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
Bureaucracy / Bürokratie III by manoftaste.de (cc by)I am an RN case manager who does hospital discharge work and has a lot of experience in other parts of the mental health and elder care systems as well. I want to warn you about some of the difficulties that might lie ahead as … | Continue reading
photo via loc.govadamsc links to a super secret stash of cunningly hidden Library of Congress cultural treasure in the Lizzo LOC thread | Continue reading
chasles has posted a Hurricane Ian check in thread in Metatalk | Continue reading
Warren G. Harding by Forever Wiser (cc by)In 2001 I was both stage manager and historic researcher for a play from 1911 about congressional sex scandals: EmpressCallipygos shares inhuman ecstatic shrieking and some hot goss on Warren G. Harding. | Continue reading
Zürich, Braginsky Collection, B247, f. 03r by Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland (cc by-nc)... The length of the year may have been the first scientific measurement in human history to be accurate to seven significant figures. It took a thousand years of record-keeping to … | Continue reading
Conventional by Thomas Hawk (cc by-nc)Grangousier in Fanfare with a grand deep dive comment on The Rocky Horror Show and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, their roots, the zeitgeist, and connections to the wider culture and adjacent subcultures. | Continue reading
An Italian cameo bracelet representing the days of the week by their eponymous deities via WikipediaThe days of the week are associated with the seven 'luminaries' ... A fascinating explainer from heatherlogan about why the days of the week are named as they are. | Continue reading
Fractal assembly of micrometre-scale DNA origami arrays with arbitrary patterns (click for image info)for us "tiny" doesn't mean 10 inches by 10 inches, but rather closer to 1 micron by 1 micron -- one hundred times smaller than the width of a human hair. To make tapestries that … | Continue reading
btw ... on the internet someone knows you're not a dog | Continue reading
For those licking their lips over a new season of The Great British Bake Off, episode one of season 13, "Cake Week," is being discussed in Fanfare. | Continue reading
This thread on the unicode 'many-eyed seraphim' multiocular letter O (ꙮ) is heavenly. 👀 | Continue reading
I was with Current TV from the launch in 2005 through 2008: Molasses808 remembers the early years of Current TV in poorchanticleer's thread asking about how to find user created shorts from the channel. | Continue reading
Merritt Square Mall, Merritt Island FL by Rusty Clark ~ 100K Photos (cc by)Ask Metafilter reveals that there are more devices for Performative Snackery than one might imagine. | Continue reading
floppy disks for breakfast by Blude (cc by)Turns out the obsolete floppy is way more in demand than you'd think: great interview link from Etrigan. | Continue reading
you can almost smell the excitement in the room ... the Mom Olympics Diaper-Changing event as visualized by Well I never. | Continue reading
Not this kindThis being Ask Metafilter, surely one of you knows how many crickets per square foot there are in my part of the world. Please show your work. – bondcliff | Continue reading
Jessamyn, via jessamyn.infoi have no idea how these people got a librarian wedged into their social media site, or why. * publicinfrastructure.org podcast interview with Jessamyn! (Also discussing on Metatalk) | Continue reading
Queen Elizabeth coronation ceremony, 1953Queen Elizabeth illness and death discussion is here | Continue reading
A slightly belated congratulations to MeFi's own Languagehat on the twentieth anniversary of his blog. | Continue reading
The Songsmiths QuartetGreat detective work to chase down a vintage musical mystery in Ask Metafilter! | Continue reading
Fiat divisa panem I Pray the Tomb Is Shut Forever ... Speculative sewing Deep dive broccumentaries ... Sexual Humans, Unite! ... Give your ears a sonic vacation Improper nouns How is Meme-y Made? "This started as an April Fool's joke..." | Continue reading
Weird Al by Digital Glover (cc by)geoff. has a nice story about Weird Al | Continue reading
Snorkel en Rojas by almirot (cc by)Scuba and snorkel instructor here. I have had reservations about the full face masks since they came out: danapiper comments in the Drowning in three feet of water thread. | Continue reading
By Tropenmuseum, part of the National Museum of World Cultures, CC BY-SA 3.0A swift and satisfying answer to a mysterious handmade book find question in Ask Metafilter | Continue reading
Man, It's A Hot One: new Mefi podcast now up! Also in Metatalk, The first members of the Metafilter Steering Committee; a tool to Convert exported Metafilter comments; this week's Metatalktail Hour | Continue reading
Burning Books by RRP-NYC (cc by-nc)For the record, three of my books have been banned in TX, one has been banned in OK, and none of them got a sales boost: headspace speaking first-hand on the damage of book bans and how they are hurting kids. | Continue reading
Woo! Meet the first members of the Metafilter Steering Committee! (and thank you, Transition Team heroes ❤️!) | Continue reading
LBJ by Michael C Clark (cc by)In Ask Metafilter, "Diseases can be idiopathic. Archaeological artefacts can be for ritual purposes. What are some other technical-sounding terms from other fields that means 'we're really not sure'?" | Continue reading
Chiac guide to eating an Acadian lobster from the site petitpetitgamin.comShepherd with a fabuleux sélection of divers flavors of Chiac tunes. | Continue reading
The Holy Grail by Tobyotter (cc by)Fun reminiscences by Marky and others in the Monty Python and the Holy Grail thread in FanFare. | Continue reading
B o o k s by Kate Mereand (cc by)There are ghosts in all those haunted basements who are worth knowing. And there's no shame in being one of those ghosts: MrVisible with a poignant reflection on underloved books and their authors in the literary rejection thread. | Continue reading
Glasgow Central arrival by Dai Lygad (cc by)"Plunderphonics": Creative fun with ScotRail announcements! | Continue reading
New House - Home Library by G Travels (cc by-nc)Metafilter members discuss How Many Books Make a Place Feel Like Home? | Continue reading
the Catherine Palace (35) by Dmitry Karyshev (cc by)mumimor has some interesting thoughts about Eyebrows McGee's question on Decorating a Baroque palace | Continue reading
Christmas gifts by Maria Eklind (cc by-sa)What should I send friends as pick-me-up gifts? What would you like to receive as a pick-me-up gift? In Ask Metafilter, dearwassily is looking for little surprises to cheer friends going through heavy times. | Continue reading
Dumplings, Steamed by iamNigelMorris (cc by)"Map showing the spread of dumplings," "Stuffed boiled dumplings and the Mongol Empire, 1200–1350," "In the Beginning, There Were ... Dumplings?" and more in kliuless's delicious dumplingfest. | Continue reading
Fantastic by Matt From London (cc by)Elegy for a Criminal Lawyerthe quirks of Boreal Owl parentingNot, to the best of my knowledge, woven underwaterHow many apples?Hank Green Explains the Climate BillYes it's real and this is true.Not a star, a chorizo | Continue reading
Voting is now open for the Metafilter Steering Committee! | Continue reading
Vaudeville all summer long by rockcreek (cc by)In The Money is in All the Wrong Places thread, Jane the Brown muses on the modern celebrity professions versus the olden days of touring companies and troupes and vaudeville.(Meanwhile, over in Metatalk, there seem to be a number of … | Continue reading
climate change by stockcatalog (cc by)"... in this video you're going to go from understanding more than like, 80 or 90% of people, to understanding this more than 99% of people. And it's only going to take you like 15 minutes." | Continue reading
Towels at my Other Gym by Colin Davis Studio (cc by)In Ask Metafilter, things you routinely have multiple types of but you should just get identical versions? | Continue reading
Another "hey, what are you playing" games roundup post in Metatalk | Continue reading