Well, now that you mention it, I just got a replacement iPhone and have been having a HELLUVA time finding the Metafilter mobile link as well. What about a place on the blue (maybe a column in the footer) that has necessary quicklinks such as Lofi, Mobile, Export comments, link to list of other related sites. This would be especially helpful when you're on a foreign computer, are showing Metafilter to someone new, or using a mobile device.
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 12:15 PM on June 26, 2008

I mean come on...we have a "Make it Start" link, but no Metafilter Mobile link?!
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 12:16 PM on June 26, 2008

Cool enough. For the future, anybody have tips on the best Google search terms to find lofi version? I imagine that I'll probably remember the terms easier than digging for this post (or through the Wiki) to find lofi.
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 12:47 PM on June 26, 2008

Oh duh. That's easy enough. Thanks!
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 12:56 PM on June 26, 2008

Indeed.
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 8:58 AM on June 23, 2008

you are not me
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 11:42 AM on June 20, 2008

Why didn't you just post an A and a B in this thread and ask MeFites to favorite the one they prefer? Anyways, comment #216 is my vote for B.
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 11:58 PM on June 17, 2008

Er, 217
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 11:58 PM on June 17, 2008

team lowkey: so am I to understand that you feel A is for Awful, Absolutely (unreadable), And Awkward? B is Better? And for Browsing?
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 12:01 AM on June 18, 2008

But then we don't get the benefit of your related question.
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 10:10 AM on June 16, 2008

If that were the case, then the subjective experiences of people across various cultures would appear as a scatterchart when plotted. But they don't. Also, it's not a test where you go "Is this blue", because different cultures don't use the same words for describing colors in their language. The colors are empirically the same, but language's use in describing them would vary, so language would not be a valid metric for comparison. Physiological response however, would be a good... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 9:27 AM on June 16, 2008

Also, sidenote...am I the only person on the planet who dislikes the color blue? C'mon you blue-haters, we need to band together!
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 9:28 AM on June 16, 2008

Of all the things to stick with you from a drunken night in a bar thirty years ago!?!?
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 11:27 PM on June 10, 2008

confornation biusa.
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 7:56 PM on June 10, 2008

Well, I don't know if I'd go so far as to say that nobody sucked yesterday. There were lots of people sucking out in the real world.
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 10:42 AM on June 8, 2008

Anybody in the east bay want to carpool? MeFi Mail me
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 8:04 PM on June 1, 2008

Think it'll still be happening around 7/8ish? Bolinas is calling me and I don't think I'll be able to make it back by 5/6.
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 10:04 AM on June 8, 2008

What's the diff between IRCle and X-chat Aqua? One better than the other?
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 4:59 PM on June 5, 2008

Awesome, thanks for the info!
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 5:07 PM on June 5, 2008

This particular issue is NOT about the content of the questions being posed! It's about the intent of the poster. And I know what you're thinking...how can we know what the OP's intent was??? We can't! BUT, we CAN read the contextual cues and make an educated guess, based on our knowledge of social norms and cultural standards. Some of those cues are: phrasing, level of cooperation, amount of background info given, use of punctuation, lexical choices, style of writing, and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 11:21 PM on May 29, 2008

And I see that my timing sucks, as I've missed all the fun while I was busy typin' up an all serious-like answer to the topic that has already been happily buried in the backyard.
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 11:24 PM on May 29, 2008

Huh? I'm confused.
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 11:30 PM on May 29, 2008

Blogs may quote things all over the place, but that doesn't mean its not lame, dickish, or disrespectful to do so. Especially when you've been asked not to. Why are you holding on so tight Jaltcoh?
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 4:15 PM on June 5, 2008

Yeah, I just figured it was kind of giving other people an idea of how much, if any, the topic is being also discussed off the public forum, which nobody could have a sense of unless somebody said "hey, sent you something!"
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 10:18 AM on June 5, 2008

I am self-explanatory.
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 9:24 AM on June 4, 2008

sleepypete, just wanted to say that I Loved your cover!
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 12:39 AM on June 1, 2008

Why do typos make people upset? Why is having correct grammar so important? What do we do about the rules that don't seem to make sense anymore (ex. two spaces after a period)? Who decides what stays and what goes, and how do we enforce it, and what is the motivation in doing so? And how do we reconcile inconsistencies in grammar rules between people, groups, dialects, books (style manuals in particular), and languages?

I'm asking this seriously, not snarkily.
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 9:31 PM on May 22, 2008

I'm in the cape with Alvy.
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 7:00 AM on May 23, 2008

I understand wanting to have pride in learning and correctly using the spelling and grammar conventions already established. Especially if you have a love of writing, the English language, and whatnot. In that respect, it IS like appreciating well-played music.

However, language is this thing we all use, a group collaboration, and it only works because we all agree enough on the terms and usage to make it functional and meaningful. For the most part, we all accept an... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 3:49 PM on May 23, 2008

With your help, I was able to free my Vodka, which also included an hour of fun with tools. It wasn't the most popular thing I've posted, but I look back on the memories fondly (the parts I remember at least).
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 7:11 AM on May 23, 2008

strawberryviagra: "43Can someone ask "which post you sucked the most at" - I can participate in that one :("

I think that's a great idea! I've learned just as much from my sucky posts as my good ones. Sharing these could help us all write better posts. I can easily think of my worst—a good example of pre-derailing your own thread by using an exaggerated false claim in the orig question, being too invested in your topic which leads... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 8:24 AM on May 23, 2008

I went to check out the new contacts page and I was bummed when I saw that my contact count went down by 1. And I was thinking to myself, "aw shucks! What did I do? Was it my profile? My scary picture of demonic cats? Why did somebody decide they didn't like me today? WHY GOD, WHYYYYYY!?!?!"

Then I realized it was me. I was no longer my own acquaintance, friend, co-worker, colleague, co-resident, muse, crush, date, sweetheart. Sometimes the feeling of rejection... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 11:31 PM on May 15, 2008

I like the idea of rewarding well-written and clear answers too! Can we incorporate a reward/punishment system into all aspects of the site my life? I want to be held accountable for EVERYTHING. If I walk down the street without tripping, I should get a favorite. If I say "comftubbull" instead of "comfortable", may a small red flag be placed above my head and stay with me until I give somebody else some well deserved public recognition!
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 7:55 AM on May 15, 2008

I'm sorry Dave, but this mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 4:19 PM on May 12, 2008

I wrote a whole argument against this, but then I realized that the Vandals already said it best:

...and dig around in the brains and the blue, for something that looks like old you...
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 8:04 AM on April 25, 2008

Every time the Givewell scandal comes up (in my mind or otherwise), I think of this insightful and hilarious comment by BitterOldPunk:
You know, I'll bet they were chuckling about how brilliant this idea was when someone said, "...and the best part is, we'll even give some of the proceeds to charity!" and then everyone burst out laughing.
posted to MetaTalk by BitterOldPunk at 4:16 PM on December 31, 2007
It's funny because its... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 9:18 AM on April 23, 2008

I stopped using MeFi Mobile on iPhone and switched to the slow-loading full site version because Mobile was so limiting and there was no pass through to the site. Plus, I can't even favorite something to return to it later when I have more bandwidth and screen to work with.
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 4:09 PM on April 22, 2008

Simply pressing a button to disagree is a passive and/or lazy form of giving advice. Writing well thought-out reasoning against bad advice takes more effort, but is much more useful to everybody. When deciding to build features into the site, I feel we should consider whether the feature will encourage the former or the latter.
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 4:05 PM on April 22, 2008

ripost! Ha!

I felt much the same when researching Guernica and found this excellent FPP by Homunculus. It only got one comment and no favorites. But it's so damn awesome...daaaaaang!
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 8:43 AM on April 22, 2008

I have the banana book and am waiting until dreaded finals are over so I can begin to read books for purely enjoyment purposes again. I bought the book after hearing the NPR interview, and then seeing his name pop up in the recent Metatalk post about MeFi authors among us. I love it when things come together.
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 8:39 AM on April 21, 2008

I guarantee that I will never search for this comment. It has no content and isn't even funny.
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 8:41 PM on April 15, 2008

Just curious...how come there's just about every social/blog site listed, except Blogger?
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 8:37 PM on April 15, 2008

Great idea. Let's find more ways to socially stratify the community! Let's officially make certain people representatives of threads involving topics of their expertise! We could give them gold stars for their preemptively best answers! We could have a filtering system so that posts would need to be pre-approved by these MeFi experts, and that way people wouldn't post such obviously stupid questions on AskMe! Ooh, ooh, I know! We could have ACTUAL pager sounds, with... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 8:27 PM on April 15, 2008

When ethical questions about internet stuff come up, I always revert to the tired ole metaphor of rooms at a party. Metafilter is one giant party, and we're all engaged in discussion here. Anybody can listen in on what we're saying, and the whole thing is being taped...we know this when we walk in the door. Plus, we've probably all relived some of the choice words we've said to others here, and that reminds us to choose our words more carefully, or suffer the consequences. (Hey, lookie! Its just... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 11:16 PM on April 7, 2008

"The problem with this metaphor is that Metafilter is not a room at a party. There are no walls to MetaFilter, there are no boundaries...

...The problem with spatial metaphors applied to the Internet (and they are rampant) is that the default is openness, not boundedness. You have to build in boundaries if you want them, like requiring passwords to read posts. MetaFilter has no such boundaries, and thus I see no ethical problem with re-presenting publicly... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 8:45 AM on April 8, 2008

There are lots of public spaces I attend where I don't expect that the things I do or say will be recorded and reused. And if they are recorded, I don't expect that they'll be reused without my permission or in some way that misrepresents what I've done or said. Now, I understand that the internet currently doesn't work that way. But give me one good legitimate reason why we shouldn't work toward the goal of making our virtual spaces carry these same rights and obligations as our RL spaces?... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 9:59 AM on April 8, 2008

Just for the record, I wasn't suggesting we instate laws and legislate behavior. That never works! I just meant that we should work toward the goal of treating people on public forums with the same safety and sanctity measures we use when we speak to them in public spaces, common sense stylie. So that we can speak freely and LESS restrictively (more uninhibited, the "norm" being that people would generally NOT take our words out of context or use them for nefarious purposes). It's not... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 10:03 PM on April 8, 2008

I think it's hardly sensible to have the sort of social strictures that would be required to prevent people from publicly misinterpreting your public words. We have enough fans of all sorts of bullshit coming from postmodernism here, so I think we can at least agree with one of the decent postmodern ideas that it's the reader, not the writer, who interprets the words.
posted by TheOnlyCoolTim

Let me be clear, the crazy social strictures... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 3:23 PM on April 9, 2008

Great idea!
4. Be nice.
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 4:23 PM on April 9, 2008

Ah man, I'll be out of state.
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 10:07 PM on April 8, 2008