halo around the sun

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This post was deleted for the following reason: we are going to pretend this never happened. -- jessamyn

posted by idixon

Toilet Restaurant

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This post was deleted for the following reason: [poop joke] -- cortex

posted by Meatbomb

Good Samaritan beheaded in South Florida

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is not a good metafilter post. Please do not settle for news-of-the-weird/gruesome/shocking wire stories for post content. -- cortex

posted by eiro0701

IT underground online

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This post was deleted for the following reason: carsonb would like to try this tomorrow. -- jessamyn

posted by carsonb

This Isn't Your Grandfather's Socialism

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Meet the new new socialism, same as the old new socialism. -- cortex

posted by netbros

Mysterious Disappearing Student Loan Legislation

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This post was deleted for the following reason: oops, should have been in Ask MeFi -- mathowie

posted by mecran01

Seriously, it's BIG ASS

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I had never seen it before but apparently a lot of MeFi has. -- jessamyn

posted by dirtynumbangelboy

At Lopez Foods, only 100% beef makes the grade.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a bog-standard corporate video about a McDonalds supplier. Metafilter is not the Mr. Rogers Picture Picture segment. -- cortex

posted by slogger

No Rapper Left Behind

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Blurby wire feed celebrity-news-of-the-weird stuff does not make for good metafilter posts. -- cortex

posted by eggman

Small Victories and Silver Linings

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, this should really just go over here. -- cortex

posted by ocherdraco

there's no such thing as electronica.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yup, saw this before. -- cortex

posted by dunkadunc

eurocare

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Earlier this month. -- cortex

posted by plexi

$9 trillion lost? Check the couch for change we can believe in.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is pretty much a GYOB post: Heavy editorializing crafted around conspiracy theories. Not really appropriate for metafilter. -- vacapinta

posted by rough ashlar

The Locker Library of Locked-Up Literature

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Just be glad we don't charge late fees. -- cortex

posted by WCityMike

Want a WHAT?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Twelve second overdub fakeout? -- cortex

posted by Effigy2000

Nyaa nyaa, can't outsource me!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: heh, hippy blacksmiths -- jessamyn

posted by Forktine

Low-calorie Water

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There's not much there there, is there? It's just a website for a flavored water product, and "low-calorie water" isn't a mind-blowing turn of phrase in context. -- cortex

posted by -

Obama proposes Indefinite Preventive Detention without trial

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This post was deleted for the following reason: We Will Look Backwards -- cortex

posted by Imperfect

Puctures of Fridges

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

posted by rossination

Afghanistan quarantines its only pig

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Three problems here: (1) we've heard about Khanzir already; (2) single links to wire service blurbs make poor posts; and (3) copying the whole text of said articles is not a good way to format a post. -- cortex

posted by eiro0701

a distant relative died...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is what we in the biz call a "Generalissimo". -- cortex

posted by flapjax at midnite

New Evidence Regarding Black Confederate Soldiers

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This post was deleted for the following reason: What in the hell? The front page is not for your personal grudge matches. Don't do this here. -- cortex

posted by unpoppy

your favourite music sucks

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I don't understand. this was posted here in 2003. -- jessamyn

posted by UbuRoivas

Woody Wins

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm not sure this really needs a followup post, but a perfunctory wire-service updatefilter one is really not worth bothering with. -- cortex

posted by ChickenringNYC

Introducing: horf

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

posted by will wait 4 tanjents

Who likes pancakes? I like pancakes.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Pretty lame FARKy kind of post, don't you think crash davis? -- mathowie

posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey

WolframAlpha

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Wolfram|Alpha doesn't know what to do with your double post. -- cortex

posted by February28

the curious shopper

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm not clear that there's anything untoward going on here, but this is a neglected blog presented with zero context in unflattering circumstances and is just not gonna work as a post. -- cortex

posted by seabel

Did their eyes light up?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I think we've removed this a few times already. -- jessamyn

posted by Kirth Gerson

Curve balls, afterimages and genders, oh my!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I swear I can see two of these! -- vacapinta

posted by amyms

Come Back to Mexico!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Self-linking gets you banned. -- cortex

posted by workinggringa

Frog Defies Gravity

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I think floating frogs are pretty awesome, for the record, but a short science blurb from the 90s and brief youtube clip doesn't add up to a very strong post. -- cortex

posted by pashdown

California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban

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

posted by Astro Zombie

Cash 4 Gold (Scam?)

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yes, it's a scam. We've talked about it before. This isn't a great way to make a mefi post; email me if you want to talk about that in detail. -- cortex

posted by callmejordan

Jewish Geneology Site

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This post was deleted for the following reason: poster's request, probably a better post about this lurking in the ether somewhere -- cortex

posted by snsranch

It's all in the presentation.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: A brand new blog with exactly one post is really not great post material. If it's fun in days to come, someone can decide to post about it then. -- cortex

posted by pseudostrabismus

Old Spock talks to new Spock

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This does seem like pretty much an automatic spoiler just for spoiler's sake on a pretty recently-released film. If the link is good enough, there's gotta be a better way to do this. -- cortex

posted by AVandalay

Foreclosed Homes for Sale Fell in April

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This post was deleted for the following reason: you ahve confused this website with one where crap like this isn't totally against the rules. -- jessamyn

posted by JohnnyL

It may be very bad, it may be good. It will be beer.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Removed as a double post using only tools commonly found on a modestly sized laptop. -- vacapinta

posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing

Metafilter is turning ten!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Do this on ten, not the front page. Thanks! -- cortex

posted by Mr_Zero

To Track or Not To Track

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This post was deleted for the following reason: you either need to move this to your own blog, or to AskMe, this is really not what MeFi is for and could have been a decent post without the tagline. Please remember what the site is for and how it works, thanks. -- jessamyn

posted by jock@law

Packed in mothballs

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is like a sign that reads "please have another argument about whether or not religion = brainwashing". It's a terrible story, but maybe not such a great post as is. -- cortex

posted by mippy

Taliban Fever

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this appears to be a link to something created by your husband. That is 100% against the rules. -- jessamyn

posted by Metachel

google, goats, and the government

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This post was deleted for the following reason: At posters request -- mathowie

posted by Afroblanco

The Women of Congo

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a tragedy. that does not mean that this makes a good post for metafilter. -- jessamyn

posted by hadjiboy

The power of words

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm glad the guy has recovered, but this is a hard sell for a schmaltzy CBS puff piece and really isn't a great post for mefi. -- cortex

posted by Heliochrome85

[Stuff] happens

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This post was deleted for the following reason: What's the point of this post? Shock value? news of the weird? -- mathowie

posted by Clementines4ever

MiFi

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This post was deleted for the following reason: My personal gushing enthusiasm for the idea notwithstanding, this cutesy "it sounds like mefi and also here's an oblique reference to the site's birthday" framing combined with meh links makes this not really a very good post. -- cortex

posted by xorry

Loss of Innocence

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There's way too much personal-blog-entry stuff going on here. Please do not frame your mefi posts like this. -- cortex

posted by binturong

The Big Pig Song

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This post was deleted for the following reason: dude, you work for Hooked on Phonics. Let me sound this out for you: yeeewwwwwoooooooo aarrrrrrrreee bbbbbaaaaaannnnnnnnnnneeeddd -- mathowie

posted by diplomacydiplomacy

The Fifth Element.

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

posted by gman

Tough Love

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is fucked up, but we've had no shortage of idiots-with-tazers threads and I'm not sure where this is supposed to go other than "it is bad to taze children!", which, yeah. -- cortex

posted by geos

How passionate are you about nature in Europe?

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

posted by wildwonderb

Justice to busty ladies!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is just a link to a thin news article and not really an interesting one at that. The thread isn't going so well either. -- vacapinta

posted by dov

Drinking the prune juice

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This post was deleted for the following reason: you can't show ning profiles to someone who is non a ning member. So the first link is a little misleading but the second link is totally non-working. Sorry. -- jessamyn

posted by octobersurprise

It's quite magnificent, but so is Maine

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is terrifically awesome but is already being discussed in the open Maine thread from yesterday so move your yays over there? -- jessamyn

posted by Jon_Evil

Another brilliant photographer, another weird interface

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

posted by yiftach

Hombre.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this stops here. thank you. -- jessamyn

posted by gcbv

Keyboard Cat

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This post was deleted for the following reason: no, thanks. stunty. -- jessamyn

posted by billysumday

Use the force!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Without the Star Wars, this is just crappy poli-editorial writing, and there's not much Star Wars there. -- cortex

posted by Artw

Canadian Shopping Site Pays Deal Hunters for Prices

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm not sure I can actually ban you sufficiently hard for this. Jesus. -- cortex

posted by Snowstorm

Why So Serious?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh? It's nice photoshoppery but not exactly stunning stuff, and it's kind of hard to ignore the "so take THAT, Republicans" implications in the work even if that's not what you were personally going for, william_boot. -- cortex

posted by william_boot

The Incredible Bifurcating Falcon

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Sounds like a sad, interesting mess of a story, but it's also something that you're apparently pretty personally invovled in and affected by and that makes this not really okay for you to be posting about on the front page of mefi. -- cortex

posted by zenwerewolf

64 Things Every Geek Should Know

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh, this list has a lot of problems and seems like straight-up diggbait stuff besides. No harm done, but just not really a very good link. -- cortex

posted by snsranch

Internet eco-hypocrisy is rampant.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This post comes off like editorial journalism gone awry -- interesting topic squandered on a narrative in search of not very good links. A catchy lede isn't as important as good links presented clearly. -- cortex

posted by macross city flaneur

"Twice Bombed, Twice Survived"

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Been there, survived being nuked twice that. -- cortex

posted by cmchap

Beware of Cat

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This was aprt of a larger more comprehensive post on this general topic and one news article plus one wikipedia article doesn't really go beyond that. -- jessamyn

posted by theroadahead

Inside of every child there's a decent American waiting to get out.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: single link news filter outragefilter post with LOLFLorida for extra ungood. -- jessamyn

posted by bardic

Two All-Beef Patties, Special Sauce, Deep Fried Criminal, McCurry, Snooty Starbucks, Dr Pepper, an Unconvicted Buy and a PETA Party on a Sesame Seed B

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This post was deleted for the following reason: please put this in the already open McD's threads, thanks. -- jessamyn

posted by wendell

A Timeline of Internet Memes

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This timeline is a circle. -- pb

posted by GuyZero