Lord Kinbote: the second season only had 18 episodes (as opposed to a normal 22-24). It was cut short with enough notice for them to "wrap things up" in the 18th so it felt like a finale.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 12:03 PM on May 16, 2005

Dreamsign, it's on the Red Cross blood donor list under "HIV, AIDS":

"Those who are at increased risk for becoming infected with HIV are not eligible to donate blood. You are at increased risk if you.....are a male who has had sexual contact with another male, even once, since 1977"
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 11:31 PM on May 5, 2005

"Since they were beginners, scissors was definitely the safest," she said, adding that if the other side were also to choose scissors and another round was required, the correct play would be to stick to scissors - because, as Alice explained, "Everybody expects you to choose rock."

That is so awesome.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 9:06 PM on April 28, 2005

It looked to me like some of the competition scenes take place in the Wintergarden at the World Trade Center. Am I just imagining that?
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 9:18 AM on April 6, 2005

Alice Waters has been working on a similar concept in California, too.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 8:15 AM on March 17, 2005

ParisParamus: I work at Fez. Our rent doubled a few months ago when the owner signed a second 15-year lease. We're closing for major renovations in a few weeks. It's still not known if the new reconfiguration will include Time Cafe, Fez, or the downstairs performance space as we currently know them. We're supposed to see plans soon. We currently occupy a pretty gigantic area in the building with three bars over three floors plus offices on another floor so it could go many different ways...... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 6:50 PM on February 18, 2005

Quietgal, Mozilla/Firefox is not related to Safari -- completely different web browser. We'll have to wait for Apple to patch Safari (probably in a Security Update). If you use the Saft extension for Safari, it has been recently patched by the developer, though.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 10:27 AM on February 8, 2005

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posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 8:31 AM on December 29, 2004

(PDFs make Macs sad? At the risk of derailing the thread, that doesn't make any sense. The whole 2D Quarz rendering system in OS X is based on the PDF standard, and PDFs look great and are perfectly usable on my Mac and any Mac I've ever used.)

It's interesting that one of the links mentions Intolerable Cruelty as one of the 10 greatest unproduced scripts; when that finally made it to theaters, didn't it get a pretty lukewarm reception? I wonder what... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 9:01 AM on December 26, 2004

I kind of think that last one is a woman, sciurus. She could be in her 20s. Maybe she was a con artist, tricking people into believing she was an orphaned pre-teen boy so she could steal their fortunes in the night.

Or something.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 3:27 PM on December 21, 2004

Are you talking about parallel parking?

Isn't that what the concept is about? You pull past a parking spot with the intention of backing into it, but somebody comes up behind you and shoves the nose of their car into the space to steal it from you.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 6:02 PM on December 6, 2004

I can't wait to see the pictures of their cats!!
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 5:54 PM on December 5, 2004

I have a minor, burgeoning obsession with the announcements page. Veiled Conceit was mentioned on Gawker yesterday and so far I love it.

Anybody know what's up with the Times running photos of JUST the bride? Not so long ago, there was a photo of the bride *in her bridal gown* as if the groom had been cropped out. If you know you're going to have an annoucement running in the Times, can't you try a little harder to submit a photo that actually has your spouse-to-be in it?? Weird.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 12:41 PM on November 10, 2004

You can copy and paste the URL to avoid sending a referrer, kenko, and the pic will open fine.

I think Jandek (assuming it's him, which I am) kind of looks like a horseman of the apocalypse.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 9:18 AM on October 20, 2004

I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 3:07 PM on September 25, 2004

"How much money should wait staff make? If I have a $50 dinner, and I tip 20% - that means that on my table alone the wait person was making $10 an hour. I lived practically my whole life getting paid less than that. I'm just saying..."

I don't *think* anyone addressed this comment, but the thread has been so all over the place I'm not 100% sure.

If it hasn't: ewkpates, you might not realize that for every busy dinner hour where they... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 3:02 PM on September 13, 2004

Did anyone ever take them up on their offer to create a mirror?
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 5:58 PM on August 18, 2004

Did you guys read the article? It's about the poor quality of ID3 tags and the metadata associated *with* the music, not the music itself. It's an important issue.

Blaming Apple is a little weird, since they 1. didn't write the ID3 spec and 2. don't encode the music they sell themselves. But I hope Apple has enough weight in the digital music arena to make sure the next version of ID3 includes far, far more metadata. It would be great if they put pressure on the major... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 5:46 AM on August 14, 2004

Boing Boing mentioned this magazine the other day. Cory called it "a Maxim for science, something that makes science cool and relevant and edgy."

No comment.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 7:09 AM on July 20, 2004

Reminds me of the Microflat in concept. The Fab Prefab site is a good place to bookmark if you're interested in these sort of projects.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 7:02 AM on July 5, 2004

You can get directly to the download link for the Mac version via MacUpdate. The user interface is almost unbelievably ugly, but it's pretty capable and would definitely come in handy if you don't have Illustrator or Freehand.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 2:44 PM on June 9, 2004

And in China Mieville's Scar, too. Wacky.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 10:50 AM on April 4, 2004

She just won a James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award a few days ago, too.

I thought the New York Times article about her school menu crusade made her seem like a bit of a crackpot, though.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 7:32 PM on March 21, 2004

I tried to open one of the bills in Photoshop to get a closer look, but apparently Nadirian law forbids that! Sigh.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 7:04 PM on January 15, 2004

I watched the first one; Sydney Bristow could change clothes in an alley waaaaay faster than Lady X. Still, pretty nifty!
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 7:58 AM on December 27, 2003

So, this thread has been completely derailed, but anyway, here's a link to some correspondence between the Neistats and a guy who hosted the video for them. Long story short: he's peeved and feels they're just using the video for their own publicity, refusing to post any information about the correct battery policy.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 12:08 PM on November 28, 2003

OK, I nearly peed when I got to the Legend of Zelda spoof and the "JAZZ HANDS" one. Nice, um, posteth.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 9:55 AM on November 26, 2003

Does this mean he'll have to leave home in order to clip his toenails?
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 6:20 AM on November 7, 2003

But without ipecac, how would Anne of Green Gables saved Minnie May??
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 6:17 PM on November 3, 2003

On of the vulnerabilties allows the attacker to get information on memory addresses of a crashed machine, which, according to the eWeek article "aren't normally considered to be sensitive material". The other one requires "interactive shell access" to the machine, which sounds to me like *the hacker would have to be sitting at the computer*, at which point if you ask me a fairly large degree of your computer's security becomes useless anyway. These are both minor; they were... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 11:51 AM on October 30, 2003

What? No Sedaris?!
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 10:37 AM on October 11, 2003

It was this summer, suprfli. June, I believe. Which isn't to say it hasn't been done before; that I'm not sure of.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 4:07 AM on September 14, 2003

scarabic: The regular fast forward button scans forward as you might expect at a couple of different speeds. What differentiates it from a VCR's fast forward, though, is that when you hit Play after FFing, it actually *jumps back* a few seconds. So when you see that Law & Order is back on and you stop fast forwarding, you don't have to do that annoying rewind thing to get to exactly where you want. It sounds like nothing but once you get used to it it's really quite cool.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 3:54 PM on June 2, 2003

It needs to be asked: Utilitaritron, why start each album title with the year of release?? Why not just use the Year field for that instead?
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 2:15 PM on April 22, 2003

Kiki and Herb played for years at the same club as the Mingus Big Band. Chris Connor (gay) and Anita O'Day (straight) shared the same stage in that club, too. I'm sure there are as many examples for the other side of the argument, though.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 8:24 PM on February 22, 2003

According to the VH1 link, the record is out on April 15th. The White Stripes' publicist in the US had vinyl copies in their office only in the past week or so.

That means that journalists are getting their copies two months before the release date.

Considering that even *weekly* music columns (in, say, the Village Voice or Time Out) have around a three-week lead time, is it really *SO SCANDALOUS* for promos to go out two months before the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 12:58 PM on February 8, 2003

Impatient? Their last album came out barely a year ago. No offense, but is this really front page news?
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 10:14 AM on June 4, 2002

How many heterosexual spouses applied for aid? 2800 people were killed; were there 2800 spouses? 1400? 700? It would help put the isolated number "22" into perspective.

What about the possibility that because gay life-partners tend to assume they won't have rights when it comes to "next of kin" decisions (at least I tend to make that assumption, although thankfully I've never had to actually follow through), they may have just allowed the legally... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 3:02 PM on May 30, 2002

[digression on the topic of light rail systems] We have a light rail/tram thing in progress in Hudson County (just across the river from Manhattan). There's one point where it has to be on an overpass to cross a street that was too busy to add another junction to. The overpass is a heavy concrete behemoth, as wide as a highway overpass and very dark underneath.

Right next to it, there's an old railroad bridge which is used by "normal" "heavy rail"... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 9:34 AM on May 29, 2002

I think you meant Roddick vs. Google, Round II.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 11:34 AM on May 24, 2002

From the first telephone message in the AI game...
Welcome my child. Once upon a time there was a forest, that teemed with life, love, sex and violence. Things that humans did naturally. And their robots copied -- flawlessly. This forest is vast and surprising. It is full of grass, and trees, and databanks, and drowned apartment buildings, filled with fish. It can be a frightening forest, and some of its paths are dark, and difficult. I was lost there once -- a long time ago.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 7:31 AM on May 20, 2002

Yeah, Malphigian, you need those special binoculars that read retinal imprints then make you a nice set of contact lenses.

Oh wait, Alias isnt' real? Crap.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 6:57 AM on May 16, 2002

C'mon WolfDaddy, obviously relying on the generosity of the staff in a hospital is different than having your rights as next-of-kin spelled out in statute. What about immigration? What about inheritance? That stuff isn't going to be affected by "compassion" (what, is an officer going to wink and rubberstamp your passport or will?), it requires a rewrite of the law. And every measure like this is an important step.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 9:42 AM on May 14, 2002

Tempus67: I thought Microsoft settled out of court in the Apple lawsuit. I could be wrong though. In any event, it (and the Lotus/Borland lawsuit) certainly didn't close the door on suits such as these. I wonder what Macromedia will come up with instead of tabbed palettes. And I wonder when Adobe will get around to suing Quark: they have tabs too! Egads! I'm sure it's just a matter of time.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 11:19 AM on May 3, 2002

META name="generator" content="Our Lord Jesus Christ, Who hath generated all"
Oh how I laughed.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 10:13 AM on April 21, 2002

I wish that original article had actually mentioned real data sizes. While a new faster 'net sounds great, it seems like kind of a dumb way to transfer star data from 1950. Surely FedEx delivers to the Natural History Museum?
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 3:24 PM on April 17, 2002

The only people who really need an accountant are people whose tax filings involve a significant amount of judgment as to tax residency... or LLC shareholders, etc.

Or people who live in one state and work in another, since online services don't seem to allow for nonresident tax forms.

Does anyone want to share what they paid to have their taxes done online vs. cost of using an accountant or budget-accounting-service like... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 12:46 PM on April 16, 2002

aaron: There's one inside the Barnes & Noble on the south west corner of Astor Place. There's one on the ground floor of an office building on the west side of Astor Place. And there's one right next to one of the Cooper Union buildings on the east side of Astor Place (until about 2 years ago it was part of another chain -- it has a little outdoor seating area out front, you might remember it).

And of course, there's also one less than 2 blocks away on 2nd Avenue.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 2:15 PM on April 7, 2002

ook, here's a quote from webstandards.org's Browser Upgrades page:

"Unfortunately, Omniweb’s support for important web standards like CSS1 and the DOM is so poor as to make it unusable. See Omniweb & Standards for a review of Omniweb’s performance in CSS and DOM tests, using version 4.1b1 (released in late December 2001), or read Cocoa Browser Missing Important Features for an assessment of the previous release. Omniweb is an innovative browser with great... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 2:02 PM on April 7, 2002

As has been discussed to death on the various Interactive Fiction newsgroups, distributing those old Infocom games is a violation of copyright. And Infocom (or whatever company owns their assets these days) enforces those copyrights. I couldn't get that elsewhere.org link to work (even after fixing the http typo stuff) so I don't know what's hosted there; but Esch, posting a copy of Hitchhiker's Guide is kind of a bad idea.
posted to MetaFilter by bcwinters at 6:21 PM on April 3, 2002