Hive Mind - RSS http://feedraider.com/rss-feed/u3dzm/ "I'm a huntin' that man who first thought up Daylight Savings Time" http://www.metafilter.com/90129/Im-a-huntin-that-man-who-first-thought-up-Daylight-Savings-Time this catchy old country tune from old-time banjo-playing sensation Louis Marshall "Grandpa" Jones in which Grandpa rants about Daylight Savings Time.
I found this track while looking for stuff to sample and couldn't resist posting it here.

It's the first track on the playlist, if you can't find it. ]]> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:11:54 GMT Zero Zero Zero http://www.metafilter.com/90128/Zero-Zero-Zero What happens when you mix Iranian Americans and the U.S. Census?
]]> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:36:17 GMT You Might As Well Jump http://www.metafilter.com/90127/You-Might-As-Well-Jump jump of Felix Baumgartner. previously
Here's Felix jumping from the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio. ]]> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:22:55 GMT Keep it gay, keep it gay, keepy it gay! http://www.metafilter.com/90126/Keep-it-gay-keep-it-gay-keepy-it-gay Top 50 Gay TV Characters. (Full list.)
Some stats and commentary about that list.
Top 50 Lesbian and Bisexual Characters.
]]> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:29:45 GMT Paint comes alive http://www.metafilter.com/90124/Paint-comes-alive try to make the painting look like a living person. Alexa Meade tries to make the person look like a painting.
Related. ]]> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:42:07 GMT Backup your shit! http://www.metafilter.com/90123/Backup-your-shit "Every hard drive in the world will eventually fail. Assume that yours are all on the cusp of failure at all times." An Ode to DiskWarrior, SuperDuper, and Dropbox: John Gruber talks about his Mac's hard drive failing and how he was able to recover all of his data using DiskWarrior, a file recovery utility, SuperDuper!, a backup utility that creates a fully bootable backup, and the file syncing system DropBox. While his advice is Mac specific, you can get a similar system going on Windows with Acronis for backups and one of many free file recovery programs such as TestDisk (which also has a Mac version).
If you are not willing to spend the money on SuperDuper or Acronis, check out the free backup utilities Carbon Copy Cloner for Mac and Macrium Reflect Free for Windows.

More and more computer users are not storing files on their home computers and instead using web applications that keep a user's data safe for them (usually). Web applications are becoming popular enough that Google is creating an OS where only system files are stored on a user's computer. ]]> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:23:19 GMT The Adventure of the the Sweet Cross-Hatching http://www.metafilter.com/90122/The-Adventure-of-the-the-Sweet-CrossHatching An excellent set of illustrations from a French Sherlock Holmes collection. Let us attempt to sleuth out the stories to which these great little pieces of art belong.
]]> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:05:44 GMT A person...loses a reasonable expectation of privacy in emails...after the email is sent to and received by a third party. http://www.metafilter.com/90121/A-personloses-a-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy-in-emailsafter-the-email-is-sent-to-and-received-by-a-third-party The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit rules that once emails have been received by a third party, no Fourth Amendment protection applies to any copies. In Rehburg v. Paulik, among other claims, Charles Rehburg alleged a violation of his constitutional rights by the improper subpoena of his emails from his ISP. Last week, the Eleventh Circuit ruled against him:
Rehberg's voluntary delivery of emails to third parties constituted a
voluntary relinquishment of the right to privacy in that information. Rehberg does
not allege Hodges and Paulk illegally searched his home computer for emails, but
alleges Hodges and Paulk subpoenaed the emails directly from the third-party
Internet service provider to which Rehberg transmitted the messages. Lacking a
valid expectation of privacy in that email information, Rehberg fails to state a
Fourth Amendment violation for the subpoenas for his Internet records.

The Volokh Conspiracy's Orin Kerr provides further analysis, and discuss the traditional Fourth Amendment protections due to postal mail. He suggests that this decision, if upheld, would mean that " the government could just go to the ISP of the person sending the e-mail and take all of their outgoing e-mails right off the server." ]]> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:01:49 GMT Drinkin' beer from a bottle, on a Friday night. http://www.metafilter.com/90120/Drinkin-beer-from-a-bottle-on-a-Friday-night SLYT: Chatroulette piano improvisation
]]> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:21:41 GMT A new low. http://www.metafilter.com/90119/A-new-low were killed in the Philippines. It has become known as the Maguindanao Massacre.
Esmael Mangudadatu, the vice mayor of Buluan municipality in the Philippines, wanted to run for Governor. He was warned that, once he filed for candidacy, he would be chopped "into pieces" by rivals for the position; accordingly, Mangudadatu decided it would be safer if his filing were accompanied by journalists.

On the morning of November 23rd 2009, a convoy of six vehicles holding Mangudadatu's relatives, his lawyers, as well as the aforementioned journalists, left Buluan to file the papers. The convoy was stopped along a highway by at least 100 armed men, who not only killed the members of the convoy, but five other people as well who just happened to be driving along the same route that day. It is the most journalists killed in a single incident.

Mangudadatu's wife Genalyn was horrifically mutilated before she was killed, his aunt and sister were both pregnant at the time of their murders, and five of the women present on the convoy were raped. All women present were shot in the genitals, this despite Mangudadatu's observation that "we sent women because in the Muslim culture you don't hurt women". The carnage was so extreme that Philippino President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo included many photos of the victims in her report urging Maguindanao province to be placed under martial law.

The main suspect was Mangudadatu's rival for the position: Andal Ampatuan, Jr., mayor of Datu Unsay, and son of the incumbent Maguindanao governor Andal Ampatuan, Sr. (Genalyn Mangudadatu identified Ampatuan, Jr. as being present at the massacre, and personally slapping her, in a text message to her husband before she was killed). Three days after the massacre, Ampatuan Jr. turned himself in to police where he was charged with murder; he claimed he was innocent and that the killings were the work of MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation Front). MILF in turn denied the charges.

Maguindanao province was placed under martial law for the first half of December, hundreds of troops were sent in and raids were conducted of the Ampatuans' properties, yielding more 300,000 rounds of live M16 ammunition. As of last month, almost 200 people have been charged in the massacre, including Andal Ampatuan, Sr. Humans Rights Watch is now concerned that witnesses to the massacre are being intimidated and that a "second Maguindanao massacre of witnesses and their families" may be underway.

Andal Ampatuan, Sr. was very close with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, and many are skeptical that justice will be done.

[this post was inspired by AceRock's post earlier today on Philippino boxer Manny Pacquiao] ]]> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:09:41 GMT Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew. http://www.metafilter.com/90117/Boil-em-mash-em-stick-em-in-a-stew boil people alive, but that doesn't mean that it hasn't been used as a form of execution. [Via AskMe.]
]]> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:54:24 GMT So you want to write a pop-sci book http://www.metafilter.com/90116/So-you-want-to-write-a-popsci-book Brian Switek, David Williams and Michael Welland have started a series of blog posts about writing popular science books. (Switek's overview.)
"So you want to write a pop-sci book, Part 1: From idea to agent"

"Writing a Book: The Idea, The Proposal, and Publishing"

"Thoughts on writing a popular science book (1): making it interesting, finding a publisher" ]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:56:01 GMT Salt & Fat http://www.metafilter.com/90115/Salt-and-Fat Salt & Fat is an enjoyable cooking blog.
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:45:31 GMT It Wasn't Obvious to Me http://www.metafilter.com/90114/It-Wasnt-Obvious-to-Me Previously, we heard about the man who wrote the software that blew up the economy. Now we find out whom that software was written.
Michael Burry is the subject of Michael Lewis' latest Wall Street book, The Big Short. Michael Burry was a med student who figured out the impending subprime mortgage collapse, left the practice of medicine, set up a hedge fund, and created a market for a product that was the only way to bet against these subprime loans. He spent his whole life blaming his glass eye for his social awkwardness and his ability to focus in detail on any one subject. He later learned he had Asperger's. Can he credit that for his focus? What should he do about his son who has tested the same way? A related article and review. Also previously. ]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:27:49 GMT That's Science! http://www.metafilter.com/90113/Thats-Science upset about Pluto's demotion for some time now. (While classical music fans have just had a love/hate relationship with this whole process.) But astronomical hate mail has never been as cute as the missives Neil deGrasse Tyson has received over the years from tots upset at poor Pluto's ouster.
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:51:53 GMT Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you http://www.metafilter.com/90112/Just-because-youre-paranoid-doesnt-mean-theyre-not-out-to-get-you Wikileaks.org—An Online Reference to Foreign Intelligence Services, Insurgents, or Terrorist Groups?" (PDF) produced by the Cyber Counterintelligence Assessments Branch of the Army Counterintelligence Center:
(S//NF) Wikileaks.org uses trust as a center of gravity by assuring insiders, leakers, and whistleblowers who pass information to Wikileaks.org personnel or who post information to the Web site that they will remain anonymous. The identification, exposure, or termination of employment of or legal actions against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistleblowers could damage or destroy this center of gravity and deter others from using Wikileaks.org to make such information public.

]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:46:09 GMT Stand Up For Your Health! http://www.metafilter.com/90111/Stand-Up-For-Your-Health Irrespective of whether you exercise vigorously, sitting for long periods is bad for you. 'Your chair is your enemy. It doesn't matter if you go running every morning, or you're a regular at the gym. If you spend most of the rest of the day sitting — in your car, your office chair, on your sofa at home — you are putting yourself at increased risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, a variety of cancers and an early death.' 'Several strands of evidence suggest that there's a "physiology of inactivity": that when you spend long periods sitting, your body actually does things that are bad for you.'
This is not exactly [warning: video] new or controversial research.

Yet the evidence keeps rolling in. Will future offices be structured differently, and will the cubicle be a thing of the past in view of the health hazards to office workers? For now, many people have taken to constructing home-made treadmills around their desk or work area, and there are commercial solutions as well. ]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:22:56 GMT Oh yes she did http://www.metafilter.com/90110/Oh-yes-she-did behind the quirky videos posted on the iamamiwhoami account on YouTube has uploaded another video, and in the process helped to reveal her identity.
The information at the ONTD community points to Jonna Lee. ]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:57:50 GMT Hammerstone from Kenya, Handaxe from India http://www.metafilter.com/90109/Hammerstone-from-Kenya-Handaxe-from-India fascinating 3D scans of some of humanity's oldest artifacts.
The rest of the Smithsonian Human Origins Program's website is pretty fantastic, too. (Previously.) ]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:55:58 GMT Drat the luck! http://www.metafilter.com/90108/Drat-the-luck A man, a balloon and bad luck. (SLYT) A man records himself trying to get into an enormous balloon. His running commentary is Frink like.
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:30:09 GMT Gearing Up for the World Expo 2010 http://www.metafilter.com/90107/Gearing-Up-for-the-World-Expo-2010 2010 World Expo starts on May 1st, and The Big Picture has documented the Shanghai's preparations for the event. Highlights include the Seed Cathedral, covered in 60,000 thin acrylic rods that will sway in the breeze; the Sunny Valley, a structure that will harness sunlight for power and rain to water nearby green areas, Joy Street, a Dr. Seussian part of the Dutch Pavillion, and an assortment of other engineering marvels. More information about the Expo available at the World Expo Blog.
Unfortunately, some people were forced to leave their homes to make room for the Expo. The Shanghai government says that the vast majority of the former residents signed relocation contracts to compensate them for relocating. ]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:15:48 GMT In The Bedroom http://www.metafilter.com/90106/In-The-Bedroom Vincent Van Gogh Museum (previously) is undertaking a complete restoration of The Bedroom (or Bedroom in Arles), one of Van Gogh's best-known paintings. The staff members working on the restoration have started a blog to document the entire process.
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:35:59 GMT Arthur takes on the autism spectrum http://www.metafilter.com/90105/Arthur-takes-on-the-autism-spectrum Marc Brown's Arthur series about a curious aardvark started with the bedtime stories he made up for his own children. Each one of the Arthur books contains Easter Eggs in the form of the author's children's names.

Hugely popular, the series of books spawned an animated show on PBS. In the 13th season of the show (beginning April 5th), Arthur and his pals will make a new friend, Carl.

Carl has Asperger's.

Still not sure what that is? That's okay, let Brain explain it for you.
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:25:31 GMT Chris Kraus will make you Jump, Jump http://www.metafilter.com/90104/Chris-Kraus-will-make-you-Jump-Jump I Love Dick is composed of the billet doux written by [Chris] Kraus and husband, Columbia philosopher Sylvere Lotringer, to their special friend, Dick. As a kind of art-world roman a clef, the novel fuses gossip and "theory." The profanely and lustfully personal coalesces with intellectual ambition and conceit.
]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:11:40 GMT Japanese pro team football teams versus 100 schoolboys. http://www.metafilter.com/90103/Japanese-pro-team-football-teams-versus-100-schoolboys How many five year olds could you take in a fight? - mefi discussion. Now in a related event professional J. League football team Cerezo Osaka take on a team of 100 Japanese primary school children.
Part 1 (including pre-match analysis in Japanese - kick off at 5 min 50) Part 2 Part 3.

There was a winner - but who?! Direct links to the goals 1 2 3 4 5
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