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Musings of a Metafilter Spammer
Anybody who visits Metafilter regularly knows the drill. Someone signs up for the singular purpose of spamming the Metafilter frontpage, makes their mandatory three or four throwaway comments before being able to do so and is then beaten with the banhammer by our ever diligent moderators. By their very nature, these throwaway comments aren't the most significant contributions ever to be posted to Metafilter... until now! My new blog, 'Musings of a Metafilter Spammer' compiles the thoughts of each spammer in one single place, so you can read such thoughtful musings as "Nice!", "Wonder where I can get one?" and "Wow" before their posting rights (and their account) were forever deleted. And in doing so you'll get to laugh at the sheer simplicity of some of these asinine comments, and maybe stumble across some of the otherwise decent threads they used to make them in. A longer term goal is to use tags to document what these spammers are linking too, giving us a picture of what motivates someone to waste their $5 in a futile attempt at spamming one of the best communities on the internet.
posted by Effigy2000 at 11:46 AM on May 27, 2008 - 12 comments
Anybody who visits Metafilter regularly knows the drill. Someone signs up for the singular purpose of spamming the Metafilter frontpage, makes their mandatory three or four throwaway comments before being able to do so and is then beaten with the banhammer by our ever diligent moderators. By their very nature, these throwaway comments aren't the most significant contributions ever to be posted to Metafilter... until now! My new blog, 'Musings of a Metafilter Spammer' compiles the thoughts of each spammer in one single place, so you can read such thoughtful musings as "Nice!", "Wonder where I can get one?" and "Wow" before their posting rights (and their account) were forever deleted. And in doing so you'll get to laugh at the sheer simplicity of some of these asinine comments, and maybe stumble across some of the otherwise decent threads they used to make them in. A longer term goal is to use tags to document what these spammers are linking too, giving us a picture of what motivates someone to waste their $5 in a futile attempt at spamming one of the best communities on the internet.
posted by Effigy2000 at 11:46 AM on May 27, 2008 - 12 comments
Public Domaina
Reviews of the weirdest and wildest films in the public domain, all available online.
posted by Astro Zombie at 11:44 PM on May 14, 2008
Reviews of the weirdest and wildest films in the public domain, all available online.
posted by Astro Zombie at 11:44 PM on May 14, 2008
The ultimate test of microwave popcorn brands. Which is best? Which pops most?
Once-upon-a-weekend, I had questions about my microwave popcorn experience. Questions like, "Which brand of popcorn pops the most? And which brands pop best?" I started Googling for answers. None were to be found, so the popcorn test/experiment was officially, er, popped. I tried to be objective and scientific during this project, except for the taste testing, which is obviously subjective. This web page is the fruit of those labors, and the answer to your questions. (As long as they happen to be the same as mine.) Oh and I'm not employed by a popcorn company. I'm a fan of popcorn and this is an independent study performed in a good faith effort to present objectice, accurate results.
posted by wmeredith at 3:03 PM on May 19, 2008
Once-upon-a-weekend, I had questions about my microwave popcorn experience. Questions like, "Which brand of popcorn pops the most? And which brands pop best?" I started Googling for answers. None were to be found, so the popcorn test/experiment was officially, er, popped. I tried to be objective and scientific during this project, except for the taste testing, which is obviously subjective. This web page is the fruit of those labors, and the answer to your questions. (As long as they happen to be the same as mine.) Oh and I'm not employed by a popcorn company. I'm a fan of popcorn and this is an independent study performed in a good faith effort to present objectice, accurate results.
posted by wmeredith at 3:03 PM on May 19, 2008
Mulder's Big Adventure
Join us on a magical journey as Cortex and I watch all 202 episodes of the X-Files. It's going to be a lot of alien conspiracy fueled blogging-- thankfully, we're mighty witty.
posted by Secretariat at 8:59 PM on May 12, 2008
Join us on a magical journey as Cortex and I watch all 202 episodes of the X-Files. It's going to be a lot of alien conspiracy fueled blogging-- thankfully, we're mighty witty.
posted by Secretariat at 8:59 PM on May 12, 2008
The Invention of the Letter
-- a rare hand-drawn book by Beat poet and Zen teacher Philip Whalen. Though lesser-known than his peers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, Whalen was a wonderful and subtle poet who was also one of the first Americans to study Zen in Japan. (He appears in Kerouac novels like The Dharma Bums under pseudonyms like Warren Coughlin and Ben Fagin, "a quiet, bespectacled booboo, smiling over books.") He met Gary Snyder and Lew Welch at Reed College, where he studied calligraphy with the illustrious Lloyd Reynolds. While in Kyoto in 1966, Whalen sketched out a charming fable about the invention of language in the Garden of Eden that was eventually published by pioneering communard Irving Rosenthal and given away for free at a 1968 reading in San Francisco. The Invention of the Letter has since become extremely scarce and is now available online for curious scholars and Beat fellow travelers.
posted by digaman at 5:46 PM on April 24, 2008
-- a rare hand-drawn book by Beat poet and Zen teacher Philip Whalen. Though lesser-known than his peers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, Whalen was a wonderful and subtle poet who was also one of the first Americans to study Zen in Japan. (He appears in Kerouac novels like The Dharma Bums under pseudonyms like Warren Coughlin and Ben Fagin, "a quiet, bespectacled booboo, smiling over books.") He met Gary Snyder and Lew Welch at Reed College, where he studied calligraphy with the illustrious Lloyd Reynolds. While in Kyoto in 1966, Whalen sketched out a charming fable about the invention of language in the Garden of Eden that was eventually published by pioneering communard Irving Rosenthal and given away for free at a 1968 reading in San Francisco. The Invention of the Letter has since become extremely scarce and is now available online for curious scholars and Beat fellow travelers.
posted by digaman at 5:46 PM on April 24, 2008
HURF DURF METAFILTER ANALYZER
I've spent the last few days conducting a comprehensive review, and constructing an annotated index, of the use of variations of the phrase "hurf durf" on Metafilter. The index covers 357 separate comments (and 10 posts) on various parts of the site, in chronological order.
posted by cortex at 1:49 PM on April 20, 2008
I've spent the last few days conducting a comprehensive review, and constructing an annotated index, of the use of variations of the phrase "hurf durf" on Metafilter. The index covers 357 separate comments (and 10 posts) on various parts of the site, in chronological order.
posted by cortex at 1:49 PM on April 20, 2008
A look at the homeless services grassroots in Philadelphia.
posted by The Straightener at 3:19 PM on March 5, 2008
posted by The Straightener at 3:19 PM on March 5, 2008
Forkd - another recipe site?
Yep, another recipe community site with every Web 2.0 buzzword in the book. But if you or someone you know still haven't found a comfortable online home for your recipe file, give us a try. Feature-wise, it covers most of the bases you'd expect, and we're adding improvements all the time. Your recipes don't become the property of Forkd, but we encourage everyone to post their recipes under a CC sharealike-attribution license (the default), to encourage remixing -- any copies or changes become a "fork" in the recipe's ancestry, which eventually grows into an interesting little visual family tree. If you're a Flickr user it's easy to pull in your photos from Flickr (but you can upload directly too), and, if you're a food blogger, you can post to your blog directly from Forkd. Signing up will take all of 2 minutes, it's free, and we're not owned by an evil corporation who want to spam you.
posted by snarfois at 7:40 AM on March 14, 2008
Yep, another recipe community site with every Web 2.0 buzzword in the book. But if you or someone you know still haven't found a comfortable online home for your recipe file, give us a try. Feature-wise, it covers most of the bases you'd expect, and we're adding improvements all the time. Your recipes don't become the property of Forkd, but we encourage everyone to post their recipes under a CC sharealike-attribution license (the default), to encourage remixing -- any copies or changes become a "fork" in the recipe's ancestry, which eventually grows into an interesting little visual family tree. If you're a Flickr user it's easy to pull in your photos from Flickr (but you can upload directly too), and, if you're a food blogger, you can post to your blog directly from Forkd. Signing up will take all of 2 minutes, it's free, and we're not owned by an evil corporation who want to spam you.
posted by snarfois at 7:40 AM on March 14, 2008
The Apple Keynote Index Fund
What if you invested in Apple the day before the keynote and then sold your shares a day or two later? What if you did this for the past ten years Steve Jobs has taken the stage at Macworld SF?
posted by mathowie at 12:52 PM on December 31, 2007
What if you invested in Apple the day before the keynote and then sold your shares a day or two later? What if you did this for the past ten years Steve Jobs has taken the stage at Macworld SF?
posted by mathowie at 12:52 PM on December 31, 2007
The Alphabet Wall.
An initiative sponsored by The Warren Street Literacy / Vandalism Project. You are too late to see it in real life, but through the wonders of the Internet it has now been made real, and archived for eternity. Many thanks to my brother StickyCarpet for providing these photographs.
posted by Meatbomb at 10:06 AM on November 29, 2007
An initiative sponsored by The Warren Street Literacy / Vandalism Project. You are too late to see it in real life, but through the wonders of the Internet it has now been made real, and archived for eternity. Many thanks to my brother StickyCarpet for providing these photographs.
posted by Meatbomb at 10:06 AM on November 29, 2007
iDrunkard
It's an iPod notes application based off the International Bartenders Association Official Cocktail list with corresponding photos of (nearly) every drink.
posted by X-00 at 5:09 PM on October 21, 2007
It's an iPod notes application based off the International Bartenders Association Official Cocktail list with corresponding photos of (nearly) every drink.
posted by X-00 at 5:09 PM on October 21, 2007
An analogue variation on a digital theme.
I done did make book!
posted by peacay at 11:46 PM on October 19, 2007
I done did make book!
posted by peacay at 11:46 PM on October 19, 2007
Live-Blog of a Cross Country Road Trip
Blog that utilizes mologogo + a prepaid gps enabled cell phone + google maps to provide a live, self updating map of road trip progress for friends and family. Flickr + Youtube will also be utilized for picture and video posts of exciting encounters along the way. (Blogging/Functional google maps begin tomorrow 6:00 AM EST)
posted by tarthur at 6:51 PM on July 1, 2007
Blog that utilizes mologogo + a prepaid gps enabled cell phone + google maps to provide a live, self updating map of road trip progress for friends and family. Flickr + Youtube will also be utilized for picture and video posts of exciting encounters along the way. (Blogging/Functional google maps begin tomorrow 6:00 AM EST)
posted by tarthur at 6:51 PM on July 1, 2007
Myspace Pictures
Some of my favorite nostalgic myspace photos-- cute girls, pretty faces, twee kids, emo kids, folk punk kids, jewish kids, etc.. might be good for inspiration, fashion ideas, making friends (NOT for anything creepy please)
posted by petsounds at 9:10 PM on June 19, 2007
Some of my favorite nostalgic myspace photos-- cute girls, pretty faces, twee kids, emo kids, folk punk kids, jewish kids, etc.. might be good for inspiration, fashion ideas, making friends (NOT for anything creepy please)
posted by petsounds at 9:10 PM on June 19, 2007
Spot the Bull - Holy GPS Cow!
This is something we've built for Orange in the UK.
We've put a GPS enabled bull in a field. If you can guess where it's going to be at 3pm you can win tickets to the sold out Glastonbury music festival.
And yes, it is real, the GPS works, the webcams are real and people are winning tickets every day...
Visit spotthebull.co.uk
posted by iaintait at 11:48 AM on May 30, 2007
This is something we've built for Orange in the UK.
We've put a GPS enabled bull in a field. If you can guess where it's going to be at 3pm you can win tickets to the sold out Glastonbury music festival.
And yes, it is real, the GPS works, the webcams are real and people are winning tickets every day...
Visit spotthebull.co.uk
posted by iaintait at 11:48 AM on May 30, 2007
ZChurk Word Game (Flash)
1) Arrange the pieces as advantageously as you can devise
2) Find words in them for points! Just start typing them in once the pieces are legally placed, followed by <enter>.
Scoring is pretty Scrabble-like, the blue squares are 2x and 3x the letter on them and the pink/red ones are 2x and 3x word score. Word length bonuses start at 25 for 6 letters and go +25 per letter after that. Usually you can't rotate the pieces.
posted by Bokononist at 10:59 AM on May 31, 2007
1) Arrange the pieces as advantageously as you can devise
2) Find words in them for points! Just start typing them in once the pieces are legally placed, followed by <enter>.
Scoring is pretty Scrabble-like, the blue squares are 2x and 3x the letter on them and the pink/red ones are 2x and 3x word score. Word length bonuses start at 25 for 6 letters and go +25 per letter after that. Usually you can't rotate the pieces.
posted by Bokononist at 10:59 AM on May 31, 2007
Metafiltr
It's Metafilter 2.0. Hopefully to blossom as a clearinghouse for absurdist mefi humor, including bizarre flash apps. This is brand-stinking new; if I'm omitting some good self-reflective mefi blogs or stunts or misc. content, please let me know!
posted by cortex at 2:53 PM on May 21, 2007
It's Metafilter 2.0. Hopefully to blossom as a clearinghouse for absurdist mefi humor, including bizarre flash apps. This is brand-stinking new; if I'm omitting some good self-reflective mefi blogs or stunts or misc. content, please let me know!
posted by cortex at 2:53 PM on May 21, 2007
Send Me Mail!
Based on the responses to this AskMefi question (how can a college student get more mail), I've gotten myself a P.O. Box and made a YouTube video asking for mail. Watch it and send me something, anything - it would be highly appreciated. Thanks!
posted by divabat at 3:13 PM on April 26, 2007
Based on the responses to this AskMefi question (how can a college student get more mail), I've gotten myself a P.O. Box and made a YouTube video asking for mail. Watch it and send me something, anything - it would be highly appreciated. Thanks!
posted by divabat at 3:13 PM on April 26, 2007
You break it, you own it.
We are having a bit of a contest to see just how secure OSX really is.
posted by mock at 7:20 PM on March 23, 2007
We are having a bit of a contest to see just how secure OSX really is.
posted by mock at 7:20 PM on March 23, 2007
mefi universe search engine
I created several custom google co-op search engines, each with matching search extensions. One of them searches the entire mefi universe, including metachat, monkeyfilter, 9622, and the sites of mefi users who volunteer (or are volunteered by others). Tabs let you refine search by the blue, green, etc., and once user sites are added, the results will be weighed so the results will be: main site, fan sites, user sites (or whatever is most popular). This is similar to mathowie's recent offering, but covers more ground (if it's the sort of ground you want covered). Also, a search engine for finding screenplays, an engine for searching all CondeNast sites, and a link to my recently-started blog, where I mostly ruminate on TV and movies.
posted by bingo at 8:50 AM on February 16, 2007
I created several custom google co-op search engines, each with matching search extensions. One of them searches the entire mefi universe, including metachat, monkeyfilter, 9622, and the sites of mefi users who volunteer (or are volunteered by others). Tabs let you refine search by the blue, green, etc., and once user sites are added, the results will be weighed so the results will be: main site, fan sites, user sites (or whatever is most popular). This is similar to mathowie's recent offering, but covers more ground (if it's the sort of ground you want covered). Also, a search engine for finding screenplays, an engine for searching all CondeNast sites, and a link to my recently-started blog, where I mostly ruminate on TV and movies.
posted by bingo at 8:50 AM on February 16, 2007