context-free quotes!

September 24, 2005 4:12 PM

You affect the world by what you browse! It's another quote site, named metaphilter.
posted by persia (23 comments total)

Metaphilter:

We used to hate people
Now we just make fun of them
It's more effective that way.
posted by PurplePorpoise at 4:21 PM on September 24, 2005

Ah, Dogma by KMFDM.

I suppose it isn't context free if you know where the quote is from, is it.
posted by vernondalhart at 4:31 PM on September 24, 2005

Metaphilter.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:36 PM on September 24, 2005

First, FYI PurplePorpoise, this text is from Nicole Blackman, which is actually a KMFDM song Lyrics : Dogma, which worth a listen.

This stuff make me think of Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies , apart I would have loved to tell the webdesigner a little about cyclic semi random generator, that makes that you NEVER read the same text twice. Call me perfectionist, but those kind of "too visible seams" tend to break the spell, if any.
posted by denpo at 4:41 PM on September 24, 2005

The sword of truth is just another weapon.

Hey, Nomeansno lyrics! That makes this link worthwhile.
posted by Johnny Assay at 4:52 PM on September 24, 2005

Hey, Nomeansno lyrics! That makes this link worthwhile.

Reading stuff you already know is worthwhile? Sorry... just tired of the look-how-cool-i-am comments that simulatenously pass judgement on a link based on one tiny criterion. Really tired.
posted by nthdegx at 4:58 PM on September 24, 2005

I conjecture the way that it repeats certain phrases more often than others an interesting quirk that makes it all the more eerie, like some sort of brainwashing technique.

Or

Perhaps the quotes are not random at all, but carefully selected, by a group of highly trained primates sitting at computer terminals.

Stop it, you'll go blind.
posted by Thom_RJ_Heard at 5:01 PM on September 24, 2005

What happened to Metaphilter.org?

I've been using their great engine for a couple of years. .Org seems to be down. Were there updates after 1.42?
posted by hoskala at 5:02 PM on September 24, 2005

Sorry, Metaphilter. It doesn't work any better though.
posted by hoskala at 5:06 PM on September 24, 2005

I have no idea what happened to it. Jack went off to college and was never heard from again...at least in *philter circles. I'm still running 1.41 on the site that time forgot.
posted by ?! at 5:07 PM on September 24, 2005

Does it have the JRuns yet?
posted by kika at 5:56 PM on September 24, 2005

Hey, A Hunter Thompson quote! That makes this site worthwhile.

(nthgegx, please upgrade your sarcasm detection wetware.)
posted by longsleeves at 6:45 PM on September 24, 2005

Yeah that Jack was some kinda mysterious. Wonder what happened to him.

MonkeyFilter runs a modified metaphilter codebase, by the way.
posted by If I Had An Anus at 7:01 PM on September 24, 2005

Yeah, that was me. No real interesting backstory or anything, just bored on a Saturday and wanted to try a couple of things out with php and apache, so I wrote a script that I could use to post interesting quotes and comments found on the web and otherwise. Nothing more than digital doodling, really...

I am surprised to find it the subject of a FPP, although I should have figured it would be found eventually by a member here considering the domain name it's at.

I registered the domain name after having an interest in the metaphilter cms project, never really followed through on, finding that the project was seemingly dead, and getting busy with other things. I offered the domain to tracy of mofi at one point, since she was at that time involved with reviving the metaphilter code project, but I never really followed through on that either.

It's funny the things you find on the web, how easy technology makes it to publish the products of random one-off ideas.
posted by mkdg at 9:03 PM on September 24, 2005

I got "I eat tapes". Suspicious.
posted by mendel at 10:13 PM on September 24, 2005

Metaphilter is written in PHP. No JRun within ballistic missile distance.
posted by dhartung at 10:29 PM on September 24, 2005

Really? Then how come I get JRun errors fairly frequently here?
posted by j.p. Hung at 10:58 PM on September 24, 2005

oh shit...stupid alert....Philter/Filter Tomato/Tomato
posted by j.p. Hung at 10:59 PM on September 24, 2005

metatalk
posted by slogger at 11:18 PM on September 24, 2005

I don't get it. Isn't it still in a context?
posted by TwelveTwo at 12:28 AM on September 25, 2005

slogger: It's a quote site. Using the domain name of the second Metafilter knock-off. It gives us the chance to remember those heady days when we had *filters popping up like dandelions.

I wouldn't say it was the worst FPP ever. Geez, it's not like it's a link to a National Enquirer "article."
posted by ?! at 10:43 AM on September 25, 2005

It'll be handy for generating spam subject lines.
posted by pbx at 6:04 PM on September 25, 2005

This metaphilter.com site? It sucks.
posted by The Monkey at 9:41 PM on September 25, 2005