I'm looking for dishes where the taste, appearance or "wow factor" is much more than the effort, time or money put into the dish. For the purposes of this question, there are no other restrictions.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by NotLost at 4:18 PM on April 23, 2024 (55 comments)

Looking for recommendations for non-D&D/Pathfinder/Fantasy actual play podcasts. Preference given to Delta Green and Call of Cthulhu, especially Masks of Nyarlathotep campaigns.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Alvy Ampersand at 3:31 PM on February 6, 2024 (8 comments)

I'm looking for practical, specific tips, from experience, for preserving my own composure and health in a repationship with a BPD (my amateur diagnosis which I don't want to dispute here) spouse and our two pre-teens.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by KMH at 12:02 PM on December 27, 2023 (20 comments)

Looking for recommendations for documentaries that leave you feeling that old "truth is stranger than fiction" vibe. This is subjective, so below are some examples of docs I've seen that gave me that feeling..
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RobinofFrocksley at 3:26 PM on March 18, 2021 (46 comments)

Edit: let's do this! Winter New England meetup
posted to MeFi IRL by likeatoaster at 4:19 AM on January 8, 2023

Kevin Perjurer of Defunctland (previously, also previously, also previously) had planned on doing a simple feature on Disney's now-defunct FastPass virtual queuing system. However, after falling into a rabbit hole of research, he instead produced a feature length documentary on queuing, the theory behind queue management, how that would drive the creation of FastPass - and how FastPass would become a monster out of control.
posted to MetaFilter by NoxAeternum at 7:56 AM on November 22, 2021 (30 comments)

Siri hasn't been able to figure it out, the original post is in Arabic, and fifteen minutes with Google translate hasn't helped. Does anyone know what this song is?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by paul_smatatoes at 8:49 AM on May 16, 2020 (1 comment)

My toddler loved Netflix’s Dancing with the Birds. Are there other documentaries you’ve watched that are toddler-friendly? I don’t want to screen ahead of time..
posted to Ask MetaFilter by inevitability at 11:27 AM on May 12, 2020 (9 comments)

I have this vague memory of a website from at least ten years ago called Cat Town. It was a collection of ridiculous stories illustrated by photos of cats in hats, originally from a Japanese website. There were recurring characters and I think they revolved around the mayor, who could have been a tuxedo cat who said "doo doo doo" a lot. This is all I remember but I loved it! I hope someone else remembers this - thank you!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Neely O'Hara at 6:15 PM on May 12, 2020 (11 comments)

Ana Tijoux. Antifa Dance. RS write up. Fader. Another song, about the recent protest movement in Chile: Cacerolazo. Another good one: Somos Sur. Chuck D's a fan.
posted to MetaFilter by signal at 4:37 PM on March 27, 2020 (6 comments)

What about in terms of the book’s success? It’s sold a million and a half copies. “Oh, yeah, because then I made money. I made money running around the speaking, lecture circuit for years, which combined well with activism for raising wages, to the dismay of the people and the administrators who invited me.” The author of “Nickel And Dimed”, “Bright Sided” and more talks to Jia Tolentino of the New Yorker. Barbara Ehrenreich Is Not an Optimist, but She Has Hope for the Future
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 9:48 AM on March 24, 2020 (35 comments)

Daniel Manus Pinkwater is an author of mostly children's books and young adult titles of the wonderfully weird and punny sort, and is an occasional commentator on National Public Radio. Goodreads lists 128 distinct works, and from this extensive library, he's made 24 titles into audiobooks available to freely download from his website [via Mltshp]. Want even more audio adventures? Webmaster Ed and Daniel collaborated on the Pinkwater Podcast between 2007 and 2017, producing over 500 episodes of recorded books, short stories, interviews, skits, and other random nonsense [Ducks! previously].
posted to MetaFilter by filthy light thief at 3:28 PM on March 18, 2020 (28 comments)

So, the wonder chicken... Anything to do with our man?
posted to MetaFilter by paladin at 12:24 AM on March 19, 2020 (9 comments)

“ As hosts to the pathogen, we Americans are uniquely susceptible because of lack of health coverage, precarious jobs and skewed economics” Austerity and inequality are fueling the pandemic in the US. (Guardian) It’s Never Been A Better Time To Cancel Student Debt (The Nation) “The coronavirus pandemic is clearly demonstrating to us the need to administrate the problems of public health in a more rational fashion than the capitalist state. It’s obvious based on previous experience that we need to shift towards the democratic public control of medical resources.”
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 10:57 AM on March 19, 2020 (224 comments)

My 3.5 year-old niece, since December, has been obsessed with the two board games she owns: Hoot Owl Hoot and Candyland Junior. What’s something similar I could send her so her parents- who are in Seattle and kind of trapped with her and an infant right now- get a little relief from the tedium of those two games on infinite repeat?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by charmedimsure at 11:34 PM on March 15, 2020 (23 comments)

What are your favorite things to cook/bake that may take a little extra effort or babysitting but feel fun and special?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by geegollygosh at 5:35 AM on March 14, 2020 (24 comments)

“Means TV officially launched last week, offering 75 hours of content, including comedy and original animations, as well as more than a dozen feature-length films. In just three days it attracted nearly 2,000 subscribers, each signing up to pay $10 a month“ Revolution and Chill: the Anticapitalist Streaming Service That’s Netflix for the 99% (Novara Media) “ Post-capitalist entertainment is just entertainment that’s created without the extracting, corrosive, and corruptive effects of capital. Instead of entertainment that’s produced with money from venture capital firms that are invested in bombs and wars, it’s produced cooperatively, and it’s centering stories of working-class people that aren’t heard in the media today.” The Founders of Means TV on Their Post-Capitalist Streaming Service (Hour Detroit) Means.Tv User Guide Means TV on YouTube An interview with Means TV co-creator Sara June on Pod Damn America Means TV previously “when you’re poor, everybody thinks you’re lying.”
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 10:27 AM on March 13, 2020 (11 comments)

I woke up to a new Jay Electronica album and was shocked to see it hadn't already been posted to the Blue. Nor did a search turn up any FPP on this mysterious hip hop artist back from the future. I then spent an hour marveling at the number of top-tier tracks and collaborations dropped over the last 11 years. This is not a man who is wasting his talent, but it is a man who has no thought for "personal brand" or commodifying his art. I tried to make this comprehensive, but my searches continue to uncover things I wasn't previously aware of. I give up. Go walkabout and find out more when you get through these.
posted to MetaFilter by SoundInhabitant at 2:54 PM on March 13, 2020 (7 comments)

McCoy Tyner live in 1975. (Interview at 33:52.) And in 1986. And in 1998. NPR's obituary.
posted to MetaFilter by selfnoise at 4:23 PM on March 6, 2020 (37 comments)

Many college-educated people think they are deeply engaged in politics. They follow the news—reading articles like this one—and debate the latest developments on social media. They might sign an online petition or throw a $5 online donation at a presidential candidate. Mostly, they consume political information as a way of satisfying their own emotional and intellectual needs. These people are political hobbyists. What they are doing is no closer to engaging in politics than watching SportsCenter is to playing football. From Eitan Hersh, author of Politics Is for Power, in The Atlantic.
posted to MetaFilter by Bella Donna at 9:48 AM on March 2, 2020 (100 comments)

Last night:
Me: Got any homework?
Anna: Nah.
Me: Whatcha gonna do?
Anna: Have a map I’m working on.
Just found this on her desk.
posted to MetaFilter by Going To Maine at 10:24 PM on February 19, 2020 (61 comments)

DOT Jr. has a birthday coming up and is very interested in Dungeons and Dragons. I grew up during a climate when the game was considered to be the express lane to Satan so I missed out on that. It seems cool, but I know nothing about it. What will he need to get started?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by DirtyOldTown at 9:05 PM on February 6, 2020 (20 comments)

It’s a shameless endorsement of capitalist inequality that may as well end each episode by reminding everyday Americans that they should shut up and be grateful their lives are controlled by such selfless exemplars of virtue. It’s class warfare in everything but name.
posted to MetaFilter by Carillon at 8:55 AM on February 5, 2020 (45 comments)

It started with a tweet: Still no word on whether or not they will let me take over Peanuts.
posted to MetaFilter by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 8:59 PM on February 4, 2020 (26 comments)

Spotify alerted me at the end of last year that I'd listened to about 45 thousand hours of music throughout 2019. And yet here I am querying the hive for more.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by zenpop at 1:25 PM on February 1, 2020 (7 comments)

Phillip Agnew's 'With These Hands' – Powerful Bernie Rally Moment. (YouTube 5min16sec) Phillip Agnew works for the Sanders campaign and the clip is a very unique approach to politics that took a turn to something almost spiritual when he asked the crowd to get their neighbours permission to hold their hand. Big but good emotions follow. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, later during her speech, remarked that, Phillip "took them to church". Sen. Sanders wasn't there, as he had to work on the Trump impeachment in D.C.
posted to MetaFilter by phoque at 3:20 PM on January 27, 2020 (40 comments)

Will artificial intelligence fix hiring discrimination? Well, no, but what do people think about it? And if AI isn't the answer, what is? In two blog posts, data scientist @ryxcommar discusses the snake oil of HireVue et al, public discourse thereof, and conducts a mini-survey of his own, with disconcerting results.
posted to MetaFilter by theodolite at 10:06 AM on January 21, 2020 (14 comments)

I am looking for books to read with my daughter. We've graduated past the standard Dr. Seuss style picture books, but my daughter is losing interest with longer stories that don't have any illustrations to support the text.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by wile e at 5:12 AM on January 16, 2020 (23 comments)

"The modern demand to constantly pretend-play with our kids is exhausting. Is there a better way?" (Rebecca Onion, Slate)
posted to MetaFilter by hurdy gurdy girl at 9:54 AM on January 10, 2020 (43 comments)

Kate Wagner, of McMansion Hell fame (previouslies), writes on the aesthetics of architecture in a ruined world.
posted to MetaFilter by clawsoon at 11:12 AM on January 8, 2020 (7 comments)

The people who wrote Bunnicula didn’t craft it with a legacy in mind. James and Deborah Howe were two struggling actors in their late twenties, married and underemployed, and they thought the idea of a vampire rabbit was funny.
posted to MetaFilter by Etrigan at 9:41 AM on January 8, 2020 (24 comments)

Who Really Killed Jimmy Hoffa? (And was the frozen salmon a red herring?) Filmmaker Errol Morris (many previouslies) talks to former George W. Bush Administration official Jack Goldsmith about Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance in the context of the recent release of Martin Scorsese's The Irishman. [FanFare link]
posted to MetaFilter by Halloween Jack at 8:42 AM on January 3, 2020 (15 comments)

YouTuber Ewa U describes an imaginary world with unreliable magic in five episodes. Her voice-overs for the series are entirely in Lojban with English subtitles. Videos below the fold.
posted to MetaFilter by nangar at 4:34 PM on December 25, 2019 (7 comments)

Anonymous asked: What's your take on non-binary/agender gender identities?

I think those identities represent one of the most important realizations it’s possible for a person to have.

I’ll tell you a story...

A brief piece on power, reason, art, love, and the body. By George Lazenby.
posted to MetaFilter by Iridic at 12:49 PM on August 30, 2017 (9 comments)

The Crying Of Lot 55: The Unsolved Mysteries And Alternate Realities Of Andrew W.K. A really lengthy deep dive into the universe of someone who may or may not exist, possibly because he chooses to/not to.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 9:54 AM on September 29, 2018 (49 comments)

Writers like David Foster Wallace, or Hunter S Thompson, go so hard with their writing. Italo Calvino, maybe. (FWIW, I am not a white male). I haven't kept abreast of the best writing in the last, say, decade, maybe more, whether fiction or non-fiction. The last book I remember that felt a little like that might have been House of Leaves. Which recent books or writers have really been trying to strain beyond what can normally done on the page?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by surenoproblem at 4:04 AM on February 24, 2018 (25 comments)

Daughter, voracious reader, aged 11. I'd like some graphic novel suggestions. Read and enjoyed: Nimona, Amulet, Ghosts. Knows more about than anyone else on earth: Warrior Cats. Adored: Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls. I'd prefer stories that are age appropriate (so a lack of sex and drugs) and I'd also prefer to steer away from things based on cartoons (e.g. Adventure Time, even if I might be able to smuggle some Meredith Gran into her reading that way). What are the classics? What's new that she might enjoy?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by giraffeneckbattle at 9:24 AM on December 18, 2017 (36 comments)

“Eater’s own list of essential Paris restaurants includes its vegetarian tasting menu as a when-in-Paris must. Earlier this year, the restaurant’s three-Michelin-star status was reaffirmed for the twentieth year in a row, an accolade that means its cuisine is "worth a special journey."

“I was in Paris for the briefest of vacations, and L’Arpège is where I wanted to spend one of my two fleeting afternoons. In exchange, at one of France’s best restaurants, I had one of my worst meals of the year.” Ryan Sutton for Eater.
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 4:24 AM on October 22, 2017 (66 comments)

April 1990 - Video I shot of my typical day of a high school student [slyt]
posted to MetaFilter by jjray at 9:02 PM on September 17, 2017 (20 comments)

Max Landis, known for writing Chronicle, American Ultra, and Victor Frankenstein (as well as being John Landis' son), has written a 150 page living document detailing his Carly Rae Jepsen conspiracy theory. Click here to take a long, deep dive into the world of the Jepsen Pattern.
posted to MetaFilter by gucci mane at 2:10 PM on September 15, 2017 (42 comments)

One of the original five elements of hip-hop culture, breaking (also known as breakdancing) never quite attained the ubiquity of rap, but it quietly remains an international phenomenon. If you're curious about the modern state of this art/sport hybrid, you could do worse than to start by watching the winning team showcase at last year's Battle of the Year, the biggest breaking crew tournament in the world. Or, for something a little less traditional, 2015's winner is a beautiful fusion of Spanish and hip-hop culture. Or perhaps you're one for the classics: Ichigeki's winning show from 2005 is often cited as the best showcase in the tournament's history. But if you restrict yourself to watching showcases, you'll be missing most of what makes breaking great. True breaking takes the form of improvisational dance-offs between opponents, each responding to, and one-upping, the other's moves. Last but not least, while breaking is an overwhelmingly male art form, there are also some seriously talented bgirls to keep an eye on.
posted to MetaFilter by perplexion at 8:54 PM on September 16, 2017 (10 comments)

Night Project, a collection of photographs of China at night by French photographer Marilyn Mugot.
Many more on her instagram.
Press coverage at Hunger TV, WIRED, and The Guardian
posted to MetaFilter by Going To Maine at 8:47 PM on June 24, 2017 (6 comments)

"A Guide to Conservative Publications: Which ones are trolling you, and which ones are simply bad?" by Alex Nichols in The Outline.

How thoroughly do they embody the worst characteristics of conservative writing? How smug are they? How convinced are they of their own superior intellect? Are they painfully, seethingly horny? As many of the worst specimens delight in terrifying the world with poor grooming decisions, our measuring stick will be the goatee, here affixed to a tiny troll face. The longer the goatee, the more batshit insane the publication.

posted to MetaFilter by Rustic Etruscan at 9:27 AM on May 24, 2017 (38 comments)

My son (5 years old) and I had a great time reading through The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer. Most of it went way over his head (and, to be fair, mine as well) but he enjoyed the heck out of it nonetheless. I'm looking for more graphic novels in this vein that I can read with my son.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Deathalicious at 1:52 PM on April 24, 2017 (10 comments)

What is the best salted oatmeal cookie recipe? I love the salted oatmeal cookies from Whisked in DC but they're a bit pricey for me to consume constantly and they haven't published the recipe (I wrote to ask). Please help me make delicious salted oatmeal cookies at home!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Mrs. Pterodactyl at 11:00 AM on March 22, 2017 (14 comments)

I'm interested in watching movies, from any era, where the egregiously bad bad guys are hunted down and picked off one by one. Bonus points if the movie is available on Netflix. Thanks all. it will help my mental health right now
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Klaxon Aoooogah at 9:25 AM on March 21, 2017 (53 comments)

How do you keep kids from eating your tiny video game cartridges? If you're Nintendo, you coat the damn things with the incredibly potent bitterant Denatonium, the compound usually added to things like methanol, antifreeze, and denatured alcohol. Jealous that your old NES carts don't taste so bad? This educational video will help you make your own!
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 3:40 PM on March 2, 2017 (37 comments)

Sin City

This old town's filled with sin
It'll swallow you in
If you've got some money to burn
Take it home right away
You've got three years to pay
But Satan is waiting his turn
posted to MetaFilter by OverlappingElvis at 4:57 PM on February 5, 2017 (15 comments)

Felix Biederman and Virgil Texas expand on their taxonomy of online anger.
posted to MetaFilter by Joseph Gurl at 4:50 PM on February 1, 2017 (42 comments)

Today Google’s US homepage is celebrating Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu, civil rights activist and survivor of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. In 1942, at the age of 23, he refused to go to the government’s incarceration camps for Japanese Americans. After he was arrested and convicted of defying the government’s order, he appealed his case all the way to the Supreme Court. In 1944, the Supreme Court ruled against him, arguing that the incarceration was justified due to military necessity.
posted to MetaFilter by cynical pinnacle at 10:40 AM on January 30, 2017 (20 comments)