MetaFilter posts tagged with reed

Over and Out, Good Buddy

chillmost — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:26:51 -0800

Musician and Actor Jerry Reed passes away at age 71 Amazing musician and good ol' boy actor and Scooby Doo regular, Jerry Reed was known for such hits as East Bound and Down and his roles in the Smokey and the Bandit series of films. Other well know songs: Amos Moses, She Got The Goldmine (I Got the Shaft) and When You're Hot, You're Hot

The Illustrated Guide to GOP Scandals

trinarian — Mon, 14 May 2007 04:16:41 -0800

The Illustrated Guide to GOP Scandals

Goodbye, Lou.

ijoshua — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:00:44 -0800

In 1973, Berlin, Lou Reed’s somber follow-up to his upbeat, glam-rock Transformer, was described by Rolling Stone as “a disaster,” by others as “horseshit,” and was never performed live — until now.

Pepsi Bru

the cuban — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:18:42 -0800

Irn Bru Irn Bru Irn Bru

n layman’s terms, this is called a con.

amberglow — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:20:40 -0800

"Mortgaging Old Black People" --Abramoff, Ralph Reed, the Black Churches Insurance Program, with the old folks' benefits going to Abramoff. They had previously tried it with the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Tribe of El Paso. (original GQ story here)

The human cost of the Iraq "war"

dbiedny — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 07:22:12 -0800

This heart-wrenching 4 part story of the lives of some of the severely wounded US soldiers brought tears to my eyes - the descriptions of what these kids are enduring, the difficulties faced by their families, the courage they display under circumstances that would reduce most of us to useless blobs. These are the true costs of an illegal, immoral war. Truly tragic in scope.

Remembering Louise Bryant

digaman — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:55:37 -0800

She interviewed Mussolini. She wrote plays for Eugene O'Neill's Provincetown Players. She got letters from Trotsky. Freud and Helen Keller were in her address book. She married journalist John Reed, and Diane Keaton played her in Reds. And she was nearly forgotten. Now, Louise Bryant is remembered. More here and much more here.

rodii — Mon, 29 Jan 2001 17:18:41 -0800

Reed's Law is about how, under certain conditions ("Group Forming Networks") the value created by a network, rather than being quadratic as predicted by Metcalfe's Law, becomes exponential. What's interesting is his discussion of the kind of networks he's talking about (chat rooms, eBay and … MetaFilter?) and what happens in them. Trouble is, I can't quite follow him! Can you?