I posted to Metafilter

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There's this thing where if something's a double but it's been years and years and it's built up a lot of content sometimes we'll just let it stay anyway, and this blog manages to somehow subvert that principle by having a lot more content than it did six years ago without actually having any more content. -- cortex

posted by blue_beetle

Prisoners for oil

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I know this is a little confusing, but there is an open thread talking about this issue and the way your post is worded makes the whole thing ven more muddled than it needs to be otherwise. -- jessamyn

posted by finite

Show me the old wood, dudes.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: To ask! -- cortex

posted by Chrischris

Trial by Fire

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, this is better off in the already open post. -- vacapinta

posted by sugarfish

"Help me get this man a kidney for Christ's sake!"

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is double plus ungood for you to have done this. I'm not sure how you don't get how against the rules this is. -- jessamyn

posted by augustweed

Catasphotree

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This post was deleted for the following reason: And that's it for this episode of Eye On Youtube. -- cortex

posted by Christ, what an asshole

Done! 2009 Little League World Champions

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm not really clear why this would be a metafilter post even if the link had been correct. -- cortex

posted by RoseyD

Mullets and Mommas

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Comes off as pretty explicitly mean-spirited, really. -- cortex

posted by blue_beetle

Not My Type

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This post was deleted for the following reason: We did this last week -- mathowie

posted by mattdidthat

Libertarian or glibertarian?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm not sure a top-ten diss-by-proxy Foxworthy riff about !Libertarians, from DailyKos, is a great idea for a post. -- cortex

posted by Artw

Glenn Beck

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I think we're all filled up on Glenn Beck. Maybe post as a comment in other Beck threads. -- mathowie

posted by finite

Your own experience with the future of masturbation begins with the first use.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Something a little above-and-beyond "and here's a Japanese sex toy" is probably called for if you're going to go in this direction with a post. -- cortex

posted by pianomover

Two Minutes Hate

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This post was deleted for the following reason: We are aware that Glenn Beck is a loon, yes. There is a post down the page a bit if you really want to talk about him. -- cortex

posted by Jeff_Larson

Butterflies In The Sky...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: We saw this earlier today—but you don't have to take my word for it... -- cortex

posted by Ruby Stevens

Beck the Halls

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This post was deleted for the following reason: low hanging fruit, yeah. -- jessamyn

posted by Christ, what an asshole

I Never Want To Be Tortured

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Kind of a lame diggbait site that you're a pretty active user on. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that this is just compromised judgement from being a fan and not an actual attempt to shill something you have a stake in, but don't do this in the future. -- cortex

posted by beelzebub

I'm Gonna Run Away! EEEEAAAAUUUGGGHH!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a bad metafilter post. -- cortex

posted by SinisterPurpose

Cat's Eye View

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This post was deleted for the following reason: seen it previously though it's completely and totally adorable, still -- jessamyn

posted by joannemerriam

Here's to the FUTURE!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Seems more like nastiness for nastiness' sake than anything particularly compelling as front page material. Avoid stuff like this for future posts, defo. -- cortex

posted by Lutoslawski

Arguing the Point not the Person.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: we are firmly into GYOB territory. If you want to discuss one topic several times per week, you need to do that on your own blog. -- jessamyn

posted by adamvasco

Bobby McFerrin confirms that he is a Genius, as if we needed further proof.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Posted previously, or close enough -- vacapinta

posted by greenish

"[So and so] is still alive?!"

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

posted by crataegus

Team, meet girls; girls, meet team

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Ground control to major doublepost... -- mathowie

posted by Artw

Seven Deadly Sins by Souphatra

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Not really that great, and photographers shooting themselves is about as rare as hydrogen. -- cortex

posted by Surfin' Bird

sex cahnge and feeling macho

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This post was deleted for the following reason: thin omg news article with typos in the title? -- jessamyn

posted by halekon

Battleground God

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Meh, posted several times and questionable whether it was really so solidly constructed as to deserve even one of 'em. There's insightful religious commentary and then there's this. -- cortex

posted by Effigy2000'

What? No wax beans?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this lunch has been regurgitated -- cortex

posted by dersins

Nice Blog

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I hate to break it to you, but you appear to have written up a lengthy multi-link post about a shitty website. -- cortex

posted by glaucon

Please Exit Highway 61

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Celebrity GPS voices aren't exactly new, and this is a slight little article. Not much of a post here. -- cortex

posted by Elmore

sometimes looking backward is a good thing

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There's an open Holder/investigation thread from yesterday, add this stuff to that fi it's not already there? -- cortex

posted by tylerfulltilt

What about Cancer?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: eh, it's just a commercial, not much of a breakthrough -- mathowie

posted by hadjiboy

back to nature

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

posted by flapjax at midnite

Designers on Film

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

posted by ocherdraco

When I grow up, I want to be a homeless person

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This post was deleted for the following reason: A link to a new blog with just three posts? Maybe when the blog has been around and gets interesting, but not post-worthy right now. -- mathowie

posted by azarbayejani

Graphic anti-texting video being shown to high schoolers in Britain

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

posted by aacheson

"He looks like someone microwaved John Kerry."

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This post was deleted for the following reason: An idea with promise, sorta, but the execution sucks, yeah. -- cortex

posted by hifiparasol

Harvard Business Review Articles

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The articles must be purchased. And without them, this is too thin of a post. -- vacapinta

posted by vvurdsmyth

787 Cliparts

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is exactly the same site/thing from three years ago. I don't get why it was worth reposting. -- mathowie

posted by at the crossroads

Tuts my barreh

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

posted by swift

Replace "MASS" with "MAN" and replace "ENERGY" with "SPIRIT"

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I find this stuff darkly fascinating too, for what it's worth, but the line between weird-stuff and gawking-at-the-mentally-ill is kind of a blurry one and hasn't historically made for great metafilter. -- cortex

posted by d1rge

Complete Torah

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This post was deleted for the following reason: nothing personal but you absolutely positively can't do this here. -- jessamyn

posted by vvurdsmyth

Views From the Sickbed

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The View From Five Days Ago. -- cortex

posted by reenum

"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."

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This post was deleted for the following reason: As sort of a quasi-pirating outlet, this is maybe not such a great idea for a post. -- cortex

posted by litterateur

WoW: Cataclysm

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This post was deleted for the following reason: if this is just a "hey there's a new expansion pack" link, it's not great for MeFi, if it's something else, maybe tell us what that something else IS? -- jessamyn

posted by thanotopsis

"I am not dumb now."

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This post was deleted for the following reason: previously and poorly tagged. -- jessamyn

posted by hermitosis

User Experience

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This feels a bit too promotional about a site that doesn't seem like a real great example of UX (Adaptive Path, Boxes and Arrows, etc) -- mathowie

posted by netbros

The many uses for a bra

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh, this seems pretty Farky without anything particular interesting to redeem it. Go her with the boob-related silliness, but not much of a post. -- cortex

posted by reenum

butkus.org

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Not clear what this is about. Nobody else seems to have figured it out either... -- vacapinta

posted by yegga

Winkers

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, no, let's not do this. -- mathowie

posted by masterburst

Bad Ideas & Fat Asses Dept.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: SLYT LOLFATTIEZ. Unless you had some other point? -- jessamyn

posted by fungible

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: So nice they hastily bound it together with duct tape and solder twice! -- cortex

posted by Secret Life of Gravy

Texas Fumbles

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This post was deleted for the following reason: One thin news link is not a good post. -- cortex

posted by MultiplyDrafted

So much for my plans for Ann Coulter...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, as posted this kinda reads like something that didn't actually happen. -- cortex

posted by Pragmatica

An hour later I was hungry again

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Thin abstract isn't helped by the fact that you have summarized it incorrectly. -- vacapinta

posted by twoleftfeet

Flowcharts that are actually useful

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Consensus seems to be that "super creepy" is the keyword for these charts. -- cortex

posted by reenum

Like an Extremely Demented, Extremely Funny Print Version of Pop-Up Video

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this did not go so well. -- jessamyn

posted by WCityMike

Osmos

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This feels a little too much like a lazy upsell pitch for a demo. -- cortex

posted by quazichimp

You've gotta help me right now

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This post is the rope and metafilter is the guy. -- cortex

posted by fire&wings

Scenario 'unlikely,' researchers say.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: OH MY GOD IT'S SPREADING -- cortex

posted by jimmythefish

xkcd the book

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This post was deleted for the following reason: xkdc has been covered there and back and then some on mefi in the past; sweet for Randall that he's going dead-tree, but there's not much to talk about here. -- cortex

posted by aniola

Canadian mathematicians have symbols in their name. No wait...ZOMBIE WAR!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: a few days ago -- cortex

posted by hal_c_on

Billy Talent

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Really, without some substantial non-wikipedia content this really isn't a good mefi post. It's not enough to just talk about a band you're interested in. -- cortex

posted by JoeXIII007

How do you feel about zzzzzzzzhrerpckkkkk....

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

posted by blue_beetle

Common Sense, Good Sense and Sensibility ... and Robots

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This post was deleted for the following reason: EX TWO MI NATE -- cortex

posted by rottytooth

Stop Feeding the Beast.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a messy situation. That said, can we maybe try to make posts that are a little less out-of-the-gate arguments? -- jessamyn

posted by adamvasco

Because it's Monday, that's why.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Because its Monday afternoon...in London -- vacapinta

posted by Avenger

The storm is coming.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this seems like a weird press release to something for sale. -- jessamyn

posted by Askiba

yes we can fill out online petitions

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Seriously, put it in the other post. -- cortex

posted by tylerfulltilt

1,001 Free Flash Games

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm not sure flash games are hard enough to find that this post is really necessary, and the whois stuff on it traces to some genuinely cheeseball Make Money Fast stuff. -- cortex

posted by Effigy2000

Think I got some of that sand in my eye

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This post was deleted for the following reason: previously, etc, etc. Time to go add some more tags to the original post, I guess. -- cortex

posted by HyperBlue

Poetry Arcade

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This post was deleted for the following reason: If our betters play at that game, we must not dare to imitate them; faults that are rich are fair. -- vacapinta

posted by lipsum

America: Now with Anthrax and Super AIDS

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

posted by julie_of_the_jungle

girls on film

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The proper metadiscursive response to me deleting this double would be to have an alleged breakdown on Twitter, I gueess. -- cortex

posted by krautland

Like a homeless stone

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

posted by codswallop

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: not cool. -- jessamyn

posted by shockingbluamp

Captain Trips poses at Woodstock

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Okay, this is pretty much exactly the opposite of the advice I gave you the other day. -- cortex

posted by sid abotu

Friday Flash Fun: William and Sly

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This post was deleted for the following reason: ...foxy double...here I come, baby...comin' ta gitcha... -- cortex

posted by The Confessor

Sand is her bitch

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Ain't no party like a sand-drawing party cuz a sand-drawing party don't stop -- cortex

posted by The Ultimate Olympian

Design and the Elastic Mind

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

posted by hortense

The Perils of Travel

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

posted by chunking express

Big Boy WiFi HotSpots

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

posted by February28

Not Quite TIME CUBE Crazy

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh, it seems like we're laughing at random crazy people here -- mathowie

posted by cjorgensen

Leopard vs. Crock - who wins...? y' gotta see..

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Pretty weak stuff. A short telegraph post with a few blurry pictures. -- vacapinta

posted by vvurdsmyth

She looks kind of bored.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I never thought I'd utter these words, but this is probably one SLYT turtle-having-an-orgasm post too many. -- cortex

posted by overhauser

Re-examining the Taliban

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This post was deleted for the following reason: pretty totally sure that the main URL of this post is someone who is a client of your marketing company which is FAILx3 for you. -- jessamyn

posted by TonyDanza

20 Incredible Solutions to Save Our Suburbs

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This post was deleted for the following reason: You work for inhabitat. This is so not okay. Do not shill on Metafilter. -- cortex

posted by YukaBot 8000

Punch-Out will never be the same

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This post was deleted for the following reason: And the Arnold Judas Rimmer award for best unintentional double post about emerging force-feedback holographic technology goes to... -- cortex

posted by nushustu

Gollum, you say?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh, this is pretty thin stuff. -- cortex

posted by mippy

Hey F*ck fcee...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: A pretty meh post for metafilter. -- vacapinta

posted by jadayne

CDC forces US family to leave daughter in China.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Kinda feeling like this post could be done a lot more fairly than it has been; there may be an interesting story here but as it is it seems more like one side's take being presented as fact. -- cortex

posted by kristin

Is Obama Really Osama Bin Laden?

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

posted by sid abotu

Unicode and other colossal images

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Hello darkness ian-albert.com my old friend -- cortex

posted by yegga

John Hughes dead at 59

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yep, he's still dead. -- cortex

posted by Lame_username

Ben Stein Eulogizes John Hughes

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Put it in the John Hughes post if popup-laden Ben Stein needs to go somewhere. -- cortex

posted by pjdoland

You do not have health insurance.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: lack of health insurance is bad, having health insurance isn't a panacea, single link blog posts to health insurance topics are sort of fail-y for MetaFilter -- jessamyn

posted by garlic

Bruno Kammerl`s Punktlandung

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This seems to be going over like a lead Wasserrutschenaut. -- cortex

posted by MuffinMan

US Healthcare debate turns violent

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a pretty weird and fascinating extreme of this kind of political astroturfing for the US, and I think there's probably a good post to be made rounding up what has happened and what is happening in the last couple of days, but the framing here sucks a lot. -- cortex

posted by wuwei

The Passion of Jorge

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This post was deleted for the following reason: "Guy dives into baptismal pool" is kind of thin. Go Jorge and all, but not much of a post. -- cortex

posted by Foci for Analysis

Democracy

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is the second really "what?" video post we've had to delete. You need to put a little more care into making it clear why you're posting stuff, because it's seeming pretty random so far. -- cortex

posted by sid abotu

There will always be a light on in Shermer

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a nice post, maybe even nier than the other one that was just posted, definitely nicer than the other five that were deleted. Please comment in the open post, thanks. -- jessamyn

posted by NiteMayr

John Hughes, dead at 59

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

posted by kaseijin

The Last of the Neo Maxi Zoom Dweebies

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Let's wait until there's either a really great post or at least something substantial to link to on the obit/memorium front, okay? -- cortex

posted by orville sash

John Hughes's Day Off

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There's got to be a better post here. Links to CNN homepage are built to be obsolete. -- cortex

posted by yiftach

John Hughes, dead at 59

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This post was deleted for the following reason: If your link contains less text than your post, you have not made a good obituary post. -- cortex

posted by edmcbride

Greenwash

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This post was deleted for the following reason: A press release is pretty much never good post material, and this doesn't seem like an exceptional case. -- cortex

posted by box

Hunters are outraged? Puhleeze.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Those kids are assholes, but this is not a very good metafilter post. -- cortex

posted by jmmpangaea

CATS

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

posted by mippy

A tale told by an idiot

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, let's go ahead and keep it in the existing thread. Wait, let me try that again: get thee to a already-been-done'ry -- cortex

posted by nasreddin

Race, Sex, and Murder at a Pittsburgh Gym

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Double...and other reasons too -- vacapinta

posted by mareli

Münchausen, She Wrote.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There's sort of an interesting post here. But the links are a mess. -- vacapinta

posted by hypersloth

Everyone Has a Blog - Even Mass Murderers

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This post was deleted for the following reason: leave anything new in the existing thread -- mathowie

posted by merv

Critter Defense! for iPhone

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm glad it's neat, and Projects rules, but if the only content is "buy this app" it's not really a good candidate for the front page. -- cortex

posted by misha

and we can really be a community and make the things

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This post was deleted for the following reason: well the posts are um, growing very well and um, they're organic and some of them have pesticides and I think that we should make, um, a perfect pesticide for the posts -- cortex

posted by Potomac Avenue

East Village proprietors versus the Internet

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This does seem pretty inside-baseball. -- cortex

posted by TrishaLynn

Lines drawn in the sand

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

posted by Slap*Happy

On the Number of Primes Less Than a Given Magnitude

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This sort of thing could use just a skosh more context. -- cortex

posted by yegga

Sadly not from the Onion.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Seems like this is built around a really crappy source, which is not a good way to make a post about something contentious. -- cortex

posted by bergeycm

How long does "Forever" last?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Mentioning this in the original wedding video thread is probably sufficient. -- cortex

posted by anotherpanacea

The Thinking Person's List -

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This post was deleted for the following reason: you may have to wrk on your HTML a little bit, Feel free to check the faq and come back tomorrow? -- jessamyn

posted by vvurdsmyth

Bad Bad Science

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Looks like the main content links on this are almost all different-url links to a post from two days ago, unfortunately, so maybe take the new stuff there as comments? -- cortex

posted by cogneuro

Donna Lambert

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, there might be a post worth making about this but this is waaaay to thin as currently done. -- cortex

posted by BlueScreen

Gunman

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This post was deleted for the following reason: please get your own blog, this is really not a great post for metafilter. -- jessamyn

posted by hadjiboy

Play him out, audience machine!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: It's still a neat trick, and the tone matrix thing is still a cool toy, but we've seen 'em both before. -- cortex

posted by ocherdraco