MetaFilter posts tagged with 2005

"If You Worked Here, You'd Be Heartless By Now"

usedwigs — Thu, 18 May 2006 08:17:30 -0800

The 10 Worst Corporatioins of 2005 Listed alphabetically, here are the 10 Worst Corporations of 2005 and brief lowlights of the activities that earned them a place on the list

It Was the Dumbest of Times

fenriq — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:09:21 -0800

Business 2.0's 101 Dumbest Moments in Business for 2005
Remember this gem? "Women should be all dressed in white, like all other domestic appliances." Personal favorites are #36 and #40 but there's plenty more to enjoy. And the smartest company of 2005.
An update from long ago.

Mediblog Winners 2005

slimepuppy — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 07:10:38 -0800

Medblogfilter: medGadget has announced the winners of the 2005 Medical Weblog Awards. (more inside)

100 photos from the playa

crunchland — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 21:41:01 -0800

Burning Man 2005 ... 100 photos by Scott London. (note: some nudity. may not be safe for work.)

2005: The Year in Culture

Firas — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 10:05:33 -0800

The Year in Culture: a different kind of 2005 roundup—influentials are asked to mention significant cultural points of the year. Hitchens on intelligent design ruling: "Just for once…one can hear the lucid tones of reason, detachment, culture, and irony"; Gladwell on the Streets: "the British take an African-American musical form and wonderfully reinvent it" (again); others muse about rare high points in South Park, or of Brokeback Mountain and the future of movies, or the Rove-esqueness of Cindy Sheehan, et cetera.

It's getting hot in here...

Effigy2000 — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:34:42 -0800

It's official. 2005 was the hottest year on record. Despite this new alarming evidence that the world is heating up, countries like Australia and the United States are still refusing to sign up to the Kyoto Protocol. But with many (mostly on the conservative side of politics) claiming that the Kyoto Protocol is a failure, what else can be done to stop the now clearly visible effects of climate change to our world?

Authorities in Malaysia arrested 58 people who worship a giant teapot. Poor people rioted in France.

JHarris — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:58:23 -0800

Harper's Magazine Yearly Review for 2005 - Yep, it's yet another year-end encapsulation of all that went before. This one's special though. It's Harper's.

Okay I know, just read the damn page!

Seriously, I'm posing this because I like Harper's, and I've always liked the juxtaposition of the big and serious in these summaries, like Hurricane Katrina, with the laughably trivial, like how an increasing number of Americans are now heating their homes... with corn.

100 Things Learned This Year

spock — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 06:58:26 -0800

100 things we didn't know this time last year. We seem to have an overload of year-end lists, but this one from the BBC was rather entertaining (if UK-centric). Feel free to add anything that you didn't know a year ago in your corner of the world.

2005 Film Quiz

JPowers — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:27:49 -0800

"Do you know your Downfall from your Descent, your Crash from your Wedding Crashers? Discover how oblong-eyed you were in 2005 with our bumper end-of-year quiz". And be sure to post your score.

Photojournalism At Its Best

benzo8 — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 04:46:43 -0800

Reuters Pictures of the Year, 2005 If a picture is worth a thousand words then here's 40,000 words to remind you (if that's what you want) of 2005...

A prize goes to whomever does the best pastiche of a prominent poster from last year's version of this thread.

kenko — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:55:59 -0800

Everyone is aware, I'm sure, that year-end or best–however many lists are really just not that interesting, and the discussion surrounding them falls along similar lines all the time. However, someone always links to them anyway. Here's Pitchfork's, of the top 50 albums of this year. Here's some guy's top ten of 2004. Two writers for Dusted (the rest to be linked from this page, theoretically). Stylus Magazine's picks, and those of Pop Matters.

"We will talk to each other, and we will connect with each other, and we will weave the country together like a piece of cloth."

loquax — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:22:51 -0800

Newsfilter: Iraq votes for a permanent government. Despite warnings from insurgents and al Qaeda that the elections are "the work of Satan", estimates are that over 10 million of the 15 million eligible voters have cast ballots for their first non-interim government, including many Sunni Muslims at the urging of their leaders.

Pinot Say?

The Jesse Helms — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:32:01 -0800

Top 100 Wines of 2005.

2005 - The Year in Ideas

ph00dz — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 05:15:18 -0800

2005 - The Year in Ideas. From Accredited Bliss to Zombie Dogs, the NY Times runs through the year's scientific, cultural, and academic developments.

Thanksgiving 2005

celerystick — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 07:41:38 -0800

Happy Thanksgiving 2005 -scientifically speaking, also the last Day of the Oil Age ...according to Kenneth Deffeyes, geologist and Emeritus Professor at Princeton University. .."I wind up saying that world oil is going to peak in production on Thanksgiving Day, 2005." Drink a toast to some of the other of Earth's horn O' plenty resources as we herald in the Green Age. ...sure, this is sensational, but perhaps blog worthy...

Shouldn't it be Vincente?

eriko — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 13:56:13 -0800

An odd hurricane season becomes odder. Meet Vince, the 23rd tracked topical low, and the 21st named storm of the near record setting 2005 Atlantic Hurricane season. But, where is he? Not here. Not even way over here. No, Vince is way over here -- and is headed towards Spain. Of course, this isn't the oddest place for a tropical cyclone. There was Catarina last year, forming the first hurricane ever recorded in the South Atlantic, and never mind what, to all eyes, appears to have been a hurricane in the Mediterranean Sea.

You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.

Malor — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:07:41 -0800

You see a large shipping crate. It has been wrapped in chains and secured with a stout padlock. Curiously, each link is engraved with the letters "BSA." (more inside)

Yokoso! Japan

gen — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:31:19 -0800

Aichi Expo 2005 Review. Yuki of Kissui.net travels to the 2005 World Expo in Aichi, Japan and posts a wonderful review with great photos and commentary.

Phil Gordon's Podcasts from WSOP 2005

gsh — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 20:18:34 -0800

Shuffle up and deal--Phil Gordon's Podcasts from WSOP 2005 Featuring between level commentary on hands played and interviews with World Series of Poker players--well-known and not--Phil Gordon's podcasts are entertaining and informative. It's way better than waiting till ESPN broadcasts portions in September.

Amnesty report 2005

cleardawn — Wed, 25 May 2005 08:19:23 -0800

The Amnesty International 2005 report is hot off the press. This annual report describes the current human rights situation in each country around the world. The BBC cover it well with a special PDF enabling you to look up the report on any country. CNN give more limited coverage, without including a link to the full report. The overall picture is that freedom is spreading, thanks to the US government - freedom to torture, enslave, and kill with impunity.

Blair wins third term in UK

drewlondon — Thu, 05 May 2005 21:58:56 -0800

Blair wins third term in UK overcoming public outcry against his handling of the war in Iraq. His Labour party was elected despite attracting votes from only 22% of those eligible to do so.

It's 1984 All Over Again

chunking express — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:42:21 -0800

Apple has announced the following:iPod shuffle, Mac mini, iWork. MacMerc has a play by play of Job's keynote address at Macworld. I suspect 2005 is the year Apple takes over the world.

bitdamaged — Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:26:54 -0800

When will?? Asia-pacific surpass the US in Internet users? 2005 according to the good folks at BT Internet and their BTExact technology timeline