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
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