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Wordle + American Speeches = A little guessing game
Wordle has been making the rounds of the blogs the last few days; it produces "word clouds" a la tag clouds. So, I took ten speeches by ten Americans who have served as or have run for president, threw them in, and posted the results on my Flickr account. As an added bonus, I left off what the speeches were so people could take wild, stabby guesses at what they are.
posted to Projects by dw
at 10:18 AM on June 17, 2008
What are the good public health blogs?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 7:26 PM on May 15, 2008
(10 comments)
I need an XPath expression that will allow me (in XSLT) to compare the value of an XML element in one node with the value of another element in a preceding node.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 1:47 PM on April 30, 2008
(5 comments)
I need a venue for a 4 year old's birthday party in Seattle.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 12:20 PM on April 2, 2008
(10 comments)
I would like to make a dessert that contains dark rum. Ideas?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 4:59 PM on March 21, 2008
(22 comments)
I need a way for users to edit a timeline online. It doesn't have to be elaborate; it just has to allow a user to add an event to a history timeline. I'm too swamped to build my own solution. We're running IIS with classic ASP. Ideas for getting this pulled off?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 2:17 PM on February 11, 2008
(15 comments)
Thanks to my own stupidity, I managed to get two saucepans stuck one inside the other, with the lower one apparently containing a cavity of lower pressure holding the upper pan in place. Is there any way to get them apart without causing injury or property damage?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 10:51 AM on December 5, 2007
(30 comments)
I have a set of dates/times in a MS SQL table that lack a timezone offset. I want to convert them to UTC, but I have to be mindful of Daylight Time for each of these dates (they're in the future). How can I convert them to UTC correctly?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 6:37 PM on November 13, 2007
(3 comments)
But if I'd ever leave you,
It couldn't be in autumn.
How I'd leave in autumn I never will know....
Robert Goulet, who shot to fame playing Lancelot in
Camelot (
the musical,
not the model)
passed away today. He had been waiting for a lung transplant.
posted to MetaFilter by dw
at 5:20 PM on October 30, 2007
(59 comments)
Does it matter what I flag a post/comment? Does "offensive" have a higher priority than "other?"
posted to MetaTalk by dw
at 8:19 AM on October 24, 2007
(43 comments)
What's the origin of the phrase "special (little) snowflake?"
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 1:48 PM on October 5, 2007
(19 comments)
I've the office web geek, a real one-man band, with 8 years of experience. It's time to change jobs, but the web employment world is more specialized than ever. What jobs should I be applying for?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 9:37 PM on August 19, 2007
(13 comments)
For Oklahoma's centennial, I was thinking the Okie Mefites (resident and expatriate) could contribute a set of FPP posts on the state leading up to Statehood Day (November 16). Non-Okies invited, too.
posted to MetaTalk by dw
at 3:12 PM on July 29, 2007
(29 comments)
One of my container garden tomato plants is sick. What's wrong with it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 9:43 AM on July 11, 2007
(7 comments)
Previously on MetaFilter, you remember the
Plymouth Belvedere that was buried in a downtown Tulsa time capsule 50 years ago? The
Tulsarama! folks were going to unveil it on Friday, but on opening the vault today they discovered it's
full of standing water. Someone (or his/her descendant) will win this
fine car impending environmental disaster if they correctly guessed Tulsa's 2007 population in 1957.
posted to MetaFilter by dw
at 9:20 PM on June 13, 2007
(28 comments)
I need to parse an XML flat file with JavaScript, and I'm struggling with how to use the DOM to select one particular node via an attribute then use its child nodes to populate some values. [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 4:49 PM on May 30, 2007
(4 comments)
What's the best way to set my computer under my desk when the floor is shag/pile carpeting?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 5:28 PM on April 23, 2007
(12 comments)
Obesity and the Farm Bill.
Michael Pollan continues his series of articles on the state of the American food supply by looking at the connection between the obesity epidemic and the federal farm bill
(NYT, reg. required, blah blah blah).
Previously.
posted to MetaFilter by dw
at 9:09 AM on April 23, 2007
(68 comments)
Help me decide on who comes out to install my TV/DVR/Internet/telephone communications stuff at the new apartment here in Seattle.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 4:03 PM on April 12, 2007
(8 comments)
I'm struggling with Flash video. It's eating memory and crashing client browsers....
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 11:06 AM on February 21, 2007
(7 comments)
So, if
this is election minutiae, is
this? And can we assume that a ElectionFilter FPP formulated like
this is OK?
posted to MetaTalk by dw
at 6:30 PM on January 20, 2007
(55 comments)
After another
four times dead post on the home page, I have a little suggestion to people out to FPP that someone is still dead.
posted to MetaTalk by dw
at 7:16 PM on January 14, 2007
(5 comments)
I have these strange mutant beard hairs. They're thick, black, ropelike, and don't have a white follicle when I pull them out. What's the deal with them?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 3:36 PM on January 3, 2007
(23 comments)
MedicalFilter: What allergy medications work best against cat dander?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 2:32 PM on December 10, 2006
(20 comments)
So, I got caught out by this
MePro which had already been posted. Can there be a way to flag MePros that have already been included in other FPPs?
posted to MetaTalk by dw
at 9:55 AM on November 26, 2006
(8 comments)
I'm looking for two Wordpress plugins: One that provides the same sort of comment editing tools you see with the MeFi comment box (bold, italic, link), and one that lets you limit the total number of comments shown on a page to, e.g., the last 25 made.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 4:55 PM on November 14, 2006
(2 comments)
Can we please shut the comments on the
Ted Haggard thread? It's turned into the same argument repeated over and over again.
posted to MetaTalk by dw
at 11:39 PM on November 3, 2006
(537 comments)
I have a WAV file of a lecture I'm trying to edit into a Podcast using Audacity. There's some feedback and ringing during some of the speaker's talk. How do I get rid of it (or at least minimize it)?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 2:48 PM on October 30, 2006
(13 comments)
Is it OK to construct a FPP from links and comments within another FPP?
posted to MetaTalk by dw
at 11:48 PM on October 22, 2006
(11 comments)
I'm in my mid-30s and am feeling like I need to find a career/professional mentor. But I'm a mid-career (7+ years) web designer/producer. How do I find a mentor in a field that's not much older than my job?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 12:52 PM on October 7, 2006
(7 comments)
I need to get off my lazy butt and join a gym. I live in north/northwest Seattle and work in the U District. Suggestions?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 11:21 PM on August 21, 2006
(16 comments)
PBS says good night, Melanie, now security will escort you out.
Melanie Martinez was the star of The Good Night Show, the
marquee show on the PBS-Comcast preschool channel,
Sprout. At least, she was until this week, when a parody PSA promoting "
technical virginity" (
video, NSFW) from her starving actress days resurfaced, thanks to a
Memphis radio station. PBS fired her, saying that the "video is inappropriate for her role as a preschool program host," even though it pre-dated her Sprout work by many years. A new meaning for the word
dooced?
posted to MetaFilter by dw
at 9:49 PM on July 21, 2006
(95 comments)
I have a World Cup blog that's been so successful I've been asked to turn it into a regular soccer (football) blog by the powers-that-be. I need some help coming up with a plan for doing that.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 5:27 PM on July 10, 2006
(13 comments)
How is a
GOLAZO! different from a
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 9:08 AM on June 21, 2006
(17 comments)
There was a staff announcer that did ABC promos (and newscast intros for affiliates) in the 1970s-80s-90s. He also appeared (in sample form) on the Beatmasters remix of Depeche Mode's "Route 66." He had this distinctive baritone, and it's bugging me that I can't figure out his name. Sound samples included.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 8:13 AM on May 23, 2006
(12 comments)
I'm in the market for a reel mower. What features should I be looking for? Any recommendations on models?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 4:26 PM on April 29, 2006
(16 comments)
Should I be worried that my height-weight proportional 2-year-old daughter isn't eating her vegetables, doesn't eat a lot of meat, and strongly prefers fruit?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dw
at 1:33 PM on April 12, 2006
(19 comments)
