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Fray Book: Busted Stories
Hey MeFites, have you been busted? Fray wants your stories and art!
You may remember Fray from back in the day. Now it's coming back as a quarterly book series. And the first call for submissions is open now! Tell us: Have you ever been busted? Submit your true stories of getting caught in the act. Deadline: October 7.
posted to Projects by fraying
at 8:53 AM on September 25, 2007
Another song from my 4-track college days. Beware! Moody folk music ahead. Yes, it's about a girl. Isn't every song?
(More Info.)
posted to MeFi Music by fraying
at 11:44 PM on July 9, 2006
(2 comments)
Before the web, before I left college, I wrote songs. Lots of songs. This is from a tape I recorded in my apartment somewhere around 1993 on a shitty Tascam 4-track.
posted to MeFi Music by fraying
at 1:00 AM on July 4, 2006
(2 comments)
Referer Log Spam.
Seen this url in your logs yet? They're actually trying to get people to pay them to put bogus urls in your referer log. As if we weren't swimming in spam already.
posted to MetaFilter by fraying
at 9:14 AM on October 24, 2002
(43 comments)
A feature idea: Add a button to the bottom of every MeFi page that says "this is a troll" (below the button, add a link that says "What's a troll?" that links to an explanation). Then it's just a matter of math: If over, say, fifty percent of the visitors to that thread mark it as a troll, delete it (or, at least, flag it for admin review). A system like this might discourage people from posting threads just to
piss everyone off.
posted to MetaTalk by fraying
at 6:21 PM on March 5, 2002
(52 comments)
">More and
more, I'm seeing posts here in MetaTalk that really should be in MetaFilter proper. I thought MetaTalk was supposed to be for meta-discussions about MetaFilter that would be distracting from the main site. Was I wrong?
[ more inside ]
posted to MetaTalk by fraying
at 2:22 PM on February 28, 2002
(33 comments)
Links.net Mileage Giveaway Contest!
To celebrate the eighth (!) anniversary of his web site, Justin Hall is having a contest. Write the winning essay and get a free plane ticket to, well, anywhere!
posted to MetaFilter by fraying
at 11:24 AM on January 9, 2002
(4 comments)
Lick the light.
While the
professionals seem to have moved on, the political and social consequences of 9.11 are still being explored by at least one web-based political cartoonist (
a few favorites). Know any others?
posted to MetaFilter by fraying
at 11:42 AM on December 15, 2001
(6 comments)
Independents Day's first event
is taking place now, with a new essay on the future of the independent web being posted every six hours. I especially liked
Halcyon's predictions, including: "Jacob Nielson is discovered to have heavy.com as his homepage. At a press conference, he admits he finds his own webpage 'unappealing'."
posted to MetaFilter by fraying
at 10:26 AM on November 12, 2001
(52 comments)
Dichotomy
is a new project by
Jeff Gates which is seeking submissions of 9.11 stories.
Plenty of places are highlighting these stories now, but Dichotomy is doing something slightly different. (More inside.)
posted to MetaFilter by fraying
at 11:25 AM on October 29, 2001
(6 comments)
Mahnamahna!
Just a moment of levity for a heavy Monday. For the full experience, download
the video. In the words of the site: "Watch it, pray to it, name your first born after it, invite it over for dinner, but most importantly, download Mahnamahna. Spread the Mahnamahna word!"
posted to MetaFilter by fraying
at 2:31 PM on October 1, 2001
(31 comments)
Not exactly a bug, but this seemed like the most relevant place for this question:
Hey Matt! What happened to the handy dandy "my comments" sort?
posted to MetaTalk by fraying
at 8:07 PM on July 9, 2001
(13 comments)
Disassembled.
Assembler.org ("making art with machine code") is no more. Quoth the
Zeldman: "Lately we feel like Smokey the Bear - and the forest fires are winning."
posted to MetaFilter by fraying
at 3:16 PM on July 6, 2001
(74 comments)
"Munchausen"
isn't just a fabulous
movie – it's a syndrome where you pretend to be (or believe you are) sick in order to get attention. There is also a well-known syndrome called
Munchausen By Proxy where a parent makes a child sick. And now (here it comes) there's
Munchausen By Internet – people pretending to have illnesses on the net to get attention. It's a subject I would have scoffed at a few days ago, but now....
posted to MetaFilter by fraying
at 11:46 PM on May 21, 2001
(5 comments)
So
Shey tried to order a pair of Nike's from their custom shop with the word "
sweatshop" on them. They refused three times, listing a new excuse every time. I smell a great culture jamming project. My suggestion? Let's all
go do the same.
posted to MetaFilter by fraying
at 8:04 PM on February 4, 2001
(30 comments)
k10k hits 100!
Can't let today end without a little applause for k10k's 100th issue. And it's a doozy. (Be sure to check out all the random splashes.)
posted to MetaFilter by fraying
at 8:06 PM on January 30, 2001
(8 comments)
Two of the biggest tech news sites seem to be coming up a little short in the creativity department.
ZDNet and
CNet News have both been redesigned recently, and their new similarities are astounding. Worse still, they both now feature
huge,
ugly ads (which we're supposed to "explore") that completely overwhelm the page.
posted to MetaFilter by fraying
at 6:40 PM on January 25, 2001
(24 comments)
Cafe Press Election 2000 Schwag.
"Buy Merchandise that commemorates this HOPEFULLY once in a lifetime election!" Heh. It's interesting to see Cafe Press organizing their stores like this.
posted to MetaFilter by fraying
at 8:24 PM on November 14, 2000
(8 comments)
File under: "Duh!"
"We agree that smoking is addictive and causes disease in smokers," said David Davies, vice president of corporate affairs of Philip Morris Europe.
posted to MetaFilter by fraying
at 2:17 PM on October 12, 2000
(21 comments)
Roger Black
shows just how little he knows about the web. Favorite inflammatory quotes:
"There's hardly any good work on the Internet at all."
"There isn't an Internet community anymore."
"I don't think print and the Web are all that different."
"I think the Internet is not a venue for storytelling."
It's too bad Adobe is giving voice (in
web and
print) to someone so clueless.
posted to MetaFilter by fraying
at 2:21 PM on April 24, 2000
(56 comments)
Metababy is back!
Greg Knuass' Metababy, everybody's favorite experiment in nobody-owns-it content, is back. In the original incarnation, the homepage displayed whatever anyone sent in via email. Now there's a web form where you can edit a page someone else made, or create your own page by typing in a bogus filename. It's great fun, and an even better experiment in web-based respect systems. Who's page will remain unchanged?
posted to MetaFilter by fraying
at 8:33 PM on January 28, 2000
(3 comments)
