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MetaShout-out
Let's open this thread up to shout-out some one or some thread that deserves our praise. Feel free to shout-out yourself, your partner, a friend, a lover, a family member, a pet, a stranger, and/or another mefite or mod. Whether its an awesome thread or an awesome person, let's shout-out the awesome we see in others. Stay safe and be kind to yourself. Cheers. [more inside]
An AskMe comment gets a mention in The Guardian
An AskMe comment by "blogger and libraries activist Jessamyn West" gets a mention in a Guardian column about getting things done.
From MetaFilter With Love
(Glang. Glangalangalangalang.) Nobody does it better. Makes me feel sad for the rest. Nobody does it quite the way you do, baby baby... darlin YOU'RE THE BEST. [more inside]
Bless my buttons! Wired (via book excerpt) has cited MF re: sockpuppets!
AS SLEUTHS STARTED PICKING APART THE STORY, SOME BELIEVERS SUFFERED GENUINE ANGUISH BECAUSE OF THE CYNICISM.[more inside]
Then, on May 19, the user “acridrabbit” posted a simple question: “Is it possible that Kaycee did not exist?” Not only were there some inconsistencies in Kaycee’s story—some odd-sounding descriptions of how the doctors talked about leukemia, the difficulty people were having in finding an address for flowers and cards—but it also appeared that nobody had ever met Kaycee in person.
Add The Atlantic to the list of web-IRL-zines that link MetaFilter
What Happens When Digital Cities Are Abandoned?
Exploring the pristine ruins of Second Life and other online spaces
LAURA E. HALLJUL 13 2014, 6:55 AM ET [more inside]
Exploring the pristine ruins of Second Life and other online spaces
LAURA E. HALLJUL 13 2014, 6:55 AM ET [more inside]
Metafilter mentioned (and linked) at Fast Company
"Why Academics Are Incensed By Facebook's Emotion-Manipulating Social Experiment" by Chris Gayomali
Comments on Metafilter filled a spectrum ranging from "meh" to furious: "I don't remember volunteering to participate in this. If I had tried this in graduate school, the institutional review board would have crapped bricks."(See, was that so hard, New Yorker?)
AskMe quoted on NewYorker.com
AskMe gets a shout out on the New Yorker's Page-turner blog.
Metafilter Wins!
Nice MF shoutout from Mark Morford in his latest post about trolls... [more inside]
AskMetaFilter gets a Shout Out
Now I Know is a free daily newsletter of incredible things; you’ll learn something new every day! The author, Dan Lewis, links this informative comment by designmartini on how to find an apartment in New York city.
The MetaFilter Conspiracy
Attorneys James Daily and Ryan Davidson, better knownst to us as jedicus and valkyryn, are guest-blogging this week at the rather frighteningly prestigious law blog "The Volokh Conspiracy." Daily and Davidson, as many of us know, were propelled to fame and fortune by their joint project Law and the Multiverse, and the resulting book The Law of Superheroes, in which they apply our mundane Earth-Prime laws to comic books. And, of course, it all started at MeFi Projects.
Meow Shoutout
I would like to point out the superhelpful answers to this wonderfully bizarre question:
which in turn reminds me of this even more wonderfully bizarre question.
Meowlectronics. It is a thing.
There's a reason people wrote to Dear Abby
AskMe gets a shoutout in NPR's MonkeySee blog.
If your website is full of assholes, it's your fault
Mefite[1] Anil Dash[2] writes[3]:
"Simply learning from disciplines like urban planning, zoning regulations, crowd control, effective and humane policing, and the simple practices it takes to stage an effective public event, we can come up with a set of principles to prevent the overwhelming majority of the worst behaviors on the Internet." Examples? Why Metafilter, of course, (as well as Stack Exchange sites, of which he is a board member). [more inside]
MetaFilter: erudite dialog
Apparently we're erudite! And beloved by children (or something...) [more inside]
Tweet out!
MeFi's own Adam Savage ("MOAS") gave us a very cool shout out to his 15 million Twitter followers, saying "Awesome links, excellently moderated discussion. My favorite community of balanced, reasoned debate is www.metafilter.com." And in response to another tweet asking about Reddit, MOAS replied that of course he still reads Reddit, but "for reasonable debate, I far prefer MeFi.". [more inside]
this is faaaantastic.
Just featured on All Things Considered it's mefi's own: jedicus and valkyryn and their blog: The Law and the Multiverse. Previously discussed here and here.
And this all started over here at mefi projects. [more inside]
A wild meffy appears!
Metafilter Project Favimon has won Mozilla Labs Gaming prize for Most Original Game! Matthew Hollett, attractive web programmer who is fun at parties, gives Metafilter a nice shout out in his guest Mozilla Labs blog entry as well.
The forum at the end of the universe
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Starship Titanic website sat a specious message board with posts by the senior crew of the fictional ship. This is not its story." The Economist blog "Babbage" explores (in decidedly Adamsian style) the fascinating story of the Starlight Lines forum and its "accidental" community, as told by Mefi's own Yoz Grahame in this truly epic comment from last December. [more inside]
New Cub A Friend Of Matt
"If your article was well written, and/or funny, I’d simply have had a laugh about it and went back to metafilter.com where I belong when I’m on the net when it was forwarded to me." A shoutout by new Cub... Metafilter's own.... Fernando Perez. [more inside]
A MeFi shoutout, in print, in a real-life book!
crackers
I'd probably want to sweep this booger-string of a deleted thread under the rug too if it was my site. But it's sort of sad to lose such a gold star collection of mefi members practicing the non-bigotry they preach, so if anyone lost a comment they're particularly proud of the deleting mod pretty much invited you to re-post it to the open thread here.
For a good time call.
Calling out flapjax at midnite
I'm calling out flapjax at midnite for making consistently awesome music posts and being an asset to the community. [more inside]
See Astro Space Laboratory
I'd just like to take a moment to misuse MetaTalk and draw your attention to this lame gawker list type post revealing the origin of MetaFilters own Astro Zombie.
Metafilter 10th Anniversary party line and voice mailbox
Metafilter 10th Anniversary party line and voice mailbox. Numbers inside! [more inside]
Woof.
One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why. [more inside]
MeFi prevents brain damage!
Hey, AskMefites, thanks for potentially saving my life. [more inside]
Planet money <3 MeFi
I checked out NPRs Planet Money to see what kind of insight they have on the financial situation. Turns out that they're linking to us [more inside]
mathowie on the vote!
Thanks MeFi!
Thanks MeFi for helping me move! [more inside]
Orange swan sure knows how to craft a post!
I come in praise of orange swan and her many craft-related posts. They are wittily
put together and loaded with tons of great links, especially those that recycle old
things into amazing new ones. Thank you, orange swan!
Thanks, mattbucher!
I'd like to publicly thank MeFi user mattbucher for helping make last night a wonderful experience. [more inside]
Long live, Metafilter!
I just wanted to say what a wonderful memorial the David Foster Wallace obit thread has become. [more inside]
Walk On
A follow up to this little post I made a few years ago about a fellow that was attempting to walk every street and lane of his surroundings. His passing has given me pause to reflect on the idea of community and how posting events from the local to the global bring us closer together. I want to say thank you to mathowie for providing us with this forum for sharing these often unheard stories.
Grumblebee on passion
Sidebar request - grumblebee on finding your passion [more inside]
Damned Papparazzi!
I Vant To be Alone!* [more inside]
Shout out
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]
Nicely done moderation on the Russian sexual harassment post.
Nicely done moderation on the Russian sexual harassment post. [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.
Suddenly Nicky
that's what my daddy made me
hugs all round
I think it's about time Kattullus got a pat on the back for a staggering output of consistently excellent posts.
Merge With Caution
Ask MeFi inspires an author: there's a plethora of traffic-related questions that pop up on the green, but one such question (I'm betting this one) helped to inform a book that's out today. [more inside]
History from a witness.
I would like to thank Dee_extrovert for sharing her experiences and insights with us in this thread. [more inside]
Your solitary compulsion becomes a shared experience.
This AskMe post blows my mind in a minor and enjoyable way. Who knew? It turns out a lot of people have a Tourette's-like response to embarrassing memories. [more inside]
5 minutes of great reading.
Lest anyone miss it on the blue, this post needs to be added to the list of those that are referred to whenever someone asks what an excellent FPP looks like.
Education with your host, DaShiv.
Over the last few months one of the Metafilter regulars has produced a number of comments demonstrating an above average grasp of the democratic parties political process as well as an above average ability to articulate that understanding in to language that highlights the substance of the comments. [more inside]
Thanks!
I just wanted to point out how great a guy adamwolf is. When I asked this question he offered me an old oscilloscope of his he was replacing.
ripost
I wanted to call out a post I like from misteraitch, circa 2003. I just ran across the site (specifically), and would have posted it myself had it not already found its way here five years ago.