Monday, January 31, 2011

Metafeed

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

posted by lipsum

Like Pigs to the Slaughter

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is horrible but I'm not sure what a post about it is for other than to make a space for folks to agree that it's horrible. -- cortex

posted by Pseudology

You have died of dysentery

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Burhanistan has died of SHUT THE HELL UP YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME -- cortex

posted by COD

Imagine his life after marriage

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

posted by vidur

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Being Suicidal: What it feels like to want to kill yourself

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

posted by Lexica

Dueling on the Cello

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This post was deleted for the following reason: dun da dun da da DUN DUN da da DUN DUN -- jessamyn

posted by antgly

Bieber loves me, that I know

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I don't really think this is an awesome youtube video that would be good for MetaFilter -- mathowie

posted by zippy

Saturday, January 29, 2011

The Kimchi Chronicles: A stranger in a Strange Land

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is weird and racist and bad. -- jessamyn

posted by Dillonlikescookies

Flight: addictive paper plane flash game

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

posted by Foci for Analysis

Storming Cairo for Freedom: A First Hand Experience

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This post was deleted for the following reason: there's an existing open thread about this. If there's going to be a new "this is the news about Egypt" thread, we'll probably need it to be more of a "what's been going on" sort of thing Please post this in the open thread -- jessamyn

posted by paladin

Friday, January 28, 2011

The 13 Most Expensive Celebrity Photos Ever

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This post was deleted for the following reason: world's bannedest spammer -- cortex

posted by veljko83pfc

What about white straight middle-class middle-aged men?

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

posted by cowboy_sally

ceiling cat is not watching Tracy Morgan masturbate.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: "which accomplished female is more fuckable" posts aren't so great here and Palin posts are double not so great here. -- jessamyn

posted by quonsar II: smock fishpants and the temple of foon

The revolution will not be televised....

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Open thread here. -- cortex

posted by Huplescat

Harper's > Karyn.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I heart Harpers and a post about this situation or how it plays out would be okay, but the Go Pledge framing here is really pretty much not okay. -- cortex

posted by TheWash

Live video from Egypt

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Situation is being discussed very actively in this thread. -- cortex

posted by freakazoid

100x100

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This post was deleted for the following reason: there is an IMB is 100 thread from a few days ago, maybe put this in there? -- jessamyn

posted by pashdown

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Judicial smackdowns

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The other thread is only three days old. -- cortex

posted by gjc

எந்திரன்!

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

posted by Askiba

Copycat of Arizona's Immigration Status Bill Passes in Mississippi

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Post updates in your previous post. -- cortex

posted by azileretsis

One less hawk in Washington

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yay for Coop but yeah, this should probably just be in the open thread if it isn't already. -- cortex

posted by crunchland

Apparently, he's alive and well

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

posted by impuls

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Question Regarding Females

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Oh look! You own this stupid site! Get bent, spammer. -- mathowie

posted by OneDay612

Need Help Finding Which Font This Is

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I think you wanted Ask MetaFilter. -- pb

posted by timpanogos

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Whoops! He did it, again!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: If this is worth posting about someone can hopefully take the time to put together something more substantial than a small Wired writeup. -- cortex

posted by Vibrissae

Flight of fancy

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This post was deleted for the following reason: HELLO THERE ORVILLE AND WILBUR MY NAME IS THOMAS FUCKING MOY -- cortex

posted by klangklangston

Monday, January 24, 2011

Your tax dollars at work, killing cowbirds!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: might be a good idea to put this together in a post with a little less editorializing. It's definitely a shitty thing that happened, but this is not a great tone to set for a MeFi post on the subject. -- jessamyn

posted by HuronBob

Strip clubs and rape, what's the truth?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: unclear thwt's going on here but you seem to have uploaded at least one of these articles. MeFi is for linking to things ON THE WEB, not putting things online for other people to talk about. Contact us if you have questions. -- jessamyn

posted by SockyMcPuppet

Kim Jong-Il Looking at Things!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: posted a few months ago -- mathowie

posted by CarrotAdventure

Sunday, January 23, 2011

I didn't want mayo!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Seen Jerry before. For future reference, please avoid using url shortner links in post text, they don't have any benefit here. -- cortex

posted by 99823

Shakespearian Netflix Moonwalk Ninja

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is behind Netflix's registration wall. -- cortex

posted by Potloaf

RIP, Torri

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This post was deleted for the following reason: eh, David Duke's site doesn't deserve traffic. -- mathowie

posted by subpixel

Saturday, January 22, 2011

The Central Bank any more doesn't limit the rate under deposits

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Breakfast is eggs and waffles and spam -- vacapinta

posted by chimik8

Also, I worship at the altar of David Bowie.

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

posted by valkane

Friday, January 21, 2011

FLAG IT AND MOVE ON

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

posted by The Whelk

Mug shot roundup

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Mug shots are kind of a fascinating thing but all the same this does feel kind of needlessly gawkerish and exploitative without some kind of context. -- cortex

posted by nevercalm

Thursday, January 20, 2011

If It Were My Home

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This post was deleted for the following reason: if it were my PWN -- cortex

posted by modernnomad

Converting Waste Heat into Electricity

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is pretty much just a press release. Interesting news if it's got legs but we really need something more substantial in the way of links for this to work as a post. -- cortex

posted by stoneweaver

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The House vote was 245 to 189 to repeal the law, with three Democrats joining all Republicans in the majority.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Given what a big and kind of hot-button subject this is, probably better not to have a post that sort of tersely and ambiguously overstates the case like this. -- cortex

posted by OverlappingElvis

How to play guitar

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This post was deleted for the following reason: If Nathan is trollin', kudos to him on a job well done. If not, this is sort of not-great territory for a post. Without having some context making it clear that it's the former and not the latter, I think this is a let's-not situation. -- cortex

posted by dubold

Why Conservatives Love War

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This post was deleted for the following reason: the difference between loving war and being hardwired for violence is important. If you want a thoughtfule discussion maybe choose a better title, everyone lulzed all over this one. -- jessamyn

posted by Philosopher's Beard

Monkey Raping a Frog

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This post was deleted for the following reason: don't. -- jessamyn

posted by dougrayrankin

25 years of computer insecurity

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is reading really bloggy and not so much "hey here's something I found on the web" maybe a rephrase is in order? -- jessamyn

posted by MikeWarot

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Open Breast Feeding

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Good for her but this is pretty thin post material. -- cortex

posted by taff

Help

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I feel for Joel here, but this blog post really doesn't feel like something that should be discussion fodder on the front page. -- cortex

posted by restless_nomad

Should I Work for Free? - A Flowchart

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

posted by nooneyouknow

Monday, January 17, 2011

Drug experiment

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

posted by dgaicun

pwsnt calls out those who used the n-word today

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This post was deleted for the following reason: People who say ugly shit suck, but I'm not sure posting this site to metafilter is actually making the world a better place either. -- cortex

posted by antgly

Still blocky

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This post was deleted for the following reason: repost what we must because we can -- cortex

posted by juv3nal

An unlonely grave

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a huge disaster, maybe needs better than a behind-registration link and a few dog photos -- know your hearts's in the right place, but this isn't the post for this. -- jessamyn

posted by Joe Beese

"I believe in Superman the way some people believe in Jesus,"

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is great news for Chris but this is too close to a friendslink to be okay on MetaFilter. -- jessamyn

posted by PuppyCat

Get Well Soon, Steve

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Maybe hold off until there's more of an actual post to make? -- cortex

posted by BZArcher

Steve Jobs takes a medical leave of absence

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Bad news, but tiny wire blurb as soon as possible is not a good way to post. -- cortex

posted by jragon

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Just relax and let the hooks do their work

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This post was deleted for the following reason: What you do is load this post and that one in two windows side by side and then you get all CAMERA ONE! CAMERA TWO! CAMERA ONE! CAMERA TWO! and it's suddenly a 3D Waynes World reference and this deletion reason really isn't gelling I guess. -- cortex

posted by Blazecock Pileon

you can shave the baby

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, no biggie bwg but that main link is pretty much a textbook example of People Who Are Fucking Up The Web. -- cortex

posted by bwg

The Procrastination Equation

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The equation idea is cool but this is basically an ad for a book and an article about another guy or two who wrote a book. No big deal but thinnish for a MeFi post. -- jessamyn

posted by storybored

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Remi Kart

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Despite his name being an anagram for "I, Millard, rage!", I'm actually quite calm. Will his pranks never cease? -- cortex

posted by dougrayrankin

Sentence. Next Sentence. Wrong!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Posted yesterday -- mathowie

posted by twoleftfeet

Friday, January 14, 2011

I guess he didn't like Saved By The Bell.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I regret to inform you that the bell is not operating today. -- cortex

posted by yellowbinder

Wastin' away again in Margaritaville

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Frivolous lawsuit is frivolous? -- cortex

posted by humannaire

An Unbelievable Video of Political Madness

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Posts really need to not read like editorials. -- cortex

posted by novenator

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Do you hate a browser with unhealthy amounts of vigor?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: yeah, this is kind of outdated, even though IE6 should die in a tire fire. -- mathowie

posted by localhuman

Hope on a Pale Blue Dot

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This post was deleted for the following reason: posted a couple days ago -- mathowie

posted by AElfwine Evenstar

Is this the man of your dreams?

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

posted by empatterson

Sister Sarah's bloody grammar

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I know you mean well, but these posts are just not going to fly today. -- jessamyn

posted by dejah420

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

The ever-astonishing lexicon of Sarah Palin

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is unnecessary-post-about-this number four. James Brown, you better watch your back. -- cortex

posted by MisterMo

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

"My suit has better abs"

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

posted by DMan

They really want a girl

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is sort of single link news grarbait. -- jessamyn

posted by KillaSeal

tinfoil hat time? Maybe Maybe not

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This post was deleted for the following reason: my NWO masters command me to suppress this damaging revelation -- cortex

posted by donfactor

Monday, January 10, 2011

Naomi Wolf challenges the right to anonymity of rape accusers

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There's been a lot of discussion of Wolf's opinions and responses to same in some of the previous Wikileaks/Assange threads and I'm not sure we need another post just to dig into the sub-subject even further. -- cortex

posted by banal evil

Are you Social?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Are you so completely banned? -- cortex

posted by Ly

OKCupid on the math behind female beauty

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This post was deleted for the following reason: we've pretty much done the OKCupid blog and their teaser headlines/suggestions to death here. -- jessamyn

posted by meadowlark lime

Fake Steve Gets Real

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This post was deleted for the following reason: single link blog op-ed on a touchy topic, maybe wait a day or two if this is a topic dear to you and make more of a "this is great link I wanted to discuss with MeFites" posts? -- jessamyn

posted by timeistight

Sunday, January 09, 2011

Checking Ourselves Out

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this seems like a talking point more suited to your own blog than to metafilter. -- jessamyn

posted by KathyBraid

The Wilding of Sarah Palin

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This post was deleted for the following reason: good god no -- cortex

posted by ELF Radio

And Pounce! step back and Pounce! step back ...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: One...two...[crunch]. The answer is two. -- cortex

posted by bwg

Saturday, January 08, 2011

Linda Lusk

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this has been a really weird day on MetaFilter and a newsfilter pedophilia/rape "look at these assholes" post is not going to fly today. -- jessamyn

posted by Joe Beese

Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Hi, so, if in your post you take a shit on the hypothetical thread that will happen in response to your post? That's a bad post. Please don't do that. -- cortex

posted by Apocryphon

Friday, January 07, 2011

The Web Is a Customer Service Medium

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, let's keep it on the grey -- mathowie

posted by bonefish

Thursday, January 06, 2011

Military blogger exposes religious bias in US army recruitment and practice

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Subject is interesting but it seems like the framing here is pretty flawed. If someone wants to try again at some point, that's fine. Thanks for being a good sport, sarastro. -- cortex

posted by sarastro

They ain't perfect: Copy errors in The New Yorker

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Christ, is it self-link week or something? -- cortex

posted by daniel_

Epic Action Short Film - The Night The Reindeer Died

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Get bent, spammer. -- cortex

posted by Newcott

is it a dream?

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

posted by eyeheartyou

Wednesday, January 05, 2011

The place is like a museum, but price reduced!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Gummy bear? -- cortex

posted by dchase

MDMAfilms, a new drug-centered film venture from hated (hipster?) writer Tao Lin

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Do not fucking spam our site, Tao Lin. -- cortex

posted by Charnieia

Dating Denial of Service

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh, not much here. -- cortex

posted by asymptotic

Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Sticking things under your skin for fun and... hospital visits

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This post was deleted for the following reason: someone else make this post without this presentation and we'll be happy to have it stick around. -- jessamyn

posted by shii

Ghost Town

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This post was deleted for the following reason: GHOST CHINA 2: BOOHAN -- cortex

posted by Artw

Monday, January 03, 2011

Cats getting shot by laser blasters

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

posted by dubold

Your favorite city... isn't so bad, really.

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

posted by Toekneesan

Saturday, January 01, 2011

When you’re discussing the hottest photo shoots of the year, you expect the Swimsuit Issue to come up. You don’t really expect PETA to enter the conve

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

posted by cheenhao8

but at the length truth will out.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: orthwhile post, but we don't want to get into the habit of cutting and pasting unattributed text from other blogs. Maybe someone else can make this post with their own phrasing? -- jessamyn

posted by adamvasco