I swear it's the very last time. Honest. I'm fully aware the gag has been run into the ground, but this post is just so perfect.

Your post advocates a:
[ ] community moderated
[X] technical
[ ] social
[ ] legislative
[ ] economic
[ ] authoritarian
[ ] free-for-all
solution to crappy MetaFilter posts.

I'm afraid it won't work due... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 9:33 AM on August 30, 2008

Those goobers have a pretty good body count though. How many more good posters are we going to lose to these puppies? Was last December for nothing?

Calling them goobers is not helping. Seriously, everyone take a deep breath. It's a big site with a lot of people that covers a lot of touchy subjects. I respect where you're coming from but treating any members as if they're naughty puppies that need training is really condescending.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 2:10 PM on August 29, 2008

"The VPILF comment should stand on record. Maybe it should be sidebarred, even.
posted by Blazecock Pileon"

Dude, aren't you gay? Like, for men?

"if you can't see that, maybe you're not as liberal as you thought."

That's why I'm a registered independent. I can say and think whatever I want, because I don't give a fuck what you think. Hilary shits... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Eideteker at 4:30 PM on August 29, 2008

To answer your question, pjern, the post-production is a rather time consuming affair. You see, they start with an excellent and very intelligible recording, one in which the moderator's voices are clearly audible and discernible, but must then spend hours (if not days) getting Matt to sound like he's about seven feet away from the mic with his head wrapped in a towel.
posted to MetaTalk by flapjax at midnite at 5:13 AM on August 28, 2008

 ☼             ꒙ ꒙
_～～～⏅_～～⏅_{～～～～～}
posted to MetaTalk by ryanrs at 3:54 AM on August 25, 2008

eh, what color is this?

White, like all the rest of them.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 1:35 AM on August 25, 2008

Y'know what pisses me off, infini? You come in here, you do this annoying thing where you don't capitalize or punctuate and you announce yourself as "a member of the design profession" (huh?) all in a few sentences, and then you complain about wanting to change a word because you don't like how it feels, which, I've gotta tell you, is just about the most annoying thing in the world to me. If I have to read one more obnoxious euphemism that's... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by koeselitz at 12:19 PM on August 24, 2008

I haven't had a chance to read this post yet, but I wanted to express my delight at the way it leads in to the previous post.

Before I die I want to...
Get me a robot arm that looks like the Terminator
posted to MetaFilter by graventy at 10:02 AM on August 23, 2008

A very interesting overview in several regards, but also somewhat bewildering in how much seems to be missing from the topics she's looking at. No real mention of controlling robotics via implants, which is a classic sci fi idea that's becoming a reality rather quickly. She also doesn't seem to address the question of what replacement parts could theoretically be better than what you are born with. Steroids are a non-invasive enhancement which she spends a fair deal of time on, but what about... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by CheshireCat at 3:40 AM on August 23, 2008

countdown to "i'm keeping the baby" with a link to oral robert's university in... 3 2 1
posted to MetaFilter by jenkinsEar at 1:47 PM on August 22, 2008

Finally found it! Here's the PubMed entry for blogebrity:
A disease of the nervous system, blogebrity incubates in the Islets of Doctorow within the pancreas. Rather than transmission through traditional paths within the circulatory system, it works its way past the blood-brain barrier by travelling through passages resulting from inflammation of the Nodes of Krose. Symptoms at this stage are similar to the effects of "Micropée", though this connection is unremarkable as... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Eideteker at 11:57 AM on August 22, 2008

I've always hated the Book of Job because I thought the lesson was ruined by letting Job get all his stuff back.

Then I read Jack Miles' interpretation of it in "God: A Biography" in which he demonstrates that the Bible's precedent for clever wordplay means that the ending cannot be taken at the face value it currently is.

For example, the RSV has Job recanting by saying:

"I know that thou canst do all... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by hermitosis at 6:05 AM on November 4, 2006

Coming late to the party, but button up, because I'm posting way too much:

allkindsoftime's smackdown re: poverty in Africa.

maxwelton's alternate-universe Mefi comment.

Bromius' MAD fold-in-style comment.

fandango_matt's skewering of sacred Mefi cows.

BitterOldPunk's "I just want to make passionate love with all you wonderful people. The urge arose when cortex used... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike at 8:46 AM on August 21, 2008

Yeah, not getting a boner over here. Fail.

Sorry about your weiner bardic.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 4:08 PM on August 19, 2008

"For sale: eel-shoes, never used."

The saddest words in the English language.
posted to MetaTalk by ND¢ at 12:57 PM on August 19, 2008

Forbes did this two years ago and I was so irritated by their ranking I wrote this:

I don’t know how the people at Forbes came up with this figure. I don’t know how a reporter of Capitalism justifies Santa as the richest fictional character, either. Santa Claus is a humanitarian non-profit. I mean, duh.

The list ranks Scrooge at fourth, which is an insult. Even the vaguest glance at anything related to the mythos of Scrooge McDuck will place him... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by XQUZYPHYR at 9:26 AM on December 5, 2005

Knappster, thanks for this interesting post. I look forward to watching Secondhand (Pepe).

There's an excellent Flickr photo set associated with this movie with some great pics. There's also a page with more info about the people both in and who made the film.

From the article:

the two eras—past and present—and the two cultures—Jewish and Haitian—collide when the used clothing industry goes global around... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nickyskye at 9:41 PM on August 17, 2008

Let me be the first to say that I absolutely love the Doctor - the way he gets into everyone's faces with that lyrical Cockney accent, while skulking about in that frock coat of his...it's great stuff. Especially when he threatens to kill his adversaries with a hint of a knowing wink to the audience.

What I don't understand is why he has to have that giant LifeSaver attached to his eye.
posted to MetaTalk by Smart Dalek at 6:55 PM on August 13, 2008

Will no one think of the zygoat.se?
posted by maryh at 1:25 AM

I'm sorry.
posted to MetaFilter by louche mustachio at 2:51 AM on August 10, 2008

wastelands writes "I don't have any sympathy for people who pay for devices like these. If I contract a serious disease, the first thing I do is... buy an expensive blackbox from some random website? That makes no sense. I similarly don't feel sorry for 419 fraud victims or those who pay televangelist "

I have a serious disease. Along with the disease, there's a lot of fear and anxiety. That fear creates stress and worry and preoccupation,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by orthogonality at 12:03 PM on August 9, 2008

Sans quoi? (38 hides) (3647 comments)
Oh shit, it's a walk-off! (33 hides) (384 comments)
Sexism debate, displaced. (28 hides) (597 comments)
Your thoughts on current and future changes to make Metafilter more woman friendly (27 hides) (1005 comments)
GiveWell, or Give 'em Hell? (25 hides) (1415 comments)
One for the History Books (23 hides) (1126 comments)
You are The Man. (22 hides) (453 comments)
Possibly,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 2:58 PM on August 5, 2008

The longboat joke started in 9622v.2 ("That's not MY longboat.") I can't get a link to it, but it was thread number 9622 on MetaTalk, if someone else can bring it up.

It had nothing to do with the length of the thread. It had to do with silliness and my being in Iceland at the time and some talk of a longboat landing carrying MeFites and, well, silliness. It was really ONLY about longboats.

And how do I know this? I started it.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by grapefruitmoon at 3:46 PM on July 30, 2008

I love these 'me too!' / weird-stuff-the-brain-does threads. Here's my collection...

bookstores
porn in the woods
screaming in my head
time sense
extra people
brain idling
ghosts
mindgasms
imaginary worlds
derealization
dream timing
heart fluttering
rain hunger
warm/cool eyes
...and for fun, cats and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Xelf at 12:12 AM on July 23, 2008

Karadžić is responsible for so much of what happened to me.

My family and I were starved and cut off from electricity, gas, water, phone service and even things like wood with which we could have kept somewhat warm. My father, a funny, kind and literate man, and my mother, a vivacious woman who struggled during Communism and the war to see her children survive with the class and dignity of our family intact, were both reduced to shells of their former selves because... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Dee Xtrovert at 3:45 PM on July 21, 2008

Warning: long-ass post.

MetaFilter has a lot of people who care about words and ideas and view the Web as the ideal medium for both. The cam and e/n crowds, in contrast, see the Web as a tool for personal connections. As an example (and not to pick on linuxkitty), I would be mortally embarrassed to write something like "however a way I see fit" and post it where other people could see it. This is because I value clarity and elegance in writing and I value the opinions of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by kindall at 12:02 AM on September 23, 2001

They're really digging themselves into a hole.

Also known as unclimbing out of the unsky.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon at 3:00 PM on July 1, 2008

BoingBoing as the Authors Intended™
Reads the RSS feed and disemvowels the articles.
I felt dirty manually disemvoweling the template page.
posted to MetaFilter by johnjreiser at 4:03 PM on July 1, 2008

I would like to announce that I too have a new policy:

From now on, when anybody makes a reference to George Orwell or any of his works - no matter how instructive or aposite that reference is - I am going to unilaterally assume that they are referring to The Moon Under Water, his essay on what the perfect pub should be like. I will then proceed to engage in lengthy and heated argument with that person about ambience, range of guest ales, seating quality and generosity... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by flashboy at 5:34 AM on July 2, 2008

I've been doing some spidering and processing and have come up with 407 posts that simply don't exist in their online archives.
posted to MetaFilter by cillit bang at 1:32 AM on July 3, 2008

krautland: I don't think the whatever-it-was that VB may or may not have done is the important factor. What has kept this entire story alive has been the periodic zap that BB has given it. "Clear!" yells Teresa and slaps the paddles onto its chest. VB, I think, is waiting in bemused fascination to see what happens next. (Me, too.) She's said that her life is an open book; anything Xeni says (short of calling her names) is okay. Consider the story as it has... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by CCBC at 11:53 PM on July 13, 2008

konolia: It's not a matter of being offended. It's a matter of being forced to violate one's religious convictions. Which is discriminatory toward said religion. As long as all faiths are entitled to the same protection, what is the problem?

Now we get to the heart of the matter. This case is not so much about homophobia, really, as it is about the preferential treatment increasingly given in Britain to personal idiosyncracies, no matter how... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by game warden to the events rhino at 9:22 AM on July 11, 2008

How do we feel about "quim"?

Thumbs up?
posted to MetaTalk by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 3:09 PM on July 9, 2008

So if I want to really make the people of the UK cringe, what's the word?

Ashes.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas at 6:31 PM on July 9, 2008

Here's a true story about how awesome Pixar is.

As some of you know, when the trailer first came out, my girlfriend, Courtney, burst into tears at the trailer. She was emabrrassed but somewhat amused by this, as so she made a video of herself watching the trailer on her computer, knowing she would start crying every time that little robot said his own name.

After a few months, she started to get trickles of emails from people at Pixar who said... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Astro Zombie at 12:18 PM on July 1, 2008

One more for the road.

And from YouTube I drew an Hallelujah:

Hallelujah, Hallelujah! Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah! Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah! Hallelujah, Halleluja,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah! Hallelujah, Halleloo - oo - jah.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bicyclefish at 10:29 PM on June 30, 2008

Sometimes you have to choose between things. That's life.

How do you want to be remembered when you die? The programmer who had a bunch of dumb fucking gadgets and a big stupid fuck-off car and a ridiculous mortgage for a house eight times bigger than he needed? Or as a real person with a real soul who decided that the creative spirit was more important than dead matter?

I hear the new 3G iPhone is going to be pretty sweet.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Optimus Chyme at 11:50 PM on June 29, 2008

@anifinder
While I appreciate your attempt to inject an intelligent thought to the thread, I'm afraid it is a lost cause. Since people apparently can't discern that he subject matter (strictly speaking HISTORY and SCHOLARSHIP) is related to the Greek Scriptures which are in turn related to many world religions claiming to be "Christian", this thread is mostly seen as an opportunity for the usual LOL.
posted to MetaFilter by spock at 9:24 AM on June 30, 2008

Wow, was this in MetaTalk ever?
posted to MetaTalk by carsonb at 12:04 PM on June 26, 2008

I'm not sure learning lessons about being human from a cat is the best idea.
posted to MetaFilter by frenetic at 5:00 PM on June 22, 2008

To everyone who is self-righteously condemning the more cynical of us. This "Ugly" story is not about the cat. It's not meant to make the reader say, "I hadn't thought about it, but animal abuse is really terrible!"

It's all about the human telling the story. The human who couldn't be bothered to do anything to help the animal until it was way too late. It's a story about a person looking at a terribly hurt animal, and saying "Gee! That... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Solon and Thanks at 5:25 PM on June 22, 2008

And it's indicative of a deep level of sickness in our society that people are capable of laughing off the hackery

no, it's a sign of health that people are reacting to this kitschy story that is basically waving a poor animal around like a bloody flag in order to make some kind of schmaltzy point that people should try to act more like abused animals - or something - it didn't even have the dubious moral of being nicer to our animal friends - no, it... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by pyramid termite at 6:08 PM on June 22, 2008

WFMU's 79 versions of popcorn scoff at your paltry 1.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins at 6:13 PM on June 20, 2008

my head done blowed up

Holy Mary
Milf of God
Pray for us sinners...
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 3:20 PM on June 19, 2008

To disable the new features of the location bar:

1. Enter about:config in the location bar.
   
2. Enter urlbar in the filter bar.
   
3. Change browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped to True.
   
4. Change browser.urlbar.matchRichResults to 0.
   

You're turning off an awesome feature, but if you're going to be a stick-in-the-mud, feel free to do so.
posted to MetaFilter by sonic meat machine at 12:27 PM on June 17, 2008

Sad how many of you seem to wish for the end journalism. Without the AP and member papers doing real journalism we'd be fucked even worse than we already are.

I'm not saying the AP isn't over-reacting but threads like these on the blue are starting to resemble the tired shit Doctorow and his crew peddle daily at BB.

Without some type of standards regarding how content is used (and paid for) on the internet outlets like the AP, Reuters, NYT,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by photoslob at 9:42 PM on June 16, 2008

Muddler typed "...but I have to say I'm with the crowd of people that doesn't find the meaning of life in a toilet on a pedastal in the middle of an installation."

Must you people take over every discussion on MetaFilter?
posted to MetaFilter by roll truck roll at 10:46 AM on June 14, 2008

Muddler typed "...but I have to say I'm with the crowd of people that doesn't find the meaning of life in a toilet on a pedastal in the middle of an installation."

"Must you people take over every discussion on MetaFilter?"

I choose to think of comments like these as part of a vast conceptual art project, executed with sublime patience and deadpan wit over many years, intended to illustrate the permanent... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dyoneo at 11:56 AM on June 14, 2008

You people are crazy. No, Michael Reagan shouldn't be legally allowed to say that- meaning, he should be investigated seriously for death threats. He's not speaking in the abstract here, he's talking about a specific individual and the method of their death.

Do you not get the non-equivalency here? Michael Reagan isn't a participant in your boardgame; he's not playing by the same rules. He's not saying "Mark Dice should be investigated for treason", he's... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by hincandenza at 12:11 PM on June 14, 2008

you just can't understand why I prosecutor wouldn't want to fight your idiotic battles for you

I prosecutor no cyan fight I&I battles for I, Mr. His Imperial Majesty Dr. Bumboclot Jamrock, seen?
posted to MetaFilter by DecemberBoy at 2:17 PM on June 14, 2008

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posted to MetaTalk by Sys Rq at 4:21 PM on June 13, 2008