MetaFilter posts tagged with reddit

group art = chaos?

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

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

Reddit founders depart

khafra — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:14:46 -0800

Reddit founders Kn0thing and Spez have left the building. The social media juggernaut's founders Alexis (Kn0thing) and Steve (Spez) have declined to renew their contracts, prompting much discussion and speculation on reddit itself, and the incubator that helped it start up, Ycombinator.

How To Program

grumblebee — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:37:36 -0800

A free computer-programming course on reddit. Click "prev" for more lessons. 113 lessons so far.

The XKCD Puzzle

zarq — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:47:11 -0800

XKCD author Randall Munroe appears to have left a neat little cryptographic puzzle for Reddit users in his new book. They're trying to decipher it.

Ask Me Anything

WCityMike — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:19:28 -0800

I was shot in the head two years ago. I was in prison for six years. I live in a Taliban hub. I need to be an amputee. I'm four. I'm six. I'm eight. I have a micropenis. I've had sex both with and without a foreskin. My sister and I are in love. I'm in love with my mother. I married and had a daughter with my first cousin. I love my dog. I have killed someone while driving drunk. I have superpowers from chemotherapy. I was in a cult for seven years. I own a woman. I used to be asexual (I am still asexual). I was in porn (and I'm still in porn). I took a boy's virginity. I am killing myself in a few months. I started the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I started Reddit.

I have a "state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions". I have Alice in Wonderland syndrome. I believe free will doesn't exist.

I was driven gay. I am gay in a straight marriage. I was born a woman, became a man, and as a man, I'm gay.

I'm a pawnbroker, mortician, spammer, multimillionaire, working TV/film comedy writer, Freemason, actor's assistant, beekeeper, drug dealer, Catholic priest, kleptomaniac, nudist, prosecutor, suicide hotline volunteer.

I'm a pathological liar. I might be making all this up.

Ask me anything.

Beyond the Front Page of Reddit

thisperon — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:48:34 -0800

Apologies in advance for yet another reddit link, but I thought these were worthy enough to post for the uninitiated. Reddit, a link aggregator site, is often dismissed as another digg, 4chan, or fark, perhaps justifiably so. Users, however, know there's some excellent subreddits (among the thousands) lurking beneath the main page... The "I am a" subreddit. (Based on the statement: "I am a ____, ask me anything.") No holds barred self-descriptions of all kinds of professions, religions, and circumstances little understood by popular American culture, including: a sikh, someone who lived in North Korea as a child, and a reddit cofounder. The Today I Learned subreddit. Want to procrastinate some more? Check out the top scorers. The Ask Reddit subreddit. Like Askmetafilter without the moderation and spell check. The wikipedia subreddit, linking to the more unusual and interesting wikipedia entries. And for metafilter diehards, the ask metafilter subreddit. (Just posting a link to a link that links to this site is making me feel spacey.)

The Wonderful Details of... wait, reddit? Really?

saturnine — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:58:06 -0800

Over the years I've never really paid attention to the reddit alien. So it's a good thing this guy did! (SLYT)

Auto Warranty scammers Revenge

milovoo — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:19:33 -0800

It looks like the Auto Warranty phone scammers who keep calling your cell phone may finally be getting their comeuppance, right about ... now.

RockyRoad to Fascism

theora55 — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:16:13 -0800

To celebrate the Inauguration, Ben and Jerry's has issued a new ice cream flavor, Yes, PeCan, with profits donated to the Common Cause Education Fund. There's a Reddit thread for suggestions for flavors commemorating Bush/Cheney. Yes, I linked to Reddit. On the front page. Because it really made me laugh, and cry a little.