Sideblog Archive
August 31, 2022
Man, It's A Hot One: new Mefi podcast now up!
Also in Metatalk, The first members of the Metafilter Steering Committee; a tool to Convert exported Metafilter comments; this week's Metatalktail Hour
August 30, 2022
For the record, three of my books have been banned in TX, one has been banned in OK, and none of them got a sales boost: headspace speaking first-hand on the damage of book bans and how they are hurting kids.
August 29, 2022
Woo! Meet the first members of the Metafilter Steering Committee! (and thank you, Transition Team heroes ❤️!)
"Diseases can be idiopathic. Archaeological artefacts can be for ritual purposes. What are some other technical-sounding terms from other fields that means 'we're really not sure'?"
August 28, 2022
delightful — or disorienting: Shepherd with a fabuleux sélection of divers flavors of Chiac tunes.
August 27, 2022
Fun reminiscences by Marky and others in the Monty Python and the Holy Grail thread in FanFare.
August 26, 2022
There are ghosts in all those haunted basements who are worth knowing. And there's no shame in being one of those ghosts: MrVisible with a poignant reflection on underloved books and their authors in the literary rejection thread.
August 24, 2022
"Plunderphonics": Creative fun with ScotRail announcements!
August 23, 2022
"book-wrapt": Mefites discuss How Many Books Make a Place Feel Like Home?
August 21, 2022
mumimor has some interesting thoughts about Eyebrows McGee's question on Decorating a Baroque palace
August 20, 2022
What should I send friends as pick-me-up gifts? What would you like to receive as a pick-me-up gift? dearwassily is looking for little surprises to cheer friends going through heavy times.
August 18, 2022
"Map showing the spread of dumplings," "Stuffed boiled dumplings and the Mongol Empire, 1200–1350," "In the Beginning, There Were ... Dumplings?" and more in kliuless's delicious dumplingfest.
August 17, 2022
Recent posts that have been flagged as "fantastic":
Elegy for a Criminal Lawyer
the quirks of Boreal Owl parenting
Not, to the best of my knowledge, woven underwater
How many apples?
Hank Green Explains the Climate Bill
Yes it's real and this is true.
Not a star, a chorizo
August 16, 2022
Bella Donna posted Hacking an ableist world about the ingenious everyday accessibility innovations disabled folks are creating and sharing among themselves as opposed to the less useful (or vaporware) "disability dongles [that] generate feel-good content for brands." Very interesting!
August 15, 2022
Voting is now open for the Metafilter Steering Committee!
In The Money is in All the Wrong Places thread, Jane the Brown muses on the modern celebrity professions versus the olden days of touring companies and troupes and vaudeville.
(Meanwhile, over in Metatalk, there seem to be a number of vikings and some elves flagging things as Fantastic. I see you.👋)
August 14, 2022
... in this video you're going to go from understanding more than like, 80 or 90% of people, to understanding this more than 99% of people. And it's only going to take you like 15 minutes. Glinn posts Hank Green Explains the Climate Bill
August 13, 2022
Buying Many of Only One Thing: things you routinely have multiple types of but you should just get identical versions?
August 10, 2022
Another "hey, what are you playing" games roundup post in Metatalk
Be careful not to look directly into the chorizo! James Webb Telescope captures rare cured, smoked, spicy star.
August 9, 2022
tiny frying pan is looking for more people having terrible ideas, following through.
August 8, 2022
as someone who studies gender, the evolution of nonbinary / trans communities, and cultural ideas about androgyny, I'd categorize "Bixby" as in the name group moving pretty rapidly from a prior masculine-of-center position, to a current "gender neutral" position, and possibly soon to be in the feminine-of-center position. Some Interesting observations from DrMew on ambiguous, androgynous, gender neutral, and unisex naming trends in the We need to talk about Kévin thread.
August 7, 2022
And goddamn it was tasty: nayantara is looking for unusual food combos
August 6, 2022
Did you know that every Saturday we have MetaTalktail Hour in Metatalk? Most people don't know that.
at which point everyone ... took pieces of his head home for later snacking: ricochet biscuit reminisces about the ultimate giant chocolate gift in this thread about a giant disgusting lollipop (and other giant disgusting food).
August 5, 2022
"Shoots you down in a lifeboat, in choppy water, at night, on Easter.": I'd like some insight as to why this sign would be on a state supervisor and an office manager's door to their shared office. Mysterious! But Ask Mefi answerers come through!
August 3, 2022
there's virtually no predictive power to say "I inherited [x] from my (grand)parent so I probably inherited [y] as well: metaBugs helps us out at the deep end of the gene pool in Ask Metafilter.
August 2, 2022
humbug posts the shortlist for the Inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction!
August 1, 2022
Our cat is very very shiny, it is one of her main skills ... Vatnesine asks What is the albedo rating of my very shiny cat?
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