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Cadbury Creme Egg Mayo

"Picture a savoury condiment that's so creamy and delectably tangy that you want to dip all your food in it for the rest of your days. Now picture some smart alec coming along and mixing the sweetest food known to humankind into this sauce for a bit of a laugh." [more inside]
posted by cupcakeninja on Mar 19 at 5:31 AM - 35 comments

baby toss now has a chance to crit

Stardew Valley has received a huge new update on PC to celebrate the 8th anniversary of the game (with Switch and other versions coming soon). 1.6 has been a long time in the making from creator Eric Barone (otherwise known as ConcernedApe). Want to know what's going on? Read the patch notes (contains spoilers!) or browse the wiki. Yes, it's time to fetch that hoe out of the shed and get those hands dirty!
posted by fight or flight on Mar 19 at 1:25 PM - 23 comments

Voyager 1 sends readable message to Earth

After 4 nail-biting months of gibberish, Voyager 1 is making sense again. Since November 2023, the almost-50-year-old spacecraft has been experiencing trouble with its onboard computers. Although Voyager 1, one of NASA's longest-lived space missions, has been sending a steady radio signal to Earth, it hasn't contained any usable data. Now, there may be hope for recovery.
posted by signsofrain on Mar 17 at 9:05 AM - 51 comments

Stairway to CG Heaven

Top 100 CG animations of an Eternal Ascent from 2800 submissions [more inside]
posted by Gyan on Mar 16 at 12:34 PM - 17 comments

How do Dudes Pee?

Hell Gate writer Esther Wang shares a Slack discussion “as a public service, so that no cis man will ever clown you for assuming, as I did, that they don't want to get piss on themselves when they pee.”
posted by Going To Maine on Mar 8 at 9:55 AM - 195 comments

Which animals cause the most deaths in Australia? Horses

Which animals cause the most deaths in Australia? Horses: 172 total deaths between 2001 and 2017, many of them from falling off a horse. [more inside]
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries on Mar 16 at 7:53 AM - 82 comments

XAXAXAXA XAXAXAXA XAXAXAXA XAXAXAXA

Want to watch the fantastic Soviet Ukrainian animated Treasure Island movie (previously) but don't have the time? Here's some shorter options: a 35-minute collaborative reanimation of everything up to the apple barrel, and a 21-minute YouTube Poop of the entire film.
posted by BiggerJ on Mar 19 at 5:08 PM - 4 comments

Remember that one episode of DS9 with the tribbles?

The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Trials And Tribble-ations [32m, complete with commercials] was a documentary which was broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel in the US on November 4th, 1996. The documentary looks at the writing and production of the episode [Wikipedia] and features footage filmed during production of the episode.
posted by hippybear on Mar 18 at 9:17 PM - 24 comments

"So, surrender to sleep at last."

Starbucks announced it will be ending its Starbucks Odyssey (previously) virtual loyalty program. The related NFT market remains open. [more inside]
posted by box on Mar 19 at 8:30 AM - 22 comments

Why do quolls have spots, and zebras have stripes?

Why do quolls have spots, and zebras have stripes? When it comes to blending in, there's a lot we can learn from the animal kingdom. And while the reasons for camouflage vary, they all come back to survival.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries on Mar 19 at 5:52 PM - 4 comments

Who wants to be a lithographer?

Using only aluminum foil, vinegar and a brayer, oh, and a printing press you too can become a lithographer. This is quite fun. I've actually done this. The kids will enjoy this too. Make your own greeting cards, etc.
posted by Czjewel on Mar 19 at 3:33 AM - 13 comments

How Jesse Plemons Came to Star in, Well, Pretty Much Everything

Virtually every role draws on a self-possession you get from growing up in a place like Mart. It’s why some of our most celebrated Texas actors—Barry Corbin, Tommy Lee Jones, Matthew McConaughey, Sissy Spacek—all hail from small Texas towns. There is something innate, a soulfulness it instills that never leaves you, no matter how far away you might move, how glamorous your surroundings become. It’s inside everything Plemons does, imbuing even his tiniest on-screen role with uncommon depth. [Texas Monthly]
posted by riruro on Mar 19 at 11:42 AM - 22 comments

Mirror Universe Evil Katsucon

Trans Person Infiltrates CPAC 2024 Part 1, Part 2. Dead Domain, a nonbinary creator who often talks about game design and who you may have seen go undercover at a hate church, decided to create the persona of vaguely right-wing podcaster Keith to attend CPAC, and gifts us with three and a half hours of troubling content and commentary. [more inside]
posted by Mizu on Mar 15 at 11:04 PM - 7 comments

Dame Edna gets tossed from the royal box

Poor Dame Edna got caught out, and tossed from the royal box during the 2013 Royal Variety performance.
posted by Czjewel on Mar 20 at 3:11 AM - 4 comments

Voter Fraud Disproven. Again.

Ken Block, a data expert hired by the Trump campaign in 2020, writes that he shot down false claim after false claim in an election that was not stolen. Block's account, “Disproven,” will be released Tuesday, and Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (recipient, along with his family, of death threats in the months following the election) provided the foreword. [more inside]
posted by Iris Gambol on Mar 10 at 12:38 PM - 26 comments

Glassdoor will add your info to older accounts if they can

As seen on perennial MetaFilter favourite Ask A Manager, one user shares their experience having an old Glassdoor account linked to their name due to an email. [more inside]
posted by warriorqueen on Mar 18 at 7:13 AM - 21 comments

"I told them there was some sort of mistake."

When Azeez Sulaiman arrived in Qatar, he thought he was going to play football. Instead, he ended up forced to work in construction, in dangerous conditions and for meager wages. But a new calling emerged from these trying circumstances: advocating for the rights and safety of his fellow workers. Writer Anthony del Col and graphic designer/graphic novelist Deena Mohamed help to tell Sulaiman's story.
posted by Jeanne on Mar 19 at 8:58 PM - 3 comments

Safety is no accident

The IATA officially announced: “In a significant achievement, 2023 saw no fatal accidents or hull losses for jet aircraft, leading to a record-low fatality risk rate of 0.03 rate per million sectors.” [more inside]
posted by fairmettle on Mar 15 at 2:18 AM - 27 comments

Stand In Pride

"A while ago my wife introduced me to Stand In Pride, where queer people can find stand-in family members for support and indeed often for big life events — when their biological families don’t show up. And so it came to pass that a couple of weeks ago I had the singular honour of walking Taylor down the aisle to marry Ruth. Family is what you make it. Love endures." (via @chrisphin on Mastodon, with their permission and featuring lovely pictures of the wedding.) [more inside]
posted by chococat on Mar 15 at 2:48 PM - 16 comments

Big rocket go up

In about 24 minutes from, Space X will attempt the third launch of its Starship rocket. YouTube Live, Space X live feed
posted by Brandon Blatcher on Mar 14 at 6:01 AM - 76 comments

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