Links like autumn leaves in a blue sky

September 1, 2024 11:52 AM

LinkMe, September '24 edition: Come across an interesting link recently that you'd like to share, but don't want to work it up into a full post? Share it here for our perusal, nbd. And if you'd like to post something but need some inspiration, check out the links here to see what other members have found interesting and would like to read more about! Just tag the resulting post "LinkMe" and include a nod back to the original suggestion. No self-linking and usual site rules apply, but otherwise feel free to post whatever you like! Look inside for previous round-ups plus some highlights from August.

Previous round-ups:

LinkMe #1: A MetaFilter experiment for posts

LinkMe #2: Rogue Posting Edition

LinkMe #3: See Me, Feel Me, LinkMe

Some highlights from August:

AIs are not actually good at summarizing [via zompist]

"Fanny was an American all-female band, active in the early 1970s. They were one of the first notable rock groups to be made up entirely of women ... If you have a PBS subscription you can stream the documentary about them. They were ahead of their time and criminally ignored by history." [via mrphancy]

Annie Lennox at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1992 [via the sobsister]

ROMhacking.net to be mothballed [via Rhomboid]

Two Paths for Jewish Politics [via mittens]

I Made a Reuseable Breakaway Bottle by Film and TV Prop Master Scott Reeder [via Mizu]

How Jennie the Golden Retriever is taking Westminster by storm [via Glinn]

MAD Magazine at the Norman Rockwell Museum [via JoeZydeco]

The push to strip Jordan Chiles of her Olympic medal smells awfully foul [via jenfullmoon, posted by hydra77]

Self-Driving Waymo Cars Keep SF Residents Awake All Night By Honking At Each Other [via JHarris]

Disney wants to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit because of a Disney Plus agreement [via jenfullmoon, posted by box]

posted by Rhaomi (20 comments total)

Summary of recent scientific research:
Paper types ranked by likelihood of paper cuts

I want to nominate this for an Ig Nobel.
posted by cheshyre at 1:02 PM on September 1 [2 favorites]

For the phrase "paper machete" alone it deserves one
posted by seanmpuckett at 1:12 PM on September 1 [4 favorites]

Has Botox killed eroticism? (via Jessica DeFino)

How the National Center on Missing and Exploited Children is failing its mission, from an insider -- transcript and highlights from a podcast interview.

800 Pound Gorilla Media comedy specials on their Youtube channel, e.g. Jatty Robinson, Anjelah Johnson-Reyes
posted by spamandkimchi at 1:17 PM on September 1

Have you ever heard the saying, "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast?" It's a mantra deeply ingrained in Navy SEALs operations. A counterintuitive concept that flips our usual understanding of speed and efficiency on its head. from Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast: Navy SEALs’ Efficiency Secret
posted by chavenet at 2:05 PM on September 1 [2 favorites]

Intel pentium cpu die woven as a Navajo rug
posted by autopilot at 2:06 PM on September 1 [5 favorites]

U.S. Music Revenue Database, an interactive database from that RIAA that shows music revenue and volume from 1973 to 2023, sorted by format. Even cassette singles.
posted by JoeZydeco at 2:39 PM on September 1

Alison Fincher (07/24/2024), "31 Women Writing in Japanese." This includes a great, current roundup of translations available online. I read a few but not enough to pick a favorite that could anchor an FPP.
posted by Wobbuffet at 3:37 PM on September 1 [1 favorite]

Starlink Satellites launch in groups, creating visible "sky trains" of white lights, sometimes mistaken for UFOs &c. If you see 'em, use the FindStarlink site to check if it's really aliens.
posted by Jesse the K at 4:16 PM on September 1 [3 favorites]

Sanrio, creator of Hello Kitty, doesn't have a monopoly on kawaii. Meet their competitor: San-X, creator of a whole menagerie of cute cuddlies. Including a character that has a red bean bun for a head. No, not that one. This one—Kogepan!
posted by jabah at 4:45 PM on September 1 [1 favorite]

I really wanted to do a post on this during the Olympics but creating posts is a 'big computer' task and I only ever use 'small computers' now.

Anyway, Slate article and awesome old school website of the Oldest Living Olympians
posted by hydrobatidae at 5:15 PM on September 1

Oh good, I was waiting for one of these!

Here's a lovely article about the Jersey Shore's "Chinatown by the Sea", Bradley Beach (NJ.com gift link)

jabah: San-X is great! Currently, my favorite character of theirs is Furoshiki, part of the Sumikko Gurashi menagerie (also, don't miss the description for Nisetsumuri on that same page!).
posted by May Kasahara at 6:15 PM on September 1 [3 favorites]

I Remember It Well (Gigi)
Margaret Courtney, Joss Ackland
posted by Omon Ra at 6:47 PM on September 1

Full Neko Case concert, promoting Hell-On

Full Lady Blackbird concert, promoting Black Acid Soul
posted by mrphancy at 7:35 PM on September 1 [1 favorite]

There's a post about the Navajo woven Pentium now, so strike it from your #linkme list.
posted by autopilot at 3:23 AM on September 2

Ad-free African and Caribbean music
Full disclosure I do not make any money from this. I only contribute music from my own collection.
posted by DJZouke at 5:03 AM on September 2

DEVO's Tiny Desk Concert at NPR Studios, with some stuff they haven't played in decades.
posted by JoeZydeco at 1:59 PM on September 3

This hotel for animals gets more and more surprising
posted by moonmilk at 7:28 PM on September 3

The Five Geek Social Fallacies has been linked a couple times in comments, but I think it's ripe for an FPP.
posted by seanmpuckett at 5:29 AM on September 4

I just watched and listened to 17 yr. old Tina S play the 3rd movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata on electric guitar.

When I came back to myself some indeterminate time after it was done, I held my hands up in front of my face and thought 'well guys, we did what we could with what we had, I guess, but it’s probably just as well that we didn’t know about this until so late in the day.'
posted by jamjam at 11:51 AM on September 5

Lord of the Eggs - In LRB, Liam Shaw reviews the book The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction by Gísli Pálsson, translated by Anna Yates. This means he gets to tell the story of two English ornithologists in the 1800s who went to the Arctic to see the Great Auk but found it already extinct. Includes a train car full of eggs and an unplanned trip to a leper colony.

Well now that I have typed that out, I may as well just post it myself.
posted by tofu_crouton at 2:55 PM on September 9