You've heard of mood rings, right? These days, metafilter.com operates on a similar principle...
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 4:18 PM on April 1, 2008

I could make a Logan meetup today or next week, [in the afternoons, both times], but I guess that's out...
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 9:59 AM on August 3, 2006

A question - is the "Contributions from [username] have been saved as favorites [foo] times" line not supposed to appear if no one has saved any of your comments as favorites? I'm not seeing it in my profile. The other categories [comments and posts made, favorites marked, etc.] still show up, even if the person has made no comments, marked no favorites, etc., so it seems a little strange that this one wouldn't.

Also, a small pony - why not list how many of a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 9:15 PM on June 25, 2006

I vaguely thought it might be read as "in dissent." No clue why "indecent" didn't occur to me. I think I'm too damn tired.
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 8:49 PM on November 17, 2005

Perhaps some kind of arrangement where users get 1 or 2 answers on AskMe that appear anonymous [to the world, if not to mathowie/the computer] each week? I was going to say 'on anonymous threads only', but I can think of some non-anonymous threads where that function would be useful too. This would be with the stipulation that if any of a user's answers get flagged, that privilege is turned off on their account for some period of time. I have no idea how difficult that would be to implement,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 12:27 PM on June 27, 2005

Left-to-right, like pecay and odinsdream. Not quite literally next to each other - sort of like images on 3 adjacent monitors or pieces of paper. I don't really see them as joined at the top, though.
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 3:41 PM on June 21, 2005

Invokes the spirit of Jim Jones, patron saint of threads that are no longer on the front page. Gouges out eyes after seeing what loquacious' image became.

Realizes that no one will read far enough into the thread to see this.
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 9:05 AM on June 9, 2005

Hands schyler523 a beer, tells him to drink up.
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 4:00 PM on June 9, 2005

Blinks. Repeatedly.
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 3:07 PM on June 12, 2005

Feels obligated to speak up after seeing kenko's list. Also spontaneously loses The Game, passes on defeat to 9622v2.

Sells underer a mouse with a scroll-wheel [stolen from nearest computer lab], hopes s/he doesn't notice Cranberry's comment.
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 11:27 PM on June 17, 2005

Ding, dong, the witch is dead! Which old witch? The wicked witch! Ding, dong, the wicked witch is dead!
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 12:10 AM on June 21, 2005

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posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 12:12 AM on June 21, 2005

Me too, hellbient. Sometimes I feel like I am a thread-killer. "I am become Death, destroyer of threads." Or I give up on posting that incisive analysis of whatever the FPP was about because it's been a day or two since anyone posted and hey, no one's going to see it...
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 12:21 PM on June 18, 2005

D'oh! This isn't looking good...
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 5:26 PM on June 18, 2005

Congrats!
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 8:05 AM on May 2, 2005

Dirtynumbangelboy - while I agree with you, I think that it's a losing battle. Some people have worked themselves into such a towering rage against the Pope and the Church that it's become an utterly black and white issue for them. As someone said upthread, they feel that the Pope was so unforgiveably evil that, as drpynchon and bugbread said, he doesn't even deserve even a moment of respect in death. Given the number of people who do seem to literally hold this view [e.g. ori's comparison of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 10:41 PM on April 2, 2005

Citations, please? If you're going to make purposefully provocative statements like that, you owe it to everyone else to back them up with proof. If you can show everyone that the Church has directly killed more tens of millions of people in, say, a few decades than Nazis and Communists did during their few decades of prominence, you'll no doubt enlighten us, and perhaps change a few minds. If, on the other hand, you're resorting to obnoxious hyperbole to justify your dislike for a man and an... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 12:11 AM on April 3, 2005

[That was directed at berek, by the way.]
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 12:11 AM on April 3, 2005

Note also that the Church, under Pope John Paul II, apologized for various things [injustices to the Jews, Crusades, etc] done centuries ago. The modern Church isn't any more likely to go mounting Crusades than Spain is likely to go about expelling all Arabs again. Possibly less likely, given European attitudes towards immigration these days. Saying "the Church committed crimes a thousand years ago" is essentially irrelevant to the discussion of today's Church, just as saying... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 12:44 AM on April 3, 2005

Drpynchon - agreed. As I said in some comment or other, the mainstream media will be doing its damndest to give us another week or two of Celebrity Haigiography. The effect that the Pope [and the Church] have on the world is far too complex for that kind of treatment to make sense. Still, I'd rather see 'disrespect' in the form of well-argued, well-explained statements, not hyperbolic one-liners. It seems like a much more useful response to a morally complex issue, and heck, it makes for a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 12:55 AM on April 3, 2005

[Shrugs] As I've said, those comments are pretty much along the lines of what people in the main threads have been saying [albeit generally with fewer apostrophe catastrophes.] The fact that a troll is indistinguishable from erstwhile rational people who are [apparently] deadly serious is, perhaps, a measure of how out of line some of their commentary is.

And I beg to differ, c13 - most of the crusades were between 1100 and 1300 [a handy timeline here]. Crusades were... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 1:15 AM on April 3, 2005

I don't know, man, I used to think of PinkStainlessTail as the one in a catsuit. A pink chrome catsuit. Until I saw his user info and realized that he's, well, a he. Confusion ensued.
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 10:18 PM on March 10, 2005

Odd... despite all of the comments about how the ad visually ruins the front page, I didn't even notice it until I saw this thread. I'd like to dissent a little: I find the ad small, unobtrusive [especially compared to, say, Pitchfork's SG ads], and generally no problem. The content isn't bothersome either - full-frontal nudity in ads isn't the SG style, and I find a little skin much less offensive than some of the comments and attitudes in threads. Matt's made it so that you don't have to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 5:43 AM on February 2, 2005

BoringPostcards, I'd have to say that I think you're probably making assumptions when you claim that "most women feel offended/demeaned by the pictures, most men like the ad." Unless you've taken some sort of secret mefi census, I rather suspect you've no more idea than I about the genders of most of the people who've posted in the thread, unless they've stated them. Just as various people have been telling rushmc and others not to speak for all members, I think it's reasonable to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 2:09 PM on February 2, 2005

a point i haven't seen anyone bring up recently - i think, in part, most members are simply more jaded than they used to be. it takes something more to impress most denizens of the int0rweb nowadays. we've all seen stuff like bonsai kitten or landover baptist church go around the web half a dozen times, and so now it takes more than just a clever hoax website to get people excited. same thing applies in other ways - JPG magazine, for example, is a cool idea, but not, in some ways, all that... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 5:42 PM on September 22, 2004

when i was last at the university circle arabica, they'd just gotten a "creature from the black lagoon" pinball machine.. . pinball, pretty good coffee, and lots of chairs in weird nooks. what more can you ask of a coffeehouse?
posted to MetaTalk by ubersturm at 3:35 PM on April 13, 2004