Thursday, April 30, 2009

The Far Right's First 100 Days

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This post was deleted for the following reason: single link blog op-ed. While not a bad article, pull quotes that editorialize aren't entirey different from basically editorializing. There is a politicalfilter site which is just for politics. -- jessamyn

posted by stbalbach

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Crisis vs. Copyright

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Posts with heavy editorializing don't work very well here. -- pb

posted by ZenMasterThis

hugs and bikes who could ask for anything more

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This post was deleted for the following reason: double post. -- pb

posted by aniola

Missing the Obama campaign photos?

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

posted by CunningLinguist

It's a video of a dog peeing for a long time.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: yeah, no, this is pretty lame -- mathowie

posted by jbickers

Pay-per-click humiliation?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: what in the twiddling fuck is wrong with the internet today -- cortex

posted by azarbayejani

She's Asking For It

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is kind of a recipe for ugliness, and I don't know what the hell you were thinking with that last link. -- cortex

posted by AzraelBrown

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

What's living inside you?

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

posted by bove

democrats get filibuster-proof majority if franken is seated

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is maybe the laziest possible way to do this. There's got to be a better post out there. -- cortex

posted by 1-2punch

While we were laughing they were nodding.

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

posted by srboisvert

Monday, April 27, 2009

Those bacon posts don't seem so funny now, do they

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This post was deleted for the following reason: oh god swine flu post outbreak -- cortex

posted by Joe Beese

Know Your Meme: Single Serving Sites

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Kind covered this recently, yeah. -- cortex

posted by rageagainsttherobots

de-classified

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This post was deleted for the following reason: site appears to be dead -- cortex

posted by UbuRoivas

Did you enjoy it? Now pay UP!!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a terrible post for metafilter. -- jessamyn

posted by insatiablehee

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Eat your heart out, NASA!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: don't stop restevin' -- cortex

posted by Chocolate Pickle

New Star Trek Movie Blooper

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is not a great post for metafilter - I htink you need to learn to make links. You can check the FAQ or email us. -- jessamyn

posted by vurnt22

Study the social through its images.

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

posted by -

And then there was Bea.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: RIP this double post -- mathowie

posted by Ambrosia Voyeur

Friday, April 24, 2009

Sniper/Wookie

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

posted by Stephen Elliott

The 'yum' blog

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a little weird and unclear what the awesomeness factor is - maybe try again with a little more explanation or something? -- jessamyn

posted by sidr

Carousel

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This post was deleted for the following reason: i am the operator / of my double-post deleter -- cortex

posted by Blazecock Pileon

Ohhhh! Well that explains everything!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This seems like kind of a weird post, and posting to complain about a school from an IP at that school really puts this into too-bloggy "let me tell you about my day" territory. -- cortex

posted by Geekyblonde

Thursday, April 23, 2009

NBA: Going Mental

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This post was deleted for the following reason: So apparently you're an "Internet Marketing Analyst" at this fandome site you keep linking. That's fucking awesome. Get bent. -- cortex

posted by jwakawaka

Auto-Tune the News

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This post was deleted for the following reason: That extra linkage can totally go in the thread down the page. -- cortex

posted by spaceboy86

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

160 Proof Corsetry

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Awesome corsets, but not really something that makes sense as a post. -- cortex

posted by Doohickie

MLK in Memphis.

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

posted by chunking express

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

A city outside of time

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This post was deleted for the following reason: dang it kottke try to keep up -- cortex

posted by Afroblanco

Marijuana and Driving

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a really crappy way to make a post. A "Hmm..."-laden link to a blog entry that briefly summarizes a study without linking it is not front page material. -- cortex

posted by Eugenek

Monday, April 20, 2009

Twitterfail

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This post was deleted for the following reason: You kind of need to choose between participating in or posting about an ephemeral internet phenomenon; doing both is uncomfortable quasi-self-link territory, and the lack of disclosure kind of sucks too. -- cortex

posted by chuckdarwin

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Child actress from Slumdog Millionaire for sale?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh, this feels pretty much like "hey, look what a tabloid printed". -- cortex

posted by esome

Saturday, April 18, 2009

In Cramer we Trust?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: We already had a lot of Cramer vs. Stewart coverage recently, we don't need to track the dude's every move. -- cortex

posted by spish

Friday, April 17, 2009

unicorn wolf lazers fuck you

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this game isn't as fun as you think it it. -- jessamyn

posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

Lookatthisfuckinghipster

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, this isn't superb stuff. -- cortex

posted by erikvan

This is the title. There are two words in the title.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Hoodie twoodie -- cortex

posted by The Whelk

2 down, how many more to come?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I love graph humor, but this is really thin and there have been threads about the pirate thing recently that you could add this to. -- cortex

posted by dov3

Monacle Magazine

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This post was deleted for the following reason: netbros, really, maybe more with the interesting things most people haven't seen and less with the rote pr-ish posts about things? -- cortex

posted by netbros

Thursday, April 16, 2009

DONT CUT THIS PIG

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This post was deleted for the following reason: y'all check out my doublecyde -- cortex

posted by skjønn

Five years of Ask.MeFi book suggestions from Human Relations and Work & Money

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This post was deleted for the following reason: It's a neat project but this is kind of inside baseball for the front page. -- cortex

posted by filthy light thief

New home for Pooh

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This post was deleted for the following reason: huh, apparently the ScoutingNY blog has borked archives. -- mathowie

posted by CunningLinguist

Take the plunge

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Am I sick and tired of being forced to delete a Joe The Plumber post every month? Am I! -- cortex

posted by Joe Beese

In Russia fur tree grows you!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: LUNGTREE II: FIR FETISH -- cortex

posted by Mastercheddaar

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Large pizza, hold the boogers.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Metafilter isn't really for local health alerts and such; best not to frame a post around that kind of thing, this is going south pretty quick. -- cortex

posted by scarello

Snakes on a Qantas plane

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Meme or not, this is super-thing blurby news-of-the-weird. -- cortex

posted by bystander

Playing for Change

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

posted by Roach

Outta here

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yes, please put this in the still open obit thread. -- vacapinta

posted by furiousxgeorge

Wrestling Christians?

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

posted by Mr.S

Something to think about when the painter says it'll be 5000$

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This post was deleted for the following reason: A double post of the old $50 roller job -- mathowie

posted by BrnP84

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Weird webcam/viral/videogame hybrid.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: you appear to be a copy writer that worked on this project. Here's a short story about that: you're banned. -- mathowie

posted by sh0ganai

Can we be cooler? Yes we can

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This post was deleted for the following reason: oh hey, this is one of those editorializing even though the guy's on our side sorts of posts - PLEASE NOTE THIS FOR THE FUTURE. -- jessamyn

posted by Megami

Concept Cars

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Why do most spammers never make posts in good faith? Instead they post dickcheese self-links and get their asses banned. -- cortex

posted by Smaaz

What's an extra zero or so among friends ...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This may be one of those things where it seemed kind of funny or odd at the time and you put it on the front page without stopping to second-guess yourself, or something? -- cortex

posted by woodblock100

Monday, April 13, 2009

Hyperbolic revenge

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is linked right form the "work" section of your home page, please do not do this here. -- jessamyn

posted by goatgirl

Can't access GMAIL

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

posted by lometogo

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Search for Your College or Grad School

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this doesn't really hit the "most people probably haven't seen it before" metric. Peterson's is a pretty known quantity. -- jessamyn

posted by netbros

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Design disasters

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This post was deleted for the following reason: yeah, sorry, this is linking to an image stealing junk blog -- mathowie

posted by BettinaTizzy

Fast than going there yourself

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Malware badness in the second link, not really much post here otherwise. -- cortex

posted by thewestinggame

Friday, April 10, 2009

Power to the Peeple (right on).

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Last year's, oops! -- cortex

posted by arachnid

Bacon the Miracle Cure

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Like any good Kibologist, I have a nearly paternal love for that Beggin' Strips commerical, but I think we've reached the point where merely being about bacon is not good enough of a reason for a post. -- cortex

posted by manosthf

Thursday, April 09, 2009

NSF employees looking for dirty pictures will have to be content with medical journals.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: something's not right here... -- mathowie

posted by johannahdeschanel

Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Ob: Chuck vs. the Network TV Bureaucracy

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I get that you like the show, but the combination of 'sign my petition" and "check out this chick" isn't really doing it here. -- jessamyn

posted by baylink

Medical Relief for Peter Case

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Posts that are basically fundraising boosters aren't really a good fit for Metafilter. -- cortex

posted by Kafkaesque

Apple wants you to sit up straight.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Now I just need an iPhone app that'll make it easier to ban self-linkers. -- cortex

posted by UsedToHaveGlasses

The Dark Side of Dubai

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Already covered a couple days ago -- mathowie

posted by BettinaTizzy

For Those Who Can't Bike to Artcrank 2009 in Minneapolis

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I hate to be the heavy when it seems like there's some nice stuff here, but it seems like you have a kinda direct connections to at least a couple of the folks involved in this scene and it feels uncomfortably like you're using metafilter to give props to your friends, which really isn't okay. -- cortex

posted by that's MISTER drunk to you

Test for Echo

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Rush still a huge dick, talk radio conversation still unlistenably bad. Why is this a post? -- cortex

posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

Phenway Park

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Too much of a blog post, especially with the odd aside about the organist. -- vacapinta

posted by LilBucner

Tuesday, April 07, 2009

History of Neckties

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This post was deleted for the following reason: A three paragraph TIME blurb about ties? This is not front page material. -- cortex

posted by UsedToHaveGlasses

Everything Under the Big Sky

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I don't get it, are these supposed to be funny? interesting? Are we supposed to laugh at people in Montana? -- mathowie

posted by that's MISTER drunk to you

Monday, April 06, 2009

Jiverly Wong, Shooting The People

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This post was deleted for the following reason: there is a shooting thread open. This is a link to a PDF about a current event, whcih could have been part of a post for metafilter but is not a good post for metafilter. LOLCRAZIES and "fuck the cops" are not really great starting points. -- jessamyn

posted by Lipstick Thespian

"The world owes you nothing."

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

posted by Flunkie

Twitter Art

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

posted by zorzini

R.I.P., rick752

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

posted by SpacemanStix

Sunday, April 05, 2009

Former Klansman repents

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This post was deleted for the following reason: more like elwin hope twolson amirite -- cortex

posted by Joe in Australia

10 Cases of Extreme Natural Weather

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

posted by Shiggedyswa

Friday, April 03, 2009

For your topiary, of course.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is thin, yea, even unto Farkiness. -- cortex

posted by ZenMasterThis

Baby Got Book

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Baby Got Posted Previously -- cortex

posted by billysumday

Adam Savage of "Mythbusters" discusses some more common questions

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This post was deleted for the following reason: We <3 asavage, but "dude mentions Metafilter" would be more of a Metatalk post if anything. -- cortex

posted by pandemic

White Boys

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is kind of weird not funny when I expected it to be funny and worth the time, plus people seem to hate it. -- mathowie

posted by fleetmouse

Why they never took this public I do not know

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This post was deleted for the following reason: half the post is editorializing of the GYOB territory, and do we need yet another religion post? -- mathowie

posted by parmanparman

Thursday, April 02, 2009

Will you help pass the Dream Act? Sign the pledge. Donate.

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

posted by shatteredverve

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

What time is it?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: time to get a new post! -- jessamyn

posted by ZenMasterThis

Face Gestures

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This post was deleted for the following reason: covered already -- cortex

posted by Joe Beese