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MeTa post:
Numeristerical!
I've never been to zip code 45017. And by an amazing coincidence 45017 is not a valid zip code number.
What are the odds of that, people?
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 4:45 AM on July 20, 2008
MeTa post:
MetaFilter: It is what it is
People read different blogs. And blogs of high volume also predictably have high overlap when they cover overlapping topics. But keep in mind that a site that gets a million visitors a day is still only serving a fraction of one percent of English-speaking web users. The odds are high that any link that's made the rounds is going to be brand-new to a significant number of Mefites when posted here.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 8:40 AM on July 11, 2008
MeTa post:
Give me disorder! In reverse descending order!
"Can I see the most active threads...?" Yes, sounds like a good idea. "...So that I can go straight to the pissfights?" No, doesn't sound like a good idea all of a sudden. I think you sabotaged your own pony.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 6:27 AM on June 24, 2008
MeTa post:
MeFi breaking WebKit Nightly
> Any other WebKit Nightly users noticing the MeFi front page main content is being shoved below the sidebar
Nope. Mac build r34728 renders it properly the first time over here.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 9:48 AM on June 22, 2008
MeTa post:
Spelunking for doubles
It's the PayPal we, as in, "We should PayPal mathowie five bucks for matching sockpuppet accounts."
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 3:38 AM on June 21, 2008
MeTa post:
Go Team?
The website decided my name is "sunset heath". I would rather not be the 488th smartest person in the world than have a name like a scented candle.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 1:22 PM on June 20, 2008
MeTa post:
Happy Mefi-day to me!
There was that time we did that one thing, and then stuff happened and we all had a good laugh. Remember that? Yeah.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 10:56 AM on June 20, 2008
MeTa post:
Oh shit, it's a walk-off!
I prefer A. It's much easier to make out individual tags there.
B is too dense and I find myself only skimming the top, the bottom, and the left edge.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 5:26 PM on June 17, 2008
MeTa post:
why does MeFi work, in 500 words or less?
This isn't what you asked for, and it's out of print, and it's not by mathowie: Design for Community is by Derek Powazek, has a lot of good advice, and I'm namedropping it here because I wish it was in print again. Also it has an interview with mathowie about Metafilter.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 4:28 PM on May 7, 2008
MeTa post:
Toronto meetup?
Considering it, thinking of making a weekend of the trip from the States. Any more news (or suggestions for out-of-towners)?
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 1:44 PM on May 5, 2008
MeTa post:
Print Stylesheet for Mefi?
> if I'm going to be Style Enforcer, we're not going to use USPS abbreviations except before zip codes.
Only good things can come from having an official Style Enforcer, and I want to see Year of Metafilter In Review in the manner of a Mr. Blackwell's Ten Worst Dressed List.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 12:16 PM on April 29, 2008
MeTa post:
So a murderer walks into a bar...
There's still an active debate over Reiser's conduct in the trial, and whether the verdict was fair. The jokes are in bad taste, but they're not derailing the thread.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 4:10 AM on April 29, 2008
MeTa post:
Cycling challenges for 2008
Still needed: Team MeFi bike jersey.
I hope to ride my first fixed-gear century this summer, and a Metafilter jersey would help me finish under the cutoff time.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 7:37 AM on April 17, 2008
> 6. Slowest average speed
7. Best traffic-fu
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 7:38 AM on April 17, 2008
> Best traffic-fu (?!?!?!)
Made in jest, unless somebody can establish a usable scoring metric for the acrobatics some use when urban riding at speed.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 7:39 AM on April 28, 2008
MeTa post:
Should or shouldn't
I use the plain theme. The colored background makes text hard for me to read for long. I don't care which theme you use.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 6:09 AM on April 25, 2008
MeTa post:
Wonky Text Display...Just Me?
This is a well-documented (but not well-known) bug in Firefox on Mac relating to how it handles opacity. If anything in the document (or anything handling the document) changes opacity, the document's entire visible area (over respective background colors) gets slightly less opaque. In the case of antialiased fonts, they look thinner.
The standard fix is to change your script or CSS's target opaque value from 1.0 to 0.9999.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 6:09 PM on April 23, 2008
Here is a sample bug report on the opacity problem (bug 429057) in a quick search of Bugzilla. I remember finding at least a half dozen more relevant bugs when I searched last fall, since folks keep filing new reports on the problem. It's not hard to write a minimal test case that can make text in one part of the page look thinner by altering the opacity value of text in another part of the page. But the upshot is that it's neither Metafilter's nor Greasemonkey's fault.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 6:18 PM on April 23, 2008
Sorry, that was the wrong bug. This is the right one: Bug 420020 – Element Opacity Rendering Bug
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 6:19 PM on April 23, 2008
MeTa post:
Mathowie for the win
> Poor bastard. Even if he got into the NFL people googling him would think he's a dork that writes a lot about bike seats.
That's not the half of it. I'll bet his first picks for usernames are always taken.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 4:47 PM on April 21, 2008
MeTa post:
Server updated
I had to shift-refresh the browser to get Mefi back. Matt, did the placeholder include an 'expires' value? I didn't think to check at the time.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 12:10 PM on April 18, 2008
MeTa post:
Afloat in a sea of commentary...
ummm... don't use it? Not meant as a snark, but one goal in providing more functions than you can use is to provide the functions that other people use.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 9:57 AM on April 16, 2008
MeTa post:
25: The Train Episode
> Listening to people talking about the internet in the one place that there is NO internet access would drive me up a wall.
I do all my podcast listening while at the gym or doing housework. It's just like reading bloggers blogging about what they found on other blogs, only hearing instead of reading. And without a field for comments. And I like the Mefi podcast more than I'm making this sound.
Spoken word gets me moving... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 10:58 AM on April 15, 2008
MeTa post:
Metafilter self-fashioning
The best way I've found to get clients to agree to modern accessibility practices is not because of their interest in conforming to Sec 508, but because it helps Google rank them better. I hate that, but it makes everybody happy so it works out.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 6:18 AM on April 4, 2008
MeTa post:
nice trick
Am I missing something because I'm using the 'plain' theme?
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 7:35 AM on April 1, 2008
Apparently I'm not missing something because I'm using the 'plain' theme. Besides the eyestrain.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 7:51 AM on April 1, 2008
MeTa post:
I live MeFi in dreams
> I began my mission, dodging ancient mummies and flying spikes.
In my dreams, I'm a viking Howard Carter.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 9:25 AM on March 31, 2008
MeTa post:
BIG VOTES vs small votes
Opera for the PC is probably always going to be an idiosyncratic third-stream option for the holdouts for whom, if Opera wasn't an option, would be using Konqueror or iCab.
For non-PC platforms -- game consoles and mobile devices -- Opera is doing very well. And that's the real growth market. Especially since IE for Mobile is such a crippled bodge and Safari is constrained to the iPhone.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 7:56 AM on March 29, 2008
MeTa post:
We have some cool people at MeFi
> Were you expecting everyone to have the same well-paying, degree-requiring job or something?
I expected more responses from computer geeks and fewer from people whose jobs don't depend on continuous net connectivity. I agree with ShawnString -- the range of responses is fascinating.
The other distinction is that the work of many blue-collar trades is their daily practice. Plumbers only make money while working on pipes,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 8:07 AM on March 28, 2008
MeTa post:
Non-foxy Mefite delight?
> If I remember right, InputManager extensions are disabled in Leopard
Input manager access is unsupported. Apple doesn't prevent access, but they're not responsible if they patch or remove something to breaks your hack. In other words, they're not telling you that you can't play on their lawn, but it's not their fault if you're in the back yard when they start landscaping with blasting caps.
In a quick skim, the following... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 4:02 AM on March 22, 2008
> I just found out today that Apple has disabled right-clicking on the forward and back buttons in the latest Safari. Unfuckingbelievable. Why?! Why?!
Calm down. Hold the left button down on one of the arrows. And calm down. The history menu will appear in about 1/4 of a second. And just freaking calm down already.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 11:06 AM on March 22, 2008
MeTa post:
It's hard to be a mod.
> if she was out here, I'd take her out for beers pretty regularly.
According to some twitters I intercepted, she was in town just last night and I missed it. Dangit.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 5:11 PM on March 17, 2008
MeTa post:
No witty title to see here, move along
I remember that one time somebody flew his tag jet into a tag cloud. All the tag passengers inside the tag jet went, 'tag ooooh,' but what they didn't know was there was a tag mountain hidden in the tag cloud. It was a tagastrophe.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 8:04 AM on March 12, 2008
Metafilter: guten-free.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 8:53 AM on March 12, 2008
MeTa post:
Reply link inline w/ comments?
Me? Workin'. Mockin' the folks going to South By Southwest and don't even know about the comet that's going to destroy Austin next week. Maybe I'll have a beer tonight if I successfully unbreak this current problem.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 2:09 PM on March 7, 2008
MeTa post:
IE 8 update: 1 step forwards 2 steps back 2 steps forwards again.
Thanks for the update. This would eventually trickle through to the other blogs I read, but this is a big deal and I saw it here first.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 5:28 AM on March 4, 2008
> I really don't understand why Microsoft has yet to embrace, extend and extinguish Firefox.
Because that's not possible, any more than Microsoft has any way to prevent anybody else from writing a word processor, spreadsheet, or mail application. The various Mozilla projects have the advantage of backing from a nonprofit organization with very deep pockets and a zealous user/developer base. And deploying it costs nothing, with effectively no... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 5:52 AM on March 4, 2008
MeTa post:
Metafilter Quoting Bookmarklet
> Highlight a text snippit you'd like to quote and click the bookmarklet.
Revised bookmarklet, lighly modifying Jeff's excellent work. Changes:
Removed browser check;
Link reformatted (as shown);
Focus is moved to the comment area, addressing chococat's request.
Note that none of these bookmarklets work elegantly with carriage returns in the quoted snippet. I don't know enough to guess... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 7:27 AM on February 28, 2008
> The bookmarklet collapses carriage returns in the quote to make it more compact
Right, but inserting encoded carriage returns (eg, %0A) (to add air after the quote) breaks the script. I might be doing it wrong.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee
at 9:41 AM on February 28, 2008
