Barcode by Conor Lawless (cc by)So I once met the person who invented barcodes, a woman engineer working for IBM in the mid-60s ... She is, of course, not named on the patent: basalganglia talks the origins of the barcode in jessamyn's great fundraising member-sponsored post on s … | Continue reading
"Mystery Science Theater Club, that odd tiny little corner of MeFi that shows bad and weird movies Thursdays every week, is doing a day-long show on Tuesday for US Election Day": JHarris in Metatalk. | Continue reading
Wheeee ... It's time for the sixth MeFi Holiday Card Exchange! 💌❄️✨ | Continue reading
A stained glass Metafilter favicon (12 inches square) made by Metafilter's own cortex is on offer in the auctionThe Metafilter Fundraising Auction is now live! "Take a look at the amazing offerings from the community. There's unique art and photography, professional services that … | Continue reading
"This book is a critique of gamification by an actual game designer, games journalist, and former neuroscientist that 'goes far beyond the usual suspects like Fitbit and Duolingo to look at the historical roots of gamification'": Discussion of "You've Been Played: How Corporation … | Continue reading
Mr. Darcy and Miss Bennet are apparently not on the same pageMefites discuss the worst Jane Austen covers ever. | Continue reading
My Social Graph from facebook by paul_irish (cc by)I'm aware that my saying all of this is like when Ollivander referred to Voldemort as "Terrible, but great." But I think it's important, on some level, to understand that Facebook wasn't a fluke: Metafilter member Tom Hanks Canno … | Continue reading
Mmm. Sweat. by BitBoy (cc by)Interesting dip into the details and deeper history on the adoption of ORT (oral rehydration therapy) by biogeo in the Dr Dilip Mahalanabis thread. | Continue reading
2010-guate-CSC_32459 by mesaba (cc by)Help Metafilter survive! - Annual Fundraiser week 1 update. Handy update in the blue from tavegyl and the steering committee on everything going on currently. | Continue reading
MetaFilter Financial Update, November 2022 (this is an *amazing* job by the steering committee!) | Continue reading
Twitter icon by Jurgen Appelo (cc by)... what ends up happening is you need more and more people to manage smaller and smaller things ... Wow! Very interesting insider comment from wooh on the scale challenges and other issues that have steered the engineering side of Twitter. | Continue reading
"Language justice is critically important for health care, legal services, workplace safety, and education": a great member-sponsored post and interesting thread from jessamyn. Sponsored posts are helping with the current, vital fundraising effort, and you can follow these posts … | Continue reading
Halloween_sweets by burgerking1975 (cc by)Treats for you, and you, and you ... Metafilter Halloween-related posts, 2022 | Continue reading
MetaFilter Gift Swap Sign-Ups end Nov 1✍ Mochapickle's Nahhhh-NoWriMo: A zero stress, no rules writing month begins Nov 1⭐️ Mefi Posts for "Sale" is still going! jessamyn, Rhaomi, and Eyebrows McGee are offering to write posts for contributions to the Mefi fundraising drive | Continue reading
Pursuit of Vikings by Artiom Ponkratenko (cc by)In your job, where are you a Viking? This member-sponsored Ask Mefi post asks "What task or part of your work day ... do you really enjoy, to the point of thinking, yeah, this is it, this is where I fit?" | Continue reading
renovations by in pastel (cc by)In Ask Metafilter: DIY home reno project got you a li'l confused? dg takes a deep dive on the proper steps, in the proper order, with the proper prep to successfully un-yuck your habitat. | Continue reading
Now, do you have any scary stories to share? | Continue reading
Image from page 42 of "Coast watch" (1979) by Internet Archive Book ImagesIf you want a truly insane and mind-boggling supply chain you should look up how grocery store fish fingers are made ... Fascinating comment from 100kb about global supply chains and commoditization in an A … | Continue reading
MeFi Posts for "Sale": "We're all pitching in for Fundraising Month. Ever wanted to see a post on a topic, but didn't want to write it yourself for whatever reason? Let us do it for you." | Continue reading
TOKYO Street by t.shinobu (cc by)A walk in the city, or a drive in the country? | Continue reading
In love. by marfis75 (cc by)"It was a simple, warm potato salad" ... Long lost potato salad love in Ask Metafilter | Continue reading
Merrick Thread Co., The spider and the tiger (on black background), Boston Public Library via WikimediaHow do I help my spider friend through the winter? | Continue reading
⭐️❗️⭐️ Metafilter Wants You - The Fundraising Post! The steering committee breaks down the situation, and offers ways to help. ⭐️❗️⭐️ | Continue reading
The Wrong Kind of Cheese turns out to be exactly the Right Kind of Cheese, again, with thoughtful and expert advice on a tricky distance cleanup situation. | Continue reading
Ford River Rouge Complex, Dearborn, MI by Thomas Hawk (cc by-nc)Ok, so I am in the thick of things, working in the automotive industry — an industry with massive interlinked supply chains (geographically and temporally) and hundreds of thousands of workers ... xdvesper, with the … | Continue reading
Theater Stage by joncutrer (cc by-nc)prismatic7 on multiple aspects of planning accessibility in theatre spaces | Continue reading
Crepuscular rays at dawn over the Normandy coast by TeaMeister (cc by)Eisenhower then makes the biggest call of his life and an example to leaders everywhere: He trusts the expert ... A really great analysis by garius of Blacksod, D-Day, the planning, the storm, the leaders, the … | Continue reading
2022 MetaFilter Gift Swap Sign-Ups are Open!! 🎁 Thank you, rhyspenbras and okayokayigive! | Continue reading
In A Whisper - 1920x1200 by /\lex (cc by)Whisper, from OpenAI, is an open source tool you can run on your own computer that "approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition" | Continue reading
In Ask Metafilter: I've allowed my Reddit feed to become filled with negative stuff ... Can you recommend quality subreddits full of positive vibes and/or longreads and/or interesting links and videos? | Continue reading
DirtyOldTown has posted Inception on Fanfare, and for some reason, I just have the idea that this might be some of DOT's finest work. | Continue reading
Sunflowers (1887) by Vincent Van Gogh. Original from the MET Museum. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel. by Free Public Domain Illustrations by rawpixel (cc by)I study carbon cycling and other biogeochemical cycles as part of my job ... truly awesome comment from cubeb in the soup on … | Continue reading
Greetings from Sunny California. (pcard-print-pub-pc-59a) by Fæ (cc by)In Ask Metafilter, tatiana wishbone says "as a reading challenge, I'd like to read the best novel set in each US state. What are your favorites?" | Continue reading
Tiny Japanese restaurants in 4K. "... there's a whole channel of these wholesome, calming and hunger-inducing videos" | Continue reading
Got to thinking about how Bowie was in The Hunger and Tom Waits was in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Are there other vampire movies with iconic musicians? mermaidcafe in Ask Metafilter | Continue reading
pneumatic tube by rhinman (cc by)We got your pneumatic tubes right here. This is one of the things I research (I am an architectural & technology historian) -- and I'm working on a live documentary lecture about them ... maximolly in Ask Metafilter | Continue reading
Mystery Writers by Nanagyei (cc by)mochapickle will be doing a zero-stress no-rules November writing month on Metafilter's IRL✍ | Continue reading
I prefer the dark to the light by Steve Wilson - over 10 million views Thanks !! (cc by)18,000 years ago in New Guinea, humans tried to domesticate cassowariesWhy is a cassowary the "least birb-like bird on the planet""A falcon won't fuck just any old hat."Calling Ornithologists … | Continue reading
Jump! by EoinGardiner (cc by)ASF Tod und Schwerkraft has a bonkers-good comment explaining the evolution of Irish dance costuming in the thread on the Irish dance competition cheating scandal. | Continue reading
Mirror with frame by Carlos ZGZ (cc by)Ask Metafilter helpfully suggests seeking expert advice on how to make a bar a more mingle-y space. oh wait | Continue reading
Ever Changing Weather by catAsmith (cc by)looking for stories about people who realize they don't actually want what they thought they wanted ... | Continue reading
Steel barque Pamir (1930s) by frankmhI'm working on a tall ship right now, on which I have several thousand sea miles' experience... automatronic explains why the state of the art for a sailing ship still looks much the same as it did a hundred years ago | Continue reading
In today's edition of "what does eponysterical mean?" malevolent lives up to his user name. | Continue reading
From the Steering Committee, a Community Question: How can MetaFilter put the FUN into FUNdraising? | Continue reading
martin q blank asks about IDing a half-remembered old mystery novel that somehow features a model train set used as computer, and is answered by Mercantides, who has lurked on Mefi for 20+ years only to show up as a new member to answer this question! Wow! | Continue reading
"The MetaFilter Steering Committee is excited to bring you the first Steering Committee Check-In!" | Continue reading