Oh yay, another comment that's a song parody.

I've never liked these for some reason. I seem to be in the minority there though. Of course I usually just skip them entirely.
posted to MetaTalk by puke & cry at 10:51 PM on August 23, 2008

my greatest fear is how our government is going to respond. more erosion of freedom in the name of security. mark my words.
posted to MetaFilter by rebeccablood at 10:10 AM on September 11, 2001

Not to mention: another hero, that fascist groove thing and, pivotally, no education
posted to MetaTalk by Jofus at 5:26 AM on August 17, 2008

Brandon Blatcher: "Perhaps the question should be "Why should we have tags in MetaTalk?""

metafilterhistory. QED.
posted to MetaTalk by Plutor at 11:12 AM on August 13, 2008

Can someone assist me in finding the code?

This is called theft of services, and may be a felony in your jurisdiction.

However he has a business so I don't think I could ask him for the code.

I suggest you offer him money.
posted to Ask Metafilter by damn dirty ape at 1:28 PM on August 11, 2008

In my day we had to get our research done by the time the library closed at 6 PM. Really, if 10 PM is the cut off from Dad, and he won't budge, then get your school work done by 10 PM.
posted to Ask Metafilter by COD at 1:49 PM on August 11, 2008

You can only get so good at Scrabble by playing kitchen-table style. If you want to improve your game, you have to work on improving your game. Think of it like softball: if you play every weekend, you can get OK at it. But you're not going to get good at it unless you practice with an eye towards improvement.

1. Buy a copy of the Scrabble Wordbook by Mike Baron. It's ten bucks. C'mon.

2. Learn all of the 2-letter words. There are only about 100... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ten pounds of inedita at 5:26 PM on July 20, 2008

Single Link You Tube

People use it as a pre-emptive warning that yeah, their entire post hinges on a video you have to watch, but hopefully they provide enough of a description and reason why you'd want to devote time to watching it to make it worthwhile.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 10:40 AM on August 4, 2008

Yeah, I flagged the post.

Did the rest of you?
posted to MetaTalk by konolia at 7:52 PM on July 18, 2008

Or add a way to flag messages in your inbox as spam like comments/posts.
posted to MetaTalk by rooftop secrets at 4:54 PM on July 16, 2008

I think it's the Fetzer Valve. We're gonna need some ball bearings.
posted to MetaTalk by spicynuts at 8:33 AM on July 17, 2008

"There are MetaFilter songs that are good enough to be stolen".

I steal the bad ones too. Boxed set in stores soon.
posted to MetaTalk by nthdegx at 2:32 AM on June 23, 2008

The first thing I suggest you do is try to figure out what actual work you need to have done. The reason that companies can help you with requests like "redevelop this Web site for me" is that they employ designers, developers, system administrators, and all kinds of other people, and they figure out what needs to be done and share out the tasks. If you need work done pro bono, you're probably more in a position of asking individual designers, developers, administrators, etc. to help... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by pocams at 3:03 PM on June 6, 2008

It's like there is this secret underbelly to the internet, and anyone can get in, but nothing makes sense unless you are an initiate.

I believe you're romanticizing the cesspool that is #mefi on slashnet to an unwarranted extent. It's nothing like 'metafilter in realtime' a la shmegegge's hope; it's a downright blight. Think SomethingAwful hopping around in pain after being castrated and attempting to shriekingly prove its insipidity credentials.
posted to MetaTalk by Non Prosequitur at 10:16 PM on September 14, 2007

If you want to start such a website, more power to you, here's a cookie.
posted to MetaTalk by ThePinkSuperhero at 11:26 AM on May 22, 2008

Disclaimers:
Although I am a former manager at one of the nation's formerly largest toxicology (specifically drug-testing) laboratories, I am not your former manager of a toxicology laboratory, and this is not drug-testing advice. Heh.

First, ignore anything a headshop tells you. They are like astrologers, gleaning information from barely perceived or anecdotal evidence. Ignore everything almost everyone tells you, unless they work in the industry.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by nedpwolf at 3:39 PM on May 5, 2008 marked best answer

I got a really nice note from the school project I funded through Donors Choose with my winnings.

Dear Jessamyn,

I cannot even begin to express the thanks that I have, as well as my students, in hearing that our project was funded. Although we are surrounded by some of the most beautiful woodlands, it is not so easy to find food chains and food webs in action at this time of the year. Your funding will keep the love of science alive in both the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 2:06 PM on May 9, 2008

I don't know the guy (or anyone else in the building) so I can't just ask.

This is one of those Ask Mes which could be resolved by JUST TALKING TO YOUR NEIGHBOR!

Go up, ask them what the deal is. You may not get a straight answer, but the neighbor will probably take steps to insure the noise doesn't continue. Maybe that doesn't satisfy your curiosity, but at least it's a step toward getting to know your neighbors.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wfrgms at 9:33 PM on May 1, 2008

Tell your neighbor to put M0 in his AT command in his dialer prefs. That turns the modem sound off.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ctmf at 11:19 PM on May 1, 2008

I'd leave it out because it's one of those things that looks just a wee bit more US-ian. Don't believe me, ask Wikipedia.
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 2:10 PM on April 30, 2008

After a nine-year hiatus, I ate the Sacrament again about a year ago and went for a hike in Mendocino with a friend. It still Does the Job. It's still beyond whatever people say about it here, whatever stories are told about it, whatever warnings or advertisements are attached to it.

My friend and I were closer by the end of that long, glorious day, and I was reminded again of what's important in a world of distractions.

Thank you, good doctor,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by digaman at 6:15 PM on April 29, 2008

don't tell me Ask Me isn't a place for the completely uninformed to comment

Ask Me isn't a place for the completely uninformed to comment. At least, that's my understanding (and strong preference).
posted to MetaTalk by prefpara at 7:25 AM on April 29, 2008

It seems like a lot to juggle between three people.

Poor pb. The forgotten employee.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins at 4:59 PM on April 28, 2008

I saw the post last night - part of me was delighted to see a bit of Paul de Leeuw on the blue but I decided to stay out of it, not in the least because of the horrid framing and the looming trainwreck.

But today, seeing how most other NL Mefites have weighed in and now it's in MeTa, I feel compelled to respond.

Almost without exception, I tend to feel "you just can't understand this if you're not from there, mahn" arguments are... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by goodnewsfortheinsane at 11:01 AM on April 24, 2008

Rip to FLAC with a cusheet, so you can re-make your CDs exactly if the original copy gets damaged. From there, you can transcode to any other lossless or lossy format. FLAC is better than Shorten because Shorten's compression sucks, better than ALAC in terms of hardware and software support, better than Monkey's Audio in terms of software and hardware support, and better than WAV or AIFF because you can tag it and the files aren't huge.

Here's a pretty good tutorial,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Inspector.Gadget at 12:08 PM on April 20, 2008

I think zeph's "blabbityblabbity perhaps you'd be happier if you also had an account at Yahoo Answers" just pissed me off. And now languagehat has pissed me off, too. So I'm going to send him a bunch of obscene and threatening emails, and when he complains about it, nobody will believe him.

/knows how to channel her frustrated payload of pent-up hostility and aggression
posted to MetaTalk by taz at 6:52 AM on April 19, 2008

A good friend of mine during graduate school was blind. When he arrived he was given a tour by a campus representative. We, his friends, also walked various routes with him to help him get acclimated -- on campus, in town, etc. He navigated by cane and not a service dog. Within days he was on his own. He explained that he counted his steps, had "mapped" various soundscapes in his mind, could tell his position by echoes, non-echoes and came to know street crossings, stairwells, etc.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ericb at 9:55 AM on April 16, 2008

Too much hate. Why can't people just be nice?

Life is all about conflicting desires and for many people this fundamental struggle causes them a certain amount of internal strife that they have to mete out bit by tiny bit lest they explode from the overwhelming disquietude of it.

I had this problem for a while.
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 1:31 PM on April 17, 2008

this is easy to do while controlling from the Mac Mini... but that's not what you asked.

you could just buy an Airport Express and hook it up to the stereo system (not the mini). Then just make sure iTunes is looking for remote speakers via AirTunes.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blastrid at 12:28 AM on April 17, 2008

If you're willing to pay, buy some webhosting and install wordpress yourself (it really isn't hard). Then you can install whatever wordpress theme you want. (The same goes for movable type)
posted to Ask Metafilter by chrisamiller at 6:37 PM on April 16, 2008

Just sign up for a hosting service that provides Wordpress as a one-click install (Dreamhost is one among many). It's easy to install custom templates and you won't be limited by any of the wordpress.com restrictions. Hosting plans, especially if you're willing to pay for a year in advance, are pretty cheap ($8-$10/month, perhaps less). You'll also be out about $8/year for domain name registration.

Besides being able to pimp Wordpress to your heart's content, you... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by wheat at 10:01 PM on April 16, 2008

All you're doing, though, is articulating an entitlement on the part of the "omg serious" crowd.

The "omg serious" crowd and the "please don't be an asshole at every opportunity just because you dislike exercising self-control when a boob joke occurs to you" crowd can get kind of indistinguishable when you're on the other side of the fence from them, is part of the problem here. Just because you can... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 9:26 PM on April 16, 2008

Count me as one of the indignophiles who is pretty disgusted that we can't have an adult conversation about a serious topic without a bunch of poor-impulse control people making boobie jokes. The fact that we have to have threads deleted because people can't resist being asses is pretty depressing.
posted to MetaTalk by madamjujujive at 11:56 PM on April 16, 2008

Well, I think we've all learned a lesson here today.

Yes, I've learned that you can be an obnoxious flaming asshole, and make false and slanderous accusations, and people will give you favorites when you apologize for it.
posted to MetaTalk by Dave Faris at 12:53 PM on April 16, 2008

On behalf of stinkycheese, I will graciously accept languagehat's apology, since stinkycheese seems to have left because languagehat is an asshole.
posted to MetaTalk by found missing at 1:14 PM on April 16, 2008

You're right, shmengee. Even though Armitage was able to pick through my un-nuanced message better than you were, you're completely right. I've been on the receiving end of Languagehat's ire, but that's no reason for me to kick the guy when he's trying to make amends. And for that, I apologize. Now, where's my sycophantic pile of favorites?
posted to MetaTalk by Dave Faris at 1:48 PM on April 16, 2008

I suspect stinkycheese is shitting in threads because he's been warned by the mods not to send me any more obscene, threatening, borderline psychotic e-mails.

Boy languagehat, that's well beyond any boundaries I've ever seen you employ here on Metafilter. You know full well that that statement is not only completely false, but totally out of line for the blue regardless of whether it were true or not. I seriously think an apology is in order (although... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by stinkycheese at 2:31 PM on April 15, 2008

No. Certain users will get paged all the time. Others will wonder aloud why they don't get paged. Paging will become a subject of dispute. We won't be able to discern what's an ironic page and what's serious "Why was I paged to this 'How come everyone hates me'? thread?" and we already have person to person mechanisms for this to work in cases where it's indicated. I give people the heads up if I see an AskMe question they are suited for, and we have no indication that this is... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 7:54 PM on April 15, 2008

We don't have an aggregated page of deviantART like we do for Flickr, but we have a prototype of a Social Explorer where you can find links to people's profiles by service.
posted to MetaTalk by pb at 7:30 AM on April 15, 2008

Check out CushyCMS. It does exactly what you want.
posted to Ask Metafilter by o2b at 12:06 PM on April 14, 2008 marked best answer

If there could be a user-defined, totally optional section for games, that'd be hella awesome. From Xbox Live gamertags to Wii game codes with a healthy layover at TF2 servers in the middle, that'd be a spicy meatball!
posted to MetaTalk by robocop is bleeding at 5:27 AM on April 14, 2008

Unfortunately I don't know if this jives with the current WordPress database schema. I am using 2.5 and I will tell you what I can see and can remember from previous versions. If you can get direct access to your MySQL database then you a chance at getting an admin account back, but the fact that you can't upgrade a package that has known exploits is bad!

wp_users is the table that has all the passwords. In WordPress 2.3, they are stored as the MD5 hash of the actual... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mkb at 1:16 PM on April 11, 2008

I'm suggesting that of 2 or more people favorite something, for any of those reasons, then there's something there that's worth reading instead of having to read all of everything and maybe missing some of it. I resent that people are questioning my motives. I only suggested this because I heard a BBS World radio program with Clay Shirky being interviewed, and he was saying that one of the problems with the internet in general is that there's just too much stuff, and that going forward, it's a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dave Faris at 9:50 AM on April 7, 2008

<pony id="pony" class="pony">Pony</pony>
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee at 8:06 PM on April 4, 2008

I see no reason it COULDN'T be brought back into the site.

- The main AskMe view is still "all the questions" and that's not likely to change. We're not adding an "off by default" option, it goes against the "everyone sees everything unless they decide not to" general policy here. "opt in" to unfilter something is not going to happen.
- Chatty questions dilute the usefulness of the subsite as a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 9:09 AM on April 3, 2008

Is it possible to offend by favouriting wrong, and are there favourity gaucheries I should know about?

No.

You have, unwittingly or not, stumbled into one of the long-standing debates about site functions and policy. As-created, the favorites are just a way for you to keep track of things on the site, sort of like a site bookmarking feature. You're limited to some huge number per day [100? anyone remember?]. People use them... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 6:36 AM on March 24, 2008

Wow, this website has just about the worst possible information on this topic ever.

Here is why renting is always worse than owning: owning the property you are rent is making the property owner a profit. After he pays interest to the bank, property taxes to the government, maintenance costs on the building, etc, each apartment on average is still costing him less to own than renters are paying to rent it. If this were not true, he wouldn't be in the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Pastabagel at 7:45 PM on March 21, 2008

The -4% change must be due to the unprofessional shade of green we have!
posted to MetaTalk by interrobang at 11:44 AM on March 19, 2008

To paraphrase Freud, this callout tells us more about orthogonality than it does about nasreddin.
posted to MetaTalk by Dave Faris at 4:49 AM on March 17, 2008

This wouldn't happen if AskMe had a white background.

Just sayin'.
posted to MetaTalk by scabrous at 2:43 PM on March 5, 2008