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MeTa post:
GAME OVER
I enjoy metafilter because of what is not allowed on it.
Because of this, i take a snobbish pride in seeing things not allowed on it here.
And yes, this, pride- it is hollow.
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 9:41 PM on May 8, 2008
MeTa post:
So a murderer walks into a bar...
You're worried about filesystem jokes in a thread about a murder in which
a: the comments in the thread will never have ANY importance in the case
b: see a.
worry about some other stuff that might actually be worth worrying about:
- failing economy
- war in foriegn lands
- global warming
- the possibility of another 4 years of republican presidency
- etc.
-... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 5:13 AM on April 29, 2008
MeTa post:
Horay for Mayday!
holy shit yeah. i love may day at powderhorn. i shall wear meta-talk grey and look for you all. my picture is in profile (which is weird to say with the recent dating-filter) but, yeah. We should look for each other...
a good meeting place and time might me nice. say time_X at 36th and Bloomington Ave, or whatever place. let's figure it out!
a belated sorry to everyone I missed at the last meet up, too.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 10:47 PM on April 10, 2008
MeTa post:
Let's get it on!
I'm dual- booting XP AND OSX 10.4.9 on a dell laptop. While reading metafilter. that's pretty great.
but not a 'duel' per se..
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 4:30 AM on April 10, 2008
MeTa post:
Metafilter self-fashioning
3 tips for ethical SEO optimization (In order of most importance to least)
1: provide good content or cool things.
2: be involved in web communities, and most importantly, contribute valuable things to them.
3: organize your content. structure your site around it so that users and search engine spiders can comprehend it sensibly.
anything else is gross, un-ethical, and lazy.
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 9:34 PM on April 3, 2008
MeTa post:
'I am not a Microsoft "fanboy"'...
That is definitely a plant. Most definitely.
at worst:
New user+a question that is more of a statement + talking about a new technology made by a company with a marketing department that could hire someone to plant it == schill.
at best it's chatfilter.
And for what it is worth (from my admittedly un-objective viewpoint) Silverlight is a joke.
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 4:24 PM on March 13, 2008
oh, and props to adobe for starting to get behind the open source idea.
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 4:39 PM on March 13, 2008
I'm not sure about that, Riemann. I've heard from a reliable guy (the developer of earthmine) that the latest beta version of the flash player supports dual threaded stuff. There is also talk of full hardware acceleration support for flash player 11.
Damn i'm a nerd. I'm going to get some dinner.
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 5:25 PM on March 13, 2008
I should be able to get over this, but I can't. This askMe is fraud. It screams it to me on many levels. One of these levels involve it being a very questionable first post from a user who has only recently joined (feb 11th). The second level is that it involves a crappy, in-need-of-marketing technology that is, to be kind, in dire need of marketing.
Perhaps the issue is too close to me for me to be reasonable. On the other hand, perhaps I am close enough to the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 1:20 AM on March 14, 2008
We have to enable you to do it with the FileReference Class. Just a simple FileReference.download() function. Not more than 6 lines of code. But we're mostly lazy. Sorry.
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 12:32 PM on March 14, 2008
MeTa post:
It was the best of MeFi. It was the worst of MeFi.
Recommending metafilter to others is hard. It assumes they will put in the work that enjoying metafilter requires. Though it may be easy for many here to scan a list of FPP's, choose one, scan a list of comments, and find enjoyment... this isn't an innate skill, it's learned.
To appreciate metafilter is no easy task. I am happy that my good friends have taken to reading it on ocassion, so that I'm not completetly out of context when talking about it. But its really... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 6:42 AM on February 17, 2008
MeTa post:
White people on Metafilter
I think this thread needs a flameout, jeesh. 400 comments? The most of us are the targets of the linked satire, and the most of us are reflective enough to laugh about it. It got deleted. Feh. I don't think any comment here is going to win the argument, or even contribute to the discussion all that much.
Feel guilty about your whiteness? Have an axe to grind? Perhaps we could start something on the wiki.
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 7:03 PM on February 16, 2008
MeTa post:
Kind of weird
p&c, when are you going to add deleted comments to your project?
(I was kind of lost in the beginnings of this thread, as the infringing comments have been deleted)
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 10:50 PM on February 7, 2008
If a person/computer were to have a feed of a post, would they recieve the conversation that follows it un-edited? If this feed were to be updated rather constantly, might it provide a way to track deleted comments?
If so, would mods not like such an endeavor?
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 11:08 PM on February 7, 2008
MeTa post:
Tagged as batshitinsane
From the original SCIENCE! thread linked by youarenothere, wtf is this?
I know, seeing an image on the blue after the image tag ban is wierd these days, but seeing that image? Is it a waffle? A pillow face? Some wierd kind of contraceptive I've never even imagined possible?
I'm not going home until I get a satisfactory explanation.
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 5:29 PM on February 4, 2008
Thanks mumkin. I can go home now!
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 5:45 PM on February 4, 2008
MeTa post:
Metafilter Ethos
taking the Metafilter ethos mainstream
"Metafilter ethos"?
Over my few years here, I have a premonition as to what this is. But I could never use "Metafilter ethos" as a term in newspaper article.
I could write ten paragraphs on the subject and never even get close to defining it properly. But I would be interested in others' opinions of what this phrase means.
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 7:45 PM on January 30, 2008
MeTa post:
let's meet up
Hey all, I was there for 45 minutes or so and didn't see anyone. So I guess I'm home now playing with my toys.
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 7:40 PM on January 25, 2008
Damn*1000!
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 5:47 AM on January 26, 2008
I'm sorry I FAIL. Really. I can't wait to make it to the next (hopefully soon!) meetup.
I was there for 45 minutes (I came 30 mins early for some reason), and didn't see anyone with a sign. I was supposed to make a sign, but after a really stressful week it kind of slipped my mind.
I do have some deals with social anxiety and such, and being alone at a bar waiting for people to show up and say to me "hey, you from metafilter?" was... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 9:16 PM on January 28, 2008
MeTa post:
Boooooooooobs.
I'm firmly of the belief that I wouldn't trust any man who doesn't have a good relationship with a feminist sister or two of his, or a family member the general community might regard as "hawt".
I wouldn't trust them with my sisters, my non-existent daughter, heck, any of my friends that are women.
As a man, until you've experienced a truly non-sexual relationship with a person who you could never be sexual with (though if... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 4:53 PM on January 23, 2008
Someone dresses in a way that makes them look 'good'. So in a manner that appeals to the people that find them attractive on a purely aesthetic level. So if you dress in a way that will make people want to look at you, then don't be completely surprised if people do look at you.
I think this is off base a bit. Some women are hot regardless of what they are wearing, and, to speak for myself, my power of imagination works just as well for hot woman... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 5:13 PM on January 23, 2008
MeTa post:
Is this something I'd have to have a Metafilter account to know about?
PONY REQUEST:
deadceleb.metafilter.com
or maybe..
obituary.metafilter.com
I've never really enjoyed the obit posts on the blue. As someone said in the Heath thread, people are always rushing to post the news FIRST, I NEED TO BE FIRST TO POST ABOUT THE DEATH OF A LOVED ONE CELEBRITY BECAUSE THE METAFILTER NEEDS TO KNOW.
THEY NEED TO KNOW NOW, AS SOON... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 3:54 PM on January 23, 2008
MeTa post:
wrecking the weekend record
tkolar for the win!
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 8:00 PM on January 20, 2008
wait, irc? how to mefi irc? servers, channels, etc..
thx
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 9:13 PM on January 20, 2008
carsonb. I know it's fracked up. But I don't have a tv, and a little fun on Meta is always, well, fun to watch-
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 9:30 PM on January 20, 2008
MeTa post:
Wow. We really aren't grown up yet, are we?
yeah, and the link to the wiki definition of ad hominem is pretty lame. I think we're all pretty familiar with the term, and linking to it makes it look like you don't think we do. Which is insulting.
But that's just my picking of nit in a thread where there's a lot of nit to pick.
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 6:02 AM on January 16, 2008
*makes it look like you don't think we are*
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 6:03 AM on January 16, 2008
You know who else made a list?
posted to MetaTalk by localhuman
at 6:24 AM on January 16, 2008
