Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Hunch

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Not much of a post until Hunch is properly open for business, yeah? Let's wait until they open it up to all comers. -- cortex

posted by swift

Are you going to "eat" that?

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

posted by grapefruitmoon

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Can't see the ninjas for the forest

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This post was deleted for the following reason: single link onion posts, while funny are not really that great for metafilter. -- jessamyn

posted by twoleftfeet

Corporal Punishment

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Man, I picked the wrong night to curl up on the couch. This seems a bit over the top, especially with the "this is what I think about this video & caning" framing. -- cortex

posted by five fresh fish

Forget my little pony. My Little Darth Vader.

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

posted by filmgeek

Friday, March 27, 2009

New Watchman Video Game (SYTL)

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

posted by 5imian

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Blowed up good. Blowed up real good!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: can someone try this again without the "hey you" aspect of this and maybe more than a single link newsfilter post? We all like Adam just fine but don't do this here. -- jessamyn

posted by zerobyproxy

reconciliation

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There's a big difference between "it's official" and "the results of a contested study by a couple of people suggests that", and hanging a post about circumcision on the latter seems like not a great idea. -- cortex

posted by plexi

An answer to the [CanIStill EatThis? Filter]

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

posted by wocka wocka wocka

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Little Red Riding Hood, the Animated Infographic Story

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This post was deleted for the following reason: little red riding twood -- cortex

posted by astroworm

Extremely lucky or extremely unlucky?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF THIS GETTING POST TWICE -- cortex

posted by baphomet

Properly Follow Proper Protocols!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Linking to the Onion is a longtime faux pas here, the comedy video is only so-so. -- mathowie

posted by stratospark

Desperate Days

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The second link now goes to some weird creepy "donate now" page and overall this post doesn't seem like something neat you found on the web. -- jessamyn

posted by CCBC

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Farting: More than bad manners

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Little news-of-the-weird blurbs aren't great post material. -- cortex

posted by wocka wocka wocka

Sunday, March 22, 2009

They have no army.

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

posted by swift

Saturday, March 21, 2009

L is for Library.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: D is for Double -- cortex

posted by grapefruitmoon

IDF fashion 2009

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There's a one-day old IDF thread you can take this to. -- cortex

posted by Silky Slim

Rick Steves: Surprisingly Cool

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There was a Rick Steves post just a couple months ago. -- cortex

posted by odayoday

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

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

posted by KokuRyu

You Drink It, We Drive It

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Needs a bit more context. Why is this interesting? -- vacapinta

posted by Glibpaxman

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Sheep Herding, An Artform

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This post was deleted for the following reason: double ewe -- cortex

posted by parmanparman

Natasha Richardson has passed.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, let's wait for a real post about her instead of this breaking news stuff -- mathowie

posted by Lacking Subtlety

Tomorrow Belongs to Her

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This post was deleted for the following reason: It's an awful thing to happen, but rush-to-post link to a rumorish E! blog entry is really kind of lowballing it on post quality. -- cortex

posted by greekphilosophy

My DSM code is 301.81. What's yours?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This reads like a personal thing-you-don't-like; it's not really clear why this should be a post on mefi instead of one on your personal blog. -- cortex

posted by Hypnotic Chick

A Rose By Any Other Name?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Previous thread was just a few days ago; this'd make more sense as a follow-up comment in there. -- cortex

posted by beingdaddy

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Won't anyone help the children...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There is nothing new here (Fritzl has been covered before) and reads too much like a blog post -- vacapinta

posted by hadjiboy

"Say baby, put down that pipe and get my pipe up"

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This post was deleted for the following reason: pretty much done a few years ago here. -- jessamyn

posted by Knappster

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

"Then the government gave us $10 billion."

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Er, there's a couple of bailout and bailout-reaction threads already open, and this seems like kind of a ranty self-fulfilling "this is an outrage" kind of way to post about this besides. -- cortex

posted by cogneuro

Politics as usual

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This post was deleted for the following reason: 80014

posted by adamvasco

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Oh dear, Germany, oh dear...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh, this is thin news-of-the-weird stuff, yeah? -- cortex

posted by Artw

Anthropology in pictures

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This post was deleted for the following reason: not funny. a little nsfw. basically one of those "here are some pix we stole" blogs. -- jessamyn

posted by -

New type of Wikipedia: BestThinking.com

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, kinda weird. -- cortex

posted by stbalbach

AIG to pay $100M bonuses

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This does come off as really bloggy—less with the personal editorial framing on mefi posts, please. -- cortex

posted by pallen123

Saturday, March 14, 2009

If you get down on me, I'll get down...what?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: "check this out, it sucks" isn't really a great premise for a post, esp a SLYT post. -- jessamyn

posted by schyler523

So so gracious..

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Metafilter is really, really not the place to wage your personal battle against HuffPo. -- jessamyn

posted by pwedza

Friday, March 13, 2009

Trying not to suck

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This post was deleted for the following reason: It's crappy when you do it, too. Please don't make stunt posts. If you think slugs are awesome and you have some great links about them, make a non-jerky post out of it in a couple weeks. -- cortex

posted by strangeleftydoublethink

Ariana Page Russell

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This post was deleted for the following reason: you could try falling on like a fork or maybe one of those meat tenderizer hammer thingies with all the pointy bits -- cortex

posted by chunking express

The circle of...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Metafilter is really, really not the place to wage your personal battle against HuffPo. -- cortex

posted by pwedza

The Mother of All Funk Chords

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This post was deleted for the following reason: PLEASE STOP POSTING ABOUT JONATHAN KELLERMAN -- cortex

posted by dobie

Thursday, March 12, 2009

"I don't want kids."

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Meh, a brief NYT writeup on something everybody on the planet has heard about already and which is pretty much guaranteed to make for a crappy thread? -- cortex

posted by Blazecock Pileon

Eyeborg.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I spy with my doubled eye -- cortex

posted by gman

Charles Freeman vs. Israel Lobby

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I/P newsfilter threads rarely go well and linking to TPM and Huffpo is not great out of the gate. -- jessamyn

posted by JoeXIII007

Killer primates: footage at 10

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Monkey two times baby / monkey twice okay -- cortex

posted by baphomet

P&G Digital Hack Contest

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'd complain about you using a url-shortener for the link if I wasn't busy deleting this for being super lame-ass SEO astroturf bullshit. -- cortex

posted by jonmrich

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Chicago, Working, The Spectator.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: You seem to have a lot of connections to Gabriella, which makes this otherwise interesting post really sketchy and not really okay. -- cortex

posted by 0x029a

Monday, March 09, 2009

No, we cant.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: oldpostingsofbarackodouble.com -- cortex

posted by damn dirty ape

Sunday, March 08, 2009

Fatal Distraction

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

posted by COD

What to get for mom's favorite little valedictorian?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: seems like LOLhomeschoolers to me, and just links to the Jostens store -- mathowie

posted by Andy's Gross Wart

The future hurts.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The onion had been done and then done and then done a few dozen more time on mefi. If it's not something really exceptional, it's probably not gonna live long as a single link on the front page. -- cortex

posted by pianomover

Saturday, March 07, 2009

"Instead of the proposed 30 acres of land for each slavery descendent, Thomas said he would support giving an SUV to each person through corporate don

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This post was deleted for the following reason: short one-off newsfilter post. -- jessamyn

posted by Mantix

Friday, March 06, 2009

Some thoughts.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: hadjiboy, metafilter is not your blog or your talk therapy. Please take a break from making posts to the blue for a month or two if that's what it takes, but this has to stop. -- cortex

posted by hadjiboy

Christian Salt- sold in Bible stores!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: lolxians and editorializing to boot. -- jessamyn

posted by SaharaRose

First sign you're living in a work of dystopian fiction.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This FPP is like Jazz: The concept isn't as important as the execution -- vacapinta

posted by Brian Lux

We are the best sales rep crew!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Don from accounting / is awfully nice / likes to post youtubes / sometimes twice -- cortex

posted by miss lynnster

Thursday, March 05, 2009

Black book scholarship

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This post was deleted for the following reason: You apparently work for Rethink. Not cool. -- cortex

posted by lazlo_80

I'm Sorry, You Can't Get Into Heaven Because Your Credit is Declined

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

posted by expriest

Maybe we can crap on "...358 volumes of decisions and minutes of the Cologne City Council dating back 700 years...."

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Beat to the punch, go ahead and port this stuff into that thread. -- cortex

posted by orthogonality

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

"Debate Me"

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This post was deleted for the following reason: please add this to the open rush thread from yesterday. -- jessamyn

posted by dagosto

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Footballs worst injuries

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this video links to a facebook group that you are involved in and is also terrible. -- jessamyn

posted by adamficekblog

AIG skewered by Amazon.com reviewers

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is pretty dang thing. -- cortex

posted by JVA

New Croton Dam

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Self-linking your own site on the front page is a bannable offense. The posting page is pretty clear about this. -- cortex

posted by Rhodamine

This server, it fluctuates?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Wrong Filter -- vacapinta

posted by chillmost

FGM

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a bad idea. -- mathowie

posted by hadjiboy

Monday, March 02, 2009

Bless the Beasts and Children...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is sort of outragefilter. What are people supposed to be talking about at this point? Yes, mean people suck. -- jessamyn

posted by ericb

Can a range hood be mounted on a backsplash?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm guessing you meant to post this on Ask Metafilter. Go ahead and try it again over there. -- cortex

posted by Izzy

A video in celebration of "Slumdog Millionaire." It's about a kid that sells ostrich feathers and speaks pretty much any language you can think of.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Sorry, just kind of a ho-hum video from youtube. -- mathowie

posted by buzzdiggity

Aphex twin's daughter

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

posted by 5imian

Illuminati.tv

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There's maybe some meat in here if it was presented a more clearly and carefully, but as is this is opaque and comes off as what folks tend to call the "LOLXTIANS" genre; if you're posting just to say "look at these [Christian-or-otherwise] jerks, they're totally not succeeding at whatever it they're trying to do", it's probably not a good post, and unfortunately it's not clear you were aiming for anything else. -- cortex

posted by thsmchnekllsfascists

The Diet of Worms

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

posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese

Sunday, March 01, 2009

Great Financial Resource For Insider Trading Info

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This post was deleted for the following reason: You've got to be fucking kidding me. -- cortex

posted by chaostheory

Shark Attacks!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this seems to be something better suited to your own blog. -- jessamyn

posted by thinkDifferent

Calculating trend against multi-state situations

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Oops repost to ask mefi -- mathowie

posted by daver

The Fluff Principle

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This post was deleted for the following reason: PAUL GRAHAM LIMIT EXCEEDED, maybe redirect this to that thread. -- cortex

posted by mkultra

Christopher Hitchens takes a stand.

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

posted by semmi