Sideblog Archive
April 30, 2024
"All of these look like first-person shooter levels" (– egypturnash): kaibutsu posted Brutalist Churches, and opinions amble the gamut.
April 29, 2024
For more than two years, the world of lost media has been flummoxed by 17 seconds of grainy audio uploaded to a small name-that-song site ... until now.
April 28, 2024
NotLost is looking for recipes with high return on investment, where the taste, appearance or "wow factor" is much more than the effort, time or money put into the dish.
April 27, 2024
Hydropsyche created a post about life after running and how athletes cope with age. In the comments, gmatom shared the moving story of her and her wife and how they fell in love with running through the course of their marriage. This love continued through the awful arrival of cancer and dwindling health to cross a personal finishing line of their own making.
Mefites are expressing joy that their seeking-tendrils have encountered the short science fiction story "Hello! Hello! Hello!" by Fiona Jones ... plus general vibrating gratitude at brainwane for her sharing of awesome stories!
April 26, 2024
When you're parked about a million miles from Earth, just observing the planet, there's not a lot going on. But as pointed out in a post by Tell Me No Lies, sometimes you do get Mooned.
April 25, 2024
When and why did Google search get so bad? Zenon's post has an answer! It's about Edward Zitron, who pinpoints the date and reasons to February of 2019, click to read the details!
April 24, 2024
Check out this neat tool made by MeFite robintw: the British Placename Mapper and it lets you search for British place names that match certain queries. So you can find all places named 'churchill’ or 'royal' in their name. Sadly, nothing seems to be named 'biscuit'.
April 23, 2024
Egypt: Dendera, the cosmos of Hathor. Rhaomi has a fabulous in-depth post on the very fabulous Dendera temple complex, home to "some of the most superbly-preserved ancient Egyptian art known, ranging from early Roman times back to the Middle Kingdom period over 4,000 years ago." Amazing photography, video, interviews, background, blog posts, and a "slick zoomable scroller." So much. So good.
April 22, 2024
jasondigitized wants to know your magic work phrase that helps you better communicate, frame, set expectations, lead, or work with your colleagues.
April 19, 2024
nobody posted the beautifully minimalist Hirayama Fireworks' Illustrated Catalog of Night Bomb Shells from the 1890s, via the Yokohama City Library.
Turns out the internet actually is a series of tubes! Or at least cables, laying on the floor of the world's oceans, with all the muck and salt. Somebody has repair them, as chronicled in this post by 'the duck by the oboe', which looks at the undersea cables, how they get damaged, and how they get repaired.
April 18, 2024
MonkeyToes made a post about Martha Wells, author of the popular Murderbot series, and a keynote address she gave about the rationale behind the main character of the series. Topics range from achieving body and mental autonomy, to slavery, to the joy of a simple life, in a fascinating speech about what a sentient AI might actually want.
April 17, 2024
You just want to fall asleep, we get it🛌🥱 But it doesn’t always come easy and you’ve tried a few different things already. So, check out this post by brainwane, which highlights a few notes on how to sleep. Then stick around in the comments as members chime in on what’s worked for them😴💤
April 16, 2024
The tv adaptation of the retro futuristic game Fallout has premiered on Amazon Prime, and MetaFilter is digging it on the FanFare sub-site. Each episode has its own thread to discuss the particular episode, you can subscribe to an RSS feed about the series, so what are you waiting for, come watch it with us!
Bibliophilic: in Ask Metafilter bluloo is looking for deeply engrossing beach reads, 168 would like recs for really good book blogs, and WithWildAbandon seeks what seems to be a unicorn — "a comprehensive, continually updated list of celebrity book clubs with ALL of their monthly picks," but no answers so far. (hey, hey, anyone looking for a niche blog focus?)
April 15, 2024
"it's like a cross between an aquarium and a reality show," observes MrVisible in nobody's meow.camera post about Hello Street Cat's video network of cute human decorated cat feeders set up throughout China to feed and track strays ... plus entertain the folks at home!
April 14, 2024
She BLINDED me, with one of these several distinct, though interrelated, things! biogeo breaks down what we mean when we say "science."
April 13, 2024
How are crayons made? Let Mr. Rogers explain it to you in his soothing voice as we marvel at the mixing, melting, and metamorphosis of these magical makers of mental movies. Thanks to bq for this colorful post!
April 12, 2024
XKCD made a machine and Rhamoi made a post about it! There are balls involved, along with a fan, gears, an anvil and other stuff to direct the things in various ways. This is all about having fun, so come on in, the water's fine!
April 11, 2024
People love building things with Lego, but have you considered using them to make letterpress prints? Artist Roy Scholten has, using the bricks to make create compelling interpretations of 50 Dutch birds, as seen in this post by AlSweigart.
April 10, 2024
Ok, say you want to make a film about a clown, complete with colorful hair and attire, on the red sands of Mars. That would be incredibly complicated to do with modern green screen techniques. But what if this technology has been developed decades ago and then lost? Well, AlonzoMosleyFBI made a post about the Creative Corridor's journey to recreate this "lost" process so they could do a screen test of, you guessed it, a clown, complete with colorful hair and attire, on the red sands of Mars!
April 9, 2024
"The first Eyewitness News theme was literally lifted from the 007 James Bond movie theme" ... Wow! flug has a fantastic, chewy answer full of background and context for nouvelle-personne's fascinating question, "Tell me more about news music. What is it doing to me?"
April 8, 2024
oneirodynia asked about their persistent, shifty, Mystery House Smell, and answerers have offered an alarming number odorific tips, including sol's experiences with sewer or waste water drain pipes and a great link to a related article (see the Metafilter post on Man Called Fran, the best article on forensic plumbing you ever likely to read), and samthemander's link to their own successful obnoxious odor outcome. Our noses await new news on this one!
April 7, 2024
"There were four living trees on it, lots of erosion and it was an eyesore ..." chariot pulled by cassowaries posts the wonderfully inspiring story of a group of friends who, over a period of 20 years, rehabilitated "the most degraded, clapped-out piece of farmland they could find."
April 6, 2024
MetaMixTapes: Cats 🐈. In MetaTalk, kensington314 has a fun idea for a collaborative mixtape!
On April 3 and 4, 1974, thunderstorms spawned more than 100 tornadoes, killing more than 300 and injuring another 6000: backwoods has spun up a whopping megapost on the 1974 Super Outbreak, the most violent tornado outbreak in recorded history, and the changes it wrought.
April 5, 2024
Here’s a roundup of recent recommendations over in Ask MetaFilter:
Toucan is searching for pleasant sensations to help themselves feel physically good every day and the suggestions are great!
Caxton1476 is looking for advice on music education for the middle-aged, because it's never to late to get your groove on!
Finally, lizard2590 would like recommendations for podcasts on past pop culture.
April 4, 2024
A hat is defined as a shaped covering for the head worn for warmth, as a fashion item, or as part of a uniform. So yes, there have been a lot of hats throughout history, as chronicled by the HatHistorian, in this post by ChurchHatesTucker. Click to check it out and discover the history of that oddly shaped hat worn by Napoleon!
April 3, 2024
Rapper Lil John is famous for bringing crunk to the foreground in the early 2000s. He's also down with the benefits of meditation, as pointed out in this post by Shepard.
April 2, 2024
List fiends and ephemera fans will want to make a note of chavenet's post on the excellent One Thing After Another: A Reading List for Lovers & Makers of Lists by Kanya Kanchana, and add Mefi's own gnimmel of "Listing to Port," and bkeaggy of Milk, Eggs, Vodka and grocerylists.org. (thank you kristi and limeonaire!) to your loving list of delightful listers.
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