I thought I was posting a question on AskMe, instead I posted it to the blue. Can my question be moved? Pretty please?
posted to MetaTalk by edverb at 4:31 PM on December 25, 2006 (127 comments)

Is this the first time someone has linked to videos with the playing time in superscript? Am I the only one who finds it really annoying?
posted to MetaTalk by chunking express at 3:17 PM on December 4, 2006 (91 comments)

So I solved this problem, based on the help given by a few members, who I'm very grateful for. But was it really necessary for a load of people to come into the thread in the meantime and tell me that I didn't know what I was talking about?
posted to MetaTalk by reklaw at 11:35 AM on October 26, 2006 (175 comments)

Since you're already stripping out the image tag code (like on this post), why not either change it to a link or drop the whole line entirely? The code that's left is unsightly.
posted to MetaTalk by mr_crash_davis at 4:21 PM on November 18, 2006 (53 comments)

I've lost my hair, I've lost my youth and now it's time for my hearing to follow. recommend a stereo system, please.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by krautland at 2:01 PM on September 4, 2006 (14 comments)

I believe the oppurtunity has finally come for all MeFites to show their appreciation for Matt's efforts in keeping this community running.

And no, I'm not kidding either.
posted to MetaTalk by Smart Dalek at 9:47 AM on August 31, 2002 (30 comments)

This song is called mathowie's community blog, and it's about mathowie, and the community blog, but mathowie's community blog is not the name of the community blog, that's just the name of the song. - lyrical brilliance by It's Raining Florence Henderson, with extra bits of artistic license taken in the studio. - Arlo-esque lead vocals by French Fry, aka my brother Alex.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex at 10:40 PM on September 3, 2006 (142 comments)

This was inspired by Senator Barack Obama's courageous stance against 8th grade graduations, which I heard about on NPR's Wait Wait, Don't tell Me back in August of 2005.
posted to MeFi Music by scottreynen at 3:42 PM on August 26, 2006 (2 comments)

The dance craze that's sweeping the nation! Lyrics by languagehat.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex at 8:57 PM on August 30, 2006 (34 comments)

What is this Sketchzilla thing?! It is whatever you want it to be. It's a community art project. It's a funhouse. It's an art gallery. It's a madlib. It's a mad house. It's an html monster. It's a butteryfly ballot. It's the 10 most wanted. It's a flip book. It's noisy. It's the flag of the internet. Oh and it's occasionally NSFW. It is always changing and morphing and mutating in to something new, by you. I can't believe that Sketchzilla was the only surviving member of its species... But if we continue conducting nuclear tests... it's possible that another Sketchzilla might appear somewhere in the world again.
posted to MetaFilter by Sir Mildred Pierce at 10:56 AM on June 14, 2006 (250 comments)

How do I learn what goes on "under the hood" of programming languages?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by grumblebee at 11:36 AM on August 14, 2006 (34 comments)

Federer as Religious Experience by David Foster Wallace.
posted to MetaFilter by The Jesse Helms at 11:01 AM on August 20, 2006 (92 comments)

I have yet to figure out why there is a paucity of female philosophers. Any definitive works on this topic?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by raheel at 7:03 PM on August 11, 2006 (134 comments)

DC meetup reminder: This afternoon. 2pm onwards. The Palace Of Wonders to welcome jessamyn to town.
posted to MetaTalk by hugsnkisses at 8:19 AM on August 6, 2006 (29 comments)

A secret cabal of family members is having a rather big party this summer on the shores of Lake Huron. My mission: arrive in style a la James Bond. I've checked out their security, and although strong on three sides, they haven't guarded the lake. Fools. I would like to arrive via the lake. However, I'm having a tough time with what to wear. Preferably, I'd like to slip out of my wetsuit into a crisp, wrinkle free tuxedo. Is this possible?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by maxpower at 6:39 AM on March 30, 2006 (91 comments)

How is this thread not chatfilter? The ensuing discussion about male vs. female doctors is pretty enlightening, but I don't really see how a question about we feel about a fake doctor's abilities as a doctor is the best use of AskMefi.
posted to MetaTalk by chiababe at 10:09 PM on June 23, 2005 (12 comments)

Here's a very entertaining and highly instructive thread on What Not To Post To AskMe.
posted to MetaTalk by orange swan at 6:11 AM on June 15, 2006 (65 comments)

A remix of PinkStainlessTail's classic holiday anthem Jingle Bell Rock. I had such high hopes for this when I started, intending it to be even more annoying than original, but I kind of lost the will to live partway through doing it. Consider it then to be permanently incomplete.
posted to MeFi Music by nylon at 1:46 PM on July 31, 2006 (19 comments)

BlogStop. Where the last word of an entry must be used as an acronym for the next entry. Simple.
posted to MetaFilter by coudal at 7:07 AM on July 30, 2003 (993 comments)

Ever wondered which sites Metafilter users link to the most? I've updated Metafilter Sources for the first time in two years, showing that Youtube and Flickr are now in the top 20, and that Wikipedia is now the most popular external source ever. Move over, Newsfilter... It's Wikifilter time!

Also, I updated the Metafilter Stats charts through June 2006. More analysis inside.
posted to MetaTalk by waxpancake at 11:44 AM on July 24, 2006 (40 comments)

Commercial exploitationTube? Creative Commies-Tube? Plagiarism® ? "…you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube's (and its successor's) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the YouTube Website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels…" moc.ebutuoy

whata circlejerk... Now where's my aeroflot and reversed copyright Tee-Shirt! and Negativland, Tape-beatles, EEC records. I'm ready for a copyfight !
posted to MetaFilter by Unregistered User at 9:34 PM on July 21, 2006 (27 comments)

Can we please get rid of the '1 user marked this as favorite' crap?
posted to MetaTalk by nixerman at 4:21 PM on July 22, 2006 (104 comments)

the 'story of my life,' reduced into 2 verses. the tabla is a loop. i don't know anyone in my neighbourhood who plays tabla. wish i did.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat at 12:06 AM on July 16, 2006 (4 comments)

CBS Sunday Morning/David Pogue give a glimpse of MeFi this morning in a piece on bloging; specifically this post, while interviewing Ms. Hourihan. (Unfortunately, he doesn't say "MetaFilter," it is really just a tiny screen shot of a small section of the page, but you can distinctly tell it is MeFi and that "one user marked as favorite.")
posted to MetaTalk by pithy comment at 7:49 AM on July 9, 2006 (36 comments)

Today Jefferson County Sheriff's office released over 900 pages of documents [32MB pdf] relating to what happened at Columbine High School in 1999.
posted to MetaFilter by BeerFilter at 8:15 PM on July 6, 2006 (117 comments)

For Orthodox Jewish mothers with small children, the Shabbat can be challenging. The answer, for many communities, is the establishment of an eruv (discussed previously here, in passing). This San Francisco Chronicle article details the history behind Berkeley, California's unique instance. This isn't the first time an eruv has been attempted in the Bay Area: the failed effort to create one in Palo Alto was covered by the Chronicle, as well as the Jewish News Weekly. Berkeley isn't the only United States city with an eruv—the Boston eruv maintains a large list of domestic and international eruvim—nor is it the city with the most unusual eruv, or even the largest. Inevitably, perhaps, there's a blog entirely dedicated to the subject of eruvim, and vigorous commentary on the subject from several others.
posted to MetaFilter by scrump at 12:55 PM on July 7, 2006 (59 comments)

Net neutrality hurts consumers, and Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) gets it completely: "I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?" Huh? Enlightening audio of the entire Jabberwocky-esque speech here, as he "explains" why he voted against a proposal that would have required broadband providers to give their competitors the same speeds and quality of service as they give to themselves or their partners.
posted to MetaFilter by youarenothere at 9:32 AM on July 2, 2006 (73 comments)

Notable MeFites - who are they? I know everyone's special in their own little way, but which MeFites are really special - popularly famous or notable in their field. I've always wondered this...

Obvious examples excluded.
posted to MetaTalk by bjork24 at 5:19 PM on July 3, 2006 (117 comments)

Now in alpha beta gamma whatever: MeFi Music. Built in 12 hours with help from pb, it's still got some rough edges and features to come, but for now you can upload a song you've written and recorded (this isn't for file sharing), stream it from the front page or from its own page (where you can also leave comments). You can add things to playlists and stream those too. And the RSS feed is a podcast you can drag into iTunes to suck down every mp3 that gets posted. I'm sure there are bugs and the color scheme was slapped together in five minutes, but expect to see things ironed out in the next couple weeks and I'll add it to the global nav for all sites when it feels complete. If you have any comments or questions, drop them here.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 12:07 AM on June 30, 2006 (351 comments)

Digg did it.
posted to MetaTalk by evariste at 5:32 PM on July 1, 2006 (44 comments)

Moody rock narrative about lust and desperation and a broken girl.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex at 9:54 PM on July 2, 2006 (4 comments)

A cover of ABBA's S.O.S by me (Brad Sucks) and my pal TheHipCola for an ABBA Fight we were involved in.
posted to MeFi Music by frenetic at 11:18 AM on June 30, 2006 (15 comments)

it's a song about dirt and also bags
posted to MeFi Music by frenetic at 8:13 PM on June 29, 2006 (46 comments)

Jangly, wistful guitarpop as requested.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex at 8:03 AM on June 30, 2006 (30 comments)

In 1945-46, some of the (very few) Polish Jews who had survived the Final Solution returned -- sick, poor, wounded -- to Poland. In Elie Wiesel's words, "they had thought all too naively that antisemitism, discredited 6 million times over, had died at Auschwitz with its victims. They were wrong." In 2001 Princeton professor Jan T Gross published the story of the 1941 destruction of the Jewish community at Jedwabne, Poland, and proved how Jews were rounded up, clubbed, drowned, gutted or burned to death not by German forces as previously believed but by mobs of their own non-Jewish neighbors. Now professor Gross tells the story of the Kielce pogrom in his new book, "Fear". Of course, the Kielce butchery took place in 1946 -- more than a year after the end of WWII and defeat of Nazism. More inside.
posted to MetaFilter by matteo at 8:25 AM on June 25, 2006 (107 comments)

How do current feminists connect with the issues raised by the Second Wave? Feminist bloggers respond to Carol Hanisch, author of the 1970 essay The Personal Is Political [pdf]. In her new introduction, she writes, "But they belittled us no end for trying to bring our so-called 'personal problems' into the public arena... Our demands that men share the housework and childcare were likewise deemed a personal problem between a woman and her individual man. The opposition claimed if women would just 'stand up for themselves' and take more responsibility for their own lives, they wouldn't need to have an independent movement for women’s liberation." In response, the 17th Carnival of Feminists includes posts addressing how the internet can be a consciousness-raising medium, why we blame individual women for making "bad" decisions rather than blaming a system that forces them to choose, whether women should shut up and go with the flow as Democrats marginalize us in order to win elections, and what "the personal is political" might actually mean. (Many many many other great posts linked from Bitch|Lab on other feminist topics, too.)
posted to MetaFilter by occhiblu at 1:08 PM on June 24, 2006 (133 comments)

You desire new music? How fortuitous! Look what your fellow mefites have been up to:

- The 23rd Century, addictive psychedelic pop from tcobretti (via Projects)
- Both Ends of a Gun, a shotgun-produced country album by Miko (via Projects)
- Congratulations to the Young Men of Nelson, creepy tortured music-toy electronica by nylon (via Projects)
- MAXX KLAXON, ass-bumping orwello-euro electropop by Artifice_Eternity (via Projects)
- Inter[mediate], an electronic EP by phylum sinter (via Projects)
- Vector Trio, atmospheric jazzers, and just one client of turtlegirl's Scully Sound production outfit (via Projects)
- Fractures EP, some lush electronic stuff by nthdegx (via Projects)
- The Earl Stoner Band, countrified tunes by xowie (via Projects)
- Red On Strike, XX-fronted punk rock by InfidelZombie (via Projects)
- The Scarring Party, foot-stomping old-timey tunes by drezdn (via Projects)
- Soplerflo Archives, sundry musical noises by soplerflo (via...wait for it...waaaaaait for iiiiit...Projects!)

Viva la Projects!
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 9:46 AM on April 15, 2006 (97 comments)

How can my new site be more tell-a-friendable? I recently launched a personal ads site. When it gets a good link, memberships and traffic take off. But there's no word-of-mouth momentum and as soon as that good link disappears, things quiet back down. This may have a lot to do with the fact that telling your friends about a personal ads site can be like telling them about a new hemorrhoid treatment. What can I do to overcome this?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by the jam at 2:22 PM on June 23, 2006 (13 comments)

The CrimethInc Reading Library offers essential dissident reading material including Your politics are as boring as fuck and Days of War, Nights of Love. Also available as free downloads are printable anarchist pamphlets, magazines, and posters. (Any remaining supporters of the Bush regime will be sure to appreciate this and this). There's also a collaborative blog. (An earlier incarnation of the CrimethInc publishing organization was previously discussed here.)
posted to MetaFilter by cleardawn at 5:10 PM on November 30, 2005 (28 comments)

The Symmetry Thesis
posted to MetaFilter by Tlogmer at 2:44 PM on June 6, 2006 (36 comments)

Why are we picking on the 13 year old? This is really distasteful.
posted to MetaTalk by Saucy Intruder at 9:18 AM on June 20, 2006 (367 comments)

Carnegie Mellon researchers have created a program that can automatically generate a 3-D model from a single photograph, using machine learning. Take a look at this high-res comparison of original and generated images, also demonstration animations and downloadable videos (with executables). [via /. see also: a little on human 3d perception at everything2, groovy dragon illusion]
posted to MetaFilter by MetaMonkey at 4:38 PM on June 14, 2006 (42 comments)

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 MetaFilter Projects by the jam at 9:02 AM on June 5, 2006

I run the American Walrus Magazine, a submissions-based comics quarterly. This is our first issue, but we're hoping to turn it into a place where anybody with talent and a good story can get their stuff published, whether or not they've ever been published or even drawn comics before. This one's being offered for free online in its entirety. Future issues will probably be online in excerpt form. There's a lot of excellent comics in this issue, but space considerations forced us to shrink it a bit. There's a high resolution pdf on the page for better viewing, though. We operate at a velcro-shoe-fastener budget, so we're also selling ties with cartoon characters on them and t-shirts in an attempt to finance the printing of the summer issue. Highlights of the Spring Issue include:
-Killer School Girl Part One by Rebecca Doyle
-A jaunty Christopher Walken mask by Brandon Bird
-A pulp painting of Hunter Thompson fighting a shark by Steven Fromtling
-Tales of childhood angst by Andy Warner
-The bizarro fantasies of Alexa Rose
-...and more.

The summer issue's coming, too, so if you draw comics, send them our way! Lastly, if you just can't get enough, I also run a comics blog on the main page of the site.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by renraw at 7:54 PM on May 29, 2006

Rebellion: John Horse and the Black Seminoles, First Black Rebels to Beat American Slavery. "Rebellion is a Web documentary that explores the inspiring, true, and largely unknown story of John Horse and the Black Seminoles, a community of free blacks and fugitive slaves who in 1838 became the first black rebels to defeat American slavery." This visually arresting site is a treasure trove of information about the Seminoles, early Florida history, and a largely unrecognized (and successful!) slave rebellion that may have been the largest in American history. The site includes interactive maps, arresting images, and a thorough history of the rebellion. Too bad the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma expelled all its black members in 1990.
posted to MetaFilter by LarryC at 6:29 PM on May 31, 2006 (13 comments)

Waiting For Plastic. Down again. Been down so long, someone started a weblog about it. It's not the first time. Who knows if this is the last? [via]
posted to MetaFilter by airguitar at 8:37 AM on May 31, 2006 (40 comments)

This is not resolved! I was depressed that night. I was worried that my girlfriend would leave me. I wanted to kill myself. Whenever I am unhappy, I would call the Samaritans to talk to them in order to reduce the stress. But while I was talking, the passenger behind me tapped my shoulder to tell me not to talk!
posted to MetaFilter by klue at 10:45 AM on May 31, 2006 (44 comments)

Henry Raddick's Amazon Reviews are among the most insidiously hilarious works I've seen in some time. From his review of "McDonald Happy Meal Toys From The Nineties: With Price Guide": "An essential guide for the fast food promotional toy collector, this fine book lists each and every one of the toys given away with Happy meals in the 90s. If you choked on it, it's in here. It even had listings and recent auction prices for some of that weird "McCrying Game" merchandising. A must. " Indeed.
posted to MetaFilter by effugas at 12:56 PM on December 12, 2002 (28 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 (272 comments)

Defend DeLay (link to embedded video). Tom DeLay needs your help to fend off the rabid liberal media. He appreciates the fact that Stephen Colbert is doing his part by taking on Robert Greenwald, maker of the upcoming "The Big Buy: Tom Delay's Stolen Congress" and previously "Outfoxed." (via)
posted to MetaFilter by bardic at 4:42 PM on May 24, 2006 (60 comments)