Sideblog Archive
March 31, 2023
Happy Transgender Day of Visibility!
March 30, 2023
Site Update from Jessamyn
March 28, 2023
Make it Sew: Sunflower88 asks for resources for learning to sew and make clothes from scratch for a complete novice.
March 27, 2023
New Mefi Events!
Week 5, Mar 27 - Apr 2 Get tickets here!
A Q&A with Ryan North, Webcomic Maker, 29 March 2023 | 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM EST
Ryan North is here to A your Qs! If only there were a better way to put that, but sadly, there is not. Ryan's been a webcomic maker since 2003 with Dinosaur Comics - www.qwantz.com - and most recently he's writing the Fantastic Four for Marvel. He's written bestselling nonfiction guides to time travel and world domination too, but then one time he got stuck in a hole with his dog, so let's keep our expectations for how clever he is moderated here. Discussion with Ryan North facilitated by John Harris.
A Q&A with Drew Curtis, Founder and Maintainer of Fark, 31 March 2023 | 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM EST
Fark is a couple of years older than MetaFilter, and has a fairly different, more rancorous culture. (It has been described as “rowdy.”) While it was something of a bad boy of the early Web, its rowdyness would be far surpassed by sites like Something Awful, 4chan, and worse. Meanwhile Fark has continued being itself all this time, posting community-submitted links and offering entertaining commentary on them with a fair dose of editorial selection for 24 years. We’ll talk with Drew about a variety of topics related to Fark and the Web. Discussion with Drew Curtis facilitated by John Harris.
What posts have members been loving recently?
- What if climate change meant not doom — but abundance?
- Finding Britain’s Lost Gods
- From One To "40" -- We Have To Talk About The New U2 Album
- The Post-Socialist Mortality Crisis
- Self-testing and toys to help you learn about your music listening
- Coming to a bathroom floor near you soon
- Punk and Porn in New York City
March 26, 2023
misteraitch has posted Finding Britain’s Lost Gods, "the first four of an on-going series of hour-long lectures at Gresham College by cravat-wearing historian Ronald Hutton"
March 25, 2023
In Metatalk: MeFi Site Update
March 21, 2023
Members offer guiding principles, recipes, and resources for cruel summer's request to please demystify bowls for me.
March 20, 2023
Larva Pupa Imago by Eric Schwitzgebel is a short story about love, personhood, and transformation. It's also about erotica for uplifted butterflies.
March 19, 2023
PearlRose made a great Eurovision 2023 Preview megapost with info on background, rules changes, 2023 highlights, and links to all the semifinal songs!
March 18, 2023
"a newly remastered version of my original post from 2011": kirkaracha's super juicy post on the newly remastered Stop Making Sense, 2023 now in our beautiful house.
March 14, 2023
rockindata posted National Park Service Crochet Patterns: four cool patterns, for Halibut (Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve), Walleye (Voyageurs National Park), Triops (Wupatki National Monument), and Lava Flow Crochet Pillow (El Malpais National Monument)
Oh hi, it’s me, MeFi’s own Roald Dahl expert ... web-goddess weighs in on the controversy.
March 13, 2023
"Fred Neil really did go searching for the dolphins in the sea": Don't miss vverse23's Searching for the dolphins in the sea, a lovely tribute to mysterious folk singer-songwriter Neil, his mission, his haunting, soulful song, and the artists who covered it.
March 12, 2023
"it's something like an O Henry story, where the revelation in the last line makes you totally reconsider everything that happened in the story - every relationship, and everything you thought you knew on first reading, you have to put in a new light now ..." flug gives an amazing, detailed answer to cubeb's question, "How did Bach make this one jazzy chord fit into a Baroque chord progression?"
March 11, 2023
Great question and answers in storybored's Ask Me post "Who are some lesser known scientists who failed heroically?"
March 7, 2023
"43 minutes of tremendous cringe": JHarris posts The Hole of Cartoon Badness,
The Best of the Worst Cartoons Ever, with many illuminating notations!
March 5, 2023
Metafilter podcast 192: The week between last week and this week is up!
March 4, 2023
When I was a student in the mid-90s, there was a cubicle in one of the University ladies’ toilets that was “the problem toilet.” It was like a problem page...
Great comment by penguin pie on wowenthusiast's question about pre-internet physical bulletin boards.
EmpressCallipygos posts about the strange, dark, sooty Baudoinia compniacensis, otherwise known as "the whiskey fungus."
March 2, 2023
taquito sunrise has an hilarious reminiscence of tween angst in "The Soul of the American Teen Can Be Found Next to the Sbarro" post about today’s mall teens.
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