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Help Apache gurus! How do I setup a virtual host when SSL terminates before my Apache server?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 4:28 AM on October 7, 2008
(5 comments)
Can I leave (or rather re-enter) the UK before I've gotten my Residence Permit?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 9:27 AM on August 4, 2008
(9 comments)
Prospect/Foreign Policy release their list of
the world's top public intellectuals(
full list). Number 1? The Islamic scholar
Fethullah Gulen.The rest of the top 10? The microfinancier Muhammad Yunus, the cleric Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, the writer Orhan Pamuk, the politician Aitzaz Ahsan, the evangelist Amr Khaled, the philosopher Abdolkarim Soroush, the philosopher Tariq Ramadan, the cultural theorist Mahmood Mamdani and activist Shirin Ebadi. Sense a theme? Yes, all Muslims.
This is a striking turnabout from
the 2005 poll topped by Chomsky, Eco and Dawkins.
What happened? Prospect Magazine
explains. The Turkish newspaper Zaman
weighs in. The UK's Independent
is outraged. Fethulah Gulen
defends himself.
posted to MetaFilter by vacapinta
at 10:17 AM on July 3, 2008
(51 comments)
Best Flat White in the City of London? Coffee-lovers, please advise!
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 6:06 AM on June 24, 2008
(7 comments)
The First Ever (?) Lisbon, Portugal meetup??
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 7:43 AM on May 28, 2008
(23 comments)
UKFilter (again): What are the advantages of private medical insurance over just relying on NHS? I'm an American moving to London being offered private medical insurance. What are the advantages? Things to look for in a private medical plan? Any guidance/links appreciated.
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 10:01 PM on March 23, 2008
(15 comments)
Small Meetup Functionality Request: Allow the Meetup thread poster to highlight the post which contains the agreed upon Place and Time?
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 1:24 PM on March 20, 2008
(21 comments)
Mobile Broadband in London? I'm moving to Central London and would love any recommendations for mobile broadband access. Who are the providers? What are the best packages?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 12:34 AM on March 16, 2008
(5 comments)
Who is the supposed historian (may be an ex-physicist, think he's Russian) who had demonstrated that human written history is only half as old as we believe it to be? I think the core of his argument was that documents referring to events thousands of years ago, actually referred to events hundreds of years ago, that history was fore-shortened.
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 1:26 PM on March 7, 2008
(11 comments)
I need a document that is in Gibraltar delivered to me in the US (via express delivery I guess) How do I do this? Is this what courier services do? Can anyone recommend one?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 3:18 PM on February 26, 2008
(9 comments)
LondonFilter: Thinking of subletting a place in London for 3-6 months. How would I go about doing this? Is there a good website for sublets (preferably furnished)?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 4:47 PM on January 8, 2008
(12 comments)
Mystery surrounding a miracle in Coachella involving a cross which burns bright in a window, even at night?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 6:52 PM on December 27, 2007
(10 comments)
For a good reason, I need some program, any program that I can leave unattended and will eat up CPU on a windows xp box. Recommendations?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 2:52 PM on December 20, 2007
(7 comments)
Mefi Scholarship?
A reminder. One of the coolest things about metafilter.
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 12:22 PM on October 30, 2007
(29 comments)
Why does
this question lose all formatting even though it is formatted in my RSS reader? Doesn't appear to have happened to other questions nearby.
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 3:37 PM on September 20, 2007
(12 comments)
MacFilter: Diagnosing a spinning-beach-ball of Death on a Mac.
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 1:57 PM on September 13, 2007
(6 comments)
"It so often happens that I receive mail - well-intended but totally useless - by amateur physicists who believe to have solved the world. They believe this, only because they understand totally nothing about the real way problems are solved in Modern Physics...It should be possible, these days, to collect all knowledge you need from the internet. Problem then is, there is so much junk on the internet... I know exactly what should be taught to the beginning student...I can tell you of my own experiences. It helped me all the way to earn a Nobel Prize. But I didn't have internet.
I am going to try to be your teacher. It is a formidable task."
posted to MetaFilter by vacapinta
at 4:22 PM on August 29, 2007
(47 comments)
"At a convocation of writers in Seville, Spain, six weeks before Bolaño died [in 2003], he was declared to be the most influential Latin-American writer of his generation." (
NYer)
And since then, Roberto Bolaño's reputation has been growing (NYRB:
"The Great Bolano").
A man who dismissed magical realism as "shit" is more the heir of Cortazar and Borges (his two idols) than Garcia Marquez or Vargas Lllosa yet he is also something entirely new. Bolano was also the founder of infrarealism, a movement whose manifesto proclaims "A new lyricism springing up in Latin America, nourishing itself in ways that continue to amaze us.... Tenderness like an exercise in speed. Breath and heat. Experience at full tilt, self-consuming structures, stark raving contradictions."
Why has the
English speaking world not heard of Bolaño? His great novel,
The Savage Detectives, a sprawling work about youth and poetry and chaos (with no less than 52 narrators across several continents) has
only this year been translated.
posted to MetaFilter by vacapinta
at 10:27 AM on August 27, 2007
(24 comments)
Brazilian Blogger Bashing! The respected Brazilian newspaper
Estadao decided to promote its new online presence by jokingly
producing a series of ads with obvious misfits and asking such questions as "Is this the guy giving you dating advice?" and
a video (youtube) comparing bloggers to monkeys. Bloggers
are outraged "Why would you read a newspaper that compares bloggers to monkeys?".
In today's newspaper, Estadao offers no apology but instead dryly recounts the facts. Meanwhile, the resulting controversy, with thousands of blogs weighing in, has driven a lot of traffic to their new site.
posted to MetaFilter by vacapinta
at 10:35 AM on August 21, 2007
(25 comments)
The Quinta de Regaleira, completed in 1910, was the
dream palace of the Portuguese millionaire Antonio Agusto de Carvalho Monteiro who was a devotee of mysticism and lost arts. The
enormous gardens include a
Templar initiation well,
underground labyrinths,
hidden doorways, fantastic
grottos, lookout
towers, and of course the palace itself (
hunting room, outside
detail,
gargoyles) More photos
here and
here.
posted to MetaFilter by vacapinta
at 9:05 PM on August 18, 2007
(21 comments)
A recommendation for a place in London to get a hearty American-style breakfast?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 4:57 PM on August 18, 2007
(20 comments)
This might be a better suggestion for the upcoming Travel site, but is it appropriate to suggest to people before they post looking for things to do in a new city, that they:
A) Tell us as much about themselves as possible,
B) Have perused all the previous threads relating to that city? (more inside)
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 10:52 PM on August 1, 2007
(25 comments)
I have a question about the movie Pan's Labyrinth. It involves a crucial plot point and so don't read inside if you haven't seen the movie...Spoilers follow...
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 3:54 PM on March 17, 2007
(37 comments)
OldMovieFilter: I'm trying to find a movie I saw a while back. It was from either the 1940's or 1950's. It was about three women trying to make it in a new city...
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 12:45 PM on February 9, 2007
(4 comments)
If it costs me, say, 2 cents a minute to call a landline in Europe and, say, 25 cents a minute to call a cell phone in that same city- why isn't there a service (in Europe) that allows me to call a landline which connects my call to a mobile phone (and charges me 5 cents a minute or a monthly charge or whatever) Or, is there?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 4:23 PM on January 19, 2007
(12 comments)
Jessamyn,
this comment needs to be deleted. I had flagged it earlier and was surprised that, instead of being deleted, a SPOILER warning had been placed in the thread title. There is no reason for spoilers to be in the thread. The OP is not asking about the movie - they are asking about places to discuss movies.
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 7:49 AM on January 8, 2007
(50 comments)
In Enrique Vila-Matas novel
Bartleby & co. everyone seems to be real. He talks about Duchamp, for example, and about
B. Traven, the mysterious author of Treasure of the Sierra Madre. But he also talks about Clément Cadou, a supposed painter who only painted furniture and dubbed them "self-portraits" and whose epitaph was about himself, as a piece of furniture. Is Cadou real?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 8:33 PM on January 2, 2007
(6 comments)
So I have this friend in Lisbon and she was telling me last night that Miguel Cardoso was on TV and she caught it on her videophone and emailed it to me and I uploaded it to YouTube and....well...
Here it is!
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 3:16 PM on December 13, 2006
(39 comments)
SanFranciscoWiFi: I currently have DSL service with AT&T. It came with a DSL modem/wireless router thingy from 2WIRE. Can I replace the 2Wire? If so, what are my options? Please speak to me as if I were a child because in the area of networking, I am.
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 3:06 PM on December 4, 2006
(10 comments)
Reading Comprehension 101: I'll admit that glueschk was a little
over-the-top here but I come here not to damn him but to...empathize with him.
His comment was followed up by yet another person mentioning Marathon Man. Meanwhile,
in this thread, I was making a bet with myself to see how many comments until we got Nixon and Elvis.
The answer is 15. I'm trying to understand why this happens. Is the poster not being clear enough?
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 1:21 PM on December 4, 2006
(43 comments)
How can I scan a book that is precious to me? The book is a couple hundred pages and I just want to produce high-quality pdfs.
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 1:13 PM on October 25, 2006
(9 comments)
Help identifying a specific photographer who photographs libraries? I think she's female and may be German. I do have one of her photos...
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 4:10 PM on October 16, 2006
(8 comments)
Hieronymous Bosch - Filter: I saw a painting in the Mimara museum in Zagreb which claims to be The Temptation of St. Anthony by Bosch. But...I suspect its a fake...
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 10:07 AM on September 26, 2006
(4 comments)
Using Camino on OS X, I get the Apache startup page ("Test page for Apache Installation" is the Title) when I try to go to ask.metafilter.com. I can't reproduce it on either Safari or Firefox on my machine, only Camino.
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 9:53 AM on September 14, 2006
(7 comments)
So the new
Itunes 7 was just released but I am a little wary. Is there anyplace I can go (or keep my eye on) to see what, if any,
restrictions have been introduced by the new Itunes. I am thinking things like Network-sharing (incompatibility with Ourtunes?), Limits on how many times you can burn, etc.? Or will I just have to watch and wait?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 11:31 AM on September 12, 2006
(31 comments)
Now that we have all these nifty subsites, how about a new one, devoted entirely to meetups of mefi folks? (meetup.metafilter.com?)
The current solution, having them
mixed in with callouts, bugs and general griping is (I think) insufficient. Many people who would be interested, don't even
know they exist. They scroll off the page fast, and organizing
is a painful process.
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 12:07 PM on September 7, 2006
(62 comments)
Who are these people and why do they keep calling me? They call from Area code 323 and I've never answered in time. This
Yahoo Answers says they are spammers but nobody claims to have heard what they are selling ot trying to do. Whats going on here?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 2:47 PM on September 1, 2006
(22 comments)
In this
projects post, josephtate claims to work at Grupthink. Thats fine. But then in
this metafilter post, the poster
rabble lists josephtate as "co-worker". Someone can check my math, but doesnt that make it a self-link?
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 2:32 PM on July 17, 2006
(98 comments)
Why is
this link going through hedonistica? I guess I'm just suspicious when someone makes a first post after quickly making 5 content-less comments...
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 4:09 PM on June 23, 2006
(22 comments)
WorldCupFilter: Where can I watch the 7am PDT games in San Francisco?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 12:11 PM on June 19, 2006
(8 comments)
Mapping the StarMaze
A tale of mathematical obsession: "Before I can explain my decades-long quest to map the starmaze I must acquaint you with a small puzzle...I have a habit of seeing everything (cities, organizations, computers, networks, brains) as a maze, so I named this puzzle the starmaze....The first problem I ran into was that there were a lot of rooms...I invented
wacky names for each room...But something funny happened...In that instant I finally grasped that the starmaze was arranged on the edges of a
nine-dimensional hypercube..."
posted to MetaFilter by vacapinta
at 9:10 PM on June 4, 2006
(38 comments)
I read
this as question for help on legal matters (I know...thats a separate topic) but people seem to be interpreting it as a morality question with statements such as
"Why do you think a person with such low ethical standards would make for a positive contributor to the US " - and its starting to derail the thread.
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 6:57 PM on April 23, 2006
(15 comments)
"In 1953, while working a hotel switchboard, a college graduate named Shea Zellweger began
a journey of wonder and obsession that would eventually lead to the invention of a radically new notation for logic. From a basement in Ohio, guided literally by his dreams and his innate love of pattern, Zellweger developed an extraordinary visual system - called the
“Logic Alphabet” - in which a group of specially designed letter-shapes can be
manipulated like puzzles to reveal the geometrical patterns underpinning logic."
posted to MetaFilter by vacapinta
at 11:06 PM on April 17, 2006
(30 comments)
