October 22, 2015

least I have chicken

The Leeroy Jenkins Hearthstone card in 12 languages.
posted by Drinky Die at 11:13 PM PST - 29 comments

I am not a nazi.

Meet Bastian, a German WWII soldier collectible doll. Also meet Bastian Schweinsteiger, the 31-year old Der Mannschaft current captain and Manchester United star, who is certainly not amused by the similarities.
posted by lmfsilva at 7:15 PM PST - 75 comments

See a need, fill a need

In the wake of Turing/Martin Shkreli's 5000x price hike of Daraprim, reaction sets in regarding the need for reasonable prices on FDA-generic drugs. [more inside]
posted by bookdragoness at 7:07 PM PST - 24 comments

Walking on (non-Newtonian) water

Maybe Jesus could walk on water, but anybody can walk on this non-Newtonian fluid (SLYT)
posted by Quietgal at 5:10 PM PST - 23 comments

#EndMommyWars

In a new video, sponsored by Similac as part of its #endmommywars campaign, seven mothers discuss the judgments they receive and the judgments they make about other mothers.
posted by melissasaurus at 4:23 PM PST - 99 comments

Macho Nachos

People prefer food in sexist packaging. Putting unhealthy food in macho masculine packaging, or healthy food in feminine-themed packaging, makes it taste nicer, and people are willing to pay more for it. According to a new paper(Direct paper link)
posted by Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory at 4:03 PM PST - 80 comments

'The Empire Strikes Back' and So Does George Lucas

An interview from 1980 where Rolling Stone talks with George Lucas about his views on movie making, the difficulty working with studios, and the possible and tenuous future of the franchise. (context: previously) [more inside]
posted by SpacemanStix at 3:23 PM PST - 70 comments

They're coming to get you, Elizabeth

A Tribute to Zombies in Movies - the latest: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (MLYT NSFW)
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 1:47 PM PST - 28 comments

Telly Savalas Visits The UK

In one of the more ill-conceived marketing stunts of the '70s, Telly Savalas visits Birmingham. Telly visits Aberdeen. Telly visits Portsmouth.
posted by veedubya at 11:56 AM PST - 76 comments

"a very fundamental, biological need to be liked"

"What is Social Anxiety Disorder?": The Atlantic's Olga Khazan interviews Stefan G. Hofmann, the director of the Social Anxiety Program at Boston University. (SLTheAtlantic)
posted by ArbitraryAndCapricious at 11:23 AM PST - 168 comments

“It is a black day for Sweden,”

Sweden school attack: horror as sword attacker kills teacher and pupil. [The Guardian] [Article contains graphic descriptions of violence.] [more inside]
posted by Fizz at 11:22 AM PST - 59 comments

Gif that's what's for dinner

The latest thing is Recipes as animated GIFs:
Pull-out monkey bread
Avocado & Eggs breakfast
Better than sex brownies
Homemade Nutella
Apple roses
Pizza dip
PES guacamole
Mozzarella sticks
Archer's Margarita
[more inside]
posted by growabrain at 11:20 AM PST - 106 comments

“You’re a softie underneath that tough-girl exterior — which I am too!”

What 12,000 Emails Tell Us About Being Hillary Clinton “… right now I’m fighting w the WH operator who doesn’t believe I am who I say I am and wants my direct office line even tho I’m not there and I just (g)ave him my home # and the State Dept # and I told him I had no idea what my direct office # was since I didn’t call myself and I just hung up and am calling thru Ops like a proper and properly dependent Secretary of State – no independent dialing allowed.”
posted by OnceUponATime at 11:11 AM PST - 87 comments

Let's do the Time Warp again, AGAIN

Laverne Cox will star as Frank-N-Furter in Fox's TV reboot of Rocky Horror Picture Show. Previously. Meanwhile, fans have proposed various dream casts.
posted by the_blizz at 10:10 AM PST - 103 comments

If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.

The Two Asian Americas. "If Asians sometimes remain silent in the face of racism, and if some seem to work unusually hard in the face of this difficult history, it is not because they want to be part of a 'model minority' but because they have often had no other choice." (SLNewYorker)
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 9:54 AM PST - 20 comments

Heirs to the Sexual Revolution

And yet, for all there is to worry about — and we old folks love nothing more than worrying about the sex lives of young people — campuses are still filled with college kids excited about one another and the thrill of a night that’s just beginning. To them, college sex isn’t a headline but something real. In an attempt to get past the existing media narratives, and the moralizing that comes with them, New York asked college students what they think about the campus-sex climate. Or, rather, how they experience it.
[more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns at 9:21 AM PST - 20 comments

The Greatest Pumpkin

It all starts with the seed. Top growers know their pumpkins' lineage back generations, and the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth keeps records.
Ron Wallace was the first person to grow a one-ton pumpkin. He's going for 2,500 pounds next. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan at 8:55 AM PST - 20 comments

Metal on inappropriate instruments

YouTube metal guitarist Rob Scallon covers Slayer's "Raining Blood", "War Ensemble", and "Angel of Death", and Metallica's "Battery", on banjo.
posted by Pope Guilty at 8:29 AM PST - 32 comments

When The Police Turn Someone You Know Into A Hashtag.

Benjamin Dixon writes about the death of Corey Jones, a Florida musician who was shot and killed by a plainclothes officer in Florida on Sunday morning, after Jones' car had broken down on the side of the highway. [more inside]
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 7:35 AM PST - 88 comments

well past time

"We all know tech is excluding most people from participating. But one group is actually over represented. And we’ve been conspicuously silent." Metafilter's own Anil Dash asserts that "Asian American men who work in tech are benefitting from tech’s systematic exclusion of women and non-Asian minorities" and gives some recommendations about what they should do about it.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 6:56 AM PST - 24 comments

Totally Texas

On behalf of the MeFites of Norway: It has come to our attention that somebody has let slip that "totally Texas" (in Norwegian "helt texas") is used as an expression to convey that some event is crazy or totally out of control. After decades, the Americans now know. An investigation into the leak will be made. Thank you.
posted by Harald74 at 6:16 AM PST - 132 comments

Field Work Fail

In FieldWorkFail, scientists working in the field share their more embarassing stories !
posted by Blasdelb at 6:05 AM PST - 34 comments

Ever the Twain shall meet

Over a hundred years after his death (it was supposed to be a hundred but you know how people can be), The Autobiography of Mark Twain has been released in its entirety (Volume One previously). [more inside]
posted by BiggerJ at 5:33 AM PST - 9 comments

At once deeply religious and fastidiously superstitious

In preparation for the upcoming exhibition Scholar, courtier, magician: The lost library of John Dee at the Royal College of Physicians (January 2016), the RCP museum's twitter has posted some gifs showing details from some of the books that will be on display for the first time. [more inside]
posted by halcyonday at 5:32 AM PST - 14 comments

Jan Hooks in the Wilderness

One year ago, the Saturday Night Live family lost one of its greatest talents when Jan Hooks passed away at the age of 57. Though there are many SNL players that fade into obscurity once their term at Rockefeller Center is up, most people are surprised that, aside from a recurring role on 30 Rock, Jan Hooks had pretty much disappeared since the turn of the 21st century. Grantland provides a bittersweet look back into her history and into what happened during those years.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 4:35 AM PST - 29 comments

a patchwork of colors and flavors

The idea behind Cookbook Club is a simple one—a group of friends all make recipes from the same book and gather to share the results, a crowdsourced feast. But there's a bit of magic to Cookbook Club that I didn't anticipate when I attended my first meeting, walking into an unfamiliar house clutching a bowl of pumpkin seed dip from Diana Kennedy's The Essential Cuisines of Mexico.
posted by divabat at 1:25 AM PST - 11 comments

"one of the strangest experiments in movie history"

That time Samuel Beckett made a movie with Buster Keaton.
posted by MartinWisse at 12:36 AM PST - 8 comments

Perhaps she even wiggled her toes, just like Pippi.

Who was the woman behind Pippi Longstocking? Freshly released wartime diaries along with a new biography reveal Astrid Lindgren, author of some of the world's most beloved children's literature, to be as radical and determined as her best-known character.
posted by ellieBOA at 12:28 AM PST - 21 comments

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