A man makes himself a 'best customer poster'. Someone responds...
posted to MetaFilter by Ned G at 2:10 AM on August 23, 2019 (49 comments)

I knew the end of Agile was coming when we started using hockey sticks. Every morning, at precisely eight o'clock, the team of developers and architects would stand around a room paneled in white boards and would begin passing around a toy hockey stick. When you received the hockey stick, you were supposed to launch into the litany: Forgive Father, for I have sinned. I only wrote two modules yesterday, for it was a day of meetings and fasting, and I had a dependency upon Joe, who's out sick this week with pneumonia.
posted to MetaFilter by Homo neanderthalensis at 7:12 PM on August 23, 2019 (64 comments)

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music was one of the early influential web-based guides to electronic music, spanning decades and dozens of genres. It was also an early Flash app that provided a visual interface to music and how different genres were influenced by each other with samples of prominent songs in each genre. Ishkur has updated the guide for 2019 with a new interface AND has a 2 GB 3.5 hour mix that spans decades and multiple genres.
posted to MetaFilter by gen at 2:06 AM on August 20, 2019 (57 comments)

This week on HBO's flagship Sunday night show: As part of a class project, Gene tasks Barry with revisiting his past, and Sally reflects on her own history; Barry offers to provide training to Noho Hank's men; Fuches finds Barry in an unexpected location.
posted to FanFare by JimBennett at 9:20 PM on April 14, 2019 (2 comments)

The Lonely Island Presents: The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience is a Netflix special by comedy rap group The Lonely Island. Billed as a "visual poem",[1] the special is directed by Mike Diva and Akiva Schaffer and stars Andy Samberg and Schaffer as Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire, respectively. It is presented as a rap album written and performed by Canseco and McGwire in the 1980s, when the pair was known as the Bash Brothers while playing for the Oakland Athletics
posted to MetaFilter by Carillon at 12:20 PM on July 17, 2019 (11 comments)

A skilled London police officer is transferred to a small town that's harbouring a dark secret.
posted to FanFare by MoonOrb at 6:37 PM on March 8, 2018 (36 comments)

mrbill, a Houston MetaFilter member since 2002, has died. Many of you may remember in 2009 when his wife died suddenly and unexpectedly. Bill was kind, friendly, and generous. If you see his posts here or on Facebook, you'll see a person who gave and gave, without thought to what he got in return. We will miss him and his contributions.
posted to MetaTalk by ColdChef at 11:59 AM on August 16, 2019 (240 comments)

When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate start to attack Earth, it's a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything and everyone.
posted to FanFare by ellieBOA at 5:29 AM on November 5, 2017 (8 comments)

Nearly three hours of David Mitchell (previously 1, 2). being hilarious on the BBC show, Would I Lie To You: Posh and repressed?; Barbigerous Harbinger of Exuberance; Mitchellian rants and outbursts.
posted to MetaFilter by Room 641-A at 4:52 PM on November 5, 2017 (83 comments)

Dr. Alexei reveals what the Russians have been building, and Eleven sees where Billy has been. Dustin and Erica stage a daring rescue.
posted to FanFare by Fizz at 2:19 PM on July 4, 2019 (28 comments)

So, here's what happened: A guy on Twitter tried to make the argument that he needed an assault rifle in order to stave off the "30-50 feral hogs" that allegedly swarm his yard within 3-5 minutes every time his kids play outside. The idea that this man was fighting off upwards of 50 hogs every time his kids went outdoors sent Twitter into a meme frenzy, and just about everyone had a Feral Hog Tweet™.
posted to MetaFilter by Etrigan at 10:37 AM on August 6, 2019 (299 comments)

Strange surprises lurk inside an old farmhouse and deep beneath the Starcourt Mall. Meanwhile, the Mind Flayer is gathering strength.
posted to FanFare by Fizz at 2:18 PM on July 4, 2019 (28 comments)

Season Finale: When a trial turns into a party it can only mean that Barry-6 has returned
posted to FanFare by LizBoBiz at 11:56 PM on August 4, 2019 (12 comments)

For the first 123 games of the 2007 season, the Baltimore Orioles' pitching staff was doing fine. Really! They weren't bad! Everything was OK. Then came August 22, 2007, which Alex Rubenstein and Jon Bois chronicle in Dorktown #2: The night that destroyed the 2007 Baltimore Orioles forever
posted to MetaFilter by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 8:53 PM on July 31, 2019 (7 comments)

Tom7 invents and tests a variety of very bad chess-playing algorithms.
posted to MetaFilter by DoctorFedora at 6:02 AM on July 16, 2019 (13 comments)

The crew of the Seamus find a mysterious cube floating in space and bring it aboard.
posted to FanFare by fimbulvetr at 11:02 AM on July 25, 2019 (15 comments)

A voyage home gets interrupted by an alien battle cruiser carrying precious cargo.
posted to FanFare by Chrysostom at 8:12 PM on July 20, 2019 (8 comments)

ProZD (aka Sungwon Cho) makes the internet’s most geekily delightful ultra-low budget videos, from when you have a REALLY good turn in a card game, games where your choices don't actually matter, to cutscenes that keep the stupid clothes you put on your character, and the classic harem anime where everyone but the protagonist is sentient furniture.
posted to MetaFilter by adrianhon at 4:07 PM on August 2, 2019 (21 comments)

"I have no friends so I like to take famous dance scenes from movies and put songs that are the same tempo on top of them" — a thread — featuring Love Actually vs Billie Eilish, Napoleon Dynamite vs Cher, The Breakfast Club vs Shakin' Stevens, Titanic vs Arctic Monkeys, Mean Girls vs That's So Raven, Mr. Bean vs Ariana Grande, Ferris Bueller's Day Off vs Boney M. and lots more!
posted to MetaFilter by bitteschoen at 9:51 AM on July 28, 2019 (42 comments)

It has a dark past – one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot”. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A” stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks…
posted to FanFare by dinty_moore at 6:38 AM on July 18, 2019 (13 comments)

Sarge finally lets the team in on what he knows abut the impending Shrike invasion. He plans to go defeat them at thier assembly point but declines to detail his intended methods. Mack assigns Daisy, May and Deke to join the mission along with Snowflake. Pax and Jaco remain on board the Zephyr, which is clandestinely following Sarge's truck.
posted to FanFare by under_petticoat_rule at 12:08 PM on July 23, 2019

Fitz and Simmons try to head off of planet Kitson. Will it be Sarge in charge at the Lighthouse?
posted to FanFare by under_petticoat_rule at 12:03 PM on July 23, 2019 (3 comments)

Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.
posted to FanFare by Etrigan at 7:43 PM on July 24, 2019 (19 comments)

After saying goodbye to her family on Earth, Niko wakes in space to find the Salvare off course and divided loyalties among her young crew. (Netflix Original)
posted to FanFare by oh yeah! at 7:33 PM on July 25, 2019 (24 comments)

Archer and the crew pick up a hitchhiker and try to convince him to turn his life around.
posted to FanFare by Chrysostom at 10:08 PM on June 30, 2019 (6 comments)

The gang talks to a book. Tick threatens to drink some water.
posted to FanFare by oh yeah! at 7:18 PM on April 3, 2019 (11 comments)

David prepares for a journey.
posted to FanFare by LizBoBiz at 11:04 AM on July 9, 2019 (3 comments)

Veronica is back, investigating a bomber in Neptune murdering spring breakers. The season follows the film and keeps up with current events.
posted to FanFare by numaner at 9:48 AM on July 21, 2019 (35 comments)

Now that Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has wrapped up with Spider-Man: Far From Home, the first half of its Phase 4 films and TV shows was unveiled at SDCC 2019, including Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings with Simu Liu as Shang-Chi and the HK legend Tony Leung as The Mandarin; Natalie Portman picking up the big hammer in Thor: Love and Thunder; Mahershala Ali becoming Blade; Wanda joining Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and so much more.
posted to MetaFilter by adrianhon at 6:54 AM on July 21, 2019 (71 comments)

“ MEEEEEEEEEEEEMORY! .. ..” It’s a trailer, for the Live Action Movie version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical about Cats.
posted to MetaFilter by Faintdreams at 3:14 PM on July 18, 2019 (251 comments)

Nancy and Jonathan follow a lead, Steve and Robin sign on to a secret mission, and Max and Eleven go shopping. A rattled Billy has troubling visions.
posted to FanFare by Fizz at 2:13 PM on July 4, 2019 (31 comments)

Summer brings new jobs and budding romance. But the mood shifts when Dustin's radio picks up a Russian broadcast, and Will senses something is wrong.
posted to FanFare by Fizz at 2:10 PM on July 4, 2019 (47 comments)

Altarah traps Fitz and Simmons in a mind-prison to coerce them into inventing time-travel. They encounter many obstacles, including the return of Leopold and a homicidal ballerina representing Gemma's buried rage. Enoch figures out how to be a better BFF.
posted to FanFare by under_petticoat_rule at 2:48 PM on June 24, 2019 (11 comments)

An action-packed series-starter perfect for fans of The Heroine Complex and Not Your Sidekick. “I didn’t know how much I needed this brave, thrilling book until it rocked my world. Dreadnought is the superhero adventure we all need right now.”—Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky Danny Tozer has a problem: she just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world’s greatest superhero. Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and died right in front of her, Danny was trying to...
posted to FanFare by happyroach at 8:02 PM on June 28, 2019 (6 comments)

The mind-bending, time-warping adventure from Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang continues, as intrepid newspaper deliverer Tiffany is launched from the prehistoric past into the year 2000! In this harrowing version of our past, Y2K was even more of a cataclysm than experts feared, and the only person who can save the future is a 12-year-old girl from 1988. (Issues 16 - 20), colors by Matt Wilson.
posted to FanFare by dinty_moore at 6:49 AM on July 1, 2019 (4 comments)

The eponymous Fleabag returns, joining an uncomfortable family dinner to celebrate Godmother and Dad’s engagement. Alongside familiar faces - uptight sister Claire and her alcoholic husband Martin - Fleabag finds herself intrigued by Godmother’s new priest. The evening comes to a tempestuous end, however, when an unexpected attack brings old tensions bubbling to the surface
posted to FanFare by pharm at 1:56 PM on March 5, 2019 (16 comments)

Phoebe Waller Bridge's Fleabag is back. She's still at odds with her sister and her awful brother-in-law. She's still struggling to be cordial to her father's godawful fiance (Olivia Colman). But instead of losing herself in a string of spiritually depleting sexual encounters, she finds herself wrestling with spirituality. Or maybe just trying to fuck a hot priest.
posted to FanFare by DirtyOldTown at 1:27 PM on May 24, 2019 (35 comments)

Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever.
posted to FanFare by LobsterMitten at 8:49 PM on July 2, 2019 (86 comments)

So the President F*cking Hates My Girlfriend (and 10 Other Things I Want You to Know Before the World Cup Semifinals) by Sue Bird
posted to MetaFilter by Lord_Pall at 7:14 AM on July 2, 2019 (32 comments)

Facing pressure from Noho Hank, Barry struggles to pull off an important hit. After asking the class to mine their personal traumas for an original piece, Gene decides to confront his own past. A visit to her agents leaves Sally disappointed. Fuches tries to evade questions in Cleveland.
posted to FanFare by JimBennett at 8:58 PM on April 8, 2019 (9 comments)

(From IMDB): Barry tries to convince Sally and the rest of the class to go ahead with a performance, despite the absence of teacher Gene; Noho Hank and Cristobal's new partnership faces growing pains; Fuches learns that replacement hit men don't come easy.
posted to FanFare by essexjan at 12:27 PM on April 2, 2019 (11 comments)

Fitz and Simmons are reunited - sort of. Enoch makes a dick move. We meet more Chronicoms and learn more about their situation, and Holmes Mack and Yo-Yo act totally grown-up and not at all passive-aggressive. May proves to Sarge that her love for Coulson was not necessarily face-based.
posted to FanFare by under_petticoat_rule at 2:44 PM on June 24, 2019

Guillermo steals semen has DNA tests run for everyone, and Nandor and finds out that he has a descendant living in Staten Island, while Guillermo confirms that he's the descendant of, um, just your typical Mexican piñata farmers. Nadja calls to her lost love Gregor, and his current incarnation, Jeff, comes looking for her. [Season finale]
posted to FanFare by filthy light thief at 7:57 AM on June 6, 2019 (10 comments)

The vampires are chosen to host the biannual vampire orgy, and worry that it may not be successful. "What you don't understand is the stigma attached to throwing a poor orgy." Nandor hungers after Guillermo's friend, and Laszlo finds his old porno tapes.
posted to FanFare by filthy light thief at 7:50 AM on June 6, 2019 (3 comments)

Nadja trains her little, stupid baby vampire how to crawl and eat, and Nandor applies for American citizenship.
posted to FanFare by filthy light thief at 1:23 PM on May 16, 2019 (7 comments)

The Staten Island crew (+ a bro'ed up Baron) paint the town a few different colors.
posted to FanFare by ishmael at 1:35 PM on May 3, 2019 (7 comments)

A woman is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left to hide is home.
posted to FanFare by ellieBOA at 12:10 PM on June 22, 2019 (8 comments)

David gets a new friend.
posted to FanFare by Thorzdad at 3:20 PM on June 26, 2019 (16 comments)

On the eve of their high school graduation, two academic superstars and best friends realize they should have worked less and played more. Determined not to fall short of their peers, the girls try to cram four years of fun into one night.
posted to FanFare by duffell at 3:50 AM on May 25, 2019 (30 comments)

Gangsta's Paradise but every other beat is Amish Paradise
posted to MetaFilter by bondcliff at 11:29 AM on June 26, 2019 (41 comments)