Sideblog Archive
July 30, 2021
Stately pleasure domes now being decreed and/or erected ➡ This Way.
July 28, 2021
Current Olympics questions in Ask Me: Best Olympic news of the day?; 🏅 Where can I find nation agnostic coverage of the Olympics?; 🏋🏾♂️ Watching the Olympics - Obscure sports edition; 🤺 What is the the best way to stream the Tokyo Olympics? 🚣♀️
July 27, 2021
What Belongs In A Go-Bag? I'm always feeling, Blue asks what with the state of the world I've been thinking about fire and flood recently. If I had to get up and go right now, what should go in my go-bag?
July 26, 2021
Reminder: Summer Book Bingo continues! ☀️📚🐛
Give me your glabrous, your rugose, your shambling masses ... Halloween Jack on the Statue, amid many other unsettling thread remarks (brrrr!) in signsofrain's post reminiscing about how we worshipped the husk.
Enjoy! Or dip in as a palate cleanser between y2karl's Gorgo 2049 video post (SCP alert!) and GenjiandProust's “I Wear No Mask” and Other Horrors newest weird audio dramas post.
July 25, 2021
It strikes me that the past is funny and odd and serious and heart-breaking and packed full of people who feel a lot like us: hurdy gurdy girl posts Tom Jackson’s quirky Postcard From the Past Twitter feed and podcast.
July 24, 2021
[I] am an audiologist, hearing aid researcher, and published scientist in this area: Lutoslawski provides a clear channel of info and advice about hearing aids in Ask Metafilter, plus good advice from hearing aid wearers AugustWest and Tchozz.
July 23, 2021
Come join us in fanfare to watch the Opening Ceremony of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics!
Could I interest you in everything about "Inside"? Gorgik: This post is a perfect homage, given the care and obsession that it took to make it. Rhaomi makes a rather spectacular post on comedian Bo Burnham and his pandemic special "Inside."
July 22, 2021
sandmanwv is asking for tips on eccentric US restaurants or bars with "severely limited menus and/or kind of weird service offerings".
July 21, 2021
Geologist cubeb brings a bit of temporal perspective (and a much better slogan than "diamonds are forever") to the thread for Karmakaze's post on the incomprehensible antiquity of the Appalachian mountains.
July 20, 2021
Speaking of The Bad Place: "... I'm still trying to figure out what the hell happened with me." Loquacious gives an inside view of the reality of restaurant work in this grim new Covid + Capitalism timeline.
😱The Bad Place: eotvos posts Paste Magazine's 50 Best Dystopian Movies of All Time, and Mefites add their own analyses and offerings.
July 19, 2021
"This next one will be fun!" No it won't. brook horse is looking for non-peppy workout videos for people who hate exercise
July 17, 2021
> i cant believe how many hot single cabbages there are in my area ... What do you know about cabbage?
July 16, 2021
MetaFilter has a new formal Privacy Policy document; you can read about it here.
July 14, 2021
Happy Birthday, MetaFilter! You're 22 this year! That's rather a lot.
ISO of Wack Snack Pack: sir jective says, "I love second-hand drama of reading about terrible people or amazing situations or weird things or basically just good stories ... Essentially, I'm looking for the reading equivalent of junk food in unlimited bite-size quantities, like the written version of shelves of mini packs of Doritos."
July 13, 2021
Betteridge's law of hot beverages? Mecran01 posted The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine? "because I wanted to see what shape the resistance would take ..." Mefites, assemble!
July 11, 2021
Birbs
July 10, 2021
The dude wired a 35 year old floppy drive directly to a monitor cable and made music and video. Holy shit! – Nelson. JHarris posts The world's first 1541 disk drive graphics demo.
July 6, 2021
The "girl in concrete" illusion may not actually be an internet obsession, exactly, but for some of us, it did lead to the introduction of the ha-ha, or hâ-hâ, which is pretty cool ... and which, in this case, also led to learning about the only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name. Aaaah, the internet. So much ha-ha, so little time.
July 5, 2021
A month ago, Youtuber Veritasium sailed Blackbird directly downwind faster than the wind. Afterwards, a physics professor bet him $10,000 that it didn't happen... Confused? clawsoon's post on the whole affair is here to help.
July 4, 2021
Skirting Disaster: from last month, in the "that's a darned good question" department, cilantro asked How did servants (or anyone, really) walk upstairs in long skirts with a tray or two buckets or anything that left them without a hand free to hold said skirt out of the way?. Good answers!
July 3, 2021
oooooh! GenjiandProust offers a collection of weird fiction anthology podcasts, complete with description (including content warning info, where known), average running times, tone, existence (or not) of significant LGBTQ characters and elements, plus the number of stories or episodes, with direct links for each anthology (where possible). Nice!
July 2, 2021
Need some weekend listening? Here's Episode 174 of the MetaFilter podcast with cortex and jessamyn.
And the riverbank talks of the waters of March ... oulipian posts Elis Regina and Tom Jobim performing "Aguas de Março" (video, 1974)
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