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Do you know Albanian knitting terminology? (No, seriously...)
posted to Ask Metafilter by bitter-girl.com
at 12:42 AM on August 9, 2007
(7 comments)
Looking for a specialty printer who can print large-format pattern pieces (and possibly scan them, too) for a new line of sewing and knitting patterns.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bitter-girl.com
at 3:05 PM on July 13, 2007
(11 comments)
TV show episodes ripped to iPod via Handbrake (aka MediaFork) are dropping audio 3/4 of the way into the file. Arrrrrgh! Has anyone found a reliable way of overcoming it? Or do you have a better program to recommend?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bitter-girl.com
at 11:15 AM on June 3, 2007
(6 comments)
I would like to convert multiple WordPress sites to one Drupal installation (more inside)
posted to Ask Metafilter by bitter-girl.com
at 2:05 PM on April 3, 2007
(6 comments)
Post-surgery, should I be more worried about the frequency of fevers or how high they go?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bitter-girl.com
at 2:34 PM on January 18, 2007
(12 comments)
Reposted to Forbes.com
after a massive backlash from bloggers and writers, this article by executive editor Michael Noer has now been given a counterpoint article by one of the sites' women writers. In the original article, Noer urged men not to marry "career girls," lest they leave you for greener pastures, and other misogynistic nonsense. Slate
chimes in with a painfully adolescent rebuttal while Salon
lets him have it with juicy quotes from women execs and more.
posted to MetaFilter by bitter-girl.com
at 10:33 AM on August 24, 2006
(95 comments)
Jeremy Hermanns' flight
on Alaska Air #536 was out of the ordinary, to say the least. A baggage handler ran into the plane before takeoff and didn't bother to report it. So when the plane reached altitude, its cabin suddenly depressurized, and was forced back to Sea-Tac Airport. Jeremy, who has experience as a pilot, posted about what happened on his blog. Rather than offer an apology, Alaska Air employees have taken to bashing him from company IP addresses.
This brings up a larger question, though. What
should companies do when their products or services fail, and consumers (almost inevitably) discuss it in a public forum? Jeff Jarvis'
Dell incident comes to mind. In that link, he mentions Dell's no talking to customers on blogs policy.
Would you rather have a company that reached out to disgruntled customers, or pushed them away? I've seen more than one small software company comment on a blog or take direct action as a result of a post -- is that the preferable route today?
posted to MetaFilter by bitter-girl.com
at 9:20 AM on December 30, 2005
(41 comments)
Via AmericaBlog:
Target responds to recent coverage of their
policies on dispensing emergency contraception with a fluffy PR email that invokes, of all things, the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (No news yet on whether Jewish cashiers can refuse to sell pork or vegan cashiers can refuse to ring up all meat...) Unfortunately, Target
isn't the only company doing this. But their popularity has made them a ripe target (!) for criticism. Whose civil rights are more important? Pharmacists' or customers'?
posted to MetaFilter by bitter-girl.com
at 10:16 AM on November 15, 2005
(109 comments)
Why are Japanese fans curious about musicians' (actors', sports players' etc) blood types?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bitter-girl.com
at 10:51 AM on November 8, 2005
(9 comments)
Blair apologizes
to Britons caught in New Orleans during Katrina. The British Foreign Office was repeatedly "rebuffed" by both US State Department and Louisiana state officials when it came to getting their own citizens out. Some US rescuers even took photos of stranded Britons, and asked them to flash their tops (a la Mardi Gras)...leaving without them when they wouldn't comply. British nationals were
left to fend for themselves as US citizens were given priority for evacuation.
Get ready for more stories like this as foreign nationals who survived Katrina make it home.
posted to MetaFilter by bitter-girl.com
at 1:43 PM on September 6, 2005
(61 comments)
Oakland police detaining photographers?
A month after being stopped for
taking photos of another building in San Francisco, blogger Thomas Hawk & some friends were detained for 20 minutes by an Oakland police officer for taking photos in the downtown warehouse district.
Among the topics of debate in the post's comments: was racial profiling an issue? is/should there even be a right to take the officer in question's photo? are SF residents more paranoid than the rest of us? is detaining a group of photographers a good use of police time? will commenters ever learn to spell "fascist" properly? and much more...
posted to MetaFilter by bitter-girl.com
at 9:13 PM on August 26, 2005
(38 comments)
Cleveland bloggers are organizing
against a giant suburban-style shopping plaza called Steelyard Commons (to be built on the site of the city's historic steel factories), which will include an immense Wal-Mart at its core. After City Council passed legislation in February to prevent Wal-Mart from adding a grocery store (causing the Bensonville bullies to "pull out" and scuttle the project), the developer was aided and abetted
behind closed doors by Cleveland's mayor, Queen Jane. Despite the mayor's proclamation of "no public money" or tax abatements for the project, there's plenty of
evidence to the contrary.
posted to MetaFilter by bitter-girl.com
at 8:28 AM on May 20, 2005
(16 comments)
