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MeFi post:
Look at all the MAPLE SAP I got!
I don't know guys, I chuckled at a couple of these. I know I am easily amused, though.
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 8:10 AM on August 30, 2008
The web page with the "classic" Boston and Shaun is down, and there's only one strip on the Wayback Machine. Are these still available elsewhere? Surely someone saved this important bit of Internet history?
/glutton-for-punishment
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 9:35 AM on August 30, 2008
Also, FBoFW used to be good. And holy crap, I just checked and today is the end of the main story there. Maybe there should be a post on it.
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 9:53 AM on August 30, 2008
hahahhahahaha, "SOAP!"
No soap, radio!
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 1:46 PM on August 30, 2008
Bizarre because he says "soup" instead of "soap"
I'm not seeing it. Is this mod trickery?
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 8:04 PM on September 2, 2008
No "No soap, radio," radio.
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 10:19 PM on September 2, 2008
MeFi post:
Domino logic
Pretty cool. Although rebuilding that XOR gate over and over must get pretty boring.
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 11:08 PM on September 1, 2008
MeFi post:
The worst colleges in America?
Over here there's just the Oxbridge vs redbrick (ie. good universities but set up in the Victorian time - kind of like the Ivy League) vs former polytechnics/'new universities' ie. the equivalent, I think, to US state schools or community college.
The former polytechnics are most decidedly not the equivalent of U.S. state universities. Many states will have flagship and land grant universities which I would describe as equivalent to the redbrick... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 1:45 PM on August 30, 2008
MeFi post:
NFB v. Target: Web Accessibility and business
I don't see how a company no longer has the right to refuse service, effectively, or to simply not spend money making something "compliant" for a percentage of the population that would not recoup those costs for them.
Because it's the law.
would a "protected class" group of, say, agoraphobics-who-don't-leave-the-house-but-have-eyesight then sue them because they no longer make the same offerings... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 8:56 PM on August 27, 2008
Defending the reasoning behind a law by saying "because it's the law" is pretty lazy.
I wasn't defending the reasoning behind the law, I was explaining the factual change. The reason the company no longer has the right to deny service to the disabled is because the law has changed.
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 9:43 PM on August 27, 2008
Do you have a screen reader installed, sourwookie? Trying to navigate a web site with your eyes closed and no screen reader is like trying to navigate the city with your eyes closed and no cane or seeing-eye dog.
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 11:21 PM on August 27, 2008
A sighted user of the page will not even notice that they're there
Since I'm a keyboard user, I assure you I would notice. Only in a good way though.
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 9:41 AM on August 28, 2008
any time you use an abbreviation or an acronym, you need to wrap it in the corresponding or tag and add a "title" attribute containing the expanded text.
I just tried to do this with acronym on my new AskMe post, and MeFi stripped it out. Not my fault.
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 3:40 PM on August 29, 2008
I wish people here would stop repeating the nonsense about ABBR/ACRONYM.
If you say it is nonsense insofar as creating accessible web pages, then I will defer to your superior experience. But nonsense or not, it's what's in the WCAG.
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 10:19 AM on August 30, 2008
MeFi post:
(Comic) Con Anti-Harassment Project
it suits them to muddy the waters and get people riled up and outraged over a fake premise rather than discuss the merits of the actual proposal.
taz, it's not a fake premise. It's one that was proposed in this thread, even if not in the link:
There's a very simple answer to this - escort any accused offender out of the conference and let the police sort it out. No arbitration necessary. It's called a zero tolerance policy.
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 8:39 PM on August 27, 2008
MeFi post:
Sienfeld wants you to buy Vista, Shatner wants you to buy a Vic 20
Here’s Bill Cosby, who was the spokesperson for Texas Instrument’s incredibly lame TI 99/4:
Yeah, the 99/4 was incredibly lame. I had a 99/4A, though, which was amazingly awesome. They both had a whopping 256 bytes of main memory. Yes, bytes, not kilobytes, or megabytes, or something unimaginable like gigabytes.
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 1:37 AM on August 22, 2008
It wasn't me; I think it was blasdelf.
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 11:46 AM on August 22, 2008
MeFi post:
Who Watches the Watchmen?
Ah, the Santa Barbara News-Press, renowned worldwide as a bastion of—actually, I've never heard of it.
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 1:43 AM on August 22, 2008
MeFi post:
Your unborn child as produce
Their web site doesn't work very well. At least for me. I can't slide the scroll bar to get more than the initial images.
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 1:04 PM on August 20, 2008
MeFi post:
Metafilter wrote on your Wall.
Is it okay if I like McSweeney's but didn't care for A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius? Or is that cognitively dissonant?
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 10:40 PM on August 18, 2008
MeFi post:
science and futurism overlap
I've been in situations where I've been programming all day and feel like I've become autistic by the end of it.
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 9:51 PM on August 18, 2008
MeFi post:
Google Search Engine Ranking Factors v2
The shitty part: SEO techniques like this are beginning to ruin Google for me.
The keywords in title techniques is annoying generally. American Airlines misuses the title element to entitle their home page "Airline Tickets and Airline Reservations from American Airlines | AA.com." This means that it is harder to find American Airlines in a list of bookmarks or open tabs, since they have all that cruft there. Many of the other airlines do... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 6:30 PM on August 18, 2008
MeFi post:
Russian tanks and jets roll into Georgia
There is an interesting piece in the Guardian by Oxford history don Mark Almond. Subhead: "It is crudely simplistic to cast Russia as the sole villain in the clashes over South Ossetia. The west would be wise to stay out."
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 9:43 PM on August 10, 2008
You forgot Cheney.
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 11:57 PM on August 11, 2008
Wow, it's amazing how much better this post turned out than the one Artw linked to. Thanks for putting a little effort into it, Happy Dave.
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 7:39 PM on August 16, 2008
MeFi post:
Chemistry without those blasphemous isotopes!
To ZachsMind, voting is pointless, science is pointless, everything is pointless. Except for telling other people that these things are pointless. That's important enough to do over and over again.
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 8:42 PM on August 13, 2008
MeFi post:
More impressive than the Kessel Run
My first thought upon seeing the telegram was that the story of some grand hoax was going to emerge. Griefers have made me too cynical. The reality is much more interesting.
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 6:33 PM on August 10, 2008
MeFi post:
"They'll have their diamonds, and we'll have our pearls."
The Guardian had this today:REASONS KATY PERRY IS NOT A BIG OLD RUBBISH HOMOPHOBE
1. In a former (and largely success-free) career she used to be a Christian singer songwriter, and Christians are all about tolerance 'n' loving The Gays.
2. Her photo shoots look like an explosion in a branch of Cath Kidston, and there are sometimes homosexual men in London's Kings Road branch of that shop.
3. She's friends with Mika - not... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 1:41 PM on August 8, 2008
MeFi post:
Hey, That's Mine!
Alt-weeklies vary quite broadly in quality. Some of them are really good; some are really useless. And some are full of plagiarized stuff.
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 1:21 PM on August 7, 2008
MeFi post:
Train in Vain
For a nation whose expansion relied on railroads, today's rail system - aka Amtrack - simply doesn't take itself very seriously.
Amtrak is not the rail system. And I don't think the U.S.'s expansion really relied on passenger railroads quite as much as freight.
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 2:23 AM on July 11, 2008
The UK train operating companies do not operate the track they run on, yet they have contracts with the entities that do (usually Network Rail) that result in payments when the track operator or another TOC messes up and thereby causes damages to the first one. That way they can treat their customers properly. My local TOC offers a 50 percent refund for a train that is 30 min late, and a full refund if it is 60 min late. They promise in their passenger's charter to get me to my destination... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 8:50 AM on July 11, 2008
MeFi post:
Rock the streets
I just learned the Ian Knot! I feel both smug and hopelessly nerdy. Thanks, ook (and BP).
I only wish he had a necktie-tying guide. These instructions are so much clearer than any necktie-tying instructions I have tried.
posted to MetaFilter by grouse
at 4:16 AM on July 10, 2008
