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MeFi post:
Boing Boing Finds 21st Century Trotsky?
Stamina, my boy. Like beers through a meetup, so are the comments of our thread.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 10:33 PM on July 21, 2008
It's pretty open-ended, so I'm not going to take offense. Right now I'm instantiating it as "less than jake".
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 5:15 PM on July 22, 2008
I totally deemv'd your double comment before I deleted it, Will.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 10:05 AM on July 23, 2008
"oy ire thou beast moderator vore"?! Banned.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 10:28 AM on July 23, 2008
Silence binds you;
Dropping it's toast;
Rereads blind you;
You might as well post.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 2:05 PM on July 24, 2008
About what?
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 3:09 PM on July 24, 2008
Really, how often can you see that?
Sometimes*, late at night, I fire up a perl script I wrote that uses a modified version of MarkovFilter to seed a great thousand-comment long thread from the ether, Burroughs-esque caricatures of mefites having grand nonsense arguments with each other over a simulated stretch of hours and days; and I'll read it through, start to finish, and laugh and cry and delete the occasional programmatically-generated double... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 8:28 AM on July 25, 2008
The anonymous comment thing is actually an interesting sub-topic, re: BB—there's sort of a difference in kind there between accounts and anonymous commenters, and the usefulness of supporting anonymous commentary vs. the cost of handling a separate higher-volatility class of comments is a balance I'm curious how they've approached.
BB accounts are free and self-verifying, so if they didn't allow anony comments at all there'd be a hurdle preventing one-off comments... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 9:47 AM on July 25, 2008
Cortex, the web would be a better place without anonymity.
Well, that's a big, big topic right there and I can't really agree with the statement as written because it covers way too much ground. There are a lot of problems that come from anonymity, but there's good stuff that comes with it too, and many people who I think of as being not-anonymous (because they are regulars on one site or another and present a consistent and generally non-evasive... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 11:58 AM on July 25, 2008
Also, I'm wondering if I'm wrong in my impression that anonymous comments were unmoderated prior to the VB blowup and the storm of comments at the beginning of the month.
I feel like I read different text in the comment section at the time than what is there now, which is this:
Warning: Anonymous messages are held for moderation. This could take a (long) while. Or your comment may not be posted at all. Please consider creating an... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 12:19 PM on July 25, 2008
Oh, lord, I don't think there'd be any good to come of that even if I were inclined to ask pb to code in an exception. A natural, red-blooded 30-day non-stop thread like this is already enough of an outlier as it is.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 10:32 PM on July 25, 2008
MeFi post:
The Balcony Is Closed. (For Good.)
crash, I cry every time someone doesn't cut that guy.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 11:05 AM on July 24, 2008
But usually when I "notice someone acting", it's not a good thing.
I think it's one of those things where if you're geeked out about a discipline, you can't not notice. Really good, really effective cinematography will make me stop and think about camerawork right in the middle of a film or show sometimes—not all the time, thankfully, because that'd be overly jarring—because it's good enough that I kind of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 10:30 PM on July 25, 2008
MeFi post:
Randy Pausch dies at 47
[It seems pretty clear that folks want to see this on the front page, and it probably does make more sense here than on Metatalk, so I'm going to make a call here and close up that metatalk thread and let this stand. So please, hold off on any "double" and "meta" comments and we'll just let this thing proceed normally.]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 10:51 AM on July 25, 2008
MeFi post:
You are beautiful.
Seriously though...look at this picture....how can that now make you feel good about yourself?
Actually, U R So Ugly
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 7:53 AM on July 24, 2008
In other words: mistake copulation for passivity at your own peril.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 9:24 AM on July 24, 2008
I dunno, most of the stickers have looked surprisingly clean.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 6:03 PM on July 24, 2008
Ew. It's not supposed to be a come-on, man.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 7:14 PM on July 24, 2008
MeFi post:
Cops on Segways
TOCT, I think you might be cut out for mall security after all. If I get a job at the Radio Shack, we can spend half the workday out in the parking lot getting high and crashing your Segway.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 2:16 PM on July 23, 2008
Well, for intoxicated lulz is pretty much the only way you'd get me on a Segway, so that sounds like a plan.
Sweet. I can sneak out a couple of those shitty RC trucks they're always selling and I'll be all like, "dude, check it out, segskates" and stand on top of em but they'll just collapse under the weight and I'll fall over and hurt my knee. And then we'll complain about the girls at the Hotdog On A Stick who won't talk to us.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 2:48 PM on July 23, 2008
In skilled hands knees, a Segway could be kept still enough to offer a stable position from which to shoot."
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 3:39 PM on July 23, 2008
Isn't the Segway accelerated via a motorcyle-style handgrip?
They are accelerated through gyroscopic leanification. Body posture drives the thing.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 4:22 PM on July 23, 2008
Hypothetical question: you've got a Segway on a conveyor belt...
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 4:26 PM on July 24, 2008
MeFi post:
Mental note: Rogaine for the groomsmen.
Right on time, another NYTimes Style article that makes me want to take a hatchet to babies and puppies.
They publish these when you're near a hatchet and some babies and puppies?
This is why I used clones for my bridal party.
Rrrmmm. Begun, this line dance has.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 12:40 PM on July 24, 2008
"Man is Metafilter" would be a great band name.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 1:10 PM on July 24, 2008
MeFi post:
Don't Cry for Me, I'm Already Dead
You may remember me from such reactions as Thinking That Was Wonderful and Feeling Like I Should Call My Brother Now. Very nice find.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 11:57 AM on July 23, 2008
Are you people sure you aren't confusing feelings of poignancy with some feeling of connect simply because you know all those quotes by heart too?
Yeah, uh, I'm pretty darned sure.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 12:20 PM on July 23, 2008
Worst. Reading the thread. Ever.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 2:46 PM on July 23, 2008
MeFi post:
Closer to Disney than punk
Anagrampunk is so five minutes ago.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 1:11 PM on July 23, 2008
A sum of septugenarian vikings: "om."
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 1:12 PM on July 23, 2008
Oh, Arcanum. Why couldn't you be perfect instead of awesome and bugged to hell?
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 1:42 PM on July 23, 2008
I like to think that having been principally responsible for the Fallout games just broke them the same way genius destroys young mathematicians.
Or maybe it was a Scientological mole, destroying the company from the inside as revenge for all the Hubologist jokes in Fallout 2.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 2:05 PM on July 23, 2008
Now we just need a name. Cloakndaggerpunk doesn't quite role of the tongue. Maybe something like—
Spypunk?
—bond-age.
Ah. I see what you were doing there.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 2:27 PM on July 23, 2008
MeFi post:
Hitmanforhire.com
It's like some sordid allegory of the whole dot-com cycle back at the end of the last decade.
Though give it a year or two and Stewart Butterfield will solve the big problems and announce hiredkillr.com and that'll be that.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 1:02 PM on July 23, 2008
You missed the boat, actually. Somebody already got to Barris; he even got Sam Rockwell to play him in the movie.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 2:01 PM on July 23, 2008
MeFi post:
Googles social interface
If google thinks I have misspelled a word, I will frequently get a pile of results with the word that it thinks I wanted, without asking. I can't figure out how to ignore that stuff. e.g. if I search for "gruit", I get many results that match "fruit". I don't want to disallow pages with the word "fruit", but I don't want them to be conflated.
I find that quoting a single word does wonders for forcing google to returns... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 7:58 AM on July 23, 2008
(and yeah, as for the "I got fruit in my gruit" thing, cannot you just explicitly exclude the search term you're not interested in? Like, say, "gruit -fruit" or "fiting -fighting" etc.)
You can, but the problem is that this will prevent you from seeing any pages that contain both gruit and fruit, which is annoying when you want to see all pages that contain "gruit", whether or not they contain... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 8:41 AM on July 23, 2008
Quoting, however, is pretty common even among the tech-semi-literate.
Oh, I might have been unclear: I think quoting multi-token strings for full-string matches is pretty well known, yeah, probably more broadly than any of the operators. It's specifically the quoting of a single token to prevent the injection of stemming/typo results that I'm characterizing as the Weird Method 3.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 9:09 AM on July 23, 2008
(I'd include normal multi-token quoting in method 1, or maybe in special method 1b since "put quotes around it, dammit" seems not be something your average search newbie understands, and that's a whooooole lotta people.)
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 9:21 AM on July 23, 2008
Agree to disagree, then, DU. Like I said above, I think that the multi-token -> single-token quotation analogy makes a kind of logical sense, so I think we agree on that front, but for all that I think it's still pretty opaque in the specific context of metafiltering (heh) google's search results and not something the vast majority of searchers would ever have come to intuitively.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 9:35 AM on July 23, 2008
In place of quoting a single word, you can also use the + sign, e.g. search string +microve. The two methods give identical results, I think.
That makes a crazy kind of sense. Awesome. Thanks, sevenyearlurk.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 9:55 AM on July 23, 2008
elfgirl, that's a really cool tool.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 10:01 AM on July 23, 2008
It seems like there's an issue with how it wrangles common results between the two sites: when I search for e.g. my own full name it returns an entry from my blog as the second hit from Google and the first from Yahoo, which is fine and all but it doesn't display them as connected common entry. The blog entry has a longish url (domain, date, title text urlified), which is listed on the Google side completely in a mouseover but as slightly truncated on the Yahoo side.
So... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 10:14 AM on July 23, 2008
MeFi post:
Dead Funnies
I'm hoping the next step will be someone writing the book up in SCUMM.
Ooh, or maybe Inform:
Moment of death
You are floating in an open plane, west of a clear light emanating
from nothingness.
There is a mailbox here.
> examine mailbox
The mailbox is only an illusion.
> reject light
You see another, different clear light.
> reject... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 7:45 AM on July 23, 2008
I thought that's where all the good stuff happened
I'm pretty sure the guys at Infocom were just trying to sex up the narrative arc a bit.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 10:02 AM on July 23, 2008
MeFi post:
That Golden Girl
You know what Estelle Getty? Whatever Estelle wanty.
I apologize. I thought she was kind of an awesome lady, basically.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 4:37 PM on July 22, 2008
MeFi post:
Happy Birthday Metafilter!
I'm just waiting for the mods to come by and tell us what it was like when they stormed the Bastille.
It was, like, tres dope.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 3:22 PM on July 21, 2008
