image via pixabay.com Rhaomi posted about Google's NotebookLM (AI-powered research and writing assistant), and its interesting "unassuming" option of turning your uploaded texts, links, docs, audio clips, etc., into source material for an extremely convincing virtual podcast with … | Continue reading
In spamandkimchi's post on the shady history of the profit-motivated "baby pipeline" of South Korean infants for adoption in the West, mefi member i used to be someone else offers a very enlightening rejection of the idea of new radical feminism as the catalyst for the country's … | Continue reading
Dragon, Dragon, the Clangers are your special friend (video screenshot) Directly from the Department of Strange Bedfellows, Iron Maiden's (re-scoring of) The Clangers (1969 episode of "The Egg"). Confused? Just grab yourself a bowl of soup, and have a look-see at Major Clanger's … | Continue reading
Photo by Marcel Kessler, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/marcelkessler/) Fall has arrived, which heralds the arrival of that spookiest time of the year. As such, luminary is looking for "spooky autumn-themed short stories" for a yearly, um, ritual. What do you suggest? | Continue reading
Strawberry/Cream Cheese Toast, photo by Peter Lindberg via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/plindberg/) Do you remember that webpage that had recommendations for how to top a block of cream cheese? Donut_princess doesn't remember it either, but would like too! In the meantim … | Continue reading
Photo by Marwan Youssef, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/143720381@N02/) Faintdreams is looking for 'odd' movie suggestions, but not just regular odd, but 'delightfully odd'! What would you recommend? | Continue reading
Pacific Northwest Trail Association trail crew members on the bank of the Chilliwack River tend to Robert Schock (not visible). Photo via Pacific Northwest Trail Association ShooBoo posts about the fellow who went missing for 30 days on the North Cascades Chilliwack River Trail, … | Continue reading
By MonicaVereanaWilliams - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 If you love cooking and recipes and food and foody things and trivia, lists, tips, quirky history, and/or you love old school web aesthetic, you're really going to love foodreference.com. Find Recipes For a Party Like It's 1999. ( … | Continue reading
image via Gabby's Mermaid Postcards Who among us has not at least once longed for a pink heart-shaped bathtub, a tunnel of love ride, and an underwater mermaid show? Where in America can I find these things? :emoji:♀️ | Continue reading
Bust of Euripedes Kattullus posted about Euripides Unbound, the story of a recent discovery by archeologist Heba Adly of a papyrus containing 97 lines from Polyidus and Ino, lost plays by Euripides. | Continue reading
As humanity continues barreling forward with computers being further enmeshed in our lives, there's lots of good reasons to be concerned. Luckily, this post by mhoye is isn't one of them, as it explores the abstract beauty of the path taken by ships over a year. If you squint, yo … | Continue reading
Pachylad is out here sharing the really important question: fairy or walrus? The full and fascinating context is at the link! | Continue reading
Nose candy, suitcases of cash, T-shirts under luxe European suits, ubiquitous pastels, shoes with no socks, speedboats, fast Ferraris, bikinis, boat life ... and ohhhh the music: There's something in the air tonight, and it's NotMyselfRightNow's most magnificently mega of mega po … | Continue reading
photo via designboom.com If you haven't seen the bejeweled rotting fruit sculptures of Kathleen Ryan, you might want to see the bejeweled rotting fruit sculptures of Kathleen Ryan. Nice art find from lucidium! | Continue reading
umbú asks "How can I translate my hearing test results to a music player's graphic equalizer so that I can boost certain frequencies to match how a recorded music track is meant to sound?" and flug replies, "Hmm, just by complete chance I've spent the past several days messing ar … | Continue reading
OMG, turns out that it's teenage girls that are moving society forward, at least linguistically, as noted in this post by chariot pulled by cassowaries! Girls texting by omoo via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/gansv1846/) | Continue reading
The Flower Power photograph by Bernie Boston, taken during the March on the Pentagon, October 21, 1967 Over in Ask MetaFilter community member Number Used Once is requesting "historical photographs of events that are deeply moving and/or interesting". If you know of a particular … | Continue reading
Grab your favorite beverage and let's get comfortable, because brainwane has shared two short science fiction stories that deal with pain and hope. Excellent choices, thank you! | Continue reading
Screenshot from game! It's been six years since community member justkevin released his first game, Starcom: Nexus. Time's flown by and the follow-up is here (over in Projects) Starcom: Unknown Space! Enter a vast open-world universe filled with alien factions vying for power, st … | Continue reading
The two Early Bronze Age axe heads, dating from around 2150-2000 BC, were sent anonymously to the National Museum of Ireland at the end of June. Photograph: National Museum of Ireland Where did those 4,000 year old axe heads come from?! The National Museum of Ireland had so many … | Continue reading
detail from Sweetie Darling kitty pic Cat Distribution System: How to deploy? Sweetie Darling gets advice on initiating the procedure and updates us with results. Mid-Operation: "We've made eye contact and I love him"; Current Status: installed in guest room and purring like a He … | Continue reading
National Museum of American Illustration photo by Mike G at tripadvisor.com No answer was forthcoming but very soon we noticed a man peeking over the wall at us. "Hello! Are you trying to get in the museum?" ... Great comment by Hypatia on the post about Newport Art Museum's mass … | Continue reading
detail from Mahlathini & The Mahotella Queens album Music Inferno: The Indestructible Beat Tour 1988-89 Some great answers in dismas' Ask Metafilter post about Antecedents of the 'worldbeat' guitar sound: "What e.g., Afro-pop artists from the 1980s should I listen to if I really … | Continue reading
Screenshot of one of the ads Ok, ok, maybe nobody reads the ads. But gentlyepigrams' post about a small archive of print and outdoor ads points that maybe you should read some ads, 'cause the copy is just that good! | Continue reading
Phunniemee thinks you should stay fruity! Their encouragement towards this goal is to listen to Matt Bernstein's podcast, "A Bit Fruity", described as a "friendly queer jew w(ith) very long nails" Until next time... | Continue reading
Foxfirefey shared the incredibly wonderful "Your Name In Landsat". The site allows you type in a word and each letter will use a Landsat image from Earth! You can even save the word as a collage, check it out! | Continue reading
Comparison of the Pentium weaving with a Pentium die photo from Intel. Monday, stony Monday posted the excellent The Pentium as a Navajo weaving, about a unique rug design based on Intel's Pentium chip (the P54C, to be exact), painstakingly made using traditional Navajo materials … | Continue reading
Venus' lower clouds, via planetary.org doctornemo posted a great roundup of true adventures in space, July-August 2024. | Continue reading
from the Red Library: Creaks Pink Fuzzy Bunny posted the rather wonderful USC Optical Sound Effects Library – "Classic movie sound effects on optical and magnetic tape from the 30's to the 80's, all carefully restored, catalogued and posted on the Internet Archive." | Continue reading
Community member wubbie absolutely loves posters, especially movie posters! So they built a cloud based service that allows anyone to stream over 3,500 movie posters to their device for the most epic and love and movie art ever! | Continue reading
Chappell Roan @ Hollywood Palladium 11/18/2022 by Justin Higuchi, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jus10h/) Over in Ask MetaFilter, member The Adventure Begins is looking for music recommendations similar to Chappell Roan's "Hot To Go" aka "high energy synth pop bops by … | Continue reading
Photo by Pamela Carls, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/irisdragon/) The kite "wars" are heating up in Brazil to the point that law is having to get involved. Yes, you read that sentence right, chavenet created a post that has the details! | Continue reading
A screenshot from the adaptation Citizenk took the time to remind us of an old, yet incredibly ambitious project, Blade Runner: the Aquarel Edition. It's a shot by shot recreation of the movie, but done in watercolors and it is stunning to see. | Continue reading
How do you remember to take your meds, vitamins, etc? | Continue reading
Monotype print using a selfmade gelli by aab_art via r/printmaking on reddit Monotypes are "undergoing a revival of sorts thanks to the Gel Plate which has made it very easy for the beginner (like me!) to make their own prints and papers." Art_Pot posted Monoprinting with the Gel … | Continue reading
collage using image by Colin W, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons kensington314 asked an interesting question about how to have "26 guns melted down or otherwise destroyed in Southern California," and Iris Gambol has a great in-depth answer, while xedrik reports on his solution … | Continue reading
detail from movie poster for Cats Of Malta "I just posted paduasoy's "six films about cats, with no cat death" list. You can see the films via the hashtag #CatFilms ... Donate $25 to MeFi and I'll post six films on a custom theme of your choice, too!" In the Mefi fundraising thre … | Continue reading
If you ever go to the planet Jupiter, try and swing by Earth on your way out. Europe's JUICE spacecraft recently did just that, as noted in a post by bq, and the photos are lovely! | Continue reading
Bats like living in churches for a numbers of reasons, though their presence can present problems. Hence the Bats in Churches project, focused on the UK, and as highlighted by paduasoy's post! | Continue reading
Love word puzzles and looking for something new? Then please allow Horace Rumple to point you towards Gisnep, a new daily word puzzle by MeFi's own ironicsans! | Continue reading
collage by mefi staff It was a dark and stormy night, the inky pools of shadow in the sparsely furnished room punctuated only by jittery flashes of lightning and the throbbing #065a8f rather than #006699 blue background and glowing scroll of resolute white text and flirtatious li … | Continue reading
image via pixabay.com Is it okay to date or marry your chatbot? jenfullmoon posted Give up dating or just date a bot. | Continue reading
Gorogoa game artwork derbyshire is looking for fun puzzle video games to play as a family. | Continue reading
Digital Public Library of America and Independent Publishers Group have announced a groundbreaking agreement MIT vs Elsevier | Continue reading
Cropped image by Josh Dury The Perseid meteor shower is back and SPrintF posted about a particularly beautiful image of it! | Continue reading
Image by Andreas Eldh, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/eldh/) Over on AskMetaFilter, nushustu posted an interesting question for our technological age: with much of its staff let go, how is X (nee Twitter) still running? The many answers are an illuminating look at runn … | Continue reading
Photo by Daniel Wehner, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/daniel-wehner/ You want a story? Maybe two? Brainwane has you covered! First up is two new short stories by Kelly Robson and Marissa Lingen. If that's not enough, there's a third story from a very interesting writi … | Continue reading
image via pixabay.com A$k the Mod$; Mefi Pet$; Early Acce$$: it's our August Fundraiser! | Continue reading