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9 September, 2010

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MeFi: I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over

If you loved Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, check out these gorgeous, high-resolution promotional photographs. The film’s special effects supervisor Douglas Trumbull invented…

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1 September, 2010

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Ask MeFi: Will my Facebook photos still be around in 600 years?

Can you point me to any good writing (research-based, speculative, or heck, even fictional) about the potential historical permanence or impermanence of digital media? I’m interested in both…

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30 August, 2010

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“I have always wondered why the people who call themselves “American” most loudly are often the ones with the least understanding of the freedoms that word should represent.

When the country is threatened, our civil liberties are among the first casualties - as if we can fight the enemy by taking away our own freedoms before the enemy has a chance to.”

— nice quotes from Roger Ebert’s 1991 review of Come See The Paradise

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24 August, 2010

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MeFi: Early color film tests

Early color film tests : 1912, Chronochrome, Deauville, France :: 1922, Kodachrome, Paragon Studios, Fort Lee, New Jersey (details)

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22 August, 2010

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Ask MeFi: Investment for this Dummy.

I have $1000 to invest and I’d like to do it wisely. One problem: I have never invested any amount of money in anything. Ever. Where should I start?

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20 August, 2010

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MESSENGER Looks Back at the Earth and Moon | Universe Today

MESSENGER Looks Back at the Earth and Moon | Universe Today

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19 August, 2010

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Ask MeFi: I need a way for people to get my attention while I am wearing heaphones.

How to attract the attention of a be-headphoned person in a cube across an aisle facing away from the entrance without touching them? Ideally this would be inexpensive and not require any…

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MeFi: "She can't be all bad. No one is." "Well, she comes the closest."

Over the course of four months earlier this year, Dave at Goodfella’s Movie Blog posted 100 (!) sharply written analyses of a wide range of classic Noir films. The top position was a bit of a…

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