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Full Concert VHS concert recording. Audio quality is not great but better than you might expect. RIP & respect to Mary Hansen as always
posted by CarrotAdventure at 9:11 PM PST - 23 comments

Dry Cleaning is a post-punk band from South London featuring a tight rhythm section, sweet guitar riffs, and wonderfully scattershot spoken word vocals. A song with a fun arty music video. A song about the Duchess of Sussex. The title track from their new album.
posted by a feather in amber at 6:33 PM PST - 22 comments

Mystery Science Theater 3000 lives once more! The show has been revived five times now: for Comedy Central (from KTMA), the Sci-Fi Channel (long before it was Syfy), for Netflix, as a series of live shows that technically (because of COVID) haven't even ended yet, and now, as the result of a second Kickstarter even more successful than their first, as a production for their own video site and apps, to be called The Gizmoplex. The first episode of the new season... GAMERA VS JIGER. [more inside]
posted by JHarris at 4:57 PM PST - 24 comments

Nadia Eghbal gives a Long Now Foundation seminar on the maintenance of open source software. (SL one hour of video or audio)
posted by eotvos at 1:27 PM PST - 11 comments

We now have menu engineers. How some restaurants design menu weight, fonts, item positioning, boxes, pictures, and language to encourage you to buy more food. (SLBBC)
posted by doctornemo at 1:11 PM PST - 63 comments

A single-mission twitter account about video game design and representation, Can You Have Black Hair documents the answer to that question for a wide variety of games, plus related game asset and digital art tidbits.
posted by cortex at 7:45 AM PST - 20 comments

"You can try," he says softly in Mandarin, "but I don't think they'd talk to you about New Mexico." The confluence of changes in local regulations around hemp and cannabis cultivation and sale in the US, disagreements among neighbors in the Navajo Nation, the pandemic, investment by foreign investors (including people from China), exploitation of migrant workers (including people from China), and anti-Asian racism has led to tense confrontations, arrests, and tensions within families.
posted by brainwane at 7:29 AM PST - 7 comments

Helmut Jahn died Saturday from injuries suffered in a cycling accident near his home in the Chicago suburbs. Brash and fearless, Jahn was part of the so-called Chicago Seven, a contentious group of architects who rebelled in the 1970s against what they saw as the reductionist modernist narrative, popular in the media’s chronicling of Chicago architecture. [more inside]
posted by mookoz at 7:14 AM PST - 30 comments

A large part of the charm of Adventure Time was the original music. Wanna hear Marceline sing in Portuguese? Over 200 tracks from the show are available for free on youtube. [more inside]
posted by adept256 at 6:13 AM PST - 18 comments

We Found the Textbooks of Senators Who Oppose The 1619 Project and Suddenly Everything Makes Sense. Michael Harriot @ TheRoot.com takes a dive into the confirmed (or likely) school textbooks used by the US Senators most vocally opposed to the 1619 project and is . . . not surprised at all. The 1619 Project previously on Metafilter. [more inside]
posted by soundguy99 at 5:29 AM PST - 47 comments