MeFi post: ANTM star and model blogs domestic violence

but suddenly stopped caring after I found out she's a fashion model and her boyfriend is a rock star.

Because models don't hurt?
posted to MetaFilter by cmgonzalez at 11:06 AM on January 6, 2008

MeFi post: Bad news for the Martian dinosaurs...

Camofrog writes "What I can't figure out: the odds keep changing on this. How come the odds keep changing?"

NASA has been using the Mars rovers' onboard radio to hurl insults at the meteor. With each tirade, the meteor edges closer and closer.
posted to MetaFilter by mullingitover at 7:48 PM on January 7, 2008

Odds recently lowered to 1-in-28, which is only about a 3.6% chance of impact. Hardly enough for Mars to start throwing little green Bruce Willises and Ben Afflecks at the problem. Still, how can you not root for the rock? C'mon, rock!
posted to MetaFilter by steef at 7:54 PM on January 7, 2008

Ask post: How to look normal in a long black trenchcoat?

The year was 1994 and I was a high school junior. While walking through the mall I spied it: long, black, leather. It was badass, my ticket to instant cool. It was a semi-double breasted deal with a wrap around collar. We're talking cyberpunk meets Doc Holiday. I'll see your oversized brown bomber jacket and raise you this long, sleek, vision of the future! Best of all it was on sale.

So the black leather trench coat came home with me that day. And it was cool and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wfrgms at 3:45 PM on December 28, 2007

Ask post: One USB charger to replace lots of wall warts?

There's the Chargepod. I was looking for one to mount inside a cabinet for our array of gadgetry so we didn't have to look at it & had less wartage to look at.
posted to Ask Metafilter by yoga at 4:44 AM on December 28, 2007 marked best answer

Ask post: What are tomorrow's avant-garde monuments

Some of these are really old. Some of them are more contemporary, and I don't believe any of it could be called 'up and coming,' and many are already classics, but I always like to peruse UbuWeb Film & Video
posted to Ask Metafilter by allthingsfixable at 5:03 PM on October 2, 2007 marked best answer

Ask post: Free the internet!

What is it about ISP's that we have to use them?

What is it about the phone company that you have to use them?

What is it about ConEd/Toronto Hydro/whoever that we have to get our electricity from them?

The reason is that there's a bunch of stuff between you and the box that is MetaFilter and someone has to own and pay for all that stuff. In poor/small countries, there is typically one company that owns... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by GuyZero at 10:37 AM on September 28, 2007

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