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December 31, 2024
Top dogs of the year? 🐶 First of all, your dog. Then these dogs. Warning: Dust. Not kidding even a little bit.

How much do you think about ... ROME? Senatus vs. Populusque Romanus, a magnificent multi-part megalicious magnus postus from Rhaomi. Veni, Vidi, Mefi!

December 30, 2024
Gwint has posted the excellent, feature-rich Montaigne's Essays from Hyperessays.net, with 107 texts, including "On Cannibals," "On the Custom of Wearing Clothes," and "On Smells." What a good find!

December 29, 2024
[COMMUNITY] In Metatalk, the Metafilter Card Club swap is still vibing ... continuously for nearly seven whole years! Wow! Check the thread for how to participate in this ancient tradition. Thank you, Sparky Buttons!!! Also, CMcG is sharing their 2024 Fanfare EXTRAVAGANZA, a place where folks can share their recommended books, movies, tv, music, games, and podcasts from the past year. Nice!🥳

Big Planck Energy: below the weak scale, everything is so intensely quantum-mechanical that it doesn't really make sense to talk about length at all anymore. Instead, we talk about energy ... You want to talk about Planck units? Because we can talk about Planck units. Well, fantabulous timewaster can, at any rate, and it's a beautiful thing.

December 28, 2024
🎶 La, la, do be doo la ba dada da mm hm ... this is a nice song! Oh wait. 😳 In Ask: "Dark lyrics, upbeat tune: Hell in a Handbasket Edition"

In this great thread on Concord grapes, see Baby_Balrog's recipe for producing "the most delicious liquid that exists on the face of the planet earth" from riverbank grapes, Vitis riparia. Warning: contains angry squirrel.

December 27, 2024
What unholy merger of cuisines hath she wrought? scblackman brings us a gift from the interwebs: schnitzel latkes. But what should we call them?

If you're looking for something to sink your brain into during this final week of the year, then check out chavenet's post about the first 300 years of data visualization and information graphics. Gorgeous graphics mixed with interesting historical bits? YES, PLEASE!

December 26, 2024
Community member doctornemo is back at it again with a fantastic and fascinating post that covers humanity’s exploration of space. Click the link and travel inside for wealth of information to pour over!

December 25, 2024
For this Christmas please allow us to share with you a post from verstegan that tells a story that spans decades. It's a tale of memory and discovery, of hope and wishes, the mischevious goblins of today, and the importance of Noble Professions.

December 24, 2024
Everyone wants to look their best, even creatures of fantasy. So step right and make yourself comfy for this post by Tau Wedel and see how everything can be better for almost everyone with the right haircut!

December 23, 2024
"partly a ghost or timeslip story" ... Brian Sibley has put online his dramatisation of the 1951 novel The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy Boston. Thanks, paduasoy, this looks fascinating!

DirtyOldTown: This is one of my three or four favorite movies EVER. I have a list of things. I could fill the whole page. Great, interesting comment about Steve de Jarnatt in Lemkin's very interesting post on the film "Miracle Mile". Go ahead and fill the whole page, DoT!

Creatures stirring: Your weekly Free Thread is here; the annual MST Club Christmas Video Marathon is go; it's (still) the season to be linkin'; the current Gift Swap thank you thread is here.🐁

December 21, 2024
Best Windows + Lovecraft mashup actual question and answer about cloning the C drive. Tell Me No Lies seeks the truth. gregr calls on the elder Gods to answer.

December 20, 2024
Come for the McMansion-enabling truss connector plates, stay for the malt liquor, beer cans, and blunts.

Ever wondered what a moderator shift looks like? Then take a gander at these TikTok videos that are fresh out of the oven! There's a bit verbose (at 20 minutes total), but give you a general feel of things are. Enjoy! Part 1 and Part 2

You like mangos? Great, just be aware that the mango you're enjoying may not be a mango, but it doesn't matter, it's still delicious! Community member agentofselection created a fantastic and fascinating post about this "controversy".

December 19, 2024
Hey, did you know about that time when the Idaho Fish and Game program relocated 76 beavers by flying them to central Idaho and then parachuting them to the ground? No? Then let community member sawdustbear tell you all about it via folk musical puppet documentary done with stop motion animation.

December 18, 2024
The recent news events with UnitedHealthcare CEO has inspired a lot commentary. But what about a song? Well, limeonaire wrote one, a folk song titled “The New Folk Hero”. Come stop by for a listen, the lyrics and the chords!

December 17, 2024
I really need something to cheer myself up tonight. What can I watch?

December 16, 2024
Answerers are offering some very interesting ideas about different ways to think about accomplishing personal objectives in aeighty's Ask Me thread about creating a plan for achieving goals.

December 15, 2024
It's a new MetaFilter tradition, the airing of manifesti!. ✨ This holiday season, some beautiful sparkling rants to decorate your curmudgeon dungeon. Thanks, Wordshore!

December 14, 2024
Down down we went past the gym, past the print shop, down below the law library where there was a quiet study room that was hardly ever used ... a rather amazing little story from The 10th Regiment of Foot in HumanComplex's very interesting post on Ghost Rivers. This feels like the beginning of a Rivers of London-esque cozy supernatural mystery!

December 12, 2024
Lois1950's grandson would like a book of poetry. He's 13 and a avid reader, what would you recommend?

December 11, 2024
For all you lovers of design, retro products, and, oh yeah ESPRESSO, you should check out this post by chavenet. It's a link to an absolutely beautiful site that showcases antique espresso coffee machines. Go away decaf, we're busy (and in love)!

December 9, 2024
We earlier mentioned mephron's great link to advice about fighting back on US healthcare denials. Now adrienneleigh has added some more very helpful info: ProPublica also has a tool that will help you write a letter to ask for this information.

✨Reminder!✨ Mefi Bingo game is ongoing! Please tag your related posts with MefiBingo2024, so we can enjoy them all! (for convenience, there's an image in the post to refer to, which also links to a larger size for tired eyes).

clavdivs posts in praise of the entirely fascinating human and poet, Marianne Moore, who once wrote When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use. It is time well-used here, if this sort of thing is the sort of thing you like.

December 8, 2024
Borrowing from Shakey to highlight some great recent posts: Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, / And then is heard no more. It is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.

December 7, 2024
chavenet has a great post on the surreal art of Fletcher Hanks: The Most Twisted Comic Book Artist of All Time

December 6, 2024
The air fryer has been around for a bit, but it's never a bad time to revisit what your favorite recipe is for using one!

December 5, 2024
For Americans, mephron highlighted some sadly good advice about fighting back on healthcare denials in the States. Shame it's come to that, but this advice could be incredibly helpful.

December 4, 2024
It’s THAT most time of the year, where Hallmark Christmas movies rain down like Santa plopping down the fireplace. Fortunately, jenfullmoon has started a review blog about them, so you can figure which one’s are really worth it!

December 3, 2024
One cookie to rule them all? inevitability needs to bake 4 dozen cookies. What is tasty, perhaps fancy, and extremely low effort?

December 2, 2024
'Tis the Season to be Linkin': the latest Link-Me thread is here

tiny frying pan is looking for fantastic physical gifts to buy that benefit charities. Go to that wonderful post to find some great options.

A horse walks into a book store. The clerk says, "why the long reading list?" Oh, hey, cupcakeninja has made a post for lists of "classic novels that bring the laughs."

December 1, 2024
Hey, it's Mefi Bingo! Be cool, get square!

More Mefi gifting list updates: Braeburn is looking for quirky, unique, not gendered gift guides, preferably UK based, while egeanin is seeking gifts that teach the constellations, and nouvelle-personne wants to give the gift of Beeps and Boops for two siblings, 3 and 5, who LOVE interactive educational toys that talk or play music.. ❄️✨

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