MetaFilter posts tagged with lame

Is It Wrong to Lust Over an Optimus Keyboard? Yes.

wendell — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:38:36 -0800

The best thing about WIRED Magazine's 15th Anniversary celebration is it's not all self-congratulatory. Of course, any media entity involved in the rapidly-changing but well-archived internet is going to sometimes do silly things that we all can see - forever. In one area, at least, WIRED is owning up to its bad judgment with the Lamest (their word) Gear Ever Highlighted in their 'Fetish' Feature. 1993-1995. 1996-1998. 1999-2006. It's not that there are less lame items in recent years; they're just waiting for history to confirm what smart readers saw all along. My favorites - and why some of them may not be so lame: * Mattel Power Glove You knew it was doomed to lameness - it's Mattel! * Interactor Vest With the right thrash metal song, it could be used as a defibrillator, right? * Clipper CS-1 Isolation cubicle? maybe. Plywood? no way. * Home tattoo removal? This thing is going to become SO needed in a few years. * Home car wash hi-pressure wand? When gas reaches $10/gallon, it'll be cheaper than driving to the coin-op car wash. * Have you seen those 'sex chairs'? This looks like the solo version. * The Infonium Universe Simulator, 'from the mind of Minolta', right before they carried him away in a straight jacket. * A Car-Alarm for your Laptop. From the days when your laptop cost more than your car. * GPS Reporter. Edison Carter wouldn't be caught dead wearing one of these. * MetaFilter's Own Adam Savage's "case mod". How dare they? This will NEVER become lame. * Panda Toaster! No, not toasting pandas. But if they'd done one with a picture of the Virgin Mary, they'd be zillionaires. * The Hovery... they should've marketed this to people who really need their personal space. * Mouse Bling. Nothing more to say. * Gibbs Aquada... I said FLYING car, not FLOATING car, you git. * Magic Theater. Kaleidoscope + projector + anime nightmare + Disney infringement = EPIC HUH? You know what's really lame? How WIRED clipped some of these items out of their backgrounds. Don't they have Photoshop? * And how come this is the only lame item branded Sharper Image? SI was all about lame tech! This is just proof they could've put a lot more 'Fetish' items on the list. Like maybe ALL of them?

Pain free hardness

tellurian — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:34:31 -0800

Do you want to look hard but can't stand the needle? Detachable Tattoo Sleeves are the answer. Unfortunately, small is out of stock at the moment.

Metafilter: 8.7 Wendell: 8.9 HA!

wendell — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:28:21 -0800

Does it suck? Or does it rock? No, this is NOT like Will It Float? or Will It Blend? It's a cute use of the Google API to search for how often your inquiry comes up as "x sucks" or "x rocks" or a small number of other similar phrases. MetaFilter rates 8.7 out of 10 (87% rocks, 13% sucks). A delightfully evil way to rate - and compare - various things.

Vanilla Ice hates himself.

Afroblanco — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:27:52 -0800

In 1999, MTV aired 25 Lame, a show where retired 25 of their worst and most overplayed videos. Rob Van Winkle (aka Vanilla Ice) showed up to help them retire the video for "Ice Ice Baby." The result - violence, hilarity, and broken mannequins (video, 30-second ad shows before video). Apparently unplanned, nobody knows for sure if this outburst was the product of genuine anger, or if he was just playing around. An unedited version (YouTube, lower quality) leads me to think that it was the former.

This speech is my recital

MrMustard — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:58:30 -0800

It's Flicky - Nice, home-made Run DMC vid. [via]

"Tell Your Friends 2 Amend!" Oh, and "Give 10 to Amend!" (barf)

JHarris — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 03:24:27 -0800

Amend for Arnold & Jen (found on linkfilter) is a site trying to start up one of them "grassroots movements" to amend the Constitution of the United States, in order to allow naturalized citizens, those who were not born in the U.S. but have since become citizens, the possibility of holding the office of President. But not just out of a sense of social justice; primarily, it's to clear the way for an Arnold Schwarzenegger presidential campaign. (Or one for Jennifer Granholm... heh, whoever that is!)

It should be noted, for whatever it's worth, that Wikipedia's entry for Granholm states that she cares "not a whit" for running for president. Of special note are the slogans the AFA (gasp, not AFA&J?!?!) people cooked up to advance their cause, "Amend US," "Give 10 to Amend," and "Tell Your Friends 2 Amend." Because let's face it: if you voted for ol' Schwarzy, you're probably a little more susceptible to catchphrases than the average bear, hm? Oh I'm know I'm gonna catch it for that one.

le sigh

sourbrew — Sun, 15 May 2005 18:54:25 -0800

Le Sigh - ShunTv joins the ranks. I found this through metafilter users.... would like to lament shun with metafilter users. As MPAA expands into prosecuting tv viewers.

It's Tricky!

keli — Sat, 18 Oct 2003 16:00:10 -0800

David Blaine has a day or so left to complete his latest stunt. While most of us can do basic cigarette tricks, it takes a special kind of person to want to hypnotize another. Even more special is one who gives up studying the art of magic to study transcendental meditation and was convinced that he could levitate.

Haiku. About mullets. Oh, and there's beer, too.

yhbc — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:34:09 -0800

Mullet haiku, brought to you from the fine folks at the Beer Church (The Largest Unorganized Religion in the World!)
It's Two! Two! Two links in one!