Comments on: News Arts Argument

News Arts Argument

Roachbeard — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:59:45 -0800

frontsection.net is a tasteful, politically right-on and truly curatorial take on aggregating web content. Careful, combined with an MF habit, this is going to eat up a lot of hours. Although the site is MetaFilter-inspired, all links are the fruit of one intrepid reader whose work, it must be admitted, sometimes grinds to a halt for up to a week at a time.

By: lumensimus

lumensimus — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:10:20 -0800

Incessant bolding is hard to read...

By: codacorolla

codacorolla — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:03:48 -0800

That is a slick fucking design. I even like the bolding, despite not usually digging that much formatting (I take them to be like topical tags more than emphasis).

By: Durn Bronzefist

Durn Bronzefist — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:22:32 -0800

Format reminds me a little of Arts & Letters Daily, but less fluff (on first glance). Interesting, thanks.

By: cthuljew

cthuljew — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:50:03 -0800

That right-hand column has some good stuff in it, I gotta say.

By: adamvasco

adamvasco — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:54:37 -0800

Interesting and varied content. Good Stuff. It will be interesting to see how he keeps this up, as it sure is a lot of work and reading.

By: Yakuman

Yakuman — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:09:15 -0800

What Wordpres template is that?

By: atrazine

atrazine — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:10:39 -0800

I was prepared to hate it for the use of the word curatorial, but it's actually quite good.

By: djgh

djgh — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:34:53 -0800

People may also like The Browser, which has popped up oo MeFi a few times I believe.

By: prefpara

prefpara — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:11:17 -0800

"politically right-on"?

By: mippy

mippy — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:30:01 -0800

Well, you don't get much more right-on than Tiger Beatdown - thanks to this site, I've just read an excellent essay on Colette.

By: mdonley

mdonley — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:30:22 -0800

This is great, thanks.

By: jammy

jammy — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 04:11:23 -0800

"politically right-on"? i.e., droning paleo-leftist jeremiads mmm, jeremiads

By: DavidandConquer

DavidandConquer — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 04:18:00 -0800

And, like MF, that site also prefers to open links in the same tab...so it must be good! ;)

By: fourcheesemac

fourcheesemac — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:49:00 -0800

Some of these items are in French, and are noted as such. If you don't read French, we encourage you to learn how. Heh.

By: game warden to the events rhino

game warden to the events rhino — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:00:57 -0800

Nice. And some paleo-leftism will be a nice counterpoint to the oddly strident right-wing emphasis of Arts & Letters Daily, which I've never really understood.

By: hal9k

hal9k — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:06:05 -0800

Some of these items are in French, and are noted as such. If you don't read French, we encourage you to learn how. Comment?

By: GeorgeBickham

GeorgeBickham — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:41:56 -0800

And some paleo-leftism will be a nice counterpoint to the oddly strident right-wing emphasis of Arts & Letters Daily, which I've never really understood. I find that the headline summaries are quite often more right-wing than the pieces that they introduce. It's almost like Dutton is trying to lure conservative readers into some sort of intellectual debate (or at least statement of one's thinking) while at the same time trying to be a useful roundup of the neocon press for those further to the left. Assiduous coverage of evolutionary biology; high culture (particularly music); and semi-popular intellectuals like Zizek and Berlin rounds it out. This site looks interesting - thanks!

By: GeorgeBickham

GeorgeBickham — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:53:21 -0800

(The above refers to Arts and Letters Daily, of course..)

By: game warden to the events rhino

game warden to the events rhino — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 07:02:40 -0800

That's a good point, GeorgeBickham. It's something about the inconsistency of it that bothers me about A&L Daily — I've got no problem with a website that rounds up right-wing thought plus right-friendly evolutionary biology, but it's probably something I'd check with a different frequency to a more broadly based site, and A&L Daily keeps tempting me into believing it's the latter. I've lost count of the times I've clicked an intriguingly phrased link only to find it's yet another poorly thought-through essay by Theodore Dalrymple in City Journal...!

By: Jaltcoh

Jaltcoh — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 07:04:44 -0800

The format is directly taken from Arts & Letters Daily, not Metafilter.

By: Secret Life of Gravy

Secret Life of Gravy — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 07:23:49 -0800

I'm having trouble parsing this sentence: Careful, combined with an MF habit, this is going to eat up a lot of hours. Does that mean that the site is careful or should I be careful in reading the site? Whatever, the site is a good one, well worth bookmarking.

By: QuarterlyProphet

QuarterlyProphet — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:16:01 -0800

"Your request to URL "http://frontsection.net/" has been blocked by the Webwasher URL FilterDatabase. The URL is listed under categories (Pornography), " You all have dirty dirty minds.

By: Jaltcoh

Jaltcoh — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:19:47 -0800

I think the OP means you should be careful while reading the site because it's addictive in a MetaFilter kind of way.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:24:59 -0800

Great site, but why do you say it's MetaFilter-inspired?

By: warbaby

warbaby — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:56:55 -0800

the page now has a topline that reads: "WOW. HI, METAFILTARIANS. IT'S AS IF THE CUTEST GIRL IN THE SUPERMARKET JUST WALKED UP TO US AND CLUTCHED OUR HAND AND GRINNED AND KISSED US. (CONFIDENTIAL TO GIRL IN SUPERMARKET: DEFINITELY WALK UP TO US AND CLUTCH OUR HAND AND GRIN AND KISS US, IN THAT ORDER, JUST AS WE HAVE DREAMED.)

By: ts;dr

ts;dr — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:57:25 -0800

Apparently we are the cutest girl in the supermarket. I'll take that as a compliment! Great find btw, food for my feedreader.

By: Roachbeard

Roachbeard — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:07:26 -0800

I think the OP means you should be careful while reading the site because it's addictive in a MetaFilter kind of way. Yup that's it. I have a horrible habit of writing descriptor-laden introductory phrases that tend to dangle quite a bit; sometimes they even squint. Great site, but why do you say it's MetaFilter-inspired? I said that because of the highlighted, (sometimes multiple) mid-sentence links. I know that's probably not unique to MF, but it seemed as though the site's creator might have picked up a little something something from the blue. And his new topline indicates that he is on here.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:19:00 -0800

> I said that because of the highlighted, (sometimes multiple) mid-sentence links. I know that's probably not unique to MF It sure isn't. Check out omnivore or, well, pretty much any hip link aggregator. > And his new topline indicates that he is on here. No, it indicates he got a huge bump in hits, figured out where it came from, and is happy about it. If he's a MeFite, why isn't he in this thread?

By: languagehat

languagehat — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:19:43 -0800

Not trying to bust your chops or anything, just explaining why I doubt "MetaFilter-inspired" is accurate.

By: Roachbeard

Roachbeard — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:58:59 -0800

Great, now omnivore is going to dominate my life as well. Maybe I need a moratorium on internet reading in favour of printed pages - just for a bit.

By: jammy

jammy — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:36:57 -0800

"metafiltarian" vs. "mefite" discuss

By: Jaltcoh

Jaltcoh — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:28:08 -0800

Actually, he's probably not on here, considering that he didn't comment in the thread and that he thinks we're called "Metafiltarians."

By: Durn Bronzefist

Durn Bronzefist — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:33:43 -0800

Actually, he's probably not on here, considering that he didn't comment in the thread and that he thinks we're called "Metafiltarians." And because he'd be saying that he is in fact the cute girl, grinning at some supermarket display store window reflection and kissing the pane.

By: chairface

chairface — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:59:10 -0800

The cutest girl in the supermarket was after that last can of beans you just grabbed off the shelf. Is this great design? It seems more like old, newspaper design, which isn't suitable for screen reading. The random bolding is also not helpful.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:03:01 -0800

I said that because of the highlighted, (sometimes multiple) mid-sentence links. I know that's probably not unique to MF It's a blog posting style that some of us worked hard, back in the day, to deliberately supersede text text text http://www.example.com or text text text from click here If you must know, however, it was particularly pioneered by suck.com.

By: cthuljew

cthuljew — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:40:42 -0800

Metafiltarians, join us at our jungle compound, where Metafiltar will guide our spirits to True Link Heaven. Kool-aid drinking optional.