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May 4, 2003 2:55 PM

I changed the link in the main metafilter nav from "donate" to "etc" which links to this grab bag page of various metafilter resources. I don't want to mimic the wikis or faqs, but wanted a place to hold a bunch of common resources that come up often. Suggestions for additions are welcome.
posted by mathowie (staff) to MetaFilter-Related at 2:55 PM (22 comments total)

Looks like a very useful resource that will help a lot of Mefi users. Also great to see that the Mefi scholarship will be run again this year.
posted by adrianhon at 2:58 PM on May 4, 2003

posted by eddydamascene at 3:18 PM on May 4, 2003

wow. I guess nothing says "humor" like a headline in comic sans.
posted by whatnot at 3:30 PM on May 4, 2003

Good idea Matt. Though I feel like you should keep a 'donate' button somewhere obvious, so people keep using the thing. That money can go to good causes, like me.
posted by kaibutsu at 3:37 PM on May 4, 2003

I always vaguely remembered the first scholarship, and thought it was a really class thing to do. Good to see it might come back.
posted by Hildago at 3:49 PM on May 4, 2003

It would be hilarious if you were to see a link to plastic on the grab bag page, listed under "Places to go when you can't get a Metafilter account."
posted by Lynsey at 3:55 PM on May 4, 2003

• bar (install)
• links
• users (members with profiles)
• zip
• lofi
• gopher
• xml feed
• day without weblogs
• link and think
• change log
• stats
• MeFi Mail
• gawker.mefi NYC feed
• Contribution index
• MeFi Swap

posted by riffola at 3:57 PM on May 4, 2003

none of those (riffola) seem to work for me (except ones that are off-site).
posted by andrew cooke at 4:22 PM on May 4, 2003

riffola ? (!)
posted by ac at 4:33 PM on May 4, 2003

riffola used relative urls (which works fine on a user page, because user pages are on www.metafilter.com), so the links all go to metatalk.metafilter.com/... .

To fix 'em, remove the 'metatalk.' part from each url (optionally replacing it with 'www.').
posted by mattpfeff at 4:51 PM on May 4, 2003

Sorry I just copied them from my profile. I forgot I use relative urls :)
posted by riffola at 5:32 PM on May 4, 2003

I'd love to take your money, Boss. Just tell me what to do.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 6:03 AM on May 5, 2003

ah, ok! (looks like mouseover on mozilla "normalizes" links rather than showing what's in the source)

bar (install); links; users (members with profiles); zip; lofi; gopher; xml feed; day without weblogs; link and think; change log; stats; MeFi Mail; gawker.mefi NYC feed; Contribution index; MeFi Swap.
posted by andrew cooke at 6:09 AM on May 5, 2003

MetaFilter Meetings calendar (iCal format)
MeFi-Central-Canada mailing list

Neither are much in use, but there's potential, dammit.
posted by mcwetboy at 6:21 AM on May 5, 2003

cam portal?
posted by brownpau at 6:56 AM on May 5, 2003

mathowie: A classy move linking to the *filters. Thank you.
posted by ?! at 7:17 AM on May 5, 2003

Since y2karl appears to be making a habit of one-link-per-letter-content-in-the-title-attribute posts, and just in case this style catches on, could you add a link to tss's y2karlulator?

It's rather useful in any situation where people have written tomes in the title attribute, actually.
posted by iceberg273 at 8:59 AM on May 5, 2003

y2karlulator

That is awesome. Heh.

(A good post to try it out on, if you haven't already, is 25563.)
posted by mattpfeff at 11:51 AM on May 5, 2003

I second (third?) the inclusion of lofi on the list.
posted by me3dia at 1:52 PM on May 5, 2003

Metafilter remixed, too.
posted by iconomy at 4:38 PM on May 5, 2003

You could add a link to the MeFi CafePress site. And another *filter site you could add is QueerFilter.com.
posted by hit-or-miss at 10:10 PM on May 6, 2003

queerfilter is a great idea!
posted by amberglow at 12:22 AM on May 7, 2003