MetaTalk posts tagged with contest

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?

fake wins laser cutter for DIY book scanner.

odinsdream — Sat, 23 May 2009 14:30:37 -0800

Metafilter's Own™ fake won an Epilog laser cutter for his DIY book scanner. Awesome job! Original thread was closed.

Yes, more internet-bacon stuff

Optimus Chyme — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:45:53 -0800

MeFi's own EmpressCallipygos and Greg Nog appeared on Good Morning America during the Bacon Takedown on Sunday in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. More pictures and stuff available here. Greg Nog made a Bacon Cake and EmpressCallipygos made Bacon Cookies.

The First Annual MetaFilter Interactive Fiction Contest

Deathalicious — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:18:16 -0800

Announcing the first ever MetaFilter Interactive Fiction Contest, March 1st-31st. During the month of March all MeFites are encouraged to try to write an interactive fiction game or play games submitted by fellow MeFites. If you want to vote on the games or you want to submit a story, please visit the contest website and register. During the month of March, write your own interactive fiction story (also known as text adventure games). Make sure to get it in by the deadline of midnight of March 31st (MetaFilter time, PST) and it is in the running. The recommended platform is Inform, a relatively easy-to-learn language designed for writing interactive fiction. However, if you want to roll your own that's acceptable, but you have to host the program or story on your own website. The only strong rules are that you must be a MetaFilter member in order to participate, and it must be a work that you created only this month. Further rules are on the "official" site. Good luck, and may the best storyteller win!

36: Thousands of little poops

mathowie — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:37:38 -0800

Most of this podcast covers the Best Posts of December Contest as we determine our favorites and come up with a list of winners (results are inside), then follow it up with favorite posts from other sections of the site. Recorded on January 2, it's just under an hour long.

direct link Helpful links Podcast Feed MeFi Podcast on iTunes Direct mp3 download (53Mb) Best Post Contest for December Classic Animation Remixed (worked on for several months) by Rhaomi Namaste, Welcome to my Kitchen (Manjula's Kitchen) by Ambrosia Voyeur Traditional Christmas songs written by Jews by grobstein Beverly Hillbillies Casino by mudpuppie Rainbow Connection covers by cavalier Just People, Talking (Studs Terkel) by Miko Film location scout in NYC and their new blog by grumblebee (we discuss this page a bit) Classic Radio Shack Catalogs by davebush (1980! 150 in 1!) Arty posts bonus: woodblock100 offered a free print for the best post about art, so we picked a favorite from all posts tagged as art. Pill Art by rageagainsttherobots Pipe Cleaner Pixels by Knappster (vw bus) Dorkbot by funkiwan (a photo of someone leaving a comment -- old meetups, DaShiv!) 100 Cereal Box Covers by Brandon Blatcher Surrealist art by Maria de los Remedios Varo Uranga by CheeseDigestAll (one of her famous works) Final tally First place: Rhaomi (Cartoon Network post) Second: Miko (Studs Terkel post) Third: Ambrosia Voyeur (Manjula's Kitchen post) Art post winner: CheeseDigestAll (Surrealist Art post) Music links December Challenges were Holiday ("broken christmas") themed, one (of many) favorites was Christmas Rhapsody (also played at the end) Talk section of Music featuring How to do music while being a parent MeFi Projects Did you try rebooting? MeFi Jobs Front-end web developer at US News & World Report Ask MeFi links Name that restaurant where this waffle came from Puzzling kitchen gadgets The public bathroom discussion which showed up on MetaTalk $11,000 for the cheapest coffin at a funeral home?! (ColdChef showed up) Useful things: Good NetFlix streaming documentaries, How to become an interesting person to talk to, and How to learn about other people's professions through blogs. Music Challenge for January Record a song to be played simultaneously with another. Example song mashup with two songs.

What are your odds of winning December's "best post" contest?

Joe Beese — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:12:42 -0800

What are your odds of winning December's "best post" contest?

And the winner is...

gsteff — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:17:08 -0800

And the winner of the 2008 MetaFilter Election Prediction Contest is... Iridic! Missouri and North Carolina haven't been certified yet, so I'll hold off on awarding the prize until they are. But if they fall in the directions currently projected (Missouri to McCain, North Carolina to Obama), Iridic was one of three participants (the others being rbellon and Dr. Zira) to guess all ten states correctly, and his popular vote guess was the closest of the three (he predicted that Obama would win the popular vote by 5.1%, and according to CNN, Obama is currently believed to have won by 6.2%). So congratulations, Iridic, and be sure to let us know what charity you'd like the prize money donated to.

Metafilter Runs v.3.1.

pj_rivera — Tue, 15 May 2007 04:44:13 -0800

Web-goddess regained the Mefi distance running title (previous challenges : 1, 2). Amazingly, she racked up 77.21 kilometer in 14 days. Silver and bronze medals go to AJR (76k) and Sanjayafan (75k). During the remainder of this month, we'll find out who's the fastest mefite (speed challenge over 5k). Previous participants have been invited to this new challenge via the Nike+ site. If you've got the Nike + Ipod sport kit and want in, post your Nike+ screenname in this thread.

Astronomy Day Contest?

freebird — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:42:59 -0800

What about an Astronomy Day post contest?

Maybe we could have metafilter music contests?

cmicali — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:01:12 -0800

When I was younger I entered a lot of bi-weekly music competitions. During the first week people would make songs using only a provided pack of samples. The people who entered would vote on the best ones the second week. It gave me a lot of practice, I met a lot of new people, and it was fun. How about something similar for MetaFilter Music?

And the winner of the 2006 Metafilter Election Prediction contest is . . .

gsteff — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 07:42:58 -0800

And the winner of the 2006 MetaFilter Election Prediction Contest is...

It would be fun to have some sort of halloween contest next Tuesday

wheelieman — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:52:17 -0800

It would be fun to have some sort of halloween contest next Tuesday. The most spirited post would win some sort of prize? What would the prize be? I suggest five pounds worth of candy shipped to the winning poster. What do you all think?

Unanswered AskMe Contest?

evariste — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 23:14:46 -0800

Yahoo! Answers UK 5 million answers challenge-a gimmicky promotion for a not-very-good service, but it gave me an idea:

What if we had a contest for unanswered AskMe questions (those that haven't had a best answer marked) older than, say, a month? Suggested prize: choice of free Metafilter account or $5 for each unanswered question that was resolved favorably. Of course we would need a special page where we could view lingering unanswered questions. Which would be a pretty decent idea anyway; I would certainly read it.

Hurry up and tell us the winners already

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:53:23 -0800

Sidebar says "CONTEST. Best post of the day wins $30, all August." Out of (by my count) 73 posts on August 23 and 24, there were none that were any good?

The contest results for August are all posted

mathowie — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:04:03 -0800

The contest results for August are all posted here. There's a small marker at the end of the post noting the winners and the runner ups for each day (we'll pick three good ones, and one winner from that). So far, no one is putting their paypal info in their profile, so I haven't sent out one red cent, so get to updatin' your profile already (the paypal info isn't displayed anywhere on the site).

Best posts of the day

graventy — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 21:29:56 -0800

So, about this best post of the day thing.. are you announcing it on MeTa every day?

I think it would be kind of cool if you also highlighted it on Metafilter, ala AskMe favorited comments. That way, scrolling back a day or two on the front page I'll be able to tell the winning posts at a glance.

MeFi post contest?

cacophony — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:32:42 -0800

How about a contest where candidate posts are judged on quality, the winner of which gets to be posted as item 50000? This would avoid the contention and possible server disruption likely to occur in the coming days, which will only be distracting, anyway. We could pre-emptively make this energy positive. Unless there are plans already, in which case, hurry up and delete this thread. (inspired by this comment)

End of projects grand opening contest

smackfu — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:20:55 -0800

Just a reminder: The Projects grand opening contest ends today. If you were procrastinating, now's the time.

I won first place, thanks to AskMe

RustyBrooks — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 18:59:17 -0800

Results for Chili question on AskMe

Charity contest idea

Faint of Butt — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:09:26 -0800

Last week's fundraiser became a sad debacle, and there's certainly no point retreading that ground. But I really like the idea of MeFites raising money for charity, and I think it's fun to make it a competition. I came up with an idea for a new, and hopefully friendlier and less divisive, contest for charity. I'd like to hear what you folks think. [more inside]

Scary Post Contest

kimota — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:05:54 -0800

Now that the other contest is over, and since we're building up to Halloween, what sort of contest can we come up with to encourage 11 days of the creepiest/scariest posts ever?

Stop closing dios vs. rothko contest criticism threads

dame — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 09:10:51 -0800

Hey, Matt, everyone else doesn't think the contest is great. You might know that, of course, if you could manage not to close a thread as soon as you don't like the direction in which it turns. [mi]

matteo's commentary on the dios vs. rothko contest

matteo — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:24:05 -0800

"You guys have some sense of outrage over something that was a goof".
O.K., let's play, then, since it's such a funny a goof, apparently. I volunteer for the next MetaSurvivor round -- let's give my many MeFi friends a nice fat chance to vote me off the island. Two requests, though. 500 dollars are bad for my ego, let's make it 1,000. And I don't care enough about CreativeCommons (sorry!), so if you want to kick me out you have to donate to these guys. Who wants to play with me?

The dios vs. Rothko contest is over!

mathowie — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:41:47 -0800

Holy crap, the BATTLE IS OVAH!!!

How about another Best Post contest?

wheelieman — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:53:46 -0800

I suggest we do another contest like amberglow's, on October 1 prehaps? There wouldd be no prizes from me but if someone else steps up and offers that would be ideal. I wont be posting anything because frankly I suck at posts lately. Anyone up to this? After all the crap/shit posts lately, we need happier MeFi days here!!