Sideblog Archive
August 31, 2015
So cool: "A campy, '60s-superhero-show theme for a video game I recently scored!" from jake, in Mefi Music
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Mount Denial?: Great info from metaquarry and compartment on the decades-long "congressional name game" and "byzantine political maneuvers" designed to block the restoration of the Alaska Native name "Denali" to Mount McKinley in Fizz's post on the announced renaming. (tip o' the trapper hat to Devonian for the purloined pun)
August 30, 2015
Remembrances of things past via recent history posts on the blue:
More than 600 secret societies in the US, documented in 1899: here is "The Cyclopædia of Fraternities"; a compilation of existing authentic information and the results of original investigation
"Count Pier Francesco Orsini was a man much given to melancholy": Orsini's Sacro Busco, or the Park of Monsters
Ghosts at the Banquet: "Martin Gusinde documented the life and rituals of the Selk'nam people of Tierra del Fuego ... They had been nearly wiped out by a genocide led by Julius Popper, the Tyrant of Tierra del Fuego"
"In 1986, workers in Sichuan province in China were digging for clay for bricks when they stumbled onto an archaeological treasure: a major site for a Bronze Age civilization previously only guessed at"
Road tripping back in time on the Old Spanish Trail: "Today, you can still find remnants of that road, and there's a group of people who are trying to revive this historic highway."
"...King Joseph I was so afraid of buildings he moved out of Lisbon; his claustrophobia was so severe he lived in tents for the rest of his life. Artists depicted the chaos of the city in the aftermath of the disaster": The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
August 26, 2015
FunnyFilter: In Metatalk, phunniemee asks for "your favorite funny comments, moments where other mefites have made you giggle uncontrollably"
August 25, 2015
"As you may have guessed, I work there..." Mhoye adds insight and answers questions in Rhaomi's recent interesting multi-link Crazy like a (Fire)Fox post
August 24, 2015
Recently on Mefi, people and places around the world:
World Jollof Rice Day, you say? Jollof rice is a traditional West African dish, but not a humble one
From the Persian for "eyebrow," Ebru (paper marbling) has a long tradition in Turkey
The villagers of Kannauj have inherited a remarkable skill: They can capture the scent of rain
Au Revoir, Mogadishu Vol. 1 — Songs From Before The War: '70s and '80s Somali sound
Since 2011, Japanese artist Tatsuya Tanaka has created tiny dioramas with common household objects as landscape for tiny people, one every day
Chiara Vigo is the last master of weaving the sea-silk cloth bysso and showcases her art at Museo del Bisso in Sant'Antioco, Sardinia
August 22, 2015
"Please Don't Ursinate in Pool!": shibori's first post about a home pool invasion by bears is a fun thread with some great anecdotes [1, 2, 3] from nevercalm and Nerd of the North.
August 21, 2015
More Cinema Serendipity: In AskMe, Beardman asks about Oldies that don't feel like homework viewing, while in FanFare, the Old Timey Film Club is announced, and Sunset Boulevard is posted as the group's debut thread.
August 20, 2015
Great answer by barchan to popcassady's question, "Found this footprint shaped hole in a rock at the beach. Is it a dinosaur footprint?"
In other news of holes and dinosaurs, Dinosaur Comics author Ryan North turns to Twitter when he and dog Chompsky get trapped in a hole. Amusing thread ensues.
August 19, 2015
Fantastic animated stichwitchery recently on Mefi: 27kjmm's debut post on Nina Paley's animation of "Chad Gadya" on matzoh covers – a beautiful, labor intensive feat taking a year and a half, and "knitting, stop-motion and bum jokes" in jacquilynne's post on the Nudinits: Tickled Pink, an all-knit, all nude, stop-motion animation
August 18, 2015
Biding Our Time: On MeFi, midmarch snowman clocks some multi-link first-post goodness with Finally a horology post for people who like shiny things, while in the Green, mzurer asks, In 1527 how did English households tell time?
Also linked on the Blue: Built For Eternity, on structures designed to potentially outlast human civilization; 400 Years, a browser game that uses time as a gameplay mechanic; Why Time Flies, a visualization of why time seems to pass more quickly as one gets older
August 17, 2015
In MetaTalk, julen suggests a cool activity for September: "Let’s Encourage and Help Folks Make Their First Posts," and asks for input.
August 15, 2015
Cinema Serendipities: In Ask Me, phunniemee asks Give me your recommendations for creeping, meandering, dream-like movies! Meanwhile, back at FanFare something's brewing with naju ... and Strange Club ("strange & sublime, bizarre & beautiful...") lurches to ecstatic life, with a first viewing set for Aug 12 and first post Aug 17.
August 13, 2015
Mystery Object + Ask Me = Win: What is this ram-bly, rom-bly thing? Well, That's a "Cricut Jukebox Cartridge Station ... (I wrote the firmware for it...)
August 9, 2015
In FanFare, maxsparber delves into a riddle, wrapped in an enigma, inside a Mystery Show podcast and unknots the origins of what turns out to be the "Chaw Beef" prank.
August 8, 2015
Some good resources (and the answer!) in the thread for whalebreath's question about an article on time management in academia
August 7, 2015
The bizarre and tragic story of the 1920s German mask dancers Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt in Dying for their Art
August 6, 2015
Recently on Mefi, people and places around the world:
"Who Killed Captain Alex: Uganda's First Action Movie" was produced by one person for under $200, using real blood and a modified car jack for a tripod.
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In Cesena, Italy, 1,000 musicians participate in a year long-project of playing Foo Fighter's "Learn To Fly" to convince the band to do a show in their town.
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The annual beer float in Helsinki, Finland just kind of happens.
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Malaysian schoolkids perform choral speaking, a Greek-theatre-inspired cross between spoken word and choir.
August 3, 2015
Episode #107 of the monthly Best of the Web podcast is out, this month with special guest host ColdChef!
Aw yeah. The results of the Mefi Music challenge for May/June, with the theme City Songs, are queued up and ready to play. The MetaTalk thread is here. Enjoy!
August 2, 2015
infinite intimation and other former lifeguards comment in the Spot the Drowning Child thread, while some survivors remember. Plus, Mefi's worst (imaginary) lifeguard, racial swimming disparity / pool discrimination, dreaming underwater, and PS: Please don't throw babies in pools.
August 1, 2015
Bill of FFare: In case anyone's missed it, FanFare's newish "Watercooler" page offers a quick look at recently active discussions, and FanFare Clubs has some fun things going on, including...
The Criterion on Hulu Club has added a second film per week, voted on from Criterion's selection of films available for free to non-Hulu subscribers
The Bond Club has been having a good time love/hate/grudge-watching smoove ol' 007, and is about halfway through the oeuvre; not too late to join in and possibly be shaken, if not stirred.
The Mefi Horror Club has been busily skulking and scurrying around the dark places, and just posted Killer Klowns from Outer Space. brrrr.
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