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I noticed from
Projects that we have at least a few Second Life-savvy MeFites, but no real MetaFilter-focused presence in SL, so I went ahead and made us a
MetaFilter SL group. Come join, message me in-world if you have any questions, and if you're nice I might even give you a teleport to a sneak peek at a little virtual MeFi anniversary surprise I'm working on. (Just search for my handle, same as on here plus an "Oh.") The group's also open to members of other MeFi-related communities, for which I will even make custom group tags on request. (
Monkeys,
Bunnies, and IRC lurkers join in!) If anyone here isn't an SL resident but wants to be, I'm sure the group will be happy to give you a welcoming walkabout. Or at least I will.
posted to MetaTalk by brownpau
at 3:08 PM on June 11, 2009
(32 comments)
(Washington, DC) U.S. News & World Report has an immediate opening for a front-end web developer with strong skills in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. This position requires expert-level knowledge of WC3 standards, cross-browser development, accessibility, and a solid understanding of the principles of information architecture and search engine optimization. Strong organizational and communication skills, attention to detail, and ability to meet deadlines are also required.Duties include:
- working with editors, web producers, graphic artists, and programmers to create innovative online features and interactive tools
- creating web-based content from conceptual page plans in Photoshop
- crafting flexible templates for custom Zope/Python content management system
- integrating and troubleshooting code from third-party content and E-commerce partners
Applicants will be required to provide code demonstrating a clear separation of content, presentation and behavior, and an unobtrusive use of JavaScript.Occasional night and weekend work required.Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
- Experience working in a Unix environment
- Python
- Zope 2 / Zope 3
- SQL
- Flash
- Streaming Video
- Experience with version control
This is a full-time position onsite at our offices in the Georgetown area of Washington, DC. Compensation based on experience.Please apply by email, to newmedia(at)usnews.com. Please include 'Web Developer' in the subject line of your email. Send resume in plaintext. No attachments please.
posted to MeFi Jobs by brownpau
at 12:21 PM on May 27, 2009
Exploding Blog!
Collection of awesome explosion videos from around the internet. Maybe one or two new videos posted per day. That is all.
posted to Projects by brownpau
at 2:13 PM on February 17, 2009
(Washington, DC) U.S. News & World Report has an immediate opening for a front-end web developer with strong skills in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. This position requires expert-level knowledge of WC3 standards, cross-browser development, accessibility, and a solid understanding of the principles of information architecture and search engine optimization. Strong organizational and communication skills, attention to detail, and ability to meet deadlines are also required.
Duties include
- working with editors, web producers, graphic artists, and programmers to create innovative online features and interactive tools
- creating web-based content from conceptual page plans in Photoshop
- crafting flexible templates for custom Zope/Python content management system
- integrating and troubleshooting code from third-party content and E-commerce partners
Applicants will be required to provide code demonstrating a clear separation of content, presentation and behavior, and an unobtrusive use of JavaScript.
Some night and weekend work required.
Basic Requirements
- HTML/XHTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
Preferred Requirements
- Experience working in a Unix environment
- Python
- Zope 2 / Zope 3
- SQL
- Flash
- Streaming Video
- Experience with version control
This is a full-time position onsite at our offices in Washington, DC.
posted to MeFi Jobs by brownpau
at 1:03 PM on December 15, 2008
LHC Webcams.
There's been a lot of LHC news lately but a less-publicized series of
Compact Muon Solenoid proton collision tests is scheduled for today, and CERN has been kind enough to set up a
live streaming webcam to watch the CMS in action. (There's also a view of the parking lot but I think that's more so underground-bunkered LHC staff can see the weather.) It's fairly dull viewing but if you're interested in the science of it all, it's great nerdy fun. Maybe you'll even see a black hole or two. ;)
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 11:44 AM on September 11, 2008
(22 comments)
Coal.
Cheap, Abundant, Clean.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 3:51 PM on July 25, 2008
(44 comments)
Railway TV.
Live video from the front of a train in Japan.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 1:28 PM on December 10, 2007
(14 comments)
Does anyone remember a short comic parody of objectivism using an archetypal 1950s character in the style of "Vault Boy" from Fallout?
posted to Ask Metafilter by brownpau
at 12:21 PM on November 26, 2007
(4 comments)
A quick formatting request for the contacts lists: "links to" and "linked by" as vertical lists side by side rather than as blocks of inline text. Also, a little icon to indicate mutual contacts, and a little plus sign to add new non-mutual contacts from the "linked by" list. I have the del.icio.us contacts list in mind.
posted to MetaTalk by brownpau
at 6:44 AM on November 7, 2007
(8 comments)
Space Get!
Sputnik 1's 50th anniversary seemed like a good day to announce this:
Space Get, "a sticky ball for spaceflight images, videos, and other space media." I often entertain my inner frustrated astronaut by seeking out popular and obscure historical rocket launch and spaceflight media from the heyday of the Space Age, and I found myself wishing that someone would collect and tag links to this stuff in one spot so that people like me could find specific mission media from a single source. Then I realized -- that someone could be me, with a simple Blogspot site and a bit of perseverance. In the four days I've been doing this it's just been a few space videos, an image, and a WAV file, but I intend to post links to stuff from missions in Sputnik, Vostok, Voshkod, Soyuz, Salyut, Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, STS, ISS, Orion, JPL, LPL, GSFC, MSFC, SpaceshipOne, SpaceshipTwo, Space-X, Bigelow, and other programs as I go along. Fittingly,
the first post goes "beep."
posted to Projects by brownpau
at 2:36 PM on October 4, 2007
I'm posting this on behalf of a teacher friend of mine who wants your ideas:
A university is developing an initiative in which pairs of professors, across disciplines, will meet up with small groups of first year students during their second semester to discuss themes of interest and promote intellectual engagement. These informal meetings will occur at least four times over a couple of months and can take place anywhere: in seminar rooms, in a dorm lounge, at a restaurant, at a professor's home, at an art gallery. So, what do we call these?
posted to Ask Metafilter by brownpau
at 7:45 PM on October 3, 2007
(23 comments)
I post this on behalf of a friend in need of passport help. Here he is: I need a U.S. passport in less than a week's time. I have been summoned to a foreign country on short notice, and it's crucial that I'm there when needed. I need to leave no later than September 17th.
posted to Ask Metafilter by brownpau
at 12:32 PM on September 8, 2007
(18 comments)
Happy birthday to the
lifeguard of our hearts.
posted to MetaTalk by brownpau
at 9:40 AM on September 5, 2007
(150 comments)
onoes! teenz on teh pr0n webs!
It's been a year since I posted about
Stickam, and in that time, one would be naïve to think that a community of unmoderated videos broadcast live from the private and semi-anonymous bedrooms of the world would not result in
epic lulz (nsfw). To no one's surprise, disgruntled Stickam ex-VP Alex Becker says
Stickam shares office space, staff, and equipment with live pornographic video providers -- this via
NYT tech writer Brad Stone. Cue the
"think of the CHILDRUNZ!" moral
panic. But popular websites being related to or backed up by prurient interest are nothing new: Wikipeda predecessor
Bomis was once accused of having
"softore porn" in its "Babes" section, and of course everyone knows
porn drives technology. What do you think the internet is
for? But if you use Stickam and this bothers you, the burgeoning field of live embeddable Flash-based webcam video streaming is rife with alternatives:
uStream.tv,
Justin.tv,
BlogTV,
Mogulus, and
Operator11, just to name some -- but there'll be naked girls on those too. I guarantee it.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 7:18 AM on August 6, 2007
(41 comments)
It's All Because.
Have you ever had those days where you're wondering just why everything about your life is feeling like it's going down the toilet bowl?
Oded Gross knows, and he will tell you all about it. In a
song.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 6:54 PM on July 26, 2007
(17 comments)
Newlyweds in DC planning a quick weekend honeymoon up in
Harper's Ferry, WV. Difficulty: carless.
posted to Ask Metafilter by brownpau
at 2:49 PM on June 22, 2007
(7 comments)
Jonson takes pictures of The Salton Sea,
which is a
strange place, like some kind of huge, perpetual,
Burning Man, but by a
huge, salty, polluted, manmade lake with
distant shores,
dying fish,
has-been resort towns,
Salvation Mountain,
fundie dinos,
fountains of youth, and
nice churches.
[via mefi projects] [previously] [howdy]
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 10:13 AM on January 30, 2007
(36 comments)
Galactus is Coming!
Galactus is coming to eat your planet, and nothing can be done to stop him! There is only one way to be saved!
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 8:42 AM on November 20, 2006
(28 comments)
Demote Pluto!
Pluto is, at best, a large Kuiper Belt Object, along with its sister planetoid Charon. We cannot let this common speck of rock and ice be raised to the echelons of the majestic gas giants or the diverse terrestrial planets, nor can we allow bureaucratic wrangling to needlessly complicate the classification of what is clearly a simple planetoid among many in the outer solar system. Maybe once we thought of Pluto as a planet with an eccentric orbit, but today history and progress must march forward hand in hand, and they march towards this goal: the Demotion of Pluto!
posted to Projects by brownpau
at 11:56 AM on August 25, 2006
Couple of issues here. I just accidentally marked a post as a favorite (stupid new mouse). Could the "favorited" confirmation page include a link to my favorites management list, or better yet, an undo? Also, from this
this favorited confirmation page, the "Return to post" link is broken.
posted to MetaTalk by brownpau
at 10:09 AM on July 18, 2006
(15 comments)
Pull out
a US $20 bill. Take a look at the picture of the White House. See that tree peeking in from the right, the 140 year old elm that's been there since Andrew Johnson? Well,
it's gone. Yup.
Fallen over, thanks to the
soaker summer storms which have been hammering the Mid-Atlantic in recent days.
Cleanup has started, but no word on whether the $20 bill will be needing another update.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 9:27 PM on June 26, 2006
(38 comments)
Bunny versus Airbus A380.
The bunny was on the runway as the A380 came in for a landing, but managed to avoid getting pancaked by bolting as the behemoth decelerated. We salute you, Runway Bunny.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 10:20 AM on June 19, 2006
(146 comments)
"I'm not going to debate this with you or anyone else. In fact, as of today, I'm officially retiring the all-seeing eye dog from MetaFilter, and from the blogosphere more generally, out of protest. As long as I've been a guest here, I've always tried to tell the truth as I see it, and that's all I could ever really hope to do. Beyond that, it's your choice whether to see what's happening for what it really is or not. It's no longer my concern.
Goodbye, and thanks for the many great discussions I've been privileged to have with you all."
posted to MetaTalk by brownpau
at 7:04 AM on June 8, 2006
(122 comments)
