Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Pancake Sorting Robot

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This post was deleted for the following reason: See previous pancake-sorting robot post. -- vacapinta

posted by odinsdream

Hybrids, the silent killers, part two

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This post was deleted for the following reason: while we're not gong to ban you for linking to your own profile, we're not really going to let you do it either. -- jessamyn

posted by mojohand

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Sausage & Mash, No Receipt

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This post was deleted for the following reason: General Greviously -- cortex

posted by Combustible Edison Lighthouse

Movie "Untitled"

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This post was deleted for the following reason: single link posts to movie trailers without some sort of "this is why this might be a good post for MeFi" parts is sort of not a good way to do posts here. -- jessamyn

posted by Matthias Rascher

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Polanski arrested in Switzerland

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm afraid you've pulled a Generalissimo, sir. -- cortex

posted by Meatbomb

TorsoTube

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

posted by sleevener

Hitler as the object of comedy

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is sort of a GYOB situation. -- jessamyn

posted by Matthias Rascher

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Ghandi, Tutu, MLK, and Israel

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This post was deleted for the following reason: as these things go, this is not a great way to do this. -- jessamyn

posted by jefficator

Dunning–Kruger effect

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This post was deleted for the following reason: seen it a few times before - please do not link to google redirects, get the actual URLs of the content you're linking to. -- jessamyn

posted by kathrineg

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Michael Moore Declares War on Capitalism

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is, I believe, still being discussed in an open thread -- jessamyn

posted by jefficator

The Staffordshire Hoard

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

posted by homunculus

"When I look at books, I see an outdated technology, like scrolls before books’"

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This post was deleted for the following reason: as much as I love this story, you can post some links in the original, still open thread. -- jessamyn

posted by filthy light thief

It's Not Alright

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This post was deleted for the following reason: posted previously. and thanks dersins. -- jessamyn

posted by ChurchHatesTucker

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

"I'm not saying that that's what the Administration is planning to do. . ."

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a big story that this post has put a weird nasty spin on - not saying there may not be some truth to it, but it's definitely not a good example of "how to cover a touchy issue no MeFi" -- jessamyn

posted by Optimus Chyme

Joss & Co. reveal plans for a Dr. Horrible sequel: Maybe a movie?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this probably needs to come back as a full post when there's some more there there. Otherwise it's more of a whedonesque thing. -- jessamyn

posted by litterateur

A Luxury Florida Vacation Rental Home

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This post was deleted for the following reason: spam, spam, spam, spam.... -- vacapinta

posted by bennyzebs

"There it is; that's the culprit."

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

posted by gottabefunky

Lil Bunnies

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This post sucks enough that it must be your band -- mathowie

posted by electricsandwich138

In defense of the Police, he does have two arms

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This post was deleted for the following reason: MeFi does police brutalty stories poorly. lulzy headlines to not make for good discussions, neither do "fucking pigs" comments. -- jessamy

posted by vivelame

The greatest breakdancers OF ALL TIME (sytl)

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The general conclusion here seems to be that this is not a very good post. -- cortex

posted by sgt.serenity

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Murder Ballads, Secret London and more

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This post was deleted for the following reason: posted instead of previewed! -- jessamyn

posted by filthy light thief

Saturday, September 19, 2009

I can't believe that was inside me!

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

posted by empath

Google Preview Firefox Addon

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This post was deleted for the following reason: A link to an old Firefox add-on is very thin for a FPP. -- pb

posted by jakubsnm

R. Crumb Genesis

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

posted by HuronBob

Literal Music Video

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This post was deleted for the following reason: these are great but they've been viewed here recently and even though it seems like pretty much everyone has a youtube account the popup error is sort of maddening. -- jessamyn

posted by bugbread

Friday, September 18, 2009

I ain’t gonna plead to something I didn’t do, especially killing my own kids

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I read this here previously -- jessamyn

posted by dersins

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Jade Wolf - flash game

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is mega-sketchy-seeming -- jessamyn -- jessamyn

posted by FerociousTurnip

Cheney. You must indict Cheney. Only then, a Jedi will you be.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Mix of kind of awesome and kind of not really a good post. -- cortex

posted by Jon_Evil

Who wants honey?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: If there's no there there and you don't care, it's officially a bad post. -- cortex

posted by swift

You know you want all of it, just because it's free

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Honestly, if you are not aware that this looks like the kind of low-rent crap-shill site that we ban people for linking to in self-interest, you need to become aware of that. Benefit of the doubt and all, but this is a terrible link. Your sister may not be the best personal I-Ching going as far as what should and shouldn't be a (self-aware, semi-ironic, it's funny because it sucks?) metafilter post. -- cortex

posted by Gonestarfishing

The intention has always been to talk about justice, to talk about peace, to talk about equality...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: second! -- jessamyn

posted by jessamyn

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Librophiliac Love Letter: A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I do love a great library but we've seen these before. -- jessamyn

posted by Mike Buechel

The Art + Science Of Seeing

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a bad post and you made a mistake posting it. -- jessamyn -- jessamyn

posted by ThistleDownHair

Like Google Street View

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

posted by RoseyD

365 Days of Getting Buff

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is from five years ago or so. There is a whole site about it where the guy never left home, measured out his food by the gram, etc. -- mathowie

posted by ~Sushma~

Standin on the corner not doin no harm

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This post was deleted for the following reason: no offense but ths is really, again, not going to go well here. -- jessamyn

posted by Countess Elena

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

With a side of snark

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This post was deleted for the following reason: there is a lot wrong with this post. -- jessamyn

posted by Ruthless Bunny

Monday, September 14, 2009

WOLVERINES!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Try harder! -- mathowie

posted by champthom

He had the time of his life

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Maybe try a better version? -- mathowie

posted by Mr. Bad Example

Do you Sporcle?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is basically literally a double, right? -- cortex

posted by kmz

Douchebaggery

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Huffington post. Entertainment news. This isnt a good post for metafilter. -- vacapinta

posted by HotPants

Movie Posters from Ghana

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

posted by graventy

Because every face has a story

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Looks like a cool project, but no self-linking paul. -- mathowie

posted by paulschreiber

Sony Blue

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, this is just kind of ho-hum. -- mathowie

posted by blue_beetle

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Hairway to Stephen Hawking

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This post was deleted for the following reason: looks like a hoax in a tabloid -- mathowie

posted by Brian B.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Before There Was Viagra

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is very weak for a FPP. -- pb

posted by gonadostat

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Will the Six Great Stages of Evolution Be Followed by a Seventh?

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

posted by sundance1001

Mr. Rogers: The Movie!!!!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: you cannot link to your friend's stuff on MeFi. -- jessamyn

posted by Spaizy

Help with a cease and desist letter

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is on the wrong part of the site. -- jessamyn

posted by Frugalforlife

Moving quickly, Brooks slammed his metal-topped cane onto the unsuspecting Sumner's head.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Mefi posts need interesting links first and foremost -- mathowie

posted by minimii

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

New entries for the Ever So Strange Animal Almanac, courtesy of Papua New Guinea

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This post was deleted for the following reason: feel free to post some of this in the open thread from a few days ago -- jessamyn

posted by filthy light thief

Film Poster Paintings from Ghana

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

posted by Artw

Bizarre Photos and Photomanipulation

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The gallery isn't that interesting or coherent (photo from 1900 next to photo of woman pooping in a park? what the what?), second link is meh as well. -- mathowie

posted by netbros

Abercrombie & Fitch: If you're different, don't shop here.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this sucks that this happened but it's basically a single link news story about a hate-on topic. Can we do it better? -- jessamyn

posted by nj_subgenius

Is it Caturday yet?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This isn't appropriate for MetaFilter. -- pb

posted by Eideteker

sand animations

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This post was deleted for the following reason: it is so lovely we like to talk about it a lot. -- jessamyn

posted by dhruva

Lego Sudoku Solver

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This post was deleted for the following reason: we've kind of done the rubber room already -- mathowie

posted by Chocolate Pickle

Monday, September 07, 2009

Gomi's photography

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is very very adorable but just a link to someone's Flickrstream -- even someone awesome like gomichild -- is sort of a not-all-there MeFi post. -- jessamyn -- mathowie

posted by HuronBob

The word socialism wasn't mentioned once.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: See discussion in the open thread. -- cortex

posted by princesspathos

In an extinct volcano, curious lifeforms

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

posted by shii

Documenting the people in emergency rooms

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

posted by medici00

Sunday, September 06, 2009

Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This feels like a post trying to do two very different things in a way that doesn't make sense as a contribution to the front page. -- cortex

posted by Rafaelloello

Saturday, September 05, 2009

Screens Win Again

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Covered a week or so ago, feel free to add new links there as a comment. -- cortex

posted by emhutchinson

Woot's Metafilter homage

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This post was deleted for the following reason: More of a Metatalk thing, really. Good news: there's a thread about it over there already. -- cortex

posted by gregschoen

Friday, September 04, 2009

I AM T-PAIN

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I am not feeling this. -- jessamyn

posted by GuyZero

Undercover Investigation at Hy-Line Hatchery

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a little GYOB-ish I'm afraid. -- jessamyn

posted by garnetgirl

16 girls, 1 bike (eventually).

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Came up in this still-open thread from a couple weeks ago. -- cortex

posted by kanuck

Spoiler: things don't look so great for Louisiana.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: seen it. -- jessamyn

posted by Navelgazer

Health Care Isn’t Health (Or Happiness)

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

posted by Xurando

The local celebration of Glen Beck Day

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This reads like a blog entry, not a metafilter post. -- cortex

posted by somnambulist

Thursday, September 03, 2009

Go ahead, punk.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this blog is not yet live. it has two posts. I'm not sure what it's doing on metafilter, but it seems a little bit more like a pR stunt and less something that is already awesome. Please post this when it is already awesome if it does in fact become awesome. -- jessamyn

posted by foodbedgospel

Hidden in plain sight!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: We're discussing sub-par "Glenn Beck sucks" posts in Metatalk, feel free to discuss this there if you need to. -- cortex

posted by twoleftfeet

the hard goodbye

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This post was deleted for the following reason: please post this in the open thread -- jessamyn

posted by plexi

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is one of those things where I can appreciate it being out there as bit of apt rhetoric but I really, really don't think we need to do it here. -- cortex

posted by swift

10 paintings from some truly gifted artists. (IMHO)

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The gallery was so boring I knew it had to be a self-link, and it was. Of course. -- mathowie

posted by delrond

Was the "greatest war photograph of all time" faked?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Looks like we did this last year already. -- cortex

posted by rottytooth

In the Rubber Room

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This post was deleted for the following reason: YOU ARE THE GLUE -- cortex

posted by killdevil

The system is built for us, man

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm sure this was a coup for the Journal Sentinal, but out of that specific local-journo context this really does read like a heavy-handed rehash of the 80s "Welfare Queen" boogeyman. I don't know if your more inside was supposed to redeem this if it had existed, but it doesn't and this isn't great. -- cortex

posted by reenum

Glenn Beck guilty of murder? You decide.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is not a good post for metafilter. There is no link to anything authoritative and as such is just a conspiracy theory post. Even wackier, your glenn beck link has nothing to do with this. -- vacapinta -- vacapinta

posted by stupidsexyFlanders

Joy, I've been nice to ya, but now, I'm comin' to the edge.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I feel like we've pretty much emptied the well on the whole giving-directions-to-fark deletion reasons, so I'm just gonna delete this and leave it at that. -- cortex

posted by phaedon

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Say what?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: You might want to project this all the way to Ask Metafilter -- vacapinta

posted by Guy_Inamonkeysuit

Dick Cheney admits to supporting the use of war crimes. Why is he not under arrest?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is not how you do a post on MetaFilter. This is ranty and axe-grindy. -- jessamyn

posted by hooptycritter

Dick Cheney admits to supporting the use of war crimes. Why is he not under arrest?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is not how you do a post on MetaFilter. This is ranty and axe-grindy. -- jessamyn

posted by hooptycritter