Saturday, October 31, 2009

Art, under the sheets

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This post was deleted for the following reason: i need tp for my memory hole -- cortex

posted by Kickstart70

Friday, October 30, 2009

They're made out of meat.

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

posted by empath

Jenny Diski

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This post was deleted for the following reason: We've had posts about both Polanski's recent developments and Diski's LRB stuff relatively recently, and this is shaping up to be an ugly rehash of the Polanski stuff and is getting flagged to hell. -- cortex

posted by vronsky

Alt journalist goes digital

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Congrats, Mr. Kaufmann, you are now extremely banned. -- cortex

posted by mylaudanumhabit

Biscuits in Heaven

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Looks like he's pretty much not dead. -- cortex

posted by Liquidwolf

How Many New York Time Editors Does it Take...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: You work at the Observer. This is not okay. You are banned. -- cortex

posted by uptowngirl

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Shorty drinking a troppy...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: if the point is that pipes guy, he's creepy. if the point is the youtube video, it's sort of meh without the weird pipes thing. This may be one of those ideas that is neat in a small group and really doesn't translate to the larger living room here. -- jessamyn

posted by A189Nut

A few beers always helps

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this sucks. -- jessamyn

posted by mylaudanumhabit

The Changing Color of Politics in the Deep South

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

posted by jefficator

It's the viral countdown

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There is something deeply fucking sketchy going on with this post. -- cortex

posted by Mr.Roundtree

On The Internet, Nobody Knows You're Not In The USA

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Techcrunch article from three weeks ago that's only a few paragraphs long? Makes for a pretty thin post. -- mathowie

posted by jaybol

More bad news for Elron's children

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There's a very recent Scientology thread that this can go in. -- cortex

posted by njohnson23

decrepit tapes

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

posted by Burhanistan

What cost political involvement and speech?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Something seems to have gone pretty wrong with this. -- cortex

posted by bearwife

As your Boss, you should know that this is a serious career limiting move

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The popular opinion seems to be that the answer is "no". -- cortex

posted by empath

Monday, October 26, 2009

"the western media — who turned Neda into a martyr — ignored Marwa's story."

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this sounds like a truly horrible thing. And yet the sarahpalinmoment tag and the res tof the editorializing -- plus the above the fold ladytorture that I'm growing so tired of -- make this a bad post for MetaFilter. -- jessamyn

posted by infinite intimation

Needs More GIFs

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This post was deleted for the following reason: when your previously links to something from yesterday it might be a good idea to put your link there instead. -- jessamyn

posted by Taft

Seven Rules For Girlfriends

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a short and not particularly interesting blog entry. I know it's Sunday and all, but c'mon. -- cortex

posted by feelinglistless

Post-Posthuman Blues

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm really not trying to be a terrible hardass there, but copypasting a "should have been banned for posting it" post is really not a great way to move forward with wanting to give this guy a decent obit. Can we go back to the drawing board? -- jessamyn

posted by boo_radley

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Post-Posthuman Blues

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Self-linking in a post is something you're not allowed to do, not something you're allowed to do if you mention it. -- cortex

posted by dbiedny

Saturday, October 24, 2009

I mean REALLY PISSED OFF!

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

posted by Daddy-O

Another fail for a pro at failure - Sarah Palin

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This post was deleted for the following reason: over-the-top editorializing like this isn't a good fit for MetaFilter. -- pb

posted by 86102

Friday, October 23, 2009

Beware of drunk drivers in La-Z boy chairs

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

posted by bearwife

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Plumbers Don't Wear Ties

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah they still pretty much skip that whole tie thing -- cortex

posted by DecemberBoy

Ambien Side Effects haha

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Not a good post -- mathowie

posted by celerystick

Yuri on the Chalkboard

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Kind of underwhelming and borderline offensive at the same time -- mathowie

posted by Chocolate Pickle

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Thanks to Parasite Unseen for the disclosure that this is actually kind of a self-link by proxy from someone else using his computer, which isn't really okay and whoever that was should really look into not posting to websites using other people's accounts. -- cortex

posted by Parasite Unseen

Steakhouse? Or Gay Bar?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh, people not loving this. -- cortex

posted by glaucon

What's in a name

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Happy birthday to whoever, but this is basically a flat-out stunt post. Metafilter is not your personal facebook status update. -- cortex

posted by nax

Sand animation

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

posted by Ljubljana

Shut Up Woman Get on My Horse

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

posted by Senor Cardgage

We may never know

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Not really worth a post here. -- mathowie

posted by jadayne

The Particle God Doesn't want

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The Large Hadron Collider is used to being SCIENCED ALL ITS LIFE -- cortex

posted by shownomercy

Christ, what a critter.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: sweetie, sorry when I sent you this I didn't mention that I was the judge. ack! xo! -- jessamyn

posted by not_on_display

Death of a great man

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Great man notwithstanding, this is really really thin for a post and should probably be done better if it's going to be done at all. -- cortex

posted by cameronfromedinburgh

Is Wells Fargo's Credit Card Division Customer Friendly or Incompetent?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a weak post to a short, unsupported article with no references. Strike 1. You shouldn't editorialize so much in a mefi post. Strike 2. Probably a self-link. Strike... -- vacapinta -- jessamyn

posted by credit-expert

Monday, October 19, 2009

Where are you in the Movie?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I am at that part where the black cat walks by for the second time. -- cortex

posted by MrBCID

International BBC iPhone Application

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Looks like we've seen it. -- cortex

posted by nam3d

Saturn at equinox

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this rings a bell AHAHAHAHAHA RINGS HAHAHAHA okay sorry -- cortex

posted by Joe Beese

Football, dogfighting and brain damage.

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

posted by The Card Cheat

Sunday, October 18, 2009

There's a rep for that.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: "Down already, and exactly the sort of substance-free hurf durf we disagree politically isn't that awful junk the blue needs less of." -- jessamyn

posted by blue_beetle

Why Minds Are Not Like Computers.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Why Why Minds Are Not Like Computers Is Like Why Minds Are Not Like Computers -- cortex

posted by empath

You Tell 'Em, Chomsky & Chavez!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Setting aside the pull-quoting-a-strongly-worded-editorial thing, this link takes readers to a pledge page on first click and that's really not okay. -- cortex

posted by cafe_prole

SEC Hires 29-Year Old Adam Storch for Key Role

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, this remains SEC ResumeFilter basically. -- cortex

posted by pallen123

HomeFront (sorta like StormFront, but in an apron and with chafed nipples)

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This post was deleted for the following reason: What you're linking to here needs to be much presented much more carefully. A NSFW at least, possibly much more. -- vacapinta

posted by felch

Goldman Sachs exec hired at SEC enforcement

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is not a good post for metafilter. It is getting into GYOB territory and the timeline is just copypasta. -- jessamyn

posted by Joe Beese

Knives are out

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Crazy person blogs nutso conspiracy theory about shitty paper? This is really kind of thin. -- cortex

posted by mippy

Friday, October 16, 2009

John Brown, terrorist or revolutionary?

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

posted by mareli

Heterosexualist male nominates hottest fighter dudes in mixed martial arts

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a single link blog post to a "hey let's ogle these people" essay. Without some context -- MMA is really interesting to straight guys because of this? yes? maybe? -- it's sort of thin ice for a MeFi post. -- jessamyn

posted by joeclark

Blame It On the Alcohol

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This post was deleted for the following reason: We removed this earlier. -- mathowie

posted by hermitosis

Policing in New Zealand

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is kind of thin for a SLYT post -- mathowie

posted by i_am_joe's_spleen

Why God Made Convenience Store Cameras

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This cuts a little close to the ol' Fark bone, really. -- cortex

posted by CunningLinguist

Blame It On the Alcohol

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This post was deleted for the following reason: We removed this earlier. -- mathowie

posted by hermitosis

Policing in New Zealand

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is kind of thin for a SLYT post -- mathowie

posted by i_am_joe's_spleen

Why God Made Convenience Store Cameras

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This cuts a little close to the ol' Fark bone, really. -- cortex

posted by CunningLinguist

Thursday, October 15, 2009

**This site contains photos of a cervix**

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I did like this the first time around -- jessamyn

posted by Cat Pie Hurts

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

50 Years 1 Map

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This post was deleted for the following reason: dooooouuubles iiiiinnn spaaaaaaaaaaccceeee -- cortex

posted by kliuless

Bike-opolis

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I like a good infographic and everything, but this is way thin for a front page post. -- cortex

posted by jaybol

RIP Capt Lou Albano

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

posted by fixedgear

Notice anything different? It's the new GOP.com!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: pretty much already in MeTa -- jessamyn

posted by Strange Interlude

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

The Guardian is gagged

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

posted by lucia__is__dada

Monday, October 12, 2009

Gag? You'll Retch

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This post was deleted for the following reason: blast and damn -- cortex

posted by WPW

The Fun Theory

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, we just did this last week unfortunately (it's still a cool project) -- mathowie

posted by Cool Papa Bell

Your logo makes me barf.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: the site is dead, it fell on its head. plus it maybe wasn't so awesome to begin with, possibly? -- jessamyn

posted by jbickers

Rectum? Damn near killed him!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Damn near farked 'em -- cortex

posted by jason's_planet

Social media versus email. It is a battle to the death, right?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Probably not a good idea to make a post that is basically an excuse to complain about the thing you're posting. Sucky tech journalism can do a perfectly fine job of sucking without an ironically framed post to mefi. -- cortex

posted by jeremias

Sunday, October 11, 2009

The Hand Drawn Map Association

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

posted by Joe Beese

I- just got some in my eye...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: THE SAND OH GOD IS THERE NO END TO THE SAND -- cortex

posted by Casimir

The worst TV program ever made?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this has a GYOB-ish tone which might have been okay but really an Obama/Twitter crack? -- jessamyn

posted by Damienmce

Friday, October 09, 2009

JEWWW vill (sadly, not) vatch! (yet!)

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This post was deleted for the following reason: You've kind of built a post around a video that is explicitly not available for watching; much love to Buddy Hackett, but there's no meat here, and that really doesn't work for a front page post. -- cortex

posted by mikelieman

Clayton James Cubitt's Katrina

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This post was deleted for the following reason: please take a self-imposed day off from this topic so that you do not have to take a non-self imposed day off. This post is a double -- jessamyn

posted by shetterly

Jesus wept

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh, just keep it in the original thread? -- cortex

posted by KokuRyu

Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

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

posted by mr.marx

Barack Hussein Obama will not meet Dalai Lama

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Fixed the typos and then figured if you can't spell the president's name right maybe we shoudl take another crack at this topic that is less GYOBish. -- jessamyn

posted by Incense Man

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

"voice of the voiceless ones"

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

posted by nickyskye

'ten - shun!!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: so much editorial that you should probably put this on your personal blog. -- mathowie

posted by MajorDundee

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Bacon is good for me!!!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Blech, a Reality TV clip? -- cortex

posted by ktrain

Art, up close and personal.

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

posted by R. Mutt

I call some bird as my witness

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This post was deleted for the following reason: news of the crazy people makes the sensitive mod sad. Plus one link to news and one to wiki isn't really great as far as MeFi goes. -- jessamyn

posted by Merlin The Happy Pig

Sunday, October 04, 2009

We drop laser guided bombs from UAV's daily; Can someone please get our Legislative overlords a PEN? a CRAYON? SOMETHING...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: nothing personal, but this is realyl better suited for a personal blog - it's heavy on the editorials and a link to google news searches really isn't whaat we're looking for here. -- jessamyn

posted by infinite intimation

Saturday, October 03, 2009

Far-call'd our navies melt away—/ On dune and headland sinks the fire—/ Lo, all our pomp of yesterday/ Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: totally awesome but seen here a few times before. -- jessamyn

posted by orthogonality

U.S. Government Gold Manipulation Document Declassified

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This post was deleted for the following reason: a link to a contextless pdf as if we can sort of jump into this story in the midde may not be the best way of framing this information. -- jessamyn

posted by rough ashlar

Friday, October 02, 2009

A woman can't fornicate. Well, not without consent of the king at least.

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

posted by goodnewsfortheinsane

Windmills over Malawi

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

posted by allkindsoftime

Thursday, October 01, 2009

Science tatoos

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

posted by Daddy-O

Font-do

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

posted by Asparagirl

Hobbits in Space?

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

posted by litterateur

Photographer Michael Levin's Amazing Story

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm on vacation but as a personal favor I'll go ahead and delete this and ban you. -- cortex

posted by PhotoFilter

Stories of Ambien Use and Abuse

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

posted by celerystick

Increase your earning power!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: sort of a thin newsfilter post that seems a little GYOB-ish. -- jessamyn

posted by Ruthless Bunny