Photo by Paul Hudson via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/pahudson/) World got you down or just generally feeling blue? Then check out box's post about the 40 saddest albums of all time! Dim those lights and let's zone out for the night! | Continue reading
Illustration by Caroline, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/hills_alive/) Got a random chatty question? Then hop over to HelpMe, an AskMetaFilter experiment for those idle questions floating around in your head! | Continue reading
image via pixabay.com So, it turn out that more than one enthusiast has decided that owls and theremins must mesh. Whooo, you might ask? Well, one is a deer wizard, and one is muggsy1079's friend Scott. | Continue reading
Photo by Christian Sinibaldi via The Guardian: One of Battle library's 'nooks' – handmade dioramas depicting scenes from classic novels. 'If there's nowhere else to go, this is where they come'. Wordshore posted the Guardian's fascinating long read at how libraries step in to fil … | Continue reading
Black mold spore photo by Ramy algayar leftover_scrabble_rack is feeling a bit overwhelmed about what to do about a household mold issue, and nouvelle-personne steps up with some super useful advice about how to triage, assess, and address the problem. | Continue reading
Bet there are some tips you haven't considered in Jane the Brown's long list of heat-beating strategies. | Continue reading
Screenshot of an elevator from Riven. Now this is what the internet was made for, wonderous geekery! Come enjoy the visual splendor of almost every elevator in the video game series that started with Myst. Shared by rivenwanderer, this post does such a good job of showing how the … | Continue reading
Colorized transmission electron micrograph showing particles of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus that emerged in 2012. Credit: NIAID We're often encouraged to look up, but there's plenty of interesting stuff down below. So, mittens goes deep in a post about the mi … | Continue reading
Diesal out strolling with his new fam. Photoby @maxfennell via Instagram Family is what you make of it, at least according to Diesel the donkey. Previously lost, he has been spotted in the wild with a new family, as noted in this post by ShooBoo. | Continue reading
We want to hear from Trans and Non-binary members! Bella Donna is seeking interviewees and outlets for a Metafiler 25th anniversary PR pitch. Thank you, Bella Donna! If only I had a penguin... points out that our Wikipedia page could stand a bit of editing. Citation: Metafilter W … | Continue reading
Link (Assemblage) (1971) - João Vieira (1934 - 2009) via Pedro Ribeiro Simões on Flickr A new Link Me post has been forged! Come find a topic to post, or offer your idea for a topic for someone else to post! Thanks, CMcG! | Continue reading
the weekly Free Thread is always a bright spot | Continue reading
depending on whim, you may also receive an artifact of some type ... In Metatalk, chiefthe re-ups their Continuing Ongoing Modern Pen Pal Project, wherein they post a handwritten letter to any mefite requesting one. Sweet! ✍ ✉️ | Continue reading
signal posted Ludicity's peppery thoughts about AI grifting and attendant ubiquitous bluesky ML/LLM technobabble burnout, and the Mefi community is feeling it. Likewise sweary, Lucy Mangan's Guardian review of BBC's "The Stormtrooper Scandal" about just one of the grubby, greedy … | Continue reading
image by Tara Winstead on pexels.com Tell Me No Lies is looking for a fresh take on his project / problem of trying to efficiently return 30 stray jigsaw pieces to their proper puzzles, and Mefites have so many clever ideas! (including one involving judging "tongue adhesion"?). I … | Continue reading
Via David J. Kent (https://davidjkent-writer.com/2024/06/19/what-does-the-juneteenth-flag-mean/) We humans like to remember the past and set aside a day to remember important events. But it's rare that history only occurs in a day. Inevitably there a deep and wide breadth of time … | Continue reading
The internet has been an amazing invention, bringing all sorts of media to your desktop or mobile device. But as the years have gone by, perhaps it's been a bit too much? Maybe you'd like a stripped down and more bandwidth friendly version of some sites? Say no more friend! Sheph … | Continue reading
Photo by Bill Smith, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/byzantiumbooks/) Look, you need to get rid of at least some of those books and you know it. Luckily, cupcakeninja made a post about where to donate used books. Yes, it's ok if you read them just one more time before d … | Continue reading
BlueJae looks for help finding cool, weird, rare edible herbs for my garden, and we just want to go lie down for a while in that delightful pile of aromatic answers! | Continue reading
Photo by Tom Fisk kliuless has an in-depth post on "the move by national governments, financial investors and private security forces to snap up food and water resources." Robber barons in the food system. | Continue reading
art from Koldunova at Dreamstime.com latkes just wants to listen to people singing in harmony. If you have some favorite music featuring vocal harmonies, maybe you can chime i?. | Continue reading
Medieval illustration of St. Gallus and the bear So it turns out a surprising number of Mefites have had up close and personal encounters with bears, though, thankfully, very few report being eaten. How To Avoid Being Eaten By A Black Bear. | Continue reading
The original Dire Straits line-up in Hamburg, Germany (1978), photo by Heinrich Klaffs "Sultans Of Swing" and "Money For Nothing" were two major hits of the hugely successful band Dire Straits. But what were the origins behind those two hits? AgentRocket's post has all the fun tr … | Continue reading
James Lawson, photographed by Joon Powell Kensington314 and other MeFites celebrate the life and passing of Reverend James Lawson. He was a major figure and advocate of nonviolence during the civil rights movement in the United States and to the end of his life, he championed hum … | Continue reading
The 80s are known for many things, like big hair, valley girls, MTV, shoulder pads and neon colors. But in the midst of all that, Alvin and the Chipmunks released an absolute monument to sludge rock and 1adam12 made a post celebrating this little known fact. Rock on! | Continue reading
Perhaps, like Faintdreams, this is just what you needed but didn't yet know it: The Ardship of Cambry posted The Deep Ark, an eight hour plus mix of 1990's Warp Records "Electronic Listening Music" and related beats. | Continue reading
adapted from a crow image by Neil Smith on Flickr A bird flew into my kitchen, pecked a hole in the bag of granola, then ate some granola. Would you eat the rest of the granola in the bag? shock muppet was birb-mugged, with additional insult! What would you do? Do they need a cor … | Continue reading
MonkeyToes posted Tiny Awards: Celebrating the Goodness of the Homemade Web about (Mefi's own) Matt Muir's project to "celebrate interesting, small, craft-y internet projects and spaces which basically make the web a more fun place to be." This year's nominations are open until J … | Continue reading
Dear distinguished colleagues, LinkMe: A MetaFilter experiment for posts, is an experimental thread, based on a suggestion by Rhaomi, wherein folks can suggest ideas for posts they don't necessarily want to make themselves, and other folks can pick up the baton on ones that inter … | Continue reading
Photo by Alisa Anton on Unsplash.com donut_princess is looking for some new small enjoyments, and asks what small things you do to find joy that don't involve a ton of money or time?. | Continue reading
Photo by Tony Austin, from Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tonyaustin/) You may think you're tough, but if you're a prisoner at a certain prison in South Brazil, you would be wise not to challenge how tough the guard geese are. Wordshore made the post that has the details, … | Continue reading
Photo by Vegan Feast Catering, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/veganfeast/) With apologies to the few that have an allergy to potatoes, please enjoy this post by cupcakeninja about How To Bake A Potato. Come for the novelty, stay for the recipes! | Continue reading
Are there taxes in the Shire? Tolkien never got into those details, but luckily Nathan Goldwag has given some thought to these issues as pointed out in this excellent post by Kattullus! | Continue reading
Video screen capture of the performance via Jaseroque on Bluesky chavenet links John Bull's (Mefi's own garius's) Bluesky post on the 1994 Pet Shop Boys Brit Awards appearance and their rendition of the Village People's "Go West," performed with 3 separate choirs of Welsh miners … | Continue reading
Bobby McFerrin at the World Science Festival That is one of my guaranteed happy-making videos: EmpressCallipygos links to a very cool short vid of Bobby McFerrin demonstrating the Power of the Pentatonic Scale in storybored's post on The Secret Code of Melody, and now we're happy … | Continue reading
Photo via the OP lianove3 recently came home to a suspicious Amazon package with no label and a threatening aura. Was it a bomb? What to do? Should the movie version of this thread star Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman? Was it all worth it just for this pun? Find out in the comments! | Continue reading
Virtual poker game at Puzzmo mecran01 wants to know about your favorite online social puzzles. | Continue reading
Wartime portrait of Chiang Kai-shek, 1943 Would you know more about Chiang Kai-shek, his "lost" KMT army and modern Chinese history? If so, then kschang has got you very well covered in an informative post! | Continue reading
Photo by Ellen Klages This is a sort of follow up to the post about how people are handling possessions in their twilight years. But this post is about a single possession, a ham. It had been hanging in a basement for 20 years and with the passing of the "owner", decisions had to … | Continue reading
Photo by Mayumi Hirata How's your love of punk music going? 'Cause if it needs a boost or refresh, then say hello to Otoboke Beaver, a Kyoto quartet with an abundance of energy and talent, as illustrated in mikeand1's incredibly informative post | Continue reading
Marvin Gaye "In a two part podcast series, scholar Andrew Hickey traces the convoluted history of a song that the label never thought would be a hit, and the lives of the many performers that shaped it": a juicy post on "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," from How the runs scored | Continue reading
Scene from Apollo 13 Smart people working together to solve problems? I bet a collection of Mefites could assemble to hammer out a proper list for TimHare's Ask Metafilter question about recommendations for more movies featuring collective "competency porn." | Continue reading
Photo by Kevin Krejci on Flickr With the long lives most people lead in the 21st century, we manage to accumulate a lot of possessions. But what how should we handle that collection in our twilight years? Kitteh posted an article from The Walrus that looks at the question of what … | Continue reading
Detail from Consider the Consequences book cover And on THIS branching path, it turns out Mefi's own "professional enthusiast" gee_the_riot is the character who creates the Twine game featured in Rhaomi's fantastic post on reviving "Consider the Consequences!," the world's very f … | Continue reading
Photograph by Justin Taylor, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bludgeoner86/) Things that make you go hmm: Uncle was doing a project and realized they had no idea 'why washers are called washers". So he poked the hive mind at AskMetafilter and various explanations flew ou … | Continue reading
Engraving by George Vertue, 1725 The perspective of an angry green parrot was used by Eliza Haywood back in 1746 to point out problematic elements of 18th century. Now, as ShooBoo's post highlights, those writings (originally published as The Parrot)are being re-released. If you' … | Continue reading
Photo by Bill Smith, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/byzantiumbooks/) Take a look at Rhaomi's post about Criterion's Closet Picks! It's a guide for some of the most interesting films in the overall Collection, narrated by various stars and artists as they discuss their … | Continue reading
Glinn posted Animal Companions (esp. dogs) of Metafilter in Metatalk, and they are all good companions, Brent. | Continue reading