2099 MetaFilter comments by keswick (displaying 51 through 100)


A sneak peak of the upcoming Showtime edition of This American Life (direct QT link).
comment posted at 10:39 PM on Feb-23-07

"Tired of the LIBERAL BIAS every time you search on Google and a Wikipedia page appears?" At Conservapedia, a "conservative encyclopedia you can trust," you can learn that "faith" is a concept "exclusive to Christianity," and about how Wikipedia is biased in matters such as its description of the Bell Trade Act of 1946, its gossipy treatment of the private life of NPR reporter Nina Totenberg, and its seeming acceptance of evolution. The Wikipedia bias entry also complains of a "rant" against the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a group for which Conservapedia founder (and son of conservative gadfly Phyllis Schafly) Andrew Schlafly has worked. Signups are here; its take on evolution is criticized here.
comment posted at 5:23 PM on Feb-23-07

The Montana Senate just abolished the death penalty! No link yet, since it passed just minutes ago. But, Hooray!
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Digg and clone wars Most of you probably know about digg. They have really added the people factor into the news. With the introduction of an open source "digg clone" software meneame and digg's success a lot of clones started to emerge (As it happens). Some of these are actually quite good and unique in the way eg Videosift and VoteSexy [NSFW Babes site]. So what does this mean to us; users? Surely competition means good news. Or will this simply saturate the "digg niche" similar to myspace and their clones, polluting the internet?
comment posted at 10:52 AM on Feb-23-07

Say What Again [audio NSFW] Pulp Fiction dialogue done with motion typography. [via]
comment posted at 8:32 AM on Feb-23-07

How to blow up the Earth (with a coffee can), and why we should, along with some discussion of how it is done in fiction. Blowing up the moon (and how the US nearly did in 1958, with the help of Carl Sagan), and lots of reasons why, including one in song [YouTube]. How to blow up a star. How we might accidentally blow up the universe in November. [prev. discussion of Earth destruction]
comment posted at 11:39 PM on Feb-22-07

“We’re selling magazines to earn points in a contest to win a trip abroad,” begins the standard spiel. At any given moment there are roughly 2,500 of these fresh-faced teens travelling across the USA hawking subscriptions for periodicals door to door. Welcome to the violent exploitative world of the Magazine Crews. via
comment posted at 1:28 PM on Feb-22-07

Mo Rocca: Mo Rocca, former Daily Show correspondent and wandering funnyman, has begun blogging and vlogging for AOL News.
comment posted at 12:46 PM on Feb-22-07

"That is an American salute?" "It will be." n July 1935 Heinz Spanknobel's Friends of New Germany (FONG) established Camp Siegfried in "Yip Yip" Yaphank, Long Island (postcard). The Camp Siegfried Special left Penn Station every Sunday at 8:00; tens of thousands of summer campers enjoyed Nazi salutes, Nazi rallies, and Nazi swimming. [more inside]
comment posted at 3:18 PM on Feb-21-07

The truth behind Calvin and Hobbes and this strip are the saddest things ever
comment posted at 12:40 PM on Feb-21-07

The Prisoners of YouTube is a pretty good longish article on all the reluctant internet video celebs, including Star Wars Kid, Afroninja, the Numa Numa Kid, and more. It's an interesting look at the downside of unwarranted attention and how a few people have turned these embarrassing moments in the sun to their advantage.
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comment posted at 10:10 PM on Feb-19-07

Kids today. They have no sense of shame. They have no sense of privacy. They are show-offs, fame whores, pornographic little loons who post their diaries, their phone numbers, their stupid poetry—for God’s sake, their dirty photos!—online. They have virtual friends instead of real ones. They talk in illiterate instant messages. They are interested only in attention—and yet they have zero attention span, flitting like hummingbirds from one virtual stage to another.
So goes the common wisdom but things in fact are more complex.
Say Everything
comment posted at 4:30 PM on Feb-17-07



Joe Rogan vs. Ned Holness What do you do when a famous comedian is stealing jokes? If you're Joe Rogan, you climb onstage, embarrass him in front of his audience and post the entire exchange to your MySpace page.
comment posted at 10:01 PM on Feb-14-07

Sammy Davis Jr—entertainer, photographer... camwhore?
comment posted at 3:07 PM on Feb-14-07

"Police in Mexico are investigating claims that rival drug gangs are using the internet as a new battle ground."
comment posted at 1:26 PM on Feb-14-07

Ron Paul Says it Best pithy and to the point
comment posted at 11:39 AM on Feb-14-07


Would you drive a pick-up truck with "Man Love Rules OK" across Alabama? (YouTube video) The presenters behind UK motoring/male-entertainment show Top Gear did. See what happens when they pulled into a "gas" station. More information here. Do you think the footage was manipulated?
comment posted at 12:17 PM on Feb-12-07

One more time? It looks like the case against Iran has begun publicly. Unfortunately, this seems eerily familiar. Unnamed officials with unverified claims are holding press conferences - on a Sunday, no less. Is this an attempt to explain our difficulties in Iraq or a prelude to retaliation with Iran? Worrisome, or not?
comment posted at 12:50 PM on Feb-11-07

Save Boston from the Mooninites! Be sure to play this with the sound on. via
comment posted at 5:43 PM on Feb-10-07

The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian, and has imposed itself on other states . That was a remark by Russian President Vladimir Putin at Munich Security Conference.
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News Filter Anna Nicole Smith collapses and dies suddenly.
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comment posted at 10:44 AM on Feb-17-07

US Army clears itself of abuse in Gitmo An Army officer who investigated possible abuse at Guantanamo Bay after some guards purportedly bragged about beating detainees found no evidence they mistreated the prisoners — although he did not interview any of the alleged victims.
comment posted at 1:11 PM on Feb-7-07

Effects of Agent Orange Following Jonson's Hiroshima post, a (prob. NSFW) collection of images of Vietnamese children born to parents exposed to Agent Orange. Via a Matt Taibbi article on Joe Klein.
comment posted at 11:18 AM on Feb-7-07

POEMS-FOR-ALL "Small poems in small booklets half the size of a business card. A project of the 24th street irregular press, which cranks them out to be taken by the handful and scattered like seeds by those who want to see poetry grow in a barren cultural landscape." (via Ward 6)
comment posted at 2:10 PM on Feb-5-07

Charlie Brooker hates Macs. They are computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
comment posted at 8:59 AM on Feb-5-07

The 120 Minute Archive -- an attempt to gather all of the playlists of MTV's now-defunct late-night alternative rock program which ran from 1986 to 2003. Along with the videos were loads of live performances. Sure, it went down in quality in its second half. But where else in the pre-Internet days of 1992 could small-town kids discover Tom Waits, Morrissey and Sonic Youth in a single sitting?
comment posted at 5:34 PM on Feb-3-07

Alex Gross
comment posted at 6:31 PM on Jan-31-07

Flickr pulls the trigger on the Old Skool. The Old Skool takes the bullet badly.
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comment posted at 4:13 PM on Feb-2-07

Rumors of The Police reuniting to perform at the 2007 Grammy Awards have been confirmed! I wonder which songs they will play?
comment posted at 6:09 PM on Jan-30-07

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