Displaying post 1 to 50 of 87
I want to teach my cats to use the toilet instead of a litter box. Anybody done that and have tips? I've
searched the web (
?), but would like to hear from others about the experience before I take the plunge.
posted to Ask Metafilter by owhydididoit
at 7:11 AM on June 3, 2008
(18 comments)
vagabondish
"The Travelzine for Today's Vagabond" offers lots of tips for travellers. And if, like me, travel isn't really in your near future, you can check out
the dispatches.
posted to MetaFilter by owhydididoit
at 2:41 PM on May 10, 2008
(7 comments)
WTF, Nature?
is a blog about natural oddities. Kinda like Cute Overload, but with a different adjective.
posted to MetaFilter by owhydididoit
at 12:12 PM on May 7, 2008
(12 comments)
Three technical writing positions are available at
Office Online. Main duties include reviewing customer feedback, and planning and publishing assistance content (mostly articles and videos) for end users of Microsoft Office products, for in-box delivery and on the web. We have a "test and learn" culture that provides many opportunities to help develop and implement new assistance strategies. Flexible hours, a focus on work/life balance, world-class benefits, and nice salary (plus annual cash and stock bonuses, and other incentives for outstanding work). Per the hiring manager: "We’d especially love to hear about people with varied content development experience, including journalism, video, radio, and other storytelling forms." Note that while I am happy to field your inquiries, I am not the hiring manager, and if interested you would be applying through the
careers web site.
You can see one of the positions
officially described here.
posted to MeFi Jobs by owhydididoit
at 9:00 PM on April 29, 2008
My sister is having
ACDF surgery on Monday, and I'm putting together a care package for her recovery. Any suggestions?
posted to Ask Metafilter by owhydididoit
at 10:51 AM on April 20, 2008
(6 comments)
tiny ghosts "is not supposed to be funny. It isn't a comic. It's about what it feels like to be a monster/ghost/robot/toy/etc. but not the scary kind."
posted to MetaFilter by owhydididoit
at 9:00 PM on April 15, 2008
(11 comments)
Hurstwic is a loosely affiliated group based in New England with an interest in the societies and peoples who lived in Northern Europe during the Viking age. While no longer formally organized, they still have events, frequently at
the Higgins Armory Museum in Worcester MA.
posted to MetaFilter by owhydididoit
at 8:22 PM on April 14, 2008
(12 comments)
Craft distillers just got a boost in Washington State. It's
now legal* to sell "up to 2 liters of their goods per customer and serve 2 ounce tastings – the same rights as craft brew or winemakers."
posted to MetaFilter by owhydididoit
at 11:41 PM on March 21, 2008
(23 comments)
WorldCat is a beta search utility that helps you search for an item in libraries near you. Results include over 1 billion items in more than 10,000 libraries worldwide.
Brought to you by
OCLC,
previously on
MetaFilter.
posted to MetaFilter by owhydididoit
at 7:12 PM on March 15, 2007
(27 comments)
If you enjoy strange art, you may like these artists' sites:
Courtesy
Max Szoc.
posted to MetaFilter by owhydididoit
at 8:10 PM on February 17, 2007
(11 comments)
A friend of mine wants to be a cruise ship florist.
posted to Ask Metafilter by owhydididoit
at 8:27 PM on January 22, 2007
(12 comments)
I want to love
the Table of Gods, a list of "4862 gods, godesses,
deities, avatars, incarnations, angels, demons and various spirits, and 520 aliases, mispronounciations and
generally confusing name variations." There isn't much more than a list of names with short descriptions, but you
can search by
keyword (say,
chthonic), by
origin (e.g.,
Canaan), and by
name. The information and presentation are not in the same league as
Encyclopedia Mythica, or even
Godchecker, but it does list
Hanuman.
The listings invite you to add keywords and comments, but unfortunately the feature is broken. You can add either, but they are appended unmoderated to the record for "A", which is consequently
a mess. If I've been a good boy this year, this feature will work and be gleaning meaningful user contributions on Christmas morning, and I will get to love the Table of Gods.
posted to MetaFilter by owhydididoit
at 7:43 PM on December 20, 2006
(15 comments)
Finding Species
is an organization that integrates science, photography, and design to create standardized methods of photo-documenting
plants and
animals, for use in print and web field guides, educational exhibits, and conservation campaigns.
posted to MetaFilter by owhydididoit
at 6:12 PM on November 9, 2006
(2 comments)
I started a
Fantasy Congress league, for those who are interested. For those who already have teams, how long should we wait before we activate the league, and start scoring?
posted to MetaTalk by owhydididoit
at 8:27 PM on October 24, 2006
(7 comments)
Fantasy Congress
lets you build a team of legislators who score points for you by moving legislation through congress.
posted to MetaFilter by owhydididoit
at 7:55 PM on October 23, 2006
(20 comments)
The
Allen Institute for Brain Science has made the Allen Brain Atlas
available online for public searches. It contains maps of gene expressions in a mouse brain, searchable by gene, anatomy, or with boolean syntax. They also offer Brain Explorer, a 3-D program that lets you highlight particular genes, and rotate the model in any direction.
Via
posted to MetaFilter by owhydididoit
at 1:09 PM on October 20, 2006
(14 comments)
