Sideblog Archive
June 29, 2022
Daily puzzles in art, geography, and more (also, see this Ask Metafilter question)
June 28, 2022
headspace on the affluence / class privilege connection among editors and writers in the publishing world
June 27, 2022
Some very interesting answers to Why do so many Japanese ferries still exist?
June 26, 2022
How Do I Accommodate This Person? Ask JAN! brainwane on the Job Accommodation Network.
June 25, 2022
Who Cares About VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System): "If anybody and everybody can report any kind of supposed vaccine side effects to VAERS, what good is it?"
June 24, 2022
In Metatalk, US abortion access actions and resources: how we can help
June 22, 2022
ordinary_magnet asks, "I'm looking for popular songs that relate events or profile people from history in a straightforward, informative way. Can you help me add to this weird playlist?"
June 21, 2022
everything happens so much! what can I play? "What are some good recent video games that don't suffer if you are frequently interrupted?"
June 20, 2022
"Using these codices, I tried to identify them all, like a Pokemon chaser..." dhruva posted A Visual Guide to the Aztec Pantheon
June 19, 2022
Itsy frog will make you feel positively competent: moonmilk offers a post that asks Why Is This Tiny Frog So Awful At Jumping?, an interesting discussion ensues, and the primroses were over observes, who among us has not been so bad at something that our sheer incompetence has become a matter of scientific inquiry? Excellent point.
June 17, 2022
ordinary_magnet has an unexpected and rather brilliant answer for a certain type of "boss problem."
June 15, 2022
Every Word: cenoxo links to full text transcripts of the House Jan. 6 Committee Hearings
June 14, 2022
a script is about constantly asking what's not enough and what's too much — and flirting as close to possible with both boundaries ... Some fascinating advice from grumblebee on how to read a script
June 13, 2022
Popular Links in Metafilter Comments for the Last 7 Days
June 12, 2022
A self-proving premise appears!
June 11, 2022
🌊 Best products that smell like the ocean?
June 10, 2022
In an interesting thread about "rethinking healthy eating in light of the gut microbiome," ASF Tod und Schwerkraft shares some enlightening commentary on why the results of microbiome research is always much more complicated and less definitive than science reporting makes it sound.
June 8, 2022
"For they now possess something of incalculable value, and many would kill to obtain it." In Fanfare, some members are discussing the novel, Shards of Earth, the first of a new series by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
June 7, 2022
I've hated every printer I've ever owned. In Ask Metafilter, Skewed looks for a new printer, and the voices are (nearly) united!
June 6, 2022
So Perfect. An absolutely immaculate pairing of poem and comic from brainwane.
June 5, 2022
In case you missed it earlier, the very excellent Joy of Computing, featuring code snippets, computer-generated art, games, tools, crafts, libraries, and more from the Recurse Center community.
June 4, 2022
How they do it in Transylvania; DirtyOldTown comments in the #swedengate thread
June 1, 2022
unicorn chaser is asking for good books that are also fast and easy reads
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