Wednesday, December 31, 2008

What a horrible way to get caught.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Go Jennifer, but this is pretty lowbrow news-of-the-weird stuff for a post. -- cortex

posted by SneakyArab

Terminally Chillin

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I wish Patrick the best, but it appears you're basically promoting your friend's project here and that is not okay. -- cortex

posted by maltorrance

Ahmedinajad sure does have tiny eyes

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I see what you're discussing in the thread, and you can have my double deletions when you pry them from my cold, dead hands. -- cortex

posted by parmanparman

We Come In Peace

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This post was deleted for the following reason: seen it -- cortex

posted by chuckdarwin

Tentacle Grape!

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

posted by Class Goat

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Natures Amazing Color - What Blue Means

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Gee whiz, someone named suman is linking this appropriating-other-people's-photos-without-credit blog all over the damn place. -- cortex

posted by suman

You have not seen this version of "Single Ladies"

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is pretty much the same as last month's version though thank you, I can never get enough rump-shaking personally. -- jessamyn

posted by tumbleweedjack

Monday, December 29, 2008

But I don't live in a movie theater!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I think you were aiming for Ask Mefi. -- cortex

posted by dancinglamb

Wu-Tang Clan Geneaology Revealed

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Area Mefite Unaware Just How Often Onion Linked Previously, Lack Of Awareness Not Held Against Him -- cortex

posted by jon_hansen

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Clean Coal Kills!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: good links but we covered this yesterday -- mathowie

posted by CCBC

Saturday, December 27, 2008

A Tent Of Gold

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Crappy writeup of non-story, meh. -- cortex

posted by The Whelk

If only I'd known.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, there's not really any post here, nice as the story is. -- cortex

posted by vapidave

Friday, December 26, 2008

Because I care ...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: W T F -- cortex

posted by DirtyCreature

Cold, so Cold...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: crap on an infomercial with links to fake news sites? meh. -- mathowie

posted by svenvog

Did Jane skip a lot of breakfests in her youth?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Source on this is sufficiently lacking in real meat that it's hard to see this turning into anything other than a generic argument about statistics and social science research. News-of-the-weird blips without context usually aren't great posts. -- cortex

posted by Foci for Analysis

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Elvis Presley Painting with Cheese Puffs on Velvet - Cheesy Art in Cheetos

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This post was deleted for the following reason: it's totally unclear whether this is a self-link or just a sketch skectch sketchy seeming 5 am (EST) MeFi post but I think we're leaning towards better safe than sorry today. -- jessamyn

posted by nitroy2k

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Noah Grey - saying "Goodbye"?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is more of a metatalk kind of post, and I think it's ok for someone to want to live their life offline (and not have it mean suicide) -- mathowie

posted by mechanima

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Anti-Catholicism

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This post was deleted for the following reason: gave it a chance to not become "another fuck-the-Pope trainwreck" but it didn't rally. Please don't do this here. You are more than welcome to get your own blog. Thanks. -- jessamyn

posted by jason's_planet

Monday, December 22, 2008

credentials

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Graham's been linked a number of times before, so another random essay without some compelling "why" behind it seems pretty thin as post material goes. -- cortex

posted by Pants!

Instant Tumbleweed

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Self-link? Banned. -- cortex

posted by wibbler

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Party For Change.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: oh god it's on repeat -- cortex

posted by gman

A cure for Cancer... or false hope?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: We had a post about Kanzius earlier this year. -- cortex

posted by flipyourwig

Marijuana stash in school

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This post was deleted for the following reason: AP wire war/drug news of the snuh blip? -- cortex

posted by longsleeves

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Sheep.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: burger milgram redux redux -- cortex

posted by gman

Billy Anderson has a mystery illness

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Self-links are a bannable offense. -- cortex

posted by dominica

A World Enslaved

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This post was deleted for the following reason: And don't even get me started about how many metafilter posts about this there are compared to a thousand years ago. -- cortex

posted by chunking express

Friday, December 19, 2008

Cool Christmas Greeting Creator

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This post was deleted for the following reason: you're an SEO guy that posted this everywhere, and you posted press releases for it. banned, asshole. -- mathowie

posted by jalvini

Perfect Popcorn by Alton Brown

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Popcorn is pretty good stuff, but I think Food Network, Alton Brown, and Good Eats are pretty damned mainstream and this makes more sense as a personal blog post than as something worth posting on the front page of mefi. -- cortex

posted by zzazazz

Who throws a shoe... really?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: really there's an open post about the shoe thing. -- jessamyn

posted by Mastercheddaar

Is it Flash Friday, yet?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: One of these days, someone's gonna make a really awesome, post-worthy flash game about throwing shoes at heads of state, but this one isn't it anymore than that other one earlier was. -- cortex

posted by Devils Rancher

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Maybe you could do a better job?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a little light for a FPP about a topic that has a big open thread. -- jessamyn

posted by QueerAngel28

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sugarplums?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Don't post links to anything you wrote. Pretty basic and hard-set rule -- mathowie

posted by CheeseburgerBrown

Can I guess your birthday?

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

posted by hallowdmachine

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Punking Google Street View

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This post was deleted for the following reason: i can see my house from here -- cortex

posted by mkultra

I Thought Naming Your Kid Apple Was A Bad Idea...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: You know who else a kid who didn't get cake from that store was named after... -- cortex

posted by Del Far

Monday, December 15, 2008

Yogurt Box Cat

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Please phrase your doubles in the form of a question. -- cortex

posted by dead cousin ted

Elluminate vs. Adobe Connect

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This post was deleted for the following reason: please repost this in AskMe Mom, thanks. -- jessamyn

posted by Mom

I can go all the way with you.

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

posted by whatjusthappened

Reading Microsoft .msg Files on a Mac

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This belongs in Ask MetaFilter. -- pb

posted by Coherence Panda

Big Things for Love

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This has been posted before, last year when it was new. -- mathowie

posted by nfg

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Cake Nouveau

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Double with a side of broken, looks like. -- cortex

posted by hortense

God help us.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Over the top presentation of non-story regarding song we've talked about at ridiculous length previously, with bonus "everybody go buy this thing" exhortation: not really a good post. -- cortex

posted by the_very_hungry_caterpillar

Saturday, December 13, 2008

A new site about green building

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Self-link by SEO marketer for the site, banned -- mathowie

posted by pubblicitae

Friday, December 12, 2008

Ken Block Gymhkhana Practice

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

posted by mattoxic

A Disturbing Trend

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I have the only job in the world that puts a person in the position where they're required by professional obligation to utter this sentence: "These men-playing-with-Barbie sex videos are more just gross than interesting, and they're not being received well." -- cortex

posted by martinc6

This obvious of a props mistake in a major motion film?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This isn't appropriate for MetaFilter. -- pb

posted by metricfan

Thursday, December 11, 2008

The 2008 URLIES

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This post was deleted for the following reason: disclaimer: including a disclaimer that you're linking to your workplace doens't absolve you from the self-linky rule. Remember that box you checked??? -- jessamyn -- jessamyn

posted by interweber

Odetta passed away Tuesday

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

posted by einer

Rice ready, not road ready.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Car dealership huckster turns out to be an asshole? This is pretty weak sauce. -- cortex

posted by gman

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Zimbabwe-style hyperinflation

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a messy crypitc post to one of those blogs that steals images and smushes them all together with limited context which you have also failed to provide making it an overall bad post for metafilter. -- jessamyn

posted by Rafaelloello

How to Buy Your Girlfriend the Perfect Holiday Gift

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Hey, you're the VP of Digital Marketing at a company that does marketing for Spike, and this crappy post features a video from Spike. That's such a weird coincidence. -- cortex

posted by businessninja

Best, Whirst Flic Hevher

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Drink plenty of water and take a couple aspirin. -- cortex

posted by jimahon

Monday, December 08, 2008

Sean Hannity Pwned.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: single link blog op ed filter. -- jessamyn

posted by tatnasty

In Some Ways, Worse Than Bombing

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The previous post covered this really well and the only thing new here is an op-ed. This is a bit more than semi-double, and the thread's kind of tanking in the mean time. -- cortex

posted by aliceinreality

Sunday, December 07, 2008

Hilarious Bohemian Rhapsody Failure

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

posted by rageagainsttherobots

Friday, December 05, 2008

E = dance off

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This post was deleted for the following reason: *pirouettes* *mimes typing up a post* *pops, locks* -- cortex

posted by Brandon Blatcher

Cool Fashion Photos

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This post was deleted for the following reason: SEO spammer working for Conde Nast. So long you fuckface. -- mathowie

posted by perrylmadison

Auditorium

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

posted by silby

Thursday, December 04, 2008

Still no sign of his bucket though.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: goo goo ga joob -- cortex

posted by grapefruitmoon

'If you are offended by depictions of sodomy, bestiality, "alternative sexual practices," racial and ethnic stereotypes, or just about anything else,

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Tijuana Doubles -- cortex

posted by anastasiav

They'll Teach Kids About Sodomy!

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

posted by h00py

IT IS A MISTERY

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

posted by loquacious

Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Barack Obama uses a Zune

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This post was deleted for the following reason: site doesn't work -- mathowie

posted by geoff.

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Worst. Sex. Ever.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Titania melted as Jorge took her, fiercely yet gently, into his arms. "Not again," she cried, "I have a hair appointment at two!" But her hungering eyes betrayed her, and they got naked and started doing it for like the third time that afternoon. -- cortex

posted by cmoj

Canada the victim of power-grabbing politicians.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Seems like this is potentially interesting news presented really really poorly. -- cortex

posted by carmelita

Printable Puzzles

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

posted by crawling101

Hotels Near Delhi

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This post was deleted for the following reason: no spam, thanks -- vacapinta

posted by ankitrawat

Monday, December 01, 2008

BushFilter

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I hate to shit in your cheerios, since you clearly put a lot of work into compiling this, but what you compiled is kind of an overwhelming pile of god knows what, much of which has gotten topical limelight on the front page previously. If there are as you say some surprising gems in there, maybe consider making a post focusing on those. -- cortex

posted by Skeptic

A mother's love

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

posted by stupidsexyFlanders