Sideblog Archive

September 30, 2019
they needed someone with archival experience and a passion for musical theatre to organize half a century of notes, photos, cards, and memorabilia, stuffed into every crack of the two floors: ilana made a fantastic first post for the passing of Tony Award-winning actress Phyllis Newman, and recalls her own remarkable experience working as an archivist for Newman in 2009 and 2010.

September 29, 2019
In FanFare, Major Clanger has been making recipes from this season of GBBO, check it out: Cake Week; Biscuit Week; Bread Week; Dairy Week.

September 23, 2019
i did not anticipate spending so much time stealing underwear in a video game: Mefites are playing the untitled Goose Game.

September 22, 2019
Carillon posted the excellent article "How Two Kentucky Farmers Became Kings Of Croquet, The Sport That Never Wanted Them," which — bonus stroke! — turns out to have been written by Mefi's own gottabefunky! It's a good read.

September 21, 2019
Decision Trees: In ambrosen's post about trimming trees from a helicopter, allkindsoftime has a fascinating comment on the amazing use of advanced tech like AI and LiDAR by utility companies to triage and manage the most at-risk lines and areas for vegetation control.

September 20, 2019
MeFites around the world share what they are doing for the climate strike.

September 19, 2019
Examples of senses used in the pursuit of expertise? infinite intimation asks what is something specific that you discover, detect, discern, diagnose or deduce through a sense?

September 18, 2019
Looking for outstanding travel clothes, shoes, accessories: christa asks, What specific items have you found to be particularly useful when traveling?

September 17, 2019
egeanin on Ask Metafilter: I'm looking for first-person accounts (or long-reads) about the experience of being forced to abandon a town in a valley that's scheduled to be flooded as part of a dam/hydroelectric plant project.

September 16, 2019
n hrs/wk = frugal livelihood; solve for lowest possible n: zeri asks about careers that allow you to work the fewest possible hours and still pay the bills.

September 15, 2019
Verstegan has posted about the shock discovery of what appears to be John Milton's personal annotated copy of Shakespeare's First Folio

September 11, 2019
Some great deep-dive comments from loquacious in bitteschoen's comprehensive post on the impossibility of automating the garment industry.

September 10, 2019
My four year old has decided he MUST be an oscillating fan for Halloween. We are not crafty people. Please walk me through how to build this ...

September 9, 2019
It's a Johnny Wallflower post! Come for the Mefites-admit-their-food-crimes spectacle, stay for the hey, that actually sounds ... not bad? plus bonus inside scoop on making better peanut sauce from cendawanita, and the Tiger Tail ice cream!

September 8, 2019
Nobody had a kind word to say about Clark: Metafilter's own garius comments with interesting details in the thread about his article Pristina: An Airport Too Far, revealing a 1999 incident in Kosovo that almost brought NATO into open conflict with Russia.

September 7, 2019
There's a chance - remote, but a chance - that Alexander's body is in Venice. It's my favourite body-snatching story in all of history.Bora Horza Gobuchul on the disposition of the body of Alexander the Great

September 3, 2019
Great post by zamboni about John Margolies’ photographs of roadside America

September 2, 2019
Hurricane Dorian Check-In Thread now in Metatalk

September 1, 2019
It's cortex and jessamyn and episode 155 of the monthly MetaFilter podcast!


If you haven't seen it yet, check out Iridic's post on Fourble: Point it at some audio files hosted anywhere online, and it'll turn them into a podcast feed.



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