Sunday, November 30, 2008

"... the bank shall smart for it"

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

posted by up in the old hotel

Shoot Out at Toys R Us!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is pretty awful, but not good for a post and we had a Black Friday Goes Wrong post yestreday already. -- cortex

posted by teej

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Monster Cash

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This post was deleted for the following reason: pretty weak goofy song, video was pretty much pointless -- mathowie

posted by geos

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Out of Iraq. Check. Next...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a really weird ay to talk about what it seems like you want to talk about. -- jessamyn

posted by secondhand

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Does Obama read Metafilter?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a terrible post. The front page is not your political blog. -- cortex

posted by zerobyproxy

Thanksgiving Gifts for Lefties

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

posted by Bitter soylent

Change Marches Into the Hospital

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I don't think we need updates re: individual pages of change.org, it's kind of drilling down a bit far and a bit too frequently into a single site that's already been covered. -- cortex

posted by Glibpaxman

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Cystic Fibrosis Support = Racist?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is an outragefllter post. If you really care about this topic and issue feel free to post again tomorrow with a little less epicfail tag. thank you -- jessamyn

posted by scabrous

Exactitudes

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This post was deleted for the following reason: deletion reason pretty much writes itself here -- cortex

posted by divabat

RFIWTF????

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Single tiny wire article = bad post. "This really needs to be known" is rarely a good foundations for a post, but if something is worth covering it's worth putting some effort into. -- cortex

posted by cal71

Peter Schiff: Sometimes the bears are right and wrong

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This post was deleted for the following reason: We were just Schiffing it up a few days ago. Maybe add this to that thread as a comment? And yeah, the "Faux News" thing is a bit fark. -- cortex

posted by stbalbach

Really?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm not seeing the Pirates/Citigroup connection (except metaphorically of course) -- vacapinta

posted by ws

Monday, November 24, 2008

we will never accept the principal of forgiveness

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, registration-only content is pretty much a non-starter. -- cortex

posted by shothotbot

...always wondered how he played that.

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

posted by Parannoyed

We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases

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This post was deleted for the following reason: We've seen this turkey before -- vacapinta

posted by KokuRyu

Sunday, November 23, 2008

You Betcha I Want My Change Back

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This post was deleted for the following reason: ugh. -- jessamyn

posted by e-state 4.0

Bruce Lee plays ping pong with nunchuck

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Bruce Lee stand-in advertises Nokia phone? I'm not a hardcore OMG COMMERCIALISM guy, but this seems like it's pushing it awfully hard. -- cortex

posted by YoBananaBoy

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Another DJ installs Wordpress

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Wow, this is all kinds of self-link, Ian. -- cortex

posted by spigoat

Royal Fuck Up.

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

posted by gman

Friday, November 21, 2008

Is your money safe?

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

posted by up in the old hotel

Gratuitous use of the word 'Butt'

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Tiny news-of-the-weird reports really aren't good post material. -- cortex

posted by coachfortner

...a BAWN-guh!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I think this might be the fabled line in the sand, right here. -- cortex

posted by not_on_display

Gobble Gobble!!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: double your palin, double your something other than fun -- cortex

posted by spirit72

Zero Zip Zilch!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: snake eyes -- cortex

posted by schyler523

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Explorers discover Superman's Fortress of Solitude

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This post was deleted for the following reason: more like doub-el -- cortex

posted by Kickstart70

Line Rider

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Been covered a lot previously, though it's nice that they added undo. -- cortex

posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies

Americans were sold a bad bill of goods.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Surely there is coverage of the transition available that is better and more meaty than two short articles, and a better way to present it. -- cortex

posted by shockingbluamp

Bike Hero, SLYT

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

posted by krautland

A little to the left, I can't see it there.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I don't get it -- this is an ad for a magazine with a few links to porn magazines. Is there content here, or is it my ZOMG BLIND SPOT??? -- jessamyn

posted by spacewrench

Your racist neighbour

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This post was deleted for the following reason: that BNP thing is leakier than a swiss cheese submarine -- cortex

posted by awfurby

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

What?! The product in this ad isn't real? I'm shocked! SHOCKED!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: we covered the pomegranate viral ad already -- mathowie

posted by yiftach

Big Three CEOs Flew Private Jets to Plead for Public Funds (ABC News)

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is sort of a single link newsy "look at these assholes" post, yes? -- jessamyn

posted by bondgirl53001

Beatles Mystery Chord found with Math

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

posted by roaring beast

FAIL.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: there's an open TSA thread still on the front page which might be an okay place to put this in. -- jessamyn

posted by gman

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Most patronising website ever?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Posting somethng because it's bad and lacks content is not testing well with the metafilter demographic, apparently. -- cortex

posted by Megami

Modern Pirates

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Ye might append yer post as a comment to yon recent postie, arrr. -- cortex

posted by up in the old hotel

Monday, November 17, 2008

Why Citibank is losing money: incompetence

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

posted by echodolphin

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Letter from a black girl: I love you guys.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I don't think "possibly trolling black pro-white racist garners paradoxical responses on white power site" is interesting enough by itself to cross the let's-link-to-Stormfront threshold. -- cortex

posted by desjardins

Free sheets with bulk orders.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: you're reading a bit much into it, eh? -- mathowie

posted by christopherious

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Privacy no more!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Beaten by a few minutes on the first link; go ahead and add the second one as a comment to your predescessor. -- cortex

posted by shockingbluamp

Google's New Friend Connect Preview Release

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This post was deleted for the following reason: you just linked to your own blog. this is against the rules. you checked a box. I do not understnad what part of banned you do not understand. -- jessamyn -- mathowie

posted by vjlenin

Friday, November 14, 2008

"So Much of His Brain is Damaged"

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm sorry to hear about this, but links to google searches do not make for good posts. If you want to go through those results and find some actual good content and try again tomorrow, that'd be a-okay with us, but this isn't the way to do it right here. -- cortex

posted by eccnineten

I wont lie, it's despicable, cold, cruel and I feel like a serial killer.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: If it walks like an email forward and it quack like an email forward... -- cortex

posted by GuyZero

An alternative Christian view on the legality of abortion (in fact ALL political activism)?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: You posted about the religious rhetoric of a comment on a blog? And tagged on an editorial sting? This is not a good idea for a post. -- cortex

posted by spock

Prepare for the Shocker!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is kind of dumb on the face of it and has been pretty much covered here before, so, eh. -- cortex

posted by ph00dz

Sure-fire signs of redundancy

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Posting content from a pulbication you work for is a bannable offense. -- cortex

posted by mossiman

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Some assembly may be required

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This did get first-comment treatment just recently in this related thread, so I think we're essentially in double territory here. -- cortex

posted by Autarky

Real Estate Only Goes UP!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: down with this sort of thing. -- jessamyn

posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing

Female Bodybuilders

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There's probably a good way to make a post about female bodybuilders, but this really isn't it. -- cortex

posted by jim in austin

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

I wish...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: old future news -- cortex

posted by azarbayejani

Onkel Baracks Hütte

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This post was deleted for the following reason: news flash: racists still racist, Obama not yet president. -- jessamyn

posted by gman

Sexing up the monologue

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Using metafilter to advertise your show is the sort of thing that gets people banned. -- cortex

posted by Bueller77

I saw it on the T-V, it must be true

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This post was deleted for the following reason: great post but we saw it about two weeks ago. -- jessamyn

posted by Glibpaxman

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Did Y'See?

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

posted by mippy

There Was An Election Last Night?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: We may not need to cover the post-election in quite this much detail. -- cortex

posted by Rykey

Fuck Chuck Norris

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This isn't good enough to merit a new Chuck Norris post. -- vacapinta

posted by zardoz

Sunday, November 09, 2008

In case you were wondering

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Some browser-crashy badness in the primary link. -- cortex

posted by kliuless

Saturday, November 08, 2008

your most imaginative metaphor for the Bush years and Obama's election

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This doesn't really fit into metafilter anywhere -- mathowie

posted by Broadside Affront

"You also have to give the bench a lot of credit."

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I would have deleted this earlier but I was kissing my newspaper again. -- jessamyn

posted by mosk

Friday, November 07, 2008

Obama to make "public service" of our youth a "requirement."

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This post was deleted for the following reason: you have confused metafilter with a place where this sort of thing is approrpiate. Please do not grind your axe or editorialize over the top. Got something to share? Great, but this is not a good post for metafilter. -- jessamyn

posted by Jfalways

Obama on Flickr, 11-04-08

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, this is probably not really needing its own post. Nice pictures, though. -- cortex

posted by timeistight

Thursday, November 06, 2008

Israel and Obama's Change

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Deleting this is eating into my Fallout 3 time, dangit. -- cortex

posted by zouhair

Congratulations, you've got the job

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This post was deleted for the following reason: See very recent change.gov thread. -- cortex

posted by salishsea

Lame ducks are thought to have been bred from one strain of alcohol abusing ducks that drink and swim/or fly.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: A little less dada and a little more good links next time, please. -- cortex

posted by cjorgensen

Sen. Smith concedes

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This post was deleted for the following reason: If we're going to have a post about the implications of a near supermajority Democratic senate, it ought to have some meat to it on the subject; an oregonlive link as an excuse to talk is not really the way to go with this. -- cortex

posted by oneironaut

Bill Bishop on the Origins of Red and Blue America

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Sorry Andrew, no poptech links when you run poptech. -- mathowie

posted by Ridonkulous

This is Show Business

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Maybe add this to the Nader/Vidal thread three doors down? -- cortex

posted by sluglicker

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Change is coming, Iran.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: post this as a comment on one of the many existing threads already discussing it. -- mathowie

posted by Zambrano

Chalk one more up for the Dems

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm personally stoked about this too, but we really can't go crazy with the line-item election posts. -- cortex

posted by mcstayinskool

Windows 7 announced

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh, this seems like pretty thin early-gossip stuff. -- cortex

posted by dagosto

Prop. 8 lawsuit

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This post was deleted for the following reason: With another Prop 8 thread this morning, this should probably be added to that as a comment rather than doubling up. -- cortex

posted by nospecialfx

RIP Jimmy Carl Black

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This post was deleted for the following reason: He's already been honored by the coveted James Brown Medal of Duplication. -- cortex

posted by Guy_Inamonkeysuit

Tool to Stop spammer IP's

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This post was deleted for the following reason: fucking banned seo spammer. fucking banned. -- mathowie

posted by ardhindie

make it stop

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This post was deleted for the following reason: yeah, no. -- mathowie

posted by sporb

They're Already Drunk In Ireland

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This post was deleted for the following reason: a single blog post? kinda thin. -- mathowie

posted by hillabeans

Emmy The Great

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yes, I've been drinking too. -- cortex

posted by vronsky

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

but what if the worst happens...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: with results just beginning to come in, let's hold off until things get more official. -- mathowie

posted by chelseagirl

:(|)xXx })i({

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This post was deleted for the following reason: more like three minute fairy fail amirite (i am in fact rite) -- cortex

posted by tybeet

All hail Hypnotoad

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is definitely a violation of animal law. -- cortex

posted by grobstein

facebook

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a pretty bloggy/chatty writeup for an article by someone you sorta kinda know? I don't think this is a great idea. -- cortex

posted by nyxxxx

Other things today

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Wikipedia links don't really make for great post material. -- cortex

posted by csteelatgburg

Monday, November 03, 2008

A short show from TED

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

posted by chelegonian

Sunday, November 02, 2008

the area round the chicken's mouth turns blue/green, and i think that indicates that it's a transvestite chicken? i'm not sure.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: [a blobbish-shaped rabbit man points to you excitededly and leaps up and down; suddenly, the floor gives out beneath him and he falls through. There is a comical splatter. You investigate, to find that his entrails have spread into the shape of the word "double". A frog ribbits, and the rabbit man's severed head laughs childishly.] -- cortex

posted by 31d1

Snake caught eating cocky

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is way too thin for a metafilter post in the first place, but a post to an article for a site you list yourself as "online sub editor" for? That's a bannin'. -- cortex

posted by LiviaLive

Ah Ha

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

posted by mattoxic

Saturday, November 01, 2008

Sarah Palin Halloween costumes

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This post was deleted for the following reason: kinda self-linky, sorry -- mathowie

posted by anirvan

One radio call can change the world for McCain.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: there's already a nyuk nyuk Palin thread today. -- jessamyn

posted by waitingtoderail