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MeTa post:
What gives?
You might need to check your joke detector, Blazecock.
posted to MetaTalk by johnofjack
at 4:11 AM on May 17, 2008
She wasn't crying about Florida when it was time for us to vote, nor did she care about us enough to go against the DNC and campaign here, so I'm inclined to think that she's just being a self-serving hypocrite with $11 million at stake.
posted to MetaTalk by johnofjack
at 6:18 PM on May 21, 2008
MeTa post:
Self-link/Spam fighting
Note that the discreet email to us saying "this looks hinky because..." is the nice thing. Making a big deal of it in thread not so ideal, particularly when it's based not on a rock-solid connection so much as a hunch.
Also, don't dash off a delirious ill-considered metatalk about it.
posted to MetaTalk by johnofjack
at 4:04 PM on May 13, 2008
Sorry, davey_darling, I was mocking my own metatalk.
posted to MetaTalk by johnofjack
at 8:22 AM on May 14, 2008
MeTa post:
chatfilter?
It also eliminates pretty much anything that requires subjective judgment (e.g., what are some good books
....)
I've seen some of those answered wrong, where someone read the front page text and leapt to a recommendation without reading any of the inside (e.g. "not looking for this / with the aspect of this / dealing with this topic from this point of view" etc.).
posted to MetaTalk by johnofjack
at 9:26 AM on May 5, 2008
I've seen some of those answered wrong, where someone read the front page text and leapt to a recommendation without reading any of the inside (e.g. "not looking for this / with the aspect of this / dealing with this topic from this point of view" etc.).
Huh. But if a "wrong answer" is just an unhelpful one, or one that ignores the poster's wishes, then any question can have wrong answers.
Well, I'm not sure I want to debate that, but I think the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by johnofjack
at 5:11 PM on May 5, 2008
MeTa post:
Thanks for the Catalogs...
It's all right, all the catalogs are printed on locally grown fair-trade hemp paper with ink made from past-their-sell-by-date organic beets.
I'm pretty far left too, but a lot of what I see in progressive causes is fingerpointing and grandstanding, and a terminal aversion to fun, light-heartedness, or most other good things I can think of (including, in some lefty circles, sex).
Seriousness is not automatically responsible, nor is fun... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by johnofjack
at 9:45 AM on April 13, 2008
MeTa post:
A couple minor feature requests fulfilled
In profiles that state a location which is not a lat/long value, clicking on the globe icon makes Google Maps go "whaaaaa?"
posted by jamaro at 9:39 PM on April 10 [+] [!]
What he said. Even if you type in, say, "Gainesville FL" and get the map and take the lat/long from the URL, it fails.
posted to MetaTalk by johnofjack
at 9:22 PM on April 11, 2008
Or she. Oh hai, this isn't Spanish.
posted to MetaTalk by johnofjack
at 9:23 PM on April 11, 2008
MeTa post:
BIG VOTES vs small votes
People just don't understand Opera, and forget to code for it appropriately, is all.
The idea of having web standards is that you don't have to go around adding if/thens and browser hacks to get the page to look right in any specific browser (whether by a huge corporation or anyone else).
Though, to be fair, it's entirely possible you're seeing HTML or CSS written for a broken browser with a huge market share.
posted to MetaTalk by johnofjack
at 5:05 AM on March 29, 2008
MeTa post:
It's hard to be a mod.
I'm not sure Jessamyn needs a hug, but this thread is not a hug.
Also, folgers crystals, you're out of line, mister.
posted to MetaTalk by johnofjack
at 5:48 PM on March 17, 2008
MeTa post:
Jessamyn's talk at SxSW
Are there really 769 banned users, or does that include all the various self-closed accounts?
posted to MetaTalk by johnofjack
at 3:46 AM on March 9, 2008
I like to think of myself as the John Irving of Bethel Vermont actually.
Well, you need more bears in your comments.
posted to MetaTalk by johnofjack
at 3:51 AM on March 11, 2008
MeTa post:
1 + 1 = 0
Was Henry VIII a practicer of polyamory?
Serial monogamist, I thought.
posted to MetaTalk by johnofjack
at 8:21 AM on March 7, 2008
MeTa post:
God be wi'ye.
The "Close Your Account" feature is Bad for MetaFilter, and I wish it would disappear.
Sometimes starting over isn't a bad thing.
posted to MetaTalk by johnofjack
at 1:39 PM on February 28, 2008
MeTa post:
Can't tell who said what
I put quotes in <cite>s. That's usually italics but it depends on if you have a custom stylesheet; in any case I don't use <em> for that because I don't want to shout it at people using screenreaders.
posted to MetaTalk by johnofjack
at 7:14 PM on February 23, 2008
