August 2008 Archives (all archives)
August 31
Gustav
NOLA and area residents [more inside]
Thinking of moving to Toronto...Advice?
I've been wanting to move to Toronto for years, and now I'm finally able to do so! Now I have some questions... [more inside]
art or sullen craft
August 30
NYC Meetup Between 9/9 and 9/14?
I'm going to be in NYC from September 9 to 14. I'll miss the Brooklyn meetup. Who's game for another meetup? *sadeyes*
Damned Papparazzi!
I Vant To be Alone!* [more inside]
Pony Request: Alumni as contact
There is no classmate or co-alumni sort of option on the contact form. [more inside]
[previous-filter] mefi checks if fpp links have previously been posted. how about doing the same for a few of the other large sites out there?
[previous-filter] mefi checks if fpp links have previously been posted. how about doing the same for a few of the other large sites out there? [more inside]
August 29
I know the Sarah Palin thread has your attention but AskMe Spam Still Sucks
Metafiltrl trefferl
Metafiltrl trefferl! Want to grab a Maß in München on saturday september 20th? [more inside]
That which we call misogyny, by any other name...
Longtime Mefi lurker and non-FPPoster here, registering strong disgust at some of the comments in the Sarah Palin thread. [more inside]
PDX Meetup in Sept
PDX Meetup? I missed the last one. And the one before that. And I really want to make it to one, really I do. [more inside]
Clarification on reasons to delete answers
Poster asks: Does dating through craigslist actually work? I answered simply, "No." My answer's been deleted. This is not the first time my on-topic answers have been deleted from threads and I find it pretty annoying. Further, someone else posted "Yup" and there answer is still there. WTF? [more inside]
Quantum Field Theory?
QFT.
Curious, I looked it up. Urban Dictionary has the definition as "quoted for truth" but that definition certainly doesn't match the context in which it is used on here. Little help?
August 28
Pony Request: Fix Live Preview Bugs
WYSINWYG: Live Preview ≠ Actual Post. [more inside]
31: The Big Picture
This podcast was recorded on August 25th and features an interview with kokogiak about his Big Picture project. Interview runs about 30 minutes of the hour long show. [more inside]
MSP Meetup - since we all need to start drinking heavily.
Okay, so Denver has their DNC meetup tonight. For those stuck in, or visiting, the Twin Cities for the RNC (and associated protests), how about a meetup? [more inside]
I am curious (podcast)
Just personal curiosity at work here- I noticed a reference elsewhere a few days ago to recording the upcoming podcast, which, unaccountably, cheered me up. (I look forward to the podcasts, because like as not they cover something interesting I didn't see in my normal perusals of the site.) So, what I got to wondering was ... [more inside]
August 27
unanswered self questions
If you reply to your own comment in Ask MeFi, and no one else has replied yet, it no longer shows up on the Unanswered Questions page. [more inside]
August 26
Experimental news site
MetaFilter Journalists. [Opinion Content: Moderate. Sentiment: Mostly Neutral]
NoScript Please
If you are not using firefox you may skip this post, because it is about a tool that can help prevent comments like this and this [more inside]
De-eponystericalism
Is it possible to change my username or should I close my account and pay another 5 bucks? (Reason: I want less anger in my life)
What's in a name?
No, really. What is the deal with your nickname? [more inside]
No, my post is not about the Imageshack frog
What's the best way to link to a large image on Mefi? [more inside]
MeFi is still a classic.
I thought for sure that someone would mention MeFi's inclusion on PCMag's "100 Classic Websites of 2008" list. So, allow me. [more inside]
Ringtones on Music
The Punch 'Em In The Dick thread contained this, which made me set up and post this, and wonder if ringtone downloads could be a cool feature to add to Music. [more inside]
August 25
left angle-bracket i right angle-bracket Popular Favorites left angle-bracket forward slash i right angle-bracket
Pony Request: Could we preserve italics in the 'popular favorites' excerpts for comments? [more inside]
Export Comments Counted?
I didn't realize that we could export our comments. That is fricking awesome. But what does this mean:
Once you start your download, your weekly export will be counted.
Counted? I don't understand.
A trip down MeFimory lane to Obama's 2004 convention speech
Here's a little trip down memory lane. Obama's 2004 speech at the Democratic convention caught MetaFilter's attention. On July 28th, 2004 there was swift's MeFi post Obama's been lauded (which, in a refreshing change, derailed into a discussion of Canadian politics) and later that same day ronv asked what's more realistic/ which will happen first in the united states: a minority president or a woman president? [more inside]
August 24
help the toneless
Dose anyone know how to (or if its possible to) upload a song to askmefi? i have a mystery song i'd like identified. i tried uploading it to the music section but was told i was naughty for doing so
Delete delete!
Trivial point, but it irked me seeing my answer here crossed out by a later responder. [more inside]
The odometer rolls over
Users are people too
I'm tired of the word 'user'. can we use 'members' or 'readers' instead when referring to them e.g. "X users favourited this" etc? [more inside]
Yeah, no.
Not ok.
Grow up.
August 23
W.T.F.M.?
Young Devin Funck
Just wanted to call your attention to this comment by Astro Zombie. I can only favorite once and flag it once.
August 22
update comments set thread_id = foo where thread_id = bar
pre-empting Obamaveepfilter
Obama is expected to announce his VP choice tomorrow via text message to the masses. Dozens, or perhaps hundreds, even thousands, of mefites will be notified of the selection all at the very same instant. Several of them may want to make the first crappy post on the subject. Shall we let this happen? [more inside]
Halp, my tabs has gone
I used to see the links to "* Recent Posts/* My Favorites/* Popular Favorites/* My Comments/* Recent Comments" as tabs on the front page (like this example from MeTa). Now they look like this. [more inside]
Twisted pair
Ctrl-shift-t collision in Firefox. [more inside]
Shout out
Here we go again....
Frustrating [more inside]
August 21
Amazed at no FPP on McCain's epic gaff
You know, I get as sick as anybody over every minor story about the U.S. presidential election getting posted to the Blue, and I know the mods are trying to keep the quality of posts up, but it [i]still[/i] surprised me to go there tonight and find NO DISCUSSION of what history could very well define as THE important turning point in this election: John McCain's not knowing how many houses he owns. This on the heels of his definition of $5 million as defining "rich". Could no one draft a decent FPP about it, or has it been decided that this story isn't going on the Blue no matter what? If so, one has to wonder: why?
Comment linkability at MeFiMu?
Pony request: Envisioning a golden, glowing future in which any number of other (that is to say, non-dick punching) songs at MeFi Music get the kind of comment action that "the most Favorited track of ALL TIME!" has gotten, I'd like to see individual comment linkability in MeFiMu threads. Like the blue and the other subsites have. Might this be possible?
Filtering favorites by tag?
Pony request: The ability to filter favorites by tags. Or is this already available and I'm missing something? [more inside]
Why not MyMeta?
We have MyAsk. Why not MyMeta? How about a tab that filters by tags. Example: ignore anything with linux or politics. Keep anything with maps or art.
Help computer. Stop all the javascriptin.
FireFox. MetaFilter. A script on this page has stopped responding, do you want to stop the script, debug the script, or cry. Anybody else seeing this on Firefox 2.x? [more inside]
DragonCon '08
Second convention thread of the week: Dragon*Con is coming up Aug. 28 - Sept 1. Anyone else planning on attending? What panels are you thinking on attending? [more inside]
August 20
NYC Meetup
Hey New York, let's meetup. How's September 6th in Williamsburg? [more inside]
Metafilter license plate?
Oh, hi, Ohioans. It's Mefi! (Or, does a super-dedicated mefite travel on 480?) [more inside]
The healing power of Mefites
The responses to this AskMe are a "Best of" for me. Dunno if this is the venue... but I need to express myself! [more inside]
August 19
deleted...why?
There is a downtown apparently...
Downtown Los Angeles meetup? [more inside]
Hipsterific happiness
Better late than never: This is a post to say thank you to 1f2frfbf for organising the inaugural Mefi Button Swap, and to share the spoils of said swap. [more inside]
you're not helping
Someone wants to help people. The answers? Kill people, kill yourself, kill all the religious people, and stop having babies. People, please. [more inside]
How was the Start Conference?
San Francisco Meetup?
Sweet Dreams are made of these.
August 18
PAX Meetup?
Is anyone going to PAX? If so, we should convene, converse, and imbibe. Interested?
Yup. I'm actually back.
Hello L.A. peeps. Fancy a meetup? [more inside]
Hiccup with embedded YouTube player thingy
Impromptu Melbourne boozeup?
Impromptu Melbourne boozeup? [more inside]
August 17
All time favorite comment?
Link to your favorite comment.
[more inside]
August 16
MefiMail Improvements
Pony request: Would like more MefiMail options. [more inside]
More fantasy, because you love it
Fantasy Football Part II: If any of you are interested, I'm in another league that needs 6 more people. [more inside]
August 15
Tropical Salty Impromptu Meetup: Vieques
Impromptu meetup in Esperanza, Vieques, Puerto Rico? [more inside]
AskMe cited in Walrus article
This AskMe question about sad music was cited in an article in the May 2008 issue of the Walrus. [more inside]
Philadelphia is pretty nifty
It is time for another Philly Meetup...right? [more inside]
August 14
Following Up?
Do people follow-up much? [more inside]
fantastical
Ok. How many of you mefites used to think "fantastic post/comment" was for use on off-the-wall comments? [more inside]
August 13
Listless listed
User feelinglistless had a strangely accurate vision for the future of Doctor Who back in 2003.. [more inside]
The etymology of HURF DURF
I've seen a few comments recently claiming or intimating that "HURF DURF" originated here, and I would like to set the record straight on this extremely trivial matter. [more inside]
MetaTalk tags?
Why don't we have tags in MetaTalk?
AskMe Noise
Stop breaking the rules! Do not post a comment if you don't have an answer or are helping to look for one. That the asker is breaking the rules isn't an excuse. [more inside]
Muxtape
Can we add muxtape as a social service for the profiles? I bet a lot of mefites muxtapes up.
August 12
It was the best of times, period.
Big huge, ginormous thanks and hugs to Metafilter in general and Konolia in particular. [more inside]
Show me your nostrils!
A tale of two questions.... [more inside]
MeFi iPhone icon unavailable?
Anyone else unable to add a custom MeFi icon webclip to their iPhone home screen? I just get a snapshot of the page, instead of the nice blue MF logo (which was working for me earlier this year.) Other sites with this functionality are working fine. Tech Specs: first gen iPhone, OS 2.0, unlocked and jailbroken.
One more question
I had a problem. Now, it's happening all over again. Would it be bad form to bother the green for a second time? [more inside]
What is the story of Metafilter?
Imho this question didn't feel like it was "askMefi" so here goes. I'm observing how groups/communities form organically or virally online around common values/goals/whatever and I wonder if there's ever been a discussion, thread, study etc done on Metafilter's beginnings, how it grew etc? Any thoughts, stories, anecdotes?
August 11
Georgia update
Because for some reason I can't sign into metafilter's main page, I thought I'd give a brief update on the situation in this thread here. [more inside]
Nicely done moderation on the Russian sexual harassment post.
Nicely done moderation on the Russian sexual harassment post. [more inside]
August 10
...almost TWO Hugos, in fact
Extra-long words for an extra-wide screen
When a title (or possible any word) in a contact's post is long enough, it overflows the bounds of the sidebar and causes the front page to have right-scroll. Pic here.
August 9
9/11 was an inside job
"Submitting a link is akin to writing a little paper for school."
"I just went to MetaFilter and the top link is "How many goats are you worth?". Is that more intellectual than the entries on Reddit?"
"I hate, hate, hate it when they put multiple links in single words."
reddit discovers Metafilter.
"I just went to MetaFilter and the top link is "How many goats are you worth?". Is that more intellectual than the entries on Reddit?"
"I hate, hate, hate it when they put multiple links in single words."
reddit discovers Metafilter.
Fantasy football, anyone?
Anyone up for fantasy football? [more inside]
August 8
Shirt-cockers not welcome.
Anyone interested in a meet-up during the big, desert hippy thing? [more inside]
The daft bit at the top
Hello - is there no way to link to sites on our profiles or am I just not clever enough ? [more inside]
Seattle meetup August 2008
Seattle meetup? [more inside]
30: Punched in the dick
This podcast was recorded on August 1st and covers the month of July on Metafilter. It runs about an hour long. [more inside]
Display Title of Post in RSS feed of Popular Comments?
I use the "Popular Comments" feed to keep track of all the great things you witty people are always saying. Currently, the title of each comment in the feed is formatted like so:
By orthogonality in MeFi
which does not provide any sort of context for the comment. [more inside]
By orthogonality in MeFi
which does not provide any sort of context for the comment. [more inside]
Fuelly
DNC MeFite Gathering?
Coming to Denver for the DNC? [more inside]
August 7
Text-mode MeFi?
Reading works just fine already, either via RSS or just a text-mode browser. Posting is a little harder. Links, Elinks, and w3m all seem baffled by the login---Elinks, for example, reloads the login page, while w3m gets back to the question but then asks me to log in again. Does anyone know why this is so? Is there some common unsupported standard that prevents these browsers from logging in? (Note: It happens with a lot of sites that need login, not just MeFi.)
MetaFilter Slooooow?
Anyone else having intermittently 'freezes' while loading, or generally slow behavior? [more inside]
Kansas City Meet Up?
I recently moved into my very first apartment in the Kansas City/Johnson County area, but I don't know anyone! I'd like to fix that with a meet up. [more inside]
Troja!
Avast throws a Trojan Horse warning when I try to open yeoz's post here in MetaTalk. [more inside]
the bad bad internets
so, about this post --> http://www.metafilter.com/73909/History-of-the-DC-Universe ... please read all of more inside first before looking at the post. [more inside]
August 6
Are you good with words?
Got any lyrics you'd like to see turned into songs? Got any songs that need lyrics? Post em on here and have fun collaborating with your fellow mefites. There's some cool stuff goin on over in the music section, if you haven't checked it out you should, it's awesome, if you don't mediocre might punch you in the dick [more inside]
How Not To Sell Out
Two months ago, Fearless Leader gave a neat talk at WebVisions 2008 about how to make money off your particular web passion without resorting to venture capital interference or selling out, and the slides and the audio (MP3) from his talk are now online. It's plenty cool enough to watch/listen to on its own merits, if you've ever dreamed of running your own web company or making a small-but-cool web tool -- but since MetaFilter (and what it's been like to start and run MetaFilter) are mentioned prominently, I thought it was worth noting here, rather than on the Blue. [more inside]
It took 2+ years to find it, but it was worth it!
I found what I was looking for, after 2+ years, including an answer to my very first AskMe post! For posterity, the answer to this question is this, and the answer to this question is "Happy Go Lively" which is available here.
I'd love to be able to update my own askme posts, even if they were from years ago. I understand that the discussion has to end at some point, but if I found what I believe to be the definitive answer (since it was my question, after all), it would help those who come searching later on to keep the answer and the question together.
Why wasn't the Timecube theory of finance question deleted?
Misandry and Ask Metafilter.
Misandry and Ask Metafilter. [more inside]
August 5
?
Which post has been the most "removed from favorites"? I don't think this is answerable from the data dump.
List of Mefites on different social networks
I thought there was a page that listed Mefites on different social networks, i.e. Mefites on Flickr, Twitter, et al, with their associated usernames on said sites. I'm not thinking of the aggregated twitter/flickr pages. Or am I? Did I dream this?
Favorite Not.
Favorite error: Click the '+', go to top of page, instead of marking comment. [more inside]
August 4
Not sure what to search for
Yeah. I know this makes me seem wildly stupid, but... I was trying to post a question on AskMe. I wanted to post it anonomously. (It was a medical question.) But I couldn't figure it out. I either had to post under my pseudonym, or I had to get a new account.
That can't be right?
SLYT? WTF?
What does SLYT mean?
Sideblog snaps and props
Oh snap, I made the sideblog.. I'm relatively new here, so it's a bit of an honor for me to be selected for the sideblog for my recent MuFi post.. [more inside]
August 3
MeFi stream graphs
So I was reading this, and thought it would make an interesting visualization for MeFi statistics. Pretty pictures inside. [more inside]
August 2
Suddenly Nicky
Misogyny Filter (?)
Misogyny Filter? : A question about condom usage is going down the death-spiral of comments relating more to the perceived misogyny of the answers than to actually answering the question. [more inside]
Revisiting Favorites - RSS Pony Request
Getting your own Favorites as an RSS feed? [more inside]
August 1
Post Ident Please
Can't find a post. Did extensive search, but search-fu is off, or I am not remembering key details. [more inside]
that's what my daddy made me
Worldcons, bah. Hooray Beer!
So, Worldcon is in Denver. Enough of us for a meetup? [more inside]
Is it just me?
What's the deal with this profile?