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"Cold Little Bird," a very good and very disturbing story by Ben Marcus. [SLNYer]
posted by gottabefunky at 10:05 PM PST - 77 comments

The day Iceland's women went on strike. "Forty years ago, the women of Iceland went on strike - they refused to work, cook and look after children for a day. It was a moment that changed the way women were seen in the country and helped put Iceland at the forefront of the fight for equality." [Via]
posted by homunculus at 7:45 PM PST - 21 comments

Murphy Anderson, long time artist for DC Comics has died at age 89. Anderson began his career at Fiction House in 1944 and then drew the daily Buck Rogers newspaper strip for two years. He began his long career at DC comics around 1950, he drew covers and stories for their science fiction and superhero comics and enjoyed stints on drawing costumed heroes like The Spectre and Hawkman. He was greatly admired as half of the "Swanderson" team when he inked Curt Swan's pencils on Superman. [more inside]
posted by marxchivist at 7:18 PM PST - 7 comments

Rus (from Ukraine) and Alla (from Russia) just spent six months travelling the US in a Subaru and took lots of pretty pictures. They visited: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada , New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
posted by desjardins at 6:52 PM PST - 33 comments

Unfinished story… [The Guardian] [more inside]
posted by Fizz at 5:47 PM PST - 4 comments

Elderly Cat. A comic by MeFi's own Alison Wilgus.
posted by Countess Elena at 5:33 PM PST - 42 comments

How women revolutionised 1670s fashion from Lapham's Quarterly. Mantuas.
posted by goo at 3:55 PM PST - 9 comments

Veganism has been edging into the mainstream for years now, coaxed along by superstar believers like Bill Clinton and Beyonce. But lately, as plant-eating has blossomed and gained followers, influential vegans are laboring to supplant its dowdy, spartan image with a new look: glamorous, prosperous, sexy, and epidermally beaming with health.
posted by Kitteh at 1:57 PM PST - 214 comments

Chroma key liquid stripping. (Vimeo, NSFW) [more inside]
posted by numaner at 1:11 PM PST - 38 comments

mimic - [ab]using Unicode to create tragedy Replace a semicolon (;) with a greek question mark (;) in your friend's C# code and watch them pull their hair out over the syntax error [more inside]
posted by CrystalDave at 11:34 AM PST - 84 comments

Welcome to Home of the Brave. I’m [Peabody-winning journalist and sometime This American Life and NPR correspondent] Scott Carrier. A couple weeks ago I was watching Donald Trump on television wondering how and why anyone would want him to be President of the United States. He’s a rude, arrogant condescending, chauvanistic egomaniac. What if he were president and got angry and had a fit? But then I realized I don’t actually know any Trump supporters, so I decided I should drive around Nevada and find some. (He also drives around a little bit of California.)
posted by Going To Maine at 11:12 AM PST - 79 comments

Today's NYT sports section trolls Cubs fans with a 1908-inspired front page. The cover. More, from Talking New Media.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 9:51 AM PST - 56 comments

Pulling back the curtain on Carlos Castaneda, one of America’s most secretive and popular authors. [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns at 9:41 AM PST - 60 comments

"On the shores of Payette Lake are crates full of beavers, part of a shipment to be dropped in the primitive area by parachute from an airplane." A clip from Fur for the Future, a recently rediscovered documentary from 1948 about Idaho Fish and Game parachuting beavers into the state's backcountry.
posted by oulipian at 9:14 AM PST - 28 comments

Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell writes about first encountering Ursula Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea as a child, the power and depth of the story and everything he still loves about it as an adult.
posted by Otto the Magnificent at 9:07 AM PST - 54 comments

RockPaperShotgun asks the British game industry how they would make a game out of The Great British Bake Off.
posted by Artw at 9:06 AM PST - 25 comments

Between 1973 and 1983, Vincent Price starred in twenty-two episodes of radio horror for the BBC. Price claimed the stories were drawn from his own reminiscences, though certain plots bear strong resemblances to classic pieces by Roald Dahl and Bram Stoker. Click on and listen, if you can afford...THE PRICE OF FEAR. [more inside]
posted by Iridic at 9:00 AM PST - 18 comments

Magical Realism: Northern Exposure 25 Years Later
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 8:47 AM PST - 48 comments

DaveYard Shift plays mariachi covers of video game songs. Released thus far: "Bloody Tears" from Castlevania 2, "Gerudo Valley" from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, "Dark World" from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, "Dr. Wily Stage" from Mega Man 2, "The Moon" from Ducktales, and a medley of tunes from Kirby Super Star, Tetris, and Super Mario World.
posted by Pope Guilty at 8:37 AM PST - 10 comments

Need to slow down? Here is the very first episode of The Joy of Painting, in which Bob Ross encourages viewers to take a walk in their own happy little woods. (SLYT)
posted by swift at 7:19 AM PST - 37 comments

The streaming service Shout Factory has a treat in time for Halloween: The VHS Vault!. These are VHS rips of classic 80s horror movies: Sleepaway Camp, Night of the Demons, Day of the Dead, Class of 1984, and Exterminators of the year 3,000. There's also the documentary Adjust Your Tracking about VHS collectors.
posted by codacorolla at 6:58 AM PST - 26 comments

The Federal Communications Commission is putting caps on the rates that inmates pay for phone calls, after a 14-year campaign by advocates for prisoners and their families. The order caps per-minute fees at 11¢ in state or federal prisons, and up to 22¢ a minute in local jails, depending on the size of the facility, while also capping the various fees that have been common on inmate calls to this point. [more inside]
posted by almostmanda at 6:20 AM PST - 51 comments

Zack Parsons, Something Awful's resident writer of much weirdness (oldest articles in that listing may be misattributed) has resumed his beloved series with Steve Sumner (the Max to his Sam), WTF D&D. While Zack still writes for Something Awful, he and Steve's reviews of weird pen-and-paper RPG sourcebooks and art, and their rollicking RPG campaigns, have resumed on Zack's new site, The Bad Guys Win, which also features other new articles from Zack (all of the new WTF D&D, currently a two-part adventure in the Ravenloft setting starring Steve as an idiot monk, is collected under Games). [more inside]
posted by BiggerJ at 5:56 AM PST - 16 comments

San Patricio & Barra De Navidad will experience equivalent EF5 tornado & 20 foot tsunami at same time. After a remarkable burst of intensification, Hurricane Patricia is headed to the Mexican coast with 200 mile per hour (320 kph) sustained winds. It is the strongest hurricane on record in the Western Hemisphere.
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 5:35 AM PST - 129 comments

Some ways we can read Elsa: "Cold and Hungry: Discourses of Anorexic Feminity in Frozen," "Disney's Frozen and Autism," "Reading Frozen as a Feminist," and "Disney's Frozen: Gay or Schizophrenic?"
posted by thetortoise at 5:05 AM PST - 59 comments

Watch Adele’s Emotional, Technologically Groundbreaking Video for “Hello”. The video stars The Wire’s Tristan Wilds.
posted by chavenet at 3:43 AM PST - 50 comments