MetaFilter posts tagged with questions

Tackling life's dailly dilemmas, perplexiing predicaments, and intriguing obstacles

pithy comment — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:21:55 -0800

If you can't Ask MetaFilter, try asking What Would Rob Do? In his podcast, "NPR's Rob Sachs talks about life's sticky situations and how turn them into an opportunity for adventure, growth, or at the very least, laughter." Like how to propose, or if that doesn't work, what to do when you run into your ex (Mp3) (turns out being calm and collected beats out feigning not to have made eye contact), how to talk to strangers (Mp3), sing a lullaby (by interviewing Rob Springfield), or how to, you know, avoid, um, Verbal Ticks. Each podcast episode is an interview with one kind of expert or another. Some posts also go on the Monkey See blog as well as a facebook fan page.

Welcome! [Name] is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for [audience].

Mr. Palomar — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:31:25 -0800

Programmers may already know about the blogs of Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) and Joel Spolsky (Joel on Software), or their increasingly-popular collaborative Q&A site Stack Overflow. Additional sites have been introduced recently for other audiences: Server Fault for system administrators and IT professionals, Doctype for web designers, and the just-out-of-beta Super User for "computer enthusiasts" (previously and inspired by). It would appear that the business model is to sell the engine behind all these sites: the Stack Exchange "knowledge exchange platform" is soon to be released.

Open For Questions

dersins — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:06:20 -0800

Open For Questions. Metafilter's Own™ box and klangklangston "skim the White House's Open For Questions, posting the best and brightest queries the American public can manage." [via mefi projects] NB: "Best and brightest" may be used facetiously.

Not Obama ?!?!

Gyan — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:10:45 -0800

What Will Change Everything? - the 2009 Edge Annual Question [the editions of 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002]

You have questions, strangers have answers.

cjorgensen — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:21:12 -0800

Dial-a-Stranger: When you don't know who to turn to... Turn to who you don't know. The creation of Zachary Kent and Mercedes Martinez. It's not at all like AskMeFi.

Go ahead: diagnose yourself! Are you an Aspie?

grumblebee — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:38:26 -0800

Do you have Asperger's Syndrome? Answer these questions and find out. I'm skeptical about this, but I find it fascinating. For years, I've suspected I'm an Aspie, and, as it turns out, I answered the questions exactly the way the researchers predict an Aspie would answer them. My "normal" wife answers them they way "normal" people do. I am almost incapable of understanding the "normal" answer. To me, the Aspie answer is obviously correct. Here is a great discussion about the research. Here is the original research paper (MS Word file). Sorry for basically just reposting a boingboing article, but I thought many MeFites would find this interesting.

What Are You Doing Here?

feelinglistless — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:44:49 -0800

What Are You Doing Here? In case you're wondering, Scott Grey was for many years the writer of the comic strips in Doctor Who Magazine. At least I assume it's the same one. And I'm sure someone said it in the US TV movie. Yes, it counts.

Hey Jeff - Where's my "advertising your new site" badge.

seanyboy — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:28:05 -0800

Stack Overflow is now out of beta. Designed as a question and answer forum for programmers, it's been made to fill the gap currently filled by sites like the much hated and oft mispronounced Expertsexchange. If you're sick of having to scroll to the bottom, and you write code, then this could be for you. The site has been made by a team headed by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky. These are two uber-bloggers who've made a name for themselves talking about how to code. Of course, for haters of Stack Overflow, there are already a couple of sites to pamper to your anger. Finally, if you're wondering what a stack overflow is, then wikipedia has the answer.

What is the meaning of this post?

desjardins — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:47:53 -0800

Ask a Philosopher. Is the sentence of death really a punishment? How can we discern the difference of how we authentically "feel" as opposed to how we "think" we feel? If humans didn't exist, would animals still have rights?

Should I post this?

Gyan — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:56:18 -0800

What have you changed your mind about? Why? - the latest installment of The Edge Annual Question [FPPs for 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002]

New age of ignorance

bobbyelliott — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:23:04 -0800

The new age of ignorance. A panel of well known (UK) scientists and artists are asked some basic questions about science. Except the questions weren't that basic (since when is the Second Law of Thermodynamics considered basic knowledge?) so the results weren't surprising... although some of the answers were amusing ("The sky is blue because the sea reflects on it."). The worrying thing is that the questions could have been much simpler ("How many planets are there in the Solar System?") and I suspect the results would have been much the same. Meanwhile, ignorance marches on.

Amaze your (dumber) friends.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 14:55:57 -0800

Peter answers .

Doxory

chrismear — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 05:15:22 -0800

Doxory. Often in life we are faced with a choice of 2.0 possible courses of action. Should I do X or Y? Now you can harness the wisdom of the web crowds to resolve those painful dilemmas for you!

When Ask MetaFilter isn't enough

escabeche — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:42:07 -0800

Got a spiritual question? Ask an Islamic scholar. Or ask a Trappist monk. Or ask a Catholic priest. Or a Lutheran pastor. Jewish? Ask a Rabbi. Jewish and like firearms? Ask a rabbi with a gun.

Mr. Bush, I have some impertinent questions for you

nofundy — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:46:28 -0800

An Impartial Interrogation
One of the things I miss about my eighteen years in the US Senate are the stories of the old Southern Democrats. I didn't always vote with them, but I loved their technique of responding to an opponent's questions with a humorous story. Once when Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina had to handle a tough question from Mike Mansfield, he said, "You know, Mr. Leader, that question reminds me of the old Baptist preacher who was telling a class of Sunday school boys the creation story. 'God created Adam and Eve and from this union came two sons, Cain and Abel and thus the human race developed.' A boy in the class then asked, 'Reverend, where did Cain and Abel get their wives?' After frowning for a moment, the preacher replied, 'Young man--it's impertinent questions like that that's hurtin' religion.'"

Hey Google... should I continue living?

miss lynnster — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:57:58 -0800

The top questions people in China want to ask the internet...

Why so many questions?

GuyZero — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 07:12:23 -0800

Yes, another one. ~~Best~~ Rest of the Web. There are lots of questions sites now. Amazon opened Askville. And now Windows Live has "QnA". I'm all for competition and innovation, but really, why does the question-and-answer site format attract so much "me too" behaviour?

Not that the answers make it any better.

aerotive — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:47:57 -0800

Pet Peeves in Customer Service Why cellphones are so proprietary, why PA systems sound terrible, why rental companies gouge on gas, and answers to other vexing questions.

Ask MetaFilter + group hug =

GuyZero — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:05:31 -0800

Ask MetaFilter + group hug = justcurio.us

Web 2.0 Question & Answer Sites

GuyZero — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:40:12 -0800

So we all have our favourite question site. And we all know the big-brand takes on the space. But now there's the Web 2.0 Q&A sites: Wondir (Wondr?), Oyogi (in beta, of course) and the latest, Yedda. [via TechCrunch]

Dropping Knowledge

divabat — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 20:49:31 -0800

On September 9th 2006, 112 of the world's writers, artists, activists, and social entrepeneurs (nominees here) will gather for a Table of Free Voices in Berlin, Germany, discussing questions about the important issues of today. Who provides those questions? You.

You Get Your Money's Worth

parrot_person — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 03:06:04 -0800

If you are one of the Good People, you are entitled to the phone number of a homeless, haloed Computer Genius. And even if you're not Good, you can have some free advice about such topics as how to lose weight ("Stop being so LAZY and INCONSIDERATE") and how to overcome "saxual" addiction ("When something in your pants or panties is taking over your life . . . find a hobby you can do instead of sax").

"The saxophones would eat the same thing as Gene [Vincent]." - Now how do I mark this as best answer?

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 06:07:30 -0800

There is a new question asking website. It is powered by humans via the Mechanical Turk program. Said the Gramophone has a bit of fun with it.

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

Roger Dodger — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:51:50 -0800

How do you get help on a web forum? RTFM.

Ooo es muy macho?

Smedleyman — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:37:13 -0800

Ooo es muy macho libertariadadista? (Ricardo Mantelban es muy macho! Pero es libertariadadista? Yo no se. Quién sabe? ) El Presidente Bushista esay: “Queiro preguntas muy macho” Quein es ooo preforma en la supportidad de la guerra en terror?Diez preguntas.