MetaTalk

The Web is 30. MeFi is nearly 20. Times change. Tell me about it. [more inside]
posted by theora55 on Mar 13, 2019 - 86 comments

Joe from Australia, Sept 17: there's no reason not to move to Real Solar Time™, where the sun rises at 6 AM and sets at 6 PM all year round.

XKCD, Sept 24: http://www.xkcd.com/2050
posted by hwyengr on Sep 24, 2018 - 26 comments

The xkcd author mentions an old AskMe in this week's What If?
posted by Johnny Wallflower on Mar 17, 2015 - 57 comments

Ivan Fyodorovich's comment about folklore was mentioned in today's question: "What if I made a lava lamp out of real lava?".
posted by mkb on Dec 19, 2014 - 31 comments

Randall Monroe, of xkcd fame, time travels four and a half years into the past to sign up for a MetaFilter account just so he can answer a recent question in Ask.
posted by phunniemee on Aug 10, 2011 - 78 comments

A little under three years ago a Mefite named kcds made a bold proposal for a product that now (according to multiple reddit posts) has been incorporated into gmail. Time to get your cut sir.
posted by ND¢ on May 5, 2011 - 118 comments

Pony request.
posted by bardophile on Oct 24, 2010 - 99 comments

MeFi made today's xkcd ... we're located in Troll Bay (next to the Sea of Memes). [more inside]
posted by kthxbi on Oct 5, 2010 - 5 comments

Today's XKCD strip links to a nonexistent Wikipedia word "malamanteau." Apparently its only prior use was in a 2007 AskMe answer by ludwig_van. There's a bit of controversy on the Wikipedia talk page over a dismissal of MeFi as an "unused website."
posted by graymouser on May 12, 2010 - 156 comments

There have been 205 comments on Metafilter as a whole mentioning the movie "Idiocracy", some subset thereof expressing or implying agreement with the premise of the movie (stupid people breed more so we as a population are getting stupider). There have been 800 comments linking to or about the online comic strip xkcd, some subset thereof expressing or implying an agreement with the opinions found in that comic strip. There is now an xkcd comic strip expressing the opinion that the premise of the movie "Idiocracy" is incorrect. In the law game, this is what is known as a split in the circuits, and requires a decision by the Supreme Court, hence this MeTa post.
posted by ND¢ on Jun 29, 2009 - 169 comments

XKCD meetup in Cambridge? Is anyone thinking of doing this? [more inside]
posted by Eideteker on Sep 8, 2007 - 35 comments

Someone went and implemented xkcd's internet map - it generates pictures like this. Matt, would you be willing to dump a couple days worth of access_log IPs into this tool?
posted by dmd on Sep 4, 2007 - 62 comments

Map of online communities by xkcd. Where would you pin MeFi on this map?
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane on May 2, 2007 - 75 comments