Sideblog Archive
August 31, 2020
Crimin' on my mind: In Ask Mefi, clarinet wonders, What do I watch after Criminal Minds?, while alex1965 is in search of Gripping, suspenseful podcasts that have a definite resolution, and bookmammal is looking for True Crime Documentaries, and also wants to know, Do you read true crime? Please tell me about your favorite books.
Meanwhile, in FanFare, miss-lapin has posted Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop, and in Metafilter, blue shadows brings us a story of "The Wildest Insurance Fraud Scheme Texas Has Ever Seen": Over a decade, Theodore Robert Wright III destroyed cars, yachts, and planes. That was only the half of it.
August 30, 2020
'Amiably peopled' novels? unicorn chaser asks, "what are your favourite low-stress, enjoyable literary novels about people just hanging out?"
Meanwhile, over in Music, listen to gorbichov's Gan Ainm No. 1, "a little tune I wrote a few months back. I was thinking about Irish slow airs, and wanted to have some of that feel, combined with some harmony stuff I've been playing with ... This is played on my 1945 Epiphone Blackstone archtop, which I really love for melodic playing."
August 29, 2020
crosswords ↔️ cross words
typewriters ↔️ writer types
mail order ↔️ male order?
catalog ↔️ log a cat
flash fiction ↔️ fash friction
(ps: witness kurumi's cunning coup of cruciverbalist craft!)
August 28, 2020
✨Shiny Shiny✨The Go-Go's: "a kinetic effervescence, with a pulse that shimmered and spangled"; Glorious psychedelic fish illustrations, many of actual fish; Remember those brights spots on the Dwarf Planet Ceres?; All of James Sowerby’s mineralogy compendium illustrations arranged by color; DIY hologram chocolate?; Resurrecting the art of China's dragon scale bookbinding
August 26, 2020
Travel: Life in the Slow Lane — The co-ordinates are: 53.136107, -0.222877 ♰; Where the Amish go on holiday ⛱; Life on the Slow Train: Views of a Vanishing China 🛤; The Castles of Wales 🏰
August 25, 2020
🌞Tehhund is seeking websites or accounts that document the changing seasons, such as "what annual things are happening in the natural world daily / weekly / monthly ... like different animals starting migration, different flowers blooming, etc." ❄️🌷🍇🍁 and, relatedly, dusty potato asks for books, apps, or curriculums to "guide me through nature."🌱
August 24, 2020
In Ask Metafilter, serathen is looking for single player PC games for the underinitiated, and in case you missed it previously, Going To Maine asked Mefites for interesting gems in the Racial Justice & Inequality Bundle, while recently in Metafilter, a post on games designer Bennett Foddy's picks for the most under-appreciated games of the 2010s (with links!), and xedrik throws in some favorites that could use more love, too.
August 23, 2020
"It's clearly the best moth": Glorious video footage of flying insects launching into the air in super slo-mo.
August 22, 2020
Mefites are talking about Lovecraft Country on the blue, and in Fanfare.
August 20, 2020
carlypennylane asks Where are the Visual Inspiration Websites These Days?
August 19, 2020
➡️⚠️🚫Mefites are hard at work making much-needed safety signs 🚫⚠️⬅️
August 18, 2020
Feeling Peckish? Peanut Sauce and pancakes, tea and sandwiches, green soup and glow honey, hamlets and mullets, pickles and cheese.
August 17, 2020
Photofile: Dorothea Lange digital archive 📷 New Jersey: Images of the Garden State 📷 Streetview of 1940s NYC 📷 Inspiring Incarcerated Individuals to Visualize Their Dreams in Photos 📷 Ingrid Pollard: pastoral interlude
August 16, 2020
History questions recently in Ask Mefi: Books on the history of Africa in antiquity? Easily digestible video history resources? Engaging history audiobooks? Relearning history k-12 that hasn't been white-washed? Rural Religious Life in the 18th Century? Dangerous, semi-realistic adventures in pre-modern Europe?
Meanwhile, over in Metatalk, Site Update #2; Metatalktail Hour: Good things on the cheap; planning for Secret Quonsar 2020; LearnedLeague referrals.
August 15, 2020
Campfire bonding games: In Ask Me, quiet coyote is looking for "good discussion-based games for 6 adults to play as a group that don't involve supplies other than pen and paper, and ideally help us learn more about each other rather than just passing the time."
Meanwhile, over in Mefi Music, the most favorited tracks of the past week have been:
Workman 9 to 5; A Grand Unslam; Trapeze Act; Time (the Revelator)
August 14, 2020
Hail Hail, what's the matter with your head, yeah
Hail Hail, what's the matter with your mind
And your sign an-a, oh-oh-oh
Hail Hail, nothin' the matter with your head
Baby find it, come on and find it
Hail with it, baby, 'cause you're fine
And you're mine, and you look so divine ...
Come and get your love
August 13, 2020
Isolation Time Travel: Peter Brathwaite recreates historic Black portraiture at home; 2020: A sheltering in place Space Odyssey; hopping back in time to Chrono Trigger; posting Cats of travels past; Star Trek, The New Regeneration: integrating the outtakes; revisiting the prescient Hollow Man; back to the future with the first science fiction story, second century AD.
August 12, 2020
QAnon operates like a cult, reinforcing extreme distrust of out-groups and extreme reliance on the in-group. It is very, very difficult to undo that once the damage has been done ... Lonnrot with a great, thorough answer on combatting QAnon online, and in the Blue, Adrian Hon's What ARGs can teach us about QAnon.
August 11, 2020
Pajamas, pyjamas, shorts, jorts, leggings, jeggings, capris, tees, scrubs and sweats ... forever? Mefites are discussing the unravelling of the US fashion industry.
Meanwhile, in Fanfare, people are talking about The Umbrella Academy second season, the first episode of Star Trek, Lower Decks, Tamsyn Muir's book, Harrow the Ninth, the 1955 film The Night of the Hunter, and the "You're Wrong About" podcast Disco Demolition Night, among other things.
August 10, 2020
"I have cookbooks. I have recipes printed out and shoved into cookbooks. I have recipes in Evernote. I have recipes pinned on Pinterest. How can I get all of my recipes in one spot and display them while I cook?"
August 9, 2020
OOMPH: Do you sigh, grunt, or otherwise vocalize when getting up from seated positions?
August 8, 2020
"The aim of this booklet is to educate students and essential allied health care professionals on the importance of recognising that certain clinical signs do not present the same on darker skin." Mind the Gap: A Handbook of Clinical Signs in Black and Brown Skin
August 6, 2020
I just found out you can ferment all kinds of fruits and vegetables in just honey! ... but how to find real raw honey?; What are rules of thumb for adding garnishes to pickles?; What are the spices in balandėliai (Lithuanian cabbage rolls)?; Copycat recipe for Kraft Mac & Cheese powder mix?; Best Knives?, Gift (for me) Edition; What can I add to my bread recipe?
August 5, 2020
Casteism, Colorism, Classism & Culture: A critical look and serious discussion of Netflix's "Indian Matchmaking"
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Meanwhile over on Mefi Music, the most playlisted tracks in the last week were Soviet Girl and Pulse, and the most favorited tracks were Pulse, Mirrorball, and Activity Indicating Activity
August 4, 2020
LEGO interfaces, interview face to faces
Pop pop boat won't win the races
Singing selfies, flag designs
Giant spider road trip time
Queuing beauties, a Ghibli park
Ancient life from the briny dark
August 3, 2020
Remembering, Forgetting, Remembering, Forgetting, Remembering, Forgetting, Remembering.
August 2, 2020
Something Happy; Something Handy; Something Head-y; Something Hood-y; Something Hot; Something Haut; Something 😻; Something Hopeful; Something Harmonic; Something Heavenly; Something Horny; Something Hugo.
August 1, 2020
Mefites are discussing Steven Soderbergh's black-and-white cut of Raiders of the Lost Ark with music by Trent Reznor and no dialog. Are there other films that are better in black and white? Molesome knows some.
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Meanwhile, over in Metatalk, Last day to submit to Mefi Music Swap, MeFi Mag revisited, MetatalkMimosas: Your Music Muse!, Updated Community Guidelines, and Site Update #1.
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