MetaTalk

Playing with Amphetadesk, and got this error message:

AmphetaDesk could not determine the format of http://xml.metafilter.com/rss.xml.
posted by mecran01 to Bugs at 10:27 AM - 5 comments

I realize that the 'ethnic cleansing' was inappropriate as it was. I'm wondering though if anyone who saw it for the five minutes or so it was up could give any suggestions as to how to post it differently, other than a disclaimer on the front page rather than inside. Or was it inappropriate altogether, warning or not? (Yes, I've read posting guidelines.)
posted by dgt to Etiquette/Policy at 10:24 PM - 23 comments

This reminds me of a large mythical creature that lurks under bridges, and also smacks of lots of news.
posted by The Michael The to Etiquette/Policy at 6:24 AM - 51 comments

If you're gonna delete this, you better delete this. Fair is fair.
posted by RylandDotNet to Etiquette/Policy at 10:15 AM - 46 comments

The Link & Think Archive on MeFi Homepage today points to the 2001 archive - http://www.metafilter.com/linkandthink.mefi. I know we can see 1/12/2002 at http://www.metafilter.com/lofi.mefi. Is this deliberate? Just curious.
posted by dash_slot- to MetaFilter-Related at 9:24 AM - 5 comments

Am I missing something? John Gilmore and Cory Doctorow are asking us to harass total strangers by phoning them at home. [more inside]
posted by y6y6y6 to Etiquette/Policy at 9:20 AM - 31 comments

Thanks sebas. A clean, responsible, and non-snarky way to deal with a funged link for the benefit of the community.
posted by PrinceValium to Etiquette/Policy at 3:53 AM - 8 comments

irc://irc.metafilter.com:6667 is back up and running
posted by mathowie (staff) to MetaFilter-Related at 1:29 PM - 23 comments

Is it all right to use MetaTalk to thank everyone for wonderful links yesterday? Matt, that was a great thing. I can't recall being so moved by a website before. Thank you, everyone, for that. (and sorry if this is not appropriate for MetaTalk)
posted by Joey Michaels to MetaFilter-Related at 10:04 AM - 10 comments

in today's theme, on mozilla 1.0 (sorry, but that's the latest version in debian stable/testing) textareas appear as white on white. i have a general (ie desktop) white on black colour scheme, but mozilla is configured to have a default of black on white. ps my mefi config uses the "other" colour-scheme.
posted by andrew cooke to Bugs at 12:37 PM - 5 comments

This is not supposed to be a theology debate. Although I don't mind walking the line because I am interested in people's reactions and interpretations of a natural phenomenon. But I don't want my first FPP yanked because people couldn't at least flame on topic and the topic is HIV, how it works and what it looks like.
posted by wobh to Etiquette/Policy at 9:35 AM - 19 comments

This post does not seem to have any point, nor do the comments.
posted by owillis to Etiquette/Policy at 7:22 PM - 32 comments

This post Shows why giving users control over font size is a bad idea.
posted by nyxxxx to Etiquette/Policy at 3:34 PM - 51 comments

Sunday, Dec 1st is Worlds AIDS Day, and part of the observance that relates to the realm of weblogs is the Link and Think Project.

Like last year, and the year before, I'll be redesigning MetaFilter to use a stark black and white template, and asking everyone to focus every post that day to something related to AIDS and HIV.

I'm posting this now to get everyone thinking about it early. If there is some aspect of the subject that interests you, whether that's how not to get the virus, that it gets too much funding, that pop stars do a bad job promoting awareness, or even that you don't think it exists, I encourage you to do some research to unearth some links to help you craft a post on the matter.
posted by mathowie (staff) to MetaFilter-Related at 11:36 AM - 49 comments

Am I the only one that doesn't like FPPs that begin the political arguement in the post itself. See a post today for what I mean. Nothing against The Jesse Helms, but the links don't point to anything new. It appears to me to be a political broadside instead of interesting information. IMHO, interesting information is what a 'metafilter' is supposed to provide.

I thought the idea of MeFi was to let discussion occur in the comments, not on the front page.

Or am I way off base and should I head back to Slashdot & the WWDN forums?
posted by Argyle to Etiquette/Policy at 10:49 AM - 32 comments

Cafepress Hoody with extra bling? With "Pancake Overlords" written in Old English type on the front? In time for the holidays?
posted by eddydamascene to Feature Requests at 9:07 PM - 19 comments

I'm wearing my MeFi t-shirt today, which declares "MF" in big letters on the front. Unfortunately I got my order in before the frontal design changed to read "MeFi" instead of "MF". Did anyone else buy one of these, and if so, did you wear it to the office? What did your coworkers say? Did they call you a MoFo?
posted by TreeHugger to Bugs at 9:19 AM - 34 comments

I, uh, made a fpp about 3 hours ago which eventually got deleted. Granted the cracks.am site probably shouldn't have been linked but could someone tell me what I did wrong? No need to flame, you can email me too. Thanks.
posted by PWA_BadBoy to Etiquette/Policy at 11:49 PM - 18 comments

How can Staggernation be member 17200 when the front page says there are 17136 members?
posted by feelinglistless to Bugs at 12:04 PM - 77 comments

MetaFilter IRC is back (in full effect, YO!). Visit: irc://irc.metafilter.com:6667/mefi. If your DNS server is caching the old address, use: irc://irc.turlyming.com:6667/mefi.
posted by chrish to MetaFilter-Related at 8:09 PM - 19 comments