MetaFilter posts tagged with tags

For Thirty Euros, A Palestinian Artist Will Tag The West Bank Wall For You

Fiasco da Gama — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:24:52 -0800

For €30, a Palestinian artist will tag the West Bank wall for you.

Tag Art

blue_beetle — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:54:03 -0800

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. Example. (via)

Play games, teach computers

carsonb — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:45:02 -0800

Each year, people around the world spend billions of hours playing computer games. What if all this time and energy could be channeled into useful work? What if people playing computer games could, without consciously doing so, simultaneously solve large-scale problems?
GWAP is Luis van Ahn's answer [PDF, HTML cache] to these questions, a collection of easy and engaging games that make computers smarter.

Tag Galaxy

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 22 May 2008 06:26:28 -0800

Tag Galaxy is pretty cool. [Flickr, tags, photos, fun for all]

least awful use of tag clouds ever

wendell — Sun, 11 May 2008 16:43:20 -0800

Brand Tags Tag a brand/logo and see what others have tagged it. Because "whatever it is they say a brand is, is what it is", depending on what your meaning of is is, I guess. Or play the reverse tag game and identify brands by their tags. And now, there's Celeb Tags! This will not wendell. Disclosure: I'm posting this here now because I think it would be interesting to see what effect the MetaFilter community has on the tag cloud before the Diggers, Farkers, etc. get to it.

If they suck, we just have to say goodbye

serazin — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:39:47 -0800

Fuck SCRaps, RON N CANDY, BIG Baby Jesus, Rivise Your ideas, WE'RE ALWAYS WILLING TO GIVE SOMEBODY A CHANCE BUT, FUCK THE NEDS, SOCIALISM IN OUR LIFETIME, READ THE TESTOSTERONE FILES, I love my Mom, PASTRAMI DOT.COMMI, You too deserve HAPPINESS!, ZAPPA WAS OUR Beethoven, Aug 2, 1943, Paul is a weasal, LED ZEPPELIN RULES, FUCK YUO ...

Repair your carbon credit, cheap

jfuller — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:11:57 -0800

December 2006: carbon credit market to crash-land? One problem, most of the countries submitted emissions plans that allocated permits for more than is currently being emitted--in other words, instead of reductions, they proposed increases. Collectively, EU countries have allocated permits allowing emissions 15 percent higher than actual emissions. February 2007: Splat. The collapse in the price of a tonne of carbon dating back to May last year when it emerged that most countries in the scheme had set their carbon caps far too high, resulting in fewer firms than expected having to buy credits and causing the price of a tonne of carbon to plummet from over €30 to less than €10. SPLAT!: A year ago, CO2 was changing hands in the ETS at 30 euros (33 dollars) a tonne, triple that at the market's launch in January 2005. Today, a tonne of CO2 can be bought for little more than one euro. I'm a good greenie, I'm buying enough credits to offset my coal-fired barbie and my Bradley Shopping Vehicle for the rest of eternity. That should cost me about fiddy cents. (Buy yours here.)

US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud

afu — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 09:57:19 -0800

US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud View the most popular words in presidential speeches, from 1776 to 2006. Simply sliding the bar from year to year makes it easy to see trends over time. (via Crooked Timber)

Audible Hemmorage

ambulance blues — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 13:33:31 -0800

Gotta Love Amazon's Product Tags. Another milepost for the K-Fed meme.

GILG!

delmoi — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:35:20 -0800

Google Image Labler game You and a random partner try to pick tags for random images. If any tags match up, you both get points.

Not just a crappy Cranberries song anymore

terrapin — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 13:32:49 -0800

Silly name, but fun all the same ... Free web (2.0, natch) chat site that allows users to search for chat rooms based on tags or to set up their own room(s) that are either public or private.

I can label my house from here.

Mr.Encyclopedia — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:18:31 -0800

If you want to see all the interesting stuff hidden in Google Maps then you need look no further than a site like Google Sightseeing, but what about the other way around? If you've ever wished Google Maps was better labeled then Wikimapia might be what you're looking for.

Code Snippets

turbodog — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:58:13 -0800

Code Snippets is a tag-based repository for (duh) code snippets.

News Cloud

srboisvert — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 06:36:02 -0800

NewsCloud. A new way to read the Washington Post.

You gonna shoot, shoot!

jfuller — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:16:22 -0800

Tejas to Sony BMG: "Reach for th' sky, varmint. Now turn around reeeeal slow. And keep them hands where ah can see 'em." The rest of the necktie party is forming up over here. Popcorn?

RawSugar

TunnelArmr — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:23:45 -0800

RawSugar - tastier than del.icio.us? Their hierarchical tagging scheme and the way they handle suggested items between users seem slick. But the social bookmarking phenomenon keeps growing, including specialty sites for academics and scientists. With Yahoo!'s My Web 2.0, it went mainstream. Google's tagging too. Heck, even Amazon's doing it. The usefulness of a social bookmarking site depends on its popularity, so is the concept getting hurt by all this balkanization? Have things gotten out of hand if there's a swiss army bookmarklet tool generator to speed things up? When will the tagging craze die down?

Art for everyone!

gen — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:54:43 -0800

Sketchplanet.com "is a new web service based around sketches. Taking some obvious cues from Flickr (e.g. tags, ability to comment etc.) Sketchplanet is an online sketching network where people can draw whatever they like, add titles, comments, tags, save favourites and more."

H2O Playlist

signal — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:44:20 -0800

H2O Playlist: a series of links to books, articles, and other materials that collectively explore an idea or set the stage for a course, discussion, or current event. With tags, rss and other good stuff. And this time the color scheme is quite nice.

CommonTunes

signal — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:05:45 -0800

foundcity

srboisvert — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:22:35 -0800

Foundcity is a social mapping tool for creating a personalized map of your life on-the-fly. Using your mobile phone, you "tag" or capture photos throughout the day, label them with any words you want, and send them to your map. At home, you access and customize your map, which you can share with friends, keep private, or publish openly. As a visitor to the Foundcity site, you view a map of all tags and connect with the people and places that share your interests. By plugging in to the network of Foundcity users, you learn what others value in the city as you surf their hotspots. By publishing your own tags, you share what you know about your city.

Smoked Beer

spock — Thu, 26 May 2005 14:23:09 -0800

Anybody into smoked beer? It's called Rauchbier and it's a new one on me, but it's been around since the 1500s. (I'm apparently a little behind the curve). Here's a recipe if you are into homebrewing. (Which reminds me, did you see the article: How to Brew Beer in a Coffee Pot ???)

A look back at THE SciFi space movie

spock — Thu, 19 May 2005 07:44:41 -0800

At a time such as this, it is important to remember what true Sci-Fi moviemaking talent LOOKS like. "When [studio] bosses finally got to see what they'd put their money into . . . they couldn't figure out if they were looking at the biggest disaster in [studio] history or at one of the greatest movies ever made." The year was 1968, one year prior to man's landing on the moon. <Gawd, I miss Omni magazine>

collaborative images

jeremias — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 05:19:34 -0800

Fellow automatically combines 50 Flickr images with the same tag into a single image. So who owns the copyright? Heh.

meta meta

acid freaking on the kitty — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 16:31:30 -0800

"Conversation will improve, language barriers will fall, artificial intelligence will begin to emerge, and, hopefully, people will be more honest about what they want and who they want to have sex with." If you could meta-tag a tag itself, would the resulting "tagweb" mirror how we collectively organize thoughts in our [collective] brain? (via del.icio.us)

Earmarked

kika — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:36:03 -0800

Visitors to the US tagged with RFID chips? They already use them on goods and livestock, but soon also foreign visitors will be earmarked. Will it make the US a safer country?