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Look who's going to ROFLcon! It's a "a group dissection of internet culture" and "big blowout party" in Cambridge, MA, April 25th and 26th that promoters call "the most important gathering since the fall of the tower of Babel" (and possibly just as productive). Wish
I could be there.
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 5:57 PM on March 27, 2008
(80 comments)
One-link, one-or-two-word MeFi posts bugging you? We've had a few lately. Maybe it would help to display the tags on the front page.
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 1:31 AM on February 4, 2008
(151 comments)
Congratulations to
tkolar on posting
MetaTalk's 500,000th comment! Imagine, a half million assorted snarks, whines, callouts, flameouts, bugfixes, meetup setups, not to mention all the pony requests granted or rejected, the longboat voyages, the real-life detective stories and serious discussion of male and female body parts. What a long Meta trip it's been.
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 3:22 AM on January 11, 2008
(77 comments)
How many times do I have to remind
you people: THERE IS NO SARCASM TAG IN HTML.
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 2:22 PM on December 9, 2007
(124 comments)
"Keep your (MetaFilter) friends close and your enemies closer," a Contacts Pony Request.
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 6:30 PM on November 3, 2007
(52 comments)
Matt, I have waited several hours for you to fix it, but the song parody you linked to in the Blue Sidebar is titled "Thou Shalt
Always Filter",
not "Thou Shalt
Not Filter". And it
is totally awesome...
When I say “end” thou shalt not say “well”. When I say “Wen” thou shalt not say “dell”.
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 11:47 PM on May 24, 2007
(14 comments)
The Front Page Posting page shows a big blob listing ALL the tags I have used on previous posts. Particularly big because I have made 199 posts on at least 175 different topics, including
high-tech band-aids (an early NewsFilter with 2 now-dead links),
a-list blogs,
MetaFilter-related stuff before MetaTalk existed (this post features jessamyn making a suggestion to create something like MetaTalk) Interpol,
Steely Dan,
ICANN, and
Fat People (without a trainwreck in the comments!)... and that was all in my first month participating here.
Anyway, that tag blob, as it now exists, does me no benefit and just blocks the way to the "Preview" button. Can we have options to show NO tags or most used tags or tags used more than once ple-e-e-eze?
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 3:27 PM on March 18, 2007
(32 comments)
An Immodest Proposal: One of the interesting phenomena I've noticed as other aggregating sites are on their ascendancy (can you Digg it?) is that many links that had been MetaFiltered long ago (in Web time) get a new wave of attention, which flows back around here, and BANG!
Double-triple-quadruple post!. And how many times lately have we seen comments like "Didn't see it the first time; glad it was reposted"? Maybe what we need is a
separate place for "Re-Current" posts or links, where we can acknowledge that WE got it months/years ago, and re-open comments on it. Obviously, such a sub-Meta would require a lot of moderation/maintenance, and maybe it should be an off-site project. How should it work? Can we/you make it work? Why bother? Any volunteers?
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 10:16 AM on March 6, 2007
(34 comments)
Are we gonna keep the
"latest attempt to smear Gore" post on the front page just because it gets successfully refuted later in the thread? Or in the interest of being "Fair and Balanced", should Gore Bashing be kept equivalent to Bush Bashing?
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 6:01 PM on February 26, 2007
(112 comments)
I don't usually call out bad posts in MeTa, but a
Single Link Op Ed (to the WSJ OpJournal, no less) by the author of the classic racist screed "The Bell Curve" (though I Foody may disagree) which is a classic of "stating the obvious" ("Half of all children are below average... except in Lake Wobegon") is NOT the Best of the Web. It's not even worthy of me making a smart ass comment in the thread. Delete with extreme prejudice, mattamyn.
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 2:01 PM on January 16, 2007
(80 comments)
Are rajbot, fishfucker and myself the only MeFites to look at Projects lately, or does everybody else here think everything posted there since 12/7 sucks? Just asking.
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 3:14 PM on December 13, 2006
(21 comments)
I, for one, would like to congratulate the members of the MetaFilter pseudo-community for NOT posting a "Murdoch/Fox Cancels O.J. Show and Book" NewsFilter in the one hour since it was announced and officially warn anyone considering doing something like that
it will not end well.
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 1:52 PM on November 20, 2006
(57 comments)
I don't mean to "out" anybody journalistically, but having recently joined the MetaFun here
"after four years of looking around", "a-list blogger" and editor of Gawker Media's
Sploid* Ken Layne has made a MetaFilter Front Page Post into Sploid's
big-dropshadow-headlined** lead story. Of course the story is
Dunvegan's post on the Naeem Kahn affair, which I personally consider the best thing on MeFi since we stopped playing that "Blogstop" game. Yeah, let's keep making Ken's job easy... If we can get one of these for every hundred average "NewsFilters", I'll accept that tradeoff.
*which is the only Gawker site I regularly visit, sorry dong.
**actually, my favorite thing about Sploid is how they do the tabloid-ish headlines using just the Impact font and some sneaky CSS, but I digress...
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 11:30 AM on July 15, 2005
(27 comments)
Disclaimer: This is something you need a TV to know about...
Has anybody but me seen a commercial for Volkswagen (apparently SoCal VW Dealers, but maybe showing in other regions) in which the salesman outside the car is pointing out all the comfort features to the wife in the driver's seat while the husband on the passenger's side is just using the power seat to go up and down and up and down? You'd know it if you saw it, because the actor playing the husband is (to me) a dead ringer for Matt Haughey (including the glasses). I can't find a video of that commercial online anywhere, but I wonder if some actor is going to make a career out of impersonating Our #1... (Or is the resemblence just another sign of my worsening dementia?) Dammit, they are the same glasses!!!
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 11:20 AM on June 12, 2005
(24 comments)
Hooray!
Ask MetaFilter is finally on the Front Page Menu! (And you thought we wouldn't notice, Matt... What? It's been there for how many weeks?)
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 2:38 PM on March 10, 2005
(33 comments)
Yes, I know that "what x are you?" quizzes are the worst of intarweb clichéry, but when I saw
this one (via
PreSurfer), I had to waste five minutes and take the quiz. Imagine my shock/delight/spewing-on-laptop when it gave me
this result. (And I was trying for
this result...) So, what website are we?
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 7:31 PM on February 14, 2005
(89 comments)
As long as we're talking about non-fleshy non-sucidal ways for Matt to help pay for this place and his services herein, how about some tweaking of the
Original TextAds Program? [much more inside]
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 12:32 PM on February 4, 2005
(19 comments)
I believe the deadline for the MeFi Design Contest has passed. Does anybody who entered have the nerve to show off their actual entries to the MeFi public? I have half a notion to, but I don't want to be the first (or anything before sixth) to expose my web design shortcomings...
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 10:13 PM on January 1, 2005
(132 comments)
Speaking of User Numbers, what happened to the population count on the front page? How are we supposed to know where we stand if we don't know how many others are shoehorned into this tiny webspace?
jus' kiddin' 'round, matt 'owie.
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 7:50 PM on November 29, 2004
(9 comments)
This is not good. Angry modem may deny doing this himself (although it was posted only 13 minutes after
this), or may not. Worst case: some even worse asshat(s) who considers modem a role model will show up specifically to cause trouble. I do not WANT to be exposed to anus.
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 4:37 PM on November 26, 2004
(74 comments)
One of the most questionable trends emerging at MeFi lately is the MetaTalk treads complaining about post deletions, linking directly to the 'hidden' threads (effectively un-hiding them), where the usually awful discussions cut off by the Hand of Mathowie get a chance to continue raging in the Grey.
Maybe the way Matt deletes threads needs to be changed. Maybe closing discussions gone bad early instead of deleting. Maybe deleted threads on the blue need to completely disappear, like on the green & grey. How about adding to the posting page, a list of the most recent deletions with Matt's reasons for deletion (Hey, that might prevent triple-double-posts). Any other better suggestions for implimenting the FPP Death Penalty?
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 11:57 AM on November 6, 2004
(44 comments)
MetaMystery: Something was funny about the FP (Front Page) of MeFi for me today: the date stamps on all the FPPs (Front Page Posts) were in Mountain Time (UTC-7) instead of the time zone I had specified, Pacific (UTC-8). Was that some Daylight/Standard time thing happening or did somebody figure out my password and change my specs? If so, please disregard any comments posted in my name so far today. Or is this really me posting this in MeTa? I get so confused.
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 5:42 PM on September 17, 2004
(1 comment)
Speaking of the Value of
D'oh:
crush-onastick suggested a
"oops! god no, i take it back!" button and
ook added
"But it should disappear once somebody else has posted after you, so people can't delete something from the middle of a thread.". I thought it was a good idea, but I should:
I suggested the same thing in February 2000, only I wanted to call it
a "D'oh" button. Less a pony, more an old grey mare?
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 5:29 PM on August 25, 2004
(26 comments)
Just in case you haven't noticed:
"Connection failure members..."
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 6:22 PM on June 11, 2004
(3 comments)
I don't mean to be prick (okay, maybe, but a funny one), but what's "MetaFilter Matt" doing making ponies for
Boing Boing, when we have a million things for him to do here?
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 9:44 PM on April 9, 2004
(48 comments)
We know that
nofundy usually posts about
"Fundies",
hama7 has posted
Hama-Net, and
Vidiot's first post was about
TV newscasts, but hasn't the relationship between posts and the posters' usernames gotten a little strange lately?
First, I saw
Keyser Soze's AskMe about
"my friend getting busted by the cops" and its
MetaTalk follow-up. But then I noticed posts from
PenDevil about
rewriting the Chinese Constitution,
Dome-O-Rama about
an Act of Congress,
psychotic venom about
these depressing times,
loquacious about
Rumsfeld's words,
ferociouskitty about
howwasshe.com, and
four panels about
China's Building Blitz.
And AskMe has
a problem with the French from
staggernation and
a mouse in a messy room from
Slimemonster.
Am I just going overboard when I see the connections between a car insurance site and mr crash davis, Jay-Z and soundofsuburbia, or Sudden Oak Death and barkle (oops, that should be bargle) ? If so, just say "adjust your meds, Wendell", and we'll leave it at that. If not, I'll be back tonight with a post about Wendell Willkie.
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 1:31 PM on March 20, 2004
(78 comments)
Are You MetaPolar?
The Google Ads on the Front Page seem to be dominated by psychiatry sites and prescription drugs. Keyword: bipolar.
Is this a fair assessment of the content or membership here?
Are we all here because we're not all there?
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 4:56 PM on March 8, 2004
(23 comments)
My semi-pathetic lifestyle has required me to do a lot of my web-surfing (and blog-writing) from computers at the L.A. Public Libraries, and just a few minutes ago I sat down at a machine I had last used about a week ago, went to MetaFilter and was greeted with "you are logged in as wendell". Looks like I've been bitten by the MeFi Cookie Monster (persistant little bugger).
So, if you've seen any comments under my name in the last week that sound like they were written by a nine-year-old... it's probably still me. But at least it's a better alibi than "I was out fishing on Christmas".
Is there any way to avoid this problem (besides
remembering to log out)?
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 12:15 PM on March 5, 2004
(22 comments)
Finally got around to reading L.A.'s alt-paper L.A. Weekly's content-heavy "Year End Lists Issue", and was shocked at what I saw on Page 12: (
fourth list down here).
That explains why Mr. Howie didn't make it to the L.A. MeetUp: He was with Drudge, Welch, Damon and Groening plotting to take over the universe...
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 12:12 PM on February 24, 2004
(15 comments)
MeFiSoCalWenCom04 came off nearly flawlessly last night, with attendence in the double digits (if you include MeFites' significent others and the
MonkeyFilter contingent. [more inside. always more inside]
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 12:31 PM on January 18, 2004
(24 comments)
The L.A. MeetUp (unpopularly known as MeFiSoCalWenCom04) is coming: Not
this weekend, but
next weekend. I'm requesting "pre-registrations" so I can put together "swag bags" for those who attend. Still taking location suggestions. More details at
MEAT.METALIFTER.COM Mis-spell it carefully.
And be warned... the Southern California MonkeyFilterites are coming...
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 2:47 PM on January 9, 2004
(9 comments)
For those of us who don't have the money to register at CES, how about
MeFiSoCalWenCom2004, featuring the first promised opportunity to call Wendell an asshat in person!!! When: January. Where: Somewhere in L.A. Let's narrow it down...
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 11:33 AM on December 15, 2003
(31 comments)
Inspired by the recent
Nerd Purity Test, what questions do you think would belong on a
MetaFilter Purity Test? [much more inside]
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 7:54 PM on November 17, 2003
(167 comments)
Is MetaFilter starting down that slippery slope toward
Theme Days (like on
The Mickey Mouse Club)?
October 15th examples: We started the day with
regrets and
apologies, got playful with
Hello Kitty,
Fisher-Price and
double Legos, and then it got ugly:
bad wedding dresses,
worse plastic surgery,
nazi architecture,
a nazi dog,
a dinosaur frog, finishing up with
maggots. Am I the only one seeing a pattern here?
And does this mean today will be Fun With Music Day? (Miguel, you jumped the gun)
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 4:05 AM on October 16, 2003
(37 comments)
I should know this, being one of MeFi's last surviving "early adopters" (user #206), but I don't...
MetaFilter's NO multiple-threads, chronological order, NO sigs or avatars, permalinked format for comment pages has become the standard default style for blog comments, used by most blog software out there. (And that format has been, with all its abuses, one of the major reasons why MeFi has been my favorite Web Hangout for most of its 4 years).
So, Matt, why is it so? Did you duplicate some even earlier weblog pioneer I don't remember? Did you just follow a K.I.S.S. methodology? Or was it all/partly about the limitations in the Cold Fusion database or your then-newbie abilities with it? Tell me, for the record, how much credit (or blame) do you think you deserve for "The Way We Do Comments"?
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 12:22 AM on September 19, 2003
(15 comments)
User Cyrano just
seconded my
recent contention that it seems every "lyrics site" is a pop-up nightmare that would shame most pr0n sites (not that I'd know...). Are there any "lyrics sites" that aren't? Come to think of it (really stupid question follows), are "lyrics sites" even half-way legal, or do they just exist because ASCAP and BMI are not as evil as the RIAA?
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 10:51 PM on September 11, 2003
(15 comments)
The
spit takes thread made me think: why hasn't anybody devised a
MetaFilter Drinking Game? (Well, actually,
kottke did, indirectly, long ago, but I'm sure we can haul out every MeFi cliche' imaginable and compile them into an excuse for near-life-threatening blood-alcohol-levels. (Might even increase attendance at MeFi MeetUps)
I'll start with the way-too-obvious:
One drink for every thread by Miguel.
Two drinks for every thread NOT by Miguel that mentions Miguel...
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 1:23 AM on September 5, 2003
(51 comments)
Now we know for sure, as the legendary/infamous Blogstop/Acronyms thread goes into "overtime": The cutoff for comments to a MeFi thread is one calendar month, not thirty days. (I'm surprised nobody noticed AND complained last February...)
I'm sorry, but I have loved this thread, textual chain-jerkoff it may have been, and await the dropping of the MetaFilter equivalent of the Times Square New Year's Ball on our collective heads in less than eight hours as I stand like a cryogenically-preserved Dick Clark preparing to be resuscitated just in time to say: "Five...Four..."
So, as long as I've committed myself to a verbal thrashing from the Anti-Acronymatics among you, I must still ask the stupid question: "Why Can't MetaFilter Do Something Like This More Often?"
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 11:26 PM on August 29, 2003
(113 comments)
Think the only thing "MetaFilter-related" about
The Echo Project is that it's a reason for Dave Winer to have another
FPP-level hissy fit? Well, since copyright conflicts won't allow the developers behind "Echo" to call it "Echo", they're putting out a call for alternate names,
and one of the most popular proposals so far is MetaPub. Is this infringement on the MetaFilter name? Will this cause future confusion among the already easily confused? Is this something that this Meta Community should take a stand on?
BTW, other popular names: Necho (as in Not Echo), Spark and Lokahi (obscure Hawaiian term). A couple folks are also pushing MetaVox.
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 2:15 AM on July 13, 2003
(21 comments)
After testing links in preview of both Posts and Comments, I hit "back" and get "Page Has Expired". (Dingoes Ate My FPP!) Happens in IE6, but not in Mozilla. Yes, I've eaten all my cookies. Is this something I need a computer to know about?
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 12:03 PM on June 18, 2003
(10 comments)
MetaFilter: Such a powerful force, it has
"Googlewashed" the term
"Googlewash".
Now, let's try a really challenging meme: OW! (which actually started here to give credit where it's... OW!
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 1:07 AM on April 5, 2003
(5 comments)
MetaTalk is Three Years Old today! (Finally out of its terrible twos)
So, how do you think we're doing? (inserts can of whoop-ass into electric can opener, flees kitchen)
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 12:55 AM on March 3, 2003
(178 comments)
The coment count for
this thread is two higher on the 'lofi' page than on the regular front page. Is this a bug or did Matt do a little discrete comment-deletion (I admit I go to 'lofi' at least once a day for its 'bonus content' - nudge nudge, wink wink)
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 4:24 PM on February 27, 2003
(4 comments)
I just thought we should have an open thread on
Jason Krannke's new tagline for Metafilter: "your source for political news, stories stolen from Slashdot, weblogger gossip, and links to major news stories that everyone already knows about".
So? If MeFi can save me the trouble of visiting Slashdot, Drudge and CNN.com (plus providing comments on the various topics I can steal to sound smarter in RW conversations), I think it provides a very important service. Maybe not the service mathowie originally intended...
posted to MetaTalk by wendell
at 1:43 PM on September 8, 2000
(10 comments)
