Sideblog Archive
September 30, 2023
Have you ever wondered what an army of crabs would be good for? Community member Hypatia created a post about why scientists will unleash said army off the coast of the USA state of Florida.
Mefi has a friendly neighborhood HVAC guy! Member HVACDC_Bag gives an in-depth, interesting answer to Tehhund's question about Choosing a HVAC system and installer
September 29, 2023
Community member 'drewbage1847' shows folks in the Northern hemisphere how to prepare for winter meals with recipes of the French technique of "confit".
September 26, 2023
Dialing in on the phone on Mefi: JanetLand posted WaPo's guide to modern phone etiquette, while in Ask Metafiler, Rash wants to know why you hold your phone like that, and niicholas is looking for songs with land-line telephone sounds☎
September 25, 2023
Mefites are discussing Vanity Fair's list of 31 feel-good movies to boost your mood.
September 24, 2023
Tales of Ratiocination: In Ask Metafilter, darchildre is looking for locked room mysteries in any medium
September 23, 2023
Literaryhero posted a story about plumbing and people, and a man called Fran by John Jeremiah Sullivan, and it's a great plunge into life, the loo, and everything.
September 22, 2023
Kat Allison shared a post about the 40 Best Stand-Alone TV Episodes (Slate) and reactions to it are great. Check out the various and wide ranging alternate suggestions in the comments!
September 20, 2023
Come take a moment or more with the collaborative post created by brainwane and JHarris about the online poetry magazine called Light.
September 19, 2023
Seeking more weirdo’s hoards of treasures: "My absolute favorite genre of museum / attraction is 'eccentric rich person’s oddly sorted collection of items related to their special interest(s).'" ActionPopulated asks where to scratch this itch.
September 18, 2023
How do you pronounce "Blizzard"?: chariot pulled by cassowaries posted How Scientists Working in Antarctica Inadvertently Developed a New Accent. A 2019 study of scientists over-wintering in Antarctica revealed subtle but measurable changes in the participants’ speech.
September 17, 2023
After the bees ... drewbage1847 has a great post all about honey, delightfully drizzled with interesting recipes. Sweet!
September 16, 2023
"The Animators Who've Spent 40 Years on a Single Film": Rufous-headed Towhee heehee posts about the beautiful, unfinished stop-motion film that has taken the record for longest animation production of all time. (and trig links to the fantastic "Hedgehog in the Fog" by the same duo in the comments)
September 15, 2023
There's an absolutely fantastic post from user 'dhruva', about photographer Fyodor Savintsev and his gorgeous shots of dachas, the Russian wooden houses built in the woods or countryside.
September 14, 2023
What do you do when Case stopped manufacturing your favourite tractor 110 years ago and none are available on the used market? If you are Kory Anderson you start a foundry so you can build, with help from your friends, a brand new Case 150 steam road tractor.
September 12, 2023
Oh, wow, Am🐝ent Drone! From moonmilk, in Music: For an installation at Moogfest in 2016, I put a bunch of sensors in a beehive and used the data to generate drone music. The sensors included air temperature and air pressure and some touch and light sensors to sense when bees were entering and exiting the hive.
Swarmish, with a chance of Bees: It all started with some buzz about the golden bees of Childeric I, and then ... 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝 🐝. Also: beefore it's time, 🐝, and a colony arrives in FanFare.
September 11, 2023
Sure, you probably know there are major and minor scales. But unless you're really into music theory you might not realize those scales come in a whole variety of flavors called "modes"... Goofy, threatening, mysterious, devastating, relaxing: Zargon X posted 8-Bit Music Theory's analysis videos that use game music to illustrate modes.
September 10, 2023
at some point the mechanics of the cheese come into play, and what starts out as a faster stream of a continuous connected bead of cheese foam will begin to break apart into a cheese sputter, then a cheese spritz, and eventually a sort of atomized cheese ... SaltySalticid addresses the practical and theoretical issues of faster Easy Cheese in Literaryhero's Ask Metafilter question
September 9, 2023
72 years ago in Iowa, a worker named Mary Foss wrote a message onto an egg. She put the egg into a carton and sent the carton out for distribution. Last month, someone responded.
zamboni posted Time in the Sun about the site "Stained Glass Sundials" featuring hundreds of amazing stained glass timepiece installations with sundial faces that allow you to tell the time from inside or outside.
September 8, 2023
Part of MetaFilter's fundraiser this year involved temporarily allowing more chatfilter type questions. It took a while, but eventually an Ask MetaFilter question about weird things your cat does was posted by spamandkimchi!
September 6, 2023
MetaFilter member ' bouvin' posted about Pete Beard, who has just published his 100th episode of 'Unsung Heroes of Illustration', a series which covers illustrators born between 1850 and 1910.
September 5, 2023
You are a man of guile, means and influence in Victorian England and you know what orders to give to get the following done. You want to have a patient kidnapped from a hospital and secretly installed with people you trust. We're helping Omnomnom abduct(?) liberate(?) a gent from a British infirmary in the 1800s. What could go wrong?
September 4, 2023
You need to do a thing - NOW! For when you need to calculate a thing, or look up a thing, or be able to do the thing in your Browser without any faff: Faintdreams posted a Big list of free In-Browser, Single Use tools
September 3, 2023
I'm a Certified Professional Organizer ... The Wrong Kind of Cheese again comes to our aid with great, specific advice, this time in a question about dealing with the unneeded, unused, yet still emotionally meaningful items that sometimes overwhelm our storage areas ... and our feelings.
September 2, 2023
A years long search for the cover artist of an edition of "A Wrinkle in Time" comes to an end with the help of WBUR's Endless Thread podcast
I hope I'm the only sideshow-school casualty out there. I spent a month or so in the hospital after my own act went horribly awry... in sword-swallowing, everyone gets hurt eventually. Transmissions From Vrillon shares first-person experience in the post on Sword Swallowing And Its Side Effects.
September 1, 2023
Over in Ask Metafilter, community member 'OHenryPacey' chimes in with a great answer about what's best for dental implants and grafts.
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