Sideblog Archive
November 30, 2024
"unedited moments from random lives" ... nobody posted about IMG_0001, a time capsule cache of mostly unwatched direct-to-Youtube iPhone Photo uploads – 5 million of them, from between 2009 and 2012, ordered randomly.
November 29, 2024
"We have to help" -- In a thread on homelessness in the US, Frowner provides some tips on how to help the unhoused.
November 28, 2024
In dealing with grief...
“When I find myself dipping into the dark, I know that I can call up a Nelson town on the computer, and I begin to do the research, and I begin to conduct the interviews, and I start reaching out to people, and it just brings me back.”
"Once again, we at MST Club, that tiny subset of the site that gathers to watch riffing and other things on Thursday nights ... are piping in the official Mystery Science Theater 3000 Turkey Day stream off of Youtube to watch in our video share room throughout Thanksgiving Day." 🦃👽
November 27, 2024
Out in the among the intertubes of the internet, AlSweigart found...something, and decided to share the surreal journey. You may never ask a stranger to take a photo of you again or you may ask every stranger to take a photo of you, the journey is just wonderfully odd!
November 26, 2024
Right person, right time, right place, right thread: Migrantology expertly answers a question about donating for legal aid to immigrants to California.
Medievally Yours: Rumple has posted Antwerp's Plantin-Moretus Museum collection of 14,000 woodblock prints, now online as Public Domain / CC 0 high resolution TIFF images with tags and search capabilities. We stan the lumpy grumpy fish.
November 25, 2024
Reality is collapsing. There are no rules. But there is a Thread. It's weekly. It's free. It's your weekly #freethread. Say hello to Mrs. French's cat if you see her there.
🎁 Update: One new to add to our gifting roundup, Have you got board game gift recommendations for my age 20 & 24 kids?, and one overlooked from earlier (how did that happen!), What holiday gifts are you giving kids in your life that are 7-9ish?
"Tell me what you cook, and I will tell you what you are." Frayed Knot posted Slate's 25 Most Important Recipes of the Past 100 Years
Your sock is hiding in the dryer outside of eyesight. JohnnyGunn tells a funny story about calling the library to find out the location of their missing sock in pablocake's Ask Me post about a phone hotline (instead of Google) for questions. It should come as no surprise to Mefites that in this, as in so many things, librarians are our heroes! (or, as Mournful Bagel Song puts it, "unearthly beings of pure knowledge")
November 24, 2024
Flagged as fantastic! Or as kristi says, "an absolutely marvelous paragon of a post": joannemerriam's magnificent latest roundup of more than 50 new and forthcoming small press books. 📖❣️
November 23, 2024
like a real life version of a spy thriller (art & science history edition) — comment by Ausamor
Kattullus has posted about the mysteries of the portrait of Francis Williams, brilliant Black Jamaican polymath and member of the Newtonian inner circle ... and the painted clues that untangled his life story. Great art sleuthing, and a fascinating tale, then and now.
November 22, 2024
For getting ideas, or sharing answers, some #GiftFilter posts currently in AskMe: Gift for the guy who has everything? ❖ Fantastic gift (basket)? ❖ Rubik's Cube and Rubik's Cube Adjacent Gift ideas? ❖ Sewing/fashion gift to inspire a creative, crafty tween? ❖ High Quality, Interesting Advent Calendars? ❖ Gift ideas for geography + history + gadget lover? ❖ The Best X You Can Buy for under $50? ❖ a cute, modern craft kit, please? ❖ What gift for a someone who cleared my driveway of a fallen tree? ❖ Interesting international snacks for Christmas gifts?
I've always enjoyed traditional Irish music, so these recent uploads to the Music section by wurl1tzer_c0 have brought a smile to my face and a bit of head bobbing. Here's 30 seconds of a traditional tune and later post of another traditional tune, "Maid behind the bar" !
November 21, 2024
The world needs your poems! Or at least the town of Bremerton, Washington does, according to this post from JHarris. Click the link to learn where to send yours!
November 20, 2024
Condour75 has made a neat little app called Memento Movi! Here’s how they describe it: “The user enters date of birth and life expectancy, and chooses from a list of movies. The site then shows a frame from that movie that represents your place in your lifespan. So, for instance, a twenty-year-old who selects Star Wars will likely get a frame from Tattooine, but a sixty-year-old who selects Jaws will be on the boat.”
I’m 71.02% of the way through Howl's Moving Castle, how about you?
November 19, 2024
Who are MetaFilter's BlueSky favorites?
I remember this old paperback in my old used bookstore where Greek or Roman voyagers end up in America and meet the Mayans ... suburbanbeatnik is looking for a particular hard-to-find DAW paperback from the 1970s
November 18, 2024
"With a decent local GPU and some free open source software like ollama and open-webui you can try 'open source' LLM models like Meta's llama, Mistral AI's mistral, or Alibaba's qwen entirely offline." Lenie Clarke has a big ol' post on Homebrew LLMs and Open Source Models
November 17, 2024
A couple of holiday notes in Metatalk: 2024 MetaFilter Gift Swap - Arrival - thank you and MeFites for the Holidays!
These works did not reach an audience until 1978, five years after Szpakowki’s death; today they’re still obscure and easily misunderstood ... dhruva posted the Paris Review's Rhythmical Lines about Polish artist Wacław Szpakowski's "series of labyrinthine geometrical abstractions, each one produced from a single continuous line." Such interesting work and life!
November 16, 2024
jontyjago has a great comment about how finding a chance article by late member pjern on Metafilter eventually led to a career change as a UK railway signaller. Very interesting!! 🚂
November 15, 2024
The newest edition of “Why did you think that was a good idea” is live in ShooBoo’s post about a bear attack that actually wasn’t. Folks, this is not what you should use a bear costume for!
November 14, 2024
You want scenes of cats? ‘Cause this is how you get scenes of cats, courtesy of Pink Fuzzy Bunny’s Ask MetaFilter question!
November 13, 2024
Here is dng's explanation of their quirky project: Quest Heroes is a sort of cute and cuddly (and hand drawn and fairly rough) card game version of 80s role playing board game classic Hero Quest which I made for my niece and nephew the other week (who both love Hero Quest a lot for some reason).
November 12, 2024
What's inside the box? Pain. What's inside this week's Free Thread? Your happy place. Come tell us about it, if you feel so inclined.
November 11, 2024
Refugia, not from the edges ... rather from small pockets of good work: duien posted an excellent and quite useful quote from Kathleen Dean Moore in the Signs of Hope Ask Metafilter post. In fact saving and sharing this quote is probably one significant affirmative small act of refugia in itself.
November 10, 2024
Flagged as Fantastic: Brook Horse on successful compassionate communication with (literally) delusional people, and lessons about how the approach can work with people swamped with dis- and mis-info.
November 9, 2024
Gorgik had a question about a joke Tina Fey made and peppercorn slid into Ask MetaFilter to give a fuller context to the answer, thank you!
As of November 1, 2024 ... the Metafilter Community Foundation exists as an officially registered Delaware nonprofit non-stock corporation.. Yay! In Metatalk, 1adam12 has a Quick Nonprofit Update from the Interim Board. (Also of site interest, some thoughts from warriorqueen on Seeking community in the face of the US election.)
Recently besieged by dry weather and Crazy Ants, Christmas Island's Red Crabs are Back, baby. Chariot pulled by cassowaries has posted about their 100 million march to the ocean (and incidental occupation of roads, school grounds, living rooms, toilet drains, and Metafilter threads).
November 8, 2024
Looking for loungewear? Over in Ask MetaFilter, phunniemee is seeking suggestions, so if you have any or want see what’s been recommended, come on over!
November 7, 2024
Would you like another distraction from *waves around* all this? Sweet, come check out lucidium’s post about a wig making game. Yeah, you heard that right, come try it!
November 6, 2024
Today is a very good day to dig into a few fantasy stories about strangers joining forces to save each other, so come check out brainwane’s latest links to several awesome stories!
November 5, 2024
Rhaomi has made a great, in-depth US election day megapost, The Most Important Election of Our Lifetimes.
The NYT Tech Guild is on strike, which means NYT Games (and Cooking) are behind the picket line. But never fear! Mefites needing their puzzle fix can find Wordle alternatives in this Ask Me thread and the secret word game Letroso, plus, for more fun, be sure to check out Catfishing (Wikipedia category guessing game) by Mefi's own Klipspringer, and Gisnep (quote guessing game) by Metafilter's own ironicsans.
November 3, 2024
Signups are open for the 8th annual holiday card exchange!
DrGail asks about recipe sites "where every recipe you've tried has been at least very good and most you've tried have made it into the regular rotation? The ones that absolutely nail the deliciousness-to-effort ratio?" Fellow Cooks of Metafilter, Enlighten Me!
November 2, 2024
Come on over for November's LinkMe thread! Share a link you think would make a good post and put it on someone's radar so they can make that post!
At some point someone dared to wonder, "what if a time-displaced MMA-fightin' Viking orphan became a carpenter's apprentice to Jesus of Nazareth?" and voila, a movie was born! But of all the tools in this production, which ones are most wrong? Jedicus helps us see the light.
November 1, 2024
The 2024 presidential election is coming to some sort of conclusion (don’t forget to vote), but 24/7 slog is making many of us anxious. Thankfully Belladonna made a post about 'How not to freak out about the US election' and plenty of people chimed with advice about how to stay somewhat calm. Hang in there everyone, an end is in sight!
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