MetaFilter posts tagged with order

"Show grid"

signal — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:52:54 -0800

If you're a designer, you need the Grid System.

People in Order

spec80 — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:48:06 -0800

People in Order - Age. Love. By Lenka Clayton and James Price. In 2006, artists Lenka Clayton and James Price traveled across Britain, shot video portraits, and made four short films. The other two are portraits of women throughout stages of pregnancy and portraits of homes based on income level. (Sadly, I can't find these films online.) Clayton and Price have also collaborated on Conversation, a short about first impressions. People in Order was part of the Portable Film Festival.

“I'm a minor player in my own life story.”

Webbster — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:40:16 -0800

Anthony H. Wilson: 20th February 1950 - 10th August 2007

Zeitgeist - Hegel would NOT be proud.

Baldons — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:16:39 -0800

Zeitgeist, the movie [Google Video link embedded] - An interesthing, if bizarre, mix of buffed-up comparative mythology, 9/11 conspiracy theories and New world order rambling about banks, loans, debts and war. Is paranoia the spirit of our times?

a fascinating short timely rectangular (due to the CSS box model) white-on-blue American pixel-based educational post (about adjectives)

grumblebee — Sat, 19 May 2007 11:58:25 -0800

"The old, mean man" vs. "The mean old man." Here's an aspect of English (and other languages) I've never thought of before. If you're using a string of adjectives, there's a natural order for them to appear in: "opinion :: size :: age :: shape :: color :: origin :: material :: purpose". (Although I find "old, mean," due to it's strange order, sort of striking.) [more info: 1, 2, 3]

insert loon call here

The Card Cheat — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:27:07 -0800

The late Dan Gibson: Pioneering wildlife documentarian and sound archivist. Inventor of the Dan Gibson Parabolic Microphone. Musician. Order of Canada recipient. All-around good guy.

When I'm bad, do I still get to blame my brothers and sisters?

notmtwain — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 02:45:26 -0800

The New "Science" of Siblings An amusing article from Time magazine by Jeffrey Kluger which reports that your siblings have more influece on your personality than any other group-- parents, peers, spouses, children, etc. My ex-wife thinks I'm sarcastic, combative, insensitive, etc. Do I get to blame my brothers and sisters for this now? Another article on this issue "The Science of Siblings". Apparently, they could have made me more likely to be gay too.

Law and Order is the greatest show ever

clockworkjoe — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:53:00 -0800

When is Law and Order on? The listings are dynamically generated with links to show summaries as well. I can't think of a better homepage now, can you?

Reading rainbow?

O9scar — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:21:05 -0800

There is nothing wrong in this whole wide world. Artist Chris Cobb convinced Adobe Bookshop in San Francisco to allow him to reclassify 20,000 books based solely on their color. The result is like something out of a dream. Here are some pictures, and here's an interview with him.

Greek Temple Architecture and Linkeriffica of Antiquity

y2karl — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 05:05:42 -0800

Greek Temple Architecture: They were houses--houses for cult statues, storehouses of treasures given to the gods--they were not churches. Worship consisted, by and large, of sacrificial ritual--animal sacrifice: killing animals and eating them, for the most part--and, hence, it was done out of doors. The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook's Accounts of Hellenic Religious Beliefs and Accounts of Personal Religion give additional flavor and context. Greek religious architecture evolved from wooden structures and was tradition bound--they built in stone as they had in wood according to variations on a traditional canon called the orders, first and foremost, the Doric Order , the Ionic Order and the Corinthian Order. Here are some r e s t o r a t i o n s. I love restorations, on paper or models rather than at the actual sites. The first in a series.

panopticon — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 07:37:44 -0800

Bush signed an executive order on Nov. 1 limiting the public's access to past presidents' papers. Many of Ronald Reagan's documents were set to go public, but the release was delayed while the current White House reviewed the policy for nine months. Now, records don't go public until after 12 years, and once a request is made, the current president and the president in question have to approve access. The only place I saw this reported was in a NYT editorial. Is there something to hide? Is the timing of this order improper?

internal — Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:00:55 -0800

From The Smoking Gun comes a couple of fabulously funny court orders courtesy of the Honorable Samuel B. Kent of Texas. First, we have a order denying a motion to transfer (the good stuff starts on page 2, second paragraph). My favorite line: Defendant will again be pleased to know that regular limousine service is available from Hobby Airport, even to the steps of the humble courthouse, which has got lights, indoor plummin', 'lectric doors, and all sorts of new stuff, almost like them big courthouses back East. The second one is an equally funny Order or Transfer for the Republic of Bolivia vs. Phillip Morris.