metasonix- what shape should a building take to maximize land usage? I've never quqite understood that metaphor, as if there was a range of shapes a building could take.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 12:33 AM on April 21, 2007

What a cool site, thanks for sharing!
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 12:26 PM on October 1, 2006

The speed game is different than the mind game wobh. I think that when you're playing head to head, you have to get into a flow and instantly know what the row or box is missing. It doesn't have the finess that the advanced games have.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 5:12 PM on July 9, 2006

Incredibly moving photos, thanks for posting
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 10:02 AM on May 29, 2006

I didn't know that there was a difference, thanks zsazsa.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 8:45 AM on March 23, 2006

I just made a table-top product shooting set up. PVC pipe, some supplies from the fabric store and some big ass lights on a tripod from OSH. The whole set up was less than $50 and is pretty fun to play with. Here are some sample shots (still working on technique).

I'll post a how-to soon.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 10:06 AM on March 23, 2006

WTF?
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 6:31 PM on January 28, 2006

I'm right here
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 7:08 AM on January 20, 2006

Prop 75 essentially changed the method for funding political campaigns from union dues from an "Opt-Out" process to an "Opt-In" process. Currently, union members can decide not to participate in funding campaigns, but they have to alert the union.

The proposition switched it, so that members would have to fill out paperwork to designate their funds. The claim that they are obligated to contribute to the campaigns is false.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 5:04 PM on November 9, 2005

As far as I can tell, it doesn't have two critical features.

1. The ability to mark everything as being read, without actually having to read it. This is good when you have a lot of feeds and haven't checked in for a bit and want to clean the slate.

2. The ability to add feeds by bookmarkelet.

These two things make bloglines much more useful.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 6:32 PM on October 8, 2005

I did the same forget password fix, it worked fine. Cool shtuff, anyone know how long the developer approval takes? Some integration with my LA based sites would be nice.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 11:18 AM on October 4, 2005

Just awesome (not the situation, but the ending). I drove under the runways a little after 5:00 today and there were swarms of newsvans and armadas of emergency vehicles heading towards the airport.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 6:38 PM on September 21, 2005

It is a difficult proposition, how do you compensate bloggers if not per post? Once you start getting hundreds of bloggers, you can't really grade each post to decide who gets how much pay.

It looks like Weblogs Inc is trending towards Adsense and I'm curious if they are going to start focusing their posts at higher paying AdWords.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 8:04 AM on August 25, 2005

I also would assume that it's a low ball contract and as with any contract, if you think you are worth more, I assume that you would try to negotiate higher.

I posted a link to it because I was really curious about how these upstart blog networks are contracting their bloggers, not just Weblogs Inc. Jason Calacanis is pretty forthcoming with overall earnings numbers, at least in regards to Adsense, I haven't seen too much about their other revenue streams.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 12:46 PM on August 25, 2005

Also, according to this article WIN is "paying a flat fee for bloggers ranging from $100 to $3,000 per month" as of April of this year.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 1:03 PM on August 25, 2005

he was so.... quiet about it
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 4:54 PM on July 30, 2005

Damn, I did a ton of searches for teagames and nothing came up. I think this is my third consecutive semi-double post, it may be time to switch to breaking news posts from now on.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 10:24 AM on July 29, 2005

Icees, Slurpees and Slush Puppies all have their own place.

Icees are much lighter and have more of a whipped consistancy. The flavor is mild (comparatively) and isn't as sweet as the other two. It's pretty hard to suck through a straw until it melts a bit.

Slurpees are sweet and are made by freezing the syrup slightly. There are a bunch of flavors, including flavors tied to movie releases (Shrek?). Slurpees are most likely to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 8:55 AM on July 11, 2005

This is a website about brainfreeze. I made a movie at a seven eleven where I asked some people to get brainfreeze. They did, and it wasm awesome!!

Except you use a Stroon

Stroon -- what a silly, made up word.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 3:25 PM on July 11, 2005

And don't miss the other cars

I mean, who doesn't want racoons airbrushed on their Passat
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 3:32 PM on June 2, 2005

Have fun at Bob Saget

No, it's Bob Seger.....awwww....crap...
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 1:19 PM on May 6, 2005

Or you could use Ann Coulter's own words:

"When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors."

I suspect that Ann Coulter thrives on people being disruptive... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 8:30 AM on May 5, 2005

I grew up there too, was there for the OP Pro Riot. I used to spend every sunny day at the beach, that was when there were more oil wells along the coast than houses and Bolsa Chica was still a wetlands and not the back yard for McMansions. Ahh, the good old days. My folks still live there and I'm down there frequently.

Here are some surf shots from this December, I'm pretty sure I was wearing shorts on the pier the day before xmas:

Surf... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 11:28 AM on April 29, 2005

Oh yeah, I have been to the surfing "museum". It's pretty anti-climatic.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 11:28 AM on April 29, 2005

I was born there in 1974 and moved out to go to college. There used to be oil wells sprinkled around the city, right next to houses and inside housing tracts like the original Sea Cliff. Now, I see the same lots with houses on them, not too suprising that coastal California real estate is more valuable than Texas Tea.

The oil balls you get in HB are nothing compared to the oil slicks you hit surfing in Santa Barbara county. You quickly learn that baby oil is your friend... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 2:44 PM on April 29, 2005

mmmm 65 tons of American Pride
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 12:50 PM on April 22, 2005

I believe that a lot of the best songs were from the Conan Obrien years.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 1:33 PM on April 22, 2005

That is fascinating to me.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 3:05 PM on April 12, 2005

It's the picture on the front page that has everyone up in arms. Generally a big no-no.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 10:07 PM on April 10, 2005

Ouch, my search skills are sinking.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 8:57 AM on April 6, 2005

very cool, good link
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 4:26 PM on February 21, 2005

It would be nice to give this to someone who didn't quite "get" it.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 6:30 PM on February 15, 2005

I guess it is neat, but I clicked around in this earlier this week and I just don't get what the use is.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 5:41 PM on February 12, 2005

and you can submit your own
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 9:17 AM on February 9, 2005

dude, jon, don't you understand art? sheesh.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 9:38 AM on February 9, 2005

The Night Flights are pretty sweet too.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 2:43 PM on January 31, 2005

Thanks b1tr0t, I actually keep meaning to use that (and even posted it to metatalk once).
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 7:40 PM on January 31, 2005

I put together a drive down Melrose:

set the speed of this to 1sec
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 10:22 PM on January 27, 2005

Turbines are a hidden driver in engineering discoveries. Almost all fluid dynamics software was developed specifically because of turbines. High temperature ceramics and metal matrix materials were developed to withstand the high stress and temperature environments that occur in turbines used both as engines and as generators. Finite element software has been heavily driven by the need to have accurate analysis of the pieces of a turbine, since failures can be catastrophic and optimizing their... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 6:09 PM on January 20, 2005

I'm not from MIT, I am a proud Gaucho though. I love thermodynamics (my photo blog is isentrope.com if that means anything to anyone, which it shouldn't, but is my favorite thermo term).

There is a beautiful simplicity to thermo- and fluid-dynamics. Everything wants to equalize -- pressure, temperature, etc, plus everything wants to take the easiest path. Fluid always finds the least restrictive route, heat (and electricity) will always conduct through the path of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 10:43 PM on January 20, 2005

Cspan.com has the video of the whole hearings for those interested. I don't know the time of Boxer's questioning, but it's probably best to listen to the whole thing for completeness.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 1:46 PM on January 18, 2005

I agree, that is awesome. Thanks!
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 2:10 PM on January 12, 2005

Creative MuVo« TX FM 512mb. With an FM tuner, records from FM so when you are running and want to remember a tune, you have it. No need for iTunes, and it has an LCD screen. Honestly, you would think by the reaction in this thread that Flash based players were just invented today.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 3:51 PM on January 11, 2005

I wonder if they could raise more with a dutch auction or a Cafe Press store. Instead of one person paying 10k+, maybe 1,000 people would pay $10+.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 2:29 PM on January 11, 2005

I find that it helps to line up pieces as they are placed on the board, then tweak them as opportunities arise.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 12:42 PM on December 22, 2004

I've been playing for weeks. I went from trying to complete long chains to just grabbing whatever I could. Sometimes I score less than 100, most of the time I score under 200 and occasionally I get over 275 points.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 1:18 PM on December 22, 2004

Have I played Puzzle Bubble? On SNES it was Bust a Move and in college my room mates and I would play head to head for literally hours on end. I would plan two dozen rounds, go to class and come back two hours later to find my room mates still playing.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 1:21 PM on December 22, 2004

I know that my scores got much better the longer I played it. There is certainly an element of luck, but there are strategies. I don't just wait until I need to flip one or two pieces, I set up long partial chains and then join them.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 6:27 PM on December 22, 2004

I think I had a similar reaction as you soyjoy, sort of bored at first, then frustrated, then challenged, then a bit addicted (don't know if you've gotten there yet). I think that the thing that keeps me coming back is that it's usually a quick-ish game (I can play a game in between stuff at work) and there is always a challenge.

Sometimes I speed to make really long chains and then see that it's not going to happen and change my strategy. I was curious if by posting... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 9:28 AM on December 23, 2004

hmm, the game seems much slower today, I wonder if the author incorporated some of the ideas in this thread. I don't think it would have anything to do with more people playing it since it plays locally once it is downloaded.
posted to MetaFilter by jonah at 9:30 AM on December 23, 2004