MetaFilter

From Nurse Ratched to Kai Winn, Louise Fletcher always kept a smile on her face while she destroyed your world in ways you hadn't imagined possible. Rest in peace, great actor.
posted by Winnie the Proust at 8:10 PM PST - 50 comments

Claire Hummel described and illustrated fake video games such as "Pro Poker Amateur" and "It's Probably Fine".
posted by brainwane at 4:06 PM PST - 15 comments

Streamed live yesterday as part of NIN Appreciation Day, join Trent and Atticus and nearly the entire other cast of Nine Inch Nails for Nine Inch Nails Live Q&A from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame [1h10m]
posted by hippybear at 3:11 PM PST - 6 comments

MeFi's Own Andy Baio is tracking a mystery over on waxy.org: A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements and nobody knows how
posted by cortex at 10:16 AM PST - 60 comments

Meet the Women Reinvigorating Spanish Indie Rock. [more inside]
posted by signal at 9:36 AM PST - 4 comments

This miracle plant was eaten into extinction 2,000 years ago—or was it? is an article in the National Geographic by Taras Grescoe [previously] about the potential rediscovery of the favorite herb of the Romans, silphion, [prev & iously] in Turkey by Prof. Mahmut Miski. Grescoe put a bit more info in a Twitter thread, and if you have access, you can read Miski’s scholarly article here.
posted by Kattullus at 9:24 AM PST - 30 comments

Stephen Lindholm's Smurf Research Center lists a treasury of Smurfy miscellanea. It has all the episodes of the show with plot synopses, speculates about the existence of gay Smurfs (with only one adult female, how could there not be?), and also records systematically whatever the hell it is that Gargamel wanted them for. The title of the post comes from their "magnum opus," The Exegesis of the Smurfs. [more inside]
posted by JHarris at 9:22 AM PST - 17 comments

After 1500 or so edits, Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a film that finally feels properly paced, looks stunning, and, after long last, no longer keeps the viewer at arm’s length.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 6:19 AM PST - 68 comments

It started with a tweet highlighting an episode from On the Air, a series of short animations from BBC Northern Ireland of talk radio from The Gerry Anderson Show dating back to the 2000s. The hypno-hen soon went viral, and now the late broadcaster's family have set up a website in his honour. [more inside]
posted by rory at 6:07 AM PST - 3 comments

The first time I saw these swaths of burnt-pumpkin, dead forest, I felt a pain in my chest, though I will admit that I still hadn’t accepted or allowed myself to reveal this to others, consider it legitimate, or let myself feel it, so it became a stunted obscure pain. A pain I considered immature, juvenile, weak. This is the first time I can remember my own eco-grief. An elastic tight feeling inside my chest. I will always equate the orange colour of dead pine needles with the colour of death.
posted by latkes at 12:03 AM PST - 7 comments