Coulda swore there was an AskMe about a site that would allow you to punch in a URL and see what the site looks likes on different browsers/platforms... but of course I can't find it. Anyone recall this or am I imagining it?
posted to MetaTalk by dobbs at 2:00 PM on July 6, 2008 (29 comments)

What's the big deal with JL Austin's "How To Do Things with Words"?
posted to Ask Metafilter by limon at 8:04 PM on May 20, 2008 (10 comments)

Duke University has three image collections of old U.S. and Canadian advertisements. Ad*Access a database of over 7000 print ads from 1911 to 1956. Emergence of Advertising in America has 9000 images of ads from 1850-1920. Medicine and Madison Avenue has 600 medical ads and documents from 1911 to 1958. You can browse the collections by product, company, subject, year and categories or you can use the search function. Here are some of my favorites: Miss Clairol, They're Both in the Swim Today, Fancy Goods and Toy Bazaar, Sky Blue Pink, SAS Makes Airline History, A Montgomery Ward Hat that Becomes Nearly Every Woman, Radiant Peony and Hitler's Death Warrant.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus at 7:57 PM on April 14, 2008 (11 comments)

Where do the experienced Javascript / AJAX developers hang out and discuss things on the net?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston at 9:32 AM on April 6, 2007 (14 comments)

What books, programs, sites are there out there to teach Python who has never programmed before? Ideally, I'm looking for a resource that teaches me both the language and general programming concepts.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dantekgeek at 1:06 AM on April 6, 2007 (15 comments)

Help me find a Sony Ericsson K790a or K550i and figure out how unlocked phones work with US service providers, pretty please!
posted to Ask Metafilter by Asherah at 7:02 PM on February 18, 2007 (16 comments)

MySQL source vs 'devel' package quirkiness...
posted to Ask Metafilter by nomisxid at 4:12 PM on February 5, 2007 (7 comments)

Sherry Turkle, who used to believe in the benefits of robot pets, has changed her tune and now "finds human-machine love unsettling (pdf)". Tyrell:"We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all, they are emotionally inexperienced, with only a few years in which to store up the experiences which you and I take for granted. If we gift them with a past, we create a cushion or a pillow for their emotions, and consequently, we can control them better." Was he referring to us or them?
posted to MetaFilter by sluglicker at 2:25 AM on December 7, 2006 (14 comments)

Is there a Flickr for culture and the arts? What about a Wikipedia?
posted to Ask Metafilter by featherboa at 6:59 AM on November 29, 2006 (5 comments)

What other podcasts can you recommend? I need to find more distraction for my hour-long commutes; I love podcasts, but I'm not finding enough that are well done and interesting.
posted to Ask Metafilter by TochterAusElysium at 4:42 PM on November 22, 2006 (32 comments)