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Having taken some personal time out myself, and thus looking at things from a non-contributor perspective, is it possible that we can avoid terms like douchebag, asshole, dickwad, etc. These are violent words that make the reader take a step away.
I am not saying they should be banned, but they really do have a proliferation within the site that is off putting to someone who might wish to contribute.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx
at 3:37 PM on July 25, 2008
(135 comments)
On the blue,
delmoi pointed out that the images of an online comic had been shrunk via HTML to fit the page. Is there a greasemonkey script or something that would allow those images to be seen fullsize without having to think about it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Sparx
at 4:26 AM on March 21, 2008
(11 comments)
ElfQuest for free...gradually.
The complete ElfQuest comic oeuvre (about 6000 pages) is being released online in batches every friday. The first five issues (a complete 150 page arc in itself), along with some other EQ series's first issues, are already up.
posted to MetaFilter by Sparx
at 10:11 AM on March 20, 2008
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My Laptop has a camera with it atop the screen. It came with no software itself (I have hunted through the OED disks and the OS), but just works with things like Skype automagically in terms of detection - which would be great if I wanted a videophone, but I wish for more. It's a bisoncam by trade name.
Is there any third party software that I could use to get the most out of it (in particular, to record still shots, or video diatribes for use later?).
posted to Ask Metafilter by Sparx
at 3:24 PM on November 26, 2007
(9 comments)
My first ever laptop makes a squelching noise when the hard drive parks. I'm calling it Mr Squelchy and trying to learn to love it but I'm wondering if there is a better solution.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Sparx
at 10:58 AM on November 13, 2007
(8 comments)
Great thread and everything, but shouldn't we be a bit concerned that the post itself is just the first two paragraphs (even the same links) of the main
atlantic article, without even attribution? Seems a bit off to my delicate sensibilities.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx
at 2:11 AM on September 6, 2007
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I will be traveling across a plethora of hemispheres, and will be in London between the 19 of June and the 8th of July. I'm normally of southern hemisphere so if anyone wants to meet for a drink - that would be lovely. Name a date (and possibly a place as I don't know the geography terribly well) and I will be there.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx
at 3:51 AM on June 13, 2007
(38 comments)
Pepsiwhite
It's a cheezy, calcium-fueled enticement, but the implementation is rather good. A single player 3d board game with a milky message.
posted to MetaFilter by Sparx
at 9:05 AM on April 5, 2007
(35 comments)
Metafilter and Daylight Savings [More Inside]
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx
at 7:38 AM on April 3, 2007
(10 comments)
I recall (and might be wrong) that there was a recently released report on how Digital Rights Management didn't work - put forward in the UK, or possibly the EU. Any references appreciated (on behalf of a small colony somewhere in the south pacific, currently investigating similar DMCA type legislation)
posted to Ask Metafilter by Sparx
at 4:12 AM on December 19, 2006
(7 comments)
SF writers only use six words.
A collection of six word epics from the cream of contemporary SF writers. Can Mefi do better? I reckon!
posted to MetaFilter by Sparx
at 8:45 PM on October 24, 2006
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The 0.0 experiment
Innominate Nightmare: One man, one shuttle, alone in the unsecured places of a virtual universe.
posted to MetaFilter by Sparx
at 3:07 PM on September 14, 2006
(13 comments)
Nature abhors a gradient.
So I was reading about the latest developments in the
Behe Panda trial and I came across a link to
this way of thinking, in essence that the 2nd law of thermodynamics is the guiding force behind complexity (summarised
here). Like any good scientific theory, they have a
blog but can they explain the
Tuatara, which seems a little lacking in contemporary gradient reduction?
posted to MetaFilter by Sparx
at 4:09 AM on November 4, 2005
(33 comments)
One key games.
Retro Remakes, a reverse-engineer gaming siteand
One Switch, an accessibility site, have launched a competition for the best game that can be played with a single key. There's still time to enter, and
some entries have already been posted to the forums.
posted to MetaFilter by Sparx
at 3:19 PM on April 21, 2005
(11 comments)
What's hot in technogeekery?
Match your predictions with Yahoo's ongoing search stats using $10,000 fake dollars as investment capital. Is this how Yahoo is going to steal Google's mindshare - or just another pointless thing to do with
search engines?
posted to MetaFilter by Sparx
at 9:36 PM on April 4, 2005
(6 comments)
Ok, so we all saw the hilarity that ensued the last time someone posted a
contemporary religion vs homosexuality thread on the blue. My question is strictly academic. Does christianity truly object or is that a more modern concern based on mistranslation?
Points of discussion say
one thing and then the
other . I, for one, do not have the linguistic background to isolate the wheat from the chaff, and so I ask metafilter. Queer - damnable sin, or something to cleanse yourself of before you go to temple if you're jewish.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Sparx
at 12:34 AM on November 29, 2004
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