In an effort to reduce inbox clutter and phone notifications, I got really strict with gmail filters to make it so only email from real people end up in my priority inbox. It was great, except . . .
posted to Ask MetaFilter by [insert clever name here] at 11:31 PM on April 13, 2022 (3 comments)

Hey, I was touched and honored by the megapost about my works, such as are currently available. I was going to comment in that thread but I decided a better way to show my appreciation would be to re-launch my post-Brunching clearinghouse of waggery, Bad Gods.
posted to MetaTalk by lore at 7:50 AM on April 1, 2022 (24 comments)

"Running Walden Three is not a feel-good exercise. It is a job, and it is a difficult one. We can make an executive love Walden Three, but we can’t make a fool into an executive." "Tomorrow’s Dictator" is a short, dark scifi story by Rahul Kanakia, published in 2012, in which it's hard to hire good brainwashers, er, community managers.
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 5:57 AM on March 31, 2022 (7 comments)

The use of archive sites to get around paywalls has been discussed a few times already. I'd like to foreground a request: when using an archive link, please also include the original link. This is for 2 reasons...
posted to MetaTalk by trig at 2:41 AM on February 16, 2022 (12 comments)

"For Dynamic Machines, I challenged 3D artists to guide a chrome ball from point A to point B in the most creative way possible. Nearly 2,000 artists entered, and in this video, the Top 100 renders are featured"
posted to MetaFilter by Gyan at 9:54 AM on August 21, 2021 (28 comments)

Accomplished Cinematographer Tom Sigel eloquently demonstrates how focal length influences mood in cinema (SLYT).
posted to MetaFilter by smoke at 4:24 AM on September 4, 2019 (14 comments)

Opinion analysis: Court holds that First Amendment does not apply to private operator of public-access channels From the majority's opinion: “MNN, as a private actor, is not subject to First Amendment constraints on how it exercises editorial discretion over the speech and speakers on its public access channels.” From the minority's dissent: “Just as the City would have been subject to the First Amendment had it chosen to run the” channels itself, MNN “assumed the same responsibility when it accepted the delegation” to run the channels and must comply with the First Amendment.”
posted to MetaFilter by daq at 2:17 PM on June 20, 2019 (29 comments)

Photographer Tony Northrup explains the real story behind the iconic cover photograph for National Geographic taken by Steve McCurry (previously). For many; including Tony, the photo was inspirational when it came out in 1984. But there was a darker side to the story (SLYT).
posted to MetaFilter by jabo at 12:09 PM on March 1, 2019 (8 comments)

I would like a reference book or web site for cooking with an Instant Pot. I want actual guidelines on how to figure out how long to cook things, how to think about natural vent versus fast vent, how to adapt recipes, etc.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by If only I had a penguin... at 12:55 PM on February 9, 2019 (3 comments)

Michelle was 31 and 5'6, the perfect age and the perfect height. She had thick, straight hair, which wasn't a must-have, necessarily, but it was certainly nice. She smiled in every picture, a wide, inviting smile. She had a fine sounding job as a Project Manager and went to a college he had heard of. He messaged "Hey." This wasn’t his best work but it was usually good enough.
posted to MetaFilter by smcg at 1:29 PM on December 14, 2018 (36 comments)

I'm looking to create/buy/download a piece of software that will help me automate a large portion of research i'm doing to uncover stock frauds.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Izzmeister at 5:28 AM on December 6, 2018 (3 comments)

When I was young, I loved computing to the point I made it my career. And then came expectations, money, ambition and ruined it. I'm trying to get back into the joy of doing my work for itself, I could use some advice on how to approach this.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Anonymous at 2:58 PM on October 18, 2018 (7 comments)

A fitness studio near me is coming up for sale and that's got me wondering how profitable they are (in general) as a business. The business type is that they don't have exercise machines or open-gym hours, just classes in the early morning and throughout the evening.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by xo at 12:15 PM on September 24, 2018 (5 comments)

Around one year ago, a journalist I know came across a standard pro-Trump trolling/bot account on Twitter. These are sometimes called “MAGA-head” accounts or similar, and they have bio descriptions that are flavoured with a distinctive soup of patriotism. This account was named @GuntherEaglemann, and Gunther was putatively “Fighting the good fight! #BackTheBlue and Support our Troops, USMC, Conservative | Helping the confused Left turn Right – one at a time”. His location was listed as Texas, USA, and he had 2335 followers. The journalist knew that Gunther Eaglemann did not exist because the picture of “Gunther” was a picture of himself. Once challenged, the account disappeared.
posted to MetaFilter by the duck by the oboe at 4:39 AM on September 13, 2018 (60 comments)

Where I'm from there were no grocery baggers and everyone just did it themselves. This made sense to me. The checkout person has their job, and I have my job, and we are working together to get me out of there as fast as possible. Now where I live (Northern California) there are sometimes baggers there and sometimes not. When there is no bagger, I can't tell if I'm insulting the cashier by doing the bagging myself, or if I'm pissing them off by not doing the bagging myself. When there is a bagger, I similarly can't tell if I'm insulting them by doing some of it to speed up the job, or being a lazy asshole by standing there on my phone. Please help.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by bleep at 3:15 PM on August 28, 2018 (42 comments)

I used to have an excellent hot air popcorn popper. Things that made it excellent:
posted to Ask MetaFilter by metasarah at 6:01 PM on August 23, 2018 (5 comments)

I have an iTunes gift card and I'd like to use it to upgrade the timewasters on my phone. Looking for Euro-style or puzzle games to play on a (very) small screen.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by expialidocious at 2:04 PM on August 20, 2018 (9 comments)

Really Techno
posted to MetaFilter by zarq at 3:42 AM on July 7, 2018 (15 comments)

"It’s not easy to find quotes of Noether reflecting on the significance of her work. Once she made a discovery, she seemed to move on to the next thing. She referred to her own Ph.D. thesis as 'crap,' or 'Mist' in her native German. But Noether recognized that she changed mathematics: 'My methods are really methods of working and thinking; this is why they have crept in everywhere anonymously,' she wrote to a colleague in 1931."
posted to MetaFilter by biogeo at 12:08 PM on July 1, 2018 (15 comments)

Arguments are fun. Fights aren't. What makes a good argument, and how do we avoid turning them into fights?
posted to MetaTalk by biogeo at 12:56 PM on July 2, 2018 (159 comments)

If someone would just make a damn album that sounds like this already then I wouldn't have to be swiping vocals and doing it myself.
posted to MeFi Music by Wolfdog at 4:53 AM on August 28, 2007 (36 comments)

allRGB is a repository of images that contain one pixel each of every possible colour in the RGB colour space.
posted to MetaFilter by alby at 9:35 AM on September 13, 2013 (35 comments)

"This Is Water" -- a short film based on David Foster Wallace's 2005 commencement speech.
posted to MetaFilter by empath at 10:58 PM on May 7, 2013 (77 comments)

Building A Human: An instructional film made by The Visitors for Human Collaborators on Edité-Frignim (Earth).
posted to MetaFilter by EXISTENZ IS PAUSED at 6:55 PM on April 26, 2013 (12 comments)

That Night In Williamsburg is a neat little motion capture time-lapse (with After Effects) of office lights synced to music. [slvimeo] [via]
posted to MetaFilter by quin at 10:53 AM on January 12, 2013 (5 comments)

Graphic Designer asks: Can I use a laptop as my "main" computer? I've been a designer for 20+ years and have used every mac since the original, but I've always had a desktop mac as my go-to machine. Now, it's upgrade time, and I'm thinking of using just a laptop for everything. More inside...
posted to Ask MetaFilter by ecorrocio at 8:57 AM on September 18, 2012 (17 comments)

Bombshell investigation reveals vast majority of landmark cancer studies cannot be replicated. In a shocking discovery, C. Glenn Begley, former researcher at Amgen Inc, and a team working with him, has found that 47 out of 53 so called "landmark" basic studies on cancer -- a high proportion of them from university labs -- cannot be replicated, with grim consequences for producing new medicines in the future. These were papers in top journals, from reputable labs, which achieved landmark status with frequent citations. The consequences for cancer research are far-reaching.
posted to MetaFilter by VikingSword at 3:47 PM on March 30, 2012 (77 comments)

Looking for tips on implementing drag and drop that snaps to the nearest point on a polygon.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by syzygy at 10:34 AM on March 29, 2012 (13 comments)

How can I analyze some data about linkages between data elements in a way that will give me meaningful information about the similarity of the relationships? This has got to be a solved problem!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by TheNewWazoo at 2:25 PM on February 8, 2012 (9 comments)

I used to write, draw, make funny things that I put out into the world to share with anyone who was interested. I liked forming connections with people, enjoying shared interests and talking about ideas. I liked creating online communities and seeing total strangers develop meaningful connections with each other. Now I just want to hide in my hovel and watch old Buffy episodes while the world burns. How can I regain my desire to engage with humanity?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Anonymous at 12:23 PM on June 3, 2011 (24 comments)

Can you recommend some good stores like http://www.goldmine-elec.com/ and http://www.sparkfun.com/ I'm looking for little motors, gears, metal rods, rubber rollers/grommets as well as electrical components.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Charlie Lesoine at 7:57 PM on December 3, 2009 (20 comments)

Non-U.S. residents: Aside from language issues, what issues can U.S. web designers keep in mind to make their sites ideally usable for you?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by kalapierson at 11:20 AM on June 23, 2009 (15 comments)

The Lost Tribes of New York City
posted to MetaFilter by miss lynnster at 10:29 AM on April 4, 2009 (27 comments)

How can I convert a list of x, y, R, G, B coordinates into a bitmap?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by ian1977 at 4:30 PM on March 11, 2009 (10 comments)

Kutiman, the masterful Israeli funk musician and producer, outdoes himself by creating Thru-You: Multiple YouTube clips (mostly instructional and performance videos) edited into slick mega-mashups. They're not just patchwork assemblages, they're sample-based original creations that coud hold their own on anyone's album... Plus they're 100% audiovisual! It's a work of next-level genius.
(sorry for the hyperbole, but my mind has just been blown)
More Kutiman here. Music video here. And for you Pitchfork aficionados, here.
posted to MetaFilter by Silky Slim at 12:58 AM on March 4, 2009 (171 comments)

What is the iconic (or just "your favorite") dead-tree product catalog (listing of merchandise for mail-order sale) for your hobby, industry, or trade?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cadastral at 9:23 AM on April 1, 2008 (72 comments)

An Engineers Guide to Cats (youTube)
posted to MetaFilter by Lanark at 2:12 AM on April 13, 2008 (49 comments)

DrugPolicyCases.com - Yakov Spektor, a New York-based attorney, combed through two decades of US Supreme Court opinions "to discern certain trends in the Court's treatment of various issues" related to the War on Drugs. The collection of opinions are organized by case, author and topic.
posted to MetaFilter by daksya at 6:04 AM on November 26, 2007 (8 comments)

ook asked for a list of big things in America to go out and take photos of. We gave him a list, and he went out and shot it: Big Things in America. I love it when a plan comes together. [via mefi projects]
posted to MetaFilter by mathowie at 10:36 AM on August 5, 2006 (18 comments)

Revamping the browser Browser add ons such as Browster for IE and Firefox or entirely new browsers such as Flock (limited info) promise to rework the way browsing has been done during the IE only years from 1997 to 2004. More inside...
posted to MetaFilter by hockeyman at 7:16 PM on June 12, 2006 (35 comments)