It's about time for another LA meetup, wouldn't you say?
posted to MetaTalk by katillathehun at 9:07 AM on March 3, 2008 (115 comments)

So I always have boring haircuts. Standard businessman cut type. Cause I'm lazy and hate having to do anything with it in the morning. And this morning I realized it is now at the point where it needs to be cut as it's looking, well, like it needs to be cut. (How it looks right now: me1, me2, me3, though for some reason in the pics it looks a lot less in need of cleanup than it does in real life.) So I'd like to do something a bit more interesting, a bit more daring. Not much, but a little. I'm kind of in a turning myself around mentally state, and it's passing over into things like this. And you know what style (roughly) I like? David Tennant-ish messy. Seen here and here....
posted to Ask Metafilter by John Kenneth Fisher at 8:05 AM on February 9, 2008 (23 comments)

PBS Frontline explores Growing Up Online. Here's what they learned.
posted to MetaFilter by miss lynnster at 12:15 AM on January 31, 2008 (43 comments)

So apparently it's not the lack of oxygen which causes cells to die. Rather, getting oxygen back, which triggers the same cell death mechanism that guards against cancer, causes cell death.
posted to MetaFilter by Pope Guilty at 6:42 AM on January 19, 2008 (49 comments)

Does anyone have any experience with crazyblinddate.com, from the okcupid people?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kerfuffled at 9:18 PM on November 29, 2007 (8 comments)

I had spoken with Matt about a month ago about the idea of doing a Metafilter documentary in time for the tenth anniversary. I'd still like to do it but am looking for help.
posted to MetaTalk by strangeleftydoublethink at 11:28 AM on September 27, 2007 (178 comments)

What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople?
posted to Ask Metafilter by limon at 5:40 PM on September 8, 2007 (240 comments)

Dr Who - a guide to the totality of the Dr. Who universe online. Like the TARDIS itself, this post contains much [more inside]. via
posted to MetaFilter by jonson at 8:41 AM on July 5, 2007 (117 comments)

DJ name me, if you please.
posted to Ask Metafilter by freudenschade at 1:30 PM on June 23, 2007 (76 comments)

How do I get over a friendship breakup?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous at 5:47 AM on June 24, 2007 (25 comments)

ClothingFilter: When dressing casually, I often wear button-down shirts out, rather than tucked in. The problem is that the moment you sit down, the bottom third of the shirt becomes a wrinkled mess, and looks terrible. Assuming I'm not going to remain standing forever, is there a particular brand, type, or material of shirt that avoids this problem?
posted to Ask Metafilter by lsemel at 8:52 AM on June 24, 2007 (16 comments)

You may know that November is NaNoWriMo, but did you know that this June is the first annual Script Frenzy?
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 8:51 AM on May 15, 2007 (20 comments)

How can a writer find an artist for a comic book collaboration?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Bookhouse at 9:13 AM on December 7, 2006 (7 comments)

Care to help me find a ringtone I heard on "The IT Crowd"?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wild_Eep at 4:02 PM on April 15, 2007 (7 comments)

Advice to Young Men from an Old Man and other Best of Craigslist posts. [previously].
posted to MetaFilter by nickyskye at 7:16 PM on March 15, 2007 (126 comments)

Back in 1964, a documentary was commissioned by Granada Television called Seven Up!, which aimed to test the old Jesuit maxim “Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man” by studying the lives of a group of children from various backgrounds to see how their lives would develop. Every seven years thereafter, director Michael Apted has returned to see where their lives have taken them, in a series of films known as The Up Series. You can read a great overview of the series here. Some have followed the path expected of them. Others have moved halfway across the world. Some have even set up their own webpage! And others still, like Neil, have found that getting to what may be your calling in life often requires you to take a signifcant detour, as this video from the latest edition, 49 Up, shows.
posted to MetaFilter by Effigy2000 at 9:15 PM on February 1, 2007 (85 comments)

Wall frame to hold multiple comic books?
posted to Ask Metafilter by starman at 4:15 PM on December 27, 2006 (8 comments)

The Hero of Burbank, The Man They Call Jayne. Just a day before it starts, the Firefly-focused "Flanvention" convention was canceled by Booster Entertainment (who took down their entire site in the process), leaving about 500 "flans" who had paid $225 for a weekend pass (some math) (and some who paid $5000 for lifetime passes to all Booster cons — although that may not have been as foolish as it might appear) and who had made nonrefundable flights and nonrefundable hotel reservations with nothing for the money they had spent on con(vention) passes or their accommodations. Now, that, in and of itself, is quite unpleasant but perhaps not MeFi-worthy — but what pushes this over the edge to being a cool story is when the Firefly actors decided to come out anyway — evidently unpaid — for their "flans." [more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike at 4:22 PM on December 8, 2006 (76 comments)

S4 from NY to Seattle.
posted to MetaFilter by hama7 at 6:18 AM on November 25, 2006 (52 comments)

Imminent homelessness as of Saturday 10/28.
posted to Ask Metafilter by attackthetaxi at 3:59 PM on October 26, 2006 (40 comments)

World Leaders Were Kids Once Too
Photos of a whole bunch of world leaders as kids up through adulthood. Hey, Reagan was Teh Buff! And proof that Joe Stalin was NOT born with that mustache!
posted to MetaFilter by fenriq at 12:39 PM on July 22, 2006 (83 comments)

Grupthink Grupthink, "a living source of collective wisdom," is a project under development where I work; it's a new way for anyone to ask open-ended questions and post topics, and for anyone to respond to them, and explore other users' responses. As one of the senior developers put it, if Grupthink were a cocktail beverage, this might be the recipe:
* 1/2 oz. Wiki
* 1/2 oz. Online polling
* 1/4 oz. Photo sharing
* 1/4 oz. Web 2.0 Buzzword Mix (ajax, social media, etc.), and
* One (1) offensively large stalk of celery.

But seriously, it can be serious fun: anyone can create open-ended, dynamic polls that are open to anyone else and the polls morph over time as users change their minds—revising old responses, adding new ones—and as new users join the site. Plus, you can vote for your favorite responses, rank them, and add comments.

We launched the Grupthink beta in April 2006 and we're continually making—and open to hearing about—improvements. So, if you have the time, please browse around and let us know what you think.
posted to Projects by josephtate at 2:38 PM on May 30, 2006

The Impersonals I couldn't find a personals site that I wasn't embarrassed to join, so I made my own. No popularity contests, no horoscopes, no buddy lists. Just profiles made from wide-open text fields and anti-creepiness features baked in at every turn. (Lifetime membership will be $5, but until it hits 10,000 profiles, it's free.)
posted to Projects by the jam at 9:02 AM on June 5, 2006