Could you recommend books similar to The Name of the Rose and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell? There's something about the tone, the mashing of genres together, and the over-immersion in details that is unbelievably appealing to me. (But don't recommend Tolkien!)
posted to Ask Metafilter by flibbertigibbet at 2:57 PM on December 19, 2007 (49 comments)

buwhahahahahhaha. Plastic gets the story all mixed up.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 5:38 PM on May 21, 2001 (28 comments)

Any tips for good tunes to bring to the gym?
posted to Ask Metafilter by DecemberRaine at 6:55 AM on July 6, 2005 (11 comments)

I have a giant blank wall in my new rented bedroom and I'd like to do something awesome with it, but nothing permanent so I lose my security deposit. What should I do?
posted to Ask Metafilter by adrober at 12:46 PM on October 31, 2006 (21 comments)

There are many people who see Metafilter as sexist, a veritable boyzone of aggression and braggadocio. What can be done to address these concerns?
posted to MetaTalk by orange clock at 3:04 PM on December 8, 2004 (277 comments)

Why do some women love a man's haircut and clothes so much?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous at 5:22 PM on October 15, 2005 (37 comments)

A Feminist Gaming Manifesto. (And part 2 is here.) "So wait, you’re wondering, maybe, why don’t these crazy men-folk just do that? I think the answer is actually pretty straightforward. People who themselves feel marginalized can’t bear the thought that they could be in a position of power wherein they could hurt someone in the same way that they feel hurt. Who out there hasn’t felt terribly marginalized? What happens, then, is there’s this conflation of “you’re doing something that makes me feel excluded or hurt” with “you’re a bad, bad man like those people with the bitch shirts.” You can’t handle that thought, so you try desperately to prove that it’s not the case. Guilt, or fear that you might be guilty, never did anybody any good."
posted to MetaFilter by Bryan Behrenshausen at 4:59 PM on April 16, 2006 (87 comments)

This fellow links to Metafilter on his blog. Now we can return the favor.
posted to MetaFilter by thirteenkiller at 4:48 PM on April 16, 2006 (211 comments)

A little over a year ago, the Guiding Hand Social Club issued a stunning press release - after months of infiltration and planning they had fulfilled an assassination contract on the CEO of a major corporation and ransacked the corporation's hangers, stealing almost 20 billion ISK, worth over $16,000 USD at the time. See PCGamer's excellent detailed description of the event: pages 1, 2, 3, 4. As synthetic worlds like Eve-Online and World of Warcraft gain popularity, what should we make of this kind of behavior? Eve's own players respond. Also, a response with a little more perspective. And what's going to happen when the IRS catches on?
posted to MetaFilter by heresiarch at 10:37 AM on May 14, 2006 (58 comments)

Youtubers A one link youtube post.
posted to MetaFilter by the cuban at 3:02 AM on September 21, 2006 (48 comments)

I'm a brand spanking new Mac user, where do I start?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cosine at 11:11 AM on November 23, 2005 (45 comments)

Diets -- what foods have you eaten that worked surprisingly well to curb your appetite and helped you lose weight? Anecdote is fine! Let me explain a few things...
posted to Ask Metafilter by hodyoaten at 10:21 PM on September 12, 2006 (29 comments)

FSI Language Courses
posted to MetaFilter by anjamu at 1:35 AM on August 17, 2006 (36 comments)

SciFiLit: I don't get it. Help me to.
posted to Ask Metafilter by TiredStarling at 10:53 AM on July 9, 2005 (79 comments)

My wife has agreed to give a single science fiction or fantasy book of my choice a try - I only have one chance, so help me choose wisely.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blahblahblah at 10:49 PM on April 30, 2006 (160 comments)

I don't need to be thin, or skinny, or even svelte. I'm just sick of being fat. I exercise all the time and my diet is improving every year; it's not good but it's getting better. Here's the thing: I don't care if your advice is bad for my liver or my heart, or anything else, but I need something to kickstart weightloss.
posted to Ask Metafilter by elr at 11:13 PM on June 12, 2006 (91 comments)

What are some cheap and effective ways to make your life easier?
posted to Ask Metafilter by 0xFCAF at 6:09 PM on June 12, 2006 (43 comments)

Kottke.org! Time was that you could get the crap kicked out of you for posting kottke.org to MeFi. Three and a quarter years later, what's changed? Jason's decided to make a living off this blog ... but without running advertising. Good luck, says I.
posted to MetaFilter by sylloge at 6:37 AM on February 22, 2005 (365 comments)

Is it possible that Kaycee did not exist? This is a really delicate thing here. Please be really thoughtful about this. I promise I am not trying to stir the shit without cause. There are some people who are wondering whether Kaycee was a real 19-year-old leukemia patient, and whether things actually occurred the way they've been reported online. More inside, friends.
posted to MetaFilter by acridrabbit at 10:00 PM on May 18, 2001 (309 comments)

What did you wish you knew when you were 20?
posted to Ask Metafilter by twirlypen at 1:55 PM on November 13, 2005 (64 comments)

At what point did the "Spread the Dot" thing get added to Metafilter? It's a googlebomb attempt.

WHAT.
THE.
FUCK.
MATT?
posted to MetaTalk by Irontom at 12:56 PM on August 1, 2002 (51 comments)

What's the simplest, cheapest yet most complete diet available?
posted to Ask Metafilter by 6am at 4:57 PM on May 2, 2006 (46 comments)

Suppose you killed somebody...

How would you dispose of the body without getting caught? Would you dump it somewhere? Bury it in the backyard or basement? Dissolve it in lime? What? What would your master plan be that would allow you to get away with it?

And no, I haven't killed anybody and I'm not planning to - I was just curious.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ashbury at 5:48 PM on June 13, 2004 (74 comments)

Simple pleasures in life?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jeremias at 4:55 AM on November 6, 2004 (58 comments)

Give me your best fast but healthy and tasty recipes. Cheapness is of secondary conern only.
posted to Ask Metafilter by poweredbybeard at 5:29 PM on November 5, 2005 (33 comments)

Free, good science fiction for download, some you might have seen, some new, all are worth the time. If you have only a few minutes, Michael Swanick's Science Fiction Table of the Elements features 108 short short stories. If you have a little more time, Kelly Link, called by Neil Gaiman "the best short story writer currently out there" has released her much-praised collection Stranger Things Happen. For longer reads, Charlie Stross has made available his cyberpunk novel Accelerando and his Lovecraftish Colder War. The creepier Peter Watts has posted the New York Times Notable Book Starfish, and its sequels as well [previously]. If you haven't had enough, you should check out the Baen Free Library, with books by everyone from Andre Norton to Larry Niven, as well as a large amount of right-of-center combat-oriented stuff by David Weber and friends. Also, the Science Fiction Channel has made available many well-known classic short stories as well as a lot of contemporary Hugo and World Fantasy Award winners [previously]. Finally, you probably already know that Cory Doctorow has four novels available under creative commons. Happy reading!
posted to MetaFilter by blahblahblah at 9:34 PM on September 19, 2005 (59 comments)

Help me seduce a guy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous at 8:36 PM on August 9, 2005 (104 comments)

On balance, can I save money by moving to a vegetarian diet?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Jimbob at 4:40 PM on April 17, 2006 (23 comments)

Does anybody else get the urge to bite something (like say, an arm) every once in a while?
posted to Ask Metafilter by lychee at 12:18 AM on December 17, 2005 (62 comments)

I turned 21 last week and I want to know; what do you wish you'd known when you were 21? What do you wish you'd done but didn't, or what did you do that you think was an unmissable experience?
posted to Ask Metafilter by trampesque at 4:13 AM on August 30, 2005 (65 comments)

Is there anything you wish you had known when you were 18?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Acey at 2:10 AM on September 8, 2005 (64 comments)

I recently had a major epiphany. The kind that has resulted in a rather radical shift in how I live and the choices I make each day: "You don't own the stuff-- the stuff owns you." Sure, you might think it facile or cliche, but since this new framework suddenly, deeply and firmly established itself in my noggin, I have stopped buying stuff all the time (like I used to) and I have been relentlessly getting rid of all the crap I had accumulated over 15 years. My question is what major epiphany have you had most recently and how has it changed your life?
posted to Ask Metafilter by wtfwjd? at 6:25 PM on January 14, 2005 (57 comments)

Why do the letters of the alphabet occur in the particular order that they do?
posted to Ask Metafilter by rongorongo at 9:11 AM on April 2, 2006 (38 comments)

Inside, a question about nocturnal activities which will be best answered by Londoners, night-owls and lateral thinkers.
posted to Ask Metafilter by skylar at 11:15 AM on August 23, 2005 (15 comments)

Life-altering experiences. Can you point to a single experience in your life, as a child, which you can define as having contributed to the person you are today? (+)
posted to Ask Metafilter by jeremias at 4:41 AM on February 2, 2005 (216 comments)

So yeah, suicide girls. After some teeth gnashing, and asking all my female friends about taking on suicide girls image ads on mefi, I decided to take them (they seem tasteful to me -- I dropped the ones showing too much skin) with the caveat that a simple click and anyone could hide them forever. Here's what I said when I took their first textad long ago and the same applies here. They are as racy as I will go, and this won't start a slippery slope as they're the exception to the rule.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 12:27 AM on February 2, 2005 (649 comments)

can i EVER get revenge on a fraudulent ebay seller?
posted to Ask Metafilter by airnxtz at 12:11 PM on November 13, 2005 (303 comments)

What websites do you visit daily?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Robot Johnny at 12:50 PM on October 5, 2005 (63 comments)

What's the cool-kid, hackerish and full definition of the phrase: [this is good]?
posted to Ask Metafilter by teece at 12:15 PM on June 14, 2005 (96 comments)

Is there a way to gently steer someone away from constant Simpsons or Monty Python quoting? [MI]
posted to Ask Metafilter by milovoo at 12:07 PM on September 8, 2004 (34 comments)

Nutrition filter: I am looking for unique ideas for making quick, easy, heathy, inexpensive dinners (in my case, for two) every night... or at least most nights. "Dinner Hacks" you might say. I feel like I've tried all the standard "solutions" already (for example, cooking a few big meals on the weekend and eating leftovers the rest of the week). There must be something else I can try.
posted to Ask Metafilter by zharptitsa at 11:22 PM on January 22, 2006 (51 comments)

What do you think is the cheapest, healthiest, tastiest, easiest meal to prepare?
posted to Ask Metafilter by grrarrgh00 at 7:12 AM on January 2, 2006 (35 comments)

Inspired by this question, I would like to know what people actually do to cheat in university (or school, or academic settings generally).
posted to Ask Metafilter by jacalata at 6:50 PM on March 4, 2006 (69 comments)

What's That? Sadly, the education of the youth of amerika is declining in more than one way. The other day I was at the grocery store and the checker was unable to identify a portabello mushroom. And no, she wasn't new...and to make matters worse the checker next to her didn't know either. (more inside)
posted to MetaFilter by MiHail at 9:25 AM on November 12, 2005 (1032 comments)

If you have a routine that you regularly do at night or in the morning, what have been the most beneficial things you've added to your routine that have improved the quality of your life? I'm having trouble establishing routines that are meaningful to me and I'd like some suggestions.
posted to Ask Metafilter by the giant pill at 1:26 PM on February 20, 2006 (29 comments)

I'm working on favorites and releasing what I have today. Think of favorites as an internal bookmark system, a way to keep a list of the good questions, great comments, or interesting ideas you've found here.

Right now, you can mark a thread on mefi, metatalk, or ask mefi as a favorite, and view it at the link in the header above (is the header too wide for small monitors?). All your stuff marked as a favorite is public and anyone else can see the stuff you've marked (this comes in handy later on).

I'll be adding the ability to flag comments later today and very soon I'll be doing something akin to the fantastic posts page on Ask MeFi, where the most favorited things over the past few days is highlighted on a single page.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 9:22 AM on May 10, 2006 (100 comments)