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- A Sleepy Pennsylvania Town Grew into America's Mushroom Capital https://www.metafilter.com/203192/How-A-Sleepy-Pennsylvania-Town-Grew-Into-Americas-Mushroom-Capital 0 comments
- The Cost of Living/Housing Crisis https://www.metafilter.com/200377/The-Cost-of-Living-Housing-Crisis 28 comments
- What if we could just *draw* the code? http://www.metafilter.com/145129/What-if-we-could-just-draw-the-code 3 comments
- Every day at my job I helped people just barely survive http://www.metafilter.com/112698/California-Dreamin#4183210 315 comments
- LAST COMISKEY - Story of the 1990 White Sox and the Final Season (slyt) https://www.metafilter.com/198757/LAST-COMISKEY-Story-of-the-1990-White-Sox-and-the-Final-Season-slyt 3 comments baseball
- Welcome to the world where Sandy Hook didn't happen. http://www.metafilter.com/123893/welcome-to-the-world-where-sandy-hook-didnt-really-happen 3 comments politics
- The FBI's files on Richard Feynman released http://www.metafilter.com/116688/the-fbi-has-a-do-not-contact-list 5 comments science
- Kansas passes Tax Act meaning that business owners are not taxed at all on income derived from business profits. http://www.metafilter.com/116370/a-modest-tax-proposal 3 comments politics
- Seventy feared dead and five hundred wounded by riot police in Zhanaozen, west Kazakhstan. http://www.metafilter.com/110594/massacre-feared-in-kazakhstan 51 comments worldnews
- Within the next week, the US government is set to sue a dozen banks for billions in losses caused by those banks' misrepresenting the risks of mortgage-backed securities. http://www.metafilter.com/107076/too-big-to-failtoo-big-to-sue 4 comments politics
- "[A] faceless factory of slideshows and sportswriting gruel, and nothing more" BleacherReport attempting to improve http://www.metafilter.com/106765/a-faceless-factory-of-slideshows-and-sportswriting-gruel-and-nothing-more 3 comments sports
- Muslims in Thailand are stepping up a campaign to systematically kill all Buddhists in the southern region of the country http://www.metafilter.com/105952/we-will-kill-burn-and-destroy-all-buddhists 544 comments worldnews
- Death Valley's sliding rocks may actually hitch a ride on ice rafts http://www.metafilter.com/104632/death-valleys-sliding-rocks-may-actually-hitch-a-ride-on-ice-rafts 7 comments science
- What is the most unusual thing you've found tucked inside a book? http://www.metafilter.com/61017/things-found-in-books 40 comments books
- Dear Reddit, a warning. http://www.metafilter.com/ 81 comments reddit.com
- Our friends at MetaFilter recently ran a post about the f7u12 phenomenon. Enjoy! http://www.metafilter.com/100351/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu 43 comments reddit.com
- "Declaring Wikileaks and the Operation Payback guys as terrorist organization...could radicalize the IT community." http://www.metafilter.com/98335/for-the-chaotic-good#3411183 155 comments technology
- Quote that sums up Google and other Web 2.0 companies: "If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you are the product being sold." http://www.metafilter.com/95152/userdriven-discontent#3256046 466 comments technology
- Right-Wing Censorship on Digg: "I was peripherally involved with the investigation of this, and I can confirm that it's every bit as bad as this article [on alternet.org] states." http://www.metafilter.com/94464/massive-rightwing-censorship-of-digg-uncovered#3222435 31 comments politics
- The rich caused the recession, the rich have gotten richer from the recession http://www.metafilter.com/93578/well-you-cant-expect-the-rich-to-eat-themselves 148 comments politics
- James Bond vs. Jason Bourne: a Generational Comparison http://www.metafilter.com/93504/you-carry-a-00-number-it-means-you-have-license-to-kill-not-get-killed#3171708 6 comments reddit.com
- Cornell researchers team have been performing clitoroplasties on infants and girls who show "gender ambiguity." To test whether the girls retain clitoral sensation after the surgery, the doctors stimulate the girls with Q-tips and vibrators. Bioethicists are in disbelief. http://www.metafilter.com/92944/genital-mutilation-at-cornell 876 comments science
- One of the worst oil spills in history you've never heard of just happened. http://www.metafilter.com/92375/one-of-the-worst-oil-spills-in-history-youve-never-heard-of-just-happened 3 comments reddit.com
- Pot is so cheap now. http://www.metafilter.com/92024/marijuana-panic 3 comments reddit.com
- GEICO voice actor makes a YouTube video criticizing the Tea Party Movement. Teabaggers go apeshit, flooding GEICO with calls demanding he be fired. GEICO caves immediately and fires the guy. http://www.metafilter.com/91255/longtime-voice-of-geico-commercials-fired-after-pressure-and-harassment-from-tea-party-members 1166 comments politics
- A commenter, in a discussion about password security, reveals the rather elaborate way in which they do not create their passwords http://www.metafilter.com/90579/the-password-of-1112-mefiers-is-123456#3019101 11 comments netsec
- "The modern world absolutely teems with marvels. Modern western civilization is the shit." Great, positive rant. http://www.metafilter.com/83597/money-get-away#2668827 8 comments reddit.com
- Beware the Red Menace!: 20% of respondants believe socialism is better than capitalism http://www.metafilter.com/81130/beware-the-red-menace 14 comments politics
- How "Free Bananas in the Kitchen" paralyzed a multinational for three days http://www.metafilter.com/78177/please-unsubscribe-me-from-this-list#2408665 185 comments technology
- Great Sci-fi writer Philip Jose Farmer passes away http://www.metafilter.com/79480/rip-philip-jose-farmer 4 comments reddit.com
- H.M., amnesia patient of neuroscience fame, dies. http://www.metafilter.com/77077/well-remember-you 3 comments science
- Broken Windows Theory Validated by Experiments http://www.metafilter.com/76792/broken-windows-theory-experiments 3 comments science
- Someone submits a question that illustrates the difference between asperger's and normal people's thought processes. Guess what most of the comments were about? http://www.metafilter.com/76283/go-ahead-diagnose-yourself-are-you-an-aspie 6 comments reddit.com
- All the stocks and bonds you think you own are actually owned by a company you've probably never heard of, a company owned by the same people who own the US Federal Reserve. http://www.metafilter.com/75928/you-dont-really-own-the-shares-you-think-you-own 48 comments business
- Is $40,000 Fair Punishment For Setting Up A Fake Facebook Profile? http://www.metafilter.com/73654/is-40000-fair-punishment-for-setting-up-a-fake-facebook-profile 2 comments reddit.com
- "The problem is that the women quoted in the article, who are quite obviously insufferable hens, confuse men's conversation filters with being boring." http://www.metafilter.com/72632/boring-men#2153263 14 comments reddit.com
- The unprecedented slaughter of over 1600 of Yellowstone's bison this winter will go down as the largest wild bison kill since the 19th century http://www.metafilter.com/71521/hazation-without-representation 3 comments reddit.com
- Really nice chess anecdote http://www.metafilter.com/62237/chess-tactics-explained-in-plain-english#1735597 25 comments reddit.com
- Lots of thin people are really "stealth" fat people in disguise, researchers say http://www.metafilter.com/61058/see-not-many-people-know-this-but-there-are-two-kinds-of-fat-people-there-are-people-that-were-born-fat-and-then-there-are-people-that-were-once-thin-then-became-fat 4 comments science
- Why the Shuttle Sucks http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/48654#1189388 18 comments science
Linking pages
- Transcription: Jessamyn West, Technology Lady | by Jessamyn West | today in librarian tabs | Medium https://medium.com/@jessamyn/transcription-jessamyn-west-technology-lady-6c6f5fefa507#.s75d93ntw 113 comments
- Historical first look into the Fed's bailout payments reveals breathtaking multi-trillion-dollar corruption | Boing Boing http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/13/historical-first-loo.html 113 comments
- This column will change your life: Politeness enforcement tactics | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/28/change-your-life-politeness-enforcement 47 comments
- Looking at the Web with Internet Explorer 6, one last time | Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/looking-at-the-web-with-internet-explorer-6-one-last-time/ 33 comments
- Voting machine source-code leak shows election-rigging subroutines? | Boing Boing http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/20/voting-machine-sourc.html 29 comments
- Santa Fe Institute economist: one in four Americans is employed to guard the wealth of the rich | Boing Boing http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/05/santa-fe-institute-e.html 26 comments
- Read: The full run of If magazine, scanned at the Internet Archive | Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2016/02/25/read-the-full-run-of-if-magaz.html 22 comments
- The Internet's First Family | Hazlitt http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/hazlitt/longreads/internets-first-family 16 comments
- Security researcher: I found secret reprogramming backdoors in Chinese microprocessors | Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2012/05/28/security-researcher-i-found-s.html 14 comments
- Tax havens hold $7.6 trillion; 8% of world's total wealth | Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2016/01/01/tax-havens-hold-7-6-trillion.html 13 comments
- NOLA cops so corrupt Feds have taken over | Boing Boing http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/25/nola-cops-so-corrupt.html?dlvrit=36761 10 comments
- Building an Online Community: Just Add Water - Digital Web http://www.digital-web.com/articles/building_an_online_community/ 9 comments
- Precisely why the Daily Mail is irredeemable shit | Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2012/11/10/precisely-why-the-daily-ma.html 9 comments
- Pinochet 2.0: US economist talks Honduras' military dictator into establishing a private city owned and regulated by offshore corporations | Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2012/09/24/pinochet-2-0-us-economist-tal.html 9 comments
- HBGary's high-volume astroturfing technology and the Feds who requested it | Boing Boing http://www.boingboing.net/2011/02/18/hbgarys-high-volume.html 8 comments
- Vladimir Putin takes the gloves off | Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2014/10/30/vladimir-putin-takes-the-glove.html 8 comments
- The Man Who Reads 1,000 Articles a Day https://superorganizers.substack.com/p/the-man-who-reads-1000-articles-a 6 comments
- RIP, Philip Jose Farmer | Boing Boing http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/25/rip-philip-jose-farm.html 6 comments
- The 100 essential websites | Internet | The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/09/best-websites-internet 4 comments
- Top US drug cop can't tell the difference between marijuana and heroin | Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2012/06/23/top-us-drug-cop-cant-tell-th.html 4 comments