February 2009 Archives (all archives)
February 28
Do women even *read* MetaFilter?
Do MeFites like each other? I've noticed that a lot of MetaTalk threads are MeFites butting heads. Are there any MeFites who actually enjoy each other's company? [more inside]
jRun returns.
jRun or the Return of Daughter of jRun? jRun III: no one gets out alive? [more inside]
February 27
Well-met
How frequent are MeFi meetups in NYC? I'd kinda like to go to one, and see that I just missed a recent one in Brooklyn.
You'll never answer this!!1!
Here is a great question that didn't get resolved because it wasn't the right answer the questioner wanted.
Consider a therapist
Is there, has there ever been, or could there be, a Metafiler physician directory? [more inside]
This one goes out to Stormin' Norman... and 311
Reading the recent story of Norman Van Lier's death reminded me of the "Dead neighbor, or overactive imagination?" AskMe thread from over the holidays. [more inside]
Atlanta, GA meetup
Atlanta, GA meetup [more inside]
February 26
The First Annual MetaFilter Interactive Fiction Contest
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. [more inside]
Aggregate the alcohol advice, please. Thank you?
Vacapinta's awesome post about Ko Un
Vacapinta did a wonderful post this week. You should check it out.
Any Mefites in/around K-Town?
Any Mefites in/around K-Town? [more inside]
People need to chill out on this AskMe Poster
You got your MeTa in my Projects!
Bocomo, we'll get there fast and then we'll take it slow...
Any mefites coming to Columbia, MO for the True/False film festival?
I'm probably not going to any events (I'll be working a lot, natch), but I live here and would love to have a meetup.
I'm probably not going to any events (I'll be working a lot, natch), but I live here and would love to have a meetup.
Safari 4...everything but content
Running Safari 4 (beta i know) the blue will load everything except the page content. Loads banner, side bar. but no page content. If i hit reload it loads up. Anyone else having this problem? [more inside]
February 25
Is there a MeFi distinguished service cross?
Can the you guys put some at least put some oak leaf clusters or something on You's profile page - for this? [more inside]
How do I get last.fm tracks to show up on my profile?
What's the secret to getting last.fm played tracks to show up on my profile? [more inside]
I <3 nineRED...
Have you considered making Metafilter available for the Kindle?
Have you considered making Metafilter available for the Kindle?
What all the cabal kids would be wearing these days, if they could.
What's MetaFilter worth?
What's MetaFilter worth? [more inside]
February 24
Can we revive older Askme posts?
What is the policy on reviving or revisiting (with changes) older Askme threads that lack a clear resolution? [more inside]
Does that make Woody Guthrie an honorary MeFite?
"they are risking their careers and their liberty"
FPP Update: The police officers who murdered Kathryn Johnston are going to prison with no chance of parole. [FPP]
Spoiler tag?
Pony: A spoiler tag. [more inside]
Thanks a lot, Tower of Babel
I'm working on a post in which I'd like to use a certain article that provides useful and interesting background information, information I can't find anywhere else. Unfortunately this article is a PDF file... and in Spanish. [more inside]
Where did it go? Oh, there it is.
Text display issues in MetaTalk (and MetaTalk only) after upgrading to Safari 4 beta. (Leopard) [more inside]
Sita Sings
Sita Sings the Blues, the animated Ramayana by MeFi's own Nina Paley, is finally going to air on TV on March 7th on PBS (WNET) in New York. [Via]
What is with all people on MetaFilter marrying/dating people that don't bath?
What is with all people on MetaFilter marrying/dating people that don't bath? [1] [2] [3] [4] [more inside]
Short fuse meetup?
Salt Lake City Meetup? [more inside]
BUUUUUUUUUURN
The long delayed, frequently threatened Hampton Roads (VA) Bonfire is on for 3/13. [more inside]
wha wha penis
In light of Recent Events, I'd like to come clean. 90% of my mefi posts are ripped directly from SensibleErection. I hope you'll forgive me in light of my pre-emptive fear-driven honesty.
February 23
I'm disgusted and repulsed and... and I can't look away
This AskMeFi post on what to do with your extracted teeth is completely bizarre - and noteworthy?
Welche Soße bitte?
No Hulu
Wha Wha Wibble
Make it stop!
A while ago I fell for that link (maybe an April fools daylink?) that makes the color of the MF screen change VERY slowly. It is driving me insane, and I can't find the link to make it stop! Help me please!
Slate piles on the green fanwagon
The mainstream love for the green continues at Slate.
February 22
pre tag display issues
Thank you for making <pre> tags work predictably and consistently between live preview, full preview, and posting. However.. [more inside]
February 21
Mod ahoy.
They shoot ponies, don't they?
Meetup thread unpony? [more inside]
February 20
rumors! innuendo!
Mom is waiting by the phone, hoping you'll call.
Is everyone on this site an orphan? [more inside]
MEETUP IN SHEBOYGAN to find a flash game!
Looking for some Friday Flash Fun with the vaguest of details... [more inside]
Broken link patrol
Please remove the hook from your lip before attempting to answer.
Ÿütüb Ïnlïnë
Why doesn't the "display Youtube videos inline" setting affect MeTa? [more inside]
February 19
Last-minute meetup in Boston
Impromptu meetup in Boston tomorrow (Friday) night to welcome an old friend... [more inside]
AskMe category pages don't list any questions.
AskMe category pages aren't listing any questions for me. [more inside]
February 18
Pa, be happy that wasn't WHITE powder!
BUSTED! A follow up! My father found out what the mysterious substance was, but I didn't tell him... [more inside]
this new rule is not my favorite
"You hit your favorite limit for the day." WTF? Can someone please tell me why we have a limit, what the limit is, and why the hell it's not in the FAQ? [more inside]
Keying her car?! What-the-what-what?
Juvenile-RetaliationFilter: I'm amazed at some of the advice to retaliate in this thread, which would seem to endorse escalating the conflict rather than trying to find a workable solution. Especially alarming are suggestions of interfering with or causing the dogs discomfort in order to exact revenge on their owner (which this poster rightly objects to). Perhaps these are in jest, but the OP seems to take the suggestion to key her car seriously. [more inside]
February 17
MeFi, meet T-Mobile. T-Mobile, MeFi.
Apparently MetaFilter and my cellular internet connection aren't playing nice with each other. Is it me or is it MeFi? [more inside]
Sic Semper Opiners
In a comment I posted here on January 16th, I asserted that Ted Rall got Tim Kreider nixed from a discussion panel. That was incorrect. [more inside]
need...more...data...
I'm assuming this got lost in the Great Server Disaster of 2009, but is the Infodump ever coming back?
Best of the Web
Metafilter is one of Time's top blogs of 2009.
"V" is for "Valiant"
Thank you to all those who have sent kind words to us - they really do help us stay tough. And thanks as a whole to the MeFi community, which has kept me entertained, interested and mentally functioning the past weeks as I lurked, learning new things and following the drama.
Vivienne passed away in her sleep last night - I guess she was waiting to make one final point.
February 16
anti-vaccinations VS death to your children
Please stop screaming that my children will die. [more inside]
February 14
Maybe we'll run into Jonatham Lethem.
NYC meet-up. Brooklyn represent. [more inside]
How will we validate each other's existences without favorites?
Clicking the plus sign to favorite a comment sends me to the top of the page and doesn't add the favorite. [more inside]
Don't do it Hermitosis
February 13
Amazon links gone wild.
Amazon referrals need some fixing. [more inside]
Microsoft, LOL, OMG
This is so not even close to best of the web it's embarrassing. Microsoft, LOL, we get it.
This post was deleted for the following reason: blank
When I load the front page, I can't see all these posts here. Greasemonkey is listing them as deleted, yet I can comment in them.Furthermore, it seems to be random, since some newer FPPs are visible.
Open All Nite!
Mass deletions? 79140, 79144, 79147 and 79149 are all showing as having been deleted but none of them are closed for comments or given a reason for closure. Is my Greasemonkey broken or is your Blue broken?
FYI
Sorry if it's just something on my end, but I am having trouble loading the site. About a third of the time, it won't load at all (ask, meta, and mefi itself). And I just reloaded a thread and got this.
He knows about the dwarf in the box.
Eisenkr is a lovely person who helped my Turk problem. [more inside]
February 12
It ain't me
This thread achieves orbit. That is all.
1234567890 salute
1234567890 observation in Denver, 2/13 starting 4:00pm at The Broker [more inside]
Should this really have gone through?
This makes me very uncomfortable. [more inside]
What are taters doing in AskMe
Ok, what's the deal with the term "tater"? (NSFW) [more inside]
February 11
flapjax at boing boing
flapjax at midnight is featured on Boing Boing for his new album, Roomful of Ghosts, which has a blog too. Yay for an awesome MeFite!
why you are deleting
Message :
my friend show me, i show metafilter. why no?
Craigslist can only take me so far...
I was hoping you could help me find a specific recent Job / Career Search MeFi question. One of the answers was a list of several job search sites. [more inside]
“Ads? in *my* feed?” / It's more likely than you think.
Advertisements in the RSS feed? Given that Matt has written before about his disdain for this bullshit, what gives?
Big thanks to a helpful MeFi-ite
Big ups to DarlingBri who struggled through our phone tree and stepped in to give me some much needed advice and context about ECommerce. [more inside]
February 10
Austin 2009
New Year, New Administration, New Austin Meetup? [more inside]
Attention RI Mefites!
Hudson Street Market in Providence is closing some time next week! [more inside]
Prison Rape
Another goddamn prison rape thread. [more inside]
February 9
Pony: Bigger text-entry boxes?
Pony: Can we please get bigger text-entry boxes? [more inside]
Minor display error with IE 6 & 7
The stripy background at the top of the page is broken with IE.
But what isn't, amirite? [more inside]
Son Or Shamefully Electrified Corpse of Son of MetaFilter Mini Meet Up Now With Live Vintage Blues at the Marco Polo in Georgetown
Well, after a hiatus of some months, on Saturday, February 28th, at 8 PM, the Phantoms of Soul return to the Marco Polo Saloon in beautiful downtown Georgetown, as in Seattle. And, as once proposed and well linked, and well and Tube attended, here and here, I renew the proposal that we meet up there and then and yak and drink and eat and laugh and so on. Maybe even dance to the Mardis Gras Mambo. [more inside]
Does MeFi have a privacy policy?
Why doesn't Metafilter have a privacy policy? [more inside]
February 8
FTW!
My hat is forever off to Nanojath for his amazing answer to my now-resolved question from December. Beyond the shadow of a doubt, you are the king of google-fu. [more inside]
Requesting a recount
The vote counts seem to be off on the Mefi Projects Archive page.
A Welsh meetup
New in town. Any mefites around Bangor, UK? [more inside]
February 7
MeFi Eve Corp?
To kill a mocking turd
Death to Strawberryviagra... [more inside]
eyecandy in MefiMail
oooh eye candy! [more inside]
Auto-removal of the 'stumped' tag
Could we set things up so tagging an AskMe post as 'resolved' automatically removes the 'stumped' tag?
Feeds problem
Since the "troubles" all of my MeFi feeds have been messed up - posts are being identified in several different feeds etc.
Is the best course of action to wait for things to correct themselves as the deployment wrinkles get worked out or delete the old feed addresses and re-add now that the new servers are deployed?
February 6
What does the metafilter server look like?
Tanks for the new server. Can we see a picture of it? [more inside]
February 5
Tweet?
Recent twitters page isn't working. It's blank for me, anyway.
Ping...............Pong
Massive slowness throughout mefi. [more inside]
Music.Metafilter access problems
Getting "403 Forbidden" errors for some music.metafilter tracks. [more inside]
you're gonna love my blockquotes
I would like a small formatting pony. [more inside]
Quoting capabilities for MeFi mail?
Quoting capabilities for MeFi mail? Yeah, I know, it's not meant to be a full-fledged mail client, but it's annoying when someone responds to something you said and you have to go back to your sent folder to remember what the heck it was.
Your tags are bad and you should feel bad
What to do about crap tags? [more inside]
Amsterdam Meetup
Amsterdam - let's hang! [more inside]
February 4
"Was the post on Ask Metafilter about ME???"
Busted by AskMe: have you ever posted a question about a relationship to AskMe, only to have the person you were writing about discover the post and call you out on it? [more inside]
February 3
Michigan Meetup?
There must be a decent population of Michigander MeFites.. [more inside]
Help me give more helpful answers on AskMefi
How can I answer Mefi questions more helpfully? [more inside]
Miami-So. Fla meetup?
Miami- South Florida meet up? [more inside]
February 2
It's that new server smell everyone loves so much
The new server: you're soaking in it! We're on the new boxes now, post any bugs or weirdness you find here and we'll work on it as fast as we can.
Metafilter Ad Appropriateness FAIL
You know you want to meet up, baby!
Boston area MST-up, Feb. 21. [more inside]
February 1
Movin' on up...
Preparations are in order for the big move. [more inside]
Mefi Meetup in Canada's Capital (MMCC?)
Ottawa meetup on the 20th of February, any takers? [more inside]
2009-02-04 - Chicago meetup, once again: check it to wreck it, let's begin.
I serve at the pleasure of wfrgms: MonthlyMetaMichAveMeetup on February 4th, 6-ish, Billy Goat. That is all. [more inside]