So it's mid-April already, and I haven't yet heard anything about MefiSwap 2008. So who's in?
posted to MetaTalk by god hates math at 3:42 PM on April 14, 2008 (212 comments)

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posted to MetaFilter by Upton O'Good at 12:00 AM on March 27, 2008 (39 comments)

The Metafilter Music Collaboration, as described here and here.
posted to MeFi Music by goodnewsfortheinsane at 7:58 PM on December 30, 2007 (54 comments)

Hell hath frozenth overth. New user signups are back on, for a one-time five buck cover.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 1:05 AM on November 18, 2004 (486 comments)

We just launched contacts activity (looks like this, also on the sidebar of the front page showing the most recent 10 things). More explanation inside.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 3:11 PM on November 2, 2007 (171 comments)

Photos of last night's Los Angeles meetup.
posted to MetaTalk by DaShiv at 8:19 PM on May 19, 2005 (106 comments)

I love esoteric jokes, the kind of humor which presupposes a lot of specialized knowledge. The more opaque the joke is, the better. However, by their very nature they're kinda hard to search for on Google, or at least I rarely hit upon the magic searchterms. So, do you know good sites with specialist jokes? If not, do you know any particularly obscure jokes?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kattullus at 9:56 AM on September 23, 2007 (97 comments)

NY Times: "DaShiv is a star, an internationally famous portrait photographer". The article also mentions ThePinkSuperhero and some guy named Matthew Haughey.
posted to MetaTalk by epimorph at 10:28 PM on September 28, 2007 (260 comments)

Do you name a plant? Is it the same as naming a boat?
posted to Ask Metafilter by brent at 9:22 AM on December 16, 2004 (33 comments)

Crash tests. Exactly what it sounds like. Double-Link-YouTube-Filter.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins at 9:16 AM on July 31, 2007 (28 comments)

Need suggestions for a grown-up bar/lounge in Boston
posted to Ask Metafilter by Flakypastry at 2:55 PM on June 25, 2007 (12 comments)

I've gone ahead and added the new limit on posting. Only once per 24 hrs now. Let me know if you find any errors.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 12:34 PM on October 12, 2001 (23 comments)

Is there still a Metafilter Cafepress store? I'd like to buy another "Coffee is for Closers" mug, but the store seems to have disappeared. If it's truly gone, is there a (non-Cafepress?) alternative where I could get the same mug? (The non-MF mugs I've seen aren't as nice).
posted to MetaTalk by gd779 at 12:01 PM on May 22, 2007 (30 comments)

Hey Boston/North Shore: Stynxno and I are coming to town. We'd like to meetup with you on Sunday, May 27th, in beautiful Salem, MA.
posted to MetaTalk by ThePinkSuperhero at 3:31 PM on May 8, 2007 (48 comments)

So while belly up to the bar recently, some friends and I began talking about group activities for the summer. The idea of a “Boston Beerlympcs” came up. The idea is that we’d form a few “nations” or teams that would compete against each other in weekly and biweekly events over the summer. However, like many ideas thought up over a few pints, the execution and logistics eludes us.
posted to Ask Metafilter by robocop is bleeding at 6:57 AM on April 25, 2007 (10 comments)

posted to MetaTalk by sam123 at 8:28 PM on April 21, 2001 (26 comments)

Eddie destroys the ship. Ron Moore's Battlestar Galactica podcasts have been discussed before, but the most recent one contains a gem. At the end of the episode Maelstrom, Edward James Olmos ("Eddie" to his friends on the set) lashes out in an unscripted, improvised, emotional moment, destroying a sailing ship model that had been a frequent prop on the set. Turns out the ship ... ahem ... wasn't a prop, but an extremely valuable museum piece.
posted to MetaFilter by frogan at 9:45 PM on March 6, 2007 (79 comments)

What are the odds that two adjacent posts would both use the word "fustian"?
posted to MetaTalk by adamrice at 7:44 AM on April 20, 2006 (94 comments)

Recently discovered Explosions in the Sky, The music fades away in the background after awhile and I can concentrate on doing work. Anybody else have artists that are simillar or music that helps you get your work done and gets you in that zone. I do not want classical music, sleepy instrumental music and not drum&bass..please.
posted to Ask Metafilter by radsqd at 7:03 PM on January 30, 2007 (38 comments)

Know of a quiet-ish restaurant and a bar you don't have to shout to be heard in boston on a thursday night?
posted to Ask Metafilter by soplerfo at 9:12 PM on October 9, 2006 (22 comments)

The Decline of the PS3 Grey Market: Purchases by eBay arbitrageurs were one of the primary drivers of the Playstation 3 release date frenzy. Predictably, the bubble has now burst.
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 7:11 AM on December 30, 2006 (74 comments)

Got some free time over the New Year's long weekend? Well, here's every episode (or damn near it) of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Boondocks, Clone High, Metalocalypse, Moral Orel, Robot Chicken, South Park (alt), Venture Brothers, Futurama. Or over here, there's all those and more. But wait my friends, there's more, yes, even more: for the same low price, I'll include the Ultimate Motherlode of Music Video (11,500 of them, or your money back!), alphabetized for your viewing pleasure. Just free up some bandwidth, and step inside ...
posted to MetaFilter by stavrosthewonderchicken at 3:30 AM on December 29, 2006 (158 comments)

I have a Garmin GPS unit, I would very much like to get some maps on it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by quin at 7:54 PM on December 26, 2006 (9 comments)

?Let today - the eleventh day of the twelfth month - henceforth and forever be Backwards Day! ?Fun with Unicode
Via the wonderfully nerdy 74 68 65 20 64 69 67 69 74 61 6C 20 6D 65.??‭
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 2:56 PM on December 11, 2006 (116 comments)

Inspired by this photo of Walt Disney, Richard Nixon, and Art Linkletter, I'm looking for more photos of odd celebrity pairings.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mattbucher at 9:34 AM on December 4, 2006 (23 comments)

What things are MUST-DO in Boston after living here for two years?
posted to Ask Metafilter by irisell at 4:12 PM on November 14, 2006 (35 comments)

How do you transform lettuce into Pacman? The Sentence Game, that's how.
posted to MetaFilter by randomination at 9:11 AM on September 26, 2006 (22 comments)

Every episode of the Simpsons.
posted to MetaFilter by reklaw at 5:24 PM on September 23, 2006 (104 comments)

Hello all, I am having trouble find a place that rents out digital cameras. I am looking to either rent a Nikon D50, D70, or D100 or possibly, a Canon Digital Rebel XT. (Renting time-frame, 2-3 days.) I am wondering if anyone had any experience with renting high-end digital cams such as these and which place I should trust. I called up a couple of places where I live (Boston, MASS) and none of them offered this.
posted to Ask Metafilter by cheero at 3:18 PM on February 26, 2006 (5 comments)

"ironic electro-pop"
posted to MeFi Music by frenetic at 8:17 PM on June 29, 2006 (28 comments)

Jangly, wistful guitarpop as requested.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex at 8:03 AM on June 30, 2006 (29 comments)

This is one of the tracks I submitted to the MeFi music compiiation project, but not the one that will be included on the CD. Dessert Parade is primarily a studio band now, since the four of us have scattered around the country and both the bass player and guitar player are on their way to being Famous Rock Stars. We recorded this one in 2002 for our first release.
posted to MeFi Music by emelenjr at 3:14 AM on June 30, 2006 (5 comments)

Recommendations on converting VGA to S-video.
posted to Ask Metafilter by moonbird at 7:19 AM on June 23, 2006 (5 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 (296 comments)

Is it cheaper to keep your thermostat at a constant temperature or a to program it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by 10ch at 11:12 AM on June 2, 2006 (11 comments)

Can Plutor make his own cell phone repeater?
posted to Ask Metafilter by splatta at 9:08 AM on May 23, 2006 (13 comments)

I’m looking for songs that won’t piss me off at six a.m.
posted to Ask Metafilter by cdadog at 7:34 AM on May 19, 2006 (49 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)