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MeTa post:
Macs
Treo represent!
Actually, I find the Linux figure very interesting. That's getting up to being a respectable chunk. I recall when Macs would be less than 5% of typical website traffic (eg back in the days when Google still published OS stats in the Zeitgeist), and Linux+Unix together less than 1%.
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 10:42 PM on September 6, 2008
MeTa post:
fantastical
I've never used that feature, because I haven't seen any upright poles, stakes or supports that struck me as fantastic yet.
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 6:34 PM on August 14, 2008
MeTa post:
History from a witness.
I flagged it hoping it would be side-barred. Other serious comments/posts have been side-barred before. As jokeefe says: extraordinary.
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 5:06 PM on July 23, 2008
I understand the "cheapening" aspect - the word "favourite: hardly captures how I feel about that comment, and if you think the sidebar is for fluffy kittens, then it's wrong to treat that comment as cute fluffy kitten. But I think of both favourites and the sidebar as blunt instruments for attracting attention, and I'm totally ok with doing that, especially for something that I think merits more attention than anything else we have seen recently.
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 7:40 PM on July 23, 2008
MeTa post:
Clinton Obama Filter redux
Gah! No!
There are many, many sites that already do American politics where this will be discussed to death.
It was a crappy post, and it should stay dead. "But it's important!" is a terrible excuse. I understood Metafilter was about interesting, not important.
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 10:54 PM on May 23, 2008
MeTa post:
the new contacts page is leaving me wanting...
The thing about having yourself as a contact (and I too am among the super-vain who've exploited the "edge case") is that you then finally see what other people see about what you've been doing, boring and mundane as that may be. i_am_joe's_spleen had a best answer in Is "bonzer" bonzer? 9 days ago. Awesome!
When cortex says "If there are specific useful things that the contacting-yourself trick makes possible, it's probably... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 3:46 AM on May 23, 2008
MeTa post:
Server updated
I had subscribed to the comments feed on this MeTa post - http://metatalk.metafilter.com/15823/Mighty-Mighty-Wellington-Meetup/ - and suddenly Google Reader is showing comments from here - http://www.metafilter.com/15823/. Same post ID, so maybe something DNS related?
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 6:04 PM on April 18, 2008
MeTa post:
Mefi Made Me See The Light!
Like jouke, for me MeFi has made Americans far more real and three-dimensional (likewise, but to a proportionately lesser extent, various other nationalities). And I too am no longer a prescriptivist, which was a real blow to my prose-snarking ego.
Those things aside, the only thing I can say is that my confidence in strong assertions has been weakened as time after time I have seen well-constructed arguments deconstructed and countered, including my own. Can't say I've... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 5:28 PM on March 24, 2008
MeTa post:
Wellington meetup photos
Yes, that Wellington meetup!
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 11:13 AM on March 19, 2008
It's the 20th where I am right now :)
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 12:13 PM on March 19, 2008
You have blown my cover, Plutor. I'm actually the last of the Time Lords, hiding in the Antipodes... actually, the date shows as 20th March for me; where do you see 3rd March?
The meetup was eventually held at Murphy's, a (to coin a phrase) bog-standard faux Irish joint still littered with the St Pat's day decorations. (There was unfortunately a private function up at Mighty Mighty, which is my fave Wellington bar ever). I arrived 6ish with a certain amount of beer... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 1:00 PM on March 19, 2008
MeTa post:
'I am not a Microsoft "fanboy"'...
If it's shilling, the answers are not exactly helpful.
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 3:50 PM on March 13, 2008
Unfortunately, neither IE6 nor IE7 support SVG. It's a wonderful, wonderful tool, but the chances of major websites being built around it in the next 3 years are nil.
I have often thought that a killer web app that requires Firefox will get people to install it. Hell, people used to buy whole computers so they could run Visicalc or 123. Installation of Firefox is a pretty low bar in comparison.
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 8:20 PM on March 13, 2008
MeTa post:
Magnanimity
"it is not a mechanism for societal change"
Maybe not, but I think it is extremely helpful in creating the conditions for social change. When people can plan, when they have trust in their fellows, when they can have faith in self-built institutions, and above all when they can obtain investment capital to liberate a little time and a few extra calories, they are far more likely to be able to organise politically.
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 6:36 PM on March 1, 2008
MeTa post:
The Australian Election Thread
I salute you marvellous Australians from across the Tasman sea, and agree that this is a far better approach. I am so filled with loathing for the current American government that my blood could probably be refined and used as an anti-Republican vaccine, but I am heartily sick of the weak and frequent American politics posts.
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 8:22 PM on November 11, 2007
MeTa post:
Wilful tag abuse
jessamyn: is there anyone quicker on the draw than you? I swear I had the MT post up before you had swooped on the thread.
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 11:07 PM on October 25, 2007
MeTa post:
Got wood?
Disclosure: I own a teeny chunk of Ponoko, and I know the folks involved. Would someone actually post the link? Cause I missed it and that makes me sad.
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 8:46 PM on October 15, 2007
MeTa post:
There is a snark in the title, covered with a URL
Nah, this post was crap.
Call me a metahypocrite, but back in the day, this is what alt.tasteless was for. It'd be great for Fark or Sensible Erection. But Metafilter? We have standards.
If we're going to have autoerotic asphyxiation by self-loathing moralists on the front page, there needs to be a redeeming feature that makes it art.
I know that sounds like a joke, but I'm quite serious. Leave the poor guy alone. He is a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 1:32 AM on October 13, 2007
There's nothing whatsoever that makes a post about a dead pervert better or worse than any other post.
Au contraire, there has to be something else, otherwise it's just kind of meh.
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 2:28 AM on October 13, 2007
MeTa post:
LRB Shoutout
Yay. I had not heard of Jenny Diski before, and now I am reading her old articles with pleasure. And so the great circle of life continues, or something.
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 1:51 PM on October 10, 2007
MeTa post:
hiv-
Sidebar this, now.
No, this doesn't have any edifying or redeeming qualities. To sidebar this would be to invite gawpers to the car accident. Surely a sidebar item should have more going for it than sheer prurient interest.
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 8:17 PM on October 4, 2007
MeTa post:
Labels
"A misguided attempt to pander to those who insist that the term "American" should refer to people from anywhere in North or South America, despite the common meaning of this term as used for the last 350 years"
Honestly, when you don't live there, it really does seem weird and illogical. I remember discussing this with friends at primary school.
Imposing logic on illogical language is (weakly) funny, which is why we computer... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 2:27 AM on September 29, 2007
MeTa post:
Country/Region/Location tags?
Whenever it might make a difference, I prefix my answer with "in my country" or "where I live". And I read the question.
I have pretty much given up on expecting the US contingent to acknowledge that the rest of the world exists, so I assume that when no region is mentioned in a question, it will in fact be the US, or failing that the wider Anglosphere. It's obvious most answerers do.
I have observed that even where... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 9:35 PM on September 12, 2007
MeTa post:
Scurvy of Butt!
When I was a little boy,
Me mother went and told me!
Way flame away, flame away Joe!
If I never dissed a post me keys would grow all mouldy!
Way flame away, flame away Joe!
First I made a front page post, it got a proper hazing!
Way flame away, flame away Joe!
They hauled me off to Me-ta-Talk, it damn near drove me crazy!
Way flame away, flame away Joe!
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 6:15 PM on August 12, 2007
MeTa post:
crush racism an sexism forever
"Where can I eat in a nice whites-only restaurant?"
That is a legit if distasteful question, capable of factual answers. I suspect however there would be few Mefites who could answer such a question, and even fewer who would want to.
Read the guidelines. Distastefulness, immorality, hatefulness do not figure as grounds for deletion far as I can tell. And I think that's a good thing.
So I vote for the current... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 1:15 PM on March 3, 2007
MeTa post:
Gonzo Scooter Journalism
I am a) fascinated by the whole thing and b) utterly opposed to an FPP on it. It's US news/politics-centric and deadly dull and not best of the web and anyone remotely interested can go to Firedoglake and read about it in excruciating details.
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 5:38 PM on February 20, 2007
MeTa post:
Thank you for deleting this.
I'm quite happy that thread is gone, but in that case, I'd say this one is even more worthy of deletion.
There was at least some scope for discussion about the rights and wrongs of such a site, whereas the other FPP is just a fucked-up news story.
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 10:15 PM on February 15, 2007
MeTa post:
Why so defensive, sequential? Lord knows we're...
If the future Mrs sequential ever finds this, he is SO busted.
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 5:22 PM on December 14, 2006
It's inevitable with relationship AskMe. We will never hear about all the wonderful aspects of the future Mrs Sequential, and of necessity even a lengthy description can't capture what may be essential nuances.
But ThePinkSuperhero has a point - one can't help leaping to conclusions given that series of questions, even if they are rash ones.
posted to MetaTalk by i_am_joe's_spleen
at 5:51 PM on December 14, 2006
