1692 MetaFilter comments by The God Complex (displaying 51 through 100)

Guerrilla Marketer arrested at SXSW. He was marketing the Zune, but it dosn't seem like he was arrested for simple lack of taste.
comment posted at 2:56 PM on Mar-14-07
comment posted at 3:03 PM on Mar-14-07

Is Your Baby Gay? Southern Baptist theologian Albert Mohler has come out to support stem cell research: If a biological basis [for homosexuality] is found, and if a prenatal test is then developed, and if a successful treatment to reverse the sexual orientation to heterosexual is ever developed, we would support its use as we should unapologetically support the use of any appropriate means to avoid sexual temptation and the inevitable effects of sin.
comment posted at 1:47 PM on Mar-8-07

Female koalas indulge in lesbian "sex sessions", rejecting male suitors and attempting to mate with each other, sometimes up to five at a time, according to researchers.
comment posted at 2:21 PM on Feb-26-07

Watch BBC's documentary: Iran, the least understood country (Google video | Torrent) Rageh Omaar discovers that Iran is a country that bans women from riding motorcycles but where 60 per cent of the student population is female. There are stories of taxi drivers, wrestlers, business women, people working with drug addicts and the country's leading pop star and his manager - the 'Simon Cowell' of Iran. Read his article in the Sunday Times.
comment posted at 9:24 PM on Feb-19-07

"You're really smart!" Psychologist Carol Dweck says that praising a child for being smart only teaches the kid to avoid any effort that might fail. "When we praise children for their intelligence, we tell them that this is the name of the game: Look smart, don't risk making mistakes." Malcolm Gladwell chimes in with his thoughts on the importance of being a smart kid, "What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement."
comment posted at 2:48 PM on Feb-13-07

Sixty-seven scenes of torture in five seasons. Is 24 responsible for an increase in real-life torture? They at least feel guilty enough to meet up with some actual interrogators encouraging them to make their torture scenes more authentic. But it's not just 24 - torture is becoming more prevalent on all American television.
comment posted at 2:33 PM on Feb-12-07
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Boy chimp meets Girl chimp boy chimp beats girl chimp to keep her from having sex with his buddies. New scientific study.
comment posted at 1:50 PM on Feb-9-07

A remarkable wedding portrait. Portraits: First Prize, Singles from the 2007 World Press Photo Winners Gallery by Nina Berman.
comment posted at 2:04 PM on Feb-9-07

Charlie Brooker hates Macs. They are computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
comment posted at 2:19 AM on Feb-6-07

Peacmaker - a new Israeli/Palestinian RPG: "The goal of the player as the leader is to establish a stable resolution to the conflict and win the Nobel Prize before his or her term in office ends."

Oh. Is that all?
comment posted at 12:19 PM on Feb-2-07

I WANT TO SEE A GHOST Enter here, experience terror and then scare your friends with the text, webcam and audio real-time recording possibilities. Freaky! ;)
comment posted at 3:18 AM on Feb-1-07

Climate change a 'questionable truth'. Margaret Wente looks beyond the hysteria surrounding the climate change debate. Hysteria her own newspaper has been contributing to.
comment posted at 11:36 PM on Jan-31-07

Pro Football Salaries vs Surgeon Salaries Not to be a wet blanket during Super Bowl week, but it strikes me a little odd that surgeons make about 2 percent of what the top football players earn.
comment posted at 4:12 PM on Jan-31-07

A hefty chunk of Boston was paralyzed today in reaction to the discovery of numerous devices consisting of circuit boards attached to girders. The ones that have been found have been disabled. The subway is crippled; numerous lines have been shut down and been replaced by emergency bus service as authorities root out the remaining instances of what could be bombs! Here is a photo one of these nefarious devices in action.
comment posted at 12:54 PM on Jan-31-07

A four-year-old girl (YouTube 1:26) is interviewed about her views of various hypothetical budgetary allocations. It is called "A SOTU Response," but it isn't really directly related to the SOTU. Via Plastic.
comment posted at 5:21 PM on Jan-30-07

This story of Xbox 360 woe isn't unique, but it does come with a great video. (last is a youtube link)
comment posted at 4:17 PM on Jan-30-07

Shilpa Shetty wins Celebrity Big Brother - previously discussed here.
comment posted at 2:25 PM on Jan-28-07
comment posted at 2:25 PM on Jan-28-07
comment posted at 2:25 PM on Jan-28-07

Carl Cannon on why Presidents lie, including a lengthy discussion of George W. Bush. Even giving him the benefit of the doubt on honesty, why doesn't the nation's first-ever M.B.A. president demonstrate a better command of the facts?
comment posted at 11:18 PM on Jan-26-07

Are you looking for that perfect addition to your game room? You could go with old standards like a pool table, dart board, or ping-pong table. However, if you are a hockey fan, you are likely to go with a table hockey game, or an air hockey table. One table hockey fan, decided that this wasn’t enough and created the Ultimate Hockey Table. This table is hand-made and is over 5’ long and nearly 4’ wide.
comment posted at 2:05 PM on Jan-26-07
comment posted at 2:14 PM on Jan-26-07

Wired: What We Don't Know How did life begin? What's the universe made of? Why do we sleep? Is the universe actually made of information? How does the brain produce consciousness? Why do we still have big questions? 42 of the biggest unanswered questions in science.
comment posted at 12:03 PM on Jan-26-07
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comment posted at 2:12 PM on Jan-26-07

Sam Harris, an atheist, and Andrew Sullivan, a Catholic, debate whether moderate religion makes any sense. Harris: "Religious moderation is the result of not taking scripture all that seriously." Sullivan: "Blogger, please."
comment posted at 1:23 AM on Jan-26-07

An interview with 'muslix64' , who got fed up when his new television refused to play HDDVDs, because of DRM problems. So he cracked the HDDVD DRM. Then, for good measure, he cracked Blu-Ray too. The first HD movies are already appearing on a Torrent near you.
comment posted at 2:24 AM on Jan-25-07

Every Mythbuster myth in nifty graph form on one page. Quick and easy reference to each myth busted, confirmed, or plausible.
comment posted at 2:17 AM on Jan-25-07
comment posted at 2:26 AM on Jan-25-07

Ghost Ride It! I just couldn't deny you the raw, visceral pleasure of watching this. Rather Previously
comment posted at 2:25 AM on Jan-24-07

Only in Canada A study of 100,000 drivers finds that the month you were born is far more significant than your age in predicting car crashes.
comment posted at 6:29 PM on Jan-22-07
comment posted at 6:32 PM on Jan-22-07

Investigation reveals British Police knowingly employed serial killers as informers. Or should that be "knowingly employed informers as serial killers"? Film at 11.
comment posted at 3:27 PM on Jan-22-07
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comment posted at 3:38 PM on Jan-22-07


Some Japanimation-y illustrations (Simpsons, Futurama) got spacecoyote a job at Bongo Comics. Nifty.
comment posted at 6:13 PM on Jan-22-07

Huh huh, fatties suck (Google Video)
comment posted at 12:58 AM on Jan-22-07
comment posted at 1:02 AM on Jan-22-07
comment posted at 1:11 AM on Jan-22-07
comment posted at 1:58 AM on Jan-22-07

In 1856, a young girl in South Africa went to fetch water from the river. When she returned, she convinced her uncle that she had spoken with spirits and that the spirits had said that, in return for the sacrifice of all their cattle and their crops, the spirits would sweep the European settlers into the sea, that the cattle and grain would be replaced by better cattle and full granaries. Her uncle told the Chief, the chief listened, and a society was reduced to a hungry shadow of its former self. The Xhosa cattle-killing.
comment posted at 12:35 PM on Jan-20-07

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