but really, who gives a shit what the Turks think?

That's nobody's business but the Turks.
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 5:36 PM on May 11, 2007

thedaniel: You can run the 32-bit version on an AMD64 CPU. That's what I'm doing with the standard Ubuntu distro right now, because I didn't feel like downloading separate ISOs for my desktop and my SO's laptop.
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 11:38 PM on May 10, 2007

Given the direction this discussion has turned, I feel like it bears reinforcing that this isn't just for musicians. It's for graphic artists and video producers, as well.

As I see it, Ubuntu Studio is aiming for the Mac crowd, while standard Ubuntu is aiming for the Windows crowd. Penguins for everyone!
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 12:23 AM on May 11, 2007

Nice post. I got sucked into the demoscene a while back with a beautiful little game called .kkrieger, and the whole concept really appeals to the minimalist in me. Awesome to see some stuff I'm unfamiliar with posted here.
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 6:36 PM on April 25, 2007

(And yes, I acknowledge that I are t3h n00b. I envy you guys who have been in on this since the Amiga days.)
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 6:53 PM on April 25, 2007

Thanks, anthill. I just spent half an hour trying to completely demolish the arena using only the robot's stumbles and flails, reserving the blocks for subtle nudging and traps.

Oh, and does the game randomly decide it's finished running for anyone else?
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 8:08 PM on April 25, 2007

I'm with gignomai as well, esp. regarding the "usual" state, and I have a hard time believing I'm capable of above-average numbers in this department.

Although the rest of you had me going for a minute before gignomai and dnab posted. Damn the both of you, gimme back my self-confidence!
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 6:16 PM on April 25, 2007

I'm a big fan of Shigeo Fukuda, personally. "Lunch with a Helmut On" is one of my favorites.
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 5:41 PM on April 24, 2007

MetaFilter: You don't want that on the microfiber.
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 11:47 AM on March 31, 2007

Jesus H. Christ - do *not* browse this site in the quiet dark with the speakers accidentally turned up. Nothing like the sound of loud electric death for a quick jolt of adrenaline.

Sorry, I didn't notice that or I would have put a warning in the post. Sometimes I take for granted the things NoScript saves me from.
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 8:33 PM on March 30, 2007

The dingbat ads are literally written in code.

Not quite. A code encrypts by substituting words or phrases for something else. This substitutes individual characters, which would make it a cipher.

Cryptogeek pedantery aside, I think this is a clever and effective advertising scheme. I remember seeing an ad for a tech jobs site a while back, written in C++. I recall thinking tat, had I been a programmer looking for a job, that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 5:34 PM on March 30, 2007

*that
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 5:35 PM on March 30, 2007

Stavros, don't get any funny ideas.
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 5:16 PM on March 30, 2007

These are gorgeous, but damnit, now you've got me poking around the Hasselblad site. I could spend myself into a very, very deep hole here.
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 2:57 PM on March 30, 2007

I am sure he didn't keep track, but are there any estimates?

Man, if I were an evil dictator, I'd so keep track.

Er. Not that I have any plans, or anything...

*looks around, whistles, glances at The Device*
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 2:06 AM on December 28, 2006

quonsar:

shut off your damn television. visit the library instead of the fucking cinema. stomp that iPod and learn to play an instrument. have a conversation. play a board game. this shit is your fault.

If I do, will you turn off your computer?
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 5:52 PM on December 24, 2006

moron.

Come now, I was just seeing if you could take your own advice. After all, this whole debacle makes it fairly clear that the PC is the new vessel for the "content industry." And I apologize for misreading you, but when you say things like "shut off your damn television" and "stomp that iPod," it's not hard to construe them as statements of blanket hatred for technology. And for what it's worth, I have almost zero... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 7:44 PM on December 24, 2006

phaedon: The only thing that irks me is that 1 + 9 + 8 + 5 = 23.

Pure sabacc!
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 4:41 PM on December 23, 2006

Whoa. NewbieFilter.

They're not "tags", they're elements. It's like it's 1995 all over again.

I assume you were addressing the creator of the site? I'm aware that they're elements, although "tag" is acceptable informally. I just said "tags" because that's what the site calls them.
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 9:10 PM on December 22, 2006

How many mondern browsers still ship with blink enabled?

Only the good ones.
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 11:06 PM on December 22, 2006

caution live frogs: ...let me see if I have this correctly...

Well, technically, a tag is the individual bracketed letter or letters, while an element is the whole syntax that makes up a displayable HTML item.

For example:
<a> is a tag, and
<a href="http://www.metafilter.com">MetaFilter</a> is an element.
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 2:16 PM on December 23, 2006

More information on what I was just talking about.

And trust me, I'm far from tragically 2.0. In fact, I can't stand alot of the so-called "2.0 culture" (Say "blogosphere" around me. I dare you). I've only recently been able to tolerate some of the "2.0" sites for the useful services they provide, in spite of the eye-gouging kitschy design (being able to upload random daily-life pics directly from my cellphone to my... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 2:31 PM on December 23, 2006

If we taught animals to talk, how would that affect the world?

Been to Digg lately?

Why is the No. 8 always the same combination (tamale, enchilada, rice, beans) in any Mexican restaurant I visit? This includes primarily the southeast United States but not obvious franchises.

It's a conspiracy perpetuated by the International Mexican Culinary Cabal. I have set up a website,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 1:27 AM on December 22, 2006

davidmsc: but is there any network that airs classic 'toons anymore?

You might be interested in Boomerang, a network owned by Cartoon Network that airs classic cartoons 24/7. As they say in the ads, check with your cable provider.
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 12:51 AM on December 22, 2006

supercrayon: (I'll refer to them as the The Yeah Yeah Yo La Arctic Death Cab for My Chemical Fall Out Panic at the Clap Your Hands Say Modest Mouse)

Sir, I am offended! How dare you place Clap Your Hands Say Yeah in such close proximity to those detestable hooligans Panic at the Disco? Why, I never...

Seriously, though, that jumble made me snicker.
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 8:56 PM on December 20, 2006

Well, I was going to recommend del.icio.us, but I see that's pretty much been covered.

Personally, though, I only use del.icio.us for things that I anticipate needing to access from another computer, particularly one that's not mine. The vast majority of my teeming forest of bookmarks does not fit this metric, so everything else gets periodically exported (Firefox's Bookmarks Manager makes this pretty easy) to my flash drive, as well as synced to my Firefox Portable.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 1:17 AM on December 20, 2006

I've gotten so accustomed to defending FLOSS against people who actually think this way, I admit I might not have immediately pegged this for satire either if I hadn't been warned beforehand.

And I agree with Chuckly, it's fun to watch the clueless get outraged.
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 12:42 AM on December 20, 2006

I would love to get my hands on something like this. I already like music that experiments with ambient sounds, this seems like the next step in an excellent direction to me.

Of course, give it a few weeks, and Belkin will probably have made an iPod attachment to do this.
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 11:35 PM on December 19, 2006

Wow, incredible detail. I don't fish much personally, but my granddad has a lake on his property and has amassed a unique collection of strange old lures. Nothing nearly as impressive as these, though.
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 10:31 PM on December 18, 2006

Is this "Skyrates" something I'd need a snowcone to understand?
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 10:37 PM on December 16, 2006

Ever since I discovered Democracy Player not too long ago, I've been occasionally watching music videos from Telemusicvision. They don't have a lot of mainstream stuff (well, they don't have a lot of stuff at all yet), but there are some great videos from some of the tamer indie groups. This Mogwai video is one of my favorites.

Er, on preview it seems like the link to the vid is currently not working. They say on their blog they're in the middle of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 12:33 AM on December 16, 2006

Lovely. Sure, some of them (particularly the cicada) just look like bugs with gears glued onto them. But the beetles are gorgeous, and more than make up for it. My favorite, I think, is the Rhino Beetle. Such a wonderful steampunk feel to it.

Also, "death and dismemberment"? Come on, they're bugs, and populous ones at that. No need to call PETA.
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 11:51 PM on December 13, 2006

‮‮Is it weird that I can read all of this almost as easily as left-to-right text?
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 4:58 PM on December 11, 2006

‮‮I stole quonsar's fish.
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 5:14 PM on December 11, 2006

I've been following this since I first saw it reported on Engadget, and I see I wasn't the only one who began to lose hope when they found his pants.

I was first introduced to James through his regular segments for The Screen Savers on then-TechTV, and he never disappointed. I remember once, he converted an old iMac into a fish tank, around the time those "virtual aquarium" screen savers were so popular. He was one-of-a-kind, and I'm sure I'm not the only one... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 3:39 PM on December 6, 2006

Erm, I was the different stroke. That's why I expressed the dissenting opinion. Because my opinion was different. -- Chasuk

There are really better ways to say "this doesn't interest me" than bashing it, though.
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 6:00 PM on December 2, 2006

air = art. Damnit.
posted by [insert clever name here] at 1:01 PM CST on November 26

Wow, and I thought I was open-minded.
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 10:53 PM on November 26, 2006

Fenriq, at the risk of sounding slightly snobbish, I strongly recommend reading the graphic novel before (or instead of) seeng the movie. The film doesn't follow the story very well at all.
posted to MetaFilter by Spike at 9:14 PM on November 5, 2006