Sideblog Archive

June 30, 2024
Mold Remediation: leftover_scrabble_rack is feeling a bit overwhelmed about what to do about a household mold issue, and nouvelle-personne steps up with some super useful advice about how to triage, assess, and address the problem.

June 29, 2024
Hot tips for handling high temps: Bet there are some you haven't considered in Jane the Brown's long list of heat-beating strategies.

June 28, 2024
Now this is what the internet was made for, wonderous geekery! Come enjoy the visual splendor of almost every elevator in the video game series that started with Myst. Shared by rivenwanderer, this post does such a good job of showing how the series was able to enthrall people in its various worlds!

June 27, 2024
We’re often encouraged to look up, but there’s plenty of interesting stuff down below. So, mittens goes deep in a post about the microbes that live beneath Earth’s surface and how they may affect the planet.

June 26, 2024
Family is what you make of it, at least according to Diesel the donkey. Previously lost, he has been spotted in the wild with a new family, as noted in this post by ShooBoo.

June 25, 2024
In Metatalk:

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A new LinkMe post has been forged! Come find a topic to post, or offer your idea for a topic for someone else to post! Thanks, CMcG!

June 24, 2024
Hot Today 🌞: the weekly Free Thread is always a bright spot
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depending on whim, you may also receive an artifact of some type ... chiefthe re-ups their Continuing Ongoing Modern Pen Pal Project, wherein they post a handwritten letter to any mefite requesting one. Sweet! ✍🏼 ✉️

June 23, 2024
"it's a little sweary ..." – fiercekitten: signal posted Ludicity's peppery thoughts about AI grifting and attendant ubiquitous bluesky ML/LLM technobabble burnout, and the Mefi community is feeling it. Likewise sweary, Lucy Mangan's Guardian review of BBC's "The Stormtrooper Scandal" about just one of the grubby, greedy tales arising from the great NFT racket, posted by ec2y. Ahhh, NFTs. 'member them?

June 22, 2024
If you can't join them, lick them? Tell Me No Lies is looking for a fresh take on his project / problem of trying to efficiently return 30 stray jigsaw pieces to their proper puzzles, and Mefites have so many clever ideas! (including one involving judging "tongue adhesion"?). It's a puzzling task!

June 21, 2024
We humans like to remember the past and set aside a day to remember important events. But it’s rare that history only occurs in a day. Inevitably there a deep and wide breadth of time that leads up to that specific event on that specific day. With that in mind, take a look at joannemerriam’s post about Juneteenth. Though the day has past, there’s a lot of history to dig into and enjoy, easily enough to last into next year!

June 20, 2024
The internet has been an amazing invention, bringing all sorts of media to your desktop or mobile device. But as the years have gone by, perhaps it’s been a bit too much? Maybe you’d like a stripped down and more bandwidth friendly version of some sites? Say no more friend! Shepherd made a post about news sites that do that, based on their earlier AskMetafilter question. Come bask in the words!

June 19, 2024
Look, you need to get rid of at least some of those books and you know it. Luckily, cupcakeninja made a post about where to donate used books. Yes, it's ok if you read them just one more time before donating, we won't tell!

June 18, 2024
Beyond the Simon and Garfunkel herbs: BlueJae looks for help finding cool, weird, rare edible herbs for my garden, and we just want to go lie down for a while in that delightful pile of aromatic answers!

June 17, 2024
kliuless has an in-depth post on "the move by national governments, financial investors and private security forces to snap up food and water resources." Robber barons in the food system.

June 16, 2024
Harmonic Convergence: latkes just wants to listen to people singing in harmony. If you have some favorite music featuring vocal harmonies, maybe you can chime in?

June 15, 2024
"Lousy With Bears": So it turns out a surprising number of Mefites have had up close and personal encounters with bears, though, thankfully, very few report being eaten. How To Avoid Being Eaten By A Black Bear.

June 14, 2024
“Sultans Of Swing” and “Money For Nothing” were two major hits of the hugely successful band Dire Straits. But what were the origins behind those two hits? AgentRocket’s post has all the fun trivia!

June 13, 2024
Kensington314 and other MeFites celebrate the life and passing of Reverend James Lawson. He was a major figure and advocate of nonviolence during the civil rights movement in the United States and to the end of his life, he championed human rights for all people.

June 12, 2024
The 80s are known for many things, like big hair, valley girls, MTV, shoulder pads and neon colors. But in the midst of all that, Alvin and the Chipmunks released an absolute monument to sludge rock and 1adam12 made a post celebrating this little known fact. Rock on!

June 11, 2024
Perhaps, like Faintdreams, this is just what you needed but didn't yet know it: The Ardship of Cambry posted The Deep Ark, an eight hour plus mix of 1990's Warp Records "Electronic Listening Music" and related beats.

June 10, 2024
They are not friends: A bird flew into my kitchen, pecked a hole in the bag of granola, then ate some granola. Would you eat the rest of the granola in the bag? shock muppet was birb-mugged! With additional insult! What would you do? Do they need a corvid test?

June 9, 2024
MonkeyToes posted Tiny Awards: Celebrating the Goodness of the Homemade Web about (Mefi's own) Matt Muir's project to "celebrate interesting, small, craft-y internet projects and spaces which basically make the web a more fun place to be." This year's nominations are open until June 23!


Mefi Posting Lab: Dear distinguished colleagues, LinkMe: A MetaFilter experiment for posts, is an experimental thread, based on a suggestion by Rhaomi, wherein folks can suggest ideas for posts they don't necessarily want to make themselves, and other folks can pick up the baton on ones that interest them. So put on your lab coats and goggles, everyone — we're trying it out!

June 8, 2024
donut_princess is looking for some new small enjoyments, and asks what small things you do to find joy that don't involve a ton of money or time?.

June 7, 2024
You may think you’re tough, but if you’re a prisoner at a certain prison in South Brazil, you would be wise not to challenge how tough the guard geese are. Wordshore made the post that has the details, check it out!

June 6, 2024
With apologies to the few that have an allergy to potatoes, please enjoy this post by cupcakeninja about How To Bake A Potato. Come for the novelty, stay for the recipes!

June 5, 2024
Are there taxes in the Shire? Tolkien never got into those details, but luckily Nathan Goldwag has given some thought to these issues as pointed out in this excellent post by Kattullus!

June 4, 2024
chavenet links John Bull's (Mefi's own garius's) Bluesky post on the 1994 Pet Shop Boys Brit Awards appearance and their rendition of the Village People's "Go West," performed with 3 separate choirs of miners — and garius's comment in the thread may make you cry.

June 3, 2024
That is one of my guaranteed happy-making videos: EmpressCallipygos links to a very cool short vid of Bobby McFerrin demonstrating the Power of the Pentatonic Scale in storybored's post on The Secret Code of Melody, and now we're happy, too!

June 2, 2024
lianove3 recently came home to a suspicious Amazon package with no label and a threatening aura. Was it a bomb? What to do? Should the movie version of this thread star Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman? Was it all worth it just for this pun? Find out in the comments!

June 1, 2024
Help mecran01 trashtalk his friends!: mecran01 wants to know about your favorite online social puzzles.



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