Invisible bike, invisible sportsmanship, and invisible outside world.
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 9:11 AM on August 25, 2008

Jefferson was a total badass. Thanks for this.
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 6:01 PM on August 22, 2008

Virtual Reality for a user interface is so awful that it was lampooned taken seriously in the film Disclosure.
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 11:45 AM on August 18, 2008

Nifty. twirlypen, it seems to me that you would only graffiti near your own milkweed plants, so it's likely you own the structure that's being painted on.
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 7:57 PM on August 3, 2008

I adore Streamline Moderne. Thanks for this.
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 2:41 PM on July 24, 2008

More searching reveals the phrase "crystal clear" when referring to the display. Also it's been called "the graphite and ice color scheme".
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 11:43 PM on April 12, 2008 marked best answer

Aha! Apple themselves refer to it as "crystal clear enclosures".
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 5:57 PM on July 20, 2008 marked best answer

Nifty.
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 10:02 PM on July 12, 2008

In Linux I always unmount the drive. Often IO operations are put on hold, so to speak, and even when the file manager lists the file as copied it may not be so.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 1:34 PM on July 11, 2008

It's a blog. A mildly interesting one, but it's just a blog with a lot of random posts. What's the point?
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 8:03 PM on July 9, 2008

Mutant, perhaps you should subscribe to the Elliot Wave Principle of investing.
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 7:59 PM on July 5, 2008

As this one should be.
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 4:04 PM on June 30, 2008

Finally, we can validate Mr. Period's advice on the word "appalling"!
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 12:08 PM on June 25, 2008

I feel for you. I had a similar experience, albeit with a small German cockroach, and I slept downstairs for three days.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 12:00 PM on June 25, 2008

I think he'd like John McPhee. He even started out as a writer for The New Yorker.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 11:37 AM on June 25, 2008

Thanks for this. I hope this leads to more free ebooks!
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 8:42 AM on June 25, 2008

I feel compelled to point out that the article is from Metafilter's own Lore S.
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 9:26 PM on June 19, 2008

I would contact the CBC and ask them to put it on Youtube, for two reasons. First, I'm sure they would appreciate being notified of additional venues for this video. Secondly, compressing FLV twice is going to look terrible.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 7:00 AM on June 14, 2008

You want books with "false documents" in them, don't you?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 6:25 AM on June 14, 2008

When I worked at Marshall Space Flight Center I heard they have an archive of these space-themed paintings. Unfortunately the closest I could get to them is to browse lo-res scans.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 2:30 PM on June 11, 2008

if you're rather savvy, I'd suggest using Makefiles. Of course that requires you to be able to manipulate many command line utilities. On the other hand, this situation is tailor-made for some sort of build-automation software.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 1:46 PM on June 11, 2008

Another benefit of ripping to WAV is that it is uncompressed. Any lossless format saves you the time of re-ripping when you decide to switch to a new format (lossy or lossless).
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 7:26 PM on June 5, 2008

I like the Yellow Dog Linux suggestion. Be sure to get the 5th edition, which is the latest that they support on the original iMac. Don't forget to install SheepShaver to run OS 9 in a virtual machine.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 7:24 PM on June 5, 2008

When I saw this I first thought of Something Awful's guide to TV metrics.
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 7:03 PM on June 5, 2008

That seems to be the idea, but if you read transhumanist blogs or essays, they talk about possible future technologies. There aren't reports of "how I like my hearing aid and how I think it could be improved", but there are dozens of authors pontificating on "how I will use nanotechnology in my Adrienne Barbeau-bot".
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 11:04 PM on June 4, 2008

I would second No Absolute Time and The Double Slit Experiment.

The relative time theory says there is no clock, real or imagined, that tells the same time when moving as when it is still. When objects move, physics behave differently than when they are at rest (relative to the frame of reference). You can say particles decay at such-and-such speed, and disagree with your speedy friend who says they decay at a different speed, and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 6:43 PM on June 4, 2008

HOWEVER. If a company literally beams information into my house, I fail to see how decoding it, if I can, can be illegal.

Your neighbor's WiFi is beamed into your house, and accessing it is also illegal (the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act). Many kinds of information may be physically on your property but you do not have the right to read it.
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 8:08 PM on May 31, 2008

I am disappointed by the lack of the "batshitinsane" tag.
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 9:16 PM on May 30, 2008

I have a very similar laptop and installed Basic Linux on it. Once I get SVGAlib working, I will turn it into a digital picture frame.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 10:05 AM on May 30, 2008

I got a tablet last year and never looked back. Note-taking is so much easier: an infinite amount of paper and colored pens are at my disposal. In fact, when I had to hand-write notes, I sorely missed Edit Undo.

Two downsides I've found: battery life and noise. But those vary among device and personal preference.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 7:39 PM on May 27, 2008

I would like to know this too. I have the same problem. A Yahoo Answers result turned up Scandex Systems, based in Tampa, Florida. Unfortunately I have no personal experience with them or any other service.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 1:44 PM on May 27, 2008

Another idea (in the legal dark gray area) is to search for ebooks of your content. If the book is popular enough, someone else has already scanned and OCR'd it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 1:48 PM on May 27, 2008

> It is an interesting article, but it is an article that starts from the questionable argument that IPv6 will never happen. Yeah, it has taken a helluva long time to get there, but so has the HDtv transition. If anything, to me, this article shows why NAT won't work.

I believe that's the point of the article. It's taking the idea that IPv6 isn't necessary to an extreme conclusion: IPv4 will rule the world and anarchy will reign supreme.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 10:15 PM on May 26, 2008

> It seems like Libertarians should be against elections.

I'm a libertarian and I like the idea of the Futarchy. Natch, I don't agree with the Libertarian Party's stance on many things and have no idea what other libertarians think about it.
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 9:30 PM on May 26, 2008

I realize that blind faith has its benefits, but there are times when I wish some people could see the cognitive dissonance staring them in the face.

I recommend taking a course in logic. I took one in college; a fundie was in my class and dropped out after a week. I like to imagine that he re-evaluated his life and applied critical thinking to his closely-held tenets. But if crap like this doesn't cause cognitive dissonance, I don't think any amount of Occam's Razor will help.
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 9:12 PM on May 26, 2008

Several people use Subversion or another version control system to store their /home directory. Joey Hess may have been the first to use CVS, but that method is probably not the latest and greatest.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 5:42 PM on May 26, 2008 marked best answer

I see this issue is much bigger than I originally thought. I'm not very security-minded, but when I read the question and saw the bit about un-initialized memory, I realized that would be a useful source of entropy. How did the questioner realize that he was dealing with code that would use unusual techniques to get entropy, and not realize that un-initialized memory could be very important?

I would like to thank finite for the post and for the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 6:15 AM on May 18, 2008

8220;The problem is that the line being removed is the one that [adds all entropy to the pool]8221;

So perhaps a standard "Do Not Touch" comment is needed. Maybe @dangerous?
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 10:01 PM on May 20, 2008

What I'd like to see is ID taught in science class... as an example of how not to use the scientific method.Hypothesis: God Someone (or something or someones, but not aliens, that's just silly) did it, rather than genetics and / or mutation.
Observation: Some things in nature are really, really complicated. There aren't useful transitional forms.
Experiment: The transitional forms that weren't useful had other uses that helped the organism.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 9:07 PM on May 20, 2008

I thought Flash supported this with its own built-in renderer... Ah, it looks like GPU support and 3D are only for the upcoming Flash 10. In the meantime, Swift 3D seems to be popular.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 6:37 PM on May 18, 2008

I'm so hip, I created papercraft toys when I was four years old. Of course, none of them were as awesome as the stealy-car game.
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 6:18 PM on May 18, 2008

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but the GUIdebook shows examples of GUIs.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 9:19 PM on May 16, 2008

Seconding the GNUstep suggestion. It's like OS X but open-source.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 7:17 PM on May 5, 2008

I see your CAPAlert, and raise you one Vanguard Movie Reviews.
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 7:02 PM on April 22, 2008

@Benny: I agree mass pesticides are a poor solution. But while we wait umpteen seasons for a variation of a crop that is resistant and has a good enough yield to cultivate, what will we eat?

I agree that nature solves its own problems. But with enough knowledge, humanity can solve those problems more quickly.
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 6:32 PM on April 22, 2008

Have any of the people who say "I believe in micro-evolution but not macro-." been able to pin down what would satisfy their definition of macro-evolution? Cuz if you define macro-evolution as speciation, we've got plenty of examples. What's left to prove?
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 10:55 PM on April 20, 2008

What disdain for generalists? Am I one of the “masters of math and machines” because I think this movie is farcical? I thought we were discussing "intelligent design".
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 2:45 AM on April 21, 2008

All CD audio is stereo, 16-bit, 44.1kHz Pulse Code Modulation. WAV and AIFF and Apple Lossless maintain this quality. When burning, iTunes maintains this quality.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Monochrome at 8:52 PM on April 20, 2008

I missed more than one.

If anyone can demonstrate the differences between Monaco and Andale Mono, I'd be eternally grateful.
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 2:28 PM on April 14, 2008

Wow, I've got to show Je Veux Te Voir to my French class.
posted to MetaFilter by Monochrome at 1:39 PM on April 3, 2008