MetaFilter posts tagged with cheezburger

100% Cows Milk

infini — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 01:03:18 -0800

The two year long saga of how McDonalds engineered the perfect cottage cheese filet for the McSpicy Paneer burger. McD has a turbulent history in India where its processes, practices and products, successfully developed over decades, have been turned upside down and redesigned, often from scratch. Previously on MetaFilter, the story of the 'non'-vegetarian vegetarian fries which disrupted their Indian operations. Comments referencing McDs in India over the years. More on fries and potatoes for the Indian market. A description of their menu items for the challenging Indian market. Catering to local tastes around the globe.

And nothing of value was lost

Rhaomi — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:27:50 -0800

Founded in 2004 as a place to catalog LiveJournal drama rejected from Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Dramatica rapidly became the premier site on the web for all manner of lulz. Intended "in the spirit of Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary," ED grew into a sprawling crowdsourced compendium of memes, subcultures, communities, personalities, and the endless feuds and controversies spawned by 4chan and other anonymous imageboards. While comprehensive, the site developed a reputation for nastiness -- full of "ironic" (?) racism, gratuitous porn, organized attacks on other sites, and disturbingly thorough dossiers on perceived enemies, all dripping with vicious snark (just check out their entry on MetaFilter). But now, after more than six years, it appears the troll has become the trolled. Founder Sherrod "Girlvinyl" DeGrippo, allegedly disillusioned by the site's legal woes and nihilistic trajectory, has permanently shuttered the site and replaced it with OhInternet, a slicker, cleaner, Web 2.0 effort modeled after more respectable internet guides like Know Your Meme (which recently sold to Cheezburger Networks for a cool $N million, discussed here). Backups and mirrors abound, but as for the source? Pool's closed... forever.

MENSA Members Love Girl Genius, duh.

oneswellfoop — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:27:53 -0800

American Mensa members across the country cast their votes, selecting their Top 50 Web Sites. MetaFilter is NOT on the list, proving what I've been saying for years that IQ is a poor measurement of real intelligence.

Ur tyme haz com, hoominz.

MaryDellamorte — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:10:03 -0800

UR END IZ NEER! Sign 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, & 10 [via]

Earthlings

homunculus — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:00:33 -0800

Earthlings (1 hr 35 min Google video) is "a feature length documentary about humanity's absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research) but also illustrates our complete disrespect for these so-called 'non-human providers.'" Also in three parts on YouTube.