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Paul Weller and Suggs got together with some horns and made a song. But there's another video! During which Suggs rolls around on the ground and Weller chews gum while singing. [more inside]
posted by goofyfoot at 11:29 PM PST - 5 comments

In December of 2021, professionals in the print and design industries were disappointed to learn that because of a breakdown in licensing talks, Adobe would remove Pantone Color Libraries from future versions of its Creative Cloud products. The reality turned out to be more disappointingly late-stage-capitalist-rent-seeking, when Adobe decided that any Photoshop file with a Pantone color would be replaced by black squares when the PSD file was loaded, unless the user pays an additional $21 per month. [more inside]
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 8:55 PM PST - 47 comments

Once again (previously,) the Spanish band Broken Peach has released a Halloween Video in their classic style. [more inside]
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 7:34 PM PST - 7 comments

Four Poems by Dennis Brutus. 'Cold' (YT), 'Train Journey', 'I must conjure from my past', ' Still the Sirens' [more inside]
posted by clavdivs at 7:30 PM PST - 1 comments

Fern Brady comedy special (SLYT, 56:01m, subtitles/captioning).
posted by curious nu at 5:42 PM PST - 15 comments

Get Blogging! [via mefi projects]
posted by aniola at 3:52 PM PST - 40 comments

Wanna watch some birds and snakes and insects and whatnot with no commentary? Wildlife video diary.
posted by clawsoon at 2:12 PM PST - 3 comments

My First Fright The first scary movie I saw wasn't really scary, but the circumstances surrounding it made it so. What are your first unlikely scary movies?
posted by hairless ape at 12:52 PM PST - 54 comments

Friday Night Forking [more inside]
posted by backseatpilot at 12:11 PM PST - 2 comments

On October 30, 2002, a cancer-stricken Warren Zevon returned to the ‘Late Show With David Letterman’ stage for one last performance. Twenty years later, Letterman and more remember the gravitas and emotion of that stunning night. (archive.ph link)
posted by Etrigan at 12:04 PM PST - 20 comments

Get your code personally reviewed by Elon Musk! On paper! This service is sure to massively disrupt software development, bro. Multiple pricing tiers appropriate to whatever level you're on. Meet Elon Musk personally, and get your code shot into space! But the video explains it better than I could.
posted by Naberius at 9:34 AM PST - 47 comments

Wikipedia is notoriously complicated when discussing math-related topics but sometimes the concepts themselves are actually not that difficult when described in plain language. Let's talk about fractals, specifically the Cantor Set, the Sierpinski carpet, and the Menger sponge. Here's how they relate to one another, mathematically. [more inside]
posted by jessamyn at 9:31 AM PST - 28 comments

What Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture (Derek Thompson for The Atlantic)
posted by box at 8:50 AM PST - 40 comments

The Last Stop and the Book of Revelation by Nicolette Polek [The Paris Review]
posted by chavenet at 6:17 AM PST - 2 comments

"I’m always looking for tangible examples of how our towns and cities go through long slow cycles. Our places as well as our institutions have a lifespan." Johnny Sanphillippo at Granola Shotgun (previously) writes about the death of an elderly neighbor, sorting through her belongings, San Francisco infrastructure that's well-maintained or not, and related topics, illustrating his post with many photos (heads-up in case you're on a low-bandwidth connection). In case you enjoy his work, check out the Granola Shotgun archives, including 2014-2020 material on his old WordPress site.
posted by brainwane at 5:43 AM PST - 13 comments