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Flash Sunday: Customize your disease and wipe out the population,
Pandemic II. Get to Madagascar before they close their shipyard!
posted to MetaFilter by sebas
at 4:40 AM on July 20, 2008
(65 comments)
Any helpful information for a first-time handgun buyer?
posted to Ask Metafilter by hannah09
at 8:43 PM on July 17, 2008
(23 comments)
How to climb out of severe depression?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 8:05 PM on July 9, 2008
(21 comments)
WWJD (Which Words Jefferson Digested)
Some Flash
posted to MetaFilter by Rykey
at 4:42 PM on July 9, 2008
(4 comments)
Kids at school in nappies. Another report claims the average age of toilet-training is now 3 or 4, compared to the former norm of 18 months. Teachers don't want to change diapers; parents say they don't have time to toilet-train. Is our future a continuum of diapers to Depends?
posted to MetaFilter by grounded
at 8:57 PM on July 5, 2008
(70 comments)
What specific qualities make for a truly good bookstore other than the content on the shelves?
posted to Ask Metafilter by MrMerlot
at 6:40 AM on July 4, 2008
(32 comments)
Sexual Healing.
"Sad stories and otherwise freaky tales from Florida's last sexual surrogate." A longish article, and fascinating.
posted to MetaFilter by five fresh fish
at 6:26 PM on July 3, 2008
(109 comments)
After 80 years, a complete version of Fritz Lang's
Metropolis has
been discovered in Buenos Aires.
posted to MetaFilter by Nathaniel W
at 2:27 PM on July 2, 2008
(81 comments)
MagCloud
enables you to publish your own magazines. All you have to do is upload a PDF and they take care of the rest: printing, mailing, subscription management, and more.
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 9:13 AM on June 23, 2008
(43 comments)
What is an effective self-study program (software / online / book / other) for speed reading?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Alabaster
at 4:46 PM on May 21, 2007
(1 comment)
Why does a lack of sleep make me markedly more efficient the next day?
posted to Ask Metafilter by freya_lamb
at 7:57 AM on May 28, 2008
(20 comments)
No more waiting on gas prices. It's time to indulge in a little luxury: the elusive
perfect shave.
posted to MetaFilter by merc
at 4:10 PM on May 25, 2008
(64 comments)
Ho
[over]! Ho
[over]!Ho
[over]!
According to a document that was
one of many declassified [PDF] by The State Department yesterday, “Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a plan to suspend the rules against illegal detention and arrest up to 12,000 Americans he suspected of being disloyal....The plan called for the FBI to apprehend all potentially dangerous individuals whose names were on a list Hoover had been compiling for years. ‘The index now contains approximately twelve thousand individuals, of which approximately ninety-seven percent are citizens of the United States,’
Hoover wrote in the now-declassified document. ‘In order to make effective these apprehensions, the proclamation suspends the writ of
habeas corpus.’” [
habeas corpus previously -- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.]
posted to MetaFilter by ericb
at 2:46 PM on December 22, 2007
(58 comments)
How do you develop focus, drive, and personal discipline?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Saxon Kane
at 8:26 PM on May 11, 2008
(28 comments)
I want to buy a train car and then travel in it. How do I do this?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capri
at 7:39 AM on April 10, 2008
(14 comments)
Help me pick a cigarette for the "infamous gentleman".
posted to Ask Metafilter by Parasite Unseen
at 11:52 PM on April 14, 2008
(89 comments)
A Guide To Armageddon:
1,
2,
3 (YouTube) This 1982 documentary morbidly simulates the effects of a nuclear attack on a city the size of London.
posted to MetaFilter by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST]
at 12:47 PM on April 14, 2008
(28 comments)
What are the most incredible, maybe slightly offbeat, places in New York City to hang out? Stunning rooftop bars, strange nighttime museums, secret gardens, bizarre burlesques, etc. and more all welcome. Alcohol availability a plus.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Malad
at 11:01 AM on April 10, 2008
(17 comments)
How do you know you're in the wrong religion?
posted to Ask Metafilter by PinkButterfly
at 11:34 AM on April 8, 2008
(104 comments)
At TED this past March, Al Gore once again presented the Mother of all Power Point Shows. This time around, there is a renewed sense of urgency, with updated slides about Arctic sea ice loss, among other things. More so than in the past, Gore specifically focuses on the necessity for laws to change, and how before that can happen, politics, especially American politics, must change as well. Another theme of Gore's latest TED appearance is how climate change is also a tremendous opportunity for a new heroic generation, to be remembered as the ones who solved the greatest crisis of human civilization.
posted to MetaFilter by [expletive deleted]
at 2:43 PM on April 8, 2008
(30 comments)
Where did Jack Kerouac actually stay when he went On the Road? Is there anywhere I could stay where he once did?
posted to Ask Metafilter by MrMerlot
at 6:27 PM on March 30, 2008
(7 comments)
Do you love
South Park but you wish you could watch all the episodes on your own time? Uncensored? Without waiting for (or paying for) the DVDs? If so,
South Park Studios just answered your prayers.
Since
the Daily Show recently did the same thing - is Comedy Central making big waves, or big mistakes?
posted to MetaFilter by revmitcz
at 10:30 PM on March 24, 2008
(47 comments)
Drugs in the water
A new Associated Press study finds that "A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans." Surely, though, the detected quantities are far too small to have any effect on the public. Maybe not - "
scant amounts may exert powerful effects". Also: "
What makes pharmaceutical pollution so worrisome is that the usual safeguards that protect us from bacteria and toxins, fail to rid sewage of these chemicals."
posted to MetaFilter by Kirth Gerson
at 11:27 AM on March 9, 2008
(55 comments)
Have you ever wondered how much a hamster can store in his cheeks without exploding?
Smoke will show you.
(Single link YouTube post)
posted to MetaFilter by onlyconnect
at 8:15 AM on March 9, 2008
(33 comments)
Would you like a latte while I print that up for you?
The
Espresso Book Machine (
previously) that was in the
New York Public Library has just moved to the
Northshire Bookstore in Vermont. The beta versions of this portable book-making machine are pumping out paperbacks around a book a minute at the Open Content Alliance, The Library of Alexandria, The New Orleans Public Library, and the University of Alberta. The mass produced commercial version of the machine is scheduled to roll off the assembly line within the year and will be priced between $50,000 and $20,000. Combined with
one of these, publishing as we know it may never be the same.
posted to MetaFilter by Toekneesan
at 10:16 AM on March 7, 2008
(36 comments)
Free Star Trek. The only Star Trek that matters -- the ones with Kirk, Spock, Bones, and the rest.
posted to MetaFilter by ardgedee
at 1:00 PM on February 22, 2008
(71 comments)
What are some good, somewhat dirty jokes suitable for telling to my Grandma?
posted to Ask Metafilter by sciurus
at 2:52 PM on June 26, 2007
(54 comments)
Another weekend sitting alone in your apartment? Thinking of sending that two thousand word cry for help to anonymous Ask Metafilter? Maybe you should take a look at the advice at
Succeed Socially first.
posted to MetaFilter by TimTypeZed
at 10:04 PM on February 16, 2008
(63 comments)
