Saturday, February 28, 2009

List of nicknames of European royalty and nobility

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This post was deleted for the following reason: wikipedia lists on their own are rarely good posts for metafilter. -- jessamyn

posted by sidr

Friday, February 27, 2009

Westboro Protesters

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Clearly you put some effort into this, but both Westboro/Phelps has been done a lot here already (Dawkins too) and this is asking for trouble. -- cortex

posted by 5imian

Screen clean

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

posted by swift

Hips

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This post was deleted for the following reason: please less posting while high -- cortex

posted by Mblue

Sounds like Starfleet to me

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Awesome but previously. -- cortex

posted by cellphone

Irony isn't dead, but...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This was pretty well covered previously, and this is kind of a hell of a way to put together a post on the topic regardless. -- cortex

posted by Pope Guilty

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Antonio Belchior

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This post was deleted for the following reason: My best to the Belchoirs, but this is either a very bad idea or a very bad idea done to make some sort of point. -- cortex

posted by sluglicker

Macropinna Microstoma

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This post was deleted for the following reason: double up! -- mathowie

posted by digaman

you Become naked

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

posted by celerystick

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Don't lecture me! Oh, wait, I mean DO lecture me

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a post that links to a site that was previously linked to in another post, which can be found at this hyperlink. -- cortex

posted by dersins

Jewish Extremism

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This post was deleted for the following reason: maybe we can have a do over about this at some later time - poster's request. -- jessamyn

posted by gman

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Has the modern Film Critic slipped through the interwebs cracks?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: It looks like you put a lot of work into this, but it really reads like a personal blog post more than something that makes sense as a post to Metafilter. -- cortex

posted by Lacking Subtlety

Bed, Bath, and Baha'i?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Please dont do this on metafilter -- vacapinta

posted by 913

The Relationship Bill

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a single post blog to a friend of a friend which makes it a little sketch seeming for a MeFi post. -- jessamyn

posted by divabat

Saturday, February 21, 2009

“[N]othing says ‘feel-good movie’ like... well-groomed, cocktail-swilling homosexuals being embarrassed or... arrested”

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This post was deleted for the following reason: What with the whole premise of this post being a OMG WHA HAPPEN type thing and the thing in question just being a joke, there's not really any post here, is there? -- cortex

posted by joeclark

Ephemeral Mists - reiki music

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

posted by mysticalfairy

If you read MeFi comments backwards...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: WE'RE GOING TO NEED A DELETEDER BOAT -- cortex

posted by Mr. Anthropomorphism

Friday, February 20, 2009

Georgia strikes back

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I hear the French are fielding a song called "Self-Link Gets U Banned". -- cortex

posted by Leo Golan

If you watch it backwards....

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Single link to a reddit thread is one of those things that isn't really great post material and something we've been seeing maybe a bit too much of lately. -- cortex

posted by nitsuj

Can you toot?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Looks like this has been posted a couple times before already. -- cortex

posted by grapefruitmoon

I was assaulted at an Ann Coulter lecture last night

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Stumping for cause/awareness stuff is generally not a great idea on the front page. -- cortex

posted by AZNsupermarket

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Big Brother Tivo Is Here To Help

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This post was deleted for the following reason: It seems like there's a mix of maybe interesting content here and really kind of weird and not particularly accessible presentation; maybe someone wants to try a do-over that makes it a little bit more clear what this is all about and isn't quite so much like an entry on a DVR enthusiast's blog? -- cortex

posted by nomisxid

Stimulus Satire FAIL?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Thank you for doing your part to keep the FPP-deletion industry solvent. -- cortex

posted by ghastlyfop

The Last Minutes of the Buffalo Crash

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Probably better in the existing crash thread or the thread about NYT infographics. -- mathowie

posted by erikvan

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

TIME magazine names the best blogs for 2009

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Please see the sidebar and/or metatalk. -- cortex

posted by spock

This little piggy... went to a Soldier Camp.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This was covered a few months back; search more first, please? -- cortex

posted by hadjiboy

Яolcats

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This post was deleted for the following reason: In Soviet Russia, post doubles YOU -- mathowie

posted by chunking express

Looking for funny inspirational YouTube clips

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is not what metafilter is for, at all. -- cortex

posted by mindhead

Monday, February 16, 2009

$9,700,000,000,000 and counting

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is kinda thin "hey here's some more stimulus talk" stuff when we're not exactly hurting for posts on the subject lately. Maybe hold out for something a bit more meaty and new next time. -- cortex

posted by Joe Beese

And the winner for Best Picture is...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: We've covered this a couple times already. -- cortex

posted by hadjiboy

Flight 3407 Crash Preventable?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: original thread is just a few days old -- cortex

posted by Doohickie

Tea!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Tea is pretty great, but all three of these sites are somewhere between unspectacular and sketchy. Not totally clear what you were going for here, but it's not a great post for mefi. -- cortex

posted by -

Saturday, February 14, 2009

New York City Blocks

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

posted by signal

Friday, February 13, 2009

You can't rape a slut

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Seems kind a fucked up, but man you could have framed this post a lot differently than quoting the kos rhetoric and laying on the outrage-bait. -- cortex

posted by orthogonality

English guy advice blog.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: $1000 says this is a crappy self-link -- mathowie

posted by htotheizo

And you thought you were a little Cassanova...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: One link post to the Sun? -- vacapinta

posted by zardoz

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Epoch Win

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This post was deleted for the following reason: EPOCH FAIL wait dammit you basically used that joke for the title -- cortex

posted by Korou

Whopper Virgins Remixed

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The editorialization in this post is bad; the fact that you've (done work for? been featured by?) Deconstructing Dinner in the past is worse. -- cortex

posted by mariolapinski

Barack Kombat

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This post was deleted for the following reason: If there's a way to rip the spine out of a post with soaring rhetoric, that's what I'm doing right now. -- cortex

posted by rageagainsttherobots

How to find, butcher, cook and serve a fawn.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I assumed at first that you were quoting a blurb, not actually talking about your friend here. That's not really cool. -- cortex

posted by dbarefoot

Blocks of fun

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This post was deleted for the following reason: gentle gentle gentle gentle TWIIIIIIIIICE TWIIIIIIIICE -- cortex

posted by blue_beetle

read & discuss

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This post needs a bit more context. FPP Application Denied! -- vacapinta

posted by whiterussian

http://photography-now.net/

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this makes no sense. -- jessamyn

posted by pita

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Over the shirt or under?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I think we're into the point of XKCD and Metafilter's relationship where "new, somewhat more elaborate than usual comic!" doesn't generally cut it as a post. -- cortex

posted by changeling

An Open Letter to a New York Times reporter

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I kind of respect in theory the high-concept open-letter-as-post-structure thing I guess you're going for here, but that said this is really not a good fit for the front page of metafilter so much as it is a badass personal blog entry. Kind blows waaaay past the "don't editorialize" boundry here. -- cortex

posted by incessant

And then Al Gore said... "hey, how about we interwebs these?"

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This post was deleted for the following reason: the history of the history of the internet -- cortex

posted by tybeet

Throwing the legal welly

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This post was deleted for the following reason: THIS IS WHY PEOPLE NEED THE PREVIOUSLITIS VACCINE DANGIT -- cortex

posted by mippy

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Flying Cars, Jet Packs, and Life on Mars

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This post was deleted for the following reason: pretty much a double with some lightweight extras -- mathowie

posted by netbros

Way to erf. Let me show u it.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is going over like a tylium balloon, looks like. -- cortex

posted by piers

Tetanus

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Fundraiser/ad type copy is a really bad fit for metafilter. -- cortex

posted by bitteroldman

http://www.georgianindex.net/

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Please try again with any attempt whatsoever to make it clear why you're posting this and why it is interesting. -- cortex

posted by pita

Phony Sony

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Meh? An occasionaly reeaaally great post to The Onion is one thing, but this is just one pretty tepid joke that goes on for a couple minutes straight. Feels kinda FARKish. -- cortex

posted by misha

Economic Collapse Averted, for Now

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This post was deleted for the following reason: downturn the page amirite -- cortex

posted by Pater Aletheias

Falsified data, vaccines, and autism

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a nice collection of links, but we just had an MMR/vaccine-controversy/etc post on Friday. Probably best to add this stuff as a comment in there. -- cortex

posted by blahblahblah

Find the status of your tax rebate.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh? Any prompt US tax filers can probably track this down on their own, seems a bit odd for a front page post. -- cortex

posted by taumeson

Driftwood Horses

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Pretty much done before; with art-related posts, it's not a bad idea to try and track the work down to the actual artist(s) involved anyway to avoid encouraging these scrape-and-don't-credit middleman things when possible. -- cortex

posted by headspace

Monday, February 09, 2009

A-Rod's Public Apology

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The previous thread you cite is only two days old; please add followups to that. -- cortex

posted by jwakawaka

Celebrity Fembots

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This post was deleted for the following reason: these sort of "oh look, I swiped your content" posts are a little "eh" and worse so when the general topic is already creepy and..... well, creepy. -- jessamyn

posted by jon_hansen

as if things are not bad enough......

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This post was deleted for the following reason: In Soviet Russia, double post about downfall of America predicts YOU -- cortex

posted by kingfish

Fire-Starter

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There's a thread about this from Saturday night, please add stuff there. -- cortex

posted by hadjiboy

Sunday, February 08, 2009

La Dolche Video

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

posted by piratebowling

Foodie Update:

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Less bloggy, more meat, please. -- vacapinta

posted by wuakeen

Saturday, February 07, 2009

IQ and Religiosity correlation

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This post was deleted for the following reason: hot button issues like religion and IQ have been done zillions of times before, I don't know if we need yet another post about this. -- mathowie

posted by -

Friday, February 06, 2009

Dmitry Maximov Illustrations

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'll tell you what, I'll add some more tags to the original post and we'll see if that keeps us from full-on quadruple territory. -- cortex

posted by jon_hansen

Dmitry Maximov: A Gallery

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Looks like we just saw this stuff last week at different links. -- cortex

posted by flatluigi

Say cheese.

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

posted by disillusioned

Thursday, February 05, 2009

Thomas Paine wept

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm not sure this qualifies as interesting enough to bother with another post for Mr. the Plumber, really. -- cortex

posted by Joe Beese

Get Down and Frugle

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This link is back for it's second trip to the charts! -- cortex

posted by verisimilitude

Yes, We'll Have No Bananas

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This post was deleted for the following reason: netcraft vs. bananakind previously. And, honestly, a link to a short-ish 6-year-old article isn't exactly primo post material in most cases. -- cortex

posted by jon_hansen

Be Wary, very very wary.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a mix of editorializing, bad formatting and the sort of "omg other cultures!" post that goes badly on MetaFilter. -- jessamyn

posted by hadjiboy

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Titanoboa

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This post was deleted for the following reason: [note to self: think up pun relating somehow to snakes and the concept of doubleness] -- cortex

posted by homunculus

How I'm Speaking Louder than Before

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I found this kind of boring and not really too great, but hey it might win a contest. -- mathowie

posted by BoldStepDesign

A plea from the state of Tamilnadu (India)

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This post was deleted for the following reason: "here's a couple news stories" post is borderline. Acting like a jerk to people in thread about it is well into not-okay territory. Someone is welcome to give this another shot with more context and less defensiveness. -- cortex

posted by hadjiboy

from Blammo

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

posted by oneirodynia

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

oh, babies

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Previous thread is only four days old, please add this there as a comment. -- cortex

posted by changeling

Monday, February 02, 2009

Gun Safety

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Tragic story, but using the photos of them to make a joke was kind of crass. Thread went downhill from there. -- mathowie

posted by Liver

Sunday, February 01, 2009

Hope me, animals!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is an ex-post. -- cortex

posted by grapefruitmoon

Evolution rejected by 50% of Brits surveyed

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Gonna give you the benefit of the doubt on motive here, but pushing BBC content when you work for the BBC is a bit too close for comfort. -- cortex

posted by almostwitty

Cat & Mouse & Plate Mail.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Looks like we've been here before. -- cortex

posted by empath