MetaFilter posts tagged with Fear

Do you really know who people are?

tellurian — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:39:32 -0800

Criminal Searches - Making you feel safer or increasing your fear? No results for Theodore Kaczynski.

The Internet dies a little bit

caddis — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:07:54 -0800

Goodbye alt.* Andrew Cuomo claimed that his office found child porn on 88 newsgroups--out of roughly 100,000 newsgroups that exist. In a press release, he took credit for [Verizon's] blunderbuss-style newsgroup removal by saying: "We are attacking this problem by working with Internet service providers...I commend the companies that have stepped up today to embrace a new standard of responsibility, which should serve as a model for the entire industry." Verizon eliminates the entire alt. subset of usenet. Today, the alt.* hierarchy is by far the most populous on Usenet.

all the things you once tried so hard to forget&

stinkycheese — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:37:41 -0800

Kindertrauma is about the movies, books, and toys that scared you when you were a kid. It’s also about kids in scary movies, both as heroes and villains. And everything else that’s traumatic to a tyke! Be sure not to miss Traumafessions, or the section on scary toys.

This little piggy stayed home, no longer.

yeti — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:22:01 -0800

"While her six brothers and sisters messed around in the mire, she stayed on the edge shaking. It is thought she might have mysophobia - a fear of dirt." This little piggy is afraid of the mud. Cuteness ahoy.

Free Range Kids

blasdelf — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:14:05 -0800

Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone (via). More From America's Worst Mom: 9-Year-Old On The Subway, Continued. She's gotten her own blog, fuckwits

Everybody must get stoned.

mecran01 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:32:45 -0800

20 percent of academics surveyed by Nature are abusing neuroenhancers.
Calling R.U. Sirius...

Cities of God

hadjiboy — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:22:37 -0800

Slum (youtube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Dwellers (mp3): how the other billion lives.

Amchi Mumbai ~ My Mumbai

hadjiboy — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:16:11 -0800

Politics of Hate: What's happening to the city of Mumbai

fear stinks

leibniz — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:50:01 -0800

A mouse has been genetically engineered to no longer fear cats. Surely this is now only a matter of time. There's plenty of research into the capacity to smell fear. And even stuff on the fear of smell. But less on what fear actually smells like. Some researchers working on the link between smell and emotions.

Ihre Papieren, Bitte!

orthogonality — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:25:06 -0800

"How do you deal with fear? Is it safer for them if I act or stay quiet? I don't want to get on a list."