Sideblog Archive
November 30, 2022
So I made homemade bread. It was awesome. I’m making homemade Castile soap this weekend. Very excited. What other stuff should I be making at home? What are the best things to make at home?
November 29, 2022
💫 What The MeFi BIPOC Board Does: "MetaFilter’s Global BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) Advisory Board wants to share some context and plans with MetaFilter at large," including Big Picture, scope, background, and future.
November 28, 2022
🎫⭐️Week 2 of Metafilter Events is here! "Following Week 1, we’re back with more as we kick off a week about books, fiction and the humanities." This looks so great.
🎁 MeFiGiftGuide2022: "the Metafilter community has collaborated to create gift suggestions by and for real people, who want to have real connections, and make a real difference in the world."
I feel like the lead character on a Hollywood Forensics show, able to produce amazing results from the other characters by saying "...Enhance." theatro asks "Manhattan history detectives: what church is (was?) this?" and gets a great investigative analysis.
November 26, 2022
carrienation posted Bent by Nature, a podcast from LA's KCRW about the legendary DJ Deirdre O'Donoghue and her influential radio show SNAP, with available live music archives from the show (1982-1991). As eschatfische notes in the comments, "not only are the Bent by Nature archives great, they're also a labor of love of Metafilter's own mykescipark."
November 24, 2022
Turkey Day in the MST Club room! "It is Thanksgiving Day, and as is our wanton wont, we are watching the official 2022 Turkey Day marathon (via their YouTube stream) of Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes in the MST Club room all day long!"
November 23, 2022
✨ Posts recently flagged as "Fantastic":
Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, riffs, one riff wonders & primal voices
ooh.directory
Modern pentathlon votes to swap horse riding with obstacles
“Paper or plastic?” … “MOUTH”
MeFiGiftGuide2022 - The Metafilter Gift Guide
The Inky Depths #7: Eels Give Me The Feels
David Amram: creating a true music culture through love
you terrorized an entire generation from 1970 to 1992.
Grobstein focuses on cyberpunk as social critique. Good stuff.
November 21, 2022
Metafilter Events for Tuesday 22 November:
How To Build A Business Plan
22 November 2022 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM EST,
Presented by Amina Omari
Introduction to AI "Text-to-Image" Artwork
22 November 2022 | 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM EST,
Presented by Jeremy Osborn
➡️ Eventbrite Tickets ⬅️
Teegeeack AV Club Secretary has compiled a useful collection of Twitter alternatives for keeping up with Ukraine news.
I was in very niche-y trade journalism throughout the 90s. Starting for a publication called Lubricants World ... It covered the fascinating world of motor oil, metalworking fluids, hydraulic fluids, etc... Naberius on the surprising pleasures of niche reporting in chavenet's post on "My PR Day of Yes" by Dan Kois.
November 19, 2022
💡The inaugural Metafilter Events is finally here! "As one of the closing initiatives under our Metafilter Fundraising Drive, our online events series features presentations, workshops and discussions across a fascinating range of topics, themes and perspectives..." HEADS UP 👤: The first events will be presented on 22 November!
In Ask Metafilter, Twitter account utility or helpful tool to keep following users? Related conversation on the Blue: Subterranean birdsite blues.
November 17, 2022
💛 Fundraiser Update 3: With your help, we’re charting a way forward: We're two croutons past "Survive"! Check out the update to see how many toasty little pals we need to REVIVE and how to do it!
November 16, 2022
How do I figure out why I love a perfume? "I'm not well versed in perfumes and I can't figure out what exactly about this one made it catch my attention ..."
If you fall in, you may land in an acidic soup of crime, addiction, and existential angst. sciatrix posted about the consuming allure of the carnivorous Nepenthes.
November 15, 2022
🎞 🍿 DirtyOldTown is creating member-sponsored themed days of films on FanFare for site fundraising. Currently on the marquis is katie's request for six films that pass the Bechdel Test. DirtyOldTown has posted one from each of the last six decades, stretching back 50 years.
Earlier:
elkevelvet's sponsored theme day of six Dutch movies
roolya_boolya's sponsored theme day of Arctic Life films
(If you'd like to sponsor a themed posts day, donate $20 to Mefi and MeMail DirtyOldTown to discuss)
November 14, 2022
kittens ripening in the Chicago area, will be ready sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Low effort, high deliciousness Thanksgiving side dishes?
November 13, 2022
Cracking the gift code: people really love a useful household item that is much, much more adorable than the version of that item they already own ... How should I dominate the game this year?
He's a Kafkaesque character -- or maybe a Serlingesque one: Some thoughts on Gallagher, from back in 2010, from a Metafilter member filmmaker who interviewed him for a documentary on stand up comedy / comedians. Gallagher current discussion.
November 12, 2022
✨ Reminder! The Metafilter Fundraising Auction ends tomorrow (Sunday)! Also, in case you missed it, 2022 MeFi Holiday Card Exchange signups are open until 6am EST 11/20.
Yesterday I spent 5 hours working in the cold garage, encountering much mouse poop, and finally 5 fat mice ... And that's how I came to make my very first MetaFilter post! — dorey_oh in her post thread on the Peptoc Hotline, pep-talks by kindergarteners.
November 10, 2022
😍 Did Someone Say "Crouton Meter"? Week 2 Fundraiser Update: We need your help to REVIVE Metafilter: The steering committee updates the financial situation and lists all the ways you can help, with special guest star, the Crouton Meter!
November 9, 2022
So I once met the person who invented barcodes, a woman engineer working for IBM in the mid-60s ... She is, of course, not named on the patent: basalganglia talks the origins of the barcode in jessamyn's great fundraising member-sponsored post on supermarkets. All member-sponsored posts here.
November 8, 2022
"Mystery Science Theater Club, that odd tiny little corner of MeFi that shows bad and weird movies Thursdays every week, is doing a day-long show on Tuesday for US Election Day": JHarris in Metatalk. 🇺🇸
November 7, 2022
Wheeee ... It's time for the sixth MeFi Holiday Card Exchange! 💌❄️✨
November 6, 2022
The Metafilter Fundraising Auction is now live! "Take a look at the amazing offerings from the community. There’s unique art and photography, professional services that you or your organization might use, books, commissioned art and poetry, wearables, music, tech and much more."
"This book is a critique of gamification by an actual game designer, games journalist, and former neuroscientist that 'goes far beyond the usual suspects like Fitbit and Duolingo to look at the historical roots of gamification'": Discussion of "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All," by MetaFilter's own Adrian Hon.
November 5, 2022
Mefites discuss the worst Jane Austen covers ever.
I'm aware that my saying all of this is like when Ollivander referred to Voldemort as "Terrible, but great." But I think it's important, on some level, to understand that Facebook wasn't a fluke: Tom Hanks Cannot Be Trusted on witnessing the rise of Facebook, its early underestimation by most tech folk, and why it "was a radically different beast than Livejournal, MySpace, and anything else remotely adjacent to the scene"
Interesting dip into the details and deeper history on the adoption of ORT (oral rehydration therapy) by biogeo in the Dr Dilip Mahalanabis thread.
November 3, 2022
Help Metafilter survive! - Annual Fundraiser week 1 update. Handy update in the blue from tavegyl and the steering committee on everything going on currently.
November 2, 2022
MetaFilter Financial Update, November 2022 (this is an *amazing* job by the steering committee!) 🙌
... what ends up happening is you need more and more people to manage smaller and smaller things ... Wow! Very interesting insider comment from wooh on the scale challenges and other issues that have steered the engineering side of Twitter.
November 1, 2022
"Language justice is critically important for health care, legal services, workplace safety, and education": a great member-sponsored post and interesting thread from jessamyn. Sponsored posts are helping with the current, vital fundraising effort, and you can follow these posts on the blue here. (Also, btw: What's metafilter's second language?)
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