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Bill Kristol's The Weekly Standard stands out in my mind, though I must admit I've never read an issue. It is advertised as a bastion of neoconservatism rather heavily on Fox, though, and Jon Stewart often invites Kristol onto the Daily Show for some decent debates on the war in Iraq.

Check out their site here, and Wiki's article on them here
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 3:33 PM on December 27, 2007

Crap, missed a quotation mark in that last HTML link. The Wiki article is here.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 3:35 PM on December 27, 2007

A bit of research shows it to be the "Todelmer" age from Myst V. It does look gorgeous, though I fear the space exploration angle will be limited seeing as Myst is primarily a puzzle game.

I read that Myst V is full 3D, though, which reminds me that the original Myst had a 3D version as well. So, thanks for giving me another game to put on my list of things to check out one of these days. :)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 6:33 PM on December 20, 2007

Nelson, those sound interesting -- I'll have to check them out after Christmas. Should be good for the looong plane ride back home...

And I guess you're right about the "narrowly defined" thing. I guess it's just born of frustration seeing the near-perfection of Noctis seemingly abandoned by its sole author. So sad... a waste of vision, really.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 9:19 PM on December 20, 2007

If you're a budding Proust who feels constrained by the web's often undersized text boxes, you might want to check out one of the many text box resizing solutions. Here's a great extension to get you started, or a bookmarklet if you're not a fan of bloat.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 3:06 PM on December 20, 2007

You might want to consider keeping (or reinstalling, if you already deleted it) the Foxmarks add-on. You might not need to sync your bookmarks between two computers, which is its primary function, but it has another useful feature, too: it will host a webpage with all your bookmarks on it, so you can access them from anywhere with Internet access.

Here are the URLs for the service:

my.foxmarks.com - regular version

my.foxmarks.com/m - mobile version
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 1:30 PM on December 20, 2007

1:54 (in yeoz's video) is "Yoshi".

2:08 sounds more like "woohoo", though.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 6:41 PM on December 17, 2007

Google Reader can be supplemented with a Greasemonkey script that will open the full HTML web page inside a text box within each item. Take a look:

Screenshot

You can sign up for Google Reader here, get Greasemonkey (for Firefox only)* here, and install the userscript here.


(*) If you don't use Firefox, Wikipedia's article on Greasemonkey has a handy section that discusses and links to Greasemonkey… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 1:23 PM on December 12, 2007 marked best answer

Feck. I just noticed that two of the links in my post are borked. Here are the correct ones, for posterity:

Sign up for Google Reader

Download Greasemonkey extension for Firefox
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 11:17 AM on December 13, 2007

The best thing I could find via Google Image search was the logo for E3 Business Solutions, a UK-based web design company. The logo is very similar, but not exactly the same -- the one you have could possibly be an early version of it, since the company seems pretty new (archive.org only has one hit from the page, in 2007). Also keep in mind that small startups are wont to promote their brand with pens and keychain doodads and things of that nature, which would explain the sticker.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 7:32 AM on December 13, 2007

If you're having trouble searching for answers, keep in mind that it's called "Google Browser Sync". That should return more "official" and relevant results on Google and elsewhere.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 2:41 PM on December 12, 2007

Wait, wait, wait... after reexamining the OP's "positive/negative", I think I know what he's trying to say. It's a bit more understandable with words that make factual sense, though... I'll replace "snow" with "fire" in my examples.

To me, it sounds like a nonstandard rearrangement of an acceptable sentence. Consider this statement:

"Ice is cold, and fire isn't so.… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 11:02 PM on December 8, 2007

philmas: "I'm trying to say that BOTH ice and snow ARE cold when I say "Ice is cold and so isn't snow, " and silly me, it always sounded correct even though it doesn't make any sense grammatically."

Oh, well, in that case I guess it doesn't make sense. I think you threw everybody off in the OP by referring to your phrase as a "positive-negative" construction, implying that it means that ice IS cold (pos) and snow IS NOT… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 2:25 PM on December 10, 2007

That reminds me of the phrase "would have". I know it's acceptable to say stuff like "I would have had to have had surgery." But how many of these can you string together?

"I would have had to have had to have had to have had..."

Kinda like "I know", in a way. "I know that you know that he knew that she knew that you knew... etc."

/tangent
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 10:44 AM on December 5, 2007

Instead of going the usual route and showing them a clip that sings the praises of the Constitution -- which I'm sure they'd find pretty dull -- you could take a different tack and show them how much worse their lives would be without it.

There was a compelling series of PSA's produced by the Ad Council after 9/11 that did this very effectively. Called the "Campaign for Freedom", they depicted an Orwellian America where ordinary citizens were arrested for… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 3:25 PM on December 4, 2007

The internet fails at holding on to old videos. I'm finding scattered references to the "Campaign for Freedom" television spots all over the net, but no video links. The best I can do are some transcripts of the videos, and an archive.org copy of the original campaign page with downloadable links to the video files. Of course, this was back in 2001, so the videos are in RealPlayer format (.smi) and cannot function without a connection to the hosting site, which is long gone.… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 4:16 PM on December 4, 2007

I don't host audio online very often, but the one time I did need to do so I used Boomp3, and was satisfied with it. It works like Imageshack -- just browse to the audio file you want and hit "Upload". It will create a custom page with a built-in Flash-based audio player, and you can dish out the URL to anyone you want.

Two caveats, though: It will only accept WMA and MP3 files, and I'm not sure about any bandwidth restrictions it may have.

Good luck!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 12:53 AM on December 4, 2007

I'm no economic buff, so I can't really help on the technical side. But just as an aside, and since you mentioned several literary examples of your desired lifestyle, I thought you might enjoy the short story "Maneki Neko" by Bruce Sterling (in plain text and Google Books versions).

It describes a de-facto gift economy like the one you envision, based in Japan and controlled by a powerful, benevolent, in-the-background AI. Money still exists, but most purchases… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 2:38 AM on December 2, 2007

I got the 16GB Touch, myself, and I'm very happy with it. I had a competent (if aging) phone already, and didn't want to be tied down to AT&T. Plus, my campus is drenched with signal, so the lack of EDGE wasn't a problem. And although it seemed very limited in functionality at first, I quickly jumped on the "jailbreak" bandwagon, with fantastic results.

There are websites out there that, by merely navigating to them using the Safari browser, will unlock the… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 9:51 PM on November 28, 2007

I occasionally get stuff like this from family, usually of the "touching/outraging story from a Christian perspective that is transparently fake" variety. I recommend responding to these with a link to Snopes.com rebutting the story, nothing more. At best you will enlighten them and teach them to be more skeptical and critical, and at worst you'll scare them away from ever bothering you with such tripe in the future.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 10:07 PM on November 24, 2007

In the context of the matchmaking system, there really isn't any such thing as "getting better", just reaching your peak. Starting out things are easy as you blast less experienced players out of the water, but soon you'll reach your level, where you're matched with equally skilled players and lose about as many games as you'll win. At this point, there's no easy way to significantly boost your skill level.

If you're hell-bent on continuing that upward climb,… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 3:52 PM on November 20, 2007

Two quick notes on chrisamiller's post:

- If you want a quick way to see a map's killzones, check out this page on Bungie.net. It's a set of global "heatmaps" for all the maps that show where people are killed the most, and by what weapon. You can also find personalized heatmaps in your stats page.

- If gathering intelligence on your opponents is your thing, use the saved films! They're a fantastic resource. And really fun to play around with, too. :)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 5:42 PM on November 20, 2007