A lot of ReFi posts (where 'a lot' should be scaled to the relatively geological update frequency around here) have been inspired by some familiar old phrase catching my eye in a recent comment, ...
So it's been forever. I feel bad. I hope to start posting a bit more frequently again. In the meantime, someone else is sort of, kind of, doing my forensic post-hoc analysis work for me, over at ...
http://refiblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/mindfucks-and-apologies.html
When it comes right down to it, you could refract REFI's purpose into the following question: "What is Metafilter about?" But the more common question—or implicit question, suggested by answer...
http://refiblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/what-metafilter-is-not-about.html
I've got guests in town and things to do, so Refi has been quiet. By way of apology, I'm stealing a little bit of quiet Saturday morning to examine an old-school meme: Magritte references. Than...
http://refiblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/meme-theme-magritte-references.html
Get ready. Get set. Get: 501-600 Microsoft suckers Matt Matt plays Slashdot mod The Matt Dabrowski Saga Not going to dig into it right now, but I think it'd make a good refi post of its own...
http://refiblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/501-600-drama-in-bloggerland.html
I hear what you are saying. Where are 301-700? This post is out of order! THIS WHOLE WEBSITE IS OUT OF ORDER! Well, hush. Those other posts will be along in good time—contributors are working ...
http://refiblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/shark-jumping-701-800.html
ADVENTURES IN NAMESPACE It just occurred to me—has Google indexed the site yet? (The answer is yes, they have .) But before I requested from Google such specificity, my first query was for, s...
http://refiblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/refi-naming-and-namespace-collisions.html
Thanks is due to my dear friend, Doctor Millard, for allowing me to participate in this delightful project of his. The first 100 threads have been covered and quite capably summed up. It would s...
http://refiblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/early-days-second-hundred.html
If you're keeping track, you'll note that threads 101-200 haven't been covered. Worry not—they're coming, via guest correspondent (and long-time mefite and #mefi/#tapes denizen) ANTIFREEZ. In ...
http://refiblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/digest-threads-201-300.html
Looking through the early history, Metafilter can be seen to have started off quietly. Despite the belated party in the first thread , posts to THE BLUE have only a few (if any) comments by moder...
http://refiblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/extremely-early-days-on-to-100.html
It's not entirely easy to pick a starting point for Metafilter—I'd like to get started with an Early Thread, but I can't simply start with thread number one, because IT DOESN'T EXIST. Metafilte...
http://refiblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/extremely-early-days-cat-scancom.html
Why Refi? Why review Metafilter? To what purpose? &c. It's been something like seven years since Metafilter came into being, and the site has grown from tiny experimental community weblog to a ...
And this is its pancreas. Not really what I want to present to you in your first glance; let's let this sit here for a moment while I get everything else under control, and I'll show you somethin...