Sideblog Archive
December 30, 2015
I'm a trustee of the (tiny) BritCits campaign group and charity which works on behalf of divided families, includes spouses, civil partners, parents and children, elderly dependants etc.: Plep comments to add context, further info and lots of links in the UK Thomas Podgoretsky deportation case post: 1, 2, 3
December 23, 2015
Come say hello to our new part-time moderator, Eyebrows McGee!
December 21, 2015
NGP VAN inside scoop: Eyebrows McGee offers some first-hand insights on how the NGP VAN database works for candidates and campaign workers.
December 20, 2015
Need to talk about the new Star Wars? Fanfare's got you covered, including Mefi's own adrianhon checking in from a panel discussion with the cast.
If you've been brushing up on the original films to prepare, you might enjoy the Fanfare rewatches of all the previous Star Wars movies.
For more, check out the posts tagged 'StarWars' including including fun odds and ends like Star Wars, the pencil game and real fencers doing light saber battle.
Star Wars art? Scenes made of Lego, and some paintings in classical Japanese style
Nerdy analytic overthinking? The economics of the Death Star and the legal case of Han vs. Greedo. Ask those hard questions like are the Jedi overrated? and of course is Jar Jar the big boss?
December 15, 2015
At MetaTalk: JannaK reports that the HLN network has produced a short video featuring the Ask Metafilter post requesting help with her late grandmother's coded messages, and "the true hero of this story: Metafilter's own harperpitt, her code-breaking skills, and the power of the hive mind in tackling web mysteries."
December 8, 2015
In Ask Me: What happened when someone in the Middle Ages got pink eye, or someone in Elizabethan England got athlete's foot or crotch rot? Minor infections in the days before anti-biotics or anti-fungals? Many good answers, and Jane the Brown brings the history again.
December 7, 2015
We're looking for an additional part-time moderator to join the MetaFilter team. Jobs listing; MetaTalk post.
♪ We'll order now what they ordered then ♫
Before Jezebel, The Toast, and Twitter there were wise and witty women handily perpetrating "epic feminist takedowns of the ages," as illustrated in yarntheory's interesting post about Mary Collier and her 18th century poem, "The Woman's Labour"
... and before Pinterest and Evernote and Tumblr, "there was the humble commonplace book, a space for gathering and reflecting on ideas, quotations, observations, lines from poems, and other information." MonkeyToes gives us a loving magpie's roundup of this "venerable tradition of idea curation."
December 4, 2015
Holiday shopping? Buy from MeFites at the MeFi Mall; visit Amazon via our referrer link to give MeFi credit when you buy stuff.
December 1, 2015
It's Best Of The Web episode 111, with cortex and jessamyn discussing the last month of MetaFilter.
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