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Newsweek gives kudos for saving girls from sex slavery. [more inside]
posted by klangklangston on May 22, 2010 - 1 comment

I am trying to find the MeFi post to a YouTube video that features a little girl singing. The video was processed by the video poster by taking several snippets of a little girl talking, squealing, screeching and clapping a pair of flip-flops together. The result was an absolutely endearing "song", with a little synthesizer thrown in. [more inside]
posted by sidereal on Jul 30, 2009 - 20 comments

This AskMe question about sad music was cited in an article in the May 2008 issue of the Walrus. [more inside]
posted by sevenyearlurk on Aug 15, 2008 - 22 comments

Salon's Cary Tennis referred one of his questioning letter writers to AskMe for a discussion on sighing. So how long is until is it until Dear Abby and Ann Landers just start to tell their readers, "Get counselling, and read AskMe, dear."
posted by orange swan on Jun 30, 2008 - 16 comments

An Ask Metafilter comment of mine (this one) has been quoted in Jeff Warren’s new book The Head Trip: Adventures on The Wheel of Consciousness. Cool, eh? [more inside]
posted by Fuzzy Monster on Oct 12, 2007 - 33 comments

Skot summarizes Ask Metafilter: "AskMe is often quite an amazing resource; it's made even more impressive by the fact that this 'community' of thousands of sun-deprived gripers frequently give good advice. Predictably, however, you have to wade through pounding waves of horrible bullshit to find it. And then, when you do find it, you have to sit there a moment and worry about the fact that this community—like all communities—is filled with a colorful band of assholes, half of whom hate the other half; a full two-thirds who are illiterate or insane; an unidentifiable portion who are basement-dwelling hate-wraiths; ten percent who are axe-grinding creeps, possibly with real axes; and your average random smattering of mean-spirited shitheads. But somewhere in there are some good answers! Usually." Great Scott!
posted by Mo Nickels on Apr 11, 2007 - 94 comments

This is pretty cool.
posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese on Jan 24, 2007 - 85 comments

From a front-page post on Reddit this morning, here's a "Massive list of sites all self learners should know about" that includes a link to Ask Mefi, under "Questions"
posted by growabrain on Jan 14, 2007 - 48 comments

FYI: Ask Metafilter is mentioned on page 87 of the Feb 2007 edition of PCWorld magazine as one of the websites checked out for the best Answer Sites on the Web. (Yes I do subscribe to it, so you may now commence with the snarks. TIA)
posted by ramix on Jan 10, 2007 - 6 comments

ArtyPapers.com deems Ask Metafilter the 2006 "Site of the Year" (scroll down): "I dunno what magic concoction goes into cultivating a truly remarkable community but Matt Haughey, creator of several popular community-based sites does and Ask MetaFilter is one of the best."
posted by deern the headlice on Jan 3, 2007 - 60 comments

This couldn't possibly be the ultimate outcome of this, could it?
posted by Johnny Assay on Nov 10, 2006 - 17 comments

The article that I wrote for Library Journal about Ask Metafilter is now online. It lost a wee bit in the editing process, but I'm pretty happy with it. MeFiBrarian Posse represent!
posted by jessamyn on Oct 16, 2006 - 30 comments

“So I snooped through his computer and found e-mails confirming that he’d dated and slept with at least one other girl”
posted by ottereroticist on Sep 6, 2006 - 24 comments

Weirdest mention of MeFi in the press: in a press release about advice for college students by a boardgame company. They googled, got Ask MetaFilter, and printed it. I have no idea why.
posted by mathowie on Aug 3, 2006 - 31 comments

Interesting coincidence. A question on AskMe on the 3rd and a really great answer in Slate on the 4th.
posted by mikel on May 4, 2006 - 9 comments

Chicago Tribune selects AskMeFi one of 50 best web sites
posted by hwestiii on Mar 3, 2006 - 32 comments

I just realized today that Ask MeFi made Business Week's Best of the Web list for "Research" but I didn't notice in time to have everyone stuff the ballot box on public voting so we got last place. heh.
posted by mathowie on Sep 16, 2005 - 22 comments

Kevin Kelly does a great newsletter called Cool Tools where he normally reviews hard-to-find stuff and geek gadgets. Today he offered up a nice review of Ask MetaFilter. It's not on the site yet, so here's a screenshot from email. I thought it got to the heart of Ask MeFi pretty well, especially the part about reading it for questions you didn't know you wanted to know, but were dying to find out the answers to.
posted by mathowie on Feb 14, 2005 - 25 comments

Lifehacker (another in the Gawker empire), has a roundup of askmefi threads. We're all on our best behavior, right?
posted by mileena on Feb 1, 2005 - 22 comments

Does Mark Morford read ask mefi? It sure looks like it.
posted by googly on Dec 10, 2004 - 48 comments