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Winding their way down from California, they lost a few agents. Two were arrested in Albuquerque after they allegedly forced their way into the home of an elderly couple and beat them to death, raping the wife first.... Then, in West Texas, a van flipped, killing one agent and injuring three others. That's seven agents out of commission. That's about a $2,800 loss per day. After they turn in their cash and receipts, two agents, a pudgy girl and a lanky guy, hit the parking lot for a smoke.... It's a blast, they say. You lie all day to sell subscriptions, and you unwind afterward with some smoke. You tell the customers that you live a few streets over, that you go to the local school and play on the soccer team, that you just sold subscriptions to their neighbor, and the idiots buy it because by now you've got it down to a science.
And on to the next town. And the next.
posted to MetaFilter by orthogonality
at 5:12 AM on July 18, 2008
(68 comments)
Looking for some podcasts about nothing, and video games, respectively.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Dreamcast
at 6:47 PM on May 31, 2008
(22 comments)
Monday got you stressed? Tired of all the politicking?
Here's something to help you relax. Remember, just like real life, yellow is good, purple is gooder and red is bad.
posted to MetaFilter by oxford blue
at 11:46 PM on May 25, 2008
(32 comments)
How does the button on the pedestrian crossing lights work? Does it actually send some sort of signal to the traffic lights, or is it just a psychological thing? It seems rather random timing-wise.
posted to Ask Metafilter by divabat
at 5:05 PM on May 14, 2008
(21 comments)
The Chroma Upsampling Error.
This incredibly detailed explanation of a common bug in DVD players will likely either bore you to tears or be gripping and utterly fascinating.
posted to MetaFilter by 31d1
at 8:01 PM on May 13, 2008
(43 comments)
The story goes like this:
In the early 80's Madonna sat in with
Was (Not Was) to record backing vocals (to Ozzy Osbourne's main vox) for their track
Shake Your Head (Let's Go To Bed). Everything was peachy until Madonna's record label, Sire, refused to grant ZE Records permission to publish her recording. So other voices sang of things that cannot be done. Fast-forward ten years and the hits collection
Hello Dad, I'm In Jail included the track and, again, the Madonna vocal was not released for use. (This time
Kim Basinger's new backing track got the spot.) The new Basinger-backed single peaked at #4 on the UK charts and featured a b-side remix by producer
Steve 'Silk' Hurley. However, a glorious blunder resulted in a recall of the single: ZE had sent Hurley Madonna's background vocals. The mistake wasn't caught until after pressing and lo! a very few copies of the record made it out into the world. And so, music fans, for a cool G you can lay hands on your own copy of
Shake Your Head (Let's Go to Bed), featuring the b-side dub, the
rarest of Madonna recordings.
[Mouse over links for descriptions.]
posted to MetaFilter by carsonb
at 4:53 AM on May 12, 2008
(49 comments)
Ubuntu 8.04's
Hardy Heron has recently perched on millions of desktops worldwide, but what does the future look like for the darling of the open source world? Now entering a
new 2-year art developent cycle, Ubuntu's
continuing quest for
"pure, unadulterated, raw, visceral, lustful, shallow, skin deep beauty" has begun again in earnest.
Bleeding edge desktop effects [youtube, music] are already creeping into the official distribution and the community is eagerly awaiting the new graphical look, promised as a ground-up re-imagination in the next release,
Intrepid Ibex.
Watch this space.
posted to MetaFilter by cowbellemoo
at 9:47 AM on April 28, 2008
(86 comments)
Wanting to buy a motorcycle but a little confused about the process.
posted to Ask Metafilter by expletivization
at 10:12 AM on April 20, 2008
(9 comments)
Dear Monster Lawyers,
Let me begin by stating, without equivocation, that I have no interest whatsoever in infringing upon any intellectual property belonging to Monster Cable. Indeed, the less my customers think my products resemble Monster's, in form or in function, the better.
posted to MetaFilter by veedubya
at 12:49 PM on April 15, 2008
(87 comments)
My head feels sluggish/cloudy and I can't think clearly. This has affected me on a daily basis for months and it's interfering with my job.
I'm getting enough sleep each night and I do eat breakfast, but I feel that my brain doesn't wake up until I've been awake for a good four or five hours. I don't necessarily feel tired, just "not all there".
posted to Ask Metafilter by Sufi
at 11:05 PM on April 10, 2008
(27 comments)
How do you fake American?
posted to Ask Metafilter by lpsguy
at 6:43 AM on April 10, 2008
(67 comments)
When I was a kid I could buy the world for $20 but now with $100 I can’t get crap. What can I buy for $100 that’s fun?
posted to Ask Metafilter by doorsfan
at 12:11 PM on April 9, 2008
(64 comments)
I'm completely clueless about mp3 players. What brands should I be looking at if I just want something that I can copy mp3s to like a simple USB flash drive, and which
doesn't require a software install on the host computer (i.e. iTunes)?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tinkertown
at 8:32 AM on April 5, 2008
(22 comments)
"1 Crunchwrap Supreme + 1
OCTO-MAC + 20 or so Taco Bell Fire Sauce packets + Taco Bell Cheese Sauce + Bacos + Garfield's Macaroni & Beef + A splash of Jim Beam + Approximately 2 cups of salsa =
GODKILLER, for why else would it exist but to kill God?"
posted to MetaFilter by Del Far
at 9:28 PM on April 2, 2008
(65 comments)
40% of Afghan aid returns to donor countries.
In today's guardian, it has been reported that 40% of the money promised/delivered to aid Afghan has been spent on "corporate profits and consultancy fees" and that "Much of the money earmarked for aid is diverted to political or military purposes."
posted to MetaFilter by insatiablehee
at 5:45 AM on March 25, 2008
(23 comments)
Top Ten Fan-Made
"Sweded" Films Featuring: Predator, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Die Hard, Back to the Future, Goldfinger, Total Recall, Jurassic Park, Armageddon, Lord of the Rings and Terminator 2.
posted to MetaFilter by miss lynnster
at 8:03 PM on March 20, 2008
(24 comments)
Calling all MeFi Xbox360 gamers. I'm going to maintain an Xbox gamertag for us to make it easy to find other Mefites to game with using the Friends of a Friend feature on Live.
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_a_Jedi
at 10:31 AM on March 13, 2008
(33 comments)
This meal wasn’t so much a lunch as an act of vengeance. The brave -- or perhaps just lazy -- souls at HeatEatReview sacrifice their tastebuds and stomachs so that cubicle dwellers like me can eat only the finest processed foods at our desks every day. Actually not like me, I'm having another damn salad.
posted to MetaFilter by sevenyearlurk
at 5:27 PM on March 4, 2008
(26 comments)
The Anonymity Experiment. Is it possible to hide in plain sight?
Privacy-minded people have long warned of a world in which an individual’s every action leaves a trace, in which corporations and governments can peer at will into your life with a few keystrokes on a computer. Now one of the people in charge of information-gathering for the U.S. government says, essentially, that such a world has arrived.
posted to MetaFilter by amyms
at 12:14 AM on February 16, 2008
(44 comments)
Breathtaking photos.
No further links necessary. Rarindra Prakarsa is a photographic amazement.
posted to MetaFilter by pjern
at 3:54 AM on February 12, 2008
(124 comments)
