Scare Up Some Links

October 1, 2024 7:21 AM

LinkMe, 👻 Spooky Season 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! Eerie, creepy, and horror-themed links encouraged but not required. Look inside for a round-up from last month!

Paper types ranked by likelihood of paper cuts [via cheshyre]

How the National Center on Missing and Exploited Children is failing its mission, from an insider [via spamandkimchi]

Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast: Navy SEALs’ Efficiency Secret [via chavenet]

Intel pentium cpu die woven as a Navajo rug [via autopilot, posted by Monday, stony Monday]

U.S. Music Revenue Database, 1973-2023 [via JoeZydeco]

31 Women Writing in Japanese [via Wobbuffet]

San-X, creator of a whole menagerie of cute cuddlies [via jabah]

Awesome old school website of the Oldest Living Olympians [via hydrobatidae]

Livestream of ad-free African and Caribbean music [via DJZouke]

This hotel for animals gets more and more surprising [via moonmilk]

The Five Geek Social Fallacies [via seanmpuckett]

17 yr. old Tina S plays the 3rd movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata on electric guitar [via jamjam]

The story of two English ornithologists in the 1800s who went to the Arctic to see the Great Auk but found it already extinct [via tofu_crouton, posted by Kattullus]

posted by Rhaomi (18 comments total)

Woman, 79, fell while hiking. A stranger carried her for hours on his back. I was thinking of trying to flesh this out, but do not have the gumption.
posted by Gorgik at 8:05 AM on October 1 [1 favorite]

Daisy The Great x AJR - Record Player (Animated Video)
Not spooky - just a soothing yet upbeat song people might like if they had not heard it. I've been an AJR fan but only discovered this one recently.
posted by Glinn at 8:45 AM on October 1 [1 favorite]

The musical theatre community is currently mourning the loss of Gavin Creel aged only 48. He was apparently a lovely guy as well as a talented singer.

If someone with more time than me wants to scrape together some of his performances on YouTube, that would be great.
posted by Pallas Athena at 9:26 AM on October 1 [2 favorites]

Who is government? A series by the Washington Post. Very well written.
https://ourpublicservice.org/protecting-democracy/#who-is-government
posted by NotLost at 10:43 AM on October 1 [3 favorites]

(Note that there was a post a few days ago about The Canary, one of the stories in that Washington Post series. Which is terrific; I've read three of them now.)
posted by martin q blank at 12:34 PM on October 1 [1 favorite]

The bracket for Metafilter-favorite Fat Bear Week was delayed this year in the wake of a fatal conflict.
posted by Nerd of the North at 10:16 PM on October 1 [1 favorite]

Oh, I also came in here to say Gavin Creel. What a sad, sad loss. Mr. Blah and I saw him in Into the Woods and he was just astoundingly wonderful. I cried yesterday when I heard the news.
posted by BlahLaLa at 10:57 PM on October 1 [4 favorites]

Evangelion in Panavision! The anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion, reimagined as 1950's sci-fi.
posted by SPrintF at 7:54 AM on October 2

I just linked this from Fanfare, but I found a Youtube channel of movie riffing from a group called FilmRoasters.
posted by JHarris at 5:15 PM on October 3

And to remind everyone, there's still madam jujujive and quonsar's Everlasting Blort, still updating super frequently and dense with images after all this time!
posted by JHarris at 9:45 PM on October 3 [2 favorites]

Mod note: [Added to the sidebar and Best Of blog!]
posted by taz (staff) at 12:02 AM on October 7

Short article but makes a good point: Training and Diet are Simple Because Your Body is Complex.
posted by TheophileEscargot at 1:19 AM on October 7

Thanks theophileEscatgot, that's a great metaphor
posted by rebent at 8:47 AM on October 7

NYT: Nutter Butter, Are You Good? An Investigation. The cookie sandwich brand’s videos — funny, disturbing, fever-dreamlike — rack up tens of millions of views. The secret is lots of lore without much sense, the campaign’s strategists explain.
posted by jenfullmoon at 9:10 AM on October 7

Spruce Pine, NC, a tiny town just NE of Asheville, is very important for their quartz mines.
previously

"the probable "end of computer chip manufacture as we know it," should something untoward happen at Spruce Pine or in the skies above it." article dated March 2024

I don't have the brain bandwidth for the post this deserves, but it deserves a FPP.

#LinkMe
posted by droomoord at 9:26 AM on October 7

I'm not sure I follow politics threads closely enough to gauge how some content will go on Metafilter, but The Dial has a recent issue on "America" with a few articles released so far that have interesting points of view:

• "The U.S. Election Abroad": "Twelve writers tell us what the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris looks like where they live"
• Edwidge Danticat (who has many previouslies), "This Is My Body": "A reflection on violence and nourishment in America after experiencing a mass shooting hoax at a Florida mall"
• Lucía Cholakian Herrera, "What Argentina Sees in Trump": "The country's far right found a model in the former U.S. president"
• Alexander Aviña, "America Is Not America Yet": "On American history and the history of the word 'America'"
• Bruna Dantas Lobato, "Blue Light Hours": "'In the movie of my life in America, the one my mother liked to watch, a young woman sits alone in her bedroom and calls her mother each night on a computer'"

posted by Wobbuffet at 1:36 PM on October 8

NYT: Savannah Bananas, the dancing team.
posted by jenfullmoon at 8:39 AM on October 9

EviCore, the Company Helping Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Needed Treatments

Owned by Cigna and using an algorithm backed by artificial intelligence, EviCore markets itself to insurance companies by promising a 3-to-1 return on investment.
posted by concinnity at 7:16 AM on October 30 [1 favorite]