Monday, February 28, 2011

Colonel Qaddafi - A Life In Fashion

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Not sure this is really a great time to go fishing in the archives for front-page Qaddafi lulz. -- cortex

posted by beisny

Flagged

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This post was deleted for the following reason: It is with regret that I etc etc etc -- cortex

posted by Blazecock Pileon

So You Wanna Go to North Korea?

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

posted by Glibpaxman

Sunday, February 27, 2011

The internet, defined.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Single image posts with that kind of buildup are built to fail. -- mathowie

posted by Brandon Blatcher

Friday, February 25, 2011

The building blocks of faith...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, this is a really old site that has been posted many times before. -- mathowie

posted by goo

Why You're Not Married

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Framing has kind of tanked this from the get go, maybe a different go at this on another day, maybe hold off until it actually clears the house so this isn't a "gay marriage legalized, maybe, who knows" situation if anything is still in doubt? -- cortex

posted by d1rge

sex was in the air

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a terrible thing that happened. That said, it's a "look at these assholes" post that is already turning into the predictable hurfdurfery. -- jessamyn

posted by anya32

To photograph people is to violate them.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Neato but looks like we've seen it recently. -- cortex

posted by shakespeherian

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Now You Can Clone Bieber!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, people don't seem to like this at all. -- mathowie

posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Escape

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is your own website, you are now banned. -- jessamyn

posted by upisdown

This time, it's off the hook... and in 3D

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

posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul

A third the distance to the Sun. A third!!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, merits of the trivia set side entirely, this site seems like exactly the sort of douchetruck bad-for-the-web stuff we probably shouldn't be giving traffic to. -- cortex

posted by twoleftfeet

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Right Brain/Left Brain

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this seems to be more spammy than useful/interesting to folks, but maybe that's just the 64% of my left brain talking. -- jessamyn

posted by Short Attention Sp

New Flash Travel Site Launching soon!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Tell me of the waters of your homeworld, spammer. -- cortex

posted by museumway

DEATH RAINBOWS

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This just got deleted yesterday. What is going on? -- cortex

posted by Cannibal Galaxy

macro / micro

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This post was deleted for the following reason: single image posts don't go over too well here, sorry. -- mathowie

posted by Fizz

The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Honey / doot do DOOT dooo doot doo / oh badger badger -- cortex

posted by cedar

DEATH RAINBOWS

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I don't know where the artist quotes come from but this is terribly boring work on the site, sorry. -- mathowie

posted by Cannibal Galaxy

Voice Map

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

posted by Joe Beese

"But he had a hat!" *ba-dum BOOM*

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This post was deleted for the following reason: and such small portions! -- cortex

posted by spoobnooble

Sunday, February 20, 2011

History is written by the victors

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This post was deleted for the following reason: one post to in the archives bind them -- cortex

posted by ricochet biscuit

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Something fishy

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

posted by twoleftfeet

Thousands of Words Worth a Picture

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This post was deleted for the following reason: if you know the artist, it's not at all okay to post this here. -- jessamyn

posted by upisdown

Friday, February 18, 2011

Map of Metal

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

posted by sciurus

Child's Near-Death Experience in Nebraska

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This post was deleted for the following reason: NDEs are like NDEs but one newsy link and a book link is a bit thin for a post on a touchy topic here. -- jessamyn

posted by rodmandirect

Warp to Zero!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: might want to put this into the open eveonline post -- jessamyn

posted by xcasex

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Level 1: Gatsby's Party

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

posted by litnerd

Lara Logan brutally attacked in Egypt

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This needs a better link to make a post about. The main link is nothing more than a headline and ads/comments -- mathowie

posted by cyndigo

"It Rarely Stops"

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Domestic violence is awful and this is an arresting and disturbing spot, but neither of those really seems to add up to a metafilter post. I'm sure the intent was good but I'm not sure why this is here with this presentation. -- cortex

posted by zarq

Monday, February 14, 2011

BoxCar 2D

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Awesome but diploid. -- cortex

posted by Avenger50

A radio documentary by Geoff Ward, presented on 'The Sunday Show'

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This post was deleted for the following reason: It sure looks like this is something you posted on vimeo yourself, which makes this really not okay. -- cortex

posted by lazenby

Mobility Cart AND Taser?

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

posted by hellslinger

should've won the stupid name award

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The existence of a tumblr blog devoted specifically to aggregating noisy grumping for a recent event is kind of amusing but maybe not really post-worthy amusing. -- cortex

posted by silby

"We don't like to use -- you know -- the term 'crazy', just, committed"

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

posted by delmoi

Sunday, February 13, 2011

"Silence is consent, Tommy. I refuse to consent."

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This post was deleted for the following reason: If you can't thetan, join 'em. -- cortex

posted by Fizz

Featuring a Potato, a Tomato, Broccoli, Garlic, and Billy Dee Williams as the Bartender.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Oedipus wrecks everything. -- cortex

posted by gleuschk

Saturday, February 12, 2011

I Will Show You the Life of the Mind!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: kind of too goofball FARKish for here, sorry. -- mathowie

posted by nola

In the summer time, pockets bulging

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

posted by cashman

Temperature, Poverty, Education and Statistics

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This post was deleted for the following reason: the person who does the main blog entry appears to be a relative. Family/friendlinking is not okay here, please let us know if this is an error. -- jessamyn

posted by daisystomper

Now, Just Who's Trying to Wage a Class War Again?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: maybe this should come back up when the sources are online? -- jessamyn

posted by saulgoodman

I drink your Riemann hypothesis! I drink it up!

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

posted by geoff.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Mubarak resigns.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Very, very busy open thread right here. -- cortex

posted by simulacra

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Theo Jansen's Strandbeests

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Jansen's beests are totally neat but they've been posted about several times previously. -- cortex

posted by Fiasco da Gama

People OK With Murdering Assange

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Given the weird clusterfuck of things at play here, this feels like its leaning more to the maybe-not side of the single-use website fence. -- cortex

posted by mccarty.tim

Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Spray-on skin!

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

posted by monospace

Tuesday, February 08, 2011

"He said the right thing to do would be to try to find the blinded man and make amends, and admitted he has not done so, but added that he was no long

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This post feels kind of all-over-the-place and it's not super clear why "is Marky Mark's casting racist" is really post-worthy out of context, apparently misleading "eye-gouging" bit left aside. -- cortex

posted by The ____ of Justice

Deal with it.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: If this is worth posting about it needs to be done better. -- cortex

posted by DirtyCreature

Monday, February 07, 2011

"As a child I didn't know I was gay. I just knew that in some way, I was special."

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

posted by cider

GPS gets a noisy new neighbor

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Whoops, two locations at once! -- mathowie

posted by adamrice

Illegal settlement. Now tax free!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is firmly in the "we've pretty much told you this sort of thing needs to go on your own blog" territory. Posts on I/P topics on MeFi need to be very different from this in order to stick around. Email us if you have questions about this. -- jessamyn

posted by markkraft

"I woke up one day and thought: ‘Everyone has got to have one of these things!'”

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

posted by ocherdraco

Sunday, February 06, 2011

"Because here they are like a rag for you."

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Ugh, I'm not sure this needs to be a metafilter post. -- cortex

posted by orthogonality

Saturday, February 05, 2011

"We've tried to change the mentality, but the effort has been nearly completely lost."

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This post was deleted for the following reason: single link news article to touchy MeFi subject with graphic rape descriptions is not the best way to make a post to metafilter about this topic. -- jessamyn

posted by VikingSword

Demand Al Jazeera in the USA. The Egyptian revolution SHOULD be televised in the US...TV in US, why you no carry Al Jazzera on cable, eh?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Wow is this ever not the correct way to post to Metafilter. -- cortex

posted by Dunvegan

Fart

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This post was deleted for the following reason: No one would accuse me of being anti-fart, but this is a teeny little news-of-the-weird article. -- cortex

posted by twoleftfeet

Thursday, February 03, 2011

Up and at them

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This post was deleted for the following reason: MEEENNNTWOOOOOZAAAAAA! -- cortex

posted by the noob

Shinya Kimura, motorcycle maker

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This post was deleted for the following reason: yep, posted before. Doesn't make it any less awesome though. -- mathowie

posted by Confess, Fletch

Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Let's sync our crayon boxes and meet up for sledding

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This post was deleted for the following reason: SNOW DAY 2: FLURRY UP AND WAIT -- cortex

posted by jourman2

RCMP investigate culling of up to 100 sled dogs by Whistler based tour company. (Oh the irony.)

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is not going to go well here and we're going to continue to delete it. -- jessamyn

posted by Stagger Lee

Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Whoonga - A new addictive drug.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This isn't going over so well and could probably benefit from some better sourcing if there's gonna be a post about it. -- cortex

posted by lampshade

the library condiment bandit has been caught

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This post was deleted for the following reason: News-of-the-weird is pretty thin for a mefi post. -- cortex

posted by anothermug

When in doubt, ask the production crew

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This post was deleted for the following reason: hurf durf hwat hwat gobble gobble bazinga -- jessamyn

posted by Brandon Blatcher

Olympic Sled Dogs Killed in Whistler

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a short already deleted double. Terrible news, not that much to talk about. -- jessamyn

posted by the thing about it

You say alfalfa, I say genetically modified alfalfa

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I like to think this crop is actually named after Willie Tanner having a freakout and just shouting "ALF! ALF! A--". Also, previously. -- cortex

posted by analogue

Why Facebook Makes You Sad

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

posted by storybored