Sideblog Archive
July 31, 2024
It's been thirty years since overly muscled, blue spandex clad superhero known as The Tick first proffered profound platitudes of righteous justice over the sugary sweet Saturday sac of morning cartoons. But what was the origin of this ridiculous and beloved cartoon? Community member Shepard has all the fun details in a post as the creators reminisce on how it all began!
July 30, 2024
Walken without rhythm: jontyjago posted St Wilfrid's Catholic School's end of year video, a delightful shot-by-shot remake of Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice," featuring the school's headmaster, Mr Ferry. (Mr Ferry actually has pretty good rhythm, but the pun would brook no resistance)
July 29, 2024
Not to alarm you, but it is less than 100 days until Halloween. Have you finalized your overambitious horror film watchlist yet? Wobbuffet is here to help.
July 28, 2024
Would you like to learn how to play the board game Go? "This website is visually appealing, simple to use, and easy to understand." Thanks bq!
July 27, 2024
Please welcome new user, A Most Curious Rabbit, who joined just to explain how your small donation contributes to a political cause. Eye opening information that reminds us that we can be involved in the process!
"there's 2 ways I usually remove movement from dead characters ..." Member 5_13_23_42_69_666 answers DirtyOldTown's Ask Mefi question about techniques used for hiding the breathing of "dead" characters on TV and film.
July 26, 2024
What's the bunny quotation in your life, are you getting enough? If not, cupcakeninja has a post about artist Will Quinn, who has delightful daily solutions to this problem!
July 25, 2024
In a post about the recent CrowdStrike outage, Wordshore shared a charming anecdote about signs, scone thievery, and the ethics of moth collecting.
July 24, 2024
How would you define the concept of 'tomorrow'? Even better, how would you define it to a six year old? If you have an answer, chime in on kitcat's question or see what others are saying!
July 23, 2024
It’s been a busy few years in US politics since last week’s attempted assassination of Republican Nominee Donald Trump. First, the US Supreme court dismissed the classifieds documents case against Trump, then he picked a new Vice President, while Biden pushed for Supreme court reform, then canceled more student loan debt, then stepped down at the Democratic nominee and Kamala Harris stepped up for the spot (check out the uspolitics tag for all the posts).
As for Harris becoming the presumptive Democratic Nominee, there are questions about how DNC delegates are selected. Lucky for us, community member BlueJae has been a state level delegate several times and does a deep dive about the process in Missouri, with thoughts on what other states will do. Fascinating look at how the process works!
Oh, fun! not_on_display posted The Fictional Brands Archive's searchable index, with descriptions of each brand, and browsable by name, sector, category, medium, genre, and "touchpoint." Check out the "Research" section, too, for lots of info and history on brands! 🆒
July 22, 2024
greatgefilte posted How to unlearn pain, an interesting exploration of psychotherapy or talk therapy focusing on hidden, powerful emotions for some types of pain, including a look at "This Might Hurt, a film about a radical treatment for chronic pain."
July 21, 2024
Did you know there is a Youtube Free Cleaning community? AlSweigart posted about Midwest Magic Cleaning, and specifically the channel owner's bracing reaction to the commenters who "get off on the dopamine rush of mocking people and blaming them." Very informative, and not a bad intro to the people helping folks with depression and various mental issues that result in hoarding or out of control mess. As armeowda comments "This dude gets it."
July 20, 2024
OrangeDisk asks why TV and film characters don't seem to wipe blood, dirt, etc., from their faces any longer, and gets some helpful answers, including this one from nouvelle-personne about the differences between old and new screen dirt. Interesting!
July 19, 2024
Check out this post by dhruva that highlights Nanoscopes, an award-winning short film about butterfly wings! After you've gazed over the beautiful images, dive into the thread to read some commentary from the filmmaker themselves!
July 18, 2024
For the old house and non AC people there is (literally) only one burning question: What are your best fan strategies? AgentRocket has started the discussion, come see what people are suggesting! But please pick up a pack of something cold before coming over, please and thank you!
July 17, 2024
What is the best book you've read that very few other people have even heard of? Brainwane wants to know, no matter the genre or if it's fiction or nonfiction. Come share some good reading with us!
July 16, 2024
"This site contains all 146 of the original Computer Literacy Project programmes plus 121 related programmes, broken down into 2,509 categorised, searchable clips": Jessamyn posted BBC's amazing The Computer Literacy Project, 1980-1989.
July 15, 2024
"a machine for constructing stories": chavenet posted Longreads' Untold Fortunes: A Reading List on the Creative Uses of the Tarot
July 14, 2024
Happy 25th birthday MetaFilter!
In Metatalk: Shepherd has a notion ... a bookstore bookmark exchange? kensington314 is putting together another mixtape, yay! MetaMixTapes 2: Growing Up to Be a Pope, and oh, yes, there will be Birthday Cake. Thanks, freethefeet! 🎂
Apropos of nothing in particular, EndsOfInvention reminds us of The Breaking News Consumer's Handbook. Always good to keep at hand.
July 13, 2024
We're Old School, we're Vibrant, a Shining Beacon, we're a Time Capsule, a Digital Brigadoon. I guess you could say we are getting a little long in the tooth ... and claw.
July 12, 2024
You have questions? Luckily Wired magazine has experts that who answer questions from the internet All of this brought to you in this post by dfm500!
July 11, 2024
Nub? Python? Trench?! ANY FRUIT?! These are just a few of the terms from KJ Scott's survey about Lewd Vocabulary in Erotic Fiction. If that sort of thing interests you (and we know it does), then go ahead and log off from any work computer and check out this post created by jacquilynne.
July 10, 2024
Zenzenobia highlights Thomas Dambo, who does a lot of trolling, but only in the woods and when it involves trash.
July 9, 2024
So, DMelanogaster is seeking a community of graphic memoirists for sharing and advice, both technical and companionable, and this sounds so cool ... and also a nice excuse for us to peek in at the progress on their own work, which was posted in Projects a couple of months ago.
July 8, 2024
"I'm a millennial and I didn't quite "get" what kind of show this was ..." fire, water, earth, air has questions – many, many questions – about The Muppet Show: Tell me everything you know about The Muppet Show!
July 7, 2024
Beach Reading to Defeat the Patriarchy: In a pointed response to the sexist assumption that "books by women, about women, are more likely to be considered 'light reading,'" joannemerriam has assembled a great list of "small press books by women, about women, including Become Ungovernable, Feminism against Cisness, On Strike Against God, and 25 more."
July 6, 2024
"I think my whole field is haunted by the Primer": Thoughts about The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer from Neal Stephenson's "Diamond Age," nearly 30 years on ... gwint posted "Exorcising us of the Primer" by researcher and software engineer/designer Andy Matuschak
July 5, 2024
1.3 human beings per square meter. That was the density of Kowloon Walled City, an enclave of China that existed for most of the 1900s. Before the site was demolished, a beautiful architectural drawing was made of the city and that’s the main point of the post signsofrain created. Seriously, y’all have to see this to believe it!
July 4, 2024
Yes, we're thinking about it. Jacquilynne's post about a full skeleton of a stegosaurus going up for auction has us dreaming and going there sofa cushions for change. Sure, it'll probably cost between four and six million, but we're not gonna let reality tamper with our dreams. Oh by the way, can we borrow some money?
July 3, 2024
World got you down or just generally feeling blue? Then check out box’s post about the 40 saddest albums of all time! Dim those lights and let's zone out for the night!
July 2, 2024
Got a random chatty question? Then hop over to HelpMe, an AskMetaFilter experiment for those idle questions floating around in your head!
So, it turn out that more than one enthusiast has decided that owls and theremins must mesh. Whooo, you might ask? Well, one is a deer wizard, and one is muggsy1079's friend Scott.
July 1, 2024
'If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come'. Wordshore posted the Guardian's fascinating long read on how libraries step in to fill the gaps left by a state that has reneged on its responsibilities, with a look at the daily lives of two librarians in particular.
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