MetaFilter posts tagged with metafilter

group art = chaos?

grumblebee — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:02:34 -0800

Come on Metafilter! Have something prettier than the reddit version.

Imagine 150 years of Metafilter

Caduceus — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:22:21 -0800

"Notes and Queries: A Medium of Communication for Literary Men, General Readers, etc." Notes and Queries is a long running journal which printed the, well, notes and queries sent in to them by readers. Google books seems to have full view available for most, if not all, of the issues from the founding in 1849 up through 1908. Notes were items that the readers of the journal thought other readers might find of interest. For instance, in 1884, Frederick E. Sawyer thought you might find something of interest in the subject of Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and moustaches. Queries were, again, pretty self explanatory, where correspondents write in with questions for the other readers. In 1901, W.M. Norman wanted to know about the use of acacia in the funerals of Freemasons. I leave it to you to find the answer. Finally, each issue had a responses section, where readers could respond to either notes or queries. In 1874, Edmund Tew wrote in to answer a question about Logarys Light. I leave it to you to find the question.

Happy Birthday Metafilter!

jokeefe — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:41:58 -0800

Cat-scan.com Cat-Scan.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, or why.

A polaroid a day keeps on keeping on

Kattullus — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:53:09 -0800

MetaFilter's own dirtdirt has been taking a polaroid photograph every day since July 14th, 2002. That's 2114 images as of today. He has other cool sets on his flickr page, my favorite being his pictures of school lunches.

MetaFilter, Albania

Wolfdog — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:04:05 -0800

MetaFilter: A small city in Albania? This is, to be perfectly clear, a link to a site designed primarily with the intent of getting people to link to it.

July 14, 1999

Stan Chin — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:43:50 -0800

Cat-Scan.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, or why.

the bester on the bestof

progosk — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:07:13 -0800

Unlike the time you gave up on Slashdot, you eventually came back to Metafilter.

Google loses one battle to the competition.

JJ86 — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:59:11 -0800

Google Answers Goes 404. Is it too much competition from Yahoo! answers or Metafilter?

What are those mefi artsy types up to now?

madamjujujive — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:09:59 -0800

First, interrobang got the ball rolling with his cool illustrations that can be shuffled in any order to create a new continuous panorama. Cortex added some coded widgetry to automate the process, creating a neat little toy. Then taz and iconomy joined in with their own creative spin. It's nice to see a contemporary techno version of the polyrama, a fine creative tradition dating back to the mid 1800s.

god damn how good at animation french students are.

6am — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:13:22 -0800

Another fucking elephant post. This one however is followed up by a link to inhumanly good animation done by another French dude at the same company.

Are MetaFilter users too cynical? Or simply more intelligent and analytical?

mathowie — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:32:22 -0800

The online confession of a childhood murderer. The story behind a trolling comment that caught notice here long ago and I never stopped wondering about.

MetaFilter is seven!

kyleg — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:42:16 -0800

Cat-Scan.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, or why.

An Embarassment of Musical Riches

cortex — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 09:46:26 -0800

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!

Fifty-thousand.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:53:45 -0800

5 0 ,0 0 0 !

Homeland Security visit a hoax. Students do the funniest things.

Meridian — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 16:34:54 -0800

America seems a little less evil today. The outrage and indignation expressed in a previous MeFi story was unjustified. The Department of Homeland Security did not visit a student after he made an interlibrary request for Mao Tse-Tung's Little Red Book. The student made it all up.

But Metafilter DOES Exist!

jb_thms — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 08:43:30 -0800

This Site Cannot Exist! Recently I've been seeing a lot of crazy talk around the web regarding the possibility of a purely "community driven" website. And it is FIERCE -- running the gamut from here to here to here . And, although the ongoing discussion is interesting (and centered around the pontification of one person), I couldn't help but think, "What the Hell is wrong with these people?" Community-owned blogging/websites have been alive and well for years. For example: Kuro5hin, Slashdot, Linkfilter, Plastic, and a growing host of sites using community platforms like Drupal and Scoop. Heck, all they'd have to do is head on over to Google and type in the words "Community Weblog" to discover the answer to their queries. That's right. At the top of the page staring them in the face is the grand-daddy of all community Blogging -- the pioneer that started it all -- Metafilter.com!! Is community blogging possible? Come on! Long live the Big "M"!!

How do they rate websites, anyway?

Lynsey — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 23:06:15 -0800

What/who is silktide and how do they get these results? I submitted Metafilter to Silktide on a whim and now I'm wondering what tools/rubric(s) are these folks using and how do they arrive at their results?

Metafilter has an evil doppelganger!

jackofsaxons — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:40:40 -0800

Evil Metafilter doppelganger has been birthed unto the internet.

Happy Birthday, Metafilter!

anastasiav — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:39:56 -0800

Cat-Scan.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, or why.

Feel Good Friday

kristin — Fri, 20 May 2005 08:40:13 -0800

Metafilter has discussed the tsunami this year, and the dreadful aftermath, especially on childrenbefore, and we have discussed the various forms relief efforts can take. Old Skool web journaler turned author (book 1)(book 2) (book 3) organizes book drives every year for libraries. This year, she is organizing donors to supply basic school supplies for children in areas hit hard by the tsunami. The Kancheepuram District she is targeting for help has a large child labour problem, so giving these children what they need for an education is more than just books and pencils - it is a way to help them avoid the fate of so many of their peers, and to transition from 'child labourer' to 'child'. Pam is partnering with Asha for education. Her readers donated enough to hit the first two goals (approx $7000.00 so far), and the goal now is to supply every child in the region - $11,428 in total.

It costs $4.61 USD to supply one child with an educational kit.

mathowie + recumbent bike + Flicker = hilarity

40 Watt — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:12:36 -0800

Looks like someone got themselves a new recumbent bike. Original photo here, apologies to Matt, thanky to waxy

save your posts? why not

omega — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 02:15:59 -0800

the simplest ideas are usually the best ones. Its easy to forget that the internet is a relatively new medium. Whats the bet that in the future that we will all be wishing that we still had all of our content that we contributed to "cyberspace" such as reviews, comments, posts... Who knows if 10 - 15 years from now, if the sites we post on will still be up, even stable sites such as MetaFilter may not exist in the future. sites have shut down before, taking everyones content with it. Its a simple idea, why not just store your content, be it on your desktop or a web application? So who wants to start a MeFi label over at bulletin board buddy.

Metafilter wins Best Community Weblog 2004

sfslim — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:22:30 -0800

We're number one! So, how are we going to divide up the $20.04?

Floggies!

jearbear — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 13:55:13 -0800

With the next round of bloggies (or web log awards for those not down with the hip lingo), there's some concern that some types of blogs with large communities may not be included. Specifically, communities that are well known for tons of online events, and large gathering places whose interactions leak in to and out from real life. So, the food bloggers (floggers?) have done what they do best, and started their own awards - with 14 nomination categories, the results plan to, at the very least, make us all drool, if not inspire a few feasts here and there.

(and yay to mefi for winning last year's best community blog!)

Viewropa

andrew cooke — Sun, 31 Oct 2004 10:18:47 -0800

Viewropa - OK, maybe there's some agreement not to post this here, but I wasn't part of the development, and it's already got some good links (especially the evolution of writing one). So here's Viewropa - a community site started by members of MetaFilter who are attempting an experiment in multi-lingual, collaborative and Euro-focussed blogging. All are welcome here, no matter where you're from [...] (beware the impossible Portuguese kill-the-snowman game) (and I get the impression a non-English link would be more than welcome).