Sideblog Archive
June 30, 2018
Time Shift: The first European-time-zone oriented MetaTalktail Hour asks about fandom!
And Those Caseins Go Rolling Along: Sciatrix raises the stakes in the Great Metafilter Cheese Wars.
June 29, 2018
Amsterdam drained a canal and put everything they found online, piece by piece, chronologically, and you can see it all ...: mygothlaundry's "Under Amsterdam" post is spectacular (and don't miss moonmilk's special assemblage!).
This is the inspiring tale of one number-loving man with a 2007 Honda Odyssey and a dream... MetaFilter's own freecellwizard is The Prince of Odometers 👑
June 28, 2018
Two weeks after announcing a big revenue shortfall, y'all are now contributing nearly $10,000 more per month to support the site, which is amazing and puts us on firmer ground for the future. Read up on what's next!
Recently served on Mefi:
Making 4,000-year-old stew | Wiki-Food and (mostly) Women | Let's Cook History vids | Epicurious asked 50 people to do some basic kitchen prep work and filmed the mayhem | Thinking about Chicken tenders | Donug‽ | The popular Budget Bytes recipe collection / blog | Bowl food | A Taste of South Sudan | The Weird and Wavy History of Wine Coolers | Feelings about cottage cheese
June 27, 2018
The Brexit discussion continues with a good roundup by rory.
An Impractical Key Cabinet: Twirlypen made a thing, and it's awesome: Metatalk, Projects.
June 26, 2018
What's the most implausible but true story about you?
June 25, 2018
Are you there, silly string? It's me, thread.
June 24, 2018
misteraitch reveals a full house in his post on the World of Playing Cards, "a living encyclopaedia of the history and visual art of playing cards"
Hi! I'm a botanist ... Great comment from pemberkins about what botanists mean when they talk about "invasive" species (and social concerns about the terms) in the Giant Hogweed discussion.
June 23, 2018
Filthy light thief explores the history, art, tradition, and evolution of the obituary.
June 22, 2018
ChuraChura reflects on the apes involved in language experiments in the passing of Koko obit thread.
Hope Me! In MetaTalk, stoneweaver suggests using the tag HopefulSummer (or HopefulWinter for our antipodean Mefites) for theme posts about positive and hopeful things.
June 21, 2018
Stress Rx: Bella Donna has assembled a collection of ideas for cheering ourselves up a bit when we're feeling sad or stressed.
More Music Archive Love: Mefite laze's wonderful Hip-Hop Radio Archive, posted by cichlid ceilidh via Mefi Projects
June 19, 2018
Yesterday's most compelling Ask Metafilter post is possibly best presented by nothing more than a summary of its tags: bug; ear; earcanal; insect; killitkillitkillit; resolved.
These Bands Could Be Your Life: The McKenzie Tapes is a collection of live audio recordings from some of New York City area’s most prominent music venues of the 1980s and 1990s — great post from chinese_fashion
June 14, 2018
Watching the World Cup? Chat about it on Fanfare! Matchday 1 thread, Matchday 2 thread, Matchday 3 thread...
June 13, 2018
Here's an important site update; we are facing a serious revenue shortfall and making plans for how to remedy that short term and stabilize MeFi's income and community-support process in the long term. Details in that link; here's our fundraising page.
June 12, 2018
Come share your excitement for the World Cup! There's also a bracket thread, and we'll sidebar Fanfare threads for livewatching as they go up.
June 10, 2018
[insert clever name here] tells a great raccoon tail tale.
June 9, 2018
Tell me something good: In MetaTalk, Filthy light thief asks What's the best thing you've read and/or heard lately?
June 4, 2018
Hey, it's episode 141 of the MetaFilter podcast, where cortex and jessamyn chatter about stuff and things!
June 3, 2018
What was your first job? weirdest job?
Johnny Wallflower has announced his winner and runner up awards for best May post titles, here!
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