Sideblog Archive
August 31, 2024
From Awooga to Whistling Wind: Pink Fuzzy Bunny posted the rather wonderful USC Optical Sound Effects Library – "Classic movie sound effects on optical and magnetic tape from the 30's to the 80's, all carefully restored, catalogued and posted on the Internet Archive."
Community member wubbie absolutely loves posters, especially movie posters! So they built a cloud based service that allows anyone to stream over 3,500 movie posters to their device for the most epic and love and movie art ever!
August 30, 2024
Over in Ask MetaFilter, member The Adventure Begins is looking for music recommendations similar to Chappell Roan's "Hot To Go" aka "high energy synth pop bops by girls". Come share your suggestions and see what others have recommended!
August 29, 2024
The kite "wars" are heating up in Brazil to the point that law is having to get involved. Yes, you read that sentence right, chavenet created a post that has the details!
August 28, 2024
Citizenk took the time to remind us of an old, yet incredibly ambitious project, Blade Runner: the Aquarel Edition. It's a shot by shot recreation of the movie, but done in watercolors and it is stunning to see.
August 27, 2024
Is there a pill I can take for this? How do you remember to take your meds, vitamins, etc?
August 26, 2024
Monotypes are "undergoing a revival of sorts thanks to the Gel Plate which has made it very easy for the beginner (like me!) to make their own prints and papers." Art_Pot posted Monoprinting with the Gel Plate with a pile of getting-started links and some examples. Nice!
August 25, 2024
kensington314 asked an interesting question about how to have "26 guns melted down or otherwise destroyed in Southern California," and Iris Gambol has a great in-depth answer, while xedrik reports on his solution for a similar situation.
August 24, 2024
"I just posted paduasoy's "six films about cats, with no cat death" list. You can see the films via the hashtag #CatFilms ... Donate $25 to MeFi and I'll post six films on a custom theme of your choice, too!" In the Mefi fundraising thread, DirtyOldTown offers to do that thing he does so well. 💖
August 23, 2024
If you ever go to the planet Jupiter, try and swing by Earth on your way out. Europe's JUICE spacecraft recently did just that, as noted in a post by bq, and the photos are lovely!
August 22, 2024
Bats like living in churches for a numbers of reasons, though their presence can present problems. Hence the Bats in Churches project, focused on the UK, and as highlighted by paduasoy's post!
August 21, 2024
Love word puzzles and looking for something new? Then please allow Horace Rumpole to point you towards Gisnep, a new daily word puzzle by MeFi's own ironicsans!
August 20, 2024
It was a dark and stormy night, the inky pools of shadow in the sparsely furnished room punctuated only by jittery flashes of lightning and the throbbing #065a8f rather than #006699 blue background and glowing scroll of resolute white text and flirtatious lime green links as styled by the Modern Dark theme (for it is on Metafilter.com that our scene lies) emanating from the sleepless reader's laptop screen.
August 19, 2024
Is it okay to date or marry your chatbot? jenfullmoon posted Give up dating or just date a bot.
August 18, 2024
derbyshire is looking for fun puzzle video games to play as a family.
August 17, 2024
Libraries fighting the good fight:
• Digital Public Library of America and Independent Publishers Group have announced a groundbreaking agreement
• MIT vs Elsevier
August 16, 2024
The Perseid meteor shower is back and SPrintF posted about a particularly beautiful image of it!
August 15, 2024
Over on AskMetaFilter, nushustu posted an interesting question for our technological age: with much of its staff let go, how is X (nee Twitter) still running? The many answers are an illuminating look at running social media on a large scale.
August 14, 2024
You want a story? Maybe two? Brainwane has you covered! First up is two new short stories by Kelly Robson and Marissa Lingen. If that’s not enough, there’s a third story from a very interesting writing prompt. Enjoy!
August 13, 2024
A$k the Mod$; Mefi Pet$; Early Acce$$: it's our August Fundraiser!💰🐷
BadgerDoctor asks Are there advantages to buying unsliced bread?, and in case you were wondering, I'm happy to report that yes, it turns out Mefites can overthink a slice of bread!
August 12, 2024
"Everyone's favorite mystery text, the Voynich Manuscript, is finally getting careful attention from leading medievalists": Pleasant_confusion posted A new approach to the Voynich Manuscript.
August 11, 2024
Book love meets graphic design love meets collectible love in cupcakeninja's post on Greg Neville's Penguin Series Design. ❤️ 📔🐧
August 10, 2024
Wobbuffet has a lovely, expansive post on the early history of geographical board games, with a special look at America's first board game, 1822's "The Travellers' Tour Through the United States" in which "whoever gets to New Orleans first, wins." A timeless goal, indeed!
August 9, 2024
Let's circle back around to brainwane's post about alternatives to corporate jargon. Hopefully we can ping this low hanging fruit as we pivot to a churn 😀
August 8, 2024
Hey, take a minute, close your eyes and imagine an apple. Well, it turns out that not everyone can visualize an apple in their internal mind. What does that mean? Ten Cold Hot Dogs made a post about that topic and what the link says about how individualistic we all are is fascinating!
August 7, 2024
There’s so much going in the world at any particular time, so many things to keep track off and pay attention to. So let’s turn that big brain off for a bit with big songs that keep things calm. What do you suggest? Because member Garm is looking for music that can put one in this sort of mental state.
August 6, 2024
In HearHere's post on a miniature renaissance, Laura Palmer's Cold Dead Kiss shared their impressive creation, a diorama of Darnell's Garage from the movie Christine. Flagged as Fury 58 FANTASTIC!
August 5, 2024
TimHare wants to hear about your favorite independent and/or college streaming radio stations.
August 4, 2024
In Canada, an initiative to help combat anti-trans rhetoric and attacks at school boards and other local institutions: Lawyers Against Transphobia
August 3, 2024
Hey, here's a couple of notes about posts focused on the MeFi community:
ALeaflikeStructure has created a USA VotingSupport page in the Metafilter Wiki that lists specific organizations that work to educate and support voters. If you are looking for somewhere to volunteer, donate, or get help in voting, I hope you will take a look at this page.
Rhami has created the third LinkMe post, which aims to give a different MeFi experience that offers an easier method for creating posts.
7 Minutes of Madness is asking for recommendations for Time-Glitch Novels. Also, 7 Minutes of Madness is asking for recommendations for Time-Glitch Novels.
August 2, 2024
Time for a round of MeFi's posts about the 2024 Olympics! There's a post about the amazing swimmer, Katie Ledecky, another covering the photo of surfer Gabriel Medina celebrating his win, the difference between USA and AUS broadcasts of the opening ceremonies, and finally a question about specific events that are really worth watching. All these and more are under the Olympics2024 tag!
August 1, 2024
Sure, you've already started pregaming for Halloween and things are going frightfully well. But let's expand your dimly lit horizons and check out DirtyOldTown's massive guide to horror movies that are streaming, broken down to the various services!
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