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I want a silent wedding reception. My fiance and I are planning our wedding. As the bride, I’m planning on making certain requests of my guests, to make sure that my special day is as perfect as possible. For example, I’m asking that my guests wear exclusively yellow at the ceremony. My fiance has been supportive, but he angrily rejected my other request: that our guests remain silent throughout both the ceremony and reception (to ensure that the focus remains on us).... [more inside]
posted by Toddles at 9:47 PM PST - 82 comments

Fishing nets laced with spice did nothing to deter hungry dolphins, leaving fishers searching in their bid to beat depredation. (archive.today link)
posted by Etrigan at 4:33 PM PST - 17 comments

Robin Sloan on how Big Tech's recent stumbles can open the door to a new internet: Some of you reading this were users and/or developers of the internet in the period from 2002 to perhaps 2012. For those of you who were not, I want to tell you that it was exciting and energizing, not because everything was great, but simply because anything was possible. The concrete hadn’t set. Now, after a decade of stuckness, the pavement is cracking — crumbling — and I want to insist to those of you who lived through that time, and those of you who didn’t: we all have a new opportunity.
posted by Cash4Lead at 2:08 PM PST - 41 comments

Over at Ask A Manager, proprietor Alison Green asked readers to recount their office holiday stories. Commenter Stella70 responded with a tale of youth, hubris, bad decisions, and copious amounts of alcohol.
posted by NoxAeternum at 1:26 PM PST - 30 comments

Flow State is a substack that, each weekday, recommends an album or two's worth of 'music that's perfect for working (no vocals).' [more inside]
posted by box at 12:30 PM PST - 8 comments

Lustmord has released a newly mastered redux of "The Silent Night" for all your dark ambient holiday needs. [more inside]
posted by FatherDagon at 12:15 PM PST - 5 comments

Every "Chronically Online" Conversation Is The Same
posted by backseatpilot at 11:38 AM PST - 147 comments

The recently published Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food you can make so you don’t die, by Zilla Novikov and Rachel A. Rosen, is here to rescue those of us struggling to feed ourselves. "Life is hard. Some days are at the absolute limit of what we can manage. Some days are worse than that. Eating—picking a meal, making it, putting it into your facehole—can feel like an insurmountable challenge. We wrote this cookbook to share our coping strategies." [more inside]
posted by Bella Donna at 8:55 AM PST - 73 comments

Narrative designer Bruno Dias (cf. Fallen London) presents: A [not yet] Compleat History of the Magic: the Gathering Metagame, an ongoing weekly series about the decades-long evolution of which kinds of decks competitive M:tG players were relying on in tournament play and exactly which stupid terrible broken cards were responsible for that before subsequently being banned from play forever. The story begins with Chapter 1: Magic as Dr Richard Garfield, PhD Intended.
posted by cortex at 8:08 AM PST - 38 comments

"Mornings.co.uk was curious which dreams were most common in different countries around the world. So, we analysed Google search data to see which dream symbols every country is searching for. And then we looked at what the most common dreams might mean." For those who dream of maps, here's the hi-res one Mornings.co.uk drew up.
posted by not_on_display at 12:16 AM PST - 62 comments