Can you paint a copy of the Mona Lisa in 60 seconds? Share your masterpiece! | Continue reading
Green sauce. by theexploradoradrewbage1847 has posted a bevy of beautiful summer herb sauce recipes. | Continue reading
gentlyepigrams posted "My Parents Are Dead: What Now?", a resource with useful advice and links for folks who are working through one of the awful parts of adult life. | Continue reading
Illustration by Marc Johns (marcjohns.com)spamandkimchi asks for songs with lyrics about food (especially pie!) | Continue reading
Oil Refinery Reference #133 by claralieu (cc by)cotton dress sock asks "How close to an oil refinery is too close?," and flug has answers. Lots of answers. | Continue reading
Metafilter podcast 193: What was previously my discretionary time is up! | Continue reading
Rhino Reclining by tinyfroglet (cc by)VIAMQ! (Very Important Ask Metafilter Question): My 5-year-old wants to know if there are any living rhinos named Clara. "She knows already about the 19th century one, but wants to be reassured after the recent death of a different rhino name … | Continue reading
Image from page 195 of "The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects;" (1850) by Internet Archive Book ImagesIf the leopard caucuses long enough with the face eating party, maybe look askance when … | Continue reading
Love that we have a member who's a traffic safety researcher commenting in the Speeding Ticket thread. TheKaijuCommuter talks about elements in the (US) built environment and issues that subconsciously trigger people to go faster. | Continue reading
Is this chatfilter? Maybe... This is our "Ask Mods Anything" (AMA) Session! For the MetaFilter Fundraising! Head over to Metatalk for more details ... | Continue reading
SUPER informative post for Women's World Cup of Soccer 2023 by Superilla | Continue reading
"...one of the most influential and intriguing buttons in history." Community member brundlefly links to a story of the Zenith Space Command, one of the earliest examples of a remote control for television. Many memories ensue! #metafilter #bestofmetafilter #retro #remotecontrol … | Continue reading
"I think the movie has a few different messages, all of which overlap with one another, which is another very campy thing: when you're parodying dumb, incoherent things by embracing them, you wind up a little incoherent yourself."Over in Fanfare, community member 'Tom Hanks Can't … | Continue reading
So, I can anecdotally compare my experiences of congenital dysautonomia and long Covid, but I have to do it along two dimensions. One is the dimension of symptoms, and the other is in terms of social and medical treatment ... Dr. Mew speaks on long Covid, fatigue syndromes, overl … | Continue reading
Moby Dick - Herman Melville (Club français du livre, 1964) by -ep- (cc by)I'm reading Moby Dick. It's fun! But I'm sure I'm missing a lot. This is where you come in ... wooh is looking for good explanations and analyses for our favorite great white whale. | Continue reading
spamandkimchi posted Equip Me OT [Occupational Therapist] Lindsay DeLong, featuring "tips galore on using medical equipment at home, diy hacks & modifications, and recommended items for people with mobility & accessibility needs." Very excellent. | Continue reading
Image from page 148 of "The Phynodderree, and other legends of the Isle of Man" (1882) by Internet Archive Book Images"I already do Set, Wordle, Guess My Word, Worldle, and Spelling Bee ... Math, logic, word-based: I love them all. What else might I like?" DrGail asks Give me you … | Continue reading
Big Ben word game [via mefi projects] "A unique puzzle for each second of the day, with lots of nice touches ..." Paul Slade posted malevolent's new Big Ben word game, and mefites are comparing scores. | Continue reading
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