tonight on dateline this man will die

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This post was deleted for the following reason: tonight on doublefilter this post will yoink -- cortex

posted by AceRock

Mild / Moderate earthquake near SF

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Once again, a small/moderate quake in CA that didn't cause any particular ruckus isn't FPP material. If something big happens, post about it then. -- cortex

posted by TeatimeGrommit

5.6

Deleted thread: 66059

This post was deleted for the following reason: It sounds like this wasn't really that big of a deal. In related news, rainstorms in Portland and a stiff wind in Chicago. -- cortex

posted by sushiwiththejury

How to Read the Bible

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This post was deleted for the following reason: If you're main link is something that you had to stick on SendSpace just so it would be available, you're not really posting something on the web. -- cortex

posted by St Urbain's Horseman

The Last Supper

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This post was deleted for the following reason: yes, yes it can. -- jessamyn

posted by Steven C. Den Beste

Treason of the Highest Order!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: WHAM -- cortex

posted by augustweed

Elatia interviews Paul K

Deleted thread: 66003

This post was deleted for the following reason: peacay is awesome, but that thread is still totally open. -- cortex

posted by CCBC

Eating out with Ann Coulter

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This post was deleted for the following reason: single link huffpo OMG filter. SLHPOMGF for future reference -- jessamyn

posted by thefreek

This is not a basketball game.

Deleted thread: 65999

This post was deleted for the following reason: and melorama laterals to tdstone and IT'S AN FPP! -- cortex

posted by melorama

Maddox strikes again...

Deleted thread: 65996

This post was deleted for the following reason: That maddox iPhone post a while back was the exeception that proves the rule, which, to be clear, is pretty much "okay we are aware that maddox has a website please stop posting every damn thing he writes". -- cortex

posted by c:\awesome

now

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This post was deleted for the following reason: omg it's a glitch in the matrix -- cortex

posted by four panels

At Least They Can Save Themselves

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This post was deleted for the following reason: HECK. OF. A. JOB?! -- cortex

posted by Mikey-San

X-COM!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Understand that I love X-Com with a burning, unending passion, more deeply than most people love their pets and/or children: we've had links to Home of the Underdogs many times (here's an older canonical example) and, your "now available" notwithstanding, there doesn't seem to be anything new here. I'd love to see a great X-Com post, but this isn't the way to do it. -- cortex

posted by Steven C. Den Beste

Poor Microsoft - only 4.3 billion and profit this quarter!

Deleted thread: 65907

This post was deleted for the following reason: A couple of news blips and a link to Microsoft's homepage? What's the interesting thing worth posting here? It feels like a generic MS conversation starter. -- cortex

posted by LarryGDVD

=GoogleLookup("entity"; "attribute")

Deleted thread: 65901

This post was deleted for the following reason: Under the circumstances, we probably don't need a new post for this. -- cortex

posted by allkindsoftime

Only YOU can prevent forest fires

Deleted thread: 65891

This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a hand-waving OMGFilter post about something that has affected a lot of people in pretty bad ways, its a little early to bring out the conspiracy angles and this particular post is light on facts and heavy on the verbage. It might be better on your own blog or a group blog that appreciates a good raised eyebrow approach to current events. -- jessamyn

posted by sluglicker

Researchers Knock Out HIV

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Seems like this is mixing sensationalism with misleadingness in a pretty touchy context. Probably not a good plan for this post. -- cortex

posted by Uther Bentrazor

Will HG Wells' Prediction Come True?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'd say keep me up-to-date on that whole perkiness issue, but this is really pretty much a double. -- cortex

posted by Azaadistani

Government Permission to be Required for Flight.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This has pretty much been covered previously and better. -- cortex

posted by darth_tedious

Whither Apple?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: um, two of your links are the same, otherwise it's a post to kottke's blog post and a stock price why? it's not that this is a bad topic, just an odd way of phrasing it along with some tepid links. -- jessamyn

posted by Chrysostom

Mama Warbucks

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is an axegrindy HC post. I know it's election time and all, but it's too early for "your favorite candidate sucks" posts and if you have issues with the way other political posts have been handled, it would be better to take those to Metatalk or your own blog. -- jessamyn

posted by saulgoodman

Dex Davis: Child of God

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Man, this is more kind of not very good than fabulously bad. -- cortex

posted by Rykey

This is a pretty gnarly cat (mildly NSFW)

Deleted thread: 65805

This post was deleted for the following reason: This double deletion reason left intentionally unfunny to spite Divine_Wino. -- cortex

posted by Divine_Wino

oink is no more

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This post was deleted for the following reason: hamstrung -- cortex

posted by ashbury

Dumbledore's gay

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This post was deleted for the following reason: dang ol' heck when are we gonna quit it with these gay politician posts by gum -- cortex

posted by Poagao

Paint the town red

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Great Scott, Marty! -- cortex

posted by Skyanth

QSL cards

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This post was deleted for the following reason: My favorite is the doublekiller. -- cortex

posted by damn dirty ape

Irish whiskey. The stick. A good hard case. And women.

Deleted thread: 65727

This post was deleted for the following reason: There's a fair volume of previous discussion of the practice of posting links to The Onion, with which you may or may not be familiar but which leans pretty solidly toward the Don't camp. On the other hand, there's a post discussing The Onion just down the page a little. -- cortex

posted by four panels

Right Brain / Left Brain

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This post was deleted for the following reason: GIRL KEEPS ON SPINNING SPINNING / INTO THE DOOOUBLLLLLEE -- cortex

posted by bluedaniel

Dumbledore was gay.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: posted before -- mathowie

posted by Yakuman

Bush: Iranian Bomb Means World War III

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This post was deleted for the following reason: A thin newsfilter link as the premise for a three paragraph statement of personal opinion is pretty much exactly the wrong way to make a post to Metafilter. -- cortex

posted by richards1052

McMurder Simulator

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This post was deleted for the following reason: mcdouble -- cortex

posted by jcterminal

Domain Name Recycling

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The things you linked to are, by definition, contentless crap. That kind of undermines the whole "linking to something interesting" idea. Also, the mystery of hobbitgolf revealed. -- cortex

posted by zekinskia

Tigers will do anything for a tuna fish sandwich

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This post was deleted for the following reason: pretty cool archive of every old strip, but it's been posted several times before in other forms. -- mathowie

posted by dersins

Keep it to yourself...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: there is already a post about iraq today and this post is not adding much new besides newsish updates. It's tragic and terrible but a post to a newsblog every 12 hours won't fix it. -- jessamyn

posted by Balisong

Out of Africa

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I am inherently gloomy about this double's prospects. -- cortex

posted by four panels

Cause and Effect

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This post was deleted for the following reason: when your "previously" link goes to a post from yesterday, that shoudl give you a good idea where to put your links. -- jessamyn

posted by Avenger

My Kid Could Paint That, Or Maybe She Couldn't

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Not really clear why this needs another post so soon. -- cortex

posted by FeldBum

Having your cake... and admiring it, too.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: THIS IS A CAKE SHAPED LIKE POST 58282 -- cortex

posted by crossoverman

Duties We dont need no stinking duties

Deleted thread: 65616

This post was deleted for the following reason: This doesn't really seem like Big News to the point that it's worth a random newsfilter post. -- cortex

posted by thedailygrowl

Good morning Americans this is your WAKE UP CALL

Deleted thread: 65610

This post was deleted for the following reason: pointing and laughing at the mentally ill people is sort of tired and not a particularly awesome post for metafilter -- jessamyn

posted by Mayor Curley

'The Digital Dump'

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Stump-job for some film's site-and-trailer, replete with over-the-top guilty-conscience editorializing? Not a good way to make a post. The link to your own blog that isn't visible because you forgot to put link text into it is also not okay. -- cortex

posted by lamarguerite

Röckdöts

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This post was deleted for the following reason: whole umlautta shakin' goin' on -- cortex

posted by Kattullus

Don't try this at home kids

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Mountain Two -- cortex

posted by mock

Religion and morality

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a pretty crappy article on what sounds like a pretty crappy study, and the subject matter seems likely to kind of piss people off. I appreciate the disclosure, arcticwoman, but I think in this case your emphatic non-involvement with the prof. in question might have motivated you to post something not very good. -- cortex

posted by arcticwoman

Ted Talks (a lot)

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This post was deleted for the following reason: We've had a lot of links to TED before, including a general here-they-are post. Probably don't need a brand new one. -- cortex

posted by jourman2

I was robbed by two men.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: and left and two and three and four -- cortex

posted by Blazecock Pileon

Describer-In-Chief

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This post was deleted for the following reason: It's just a clip from The Daily Show? -- cortex

posted by homunculus

Blast kills bomb disposal expert

Deleted thread: 65504

This post was deleted for the following reason: please keep editorializing out of FPPs, particularly newsfilterish FPPs. -- jessamyn

posted by james_cpi

Some are going to get hot under the collar

Deleted thread: 65495

This post was deleted for the following reason: blacklite wins Posting About Al Gore Winning Nobel Peace Prize Prize. Skeptic wins Being A Good Sport About blacklite Winning Gore Post Prize Prize Prize. And cortex wins Obnoxious Contrived Excuse to String Together 'Prize Prize Prize' Prize. -- cortex

posted by Skeptic

Doris Lessing wins the Nobel Prize

Deleted thread: 65489

This post was deleted for the following reason: Nobel Prize for Doublature -- cortex

posted by MrMerlot

Destructively Delicious

Deleted thread: 65484

This post was deleted for the following reason: Larry, a link to an Amazon page for some book is not a good Metafilter post, no matter how good the book is, and people here are going to be inclined to think you're shilling or hoping for referrer cash. -- cortex

posted by LarryGDVD

No, it's not like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife.

Deleted thread: 65465

This post was deleted for the following reason: the reason this was deleted at the poster's request last time is because everyone in the thread was sort of like "eh" and this one has some extra editorializing in there for good measure. -- jessamyn

posted by fuse theorem

Language Not Safe for Fucking Work

Deleted thread: 65461

This post was deleted for the following reason: as much as this is an awesome post, it is a recent double - post some of these links in the original thread if you haven't already? -- jessamyn

posted by psmealey

Does Your Blog Suck?

Deleted thread: 65457

This post was deleted for the following reason: Self-link speculation notwithstanding, some SEO dude's linkbait list post is not great front page material. -- cortex

posted by fe2dell

The future of music distribution

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Okay, computor. -- cortex

posted by bobbyelliott

Marketing on e-bay; effective or deceptive

Deleted thread: 65441

This post was deleted for the following reason: Dude working for musicnation and brazenly linking to musicnation should probably avoid posing questions about deceptive marketing. -- cortex

posted by DamnYouSerpico

Activism = Doing Nothing

Deleted thread: 65432

This post was deleted for the following reason: axe-grindy GYOB material, please create a more substantive post, wikipedia links aren't really good mefi posts. -- jessamyn

posted by rougy

I want to play with you

Deleted thread: 65423

This post was deleted for the following reason: When you're backlinking a whole string of recent posts and presenting it as Yet Another, I think we've pretty much worn out the Republican Gay Sex Sting news thing. -- cortex

posted by Kickstart70

I can haz LOLXTIANS, rite?

Deleted thread: 65419

This post was deleted for the following reason: i made you a double but i deleeted it -- cortex

posted by louche mustachio

a candidate to support: let's help Shelley

Deleted thread: 65415

This post was deleted for the following reason: With all due to respect to mixscarlet and Postroad respectively, we've linked her blog before and this is kind of uncomfortably Vote For Pedro territory. -- cortex

posted by Postroad

Dick Cheney Changed His Mind

Deleted thread: 65412

This post was deleted for the following reason: Three year old gotcha! newsfilter is really not a good idea for a post. -- cortex

posted by Dead Man

Party like it's 1929

Deleted thread: 65411

This post was deleted for the following reason: Dobles Americanos -- cortex

posted by bonehead

Ooh girl, you rock my worl(d).

Deleted thread: 65404

This post was deleted for the following reason: poster's request -- cortex

posted by Afroblanco

Killing Joke - the four horsemen of the post-punk-rock apocalypse

Deleted thread: 65363

This post was deleted for the following reason: Why did you not post all this in the very recent, very relevant KJ thread of which you are clearly already aware? -- cortex

posted by the_very_hungry_caterpillar

Victor Davis Hanson - Observations about the War

Deleted thread: 65328

This post was deleted for the following reason: Single link op ed screed on a subject we covered just a few days ago -- mathowie

posted by rockhopper

TN man pulls a Budd Dwyer

Deleted thread: 65296

This post was deleted for the following reason: This is kind of hard to see as anything other than rubbernecking, it's flagged to shit, and subthread of LOLSUICIDE/LOLDWYER is pretty much sealing the deal. -- cortex

posted by sneakin

Let's all go to the Fire Dances

Deleted thread: 65294

This post was deleted for the following reason: I know you put a lot of work into this, psmealey, but when you end up reworking your post as an edit of an existing wikipedia article, you've wandered into kind of weird, not-cool territory. You might want to consider doing this again later on with your original research + a link to wikipedia as your post content, but this is pretty crazy, bad-precedent stuff as is. -- cortex

posted by psmealey

Nan Goldin's Controversial 'Klara And Edda Belly Dancing' Photograph

Deleted thread: 65277

This post was deleted for the following reason: Without some much better context for what we're clicking on and why, this seems like a pretty bad idea for a post. -- cortex

posted by fe2dell

It bears repeating.

Deleted thread: 65266

This post was deleted for the following reason: If you're posting about something that has been posted about a lot before, and you know it, and you're just doing it anyway because It's Really Important, you are not using mefi correctly. -- cortex

posted by allkindsoftime

Are we just sick of each other?

Deleted thread: 65252

This post was deleted for the following reason: Okay, you appear to have lead off this post with a self-link. I'm not sure this relationship is going to work out. -- cortex

posted by PeteNicely

Leave The Grocery Shopping to the Women

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This post was deleted for the following reason: What in the hell? -- cortex

posted by marcellot

Shredding!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: well-shrod ground -- cortex

posted by puke & cry

New Rule

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This post was deleted for the following reason: These people aren't even interesting-crazy, they're just annoying-crazy. Meh. -- cortex

posted by augustweed

Muslims Hate Boobies, and other stories of West meets Allah

Deleted thread: 65216

This post was deleted for the following reason: The front page shouldn't really be used as a roundtable like this; this pretty much feels like Hey, Let's Talk About Muslims wrapped up in some all-over-the-board links. (Including, yet again, 12angrymen -- I know you like that blog, gandledorf, but it shouldn't come up every damn time.) -- cortex

posted by gandledorf

To look for america

Deleted thread: 65205

This post was deleted for the following reason: this is not amazing it's just "laugh at the person who doesn't speak english well" and for single link youtube that's not really cutting it. -- jessamyn

posted by Tlogmer

Shine on and on and on and on and...

Deleted thread: 65195

This post was deleted for the following reason: actually no. feel free to take up your radiohead discontent in metatalk about this but seriously don't do this here. -- jessamyn

posted by schlaager