MetaTalk posts tagged with Metafilter

Adam Curtis blog now international friendly

ClanvidHorse — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:40:54 -0800

Now we can see (most of) Kabul: City Number One. This post about Adam Curtis' blog on the BBC website was hampered by the fact that a lot of the video content was not accessible outside of the UK. But, as Curtis said on his blog, "the BBC is now allowing me to show most of the video material on this website internationally. Some will still not be viewable for rights reasons (and I'm afraid the It Felt Like a Kiss film is one of them) but the majority should be available by the end of this week."

Best of Metafilter: Food Edition

symbollocks — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:58:02 -0800

Best recipes, food ideas, cooking hacks of ask metafilter? I'm putting together a collection of recipes and other cooking related ideas into a small booklet that I can copy, cut, staple and use as a stocking stuffer for my immediate and extended families for christmas. What are the recipes on metafilter that have most changed your cooking and appreciation for food? And not just recipes... anything, from simple kitchen hacks to specific combination of ingredients that you never would have thought of. I'm mining this thread, at the moment.

Nostalgia for blue and green

bad grammar — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:45:57 -0800

What happened to the Mefi blue and the green on my Acer Aspire one netbook? All I see is white. I usually read Metafilter on a 2006 MacBook. On the netbook I find that Metafilter, AskMe and MetaTalk are all black text on white. The backgrounds of other sites are not loading properly either. Is there something I can do to fix this, or is it a consequence of the small size of the netbook display and not fixable? I am using an Acer Aspire one netbook (D250-1905) and Windows XP and Firefox 3.5.6.

FDA investigates radiation overdose at hospitals

fiercecupcake — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:43:42 -0800

This NPR story from the 15th about radiation overdoses at three hospitals from CT scans reminded me of this post on the blue awhile back, which is now closed. I still think of this from time to time, so I thought some of you might be interested. Specifically:

"It could be due to human error," he says. "Or it could be due to problems in the design of the CT scanners, or it could be a combination of both."

MeepFilter

l33tpolicywonk — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:38:36 -0800

Congratulations to emelenjr and No-sword, whose comments (1 and 2) in scalefree's post on the school that banned "Meep" were quoted in celebrity lexicographer Erin McKean's column on the subject in the Boston Globe today.

Links for the Memories

box — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:12:54 -0800

The welcome-back message on the front page reads 'x links and y comments posted since your last visit' (except, y'know, with numbers). But most posts contain more than one link. Would it be better to have it read 'x posts and y comments'? There's probably a downside I'm not seeing.

Link economy

fearfulsymmetry — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:20:55 -0800

MetaFilter in The Guardian's 100 essential websites: Living if isolated proof that a site can be successful without pictures or video, and can also host thoughtful conversations.

you're swell!

boo_radley — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:57:17 -0800

Dear Mathowie, Thanks for buying a droid and making the site better for android users.

MetaFail

b1tr0t — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:21:06 -0800

What is up with all the shockfilter/outrage filter lately? Once upon a time, metafilter was the best of the web. These days, the front page reads more like "news" postings on fark.

Shades of Blue

ChrisR — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:37:58 -0800

What ever happened to the Metafilter redesign contest? Weren't we going to see one of these designs as the site design at some point?

Guinness record for the Blue?

reenum — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:27:06 -0800

Is there a record for most consecutive days making a meaningful FPP post? Just wondering. I've been making FPP posts of interesting articles and topics I've read over the last week, and they seem to be well received. I have a ton more stuff and will make posts until I run out of cool stuff or the mods tell me to cut it out.

"Maybe, maybe, maybe this will be reprinted? A girl can dream."

ocherdraco — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:54:27 -0800

I, too, have reason to thank MeFi today: Back in January, peep posted to Metafilter about Mel Juffe and Edward Gorey's The Recently Deflowered Girl, which had been long out of print. Through a delightful stroke of luck, I have become the editor responsible for bringing the book back into print, and the mefi thread about the book was pretty darn helpful to that end. We're publishing it along with two other Gorey books, including my favorite, The West Wing, a wordless exploration of a very strange house. All three books will be available next week in the States. For an editor like me, who's just getting started in her career, it means so much to me that I'm getting to work on these books by an author I love so much. It's so cool that the internet (and especially, for me, the post on mefi) brought this to light and helped get it back into print. Thanks, mefites!

Thanks, Metafilter

bonehead — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:21:03 -0800

Thanks Metafilter On October 31, the lovely and talented LN married some bonehead she met on the internet. We had met at a very small meetup on (Canadian) Thanksgiving two years ago. On Halloween night, you all were in my mind as I made our thanks and gave our toast at the reception to absent friends and family. So, for all of you shy guys (and gals) out there in mefiland, I have to recommend walking up to perfect strangers in a bar, telling them you're a bonehead and asking if they're "from Metafilter". It's a sure-fire winner, in my experience. Thanks Metafilter, from two ridiculously happy people.

Parmanparman in Oregon! Oregon!!

parmanparman — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:57:32 -0800

I accepted a dream job and will be moving to Ashland, Oregon right after thanksgiving. Are there Southern Oregonians and Northern Californians interested in a meet-up?

Pony Onesies

taff — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:55:16 -0800

Can we have some mefi onesies too please? I have a baby that owes her unteaseable name to metafilter and we would love to support the grey, green and blue by putting her and her big sister in onesies. Well, toddler in a little t-shirt. Would others like to put their little folk in them? Little Milo looks like he'd love one, hey ColdChef?! Matt, pretty please?

Italics tag gone awry

SeizeTheDay — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:00:52 -0800

Interesting bug: I forgot to close an italics tag the other day, and it seems to have affected my comment history. Will this be a problem for future generations of MeFites?

Jessamyn tells all!

ocherdraco — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:51:06 -0800

An interview with Jessamyn West: lifeguard, librarian, mod. "AskMe anything, in moderation." At The Big Interview.

Sell-Outs

cloeburner — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:08:14 -0800

Maybe there's a special place in hell for me, but I just couldn't resist.

New shirts for sale

mathowie — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:27:56 -0800

New shirts in the Shop! We added the classic blue on a regular cut t-shirt, for only $10. I also added the "Ride More" shirt for cyclists among us. We still have tl;dr shirts in most sizes. After these all get sold, we'll start shooting for new designs.

Australian Racism Denial - uergh!

divabat — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:04:31 -0800

The sheer amount of racism denial in this thread is seriously frightening me. Blackface was never a problem in Australia? Racism is rare? Racism is a thing of history and doesn't apply to Australians? People speaking up and critiquing Australia's entrenched racism are just "peckerheads"? Wow. I don't feel safe posting in that thread anymore. To them it's like the experiences of myself and my peers don't even matter.

QuizMe

Rhaomi — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:23:58 -0800

It's time for yet another Metafilter quiz! Trivia site Sporcle (previ-ously) finally opened their quiz creation tool to the public and, inspired by good news for the insane's challenging 10th anniversary test, I decided to make one of my games dedicated to Mefi. Mine's not nearly as difficult as GNFTI's, but does require a little more effort. Instead of multiple choice, you just type your answers into a text box, based on the categories and clues given below. If you type in a correct answer, it'll show up on the board. If not, just backspace and try something else. There are seventy answers in all (plus a few seekrit invisible bonus slots that only show up if you guess the right thing). When you're done, click "See the Most Missed" to view charts of how often each answer was guessed and how you did in comparison to everyone else who took the quiz. (And once you start, make sure not to go back to Mefi until you're done, as a few questions depend on memory of what the site looks like.) [ Click here to play ]

DU's 10,000th comment

Joe Beese — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:56:46 -0800

DU's 10,000th comment.

Idea: Metafilter Link Checker (Needs a Fancier Name)

WCityMike — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:59:29 -0800

Idea: the Metafilter link-checker. Take the part of the 'new post' process that double-checks against prior posts, add the part of Mefi that conjures up the related posts, put a link to the feature up on the two lines of links near the logo. Maybe add auto-links to site-specific searches via Google and Yahoo just for convenience's sake. Yes, there are other ways to do it, including prepping a new post. But it'd make it a few degrees easier: as it stands now, in order to get to the part of the Mefi posting process that double-checks your link against doubles, you essentially have to write it up first, and THEN get it rejected for doublehood. This'd be a much easier way to quickly ascertain that something's a double before writing up a good post. And if the "related post" stuff was added to it, hopefully whatever algorithm's in use there might be able to give a clue as to whether the subject matter was handled before, even if the link itself wasn't a double.

Not Charity - Change for the better

parmanparman — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:36:28 -0800

Metafilter Team members on Kiva.org committed their 5,000th dollar this week to great projects all over the world. Commit to the common good and get paid back with compassion!

20,000 and still counting...

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:39:35 -0800

delmoi has posted 20,000 comments to Metafilter. (Previously)