The latest monthly MeFi Site Update is now up on Metatalk | Continue reading
Greek and Roman epitaphs can be touching. They can also, in the case of Allia Potestas, even be risqué. But they can also be horribly, incredibly embarrassing -- as in the case of Aphrodisios of Alexandria Troas ... Mefites discuss an ancient death — and odd elegy. | Continue reading
Rhaomi posted a labor of love featuring the Flashpoint Archive preservation project with over 145,000 preserved Flash games, plus highlights, more emulators, more games, tips, background, new software and more. If you miss Flash Fridays, definitely *don't* miss this post! | Continue reading
Beers n Ales by Darren Moloney (cc by)From my personal experience brewing alone and with better brewers, these are some advantages that a home brewer can have over a big brewery ... in the Anchor Brewing Co. closure thread, Dr. Curare has a great in-depth comment on home brewing … | Continue reading
bq has posted "Hugo, we have a problem," outlining human rights issues and protests surrounding the 2023 World Science Fiction Convention's (Worldcon) Hugo Awards. | Continue reading
This week for Metatalktail Hour, the primroses were over asks about local mysteries. | Continue reading
Anger (cc by)If you're looking for objective data on incivility in public spaces, the FAA's Unruly Passenger Statistics provide a surprisingly detailed view ... I EAT TAPAS offers some crunchable numbers in dubious_dude's question about the seeming trend of people behaving badly … | Continue reading
paduasoy has posted the London Medieval Murder Map to scratch your 14th-century murders-most-foul demographics itch | Continue reading
Protected by Meanest Indian (cc by)In Ask Metafilter, BlahLaLa says, "A character is about to blow the whistle on something very big and public, in the US. Folks will be angry about this, might raise a furor online, might threaten them or their family, might try to dox them, etc. … | Continue reading
Dandelion by John Brighenti (cc by)wheatlets is "looking for clothing that passes the Stupid Sexy Flanders test": any type of clothing, as long as it can barely be felt on your body. What are your favourite articles of clothing that feel as little like wearing clothing as possibl … | Continue reading
Wow! chavenet posted archives.design, compiled and curated by Valery Marier, a digital archive of graphic design related items from the Internet Archives, including annuals, books, branding, editorial, education, ephemera, information, interactive, posters, and type specimens. | Continue reading
Dreyfusfinucane talks about sea ice and salt and how they affect the temperature of the ocean within climate change. An iceberg floats in Disko Bay, near Ilulissat, Greenland, on July 24, 2015. The massive Greenland ice sheet is shedding about 300 gigatons of ice a year into the … | Continue reading
Image via DreamstimeIn Ask Metafilter, sonofsnark is looking for "recommendations for amazing fiction writers that I am unlikely to have heard of before" | Continue reading
McMansion by pasa47 (cc by)Hello! Professional architectural historian checking in here ... Preserver addresses Mchelly's question about "McMansion" as architectural nomenclature. | Continue reading
photo by Camille Lemoine via folkradio.co.ukyasaman posted about Brìghde Chaimbeul, the young musician from the Isle of Skye who is helping to bring back Scottish smallpipes from the edge of obscurity | Continue reading
detail from book cover: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jacksondoctornemo on cozy horror, including the subgenre's basic elements, a historical perspective, praise, criticism, controversy, and more! | Continue reading
Pain by iProzac (cc by-sa)bendy asks, Explain back pain to me like I'm a n00b. | Continue reading
Talking about the Corelle Brands / Instant Pot bankruptcy filing. | Continue reading
Wheel of Fortune by designsbykari (cc by)you have elected to spin the wheel, a choice as pointless yet inevitable as life itself ... What if Werner Herzog were Pat Sajak's replacement? | Continue reading
Wondering what exactly is blowing up over on Reddit, and why? Rhaomi has a seriously in-depth explainer. | Continue reading
My Podcast Set I by brainblogger (cc by)Shepherd is looking for "debunky, chatty, science-y" podcast recs: "I love Maintenance Phase and If Books Could Kill and would like more podcasts like this..." | Continue reading
FBI photo of outside of Ted Kaczynski's cabin near Lincoln, Montanadoctornemo remembers meeting Ted Kaczynski's brother and sister-in-law. | Continue reading
image via AromaPrimepaduasoy posts an article from Current Archaeology about Aroma Prime, a company creating historical scents, including the smells of dinosaurs, dodos, mummification, candlemakers, ether, vintage sweets and the Wicker Man. | Continue reading
Eastons CC v Epping Foresters CC at Little Easton, Essex, England 084 (cc by)Mefites describe cricket to each other in tomcooke's post thread about a serious amateur cricketer who found themself unexpectedly drafted in to make up the numbers in a village cricket match | Continue reading
A great rundown on all the moving parts of email validation from QuixoticGambit on goatdog's question How do I make my emails not end up in people's spam folders?. | Continue reading
The dread was this mix of "No fucking way, it makes no fucking sense, it couldn't be ... it couldn't," and this deeper recognition that, on some level, it had to be. Tom Hanks Cannot Be Trusted takes a deep dive on the "Succession" finale in Fanfare. | Continue reading
cubby posted The Language You Cry In, "an amazing scholarly detective story that searches for —and finds— meaningful links between African Americans and their ancestral past. It bridges hundreds of years and thousands of miles from the Gullah people of present-day Georgia back to … | Continue reading
shaggy by Lynncam26What happens when you encounter a posse of insane clowns in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the night? Sometimes they help you change a tire. outgrown_hobnail shares a story. | Continue reading
Recommended: Magpie MurdersIn Ask Metafilter, I'm an Agatha Christie adaptation addict, who's run out of Agatha Christie adaptations to watch. Please help. Unicorn chaser is looking for "that Christie vibe." | Continue reading
Going To Maine posts David Friedman’s small collection of URLs you can use to stop getting (a bunch of) junk mail (in the US) ... and furnace.heart adds an arousing fourth option in the comments. | Continue reading
via BBC.comFizz posted Titanic: First ever full-sized scans reveal wreck as never seen before, the first full-sized digital scan of the Titanic, with visualizations pieced together from 700,000 images collected by remote controlled submersibles. (Title via pthomas745 in the comme … | Continue reading
"If you think you aren't interested in or have no connection to this, you're probably mistaken": hippybear posted the 2020 documentary The Ventures: Stars On Guitars, the story of the most famous instrumental rock and roll band in the world. | Continue reading
Dave Matthews: You may have opinions. You may have *strong* opinions. You may have prejudices or fond memories. But only Floydd has the Dave Matthews Toe. | Continue reading
Histories by Aldaron (cc by)paduasoy posted "English Historical Fiction Authors," a group blog that has been going since 2011, where researchers and novelists post about British history. "There are posts about wool and war, Schools of Gardening for Ladies, beds and bugs, aspirin, … | Continue reading
Confessions of a Disco Freak by kumar303 (cc by-sa)Often-Interesting Reviews of 2,600+ singles and album tracks by some guy, a tasty reminder of old-school obsessive bloggy goodness, posted by OneGearIsEnough | Continue reading
A very helpful, very detailed useful answer from flabdablet to cnidaria's question Why does my printer keep going into a deep sleep/offline? | Continue reading
image via Miss T.HornMy great-uncle was in a cell in the French Resistance during WWII ... An intriguing question about a 50-year old mystery photo location from Miss T.Horn, and a fabulous answer 37 minutes later by essexjan. | Continue reading
Reading the Fine Print by CaptPiper (cc by-nc)Comments recently flagged as fantastic: warrior queen on anger and the adrenal system Tom Hanks Cannot Be Trusted on cars as an extension of ourselves adept256 with a story about some accidental / incidental artRecently made us laugh: … | Continue reading
via Small Wonders issue 0Small Wonders Magazine [via mefi projects] is a new online speculative fiction and poetry magazine from Metafilter member lriG rorriM and Stephen Granade. Their inaugural issue contains fiction by Saswati Chatterjee, Premee Mohamed, Wendy Nikel, Charles P … | Continue reading
Continuation of Charles III coronation discussion happening here. | Continue reading
cam university library by arcibald (cc by-nc)SaharaRose's post about ways to support libraries in trying times offers suggestions for individuals and multiple resources to help support US libraries and the freedom to read. | Continue reading
IRL, mochapickle and danabanana have organized an online meet for "The Artist's Way" (Julia Cameron's classic creativity program to help with artistic work of all kinds) starting Sunday, May 7, so check in to learn more! And over in Fanfare, DirtyOldTown has posted Trailer Park: … | Continue reading
It's like the only one of my stupid schemes that I rolled a 20 on. outgrown_hobnail shares their secret for a surefire thesis defense strategy. | Continue reading
detail of youtube screen captureA roaring Ask Metafilter "identify this item" success for moonmilk's question "Do you recognize this t-shirt from 1992?" | Continue reading
Book Burning - Quema de Libros - Suns and Book Burning by derechoaleer (cc by)Posted to the blue from Mefi Projects: Banned Book Book Club "displays information about a book that has been banned in American schools 2021-2022, alongside a readable preview of most books (on desktop … | Continue reading
Explosion! by Rickydavid (cc by-nc-nd)"I saw Moby naked! And I didn't like it at all!" — loquacious. Hey, mefites are discussing discussing the Rolling Stones "When Rock Stars Screw Up" article!:emoji: | Continue reading
In Ask Metafilter, iamsuper asks, How unfashionable were the medieval poor? "How fast did fashion spread in, say, medieval times, or Tudor times? Would people living in remote areas perhaps be wearing clothes that were 100 years or more out of fashion? Or would fashions evolve at … | Continue reading