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Thanks, zamboni. And cortex!

And fandango_matt, wherever it is you've gone...
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 5:57 PM on September 14, 2008

Jordan117

It just has my Creature Creator stuff right now since I'm still waiting on my copy to arrive, but I could not resist downloading the (offline-only) game when it leaked, so I already have some stuff cooked up to upload when I get the real thing.

My thoughts on the game so far:

It's really all about the Space phase. The early stages are so short, so simple, that they're more like tutorials to inure you to the… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 3:34 PM on September 8, 2008

taz: "Also, I think there may be a some problems with comments on the card... My actual comment has "posted by RikiTikiTavi" on it, and the comment following mine has my name on it, though it's from Wilder (and her name shows up on the next one, and etc... I guess)."

The formatting's just weird -- it puts two dividers between each comment and its byline, but nothing between the byline… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 10:17 PM on September 4, 2008

I may be a journalism major and a member of the SPJ, but my absence from this list makes me feel like a fraud. A fraud.

Also:

Related Sources:

Alarming News
Bitch. Ph.D.
Grouchy Old Cripple
Ambient Irony

Heh.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 12:15 AM on August 27, 2008

When I was younger, one of my favorite computer time-sinks was Civilization II. I wasn't much into the combat aspect, but more the challenge of developing an efficient and aesthetically-pleasing civilization. It was pleasing to drop down new cities and carve spindly roads through the hills and forests, laying down irrigation and farming like abstract art. Then later ramrodding railroads like I-bars through the webwork, hooking up my vast expanse of cities in a united,… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 12:09 AM on August 27, 2008

Thanks for the heads up. I just tested the image on the various caches. Google and Archive.org don't have it, but Coral does. I'll go ahead and use that if there's no chance of them taking the image down.

Just out of curiosity, is uploading images to hosting sites not allowed because it might exceed bandwidth caps and get removed? Or does it fall under a broad interpretation of the self-linking ban?
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 6:51 PM on August 26, 2008

I'm not getting the snarky backlash by some. Isn't it pretty accepted here that the otherwise-common reply convention of "@username" is Not Acceptable because of its abrupt and impersonal style? And that people who use it are often (informally) called out and told to use something else that doesn't get on everyone's nerves? In light of that, I don't see why changing "users" to something more personable is such a ridiculous idea, especially since it isn't forcing anyone to… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 10:32 AM on August 24, 2008

The Real MeFi Vanity Plate [semi-via]
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 6:49 PM on August 20, 2008

I just gave Pastabagel his 7000th favorite, for his old Mr. Rogers comment. I hope you appreciate it, man, because I can take it away just like that.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 2:52 PM on August 17, 2008

That was actually going to be my original post title:

Does this mean mathowie is The One?

But everybody knows that already, so's I changed it.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 7:54 PM on July 19, 2008

abqnative: Hey, Mefite, what's your usernumber?

vachement: 61047.

abqnative: No way! Mine's 64008!

*they laugh heartily*

Y!A user: *laughs nervously* ...I don't get it.

abqnative: We're both expressible as the sum of two cubes!

*high five*
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 8:53 PM on July 19, 2008

willful, I think blank links are automatically redirected to whatever Mefi URL they're posted on.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 7:53 PM on July 14, 2008

If you must have it via email, you could use a service like RSSFWD to forward the RSS feed for a thread to your email account. Just copy the URL of a post into the site's entry form, let them detect the feed, and then provide your email address. It'll let you customize how new items are sent to you, as well.

But it is kind of a pain to do over and over again for each new post. If you plan on subscribing to threads often, just get a feed reader like Google Reader or Bloglines.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 12:40 AM on July 14, 2008

There is a part of my brain that refuses to accept the idea of nomic being fun. I mean, no offense to those who enjoy it, but to me it looks like nothing more than arguing about the tedious rules of parliamentary procedure using the tedious rules of parliamentary procedure.

Beyond proposing new rules for the game and voting on them, is there any... you know... game?
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 12:01 PM on July 12, 2008

I feel the same way, Eideteker, but couldn't you have made a new MeTa? Your request is unrelated to blue_beetle's, and I have to say I'd be pretty miffed if the first response to my feature request were a complete derail.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 11:44 AM on July 10, 2008

A quick search shows it's the shortcut to open up the DOM Inspector in Firefox.

I'm not so sure it would be a problem, though. It was an optional component of Firefox 2, and is only available as an add-on in Firefox 3. And even then, I'm not sure that Ctrl-Shift-I will be the shortcut for that incarnation of it. (I don't have DOM Inspector installed so I can't verify).

I'm also assuming the OP's request was denied...
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 1:11 AM on July 11, 2008

Maybe they're all just really weirded out by something... something RIGHT BEHIND YOU.

o_O
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 1:10 PM on June 30, 2008

Ragma: ""I feel sorry for those who are atheists. Rather than being smarter, atheism reflects a poverty of thought, and a lack of appreciation of the universe, including of love and evil."

That is pure gold. Who didn't laugh? Show of hands?"

I didn't. I am an atheist, and as such I lack the capacity for laughter that only the born-again enjoy.

"Ha".… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 4:41 PM on May 28, 2008

I'm glad that thread salvia posted generated so much activity. It's how I first came across this site!
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 10:44 PM on May 26, 2008

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 1:34 AM on May 23, 2008

Also, a shout-out to the good people at Off-Planet Films. The post I made on them was the only one I've made that really felt like pure Mefi -- something quirky, obscure, and cool that I stumbled across on my own that wouldn't get much play otherwise. I think the way I formatted the post kind of killed it, though... the first two lines of the [more inside] should have been on the front page instead of that boring, contextless understatement of a sentence.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 1:43 AM on May 23, 2008

Somewhere, in an alternate universe, the good people of Sicromoft have released GlobalObservatory for free on all operating systems and to much critical acclaim. The comment thread on the weblog community MegaFilter is full of unqualified praise for the brilliance and magnanimity of well-coifed CEO Gill Bates and his kindly, mild-mannered VP Bev Sallmer. The discussion is going so well that the three mods, hatmaui, turkex, and messagin, don't even have to issue a warning.… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 2:24 PM on May 13, 2008

Dr-Baa: "I wish someone would write a Greasemonkey script to auto-insert a rimshot after specific MetaTalk comments."

Will this do? via
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 1:09 PM on May 12, 2008

This would be nice. I can't count the number of times I've been reading old comment threads and wondering what year they're from. Finding out requires a trip to the top of the page, losing my place in the process.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 6:34 PM on May 7, 2008

The "MefiQuote Preferences" dealie refers to the *drumroll* Mefiquote userscript. I've got it installed, myself. Essentially, the little text box lets you customize how the script formats the quote it creates when you click the "[quote]" link.

So, toss in the right modifiers, and...
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 1:05 AM on May 5, 2008

"OMG, guys, listen up lol!!! I just ate a bowl of dicks!!!!11 amirite?!?!?!?", dawson gushed with obnoxious, blinking glee.

Just beautiful.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 1:09 AM on May 5, 2008

Yep. The code was:

"<b><u><blink>OMG, guys, listen up lol!!! %q!!!!11 amirite?!?!?!?</blink></u></b>", <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU">%n</a> gushed with obnoxious, blinking glee.

The %q and %n get replaced with the poster's comment and name, respectively.

rickroll you say why good sir i have no idea… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 1:27 AM on May 5, 2008

¡ɐɥɐɥɐɥɐɥɐɥ

¡lɯʇɥ ǝɥʇ ɹɐǝɟ
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 1:56 AM on May 5, 2008

It seems to not allow for sorting comments by favorites. This makes me sad.

Also, I see that Mefi has a taste for long lists of freebies...
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 12:40 AM on April 28, 2008

The only person to ever add me as a contact disabled their account minutes later.

I hope this is not a trend.

Although, having your contacts list be a harbinger of doom would be pretty cool, in a morbid sort of way...
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 8:46 PM on April 20, 2008

I'm guessing the reply will be to link to your various other accounts in your "About me" box. Still, the little user icons are so snazzy! (And my "About" box is pretty cluttered as it is...)

If there's one of those I'd like to add, it'd be Picasa. It'd be fairly easy to plug into the "Also on" widget -- the URL is just "picasaweb.google.com/USERNAME". Why should Flickr get all the love, anyway?
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 3:53 AM on April 14, 2008

On second thought: Would it be easier, in the long-run, to make the "also on" boxes user-definable? Right now we have to choose services from a limited list, provide the appropriate username, and the page then converts that info into a little box. Could we replace that with a script that, when given a link to any profile page, will create a box linking to that page and bearing that site's favicon? That way all the little niche sites can be included, and we won't have to hear any… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 4:15 AM on April 14, 2008

Faviconless sites could be represented by little hearts! Because, you know, Metafilter loves you.

Or, I don't know, it could be a chain link, or something equally generic. I'd expect most social sites large enough for a Mefite to be a member of (and want to link to) to have a favicon, anyway.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 4:25 AM on April 14, 2008

Bah, at least your post had the closure of deletion. My last one faded away with a "posted at 4AM in 1999" level of activity, the internet equivalent of dying of neglect.

Oh, you laugh. But little do you realize that the Tasmanian animation industry is utterly dependent on Internet success. And they're hurting bad down there. Even a modestly successful 20-comment thread on Metafilter would have been a shot in the arm, re-inspiring their leathery papersmiths to… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 6:50 PM on April 9, 2008

maudlin: "All my comments, including this one, are written on scented, hand-made paper, kissed once, folded twice over, sealed with wax, then wafted on the breeze until they finally show up on all your computers via the magic of paper-to-packets."

Eponysterical!

I use a Greasemonkey script to insert all my comments onto each page, myself. Plus a Firefox extension that pulls quotes from Markovfilter with keywords from… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 4:19 PM on March 30, 2008

CunningLinguist: "Can we maybe test invisible favorites for a month?"

Ack, please don't. I don't know about you, but I tend to use favorites as a sort of quick digest for long threads. Highly-favorited comments are easy to pick out while scrolling, and allow me to find the insightful, brilliant, and hilarious posts that I would have otherwise missed. Sure, sometimes this encourages people to be more snarky or abusive than usual to net a few… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 6:05 PM on March 26, 2008

pearlybob: "Please forgive but what is SEO? I'm not following..."

Search Engine Optimization. It's the art/science of designing your website to be more accessible via Google, thus gaining more traffic and making your site's ads more profitable. There are a lot of hucksters in the SEO biz, who value raw numbers and eyeballs over quality of content and the user experience. They're also the folks who often try to self-link here, one of many attempts to game the system.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 8:12 PM on March 26, 2008

1: "IMDB is really the gold-standard for message board in(s)anity, though."

I'll have to disagree with you there. Have you seen the AOL message boards?
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 4:07 PM on March 24, 2008

The favorites button also doubles as a medipack. Click it to heal what ails ye.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 10:08 AM on March 24, 2008

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * **          CONGRATULATIONS          ** YOU ARE THE ONE MILLIONTH VISITOR!**   CLICK HERE TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE  ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 8:57 PM on March 23, 2008

Great job, guys. Good team effort. Nice work. But now that that's out of the way, could you guys tag all the comments too?

That would be just super.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 12:02 AM on March 21, 2008

I wouldn't really mind Y!A if they didn't insist on clogging up Google search results so much. Normally Google limits this quasi-spam by condensing all results from the site into one listing with a "more results from this site" link. But apparently Yahoo! has automatic translation software running, reposting the same questions and answers in different languages under multiple subdomains that all show up as separate results.

Also, here's my all-time favorite… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 2:07 AM on March 20, 2008

This calls for an eloquent and historic speech addressing the concerns, comparing the contrasting views, and reconciling the differences between the American people and those filthy, drunken, inbred upside-downers.

Our differences are vast, and the healing will be difficult. But if those primitive, leather-skinned, kangaroo-riding outbackers can do it, I'm sure we can too.

I keed. Some of my best friends wear fedoras!
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 8:41 PM on March 18, 2008

cashman: "Oh and while we're on the election subject, and since somebody is bound to FPP this, can we get our page assignments, to provide a clean and smooth examination of the 11,000 pages? Or is that going to get nixed as electionfilter."

They really could have worded that headline better. It made me think Clinton was planning to announce that she is a lesbian.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 3:16 PM on March 18, 2008

cortex: "I was helping my dayboss do some calculations in Excel..."

This can only mean one thing...
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 6:19 PM on March 17, 2008

Let's talk about X, baby
Let's talk about Y and Z
Let's talk about all the good things
And the bad things that may be
Let's talk about X
Let's talk about X
Let's talk about X
Let's talk about X

posted by anonymous to human relations at 6:09 PM

posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 5:31 PM on March 16, 2008

Afroblanco: "Holy crap, I think I remember this one. Wasn't this the one with the two twin brothers, and one of them wanted to be different? So he spent a year inside the house, so that he'd be younger than his brother?"

You're thinking of Singularity, by William Sleator. I don't think that's what the asker of that question was looking for, though, since the book didn't mention anything about Christmas.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 5:45 PM on March 16, 2008

The only problem I see with this is that the central MeFi gamertag will be limited to 100 friends. If more than that want to join up, we'll have to make a back-up name and have everyone add that account to their list, too. Still, there's less than fifty names on the Wiki list, so it shouldn't be that big of a worry for the time being.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 4:32 PM on March 13, 2008

nzero: "What I mean is, if people have the ability to tune out everything they aren't interested in, they might miss a question they would otherwise have answered incidentally, thus detracting something from the quality of AskMe."

Happy Dave: "I might just be the one person on AskMe with the perfect answer, but I might miss it."

THE PRICE OF ASKME IS ETERNAL VIGILANCE. Or so says my OCD shoulder monkey.

But yes, this is a great idea. Reminds me of StumbleUpon a bit.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 12:35 PM on March 12, 2008

Heh, that reminds me of a similar word: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, or the fear of long words. Much like "lisp", its sufferers cannot speak it without giving themselves away. It's a self-referential shibboleth*.

* also a fun word, by the way
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 10:15 PM on March 9, 2008