December 11, 2020

The only antidote? Yentl and The Chosen on VHS.

A great Hanukkah movie would be a miracle: Will Feinstein of The A.V. Club asks "What does it look like when Hanukkah has the rare chance to take center stage in holiday films? And why don’t we see more Hanukkah movies?" [more inside]
posted by dannyboybell at 7:49 PM PST - 48 comments

C is for печенье, that's good enough for me

Impersonating a Property Owner, a Man Paid an Artist to Paint a Cookie Monster Mural in Peoria. The Town—and the Internet—Have Questions The case of the mystery mural commission has gone viral. [more inside]
posted by ActingTheGoat at 7:17 PM PST - 63 comments

LinkedIn is the fucking worst

Fadeke Adegbuyi on LinkedIn’s alternate universe and how it makes professional networking weird with its bizarre inspirational copypasta, never-ending InMail, copycat features (stories! audio messages!), and rockstar recruiters.
posted by adrianhon at 2:15 PM PST - 89 comments

And Now, a Sinkhole Full of Rats

"Here is my yearly roundup of headlines I screen shotted in 2020." [2019, 2018, 2017]
posted by Ouverture at 12:45 PM PST - 43 comments

Time of the Signs

It appears that cipher Z340 of the cryptograms sent by the so-called Zodiac Killer in 1969 has finally been solved.
posted by Rumple at 11:34 AM PST - 39 comments

Put a scale symmetry exactly on top of a rotational symmetry. Enjoy.

SuperSym: A symmetry-based doodling toy. Draw symmetrical things. Feel soothed by them. [via mefi projects]
posted by jacquilynne at 8:22 AM PST - 14 comments

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