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How do I win an election?
I know all about the basics - but I would particularly like more in-depth, advanced information tailored to professionals on how to win.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Despondent_Monkey
at 2:22 PM on February 9, 2010
(20 comments)
Tell me about chain restaurants still operating near you that had been successful in the distant past, but where there's now only a few remaining restaurants nationwide.
posted to Ask Metafilter by eschatfische
at 7:23 PM on January 17, 2010
(94 comments)
Losing the War
"From the beginning, the actual circumstances of World War II were smothered in countless lies...People all along have preferred the movie version: the tense border crossing where the flint-eyed SS guards check the forged papers; the despondent high-level briefing where the junior staff officer pipes up with the crazy plan that just might work...The truth behind these cliches was never forgotten -- because nobody except the soldiers ever learned it in the first place."
posted to MetaFilter by deern the headlice
at 12:35 AM on January 3, 2010
(151 comments)
What's a Coastie?
Two University of Wisconsin undergrads record and post to YouTube an ode to
"Coasties," out-of-state students who live in expensive off-campus apartments, wear Spandex tights with Uggs, spend their parents' money on designer handbags and Starbucks, and -- oh yeah, like 15% of their classmates but only 1 in 200 Wisconsin natives,
are Jews.
Controversy ensues.
posted to MetaFilter by escabeche
at 7:41 PM on December 24, 2009
(143 comments)
"When will there be a MetaFilter lipdub to put
these punks to shame?"
posted to MetaTalk by cereselle
at 3:28 PM on December 18, 2009
(164 comments)
How can I understand, and empathize, with my fiancee's psychological issues? And other difficult-to-articulate questions.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 7:49 PM on December 17, 2009
(65 comments)
So as fate would have it, I am sharing an apartment with a girl that I am very attracted to. And now it seems as if I've been perma-friended. (For the sake of discussion, lets forgo the “dating roommates is a bad idea” discussion.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by RandomGradStudent
at 2:55 PM on November 22, 2009
(118 comments)
I'm 16 years old. I have (though somewhat borderline) Asperger's and I'm highly intellectually (verbal, not quite visual-spatial) gifted. I don't do well in school, you could say I'm an "underachiever". I graduate high school this year. I will most likely not get into either of my top universities in the city (I'm Canadian, btw). I don't mind taking next year (from graduation until I'm 17.5) to "mature a bit" but eventually I want to go to school overseas. I need to prove to my parents I can live alone... without actually living alone.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 10:29 PM on November 13, 2009
(30 comments)
Imagine an alternate world, where the idea for "The Matrix" had been pitched to Charlie Chaplin.
Behold.
posted to MetaFilter by CheeseDigestsAll
at 7:34 AM on November 10, 2009
(41 comments)
What cooking secrets take your food to the almost-pro level?
posted to Ask Metafilter by chalbe
at 8:34 AM on August 24, 2009
(134 comments)
Old-time radio (often abbreviated as "OTR," also known as the Golden Age of Radio) refers to a period of radio programming in the United States lasting from the proliferation of radio broadcasting in the early 1920s until television's replacement of radio as the dominant home entertainment medium in the 1950s, with
some programs continuing
into the early 1960s. The origin of radio dramas in the United States is hard to pin down, but
there is evidence of a remote broadcast of a play in 1914 at
Normal College (now California State University at San José), and the first serial radio drama was
an adaptation of a play by Eugene Walter, entitled "The Wolf," which aired in September 1922. Given the age of the programs and the fact that
home reel-to-reel recording started in the 1950s (followed by Philips "compact cassettes" in 1963), it might be surprising that quite a few of
these old shows have survived. Thanks in part to original radio station-sourced recordings made on
aluminum discs, acetates, and glass recordings and other unnamed sources, many radio dramas and newscasts from decades past are
available online, and more are being digitized and restored to this day.
posted to MetaFilter by filthy light thief
at 12:47 PM on August 25, 2009
(53 comments)
At least one of these things is true, and possibly both: (a)
This was the most tense game of baseball ever played; or (b) relations between Jews and the Klan have deteriorated dramatically since 1926. Bill Francis, a research librarian at the Baseball Hall of Fame, unearths a tantalizing newspaper clipping.
posted to MetaFilter by kosem
at 3:59 PM on May 11, 2009
(44 comments)
People took to the streets to celebrate Obama's victory in
New York,
Seattle,
Austin,
San Francisco,
Boulder,
New Brunswick,
Oakland,
Philadelphia,
Gainesville,
Los Angeles,
Boston,
Portland,
Atlanta,
Cambridge,
Madison,
Richmond,
Baltimore,
Santa Cruz, and
Washinton, D.C.
posted to MetaFilter by twoleftfeet
at 3:51 PM on November 5, 2008
(82 comments)
In 2001 some friends and I bought a used answering machine that still had the tape in it. From what we could figure out, it belonged to someone named Marta. Anyway, we set some of the messages to the melodies we felt they deserved (using the hokiest canned drums the Boss BR-8 had to offer).
posted to MeFi Music by Beardman
at 7:31 PM on August 12, 2008
(21 comments)
An answering machine message to help us live our dreams.
posted to MeFi Music by Beardman
at 9:49 PM on August 14, 2008
(32 comments)
By request...the last answering machine song I'll post. This one's about a pair of "protein shoes." If you can figure out what that means (even after hearing the phrase in context at the end), I'll give you ten dollars.
posted to MeFi Music by Beardman
at 11:02 AM on August 16, 2008
(12 comments)
A few questions related to Trance Music.
posted to Ask Metafilter by wildrain2008
at 7:03 PM on June 7, 2008
(6 comments)
On Having A Black Name
"I am a white woman, a blond, blue-eyed white woman, and I have a first name strongly associated with black women. My mother, a southerner by birth, never stopped telling me she made the name up. The fact that she truly could not remember ever hearing the name before, is a testament to the strength of southern segregation. It is likely she heard it once or twice, and simply forgot it until later. And so, even at 50 years old, I have a name that makes people do a double-take. "You're _____?" is something I have heard all my life. "Yes, that would be me," is what I say, as they look confused. I have upset the social order. Names, I have learned, are a big, big part of it."
posted to MetaFilter by nooneyouknow
at 9:06 AM on April 24, 2008
(257 comments)
What is the iconic (or just "your favorite") dead-tree product catalog (listing of merchandise for mail-order sale) for your hobby, industry, or trade?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cadastral
at 9:23 AM on April 1, 2008
(74 comments)
What sweet, silly gift can I give to a sweet, silly boy? This question isn’t as cliché as one might think.
posted to Ask Metafilter by fiasco
at 11:06 AM on December 25, 2007
(45 comments)
Map Paintings
by
Paula Scher: “These are absolutely, one hundred percent inaccurate,” Paula Scher declares of her colossal map paintings. Then, after a pause: “But not on purpose.” Another pause: they’re actually “sort of right.” [
via]
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva
at 4:58 PM on November 12, 2007
(10 comments)
Is there anything good about men?
In
this address to the American Psychological Association, psychologist Roy Baumeister suggests that women have historically had a much greater chance of reproducing than men, and that this has had a profound influence on the way their respective roles in society have evolved:
For women throughout history (and prehistory), the odds of reproducing have been pretty good. Later in this talk we will ponder things like, why was it so rare for a hundred women to get together and build a ship and sail off to explore unknown regions, whereas men have fairly regularly done such things? But taking chances like that would be stupid, from the perspective of a biological organism seeking to reproduce. They might drown or be killed by savages or catch a disease. For women, the optimal thing to do is go along with the crowd, be nice, play it safe. The odds are good that men will come along and offer sex and you’ll be able to have babies. All that matters is choosing the best offer. We’re descended from women who played it safe....For men, the outlook was radically different. If you go along with the crowd and play it safe, the odds are you won’t have children. Most men who ever lived did not have descendants who are alive today. Their lines were dead ends. Hence it was necessary to take chances, try new things, be creative, explore other possibilities.
posted to MetaFilter by Turtles all the way down
at 4:34 AM on August 22, 2007
(130 comments)
What Brazil tells us about torture today.
A thoughtful discussion by Clive James of torture in the context of the movies in general and Terry Gilliam's
Brazil in particular. Warning: occasional descriptions of awful behavior, and the reader may have his opinion of humanity lowered. "The historical evidence suggests that on the rare occasions when a state begins again in what a fond humanitarian might think of as a condition of innocence, a supply of young torturers is the first thing it produces... In the Nazi and Soviet cellars and camps, people were regularly tortured for information they did not possess: i.e., they were tortured just for the hell of it."
posted to MetaFilter by languagehat
at 6:45 AM on February 25, 2007
(50 comments)
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