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How does flag work?

What exactly happens when you flag a post? I know what the general response is, but how does it alert management? Does the post get highlighted, like what us plebes see when something on ask.mefi gets tagged "correct answer"?
posted to MetaTalk by crapmatic at 6:25 AM on February 14, 2008 (41 comments)

Best episode to introduce someone to This American Life?

Best episode to introduce someone to This American Life?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by exhilaration at 1:49 PM on May 4, 2008 (45 comments)

How can "congratulations" be a description /and/ a message?

I'd never put only "question" here. I don't call my dog "Dog" or write out a check "for money Dollars". When I call 911 and request a firetruck, they don't call me back and speak the words "a firetruck" and hang up. Why is it normal to congratulate someone by saying "congratulations"?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cmiller at 6:34 AM on May 4, 2008 (23 comments)

Boris is GEIL

It's Boris. London has elected Boris Johnson as its new mayor.
posted to MetaFilter by MrMustard at 4:20 PM on May 2, 2008 (163 comments)

Performance art?

What's going on with these two relationship threads?
posted to MetaTalk by mudpuppie at 8:26 PM on May 1, 2008 (94 comments)

Keep on dancing!

What are some examples of "the show going on" under the threat of a riot?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by umbú at 11:27 AM on May 1, 2008 (23 comments)

Chaos? In *my* print shop?

We've seen a number of Rube Goldberg machines in advertising before, but here's the first one I've seen that actually uses the controlled chaos of one to describe what their product actually does. Or doesn't, really. If you've ever worked in a print shop, you've probably seen something like this happen. Usually once or twice a day.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 9:06 AM on April 29, 2008 (44 comments)

Clickity clack!

At least it will sound like I'm furiously busy as I fritter away the rest of the afternoon racing. TypeRacing!
posted to MetaFilter by BoatMeme at 12:51 PM on April 24, 2008 (88 comments)

"Yes"

Salvador Dali on "What's My Line?" - slyt
posted to MetaFilter by frobozz at 7:36 PM on April 19, 2008 (31 comments)

Ball! Ball! Ball! Ball!

Jerry the Dachshund + Ball Machine = Quality Entertainment SLYT. That is all.
posted to MetaFilter by miss lynnster at 8:55 PM on April 12, 2008 (45 comments)

Magic crayon Physics - now in online flash form

Online Crayon Physics Flash version of stuff from here and here. No download needed (vs. prior posts) and totally addicting.
posted to MetaFilter by filmgeek at 7:41 PM on April 6, 2008 (36 comments)

I live MeFi in dreams

I had a dream last night that I was at the base of a pyramid, and there was something earth-destroying in the pyramid, like an ancient God-like evil. I had to work my way through the booby trapped maze of the pyramid to reach the evil before it awoke, and so I popped open my trusty laptop and went to AskMeFi and typed my first question: How do I get to the center of a booby trapped pyramid maze. The answers started pouring in, and I began my mission, dodging ancient mummies and flying spikes.
posted to MetaTalk by Astro Zombie at 9:05 AM on March 31, 2008 (133 comments)

Horton Does Some Pretty Cool Art

Elephant Paints Self Portrait. I'm not sure what to say about this except that its pretty cool.
posted to MetaFilter by KevinSkomsvold at 3:56 PM on March 30, 2008 (76 comments)

Genocide of the Marios

Remember Super Mario Frustration? Kaizo Mario World is another of those super-hard Mario level hacks, this one of Super Mario World. Someone played through its first level 134 times, with save states, recording all his deaths, then digitally composited them into one trip through the level. The result was Many-Worlds Mario. (For those interested, here's a video of a tool-assisted perfect run of much of the game. Here's the rest. Here's some more.)
posted to MetaFilter by JHarris at 7:44 PM on February 3, 2008 (36 comments)

Do you have what it takes to be The Guy?

I Wanna Be The Guy is an insanely addictive and sadistically difficult independently developed video game that takes you on a wacky romp through some truly brilliantly designed stages. Along the way you have to best gaming history's most perilous adversaries, like a Giant Radioactive Zangief.
posted to MetaFilter by aftermarketradio at 11:24 AM on March 11, 2008 (20 comments)

The Door to Hell

The Burning Crater of Darvaza. [Via.]
posted to MetaFilter by homunculus at 1:00 PM on March 26, 2008 (30 comments)

Oh My God! You Killed Low-Quality Spam-Infested Attempts at doing this! You (aren't) bastards!

Do you love South Park but you wish you could watch all the episodes on your own time? Uncensored? Without waiting for (or paying for) the DVDs? If so, South Park Studios just answered your prayers. Since the Daily Show recently did the same thing - is Comedy Central making big waves, or big mistakes?
posted to MetaFilter by revmitcz at 10:30 PM on March 24, 2008 (46 comments)

Impossible piano piece visualized and (mostly) performed

John Mark Harris provides a interactive graphical score synchronized to his realization of the architect-composer Iannis Xenakis's Evryali, a piano piece that is intentionally impossible to play as written. Harris's notes on the piece are behind the non-obvious "on Evryali" button on the score page. Things start getting really interesting around page 22.
posted to MetaFilter by dfan at 10:47 AM on March 23, 2008 (22 comments)

I can haz marketshare?

AskMe #4 in Q&A site visits in the US according to Hitwise. Download the rest of the doc + chart here. Interesting news but I must say I've never even heard of Answerbag.
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 11:34 AM on March 19, 2008 (178 comments)

what did we tell you

The owners of the domain donotreply.com get a lot of mail. [via]
posted to MetaFilter by Armitage Shanks at 1:46 PM on March 19, 2008 (67 comments)

Elementary School Nostalgia-Filter

Blogger Beware! Troy Steele reads through all the Goosebumps books and snarkily recaps them. So you don't have to.
posted to MetaFilter by nasreddin at 1:42 AM on March 19, 2008 (34 comments)

One for the History Books

Obama's Gettysburg Address. Today we saw and heard a preview of our brightest possible American future in Senator Barack Obama's glorious speech. This, then, is what it means to be presidential. To be moral. To have a real center. To speak honestly, from the heart, for the benefit of all. If there was any doubt about what we have missed in the anti-intellectual, ruthlessly incurious Bush years, and even the slippery Clinton ones (the years of "what is is"), those doubts were laid to rest by Barack Obama's magisterial speech today. A speech in which he distanced himself from a flawed father figure, Reverend Wright, and did so with almost Shakespearian dignity and honor. One of the most important speeches on race in decades if not longer. (text)
posted to MetaFilter by caddis at 9:31 PM on March 18, 2008 (1116 comments)

The Jefferson Bible

Thomas Jefferson so wanted to fix what he thought was wrong with religion that he rewrote the Bible. He went through and cut out the parts that he liked most and pasted it to a fifth volume. He cut out Miracles. He cut out the Christmas story. He cut out most of the Easter story. Resurrection is gone. Wikipedia. previously
posted to MetaFilter by nax at 1:36 PM on March 16, 2008 (64 comments)

Please tell me someone else has seen this

Am I crazy, or is there a book about a man trying to voyage to the afterlife?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by gc at 9:42 PM on March 14, 2008 (18 comments)

If it really works, it's the coolest audio production tool ever.

Celemony are a bunch of crazy German software engineers known best for making Melodyne, a family of top of the line pitch correction tools. Apparently they've recently figured out how to do what they do with polyphonic audio. I can't begin to explain how cool this is. Just watch the video.
posted to MetaFilter by stenseng at 4:10 PM on March 13, 2008 (119 comments)

Japanese pets do it XTR33M.

How obedient is your dog? Or chimp.
posted to MetaFilter by spec80 at 1:28 PM on March 13, 2008 (25 comments)

Brain Stem! Brain Stem!

"How many brain scientists have the chance to study a stroke from the inside?" In 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor did (previously), and she recently gave a moving TED talk on her experience. If that merely whetted your appetite for more brainy videos, check out the complete archive of UCSD TV's Grey Matters, a series of lectures on the brain. And for dessert, The Parts of the Brain, as performed by Pinky and The Brain. [via Neurophilosophy]
posted to MetaFilter by natabat at 9:44 PM on March 12, 2008 (14 comments)

Being alone and dead as an acceptable lifestyle choice

Life and death of an urban recluse Odd and beautiful newspaper story.
posted to MetaFilter by Free word order! at 10:18 AM on March 11, 2008 (41 comments)

"Garlic: The Silent Killer," "Juicy Beans," and 39 other fascinating projects of SCIENCE!

Crystal Meth: Friend or Foe High school science project alchemy: dumb shit into comedy gold.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 7:49 PM on February 20, 2008 (101 comments)

He should have known he would get responces like this from wacked-out liberals.

Okay, so this is an idiotic question.. Given that, howzabout everyone (myself included) sits on our hands since I just don't think anything helpful remains to be said.
posted to MetaTalk by Deathalicious at 1:38 AM on March 4, 2008 (358 comments)

Reckless Birthday Fun: The Mad Hatter

Does anyone remember the mind-blowingly dangerous fly-by-night birthday event management company that brought us THE MAD HATTER parties in the mid-1980s?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by CheeseburgerBrown at 12:10 PM on January 21, 2008 (5 comments)

Reconciliation of church and state?

I think its time that we joined a serious debate about how to reconcile faith with our modern pluralistic society. Obama on religion and politics. (SLnonYTP)
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 4:42 AM on February 10, 2008 (142 comments)

Character. Integrity. Do.

20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack. A very thoughtful and eloquent comparison (transcript) of the core differences between Obama and Clinton - by Creative Commons CEO and Professor Lawrence Lessig.
posted to MetaFilter by zenzizi at 6:44 AM on February 5, 2008 (489 comments)

Yes, We Can.

Yes, We Can! -- Obama's words, set to music.
posted to MetaFilter by empath at 9:52 AM on February 2, 2008 (183 comments)

Do not dig or drill before 12,000 AD

The site must be marked: What is here is dangerous(?) and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger...This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
posted to MetaFilter by never used baby shoes at 8:23 PM on January 3, 2008 (78 comments)

The Megacity

"The really disturbing thing about Lagos’s pickers and venders is that their lives have essentially nothing to do with ours. They scavenge an existence beyond the margins of macroeconomics. They are, in the harsh terms of globalization, superfluous." The Megacity, George Packer in Lagos.
posted to MetaFilter by afu at 1:09 PM on December 11, 2007 (25 comments)

The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing

The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing "I've documented the journey of Billy, a young, happy lad who believes he's going off to have fantastic adventures at summer camp... This is a literal and practically contextual account of what happens to poor bastards sent to Animal Crossing."
posted to MetaFilter by chrismear at 1:38 PM on December 10, 2007 (28 comments)

How do I make visitors laugh at the expense of my kitty?

I need a funny saying for a sign that will go in a window. It will hang over my fat cat, who hardly moves. I know you guys can come up with something great.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Alpenglow at 8:59 AM on November 28, 2007 (82 comments)

24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot

It's 1994, there's a bomb in Los Angeles, and THERE'S NO TIME! Will Jack Bauer save the world with AOL 3.0?
posted to MetaFilter by dhammond at 9:56 PM on November 8, 2007 (45 comments)
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