Sideblog Archive
November 29, 2015
Eavesdropping on the Hidden World is endotoxin's excellent first post about the changes in tech and requirements that have led to a renaissance of scanning and ham radio, with many interesting tips from members in the comments. (Hi, endotoxin's Mom!)
November 28, 2015
#Obsessed: Don't miss divabat's amazing post on planners, planner decoration, and the planner community!
November 26, 2015
I like sadness, despair, bleakness, isolation and melancholy: ihaveyourfoot is seeking fictional novels to help me dive head first into the abyss
November 24, 2015
"a lot of the boring stuff gets elided": feckless fecal fear mongering offers a fascinating description of his workday as a professional chef for an Ask Me poster who says I want watch how people in professional kitchens clean, prep, and execute a service.
November 21, 2015
For kestralwing and Mr. K, the best Rx needed, stat: Movies, tv shows, YouTube, books .... looking for the BIG LAUGH
November 19, 2015
"I set Anchorman on fire": Tales from Mefite film projectionists.
To make that sparkly tv logo without computers, the artists "stayed up all night doing drugs." - How they made animated graphics for tv before CGI.
Betamax nostalgia here - Plus how videotape and adhesive tape are made on the same machines.
Remember those 1-800- commercials from late-night tv? - I made those ads, and I worked in a call center, and we could tell when the ads aired.
Stock trader tech - lots of love for the bottomless Bloomberg terminal (internal Craigslist! extra emoji!), history of some alternatives to Bloomberg in the early 1980s, and extra tough phone equipment to survive frustrated smashing by floor traders.
Electronic medical records - A harder problem than it seems, how it's a pain for doctors, and why a lot of medical info systems still rely on fax or modem.
November 17, 2015
"Strangers from the internet will bake you cookies and mail them to your home!": The Great Metafilter Cookie Swap 2015
November 13, 2015
Good news! greenish has put together a great first episode of a new MetaFilter Music Podcast, for your listening pleasure.
November 12, 2015
Marvelous, manic, mysterious, bemusing music recently on Mefi:
I fought the law, and the law won (unless it didn't) IFtL cover roundup
Why Harvey Danger's '90s alt-rock hit "Flagpole Sitta" endures
An anthem... for Rowsdower MST3K singalong
67 Year-Old Grindcore-Singing Mom
Digital collection of more than 10,000 cylinder recordings
The Chopin Project
The Zombies Perform 'Odessey And Oracle' Live
The slowed-down Chipmunks are brilliant and terrifying
"Holy grail" footage of the Shaggs live
November 10, 2015
allkindsoftime on what it's like to captain a balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
November 9, 2015
Great post from bonobothegreat about a letter concealed three centuries ago in the secret compartment of an elaborately carved and constructed writing cabinet. (Mefites have also left hidden artifacts for future historians to analyze and puzzle over)
November 8, 2015
"TALES of the MAIL PLUMBER": Splunge recounts his adventures as an "ex-officio mail plumber" valiantly clearing clogs in the WTC mail chutes in Ragini's fun post, The mail chutes of New York City
November 7, 2015
Dive into the icy uncomfortable waters of Mefites' most awkward moments.
November 5, 2015
Hear ye hear ye -- julen, arcticseal, and phunniemee bring you the most seasonal season of all! You have until Tuesday to sign up for Secret Quonsar, the traditional Mefi gift exchange.
Kitchen Confidential: regional tips and tricks? Mumimor asks about simple tricks or methods from cooking styles across the World.
November 4, 2015
Dance, dance, dance, recently on the site:
Dance like millions are watching highlights VIBE XX winning dance crew Cookies, Wrecking Crew Orchestra's tron dance, plus a tiny dancer "killin' it"
and Swing Dancers vs. Street Dancers is a showdown between vintage and modern street dancers at Montreal Swing Riot
plus, MacArthur Genius Grant award winner, tap dancer Michelle Dorrance on Colbert
and for armchair choreographers, Gif Dance Party will free your inner Martha-Graham-Bob-Fosse-net-meme monster talent
Meanwhile on Ask Me, posters ISO "Floating" grand jeté videos, and pony dances
November 3, 2015
Today on Mefi, a post from zarq about earbud.fm, a "friendly guide to great podcasts," while elsewhere around the site:
Podcast discussions on FanFare
The latest Mefi podcast (with special guest Eyebrows McGee!)
And recently on Ask Me, Entertain my ears, smartly!; English-language podcasts from other parts of the globe?; Cozy (but dark) relationships / life advice?; Podcasts Please; Art history podcast suggestions?; good podcasts about extremely ancient history?; good podcasts about niche / specific interests hosted by funny people?; Ongoing fictional podcasts?; Star Wars podcasts?; Podcasts on addiction and substance abuse?
November 2, 2015
if anyone wants access to the OCR data of the page images, or anything like that, just let me know!: NYPL Labs' Josh Hadro (Mefi's own Hadroed) shows up in the thread for MonkeyToes' great Vintage Travel Guides for African-Americans post.
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