Sideblog Archive

September 28, 2022
... The length of the year may have been the first scientific measurement in human history to be accurate to seven significant figures. It took a thousand years of record-keeping to accomplish. Great comment from fantabulous timewaster on the "history that is embedded in the calendar."

September 27, 2022
Discussion of Hurricane Ian is here.


Grangousier in Fanfare with a grand deep dive comment on The Rocky Horror Show and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, their roots, the zeitgeist, and connections to the wider culture and adjacent subcultures.

September 26, 2022
The days of the week are associated with the seven 'luminaries' ... A fascinating explainer from heatherlogan about why the days of the week are named as they are.

September 24, 2022
for us "tiny" doesn't mean 10 inches by 10 inches, but rather closer to 1 micron by 1 micron -- one hundred times smaller than the width of a human hair. To make tapestries that small, we don't weave with our hands, but rather we design molecules that weave themselves, using single strands of DNA as thread – brambleboy on creating "DNA origami" tapestries smaller than a photon in the Tiny Tapestries thread.

September 22, 2022
btw ... on the internet someone knows you're not a dog


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September 20, 2022
For those licking their lips over a new season of The Great British Bake Off, episode one of season 13, "Cake Week," is being discussed in Fanfare.

September 19, 2022
This thread on the unicode "many-eyed seraphim" multiocular letter O (ꙮ) is heavenly. 👀


I was with Current TV from the launch in 2005 through 2008: Molasses808 remembers the early years of Current TV in poorchanticleer's thread asking about how to find user created shorts from the channel.

September 18, 2022
Ask Metafilter reveals that there are more devices for Performative Snackery than one might imagine.

September 14, 2022
Turns out the obsolete floppy is way more in demand than you’d think: great interview link from Etrigan.

September 12, 2022
you can almost smell the excitement in the room ... the Mom Olympics Diaper-Changing event as visualized by Well I never.

September 11, 2022
This being Ask Metafilter, surely one of you knows how many crickets per square foot there are in my part of the world. Please show your work. – bondcliff

September 10, 2022
i have no idea how these people got a librarian wedged into their social media site, or why. * publicinfrastructure.org podcast interview with Jessamyn! (Also discussing on Metatalk)

September 9, 2022
Queen Elizabeth illness and death discussion is here

September 8, 2022
A slightly belated congratulations to MeFi's own Languagehat on the twentieth anniversary of his blog.


Mefites discuss The 2022 Hugo Awards

September 6, 2022
The seven notes: Great detective work to chase down a vintage musical mystery in Ask Metafilter!

September 5, 2022
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September 4, 2022
geoff. has a nice story about Weird Al

September 3, 2022
Scuba and snorkel instructor here. I have had reservations about the full face masks since they came out: danapiper comments in the Drowning in three feet of water thread.

September 2, 2022
A swift and satisfying answer to a mysterious handmade book find question in Ask Metafilter



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