm doing. I need the finished product to be in good resolution once uploaded. If I export them to "full quality," they take almost 6 hours to upload and sometimes fail to process at the end, which is maddening. If I export them to "CD-ROM" quality, they upload a lot faster but the resolution is too poor. Is there a sweet spot in the "Expert Settings" I could use so that they upload in just a couple of hours and still look reasonably clear? Obviously I know next to nothing, so please speak slowly.
posted to Ask Metafilter by HotToddy at 2:02 PM on January 18, 2012 (12 comments)

The gray Cherkassian cow lived alone in a shed attached to a railroad attendant's tiny house on the vast Soviet grasslands. The cow had a calf, and the railroad attendant's son liked the calf very much. Then the calf was taken away and the cow became very melancholy. She never had a chance to tell her story. This is her story. (Contains Russian animation.)
posted to MetaFilter by Nomyte at 6:13 PM on January 17, 2012 (6 comments)

I'm a lawyer looking to move to Europe within the next three years. I know my ideal path, but I need help brainstorming alternate plans. How can I best identify opportunities in Europe that require, or will allow me to leverage, my skills?
posted to Ask Metafilter by benbenson at 4:36 PM on January 16, 2012 (6 comments)

The Obama White House formally speaks out against SOPA, PIPA. The Obama White House has come out against the Stop Online Piracy Act. The move has -- unsurprisingly -- drawn responses from the MPAA, RIAA, and other interested parties.
posted to MetaFilter by joe lisboa at 3:00 PM on January 14, 2012 (226 comments)

Aggressive investing with $3,000?
posted to Ask Metafilter by thinkpiece at 8:52 AM on January 14, 2012 (16 comments)

What is the origin of pairing hamburgers with French fries/chips? I'm finding stories about the origin of burgers and the origin of fries but nothing about why they're usually paired together.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NoraReed at 3:40 PM on January 13, 2012 (5 comments)