[COMMUNITY] What have you broken free from? It's your weekly Free Thread! | Continue reading
Fix Your Hearts or Die! Special events, new movies, FF's complete David Lynch, current TV shows under discussion, new comments on older posts, and more in this week's roundup! | Continue reading
A man sits in a chair and delightful things happen in this post shared by dick dale the vampire | Continue reading
Photo © Keerthana Kunnath It's said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. bBut when the beholder is you, what does one see when that beauty is outside of the norm? Chavenet's post about a burgeoning community of female bodybuilders in Kerala, India touches on this question a … | Continue reading
Screenshot from How To Cream Pasta Like a Great Master - The Ultimate Guide by Luciano Monosilio Cheese and pepper? Yes, of course, according to Greg_Ace's homemade and lovingly baked post about four roman pasta dishes united by these not so similar ingredients. | Continue reading
Photo by nicholaspollock, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/iamataman/) Brainwane continues their excellent streak of sharing great stories with a link to J.R. Dawson's "Six People To Revise You". It's a moving tale about searching for and finding your identity in world t … | Continue reading
jacquilynne posted Homeowner captures sound and video of meteorite strike on camera, and scientists believe it's a first. (Also bros, boxers, belts, braces, and suspenders. You'll understand once you get there.) | Continue reading
Sun Ra, Space Is the Place (1974) via IMDB Lempkin posted Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise, one-hour documentary shot over two years, recording the late musician's celebrated and unique fusion of music, mysticism, cosmic mystery, poetry, and mythology. (Plus smashing headgear!) | Continue reading
"Wildfire ash is toxic, and the ash of an urban conflagration more so. Especially when most destroyed buildings were pre-1960 and contained unknown amounts of asbestos and lead ..." backwoods has advice and links for evacuees returning to residences affected by smoke and ash | Continue reading
Society to Advocate for the Return of Intermissions in Movies: For your delectation, a loving roundup of what's new, what's cool, what's the haps in FanFare this week! Thank you, DirtyOldTown! | Continue reading
What sort of noises do you make? It's your weekly Free Thread! | Continue reading
Wretch729 in the Check-in for LA MeFites Metatalk: "I haven't seen it posted yet so just sharing -- Mutual Aid Los Angeles (MALA) has put together a spreadsheet [offsite link] with resources such as shelter info, animal boarding info, addresses for distribution centers, volunteer … | Continue reading
Drop spindle with wool via Wikimedia Sheep farmer here, raising pedigree Shetlands for fleece quality ... Rhedyn comments in the post on how synthetic textiles made from plastic took over the fashion industry. Wow, there is so much fascinating info in this thread! If you have an … | Continue reading
Pineapple? Pineapple. music for skeletons seeks suggestions for the whole pineapple, and gets some great ideas. Grill / roast caramelization sounds delicious! | Continue reading
image via The Online Bicycle Museum There was vitabellosi's first cousin 3X removed ... It's remarkable how many woodchucks he killed. Was he eating them? vitabellosi has commented on a rather wonderful artifact — a 19th century diary belonging to their family and the stories jus … | Continue reading
image via pixabay.com From ftrtts, 12 Word Searches. A book of 12 small puzzles that get trickier as you progress. For 1 or more solvers: as foxtongue describes in the comments, "puzzles in puzzles in puzzles." Just something cool that we didn't manage to point out amid the holid … | Continue reading
image via pickpik.com Mumimor has an excellent, super helpful, comment explaining the Greenland situation from close up, if you are bemused at all by the perplexing political tempest swirling around the world's largest island and its tiny population. | Continue reading
Photo by Rob Young, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/rob-young/) As the shore of 2024 fade away and we move forward (whether we want to or not), community member summerteeth posted a thought provoking question in AskMetaFilter: "What gives you hope for the future, in 202 … | Continue reading
Photo by Meg Moon (https://www.instagram.com/meg_moon/?hl=en) Community member Kitteh wants to share the awesome sound of the Toronto band The Beaches, so pull up a speaker and get ready to dance! | Continue reading
[COMMUNITY] Los Angeles MeFites, please check in and let us know how you're doing! | Continue reading
Photo by April Spreeman, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/krisandapril/) Who doesn't like soup? But one of the best things about making soup is how it can make your home smell so good. With that in mind, Charity Garfein is seeking soup (and stew) recipes that will give o … | Continue reading
Check out something new and fantastic: This Week in FanFare, on the blue! | Continue reading
image via pixabay.com Wolfdog has posted Essential tools to make the modern web more bearable, and people have even more recommendations in the thread. Bookmarked so hard. | Continue reading
[COMMUNITY] MeFi Valentine Card Exchange! | Continue reading
How are you? It's the weekly Free Thread. | Continue reading
completely unknown? Ways to promote Fanfare on the site ... In Metatalk, people are talking about ideas for promoting and surfacing more Fanfare activity, and in Fanfare itself, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, Nosferatu, Yacht Rock, and A Complete Unknown are among current hot topics. … | Continue reading
marketplace scene via pixabay.com I spent several weeks in Sudan around 1990 or 91 -- driving in a truck from Wadi Halfa, through Khartoum and Nyala, to the Central African Republic ... Read BlahLaLa's comment in storybored's post on The Decline and Fall of Sudan | Continue reading
image via pixabay.com Maybe one of the best things you'll ever read about how to think about cleaning / organizing in your home or personal space: I want to end the cycle of managing my living space. Yes, the whole thread. Fantastic advice abounds — well-done, mefites!! | Continue reading
EUVL tool, that deposits virtually defect-free, ultra-thin films on integrated circuits. Without this fancy mechanic and those like her, our world would be drastically different. Read on to find out what "fabulous" work they do that the world depends on! | Continue reading
Let's start the year with lots of links, courtesy of Rhaomi and a new LinkMe thread! | Continue reading
Poems at sea in the US Navy ❖ Outrageous Predictions 2025 ❖ The most-borrowed books from U.S. public libraries in 2024 ❖ Out with 2024, in with 2025: it's the Free Thread ❖ Days are long, but Years are short ❖ Clean slate - January reset online challenges ❖ Happy New Year! | Continue reading
First of all, your dog. Then these dogs. Warning: Dust. Not kidding even a little bit. | Continue reading
Death of Tiberius Gracchus at the hands of the mob via Wikimedia Commons How much do you think about ... ROME? Senatus vs. Populusque Romanus, a magnificent multi-part megalicious magnus postus from Rhaomi. Veni, Vidi, Mefi! | Continue reading
Portrait of Michel de Montaigne, 1570s (cropped); unknown author Gwint has posted the excellent, feature-rich Montaigne's Essays from Hyperessays.net, with 107 texts, including "On Cannibals," "On the Custom of Wearing Clothes," and "On Smells." What a good find! | Continue reading
Oh hey, the Metafilter Card Club swap is still vibing ... continuously for nearly seven whole years now! Wow! Check the thread for how to participate in this ancient tradition. Thank you, Sparky Buttons!!! Also, CMcG is sharing their 2024 Fanfare EXTRAVAGANZA, a place where folks … | Continue reading
Artwork by Sandbox Studio, Chicago with Caroline Fox at symmetrymagazine.org below the weak scale, everything is so intensely quantum-mechanical that it doesn't really make sense to talk about length at all anymore. Instead, we talk about energy ... You want to talk about Planck … | Continue reading
La, la, do be doo la ba dada da mm hm ... this is a nice song! Oh wait. In Ask: "Dark lyrics, upbeat tune: Hell in a Handbasket Edition" | Continue reading
In this great thread on Concord grapes, see Baby_Balrog's recipe for producing "the most delicious liquid that exists on the face of the planet earth" from riverbank grapes, Vitis riparia. Warning: contains angry squirrel. | Continue reading
Image via Carolina Gelen What unholy merger of cuisines hath she wrought? scblackman brings us a gift from the interwebs: schnitzel latkes. But what should we call them? | Continue reading
If you're looking for something to sink your brain into during this final week of the year, then check out chavenet's post about the first 300 years of data visualization and information graphics. Gorgeous graphics mixed with interesting historical bits? YES, PLEASE! | Continue reading
Community member doctornemo is back at it again with a fantastic and fascinating post that covers humanity's exploration of space. Click the link and travel inside for wealth of information to pour over! | Continue reading
For this Christmas please allow us to share with you a post from verstegan that tells a story that spans decades. It's a tale of memory and discovery, of hope and wishes, the mischevious goblins of today, and the importance of Noble Professions. | Continue reading
Screenshot from film Everyone wants to look their best, even creatures of fantasy. So step right and make yourself comfy for this post by Tau Wedel and see how everything can be better for almost everyone with the right haircut! | Continue reading
image from inside the Manor at Hemingford Grey, via inigo.com Brian Sibley has put online his dramatisation of the 1951 novel The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy Boston. Thanks, paduasoy, this looks fascinating! | Continue reading
Miracle Mile screenshot DirtyOldTown: This is one of my three or four favorite movies EVER. I have a list of things. I could fill the whole page. Great, interesting comment about Steve de Jarnatt in Lemkin's very interesting post on the film "Miracle Mile". Go ahead and fill the … | Continue reading
Your weekly Free Thread is here; the annual MST Club Christmas Video Marathon is go; it's (still) the season to be linkin'; the current Gift Swap thank you thread is here. | Continue reading
Best Windows + Lovecraft mashup actual question and answer about cloning the C drive. Tell Me No Lies seeks the truth. gregr calls on the elder Gods to answer. | Continue reading