Friday, April 30, 2010

Blame Mr. Rogers

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This post was deleted for the following reason: would you be mine / could you be mine / won't you be / my double -- cortex

posted by ColdChef

So, You Need a Typeface?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Need a deletion reason? --- (YES) --- [Verdana!] -- cortex

posted by schmod

Peter Watts receives suspended sentence

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yep, hit the grey already. -- cortex

posted by Michael Roberts

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Sexual Abuse Victim Ends Decades of Abuse

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Metafilter is not the place for you to keep pushing this issue. Get your own blog. -- cortex

posted by travelnut15

Kings Of The Castle

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Neat but posted about before. -- cortex

posted by Markb

Tehran Targets Tan Lines

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

posted by Carlin

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

"Please don’t pull a Larry Summers on me"

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Racism still exists + Harvard Law drama? I'm not sure there's a lot of need for, nor much of anything good that could come from, this being a post. -- cortex

posted by emilyd22222

Trois morceaux après des hymnes byzantins - II

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This post was deleted for the following reason: You need to ask this on the AskMefi portion of the site, not here. -- cortex

posted by M83

Hi, mom!

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

posted by prefpara

Vegetable Violence

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This post was deleted for the following reason: seems to be a link to a video by someone you know. please do not do that here. -- jessamyn

posted by Enos

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Arbeit macht frei

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, this already came up on Metatalk. -- cortex

posted by vivelame

We all excuse Robin

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Previously - but please drop the link to part two in the previous post. -- jessamyn

posted by P.o.B.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Why are people kissing cortex's ass?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Really? I mean, go to Metatalk if you really want to do this I guess, but why in god's name would you make this a front page post? -- cortex

posted by harold_dumbacher

A REAL Northern Exposure

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This post was deleted for the following reason: "Hey this is a thing by a guy I know" is generally not okay for a post. -- cortex

posted by spock

The Sky Is Falling

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

posted by Kskomsvold

And now, he can relax in style...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: 2 posts in one link! -- cortex

posted by koeselitz

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Corruption in LA? Couldn't be.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: post is sort of a mess. maybe if it's a legit non-kook story make another post with better links & less editorializing? -- jessamyn

posted by eye of newt

eskimo strippers

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

posted by kittensofthenight

we had no choice on background that year

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

posted by Potomac Avenue

Public Shaming

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

posted by zarq

Friday, April 23, 2010

And you thought this was the 21st Century...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Racist jackasses continue to exist. Not really the makings of a good mefi post. -- cortex

posted by Ruthless Bunny

23andme's genetic testing kit is on sale for $99USD today. 1) Is it worth it? 2) Is it safe? 3) Do I really want to know?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, not really a great post for mefi -- mathowie

posted by 3rdparty

"Ignore it at your peril."

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

posted by Afroblanco

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Which college mascot wins in a fight?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: As far as I can tell, you're long-time friends with the guy responsible for this site. This feels way too close to home. -- cortex

posted by Kellster

Ranting and Ranting

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Zwei. Feel free to add stuff to the other post in comments. -- cortex

posted by Leezie

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Barney's a Super Freak, Super Freak.

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

posted by grapefoot

Solar Dynamics Observatory

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This post was deleted for the following reason: OH SNASAP -- cortex

posted by homunculus

Longtime voice of GEICO commercials fired after pressure (and harassment) from Tea Party members.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Ugh, looks like one of your previous posts was a shill for one of the clients of the marketing firm you work for. Adios. -- cortex

posted by WhoseVoice

Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I don't know if there's anything sketchy going on here or if you're just monomaniacal about the okcupid posts but this is definitely getting to be too much of a pattern. -- cortex

posted by Groovytimes

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

International Sim Cards

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

posted by redbeard

Monday, April 19, 2010

Celebrities With Bigger Natural Boobs Than Heidi Montag

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

posted by nealrodriguez

I call YOU, Procyon Lotor!

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

posted by Shepherd

35 more photos of Eyafallajökull.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Covered in the open thread. -- pb

posted by King Bee

Too many freshly ground minorities could sully the delicate aroma.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Copyediting-of-the-weird is pretty thin stuff. -- cortex

posted by tybeet

Sunday, April 18, 2010

i can't even imagine how much that

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, no fault of yours infini, but it seems like this is basically the only article that Matthew Crawford ever writes. -- cortex

posted by infini

Eyjafjallayökull vents.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: "This is a crappy resource" isn't usually a good reason for a post in any case, and this reads more like a blog entry than a Metafilter post. Please avoid personal editorializing in posts in the future. -- cortex

posted by lapsangsouchong

Futureme

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I appreciate the formal irony of the thing but this is a straight-up double post. -- cortex

posted by vostok

Friday, April 16, 2010

Oh, I need that.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: *squirts ink* nothing to see here… -- mathowie

posted by shakespeherian

Croatian teenager wakes from coma speaking fluent German.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Blurby news-of-the-weird stuff rarely makies good posts, and this is pretty unambigously too-good-to-fact-check bullshit. -- cortex

posted by Fizz

Family values

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

posted by orthogonality

Thursday, April 15, 2010

One lump or two?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: already tea partying thanks. also the party? not so great actually. -- jessamyn

posted by cereselle

The Alot is Better Than You at Everything

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

posted by EvaDestruction

singh when your winning

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This post was deleted for the following reason: there's a thread on this case open from two weeks ago. -- jessamyn

posted by marienbad

Confluence, Contredanse, Corporation

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yup, we were just talkin' about it over there. -- cortex

posted by hippybear

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Techno-determinism, anyone?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This reads way too much like a personal blog entry rather than a metafilter post, sorry. -- cortex

posted by mondaygreens

South Korean kids face game curfew

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This post was deleted for the following reason: A few paragraphs of newswire feed is pretty thin for a post. -- cortex

posted by Catholicgauze

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Down the slippery slope we go?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Pretty much covered recently, and post-as-series-of-questions isn't okay as a use of the front page in any case. -- cortex

posted by Duug

Monday, April 12, 2010

Stream Sports

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm assuming youhad the best of intentions but this is a strange post. -- jessamyn

posted by MechEng

Storm Troopers in situ.

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

posted by OmieWise

Pixels invading New York

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The invasion is over, man! We already lost! -- cortex

posted by megob

What kind of name is "Jobs" anyway?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: what? -- jessamyn

posted by azarbayejani

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Pope Going Down in England

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is being discussed in a civilized fashion in the open thread. -- jessamyn

posted by zenpop

Saturday, April 10, 2010

A lesson in snobbery!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: A lesson in being banned for self-linking. -- cortex

posted by ilrozo23

I want to do something ancient to ya

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This seems not great. -- cortex

posted by Toekneesan

Friday, April 09, 2010

Unaffordable College Athletics

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Paywall = nowaywall. -- cortex

posted by jjray

Attack of the Pixels

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This post was deleted for the following reason: seenit. pew pew! -- mathowie

posted by Chocolate Pickle

radio web app

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this appears to be your own site and you are accordingly banned. -- jessamyn

posted by wubwub

But who will feed the unicorns!?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh, one person-recovering-from-dental-anasthesia-and-rambling-into-a-camera post was probably as many as Mefi ever needs. -- cortex

posted by loquacious

Thursday, April 08, 2010

The Coming of the Robochrist

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Man, I love Robocop and all but you kinda sunk your own post by treating it like a blog entry. Also, I am deleting this from an iPad. -- cortex

posted by BLDGBLOG

RIP Malcolm McClaren

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

posted by Lynsey

Attempted jet bombing

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is kind of breaking news and not going well -- mathowie

posted by Chocolate Pickle

Wednesday, April 07, 2010

New NES game: Bio Force Ape!

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

posted by ned4spd8874

The Future of Prostitution

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This seems like a collection of not-great links thrown together to prop up a post gimmick, not a post about something awesome in its own right. -- cortex

posted by b2walton

Appletite for Destruction

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh, we're really pushing the limit on the Yet Another iPad Thread thing and this isn't fabulous or anything. Maybe toss these into that in-dash iPad thread from the other day. -- cortex

posted by chavenet

the digital golf divide

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This post was deleted for the following reason: yeah, not really a great post for mefi -- mathowie

posted by archivist

Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Analogies and Metaphors Found in High School Essays

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, this is some pretty ancient FW: FW: FW: RE: stuff. -- cortex

posted by cleancut

Monday, April 05, 2010

Firefight in New Baghdad; US, Iraqi forces kill 9 insurgents, detain 13

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This post was deleted for the following reason: covered earlier today -- mathowie

posted by ennui.bz

Party like it's 2009!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: all signs point to no. -- jessamyn

posted by MrMoonPie

The 50 Most Stressful Colleges

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh, people don't seem to like this much, and it is pretty linkbaity stuff. -- cortex

posted by The Biggest Dreamer

Google Indexing end pubsubhubbub

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This post was deleted for the following reason: what the what? -- mathowie

posted by datta

Modernist architecture & made-up captions

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

posted by OmieWise

Sunday, April 04, 2010

Back to Africa

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This post was deleted for the following reason: go be schmoopy somewhere else you two. this is a double post -- jessamyn

posted by klangklangston

Galatians 6: 7-9 FTW!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Lousy son of a bitch dies violently. It doesn't feel like there's a whole lot to say here, and the cutesy framing doesn't help. -- cortex

posted by markkraft

Saturday, April 03, 2010

Flint is on Fire

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This post was deleted for the following reason: pleaqse do not link to your friend's stuff. If someone wants to post more info about this story, feel free. -- jessamyn

posted by peewinkle

Crazy militia video

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The last post is just a few days old, go ahead and add this there if it hasn't showed up already. -- cortex

posted by snottydick

Continuity

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

posted by echo target

Friday, April 02, 2010

Teabonics

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

posted by Heliochrome85

It might tip over and capsize if it's too overloaded!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: maybe not a great idea, knowing the guy is dealing with a bunch of health problems that make him sort of weird. -- jessamyn

posted by cleancut

...a large number of infinitely bigger pranks that haven't received the kind of coverage they deserve.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: SEEN IT -- jessamyn

posted by OverlappingElvis

Thursday, April 01, 2010

"How many calls have there been to the mouse helpline?"

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

posted by PMdixon

Bernanke shocks the U.S.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Onion's been done and done and done again around here, sorry. -- cortex

posted by diwolf

Shout it out

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

posted by dobbs