MetaFilter posts tagged with lostandfound

X-Ray of a Reader

CheeseDigestsAll — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:09:43 -0800

Ever used a slice of bacon as a bookmark? How about a hundred dollar bill? For every reader who has grabbed something close at hand and slipped it into a book, it seems there's a patron of a used book store who has found it.

Lost and Found, $4 Million Violin

doug3505 — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:33:24 -0800

Lost and Found, $4 Million Violin. Philippe Quint, Grammy award winning Russian violinist left his loaned 1723 Kiesewetter Stradivarius violin in a taxi on the way back from the airport April 20th. Taxi driver, Mohamed Khalil, got in touch the next day to return it after unknowingly leaving it in the back of taxi, on a Newark, NJ street overnight.

that's him, officer

scrim — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 14:51:35 -0800

Is this you? Here's something for all of us who are desperately waiting for the next issue of Found, but are still a little bit creeped out by the pervy version.

starvingartist — Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:45:16 -0800

Missing server found... behind a wall... Got this from Scott's site and thought I would share it. I'm just amazed the thing stayed up for so long.