Achewood sucks.
posted to MetaFilter by Stan Chin at 8:39 AM on August 30, 2008

Hey! What happened to my gold star?
posted to MetaTalk by Stan Chin at 7:20 PM on August 19, 2008

Does this mean they'll finally use those $100 Laptops?
posted to MetaFilter by Stan Chin at 1:13 PM on August 4, 2008

I think this needs more USB ports.
posted to MetaFilter by Stan Chin at 9:31 AM on March 10, 2008

I stopped at '4Barack.'
posted to MetaFilter by Stan Chin at 6:49 AM on February 5, 2008

If we've learned anything during the entire existence of the internet during elections or Snakes on a Plane, it is that it is a terrible indicator of turnout.
posted to MetaFilter by Stan Chin at 6:25 PM on February 5, 2008

Mmm, no, sorry, I'm wracking my brain for more details, if more come to I'll post 'em.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Stan Chin at 3:26 PM on January 30, 2008

Found it, if you're interested. Thanks everyone.

http://eye.kddi.com/content.html
posted to Ask Metafilter by Stan Chin at 3:42 PM on January 30, 2008

There are many people who spent 2 years and about $50,000 to 'put a portfolio' together. I happen to be one of them. But you know, there's also weird stories of people who got hired just from a few headlines scrawled on plain paper. It also depends on where you're trying to get hired, the portfolio schools are geared towards employment in the big boy ad agencies, but there's certainly a larger world outside of them.

If you have no computer design skills or can't draw,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Stan Chin at 7:44 PM on December 29, 2007

While I'm glad to see that the kid from Pete and Pete is alive, he probably needs help.
posted to MetaFilter by Stan Chin at 9:58 AM on December 26, 2007

"We seek your leadership," Kevin Conrad told the Americans. "But if for some reason you are not willing to lead, leave it to the rest of us. Please get out of the way."

Oh snap! *woofs, arsenio halls*
posted to MetaFilter by Stan Chin at 3:04 PM on December 15, 2007

I'm glad the live studio audience from the Cosby Show is keeping busy after it went off the air.
posted to MetaFilter by Stan Chin at 2:09 PM on November 26, 2007

I'd like to mention here that Achewood sucks.
posted to MetaTalk by Stan Chin at 10:31 AM on November 15, 2007

There are plenty of people with very expensive personal hobbies and art projects out there, unfortunately it's this person's fault that he tried to sell us its awesomeness through presentation which of course incurs snark.
posted to MetaFilter by Stan Chin at 4:23 PM on November 14, 2007

It occurs to me that when this happens you have two options:

1) You're James Blunt, and you write a song "You're Beautiful."

2) You're register a domain name "http://www.nygirlofmydreams.com/"

Now, option 2 doesn't seem that bad now, does it?
posted to MetaFilter by Stan Chin at 9:28 AM on November 5, 2007

I hold global warming responsible for everything from slow elevators to the popularity of Dane Cook.
posted to MetaFilter by Stan Chin at 6:20 AM on October 23, 2007

Basically, have a nanofiber blanket hundreds of miles square assembled in space.

I like this idea. It'll also put all of the birds to sleep.
posted to MetaFilter by Stan Chin at 8:49 AM on October 23, 2007

The trail divides here.
You may:

1. float down the Columbia River
2. take the Barlow Toll Road

What is your choice?
posted to MetaFilter by Stan Chin at 7:33 AM on October 15, 2007

Achewood sucks.
posted to MetaFilter by Stan Chin at 9:54 PM on September 27, 2007

Hmmm..... I may show up.
posted to MetaTalk by Stan Chin at 9:42 PM on August 15, 2007

I like ReadMe, but I think that you can get away with doing everything under the cultural umbrella. Books/Movies/Television/Games, etc. Sort of "What I'm Consuming Now" discussion filter. The ultimate failure of most of the internet, and the success of Metafilter, is that you fucking hate talking about movies and shows on other sites. Which is unfortunate. I'd love to have a Whedonesque for you know, everything else.
posted to MetaTalk by Stan Chin at 8:05 PM on July 29, 2007

I don't know what it's like to be a mod, but I'm assuming that personally dealing with every single long-winded problem via e-mail has got to be maddening. I mean, do you see how much a person writes when he's vigorously defending his point of view on Metatalk? What a freaking waste of time it would be to respond to something like that through e-mail.
posted to MetaTalk by Stan Chin at 9:09 AM on July 29, 2007

Suggestion: next time don't lead off with the two movie links, it makes your post look like a bad marketing post.
posted to MetaFilter by Stan Chin at 1:57 PM on July 27, 2007

If you're going to have guidelines, they'd better only be about a paragraph long or some quick bulleted sentences. Nobody's gonna read anything longer than that, especially the ones that should have read the guidelines.

Really, they should be as accessible as fandango_matt's safety guide.
posted to MetaTalk by Stan Chin at 9:49 PM on July 26, 2007

I agree with fandango_matt. There's no failure in the guidelines, there's a failure in the people who blatantly ignore the community and are itching for a fight. It should be no surprise, that when a person looking to stir up shitty debate gets his thread deleted, that he stirs it up in Metatalk. We really shouldn't give these people much attention with rampant guideline change. They'll always exist.
posted to MetaTalk by Stan Chin at 12:25 PM on July 27, 2007

Yeah, seriously, why would left-leaning counterculturalists boycott Fox News? Isn't that like stupidly easy? It's like, Let's all boycott US Weekly while we're at it. Because I know you're all reading US Weekly.

If you're going to boycott something (and I'm saying this from the perspective of a person in the advertising business), boycott CNN or MSNBC. The networks that are pandering to you but are failing. They, more than Fox rely on your data to get... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Stan Chin at 10:18 AM on July 27, 2007

I'm confused on how that isn't a boycott. I sort of get the "go after their advertisers" argument, but I think that my original post still applies in that regard.

The advertising buys for O'Reilly, Hannity and Colmes, etcetera are finely tuned to their respective audiences. If I may build an analogy, it's like if the audience for WWE RAW decided to go after the advertisers on Desperate Housewives.

They're completely different... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Stan Chin at 11:38 AM on July 27, 2007

If people want to do that, I think more power to them. But it's a tremendous amount of effort before a group can get enough steam to go from 'fringe crazies' to a large enough lobby like PETA. If this movement can get going and accomplish its goals and get some PR, then hey, great! It worked for Nike sweatshops and lots of other things.

My only point is that, I think a far more easier and more effective strategy would be to go after CNN and call them out. Let them know... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Stan Chin at 11:56 AM on July 27, 2007

...that's why I said "Pandering to you but are failing".... auuuuugh I'm going for a walk.
posted to MetaFilter by Stan Chin at 12:20 PM on July 27, 2007

One of the great failures of the Metatalk system, is that quite often mods and others are forced to give concrete point by point reasons why a post was "good" or "bad" or "why this stayed" or "this didn't."

There is no scientific method for constructing a post or behaving on Metafilter. I barely think the guidelines are applicable. I've mentioned this analogy before, but Metafilter is a small cafe on the corner of the internet. The... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Stan Chin at 7:45 PM on July 26, 2007

Because there's a war going on?
posted to MetaTalk by Stan Chin at 7:55 PM on July 26, 2007

whereas a singlelink post to something that wasn't quite as amusing but was possibly inflammatory was deleted, and the apparent reason given was "bad post."

Because it was a "bad post." I don't know this for sure, but this is my theory: A lot of the deletion reasons (unless blatantly obvious) are pure chaff. The "pad your posts" thing is complete nonsense. Give more links if they're interesting. A lot of link padded posts... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Stan Chin at 8:24 PM on July 26, 2007

It's just a website.
posted to MetaTalk by Stan Chin at 10:26 AM on July 27, 2007

Man, 3.2.3 typed a lot...

But s/he and jessamyn have broken bread together. He has been seriously aggrieved! I personally liked how it was a very long and awesome letter in an intervention tone you'd write if your friend had a serious heroin problem and it was tearing the relationship apart.
posted to MetaTalk by Stan Chin at 10:51 AM on July 27, 2007

Oh, the kind of place I would seek out for some of these beverages are obvious, like specialist wine shop or a japanese supermarket for Pocari Sweat. But there being so many of those in NYC, like a tea house even, I'd like your recommendations on where the best likely place would be as far as overall experience or "I'll sure they'll have it."

And generally looking for beverage alternatives that have that "interestingness" with those in the post, like... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Stan Chin at 9:33 PM on July 26, 2007

The sissier the better...
Songs that might have been on the soundtrack to a movie starring Ethan Hawk and Winona Rider.

I believe you're looking for "The Freshmen" by The Verve Pipe.

I win.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Stan Chin at 7:01 PM on July 26, 2007

Which was suggested in the first comment. Reading comprehension fails. Anyway, then I recommend Sucked Out by Superdrag.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Stan Chin at 7:04 PM on July 26, 2007

Oh, it is ON.

"Hey Leonardo" by Blessid Union of Souls.

There's even a youtube documentary:
1995 was a pivotal year for the music world, Kurt Cobain had died and the seattle based grunge music scene was on it's way out as well. And into that void came a new style of music...
posted to Ask Metafilter by Stan Chin at 7:28 PM on July 26, 2007

Because there's a war going on?
posted to MetaTalk by Stan Chin at 9:09 AM on July 25, 2007

2sheets: How fucking pathetic you are.

Uhm, did a mod piss in your cornflakes this week or something?
posted to MetaTalk by Stan Chin at 10:17 AM on July 26, 2007

b) to common courtesy to realize that they shouldn't try to impose their sense of taste on the rest of us.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA
posted to MetaTalk by Stan Chin at 8:17 PM on July 24, 2007

Dude, how long have you been here? You started in 2004? What I don't understand, is how anyone, who has been here for even a few months hasn't seen this same discussion over and over again.

Bitching about news/politics filter has been a staple of Metatalk since its inception. Now, maybe you have a different perspective, but my opinion is that before Matt gave admin duties to cortex and jessamyn, politicsfilter ran a lot more rampant than it does today because Matt... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Stan Chin at 8:44 PM on July 24, 2007

I'm never going to try to make that point to you, because I know from experience that it's futile, and you're going to bring up some infinite counterargument that goes nowhere. Because I know deep down that you really don't give a shit. You're in it for the argument. It's that kind of shit that's so bad, because it never stops and nothing ever changes.

there's no crime in people re-hashing very old debates about things that aren't going to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Stan Chin at 9:13 PM on July 24, 2007

Someone went through the effort of finding and pointing this out to me, so I feel obligated here:

Metatalk from September 7, 2002:

I say screw 'em all. I'm on a personal quest to combat the endless political threads, where the same people discuss the same thing that they said yesterday, ad infinitum. Corporations are bad. Globalism is bad. Bush is an idiot. Ashcroft is an idiot. Colin Powell is not an idiot but he works for idiots. The war on... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Stan Chin at 10:20 PM on July 24, 2007

Oh, and bardic, here's an example randomly pulled out the Metatalk hat from April 16, 2002: Where tamim details and links to 8 posts about the middle east posted within 2 days.

I maintain, that things used to be much much worse. My efforts are only to prevent this from happening again. I believe it's a slippery slope that we've taken the last 5 years to climb out of. I think it's poisonous. Just look at the rest of that thread, we're stuck in reruns.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Stan Chin at 10:50 PM on July 24, 2007

I said:

Now, maybe you have a different perspective, but my opinion is that before Matt gave admin duties to cortex and jessamyn, politicsfilter ran a lot more rampant than it does today because Matt didn't have the diligence.

Then you said:

You're saying that poli-filter used to poison the place, then fail to give even one example of where and when.

Then I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Stan Chin at 11:57 PM on July 24, 2007

And JUST to be sure before I call it a night, my point (specifically to bardic, whatever spiderwire) IS... I completely understand your position that nowadays political posts are controlled and harmless. However, my personal longterm experience (Note PERSONAL), is that most of all non Day-of-9/11 political posts are poisonous viruses that spread and destroy the chill atmosphere to the detriment of the community.

For the last 8 years, there has been a battle against... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Stan Chin at 12:28 AM on July 25, 2007

Hey! What happened to my gold star?!
posted to MetaTalk by Stan Chin at 2:45 PM on July 25, 2007

KILLING ME WON'T BRING BACK YOUR GOD DAMN METAFILTER!
posted to MetaTalk by Stan Chin at 1:34 PM on July 25, 2007

All I know is, as soon as Drew Carey misses his first putt on camera he is dead to me.
posted to MetaFilter by Stan Chin at 8:54 PM on July 24, 2007