Episode 3 of the MetaFilter Podcast is up, featuring an interview with Adam Savage of Mythbusters.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 11:04 PM on March 5, 2007 (50 comments)

Hey kids, it's the first MetaFilter podcast.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 1:35 PM on February 16, 2007 (128 comments)

An ode to some of the more vibrant personas and memorable events in Metafilter history -- and an homage to the classic tune by The Nails. Lyrics with tremendous amounts of annotation inside.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex at 10:47 PM on February 14, 2007 (93 comments)

What's the cool-kid, hackerish and full definition of the phrase: [this is good]?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by teece at 12:15 PM on June 14, 2005 (90 comments)

I'm deploying a new (backwards compatible) URL scheme for mefi [more inside]
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 2:08 PM on February 1, 2007 (136 comments)

Projects just got the ajax treatment, and seems to be working great. Try it and see.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 4:13 PM on January 25, 2007 (22 comments)

This is the thread where we say that the "add favorites from page" icon being tested rocks.
posted to MetaTalk by koeselitz at 11:37 AM on January 25, 2007 (73 comments)

I'm testing out ajax favorites on MeFi right now (only www.metafilter.com). If you open any thread you can add the post or any comment as a favorite without leaving the page. Lemme know if you hit any snags and please hold off on "but, but, can you also make it do x?" requests until we're sure it works in most all browsers.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 9:59 PM on December 29, 2006 (40 comments)

Making an emergency car kit for road trips, especially in winter conditions.

How to travel safely in winter.

What to do if you're lost.

How to survive in the wilderness, according to the US Army. How to build an igloo. How to make emergency snowshoes.

equipped.org reviews personal survival kits, provides the story of five people stranded within sight of one of the US's largest cities, and blogs on the topic of emergency survival. And, last but not least, the equipped.org forums weigh in on the Kim emergency.

Requiescat in pace, James Kim.
posted to MetaFilter by scrump at 7:49 AM on December 7, 2006 (57 comments)

Currently in beta: give a mefi account as a gift. I think all the bugs have been worked out. You put in your friend's email, pay the five bucks, and they'll get an email letting them pick a username, password, and other details. If you try it out, let me know if you or your friend gets any errors.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 6:08 PM on October 26, 2006 (37 comments)

I'm testing out the new tabbed interface here, before I make it live on MeFi and Ask MeFi later today. Feel free to post reactions, bugs, etc. here.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 9:27 AM on October 20, 2006 (128 comments)

An original, campy, Shatner-esque take on a fictional Moon-based Patrol-squad.
posted to MeFi Music by erikgrande at 7:48 PM on September 14, 2006 (19 comments)

This song is called mathowie's community blog, and it's about mathowie, and the community blog, but mathowie's community blog is not the name of the community blog, that's just the name of the song. - lyrical brilliance by It's Raining Florence Henderson, with extra bits of artistic license taken in the studio. - Arlo-esque lead vocals by French Fry, aka my brother Alex.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex at 10:40 PM on September 3, 2006 (144 comments)

MeFi Jobs has a nice map interface on the front page now.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 4:34 PM on September 1, 2006 (17 comments)

Hey look, it's MeFi Jobs. Use it to list jobs you'd like to hire other MeFi members for. Also, it helps if you have a lat/lon stored in your profile, as you will be able to see how far listed jobs are from you. There are probably a few obvious bugs but me and pb will do our best to squash them as fast as you can list them.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 10:03 PM on August 24, 2006 (164 comments)

Newport Oregon lodging possibilities?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by mctsonic at 6:53 PM on August 23, 2006 (10 comments)

Get Rich Slowly, a personal finance web site (created by our jdroth), has been educational to someone who spent most of his life until now pretending financial matters don't exist. His blog is updated frequently, and contains insightful tips on living frugally, eliminating debt, saving and investing. Between his site, and another very educational site entitled I Will Teach You To Be Rich (start here), I've greatly expanded my knowledge about managing my money effectively. Perhaps most importantly, they're both consistently interesting and easy reads. [more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by knave at 10:35 AM on August 1, 2006 (73 comments)

Considering moving to Salem Oregon. Do you live there? Have you lived there before? How can I learn more about the area before we visit? There is
posted to Ask MetaFilter by saragoodman3 at 9:20 AM on July 5, 2006 (12 comments)

Awesome stuff, guys. I'll represent retro/chip music: I'm involved in the niche hobby of writing new music with old videogame hardware. The music you are hearing was programmed in notepad using a TurboGrafx 16 (PC Engine). It's meant to combine Capcom and Konami videogame soundtracks of the late 80s, hence the weird title. I perform this music live in NYC, with guitars and lasers. I got awesome advice on Ask MeFi about how to get my equipment to shows, and as thanks I'll share my stuff with whoever might enjoy it. More of it is at my site, and my friends who also do this share it also.
posted to MeFi Music by jake at 12:10 PM on June 30, 2006 (26 comments)

A cover of ABBA's S.O.S by me (Brad Sucks) and my pal TheHipCola for an ABBA Fight we were involved in.
posted to MeFi Music by frenetic at 11:18 AM on June 30, 2006 (15 comments)

Now in alpha beta gamma whatever: MeFi Music. Built in 12 hours with help from pb, it's still got some rough edges and features to come, but for now you can upload a song you've written and recorded (this isn't for file sharing), stream it from the front page or from its own page (where you can also leave comments). You can add things to playlists and stream those too. And the RSS feed is a podcast you can drag into iTunes to suck down every mp3 that gets posted. I'm sure there are bugs and the color scheme was slapped together in five minutes, but expect to see things ironed out in the next couple weeks and I'll add it to the global nav for all sites when it feels complete. If you have any comments or questions, drop them here.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 12:07 AM on June 30, 2006 (350 comments)

Jangly, wistful guitarpop as requested.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex at 8:03 AM on June 30, 2006 (30 comments)

Tell me some random, strange things about the suburbs of Portland, Ore.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by iced_borsch at 8:22 PM on June 25, 2006 (12 comments)

So. Paul Bausch of all sorts of fame rolled-out an update to his amazing Amazon feed-builder. What's the big deal? Well, I'm a big fan of Wendell Berry and Craig Thompson, of Naguib Mahfouz and books about New Urbanism... and now, with the help of PB's delicious feed-builder, I'll be notified whenever something new comes from any of these authors or meets the "New Urbanism" search criteria, so I can add them to my Amazon wish list... and I think that's pretty darn cool. Add that to Amazon's pre-existing wish list feeds, which let you monitor other people's wish lists for additions ( you can find a wish list's feed on its "home" page ), and I'm in heaven.

( As a direct result of the feeds I subscribed to this weekend, my Amazon wish list has grown from 1600 to more than 1800 items. I blame Paul... he's such an enabler! )
posted to MetaFilter by silusGROK at 1:55 PM on June 12, 2006 (17 comments)

New features for favorites: favorited posts and comments from your contacts have been added to your usercontacts page and there's a page for all favorites from your contacts. This should be useful for finding stuff you may have missed, but that people you trust and enjoy reading deemed worth of saving.

People that marked something as a favorite are no longer shown below each post, but on their own page. On your own favorites page you can now see who else marked the same item as a favorite, and the recent popular favorites page now lists comments as well as posts. Whew.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 4:49 PM on June 8, 2006 (38 comments)

In Memoriam and in Protest --why not use an online deathmatch as a pedestal for speaking out against a war? Artist/Professor uses US Govt-developed America's Army (...placing Soldiering front and center within popular culture and showcasing the roles training, teamwork and technology play in the Army. ... ) as protest and art space. DeLappe's homepage (and jpgs) here
posted to MetaFilter by amberglow at 7:11 AM on May 30, 2006 (130 comments)

David Pogue is the rudest man alive! "My wife and I were excited to receive, as [a] very generous Christmas present from a relative, a Magellan RoadMate 300." He then goes on to absolutely obliterate the gift, *on the New York Times website*, for 20 paragraphs, after which he demands, "For the gift-giver: Do your research. Read the customer reviews. Beware outdated products on store shelves." It's a gift! Learn some tact dude.
posted to MetaFilter by JPowers at 8:26 PM on May 31, 2006 (63 comments)

"The theories and opinions of the German philosopher Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969) on popular music and the culture industry are still highly influential in the domain of media studies. His thoughts about these subjects were very critical, pessimistic even. Adorno analysed the workings of the culture industry in terms of 'standardization' and used the concept of 'pseudo-individualization' to describe its effects on the listeners.
posted to MetaFilter by j-urb at 8:49 AM on May 30, 2006 (14 comments)

1987 - Siskel and Ebert - Behind the scenes: Part 1 (28mb), Part 2 (16mb), Part 3 (18mb). Each segment is about three to four minutes long. For those of us who grew up with these guys on TV, almost 20 years ago, this is a side you've never dreamed of. Part one ends on a down-note, but parts two and three...worth the watch. (language NSFW)
posted to MetaFilter by rougy at 12:01 PM on May 12, 2006 (53 comments)

George Bataille's Documents—a short-lived but influential journal conceived as a 'war machine against received ideas'—has inspired an exhibition, Undercover Surrealism (Flash with sound).
posted to MetaFilter by jack_mo at 5:32 AM on May 10, 2006 (8 comments)