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Where can I find a good set of pink stoneware (mixing) bowls?
posted to Ask Metafilter by moz
at 10:14 PM on September 25, 2007
(19 comments)
What experiences have people had rolling 401(k)s over into traditional IRAs?
posted to Ask Metafilter by moz
at 11:39 PM on August 15, 2007
(11 comments)
Post moderation. I can empathize with feelings of attachment to posts which you submit. When you post as often as
troutfishing has in his own post (
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11), however, I think you are overdoing things.
posted to MetaTalk by moz
at 3:02 PM on January 20, 2003
(63 comments)
Is it possible, or even a good idea, to have font sizes in pixels rather than or in addition to the current scheme (which is in points)?
posted to MetaTalk by moz
at 6:35 PM on November 20, 2002
(18 comments)
Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!
That
quote was made
famous through the old comic book
CPU Wars. The comic chronicled the battles between two companies: IPM (Impossible to Program Machines); HEC (Human Engineered Computers); and the people involved. It is now archived, in its entirety, on the web.
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 12:17 PM on October 3, 2002
(6 comments)
In Windows XP version 2002, using either Mozilla 1.1 or IE6, renders Metafilter with really big letters that make reading the site difficult. Anyone got any solutions?
posted to MetaTalk by moz
at 5:30 PM on September 25, 2002
(16 comments)
Game Studies
"is a crossdisciplinary journal dedicated to games research, web-published several times a year at www.gamestudies.org. Our primary focus is aesthetic, cultural and communicative aspects of computer games." A well-designed, well-written site about a media that seems often poorly studied outside of mainstream press.
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 9:29 AM on August 22, 2002
(4 comments)
Robotron: 2084.
Presented is an interview with the creator of the fantastic game from the mid 80s; regarding the design of enemies in the game, he has this to say: "Some of the most interesting and deadly aspects of the enemies were bugs caused by improperly terminated boundary conditions in the algorithms. Often these bugs produced behavior far more interesting and psychotic then anything I conceived of." There are many more interviews of classic game authors in the book which is the source for this interview, James Hague's
Halcyon Days. (Link thanks to
Glish.)
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 1:32 PM on August 2, 2002
(32 comments)
The Big Book of Sign Language (from rotten.com).
Have you ever wondered how to sign phrases such as "I shovel shit all day long", "I want to pull the shrieking voices from my head and smoosh them", and "Unlock my legs and get it over with"? The Big Book shows you how. Inappropriate? Yes. Hysterical? Yes. (Portions may not be safe for work. Link via
Magnetbox. Thanks, ben.)
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 10:41 AM on July 9, 2002
(29 comments)
I don't like when people decide they can abuse metafilter by posting
controversial soapbox rants. You know you're going to get a bunch of comments, and you know people will have their feelings hurt or their blood boiling, but are these good things? What good do you contribute?
posted to MetaTalk by moz
at 1:12 PM on July 8, 2002
(29 comments)
The Leaves Project
catalogs sadly too few leaves from trees and personal stories associated with them. Highlight a leaf and click to view the story behind it. From their
about page: "The Leaves Project was borne of one simple thought: that every leaf has an inherent beauty and elegance. I have become fascinated with the colors and textures of leaves. This project is an attempt at capturing just a small portion of the wonder to be found in the natural world."
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 10:46 AM on July 2, 2002
(7 comments)
Threads which have been deleted by Matt should not show up in a search of those posted by a user, but they do.
posted to MetaTalk by moz
at 8:58 AM on June 24, 2002
(8 comments)
is it possible that postroad could maybe not post a
palestine thread once
every couple of days or so? i realize that the odd controversial topic not directly related to israel and palestine is occasionally thrown in, but really.
posted to MetaTalk by moz
at 8:22 AM on June 11, 2002
(16 comments)
Punk Rock Aerobics.
"Punk Rock Aerobics: The work out that rocks out. No more sucky classes full of braindead bimbos in spandex thongs. PRA is for fun people with discerning taste. An hour and a half of cardio and strengthening class that will have you pogoing and skanking your butt off!" Brought to you by Maura and Hilken (the latter of the band
fuzzy). As they say on the
mission page: "Free your mind and your ass will follow."
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 12:23 PM on June 8, 2002
(12 comments)
"I get a lot of questions like
'Why are you the King of France?' Hopefully, this document will help those who just don't understand the overwhelming obviousness of it all. Then they can stop living in denial."
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 11:07 AM on May 27, 2002
(8 comments)
Momo's parts.
All about the different parts of one Japanese man's pet hamster plus illustrations. "I have read that hamster's whiskers shows the width that they can pass through. But Momo forgets. One day Momo tried to go into the cleaner hose. As he has the big hip, he could't go into it. And in his effect to go, he could't get his head out. When I ran to him in a hurry, his head gone out of the hose, and he rolled backward."
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 8:41 AM on May 17, 2002
(17 comments)
The Stained Apron
is "dedicated to the venting of food servers' frustrations and a harsh education of the dining public." I always try to tip generously, now.
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 9:12 AM on May 14, 2002
(24 comments)
Up in Smoke: Drugs and the End of Music.
"It's extremely doubtful whether house would have achieved the dominance it has without E fuelling the nation's clubbers. With ecstasy dictating the musical content of many club nights, the demand for seamless, relentless grooves with little change in tempo has grown and grown ... Dance music is no longer a music that touches the head and heart as well as the feet, as it did with Northern Soul. Instead, it has become a soul-less metronome for the E generation to mark time to."
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 9:32 AM on April 30, 2002
(57 comments)
Famous Self-Injurers.
"Johnny [Depp] has a series of seven or eight scars on his left forearm where he has cut himself with a knife on different occasions to commemorate various moments or rights of passage in his life ... 'It was really just whatever [times when he hurt himself]--good times, bad times, it didn't matter. There was no ceremony. It wasn't like "Okay, this just happened, I have to go hack a piece of my flesh off"' ... 'My body is a journal in a way.'" On this website are accounts self-afflicted injuries from Fiona Apple, Richey Edwards, Christina Ricci and more.
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 10:43 AM on April 10, 2002
(18 comments)
The male, heterosexual victims of spousal abuse.
"Blood streamed down my face. Internal injuries dislocated my ribs. Lacerations and multiple abrasions marked my back and groin. My attacker had no injuries. I told the officer that I wanted the crime report to note my injuries and the names of witnesses. He responded, 'We ain't takin' a report from you, buddy.'" The officer refused to take Stanley seriously because he was a man who had been beaten by his wife.
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 9:08 AM on March 28, 2002
(82 comments)
Stand and say it loud.
Soapboxgirls is a monthly webzine focused on and relating pop-culture from the perspective of contributing female writers. The issues are extensive; the archives stretch back to 2000. The march issue: porn. If the essays aren't enough, you might consider the media reviews, the fiction and the poetry. Those of you for whom a monthly fix is not enough, well --
they understand.
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 10:07 PM on March 23, 2002
(6 comments)
All your favorite news
can be found at Stereotypography -- or, at least, the news from 18 distinct weblogs. Condensed into three frames, you can read the news from three of those sites and switch between them with drop-down boxes. Resize the font or refresh the news feeds at will. (found via
alt.sense.)
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 8:59 AM on March 12, 2002
(10 comments)
Little Computer People
was a game produced in the '80s and at a time when the gaming landscape was very different from today's market. The point?
Life.
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 10:17 AM on February 4, 2002
(11 comments)
how about a textarea on the post-a-thread page to allow you to optionally post the first comment on the thread? reading rich's
comment on how not everyone wants to write up such a comment with word or notepad beforehand, it seems like this feature could be useful. no one jokes about where's the "more inside" text, and the ease of use in posting that first, explanatory comment may help in keeping FPPs from getting too large.
posted to MetaTalk by moz
at 11:53 AM on January 9, 2002
(3 comments)
Announcing CivicNet,
a Metropolitan Area Network (or MAN). In short, it is broadband for the masses in the Chicago area to be developed over a span of 10 years (if you're lucky). To be clear: I am not the man.
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 3:05 PM on January 7, 2002
(9 comments)
Everything But The Girl
has had a website for some time now, but there's more to the band than meets the eye.
Ben and
Tracey recall their interesting histories including when and where they met. Though an excellent resource for information on the releases of the band, you may also discover Ben's
struggle with
Churg-Strauss syndrome, a quite
bleak condition. And, of course, you no longer need wonder how Ben and Tracey
came up with the name.
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 11:31 AM on January 1, 2002
(24 comments)
By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA.
From the website at the Library of Congress, the posters
consist of 908 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest. These striking silkscreen, lithograph, and woodcut posters were designed to publicize health and safety programs; cultural programs including art exhibitions, theatrical, and musical performances; travel and tourism; educational programs; and community activities in seventeen states and the District of Columbia. For examples, see a poster on the health dangers of
Syphilis and one for the play
Alison's House: A Poetic Romance.
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 11:28 AM on December 31, 2001
(4 comments)
tag fixing gone
awry. the culprit appears to be a colon inserted rather than a double quote mark in the html source for an href=url key-value pair, causing the tag fixer to become very confused and add an extra double-quote mark -- one for each of two a href tags -- at the end of the tags. you'll have to view source to see what the post was actually meant to be and where the problem is.
posted to MetaTalk by moz
at 4:18 PM on December 30, 2001
(1 comment)
Stickers.
Dozens of them, along with posters and "mallen," are archived on this dutch page. (The site uses frames, so you might want to click on the english version of the news there on the site;
otherwise. Found via
alt.sense.)
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 9:22 AM on December 19, 2001
(2 comments)
IE has a
huge, gaping hole that allows executable files to be downloaded and run on the computers of browsers.
Pynnonen revealed that the bug lies in IE's processing of Internet addresses and "header" information that tells the browser what type of file it is handling. The flaw is particularly dangerous because it can be exploited using ordinary Web page code, without help from JavaScript or other scripting programs, he said.
thanks to the wonder of non-disclosure agreements, we won't know the precise nature of the bug (yet), but this one sounds bad.
posted to MetaTalk by moz
at 7:54 PM on December 11, 2001
(4 comments)
Secrets of the Cold War in Space.
Deep Cold is an website with detailed renderings, quicktime movies and information about the ideas and concepts being developed for both U.S. and Soviet presences in space during the cold war.
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 12:55 PM on December 7, 2001
(4 comments)
"It's a good job you have me around to provide continual cultivation."
In the early '80s, Stephen Patrick Morrissey wrote a number of letters to a pen-pal, which have been archived on the web, and they provide a look into his life before he formed the Smiths. In his letters Morrissey produces such gems as
"Spider and I? Piffle me boy. There Gops Concorde? Sputter-butter. Vienna? Hogwash." and
"It's so old-fashioned to work. I'd much rather lounge about the house all day looking fascinating. I'd rather look fascinating than have a permanent income. Am I insane?" (the underline is, apparently, morrissey's.)
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 10:43 AM on December 3, 2001
(14 comments)
Want free admission to a baseball game? Get a tattoo.
The Daytona Cubs, a minor league affiliate (high A-ball) of the Chicago Cubs, are running a promotion where "Any fan 18 or older who gets a Daytona Cubs tattoo from Willie's Tropical Tattoo in Ormond Beach, Fla., will receive a lifetime general admission ticket."
"I'm not squeamish about where someone wants to put it," said Charlie Subock of Tropical Tattoo. "It might be disrespectful to get it on your butt. But if you didn't like the Cubs, that may be the place to put it."
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 3:10 PM on November 30, 2001
(9 comments)
"Hello, world!" in 114 programming languages.
Whenever picking up a new language, it's customary to write a program that prints "Hello, world!" to see how one goes about writing anything in said language. Now you never need be curious about what language to write your custom-designed CMS in.
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 10:48 AM on November 26, 2001
(19 comments)
Anorexia is a lifestyle choice?
Some, apparently, have argued that it is, and they are putting their money where their mouthes are in the form of 1 million dollars (for lack of food, I suppose). "One of the leaders of the 'Annas' gives her name only as Sahara and describes herself a 22-year-old student from the prestigious Stanford University, near San Francisco ... A computer specialist, she runs a website that provides detailed advice for those who want to starve themselves — coupled with tips on fooling parents, friends and doctors." Some
respond to the
advocacy of anorexia, but gains and losses are both apparent in what looks to be a battle of attrition.
The Starving Annas remind one of the equally controversial efforts by the
National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance and similar movements in that both advocate widely-considered unhealthy lifestyle choices. (Sunday Times link courtesy of
The Morning News.)
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 9:20 AM on November 21, 2001
(83 comments)
What do you think of editorializing and directing commentary toward a discussion that the poster prefers? Particularly in the FPP text? (See Steven Den Beste's
post.)
posted to MetaTalk by moz
at 11:38 AM on November 19, 2001
(40 comments)
in metatalk only, once i visit "x new" for a thread (or even just the top of a thread), returning to metatalk wipes out any "x new" comment notices that had been listed before.
posted to MetaTalk by moz
at 1:06 PM on November 16, 2001
(5 comments)
"A Spear Avenue resident reported a male-type human in his backyard performing the specialty of the breed - stumbling around and cursing. The interloper without portfolio wandered off in a
random direction." This quote and more can be found in the Arcata Eye police blotter. (From
Cruel.com; also mentioned in a
comment in an older thread.)
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 8:40 PM on November 14, 2001
(19 comments)
so, yah. when your pointless thread is deleted, you
repost it.
posted to MetaTalk by moz
at 9:56 AM on November 13, 2001
(13 comments)
the law of decreasing comment length: as a thread ceases to be a potentially useful resource for information and argument, its average comment length approaches 0 asymptotically. (such as
here,
here, and
here.) other patterns are out there, i'm sure. (how about "giant comment punctuates end or near end of further commentary"?)
posted to MetaTalk by moz
at 2:41 PM on November 12, 2001
(31 comments)
Welcome to Teddy.
Images, words, and comics about a relationship gone wrong, right, wrong, wrong, and wrong from Ethan Persoff; incredible stuff. Some language may not be suitable for work viewing, unless no one can see your monitor. (Thanks to
Velvet Cerebellum.)
posted to MetaFilter by moz
at 1:33 PM on November 7, 2001
(18 comments)
