A Birthday Party Gone Terribly Wrong

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

posted by Autarky

What's really behind the current decline in gas prices?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: yeah, a single link to a book club isn't quite enough meat for a post, sorry. -- mathowie

posted by PetBoogaloo

Assembler - fun flash game

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This was linked in the first comment of this other flash game post a few posts down. -- cortex

posted by ObscureReferenceMan

Eat cheap! Buy now! Offer expires after today! Operators are standing by!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: get rich slowly is a great blog but pimping coupons is not really what metafilter is for. -- jessamyn

posted by serazin

Boo.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: knock it off. -- jessamyn

posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

Cute costume overload

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is proof that something that'd could make an adorable photo can also make an incredibly dull video. -- cortex

posted by weapons-grade pandemonium

Mountain View and Hollywood want you and your friends to vote.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: these have been around for a while and mentioned on mefi before -- mathowie

posted by Toekneesan

October Surprise!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: yep, this sucks and is a non-story -- mathowie

posted by nushustu

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 08 Election

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This post was deleted for the following reason: eh, given it's a single link to youtube and a single link to The Onion, it's got to be something substantial and good to stay, and this is just mildly amusuing. -- mathowie

posted by bonobothegreat

Roll up roll up....your free regime de la terreur

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The image is unreadable. The magazine is not a good mefi post by itself either. -- vacapinta

posted by numberstation

Dating Psychos (Spo-dee-O-dee)

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is I think one of those situations where the sheer awfulness of the site outweighs the weird-underbelly interestingness of it, honestly. It's pretty vile stuff top to bottom. -- cortex

posted by unSane

Welcome to Morrowind. Bring guns.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is pretty darned thin. Do not make posts during a Mentats crash, plz. -- cortex

posted by Foci for Analysis

One man's poison is another woman's meat

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Just because it happened in Canada doesn't make it not a crappy attention-getting op-ed. -- cortex

posted by theManRoom

On the Rain-Slick Precipace of Darkness, Episode... Two-o-o-o

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Kind of agreeing with the critical sentiment here; a strong post specifically about Greenhouse (if no one has made one) could be totally fine, but a paragraph about Episode II above the fold in a sequel post is going overboard. -- cortex

posted by Caduceus

Palin Proliferation

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This post was deleted for the following reason: really, no. -- jessamyn

posted by flotson

Obama's Loss Traced To Matthew Haughey

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This post was deleted for the following reason: It's cute, but also pretty darned thin for a post. -- cortex

posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

Carmina MeFi

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, this should really be in Metatalk, not here. -- cortex

posted by joaquim

A series of syllogistic tubes

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is just a series of unrelated news links, none of which are strong enough to stand on their own. -- vacapinta

posted by twoleftfeet

A Huge Piece of Dried Tofu crushes the Hang Seng

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a real mess. Please try to aim for more than "here's some financial news article" -- if there's something specific and interesting here, aim for that and build your post around it. -- cortex

posted by Rafaelloello

I wish

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This post was deleted for the following reason: i wish matt would stop yelling at me and we could go get ice cream back like it was before mom left -- cortex

posted by tellurian

Geman police hunting for muppet

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is pretty thin. And I'm enrolling dersins in rehab, because he's been reading too many deletion reasons. -- cortex

posted by YurikoKinje

The perfect billboard

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Possibly the worst post of the month. What were you thinking? Did you think? Was there thought involved? -- cortex

posted by Zambrano

The gates of hell.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: WTFilter -- mathowie

posted by swift

Coltan and Congo mayhem

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This post was deleted for the following reason: seems discredited and out-of-date, plus all the fighting with everyone commenting on your post. -- mathowie

posted by Brian B.

End of an Era

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

posted by sluglicker

CollegeFilter: Hampshire College vs. St. John's College

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I went to Hampshire College and I delete this message! -- jessamyn

posted by zenja72

A near-complete, species-level phylogeny of extant mammals

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This post was deleted for the following reason: It's not a double post, it's just convergent evolution in action. -- cortex

posted by carter

Mr. Green Genes wishes you a Happy Caturday!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: CATURDAY DENIED -- cortex

posted by grapefruitmoon

Punchy but relaxed

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Smash Shack is bordering on interesting -- though there's not a whole lot of web content on that front, even -- but this post is not so great on the whole and OH GOD TEN MORE DAYS TEN MORE DAYS TEN MORE DAYS -- cortex

posted by twoleftfeet

From Russia with Love

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This post was deleted for the following reason: HELLO I BELIEVE YOU WERE LOOKING FOR WWW.PALINFILTER.COM -- cortex

posted by Xere

It used to all start at 5am

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Not a great first post -- mathowie

posted by lacol

Bring back transfats

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a dull corporate site for a cookie brand. Why on earth would you post this. -- cortex

posted by pmaxwell

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I think this is pushing pretty far into Everybody Who Wants To See This Will See It Anyway territory. -- cortex

posted by aheckler

Take it to PoliticalFilter

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I adore politicalfilter and wish more people would hang out there, but this is more metatalky than metafiltery. -- cortex

posted by theora55

Can She Tell a Donkey from an Elephant?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: oh for god's sake -- cortex

posted by Chinese Jet Pilot

Clothes and Politics

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There's not a whole lot of post here. Yay GAP? -- cortex

posted by femmme

Chicken or Maverick...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is sort of turning into minutia American election filter here and maybe needs to go into an open election post? -- jessamyn

posted by Toekneesan

Impossible Mission

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This post was deleted for the following reason: creepy racist fetish stuff, sorry. -- mathowie

posted by benzenedream

Powerful, quiet photos of John McCain

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This post was deleted for the following reason: So the normal thing to do if you want to call something out or make a point is to go ahead and start a metatalk thread. Making a stunt post not among the better ideas out there. -- cortex

posted by davidmsc

My head hurts

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There doesn't seem to be any post here. A collection of unnoteworthy corporate stuff is not interesting just because of a common word; where there's the there? -- cortex

posted by tallthinone

Orson Scott Card on the American Media and the Bush derangement syndrome.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: "Orson Scott Card holds forth!" threads tend to go pretty damn badly around here, and a read through this op-ed suggests this isn't going to be the exception to that rule. -- cortex

posted by fox_terrier_guy

Colin who?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is not a good metafilter post. -- vacapinta

posted by gman

Lee Atwater's Political Legacy

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Dude, you're the senior producer for Word of Mouth. This is extremely not okay. -- cortex

posted by radiofreewalsh

Buying From China

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a truly terrible and sketch post for MeFi. -- jessamyn

posted by ciaciagi

"Let's face it, when we feel victimized we give away our power to whomever or whatever we blame -- ironically giving power to politicians who we'd nev

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Two weeks left. Avoiding going to far into HuffingtonFilter is going to have to be part of our coping. -- cortex

posted by iamkimiam

Dude, let's change the code for "returned item"...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is not a good metafilter post. -- cortex

posted by Jade5454

Creationist meets atheists: FIGHT

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This post was deleted for the following reason: meh, there's already an atheist post a couple threads down, and this is just front pages for various groups with one blog post recap of an event. -- mathowie

posted by mippy

USAF C-32 Lands

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This seems awfully thin. -- cortex

posted by augustweed

The Things He Carried - Jeffrey Goldberg - The Atlantic

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to step out of the line. -- cortex

posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

A Maverick And A Gentleman

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This post was deleted for the following reason: On a bad day, this would be a really good way to get banned. -- cortex

posted by jason's_planet

Project Censored as censors?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Metafilter is not an editorial stump, and (a) this post is selling itself pretty hard and (b) you're moderating your own thread way too aggressively. There may be a way to make a good post about this, but this isn't it. -- cortex

posted by internationalfeel

Gaming the Vote

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Previously -- vacapinta

posted by Student of Man

Chicago Tribune endorses Barack Obama

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This post was deleted for the following reason: mojohand: wrong for Tribune posts, wrong for America. I endorsed this message, and I'm -- cortex

posted by mojohand

I can see the punchlines from my house!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: did you not search? -- jessamyn

posted by markkraft

Al Smith Dinner 2008

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This post was deleted for the following reason: It was a close match, but I'm awarding it to the other post on points. Good fight, gentlemen. -- cortex

posted by XQUZYPHYR

Steam Punk Star Wars

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

posted by Class Goat

November 5, 2008

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Ugh, please try harder. -- cortex

posted by plexi

Google Getting Hijacked

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This post was deleted for the following reason: If this is a post worth making, there's got to be a way to do it without linking to stuff that's suffering from a redirects hijack. -- cortex

posted by lubujackson

Blossom Goodchild was wrong. It was a shock.l. (SLYT)

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Probably better inside the current open post -- vacapinta

posted by shockingbluamp

Swept Away

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Desperately Seeking Deletin' -- cortex

posted by fearfulsymmetry

Crawling Chaos

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This post was deleted for the following reason: something something wasted potential something -- cortex

posted by Artw

Mirror, mirror, on the wall

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Done before. -- cortex

posted by simplesharps

GroomingFilter

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

posted by 75631

Who are the Open Source Content Management System (CMS) market leaders in 2008?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Wow are you ever banned. -- cortex -- jessamyn

posted by mg1313

What do I do with these filled in tree stumps

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is in the wrong place -- jessamyn

posted by clearlynuts

Massive Die-off Conspiracy Filter?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The cabal threatened to take away my macbook if I didn't delete this weird lol?conspiracy post. -- cortex

posted by schyler523

The Philadelphia Flyers do not approve of this message

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is going badly and is a sort of thin newsfilter electionfilterupdatefilter post. -- jessamyn

posted by Reggie452

http://www.aluka.org

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This was a problem the first time you did it, too. Do not do this. -- cortex

posted by Taksi Putra

Matt Haughey for President!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: no way dude Matt's an arab terrorist and shit -- cortex

posted by feelinglistless

Abandon Ship!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: pretty thin local news post. maybe ok if you rounded up a handful of other industries affected by the wall st. slippage -- mathowie

posted by Pseudology

John McCain's links to terrorism

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This post was deleted for the following reason: please do not do this here, thank you. If there is really worthwhile stuff to talk about re: MCCain please obviate the spittle from lips before posting [i.e. less editorial, more awesom, thank you] -- jessamyn

posted by shetterly

Next week, zero

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This seems like basically a market snapshot, which is not trying very hard. Maybe try and figure out a more interesting way to approach this? -- cortex

posted by delmoi

http://www.aluka.org/

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This post was deleted for the following reason: You need to slow down a bit when you're thinking about posting, maybe. -- cortex

posted by Taksi Putra

Uncomfortably Totalitarian Commercials

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This post was deleted for the following reason: oh migs, it is so wonderful to see you here again. that said, this is sort of an over-the-top OMG sort of note to come back on and perhaps you'd prefer a few drinks over in metatalk instead? -- jessamyn

posted by MiguelCardoso

Palin Around..

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This post was deleted for the following reason: cortex is pallin' around with deletionists (or: this is not a very good metafilter post, and there are a few different places you could add this as a comment already) -- cortex

posted by pwedza

Feast your eyes on hundreds of stunning images in amazing technicolor! Click on...

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

posted by Taksi Putra

It's what plants crave

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This post was deleted for the following reason: previously -- jessamyn

posted by klangklangston

The People All Call Her Alaska

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This post was deleted for the following reason: we can't really do a Palin post per day here. Possibly add this to one of the many many Palin threads already opened? -- jessamyn

posted by sloweducation

The Angry Police Captain.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: um, yeah, kinda just got yourself banned right there -- mathowie

posted by beaucoupkevin

Velocirapture...clever girl...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: there must be an open Palin thread this can go in, no? -- jessamyn

posted by Queen of Spreadable Fats

Tips and Tricks.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: huh, I guess we did do that before -- mathowie

posted by lunit

Slick Willie and the Subprimes

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yes, we've seen this op-ed from a week ago before. -- mathowie

posted by ZenMasterThis

Obama attack video

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is not a great post for metafilter - I don't think we were wondering this. -- jessamyn

posted by Shanachie

McCain-Palin Myths

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This post was deleted for the following reason: pretty thin political post we've seen dozens of times before -- mathowie

posted by sloweducation

Gone baby gone

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm not sure a news-of-the-weird-plex is actually greater than the sum of the parts, and judging by the flag queue neither are a bunch of other people. -- cortex

posted by swift

Brokeresurection

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Open thread on congressional bailout hooah. -- cortex

posted by jaduncan

Green Party Candidate Claims 5,000 Prisoners Executed

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This post was deleted for the following reason: As is, this is really really thin. Maybe a post if some substantial coverage comes out of this? -- cortex

posted by VicNebulous

A master of the fine art of the glittering generality.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Seven minutes too late. -- cortex

posted by P.o.B.

We Deserve It Dividend

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This post was deleted for the following reason: A single link to Snopes is pretty much never going to be a good post. -- cortex

posted by Man with Lantern

Sarah Palin's lover revealed

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This post was deleted for the following reason: These are two things that have been going around for a while now, and not exactly well done in its own right besides. -- cortex

posted by Postroad

a little mouse

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a bit too subtle for banned books week, some background and other info would have helped. -- mathowie

posted by February28

ACKing Networking

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Ack. The main link does indeed look like a bit of (however unintentional) piracy, and without it there's not really so much of a post here. Maybe someone can try this again at some point with a focus on some in-the-clear resources? -- cortex

posted by sp160n

David Byrne is a genius

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This post was deleted for the following reason: hate to burn down the house, but you're on the road to nowhere. -- mathowie

posted by Mr_Zero