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I don't know if this is the place to ask but here goes. I use Popurls to follow a lot of news and other sites. MetaFilter is on the popurls site and I can never get on it. Whenever I click on a link it slows as "This file has been deleted" for everything...
Started by rubinontheroad on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at windowssecrets):
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Metafilter: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's onion-related problems.
May 10, 2012 9:20 AM Subscribe You made my house smell like (delicious, delicious) onions! Now please help me make it stop.
Inspired by this Metafilter post , I finally got...
Started by range on
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by 18 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at metafilter):
I'll let you in on a very old Portuguese tradition: open all the windows and let the house "air out" (as close a translation... .
It will help move the air around.
Open all the windows, prop a fan blowing into your house in one window, and another blowing out .
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On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:01:50 -0700 (PDT), Erin <pinguerin@gmail.com
http://www.metafilter.com/83577/You-mean-I-can-have-Greek-AND-Latin
I didn't know that only attractive people were allowed to have
relationships, especially multiple ones! Or that...
Started by Erin on
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by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:58:14 +0000, Irfon-Kim Ahmad <irfon@ambienautica.com
Erin <pinguerin@gmail.com
I totally read the subject line of this initially as, "Polyamory
discussion on MacGuyver." On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:51:57 -0700, "Lissa" <... .
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According to a MetaFilter post , there's going to be an 8-bit-style album of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue out this summer.
Started by knile on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at coverville):
I followed it to the BBC Documentary, Ornette, Miles,Mingus & Brubeck .
Anyway, thanks for the link.
Kind of Blue is seminal and one of the first albums I ripped to FLAC .
Sacrilege.
Shiver.
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Are there online communities that charge one time fee?
April 11, 2012 7:29 PM Subscribe Need the knowledge of the collective hive: Trying to find another example of an online community that charges a single one-time joining fee for new users, like MetaFilter...
Started by achpea on
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by 8 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at metafilter):
Pinboard Days of Wonder charges a one-time fee to play Ticket to Ride (and I am assuming any other individual... .
Something Awful has a 'one time registration fee.' In the past, they used to let banned users re-purchase - I don't know if they still do that .
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I made a MetaFilter post about The Art Of Google Books , a gallery of digitization errors. It's fascinating to see their algorithms, environments, and cameras have similar problems to our problems. I especially like this shot of their page turning mechanism...
Started by daniel_reetz on
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by 2 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at diybookscanner):
Suddenly I feel really satisfied with my work.
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I wanted to share with everyone this interesting Metafilter post about "alt-acs," who are "people with graduate education (mostly in the humanities and library science) who have decided to pursue alternative academic careers." I post this mostly for the...
Started by larryc on
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by 8 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at chronicle):
Bib, who is almost ....
And a survey of people working in alt-ac jobs went around about a week or so ago and provided some interesting data and ideas .
Great links, Larryc!
Interested folks can also look for alt-ac stuff on Twitter with the hashtag #altac .
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What are the best comments or threads you've ever seen on reddit?
May 5, 2012 11:56 AM Subscribe What is the best comment or thread you've ever seen on reddit?
I was inspired by this comment in the recent reddit Meta that pointed to a fantastic answer...
Started by Blasdelb on
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by 11 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at metafilter):
That link is actually a fantastic representation of why I'm asking Metafilter and not looking through reddit is actually a fantastic representation of why I'm asking Metafilter and not looking through reddit.
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I’ve got a lot of PDFs/CHMs and they are getting out of control. So I’ve decided to do something about it. First I hit Google and didn’t get very far - the range of programs are very naff. Then I hit metafilter and got a lot more results. From there I...
Started by graham.reeds on
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
From there you can find links to about 20.
The original metafilter pages are here , here and here .
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I don't trust myself to not roll over on a baby in our bed. I also know that, if there is something in the bed that I'm determined not to disturb, I end up not getting much sleep. Co-sleeping with the baby in the bed doesn't seem like it would work for...
Started by Anne Neville on
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by 20 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at straightdope):
I looked at the Arm's Reach because of metafilter, but I'm going by someone on Ask MetaFilter) so ....
Has anyone used anything like this for your baby? What it wouldn't work as well .
MetaFilter) so the baby could be next to our bed.
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