Sunday, November 29, 2009

Armchairs Away!

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

posted by jonp72

Friday, November 27, 2009

10'X10'

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This post was deleted for the following reason: prev10usly -- cortex

posted by HuronBob

It's Like Twitter. Except We Charge People to Use It.’

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This post was deleted for the following reason: see figure 1 -- cortex

posted by timeistight

Thursday, November 26, 2009

This is not justice

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Obnoxious in-thread reaction or no, this is basically update-filter without a lot of meat and could probably be presented a bit better than this. -- cortex

posted by Monkeymoo

Phil Agre--an internet visionary

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This should go in the open thread from yesterday. -- vacapinta

posted by impuls

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Software turns cheap webcam into instant 3D scanner

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This post was deleted for the following reason: upon reflection.... linking to your website with the same link as the one you just posted to on MeFi makes it seem scarily like a self-link, might be good not to do that in the future. -- jessamyn

posted by weinzierl

They Support Sarah

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This post was deleted for the following reason: What was supposed to be the good thing about posting this? What we got was a bunch of LOLPALINITES, a bunch of retread arguments, some driveby nastiness, and a pile of flags. -- cortex

posted by double block and bleed

Procrastination is making a cup of tea

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Procrastination / is a warm gun / wait wait / post post -- cortex

posted by ardgedee

Can't we all just get along?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a bit bloggy/editorial for a front page post. -- cortex

posted by VikingSword

Goodnight Keith Moon

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Looks like we have a choice between linking to this and being able to access it, unfortunately. -- cortex

posted by hippybear

Helpful Hackers.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There's an open Climate-emails thread sans the editorializing, take this there. -- cortex

posted by karmiolz

you got your Baphomet in my music video!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: all we hear is lady oh gaga! -- jessamyn

posted by heeeraldo

Monday, November 23, 2009

Ringed Planet

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This post was deleted for the following reason: POSTS GO TO MARS / TO GET MORE CANDY BARS -- cortex

posted by uaudio

Offside - Short Film

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Self-link. This one's a bit too easy which makes me think someone didnt bother to read the guidelines. -- vacapinta

posted by daazofilms

And then, you can spend far too much time looking through the related videos

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Looks like this is a reron. -- cortex

posted by CrunchyFrog

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Sometimes you just need a friend

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

posted by shockingbluamp

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Pepsi Blu Cheeseburger

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

posted by The Devil Tesla

Human rights

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This post was deleted for the following reason: What the heck? -- cortex

posted by dollyknot

The Christianist Manifesto: A Partial Fisking

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This post was deleted for the following reason: That being on someone's blog seems just about right as far as the natural order of the univers goes. It being a front page post on Metafilter, not so much. -- cortex

posted by lexalexander

Krautrock

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

posted by vronsky

Vanish

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

posted by juv3nal

The Passions of the Claus

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This post was deleted for the following reason: sort of a one note twitter thingie, a little thin for mefi. -- jessamyn

posted by Mr. Six

Friday, November 20, 2009

HUMANITARY INVENTION IS THE BEST SOLUTION FOR WORLD !

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Crazy person + ebay listing = pretty thin post. -- cortex

posted by rachelpapers

What do Princesses and Princes Teach Us?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Looks like a lot of this came up in this recent thread; maybe add anything new as a comment in there. -- cortex

posted by jefficator

"I'm going to tell him the actual worst swearword in the world."

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This post was deleted for the following reason: oh for limone's sake -- cortex

posted by Faint of Butt

Thursday, November 19, 2009

The Poorest Part of America

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is solidly in GYOB territory because of past conversations we've had on this subject. Please feel free to contact us if there is something you are unclear on. -- jessamyn

posted by shetterly

Truckers Delight by the Flairs (SLYT)

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I don't understand if you are making a joke or what exactly but this is not a good video for metafilter even though it may have been okay for waxy. -- jessamyn

posted by zerobyproxy

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Top 10 Vampire Slayers That Should Be in New Moon

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh, people are hating this and it's the second time you've made a post out of a list on ranker.com to boot. This is not good post material. -- cortex

posted by beelzebub

SUPER BONUS

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This post was deleted for the following reason: the most important thing about good comedy is timing. And unfortunately, the timing isn't really right for this. -- jessamyn

posted by desjardins

More like Nancy LUGOSI, am I right? (Love you Nancy)

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This post was deleted for the following reason: crazy people are crazy - this is in the ZOMGZORZ nutbag category of things that don't need more publicity. -- jessamyn

posted by Taft

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Sexism in the Workplace

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Posting something just to continue in the vein of epic threads is generally a really bad idea. -- cortex

posted by dnesan

Jonas Brothers and got you bummed?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Probably a good idea to explain why those links are worth our time if you want people to blindly click through to myspace profiles. -- cortex

posted by chronkite

Can I put you on hold?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh, I love a good peeve as much as the next guy, but this is pretty thin post material. -- cortex

posted by dov3

If Earthquakes Have a Richter Level, Do ShatnerQuakes Have a Nimoy Level?

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

posted by WCityMike

Monday, November 16, 2009

We all die at the 13th b'ak'tun!!!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yup, this should probably just stay with the existing thread. -- cortex

posted by thatwhichfalls

A Crash Course in our Exponential Future

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This reads like ad copy. -- cortex

posted by kellytom382

Sextortion at Eisenhower High

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

posted by chunking express

Say Cheese! ... No, not you... who *are* you, anyway?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Photobomb II: Revenge of the Guy Peeing In The Background -- cortex

posted by not_on_display

Pinker on Gladwell

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There's a recent Gladwell thread that this can go in if it's not already there. -- cortex

posted by gallois

Let's Get Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Not really going over well. Probably better to stick with primary sources instead of thinly/poorly attributed second hand stuff in this sort of case, at any rate. -- cortex

posted by fourcheesemac

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Retro light-grid obelisk thingy?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: needs to go to askme. -- jessamyn

posted by jmnugent

Math (education) isn't a science, it's a religion!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: try again without all the editorializing if this is something you sincerely want to discuss. Thanks. -- jessamyn

posted by shivohum

Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The Onion has been donion. -- cortex

posted by WCityMike

Coffee, Camping, and Asian Girls.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, no. -- cortex

posted by Taft

Look mum no hands

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This post was deleted for the following reason: post tomorrow with a better title, really this is a callous way to treat a serious news article -- jessamyn

posted by adamvasco

Friday, November 13, 2009

One Day, This Will Be Remembered as the First Real Tricorder

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Captain's log: supplemental. -- cortex

posted by Effigy2000

Pelican - 1, Bugatti-0

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Tiny news-of-the-weird articles make lousy posts. -- cortex

posted by HuronBob

RIPCATS

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This post was deleted for the following reason: News of the weird + could be recursively mistaken as the worst obit ever = this is not a great idea. -- cortex

posted by orthogonality

anamorphic images!

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

posted by kaibutsu

Thursday, November 12, 2009

"Christian" doesn't mean what you think it means

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This post was deleted for the following reason: How posts are framed are just as important as the content. On topics like this, a neutral tone is better at keeping threads from going crazy right out of the gate. -- vacapinta

posted by Benny Andajetz

Brazilian Girls

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

posted by chesty_a_arthur

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Roomba Presents: Pac-Man!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: INSERT COIN -- cortex

posted by Navelgazer

I'm too fat for japan :(

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This post was deleted for the following reason: seriously? ths is one fo those "hey this is a topic that doesn't go really well here, maybe you could make an effort when you craft your posts so that they don't turn into LOLFATTIEZ threads" situations. -- jessamyn

posted by tehloki

Who's the actual terrorist?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: It's a fucked up story, but this really isn't a very good post for Metafilter. -- cortex

posted by flod logic

Photo essay of life in Kaz. after Soviet nukes testing

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

posted by ShadePlant

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Asian Woman Passes Driver's Test on 950th Try

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This post was deleted for the following reason: THIS IS NOT A GOOD POST FOR METAFILTER - sorry for shouting, but really.... -- jessamyn

posted by tobe

The Snuggie

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This post was deleted for the following reason: banned, self-linker goodbye -- jessamyn

posted by swilson

Awesome Gorey/Tim Burton-esque Animation

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

posted by worzel

Using VoIP in a noisy room?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: belongs on Ask Metafilter not Metafilter proper -- vacapinta

posted by TrueVox

Monday, November 09, 2009

Sexy Dreidel Video

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I think you're done here. -- mathowie

posted by punktorah

So many black people!

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

posted by tumbleweedjack

Your World of Text

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

posted by Taft

“Can you see any clippy bits?” “Do you mean handy bits?” “Yes,” replied my boy. “Clippy bits.”

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

posted by nebulawindphone

Saturday, November 07, 2009

Bad researcher. No biscuit.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is already being discussed in the previous thread. Anybody who eats their dog because they didn't see an update on the front page of metafilter is not a very good pet-owner. -- cortex

posted by CheeseDigestsAll

Tux Radar

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm not sure what makes this any different than 10000 other linux/python blogs. Could you be more specific? -- jessamyn

posted by yegga

Lemonheads in Chicago?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Sure does look like you just made a mefi post out of your own blog entries. -- cortex

posted by wensink

What up?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Looks like the show's over. Twitter shut down the account so there's not much to see here. -- pb

posted by misha

Friday, November 06, 2009

The Secrecy Shall Continue

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This post was deleted for the following reason: can someone do this over with an actual working first link? -- jessamyn

posted by bearwife

And where do acorns go if you eat them...?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The Daily Show is great, but pretty much everybody knows about it at this point. If you want to talk about Glenn Beck come hell or highwater, there's a sort of quasi-discussion in Metatalk right now. -- cortex

posted by diogenes

Hitch Hates Humorists

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I know there's probably a schadenfreude angle here that's sort of appealing, but a one-linker of Hitch doing something other than writing something really, really superb is probably not worth the friction that yet another Hitch post produces. -- cortex

posted by Effigy2000

Thursday, November 05, 2009

My Boyfriend is The President

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This post was deleted for the following reason: You might want to start off with a post explaining a meme before showing parodies of it. -- mathowie

posted by dagosto

Iraqi recruits doing Jumping Jacks

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I <3 seanbaby, but this seems pretty butt. -- cortex

posted by Monkeymoo

Waiting in line is for the poor, apparently....

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I can wait for a post about this that's less Oh Snap, if there's gonna be one, which I'm not sure there even needs to be. -- cortex

posted by deejay jaydee

Tragedy in the Heartland

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This post was deleted for the following reason: SLOP. Single link Onion Post would be weak enough without also rehashing the overly hashed Glenn Beck memes. -- vacapinta

posted by philip-random

"RHADOMANCER, n. One who uses a divining-rod in prospecting for precious metals in the pocket of a fool." --Ambrose Bierce

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Maybe this can go in the other open post about the ADE 651 -- vacapinta

posted by orthogonality

Marriage Equality is Only a Matter of Time

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This post was deleted for the following reason: please post these links in the open thread, thanks -- jessamyn

posted by jefficator

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Curriculum vita of all works and other pictures of Olia Lialina

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This post was deleted for the following reason: it's not clear at all what you're doing in this post. For someone who no one has heard of, some context is often not just helpful but necessary. -- jessamyn

posted by yegga

How About Rover Under Glass?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: We've eaten this dog before. -- vacapinta

posted by Xurando

If you can imagine it, it's on the Internet somewhere

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh, you know what, let 'em fly the freak flags in peace. There's not much here to do besides point and laugh. -- cortex

posted by Unicorn on the cob

Monday, November 02, 2009

H.P. Lovecraft documentary (first 10 minutes)

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Time-limited youtube excerpt is kind of a weird thin post. Maybe just toss this in the recent Lovecraft thread. -- cortex

posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey

Nutt Sacked.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The previously is only a couple days old, so probably better to take this stuff there. -- cortex

posted by ZenMasterThis

Sunday, November 01, 2009

Nutbusterz!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Point-and-laugh at a blog with only two posts? This is pretty thin for a post. -- cortex

posted by XQUZYPHYR

De-conversion 2.0

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Judgemental editorializing really needs not to happen when posting about hot-button issues. -- cortex

posted by Taft

DJ Sagan is in the House

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This post was deleted for the following reason: We are more connected than you can possibly imagine. -- cortex

posted by zooropa