image via pixabay.com A$k the Mod$; Mefi Pet$; Early Acce$$: it's our August Fundraiser! | Continue reading
image via pixabay.com BadgerDoctor asks Are there advantages to buying unsliced bread?, and in case you were wondering, I'm happy to report that yes, it turns out Mefites can overthink a slice of bread! | Continue reading
"Everyone's favorite mystery text, the Voynich Manuscript, is finally getting careful attention from leading medievalists": Pleasant_confusion posted A new approach to the Voynich Manuscript. | Continue reading
Cover detail from Anton Chekhov's The Kiss Book love meets graphic design love meets collectible love in cupcakeninja's post on Greg Neville's Penguin Series Design. ❤️ | Continue reading
via theconversation.com, Teetotums were used in an era when dice were associated with vice. Museum Rotterdam/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Wobbuffet has a lovely, expansive post on the early history of geographical board games, with a special look at America's first board game, 182 … | Continue reading
Let's circle back around to brainwane's post about alternatives to corporate jargon. Hopefully we can ping this low hanging fruit as we pivot to a churn Photo by Josh, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/listener42/) | Continue reading
Hey, take a minute, close your eyes and imagine an apple. Well, it turns out that not everyone can visualize an apple in their internal mind. What does that mean? Ten Cold Hot Dogs made a post about that topic and what the link says about how individualistic we all are is fascina … | Continue reading
There's so much going in the world at any particular time, so many things to keep track off and pay attention to. So let's turn that big brain off for a bit with big songs that keep things calm. What do you suggest? Because member Garm is looking for music that can put one in thi … | Continue reading
miniature diorama of Christine inside Darnell's garage by member Laura Palmer's Cold Dead Kiss In HearHere's post on a miniature renaissance, Laura Palmer's Cold Dead Kiss shared their impressive creation, a diorama of Darnell's Garage from the movie Christine. Flagged as Fury 58 … | Continue reading
image via pixabay.com TimHare wants to hear about your favorite independent and/or college streaming radio stations. | Continue reading
In Canada, an initiative to help combat anti-trans rhetoric and attacks at school boards and other local institutions: Lawyers Against Transphobia | Continue reading
Hey, here's a couple of internal notes for the community: ALeaflikeStructure has created a USA VotingSupport page in the Metafilter Wiki that lists specific organizations that work to educate and support voters. If you are looking for somewhere to volunteer, donate, or get help i … | Continue reading
image via pixabay.com 7 Minutes of Madness is asking for recommendations for Time-Glitch Novels. Also, 7 Minutes of Madness is asking for recommendations for Time-Glitch Novels. | Continue reading
Photo by Andrew Bone via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/andreboeni/) Time for a round of MeFi's posts about the 2024 Olympics! There's a post about the amazing swimmer, Katie Ledecky, another covering the photo of surfer Gabriel Medina celebrating his win, the difference b … | Continue reading
Photo by Lisa Zins, courtesy of Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/lisazins/) Sure, you've already started pregaming for Halloween and things are going frightfully well. But let's expand your dimly lit horizons and check out DirtyOldTown's massive guide to horror movies that a … | Continue reading
That guy, doing his thing! It's been thirty years since overly muscled, blue spandex clad superhero known as The Tick first proffered profound platitudes of righteous justice over the sugary sweet Saturday sac of morning cartoons. But what was the origin of this ridiculous and be … | Continue reading
jontyjago posted St Wilfrid's Catholic School's end of year video, a delightful shot-by-shot remake of Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice," featuring the school's headmaster, Mr Ferry. (Mr Ferry actually has pretty good rhythm, but the pun would brook no resistance) | Continue reading
Not to alarm you, but it is less than 100 days until Halloween. Have you finalized your overambitious horror film watch list yet? Wobbuffet is here to help. | Continue reading
Photo by Elena Popova on Unsplash Would you like to learn how to play the board game Go? "This website is visually appealing, simple to use, and easy to understand." Thanks bq! | Continue reading
Please welcome new user, A Most Curious Rabbit, who joined just to explain how your small donation contributes to a political cause. Eye opening information that reminds us that we can be involved in the process! | Continue reading
"there's 2 ways I usually remove movement from dead characters ..." Member 5_13_23_42_69_666 answers DirtyOldTown's Ask Mefi question about techniques used for hiding the breathing of "dead" characters on TV and film. | Continue reading
Art by Will Quinn (https://www.willquinnart.com/) What's the bunny quotation in your life, are you getting enough? If not, cupcakeninja has a post about artist Will Quinn, who has delightful daily solutions to this problem! | Continue reading
Photo by Yogendra Joshi, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/yogendra174/) In a post about the recent CrowdStrike outage, Wordshore shared a charming anecdote about signs, scone thievery, and the ethics of moth collecting. | Continue reading
Photo by Stephen Bowler via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/50826080@N00/) How would you define the concept of 'tomorrow'? Even better, how would you define it to a six year old? If you have an answer, chime in on kitcat's question or see what others are saying! | Continue reading
Photo by Eden, Janine and Jim, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/) It's been a busy few years in US politics since last week's attempted assassination of Republican Nominee Donald Trump. First, the US Supreme court dismissed the classifieds documents case aga … | Continue reading
image via The Internet Animation Database, intanibase.com Oh, fun! not_on_display posted The Fictional Brands Archive's searchable index, with descriptions of each brand, and browsable by name, sector, category, medium, genre, and "touchpoint." Check out the "Research" section, t … | Continue reading
image via The Internet Animation Database, intanibase.com Oh, fun! not_on_display posted The Fictional Brands Archive's searchable index, with descriptions of each brand, and browsable by name, sector, category, medium, genre, and "touchpoint." Check out the "Research" section, t … | Continue reading
image via pixabay.com greatgefilte posted How to unlearn pain, an interesting exploration of psychotherapy or talk therapy focusing on hidden, powerful emotions for some types of pain, including a look at "This Might Hurt, a film about a radical treatment for chronic pain." | Continue reading
Did you know there is a Youtube Free Cleaning community? AlSweigart posted about Midwest Magic Cleaning, and specifically the channel owner's bracing reaction to the commenters who "get off on the dopamine rush of mocking people and blaming them." Very informative, and not a bad … | Continue reading
The Skin Illustrator Dirt Palette professional makeup product OrangeDisk asks why TV and film characters don't seem to wipe blood, dirt, etc., from their faces any longer, and gets some helpful answers, including this one from nouvelle-personne about the differences between old a … | Continue reading
Check out this post by dhruva that highlights Nanoscopes, an award-winning short film about butterfly wings! After you've gazed over the beautiful images, dive into the thread to read some commentary from the filmmaker themselves! Screenshot from film | Continue reading
Photo by Mike Mozard via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeepersmedia/) For the old house and non AC people there is (literally) only one burning question: What are your best fan strategies? AgentRocket has started the discussion, come see what people are suggesting! But pl … | Continue reading
Image by AUM OER, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/165350698@N03/) What is the best book you've read that very few other people have even heard of? Brainwane wants to know, no matter the genre or if it's fiction or nonfiction. Come share some good reading with us! | Continue reading
"This site contains all 146 of the original Computer Literacy Project programmes plus 121 related programmes, broken down into 2,509 categorised, searchable clips": Jessamyn posted BBC's amazing The Computer Literacy Project, 1980-1989. | Continue reading
image via pixabay.com chavenet posted Longreads' Untold Fortunes: A Reading List on the Creative Uses of the Tarot | Continue reading
Happy 25th birthday MetaFilter! | Continue reading
In Metatalk: Shepherd has a notion ... a bookstore bookmark exchange? kensington314 is putting together another mixtape, yay! MetaMixTapes 2: Growing Up to Be a Pope, and oh, yes, there will be Birthday Cake. Thanks, freethefeet! | Continue reading
Apropos of nothing in particular, EndsOfInvention reminds us of The Breaking News Consumer's Handbook. Always good to keep at hand. | Continue reading
We're Old School, we're Vibrant, a Shining Beacon, we're a Time Capsule, a Digital Brigadoon. I guess you could say we are getting a little long in the tooth ... and claw. | Continue reading
Photo by Scott McLeod via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mcleod/) You have questions? Luckily Wired magazine has experts that who answer questions from the internet All of this brought to you in this post by dfm500! | Continue reading
Nub? Python? Trench?! ANY FRUIT?! These are just a few of the terms from KJ Scott's survey about Lewd Vocabulary in Erotic Fiction. If that sort of thing interests you (and we know it does), then go ahead and log off from any work computer and check out this post created by jacqu … | Continue reading
Courtesy of Thomas Dambo Art Zenzenobia highlights Thomas Dambo, who does a lot of trolling, but only in the woods and when it involves trash. | Continue reading
Image via pixabay.com So, DMelanogaster is seeking a community of graphic memoirists for sharing and advice, both technical and companionable, and this sounds so cool ... and also a nice excuse for us to peek in at the progress on their own work, which was posted in Projects a co … | Continue reading
"I'm a millennial and I didn't quite "get" what kind of show this was ..." fire, water, earth, air has questions – many, many questions – about The Muppet Show: Tell me everything you know about The Muppet Show! | Continue reading
From a photo via PixaBay.com In a pointed response to the sexist assumption that "books by women, about women, are more likely to be considered 'light reading,'" joannemerriam has assembled a great list of "small press books by women, about women, including Become Ungovernable, F … | Continue reading
detail from cover art of The Diamond Age Thoughts about The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer from Neal Stephenson's "Diamond Age," nearly 30 years on ... gwint posted "Exorcising us of the Primer" by researcher and software engineer/designer Andy Matuschak | Continue reading
Close up of the Illustration by Hitomi Terasawa 1.3 human beings per square meter. That was the density of Kowloon Walled City, an enclave of China that existed for most of the 1900s. Before the site was demolished, a beautiful architectural drawing was made of the city and that' … | Continue reading
A view of your future dinosaur yard ornament Yes, we're thinking about it. Jacquilynne's post about a full skeleton of a stegosaurus going up for auction has us dreaming and going there sofa cushions for change. Sure, it'll probably cost between four and six million, but we're no … | Continue reading