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“when a man wearing skintight pants is behaving more sensibly than you…”

Here in Portland, Maine there are plenty of people still using derailleurs, but very few people wear helmets. The only consistently helmeted group are the road bikers/spandex pod people; when a man wearing skintight pants is behaving more sensibly than you perhaps it’s time for some self-reflection.
– selfnoise on “What’s up with all the fixies?”

Globalization is freaking awesome

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Chinese Hammer fucking rules, originally uploaded by mathowie.

I stumbled across Chinese Hammer tonight and fell in love with it for a thousand reasons. Just the thought of someone halfway around the world mimicking a video […]

More fun than a pile of powdered sugar

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Do I Look Cool Like They Do in the Movies?
originally uploaded by Max Sparber.

You might have seen a hilarious / bizarre / historical set of found photos someone picked up at a swap meet […]

Domain related junk mail

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Domain related junk mail, originally uploaded by mathowie.
In the beginning, I listed my home phone number and apartment address on all my domains. By the late nineties, the marketers/spammers showed up and after the tenth […]

Planning to attend the MeFi party in Portland, July 14th?

For MetaFilter’s 8th anniversary, we’re throwing a party at Ground Kontrol (511 NW Couch St.), a bar/80s arcade in downtown Portland. It’ll be from 7pm until 2am on Saturday, July 14th. It is strictly 21 and over because there will be free drinks (roughly 5 free drinks per person, $1.50-$2 per drink after we run […]

What does “MeFi” mean in the background of Mythbusters?

(photo by heather)
I figured I should write the answer to this entry in case some fans of the TV show Mythbusters ever wonder what a small easter egg in the background of the show set means. For anyone typing the title of this post into Google, here’s your answer:
Adam Savage, the co-host of the show […]

outside.in

I’ve been playing with Outside.in for a few minutes (here is the Portland feed), and my first thought was that this is exactly what friends told me to do in 2000. MetaFilter was just taking off being barely a year old, and San Francisco friends urged me to make city-specific local news hubs that interested […]