Friday, August 31, 2007

BAHHHHHH!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: That's...that's just not all that great.

posted by Ira.metafilter

67,000 miles per hour

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This post was deleted for the following reason: We had a post about Weisman's post-human Earth stuff pretty recently.

posted by four panels

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Cat Photography

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Self-links are bad. Banned.

posted by broadsurf

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Your Moment of Zen

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, this is pretty meh news-of-the-weird Rovewatch stuff, and now people are writing creepy fan fiction in the comments. Maybe not so much with this.

posted by designbot

I wish these were brains.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: been there, done that!

posted by wfrgms

Monday, August 27, 2007

Tale of the mechanical virus

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This post was deleted for the following reason: post is a bit meh, and brockstar is a contributor on the blog

posted by Brockstar

9/11 YOU'RE GOING TO DIE!!! 9/11 Terror! 9/11

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This post was deleted for the following reason: while I appreciate that you posted earlier in the day this post is still a bunch of OMG blockquotes even though linking to fairly decent articles but you really have to consider both the style and the substance around here.

posted by orthogonality

Sunday, August 26, 2007

How walkable is your neighborhood?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This double post is hella walkable.

posted by stbalbach

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Why Firefox Is Blocked

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Why Double Is Posted

posted by feelinglistless

Whatever your calling is ... you have to make sure there's a little more justice in the world when you leave it than when you found it

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This post was deleted for the following reason: jeez.

posted by jessamyn

From Soup to Nuts

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This post was deleted for the following reason: not so rgeat, also poster's request.

posted by Poolio

Friday, August 24, 2007

Yuo can has music

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This post was deleted for the following reason: oh god not an encore

posted by boo_radley

Castro dead?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, how about we not post speculation from a gossip column.

posted by pace Kitty

Gay or High School Musical?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, so Ned Horsey writes for radaronline. You did see the bit about self-links being a bannable offense, right?

posted by NedderLander

symbolic demotion

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This was like so five minutes four years ago, chuck.

posted by This was like so five minutes four years ago, chuck.

Thursday, August 23, 2007

The controversial art of Image Retargeting

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Try and dynamically resize this!

posted by aladfar

Smash!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Crash test doubles!

posted by serazin

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Gaming taken to a whole new level of geekery

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This post was deleted for the following reason: My god, it's spreading! Go ahead and follow up in the thread from yesterday, please.

posted by echolalia67

Someone got AskMe plates.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: My vanity plate says METATLK

posted by SirStan

Oh lord won't you buy me a decent marketing website

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This post was deleted for the following reason: you know, you explained to me why you thought this post as a good one, and I sort of decided to see what MeFi thought of it, but MeFi sort of thinks it's a pepsi blue not that great post. I'm sorry.

posted by Samuel Farrow

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

John Cage Rocks

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Congrats on your first double post, jennydiski. You are now officially One Of Us.

posted by jennydiski

Monday, August 20, 2007

Where can I get quality canvas tote bags? Recycled/organic cotton even better.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I think you were looking for Ask Metafilter.

posted by subpixel

Vick heads to the Doghouse

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This post was deleted for the following reason: See previous deleted thread for link to still-open previouser thread.

posted by b_thinky

Vick Accepts Deal

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This isn't really a big enough of a deal to merit a new post just for the update. Previous threads; the more recent is still open.

posted by sephira

best of the printed out web?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Cute. Kind of a terrible front page post, but cute.

posted by mattbucher

Sunday, August 19, 2007

What is Mesothelioma?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Looks like a stunt post made after reading about the metatalk thread

posted by The Confessor

Daddy Mojo Custom Cigar Box Guitars

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This post was deleted for the following reason: posted previously more or less

posted by hama7

Jaeger Bombs! Jaeger Bombs!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There're are a whole lot of humor videos on collegehumor; it should probably be pretty damn good to get posted, and this one's not being received very well.

posted by jason's_planet

This will be a continuing series. Because there's a LOT of insane fantasy artists.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Things I'll never tell my mom about my second job #17: today I deleted a post about furry/naga sex comics because the linked materail just wasn't very interesting or notable yiffery. There might be an interesting post to be made here, but just a link to Darin's site and an inchoate comic? It's pretty thin.

posted by metasonix

Saturday, August 18, 2007

New York City subway performers

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a link to a non-public playlist. Literally nothing to see here.

posted by crypticvalentine

Redundant design

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is one of those vestigial posts

posted by salishsea

Friday, August 17, 2007

They hate our freedoms

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This falls pretty short of post-worthy.

posted by CameraObscura

Wikid Game

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This post was deleted for the following reason: posted previously

posted by armoured-ant

The Jazz Man

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This post was deleted for the following reason: previous

posted by Mblue

This is my odyssey Everyone has one thing have to do before they die and this is mine

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This post was deleted for the following reason: posted previously

posted by Effigy2000

Thursday, August 16, 2007

The Saddest Thing I Own

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This post was deleted for the following reason: his is the saddest doublepost I've ever deleted.

posted by Atom Eyes

Fascism on Parade

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This post was deleted for the following reason: LOLFRINGEGROUPPRESSRELEASE? This is pretty thin post material, and the smarmy editorializing in the post doesn't help.

posted by Secret Life of Gravy

Torontofilter: What's going down?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Take it to Ask Metafilter, buddypants.

posted by anthill

Rock ya like a hurricane, bro!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: That's it? Scorpion in bananas in Bangor? Local news at its mehst.

posted by Mayor Curley

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Quagmire

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This post was deleted for the following reason: blarg. by which I mean single link political dorky newsfilter youtubery not really that great any more questions?

posted by eunoia

Michael Vick has to stop physically hurting my feelings and dashing my hopes

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This post was deleted for the following reason: proseviously

posted by XQUZYPHYR

I *still* support the 1872 Yellowstone Park Act.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: At 51 (!) previous links on the front page, I think we've pretty much got McSweeneys covered, at least on the "here's a reasonably funny but otherwise unexceptional single entry" angle. Also, SNARKY RANT PHAICE.

posted by Afroblanco

Cabela's has some weird stuff.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is just kind of going really badly. scratch, weird catalog stuff is amusing and whatnot but your presentation was kind a personal-bloggish and the every-second-comment post defense isn't a great idea.

posted by scratch

Hope and Despair in Divided Iraq

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This post was deleted for the following reason: please post this in the iraq thread already on the front page - this newsfilter article doesn't really seem to merit its own fpp

posted by Kwantsar

Feeding frenzy

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Somebody posted this last Caturday.

posted by MaryDellamorte

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Keanu? Where are you?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There's a 100% chance that this is a simulation of a previous post.

posted by nevercalm

Can someone with a Jewish background explain/justify this for me?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is not a good post for the front page of mefi. You might take it to AskMe, but there's a wealth of info on Israel/Palestine elsewhere on the web that you might check out first.

posted by Cosine

zoom zoom zoom

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This post was deleted for the following reason: pretty much done that

posted by vronsky

Cow Powered University

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this post is against the rules and you have abused our good graces here.

posted by johoney

Monday, August 13, 2007

What Games Can Humans Still Win?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: self-link, banned

posted by gelfmag

We have a really slick and smug government and the children are being neglected...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Lightweight (plus political drama?) news blip—there might be some fascinating background on this kid, but these aren't it—and the other story is a double.

posted by es_de_bah

Now with 100% pure jism!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: FREE HAMBURGLAR

posted by PeterMcDermott

Only George Bush can protect us from this threat!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Choose Your Own Deletion: (a) more like george w romero amirite? (b) eh. This is just a no-brainer editing joke, on a day where we've already got a boiling bushco post.

posted by Pope Guilty

Is what New York never liked about Rudy Giuliani exactly what the heartland loves?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: please take axe-grindy political posts elsewhere

posted by Postroad

Sunday, August 12, 2007

That's a whole lot of text-messaging, sonny.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: It's just an obvious non-starter news-of-the-weird blip. By itself, this isn't really a good post.

posted by metasonix

Science Tattoos

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is the flickr set of the pics from this recent post.

posted by Kattullus

Saturday, August 11, 2007

it is abomination

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a "look at these assholes" post with extra outrage thrown in for good measure.

posted by four panels

feat. G.W.B.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: meh? is this anything other than an LOLBush post with some weak sauce youtubery and maybe one decent half amusing video?

posted by EarBucket

Friday, August 10, 2007

Develop your Emotional Intelligence or Die Early

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm glad you're doing well, but this a really weird blog-entry thing to post to Metafilter.

posted by Chinese Jet Pilot

Chimpanzees are vengeful but not spiteful

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is an abstract to a paper not available without purchase so as a songle-link goes it's pretty "eh"

posted by overhauser

Bill O'Reilly vs. .....The Bourne Ultimatum?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Hey, you know? Linking to Bill while complaining about Bill is exactly and precisely what Bill wants people to do. Aside from that, this is just a frickin' link to a Bill O'Reilly op-ed. Bad post.

posted by DougieZero1982

Catholic Girls! Do you know how they go?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Fox affiliate drums up non-controversy crappy little shock segment? Why is this worth posting?

posted by SansPoint

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Barry who?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There's no reason not to discuss Sadaharu in the other thread.

posted by Silune

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

756

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a really really weak post. this is a newsfilter post. This is an announcement post. This is a one link post to a one sentence piece of news. there are many great ways to tell us about the long struggle that got barry bonds to where he is today or even a better link to better content. This is not that post. I am sorry.

posted by cklennon

Adding Injury to Injury

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This post was deleted for the following reason: "This thread would be a more impressive race to the bottom if the poster hadn't given it such a head start." seriously, it's hard enough to talk about sensitive topics without a totally loaded post abotu them. if someone else wants to try this story again, please feel free.

posted by emjaybee

Sea Leopards Hunting Penguins

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This post was deleted for the following reason: RAWR double post chomp chomp

posted by jonson

You've been totally 0wn3d by Michael Ignatieff!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: A ranty ironic-but-no-really huffpo editorial about someone else's bad essay? Where's the part of this post that would go anything but badly?

posted by geos

Through Being Cool

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This post was deleted for the following reason: A craigslist rant doesn't seem like particularly good front page material, especially one pretty much custom-built to start an Aussie/American flamewar.

posted by LinusMines

...A non-emergent emergency, it seems.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: SLBOE - thats sinlge link blog op-ed which isn't really mitigated by linking to the document that the progressive is fuming about. I know this wasn't your main intention, at least I hope not, but this is sort of a "look at these assholes" post on a topic that really good be given some sort of a more serious treatment.

posted by objet

Gimme Friction Baby

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Friction burn.

posted by MetaMonkey

Tonight on Dateline, this man will die.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Gosh darn summer reruns...

posted by bijou

Sunday, August 05, 2007

Danger: Jealous Computers

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This post was deleted for the following reason: at the heart of it, this is just a lame commercial for nokia

posted by lslutsky

Saturday, August 04, 2007

I Hate You All

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I would like to make a long post explaining why I am deleting this, but there isn't much to say except "sucks"

posted by mr_crash_davis

101 Simple Summer Meals

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This post was deleted for the following reason: we ate 47 of these meals tonight at my house because we read about it previously on metafilter.

posted by St Urbain's Horseman

Misrepresented?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: why is your post so bereft of explanation and so SLBOEfiltery. Please make a post to something neat you found on the web, not wikipedia articles and juxtaposed forum postings without giving us some idea of why you think it's so interesting. I can't even tell if this is a "look at these assholes" post or not

posted by puddnhead

Oh, boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I woke up at four in the morning, out of the blue, and I couldn't figure out why until, sipping some water and rubbing my bleary eyes, I glanced at the front page of Metafilter. "Ah," I thought to myself, "that explains it".

posted by sluglicker

Friday, August 03, 2007

marine mischief

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This post was deleted for the following reason: dos boot

posted by nickyskye

Vintage Polish Movie Posters Galleries

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This post was deleted for the following reason: New site, but we've done this a few times previously. Darned quadruples.

posted by Gamblor

Champ. Hero. Star.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: You were beaten to the incredibly well-choreographed punch.

posted by hindmost

Thursday, August 02, 2007

Full Books

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This seems to be nothing but a bad scrape of gutenberg.org

posted by hama7

No abortion without paternal consent

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This post was deleted for the following reason: See previously; until something actually happens, this is just a wacky (if disheartening) bluff.

posted by oncogenesis

to everything there is a season

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Man, people are flagging the heck out of this thing. And what's with the ugly Swiss blog with the assist? Weird choice of links.

posted by vronsky

T-Mo's Unlimited International Email: country links, caveats & notes

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'd say this post is in the wrong place, but I don't think there is a place for this kind of thing.

posted by allterrainbrain

I'll Need To See Your Hall Pass, Miss

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This might be notable if the wingnut bill ever gets anywhere near passing; for now it's just point-and-laugh/holler material. Kudos on the Ohio link roundup, though.

posted by bitter-girl.com

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Time to cancel your subscriptions...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: And already he's simulcasting on Metafilter!

posted by Ø