How to show metadata without overwhelming users
“Standard-looking database extraction, right? Click any of the links to bring up the full details... but just point at the link and meta information pops up with the description of the page to come, saving a round trip to the Web+database server. As you can see from the long descriptions involved, it would have been very unweildy to include them into the table proper.”

Similarly, aaronland shows its meta only when you hover the mouse upon the proper keyword.