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I saw the ad for the Start Conference, and clicked on it. Love the concept and the speaker's list looks solid as well. I also noticed that MetaFilter is a sponsor of the event. So who here is planning on going?
posted to MetaTalk by cell divide
at 8:01 PM on July 1, 2008
(21 comments)
election08.metafilter.com ?
posted to MetaTalk by cell divide
at 8:15 PM on February 21, 2008
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Do you have good experience programming Media Wiki based sites? If so, please email me! Have some specific tasks that need to get done now, but potentially a long-term project programming/managing a site based on Media Wiki.
posted to MeFi Jobs by cell divide
at 12:35 PM on January 4, 2008
I am need of a designer with a strong visual aesthetic (more on the beautiful, colorful, rich side then the pared down, simple side) to create a custom wordpress theme for an established author who has an existing Wordpress site.
posted to MeFi Jobs by cell divide
at 4:29 PM on November 30, 2007
Can comic book fans suggest some good comic books/ graphic novels/ etc. for me to read?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cell divide
at 4:35 PM on November 13, 2007
(51 comments)
How to deal with an old, fraudulent, debt? About 10 years ago, someone racked up $750 worth of phone calls on my phone line. When the bill came, I reported it to Verizon (who was then called Atlantic Bell, I think), and told them the calls were not mine.
posted to Ask Metafilter by cell divide
at 9:55 AM on October 19, 2007
(8 comments)
How can I get MSN Instant Messaging or Gtalk on my Blackberry Pearl?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cell divide
at 9:39 AM on August 21, 2007
(5 comments)
Looking for some bloggers for an academic website. The areas where we need people are in Law (interesting legal issues and/or everyday law type stuff), Adaptations (from books to films), and Shakespeare.
The ideal person already has a blog and is used to blogging regularly. The person has an hour each weekday to put into finding cool things and blogging about them. We're looking for 2-4 posts per day, so nothing incredibly strenuous. Ideally you also have some skills in getting people to the blog and/or an existing audience in a similar subject.
posted to MeFi Jobs by cell divide
at 11:41 AM on November 30, 2006
Hi!
We're a 3-year old, small, profitable internet company in the education space, with an excellent work environment on Capitol Hill in Seattle. We serve a large audience and are growing quickly.
We need someone who is an expert in PHP/HTML/CSS with some experience/skills using MySQL/XML/XSLT. The more skills the better, but even more inportant is the ability to pick things up quickly and think from the end user's perspective.
We want someone whois passionate about the web and will help us explore new ways to bring content and services to a large and growing audience. Ideal candidate is detail oriented, good at finishing projects, and can work on their own with some basic direction.
posted to MeFi Jobs by cell divide
at 1:36 PM on October 26, 2006
Looking for a temporary person to come in, examine our servers, and make recommendations for future growth as well as eliminate problems.
This job will probably last two weeks. Must have extensive experience working with high-load Apache web servers as well as DB servers.
posted to MeFi Jobs by cell divide
at 9:06 PM on October 11, 2006
College Search 2.0
Spent the past 3 months trying to make this work and it's finally done! It's a college search engine that has tons of data on over 1,500 schools but also allows students to create profiles and see who's applying where. You can also get suggestions by looking at other people's lists who have colleges similar to yours, and you can create a widget to share your college picks on myspace, blogs, etc.
posted to Projects by cell divide
at 11:40 AM on September 27, 2006
Are pure white (non albino) cows rare?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cell divide
at 4:23 PM on September 18, 2006
(5 comments)
CIA Gives Up on Bin Laden Search
says a post full of links on Sploid, it was revealed yesterday (when no one was paying attention) that the CIA disbanded its Bin Laden unit one year ago. The post also links to news that the FBI has "no hard evidence" connecting Bin Laden to the 9/11 attacks.
posted to MetaFilter by cell divide
at 11:25 AM on July 5, 2006
(54 comments)
Where's the best place to watch the World Cup in Los Angeles? Looking for general recommendations, and also suggestions as to where might be a good World Cup event or viewing party.
posted to Ask Metafilter by cell divide
at 7:57 PM on May 30, 2006
(1 comment)
ZoneFlood
Fellow mefite
ericb and I have teamed up to do a blog called
ZoneFlood. The idea is to focus on just one story, and keep posting links just on that one subject until the next big story comes along. The name comes from the 'Flood the Zone" news concept, which you can read more about on the
About page of the site. Anyone who wants to join us is encouraged to use the emails in our profiles, or just leave a comment on the blog somewhere.
posted to Projects by cell divide
at 11:45 AM on May 15, 2006
I am looking for statistics about college applications.
posted to Ask Metafilter by cell divide
at 4:32 AM on March 30, 2006
(1 comment)
Why doesn't metafilter add a del.ico.us-like portion of the site which shows interrelated links between sites that have been linked and tagged by users on the various metafilter domains, including users own homepages, projects, etc.
posted to MetaTalk by cell divide
at 12:34 AM on December 28, 2005
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Do you use Affiliate Program software for your website or at work? Care to comment on which software/solution you use, and which you think is the best and why?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cell divide
at 11:55 AM on September 8, 2005
(3 comments)
I'm looking for some cool Seattle blogs which chronicle goings-on about town. Anyone know of any? I've searched through the Seattle blogs list and haven't found any, but that list is pretty massive. I'm looking for a Gawker-type site.
posted to Ask Metafilter by cell divide
at 5:29 PM on September 13, 2004
(2 comments)
What do people think about polling the membership? A feature that would allow Matt (or others) to provide questions on popular issues/ideas/songs or whatever and get a sense of what the community thinks. The obvious example is topical stuff, e.g. who will the Metafilter users vote for in the election? This idea could either enhance the community, or divide it. The biggest negative is that statistics are misleading, they can polarize things, and they give people easy examples when they are generalizing, and that sucks. But, it would be fascinating to know how the community stands on a given issue. I still think this is the best community on the internet and the most interesting, and I think many people would like to know how we feel on this or that. If it were to happen in the style of this site, it would be a once every few months kind of thing. A side feature could be to have all discussion on that issue reside on that page (get them off the front).
posted to MetaTalk by cell divide
at 7:42 PM on June 29, 2004
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Does anyone have experience with client-side (cookie and JavaScript) web stat programs? Because they don't need to analyze massive log files, they seem to be the way to go... but I have yet to find an open source and/or cheap or free version. If you have experience using either a hosted solution or anything else that is client side, please post.
posted to Ask Metafilter by cell divide
at 3:47 PM on February 2, 2004
(8 comments)
Environmentalism as Religion.
An interesting
speech by Michael Chrichton, in which he discusses the 'religion' of environmentalism reminded me of an article in Harper's entitled
A Gospel According to the Earth by Jack Hitt.
Both writers agree that Environmentalism is, or is becoming, a new religion, but their views of what this means are as divergent as possible. Chrichton sees a world where fantasy has replaced reality to the detriment of mankind, while Hitt sees a dramatic and growing movement that imbues environmentalism with a new spirituality and connection with God, as a foil of Creationism and Intelligent design.
posted to MetaFilter by cell divide
at 4:17 PM on January 20, 2004
(32 comments)
What is Film Sampling?
According to
Mike Myers and Dreamworks Films, it's a revolutionary way to insert himself into old movies by using the wonders of technology. Have we created so much content in the past 50 years that it needs to be recycled before there is room for anything truly new? Will this work for films the way it's 'worked' in Music? Will the next generation of filmmakers be Puff Daddy clones reworking classic films, and are there films that should never, ever be touched?
posted to MetaFilter by cell divide
at 11:39 AM on February 19, 2003
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On PBS last week,
Senator Bob Graham said that there is "evidence that
there were foreign governments involved in facilitating the activities of at least some of the terrorists in the United States," but that "It will become public at some point when it's turned over to the archives, but that's 20 or 30 years from now. And, we need to have this information now because it's relevant to the threat that the people of the United States are facing today." Do you trust the government to keep the right informatin classified, or do we need to know?
posted to MetaFilter by cell divide
at 10:06 AM on December 19, 2002
(16 comments)
SlamBall
is America's newest sport. Combining Basketball, full-contact play, and massive trampolines into an extreme-team sport for the masses. Anyone seen it? Dude! or Dud?
posted to MetaFilter by cell divide
at 1:02 PM on August 12, 2002
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Prison in the Park
Central Park is a lot of things: the pastoral center of New York City, a relaxing stroll on a Saturday afternoon, a patch of grass lined with horse manure. It’s also home to a minimum-security prison...
posted to MetaFilter by cell divide
at 2:24 PM on July 9, 2002
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J.T. LeRoy: The Next Lit-Crit It Boy?
A report from the trendy and bespectacled world of hipster-lit book-readings and its newest star, the mercurial J.T. LeRoy. From the article: "LeRoy is the mirror image of the New York hipster’s aspiration: the lost soul done good, when so many in the audience, in pricey vintage t-shirts, seemed to want nothing more than to shed the trappings of middle-class life. More than a few in the audience spoke of him with a sort of rapt awe usually accorded NBA stars and minor deities." For more info on LeRoy, check out the author's
official website.
posted to MetaFilter by cell divide
at 12:50 PM on June 4, 2002
(36 comments)
The Christian Right and Israel
is the topic of this interesting article from the editor of
The New Republic, who sees the Christian conservatives' interest in Israel as less than persuasive, as it relies on Biblical legitimacy and not Democratic legitimacy. From the article: "for Christian conservatives like Armey and Parshall, Israel's interests cannot be defined pragmatically, because Israel's primary function is to clarify a larger worldview. Whether or not most evangelicals truly believe Israel's wars will usher in the Messianic Age, they are theologically conditioned to see its struggle as Manichaean".
posted to MetaFilter by cell divide
at 6:00 PM on May 15, 2002
(8 comments)
Tales of the Tyrant
is one of the best magazine articles I have read all year. A long, fascinating portrait of Saddam Hussein by the author of
Black Hawk Down that has so many interesting/weird/awful details that it's too hard to excerpt just one.
posted to MetaFilter by cell divide
at 3:05 PM on May 6, 2002
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This New Yorker article
is a must read. Long and exhaustive (but well worth the trip), I believe it could have the power to change many minds about what should be done, and when, about Iraq and its dictator. The essential story is about the horrible and terrifying effects of Saddam Hussein's gassing of Kurdish villages, but as the story reminds us at the end "Please understand, the Kurds were for practice"
posted to MetaFilter by cell divide
at 3:15 PM on March 27, 2002
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The Economist
recently completed a survey of Gulf countries. Much of the content is 'premium access only' or available in the print version. This article, subtitled "The Gulf states have come a long way, fast. Now they need to think about where they are going" is online and examines the swift changes in economy, institutions, and population trends in this in-the-spotlight region. Some fascinating stuff.
posted to MetaFilter by cell divide
at 12:44 PM on March 25, 2002
(1 comment)
God Changes Everything
Let's say there was a school system or a chain of clinics on whose professional staff were a certain number of men who molested the children in their care and who, whenever this behavior came to the attention of their superiors, were shifted to another school or clinic, with parents and colleagues, not to mention the justice system, kept in the dark whenever possible...
posted to MetaFilter by cell divide
at 10:38 AM on March 20, 2002
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In this posting, user dhartung mentions that there are dozens of threads that he doesn't even read, after user RobertLoch asks if it's necessary to keep posting on the same old topics. Myself, I probably read around 25% of the total threads, and click on maybe 35% of the links offered-- even if a topic has been done to death it doesn't really affect me, as I just skip it. How about you? What percentage of threads do you read?
posted to MetaTalk by cell divide
at 4:10 PM on March 4, 2002
(26 comments)
Recently I needed to do some research and began to use the
Ajeeb translation site. You need to be registered to use it, so on a whim I used username and password: mefi. To my surprise, they worked. I know the NYTimes has a MeFi login, what others are out there? A list would be nice.
posted to MetaTalk by cell divide
at 12:34 PM on February 28, 2002
(14 comments)
Cybracero: Wave of the future
. No longer will immigrants have to cross borders to do manual labor thanks to this visionary and exciting technology. Telerobotics mean that manual labor from 3rd world countries can now do their work from home! Check out the video and technology pages for examples of how this revolutionary idea will change the world!
posted to MetaFilter by cell divide
at 2:20 PM on February 4, 2002
(4 comments)
Human Rights Watch 2002 Report
There will undoubtedly be (deserved) criticism of any report that seeks to take both West and East to task for human rights violations, often seemingly judging one far more harshly than the other and perpetuating a victim and agressor view of the world. That being said, this report is still highly relevant and interesting, and deserves your attention for its data and its primary agenda: to expose violations of human rights around the world.
posted to MetaFilter by cell divide
at 11:50 AM on January 21, 2002
(3 comments)
Dead Men Walking
Thomas Lipscome urges us to think about 4th generation warfare, the nature of the battle, and the potential dangers well beyond the idea of nations such as Afghanistan and Iraq. From the article:
"Terrorists become extraordinarily resourceful playing weak hands against the strong and rich. So do revolutionaries. And it is time to realize bin Laden is both" This article is short yet wide-ranging, neatly bringing together the Balkans, Clinton, the Media, and 4G warfare.
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posted to MetaFilter by cell divide
at 10:49 AM on November 28, 2001
(3 comments)
It's the Democracy, Stupid
Quick hit from Middle East expert Thomas Friedman on why democracy matters in the Middle East, and by extension why democracy-building is one of the US's best weapons there. Starts out with a news quiz: "Name the second-largest Muslim community in the world. Iran? Wrong. Pakistan? Wrong. Saudi Arabia? Wrong." (NYT link)
posted to MetaFilter by cell divide
at 10:58 AM on November 20, 2001
(20 comments)
Gaza Diary by Chris Hedges
It's generally not the best idea to post links about the Palestine/Israel conflict, as each day's news can be debated ad infitum by various sides. However this Gaza Diary is a stunning personal look into the ravages of war and occupation. Written by the
New York Times Mideast Bureau Chief, and published in Harper's in October, it's a meditative reflection on the ways the human spirit can be twisted by conflict, and how a reporter (even a seasoned one) responds to the demons of war. Well worth your time.
posted to MetaFilter by cell divide
at 12:38 PM on November 16, 2001
(6 comments)
Want to Link to Auto-Zone?
Well make sure you read, fill out, and sign this form, then fax it back to Auto-Zone's legal team. A
search on Google reveals that many companies have "Linking Agreements." Mostly large companies looking to protect themselves, presumably in part from being linked from 'the wrong sites'... is this a right that a website owner has, or should have?
posted to MetaFilter by cell divide
at 10:33 AM on November 7, 2001
(39 comments)
Terrorist or Not?
OK, I know what you're thinking, another AM I _____ or not? It is, but this one is actually pretty cool. Dossiers of famous terrorists and non-terrorists from the present back to Atilla the Hun. Interesting stuff and worth a few minutes of your time.
posted to MetaFilter by cell divide
at 11:21 AM on October 12, 2001
(12 comments)
How about a "kill post" function, with a tipping point. A little button next to front-page posts, that if 10, 15, 25, whatever people click within the first 10 minutes (or 5 responses) of a post, it gets deleted from the front page.
It's democratic, it's brutally efficient, and it will cut down on front page non-posts. I think people here are mature enough not to delete posts just because they're political.. and if not, the tipping point can just be scaled up a bit.
posted to MetaTalk by cell divide
at 4:58 PM on September 26, 2001
(6 comments)
Ev Williams of Blogger's new (well new to me, anyway) project is
The End of Free What does this mean for Blogger? How will it "transition from free to fee and beyond"? What about other weblog software, is there anything you'd pay for?
posted to MetaTalk by cell divide
at 1:28 PM on August 21, 2001
(3 comments)
Israel: How did it get this bad?
...they are outraged by the Palestinians, not only for rejecting Mr Barak’s offer but for turning on Israelis with violence. “We gave them everything, and they shoot us,” is, crudely, the Israeli-in-the-street reaction. Disillusioned and bitter, Israelis are blinkered from any point of view but their own; they are blind to a Palestinian perspective.
posted to MetaFilter by cell divide
at 11:06 AM on February 6, 2001
(28 comments)
