MetaTalk

World Community Grid celebrates its sixth birthday today. WCG is a distributed computing project that allows participants to donate unused cycles on their home or business machines, and to designate the scientific project which will use those cycles. Since its inception, the 43,000 members of WCG have processed 110,000 years of donated time and have provided 200 million results to the research teams involved. The MetaFilter team is responsible for slightly more than 8.5 years of donated computer time and about 12,500 results. [more inside]
posted by catlet on Nov 18, 2010 - 5 comments

deezil has an excellent spyware removal/virus removal guide in his profile. Are there other members with similarly useful content?
posted by fake on Oct 30, 2010 - 28 comments

Dear Metafilter, what's with all the human-centrism? [more inside]
posted by mondaygreens on May 20, 2010 - 2 comments

Boulder meetup? soon-ish? [more inside]
posted by lonefrontranger on Mar 4, 2010 - 38 comments

Metafilter Interviews or Ask/Tell? [more inside]
posted by empath on Feb 26, 2010 - 82 comments

I've gone ahead and created a MeFi wiki page for our little Diplomacy-playing subcommunity (spawned in this MeTa thread). [more inside]
posted by Rock Steady on Jan 23, 2009 - 10 comments

Any MeFites want to get together on Tuesday the 20th in the SF bay area and celebrate the day together? Preferably near a media source? And beverages?
posted by iamkimiam on Jan 16, 2009 - 15 comments

Any other Washington, DC area Mefites taking part in this year's Artomatic? It's May 9 to June 15. I'd like to see your work and maybe meet. Registration is still open (800 artists so far). You should at least go and see it even if you're not taking part. [more inside]
posted by princelyfox on Apr 15, 2008 - 5 comments

There's a Nethack tournament going on for all of next month. I know we have a bunch of Nethack fans. Want to be part of a MeFi clan?
posted by Zed_Lopez on May 28, 2007 - 244 comments

gigFilter: Just out of curiousity, who has real-world events they'll be participating in the next week 7 days?: Live Music, Plays, Gallery Showings? Anything you have going on that's open to the public?
posted by empath on Jul 31, 2006 - 15 comments

Notable MeFites - who are they? I know everyone's special in their own little way, but which MeFites are really special - popularly famous or notable in their field. I've always wondered this...

Obvious examples excluded.
posted by bjork24 on Jul 3, 2006 - 117 comments

MeFites in MMOs? Based on some of the comments in this thread (and others, others and still others), it is an easy guess that Metafilter has substantial representation in many a server-based world. So confess. Where do you spend your virtual time? Is it WoW? Is it CoH or CoV? Is it KoL? Is it EVE? Who knows ... there might be some untapped potential here.
posted by grabbingsand on Jun 23, 2006 - 149 comments

Right now there are 35,070 members in MetaFilter. Many members have their own unique personal sites. Which are your favorite less-known ones?
posted by growabrain on Apr 9, 2006 - 37 comments