If the suit still fits… “This year, we’re bringing Jonathan Demme’s groundbreaking 1984 Talking Heads concert film STOP MAKING SENSE (newly remastered in 4K!) back to theaters worldwide.”

In honor of the re-release, here's a newly remastered version of my original post from 2011, with updated links and additional info.
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha at 1:02 PM on March 16, 2023 (54 comments)

The short-lived TV networks that featured shows like Star Trek Voyager, Moesha, Dilbert, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. There's a two part Youtube video detailing the history of the network, the first of which is here.
posted to MetaFilter by buffy12 at 4:19 PM on March 15, 2023 (24 comments)

I've mentioned it in past posts, but now there's a Youtube list of 633 30 to 60-second episodes of the first SyFy Sci-Fi Channel original series, FTL Newsfeed (IMDB), a commercial-length glimpse into the future, from the past when cable networks could actually be cool in their attempts at branding. It begins with an hour-long video containing the Sci-Fi Channel's pre-launch promo footage, so you'll have to fast forward to get to the first episode. After that each is over quickly, and it's easy to watch several in a row. FTL lasted for over four years, and the entire run does not appear to exist online, but transcripts of all the episodes exist on a pretty extensive fan wiki.
posted to MetaFilter by JHarris at 2:31 AM on March 15, 2023 (14 comments)

If you saved $1 a day for a year, do you know how much money you'd have? Roughly $30.000.
posted to MetaFilter by signal at 11:19 AM on March 14, 2023 (40 comments)

Author Jordan Kurella writes about The Crow: Two movies released when I was eighteen years old. One was The Crow, and the other was Pulp Fiction. One changed my life; the other was by Quentin Tarantino.
posted to MetaFilter by curious nu at 7:16 PM on March 13, 2023 (32 comments)

Kiska, the last captive orca in Canada, died of unknown causes at the Marineland amusement park on Thursday. Kiska, a three year old female orca, was captured in Icelandic waters in 1979 and brought to the Marineland amusement park near Niagara Falls, living nearly all of her 47 years in captivity. From 2011 on, she was the only orca kept in captivity in Canada, and because of this was nicknamed "the loneliest orca in the world." Metafilter previously highlighted the poor living conditions of the animals in Marineland in 2012.
posted to MetaFilter by fortitude25 at 11:00 AM on March 11, 2023 (24 comments)

Bert I. Gordon (homepage), a.k.a. "Mr B.I.G," prolific filmmaker who made many a Mystery Science Theater 3000 film, has passed away at age 100. Farewell, and thanks for all the flicks!
posted to MetaFilter by JHarris at 6:29 PM on March 8, 2023 (18 comments)

Tautumeitas is a Latvian folk group, comprised of six women vocalists and instrumentalists. They often bring more modern sensibilities into their music, but have also released straight historically sourced music. Their visual imagery has a lot of references to Latvia's pagan past, pretty clearly here in the music video for Raganu Nakts (Witches' Night, english lyrics). Read a bit more and see their video of Muoseņa, a 2022 track where they collaborated with singer-songwriter Renārs Kaupers.
posted to MetaFilter by Harald74 at 11:21 PM on March 8, 2023 (5 comments)

"Rainforests have this incredible capacity to generate rainfall. Transpiration is the process whereby trees draw moisture from the ground, via their roots, to the canopy and they emit moisture. They transpire through tiny holes in their leaves called stomata. By this transpiration process, the forests returns water from rainfall to the atmosphere, preventing it from simply running back down rivers to the sea. Forests also emit tiny organic particles into the air. Pollen, specks of vegetation and spores of fungi create a nucleus around which future raindrops can form. A process called cloud seeding. Some rainforests have been found to generate up to 75% of their own rainfall through these processes. In essence, old growth rainforests enhance and create their own climate..."
posted to MetaFilter by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 7:41 AM on February 18, 2023 (15 comments)

Soft White Underbelly is photographer Mark Laita's Youtube Channel where he has 20 - 30 minute interviews with all kinds of people that many would consider outsiders, downtrodden, criminal, or a mix: addicts (crack, fentanyl, opiates, sex, meth, booze, plastic surgery), gang members, Compulsive Gamblers, the inbred, a Dominatrix, hoarders, strippers, survivors (skydiving, human trafficking, Doomsday Theorists, Only Fans models, cross dressers, prostitutes and their tricks, Klan members,cops and ex-cons, the homeless, and many more.
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs at 9:15 AM on February 17, 2023 (14 comments)

A blind and deaf puppy swims for the first time. Bumper's videos are so, so cute and full of life and joy.
posted to MetaFilter by Zumbador at 1:46 AM on February 17, 2023 (7 comments)

Neil Clarke writes that his SFF magazine Clarkesworld has been flooded with AI-generated spam submissions in recent months. "I’m not going to detail how I know these stories are 'AI' spam or outline any of the data I have collected from these submissions. [...] What I can say is that the number of spam submissions resulting in bans has hit 38% this month."
posted to MetaFilter by Iridic at 4:10 PM on February 15, 2023 (72 comments)

Youtuber Beryl Shereshewsky regularly posts cheerful videos about the different ways people around the world eat various foods, showcasing submissions from viewers as she makes and tries the dishes, finding common ground through food. Check out her eight-part series on the many ways people around the world eat toast and get more new and delicious toast ideas than you know what to do with.
posted to MetaFilter by yasaman at 10:38 AM on February 15, 2023 (32 comments)

Therapeutic Goods Administration approves psilocybin & MDMA for use in treating Depression & PTSD. Australia's medical regulator has approved the use of psychedelics to treat some mental health conditions, making the country one of the first in the world to officially recognise MDMA and psilocybin as medicines.
posted to MetaFilter by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 12:42 AM on February 3, 2023 (12 comments)

Open-world RPG gacha game Genshin Impact heavily draws from and features traditional cultural arts, particularly Chinese arts - such as engaging a professional Chinese Opera artist to sing for operatic character Yun Jin (live concert version). For this year's Lantern Rite (the in-game equivalent of Lunar New Year), their YouTube channel features collaborations with more traditional Chinese artisans, such as a short film set during the Shexian Lantern Festival and art handmade using Chinese woodblocks.
posted to MetaFilter by creatrixtiara at 8:08 PM on January 25, 2023 (10 comments)

War Thunder is an MMO about tanks and guns and things. Its playerbase has a lot of overlap with people who use tanks and guns for a living, as evidenced by how they won't stop leaking classified documents to ask for changes to the video game.
posted to MetaFilter by one for the books at 10:37 AM on January 25, 2023 (14 comments)

To celebrate the pioneering electronic music experimentation of Radiohead
and the roughly 15-and-a-half birthday of their pioneering pay-what-you want release of their album In Rainbows
please enjoy this pioneering (and surprisingly upbeat) pay-what-you-want release of In Rainbows covered using samples from N64 games (mostly Mario 64)
posted to MetaFilter by Going To Maine at 10:38 AM on January 20, 2023 (8 comments)

Trobairitz: The Lady Composers of Medieval France is an introduction to the female troubadours of Occitania by Sarah Berry. Only one whole song, music and lyrics, attributed to a trobairitz survives in whole, the Comtesse de Dia’s A chantar m'er de so qu'eu no volria (here in the rendition of Ensemble Céladon and Paulin Bündgen, but many versions exist). Here is another poem by her in Magda Bogin’s translation. About twenty other trobairitz are known by name, and a number of anonymous poems show hints of female authorship. Claudia Keelan published a book of her translations, which she discussed in an essay including some translations and you can see her read dialogue poems with other readers. Finally, here is a translation by Samantha Pious of Bieiris de Romans’ love poem to a woman.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus at 10:39 AM on January 17, 2023 (5 comments)

In February 2022, 25 newly-discovered Basquiat paintings went on exhibit at the Orlando Museum of Art NYT Link | archive.org link. The authenticity of the paintings was almost immediately called into question, due to their irregular provenance, discrepancies in style, and anachronisms in materials.
posted to MetaFilter by OrangeDisk at 10:48 AM on January 16, 2023 (26 comments)

I recently realised that I'm autistic. Here are the resources I found valuable in figuring out what this means. All of these links are about autism in adults, which can be a challenge to find. Where possible I've prioritised resources created by neurodivergent people. Reasons why autistic people self diagnose The medical system has long focused on young, white boys — at that, often cisgender, heterosexual, and from families with money — who exhibit very specific autistic traits when it comes to research, diagnosis, and accommodations. This excludes everyone else, and means the most prevalent information we have only helps part of the community. As a result, the more intersections of oppression an autistic person exists are, the more difficult it can be for them to get a professional diagnosis.
posted to MetaFilter by Zumbador at 1:01 AM on January 13, 2023 (84 comments)

I want to share a podcast I've found helpful as I learn to cope with ADHD as an adult - something many of us working from home are discovering about ourselves. That podcast is ADHD Big Brother. Russ Jones is a single dad in his 40s who wants to help other adults who are also struggling with adhd and co-morbid depression symptoms. Each episode is a quick reminder to be kind to yourself, some advice about coping skills, and some high-energy banter thrown in too. Two good episodes are Why Affirmations Don't Work and Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria.
posted to MetaFilter by rebent at 7:10 AM on January 11, 2023 (55 comments)

In 1982, no-one had ever seen a British Asian teenager in a sari singing Indian music on Top of the Pops – until Chandra appeared, with a raga-influenced single that would inspire musicians for decades. The music video. The article.
posted to MetaFilter by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 9:48 PM on January 5, 2023 (21 comments)

I've just been told that my mother has days to weeks to live, probably the former. She is a devout Hindu but I am not. I want to honor her wishes for her last rites but am having trouble understanding the pragmatics, and I do not have family here to guide me. Any information on practical processes, rituals, the reasoning/religious significance of said rituals, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by KarmicKintsugi at 7:13 PM on December 30, 2022 (20 comments)

Gamespot has an epic series of videos covering various bits of esoterica concerning The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Here's a playlist of all of them. Youtube channel Looygi Bros has a similar playlist covering Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask and Wind Waker. Added together, it totals 841 miscellaneous pieces of Zelda lore! By the time you've finished watching them all, it'll probably be Zelda Day 2023!
posted to MetaFilter by JHarris at 12:14 AM on December 26, 2022 (14 comments)

a raccoon tries to catch falling snow
posted to MetaFilter by aniola at 8:49 AM on December 24, 2022 (19 comments)

Movie studios can be sued under false advertising laws if they release deceptive movie trailers, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson issued a ruling in a case involving “Yesterday,” the 2019 film about a world without the Beatles.
posted to MetaFilter by Etrigan at 7:59 AM on December 24, 2022 (66 comments)

Going from the early morning on December 23rd (going by US Eastern time) and going to midnight December 25th and usually a bit beyond, three solid days of riffing, weird movies and Christmas specials! It all takes place in MST Club's video share room. See inside for details!
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 9:16 AM on December 22, 2022 (17 comments)

Three short science fiction stories written by people of color and published this year (and thus eligible for you to nominate for 2022 awards). "there’s official information, but it’s never enough. And there are rumors, but you can’t trust them. This is almost like…in between." "Shared Data" by Malka Older imagines us joining forces to share information as mutual aid. "What he wanted was to leave reality." "Simulations" by Danilo Campos portrays an AI who gives a tech CEO surprising advice. Vaughn reached inside herself experimentally, tentatively, looking for anger, and found only fear again. "All That Burns Unseen" by Premee Mohamed depicts firefighting, eldercare, and a new friend.
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 5:14 PM on December 20, 2022 (10 comments)

A Show for Christmas by English comedian and playwright Daniel Kitson, is “a story about possibility and magic and grief and hope and tradition and toffees. Which is to say, Christmas. Basically.” It is an audio adaptation of a stage show he did in 2014 for the Battersea Arts Centre. The hour and a half running time is mostly narration by Daniel Kitson, but it also features Isy Suttie in an acting role. It is available online until January 1st.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus at 1:58 AM on December 21, 2022 (2 comments)

"Tenement Town takes a look behind the doors I pass every day, and offers glimpses of the lives that were lived over the centuries in the places Edinburgh’s citizens still call home." - Diarmid Mogg on his new website. Each entry starts with a specific Edinburgh front door and takes us step by step through 200 years or so of the individuals who've lived there. Today's investigation covers 10 Hill Place, the latest of the 15 addresses he's tackled so far.
posted to MetaFilter by Paul Slade at 7:13 AM on December 20, 2022 (24 comments)

Ryuichi Sakamoto releases "last" concert amid cancer battle (Kyodo News). Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence / Ryuichi Sakamoto - From Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano 2022
posted to MetaFilter by Sockin'inthefreeworld at 2:03 AM on December 20, 2022 (14 comments)

Beginning Dec 20, the BBC is broadcasting daily episodes of a radio dramatization of Susan Cooper's classic children's fantasy novel The Dark Is Rising, with each episode corresponding (more or less) to a day in the story, moving from Midwinter's Eve to the Wild Hunt.
posted to MetaFilter by hydropsyche at 4:38 AM on December 19, 2022 (41 comments)

Punjab: Food, Music and Resistance from Vittles Magazine newsletter (previously).
‘Pecha’ and the music of protest.
Mirchan Kurkurian and Swollen Lips.
The Prophet of Vegetables.
Samosas and Mimosas: Authenticity and Feminism in Hot Mango Chutney Sauce.
posted to MetaFilter by spamandkimchi at 11:21 AM on December 17, 2022 (2 comments)

In a long article similar to a recent Meta, "The White Review asks friends and contributors what books they've enjoyed reading and rereading." This year, Sofia Samatar (previously) suggests books such as Amina Cain's A Horse at Night: On Writing, and Elvia Wilk (previously) suggests books such as Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker.
posted to MetaFilter by Wobbuffet at 9:44 AM on December 11, 2022 (18 comments)

Mosaic: A match-three "broughlike" (a term for a restrictive roguelike akin to the works of Michael Brough) from the 7 Day Roguelike Challenge 2022.
posted to MetaFilter by solarion at 9:22 PM on December 9, 2022 (6 comments)

What did you play this year? What did you watch? What did you read? None of it has to be the greatest ever, or even anything that came out in 2022, I'd just like to hear about what you spent time with and what it meant to you.
posted to MetaTalk by curious nu at 11:00 PM on December 7, 2022 (82 comments)

The primary product sold by all management consultants – both software developers and strategic organisers – is the theology of capital. Review essay by Laleh Khalili on When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm. A US government website records federal contracts given to McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group and others. Homeland Security and the Pentagon paid lavishly for ‘engaging human-centred design’, developing a ‘culture of continuous improvement’ and other meaningless bits of management-speak festooned with cryptic acronyms. Two contracts with the federal procurement agency, which earned McKinsey $1 billion between 2006 and 2019, had to be terminated because the company refused to submit to an audit.
posted to MetaFilter by spamandkimchi at 1:12 PM on December 6, 2022 (41 comments)

Season 4 of TCM's podcast The Plot Thickens is Here Comes Pam, 7 episodes of Ben Mankiewicz in conversation with Pam Grier about her life. From her childhood in Colorado to the present day, Pam tells her own story. And wow, what a story it is! Each episode runs ~45m, and there might be some bonus episodes released.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 10:53 AM on December 6, 2022 (4 comments)

The Amaterasu Railway in Miyazaki Prefecture is a popular local train that takes passengers on a gorgeous 30-minute journey through the spectacular scenery of Takachiho. The quirky train is known for its open roof, its journey over Japan’s highest train bridge, and train conductors who blow bubbles along the way. But now they’re known for something else: leaving passengers feeling hungry.
posted to MetaFilter by Etrigan at 2:41 PM on December 5, 2022 (11 comments)

This is a new release of Dwarf Fortress. All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality.
posted to MetaFilter by nathan_teske at 9:35 AM on December 6, 2022 (39 comments)

Cocaine Bear (SLYT) is freebased on true events and stars Ray Liotta and Keri Russell, reuniting her with her co-star from The Americans, Margo Martindale.
posted to MetaFilter by emelenjr at 5:55 PM on November 30, 2022 (37 comments)

The best 60 seconds of your life?
posted to MetaFilter by greenhornet at 4:39 AM on December 1, 2022 (16 comments)

It is not feasible to buy a good quality cashmere sweater for $50. (SL Twitter thread from Derek Guy, menswear writer.) (Previously)
posted to MetaFilter by toastyk at 9:00 AM on November 29, 2022 (36 comments)

How do you make lace? Very very slowly, according to Broiderie Stitch, a two-person lace-making business in Gartner, Massachusetts. Lace was small, portable, and very, very expensive - a favorite for smugglers and an easy way to transport a large store of wealth. The lace middlemen profited the most off of this lucrative trade, but even a lowly lacemaker with just a few patterns would make more with lace than she could working as a laborer. Still, it wasn’t the best of jobs - four girls (or sometimes sixteen) would be clustered around the light of a single candle in the winter with their pillows and bobbins. Open fires would dirty the work, so small personal heaters filled with live coals might be placed under their skirts (a fire hazard, to be sure) or the lacemakers might work over a barn so the heat of the animals kept them from freezing. Summertime was much nicer, when so much sunlight made lacemaking easier on the eyes. Many old lacemaking songs are about finishing one’s work before the candles were lit, since weak candlelight made things so much harder.
posted to MetaFilter by Bella Donna at 6:40 AM on November 28, 2022 (33 comments)

Reiner Knizia is like royalty in the board game community. With more than 700 published games, spanning a 25-year career, he is one of, if not the most prolific board game designer in the world.
posted to MetaFilter by Etrigan at 6:13 AM on November 28, 2022 (27 comments)

It is Thanksgiving Day, and as is our wanton wont, we are watching the official 2022 Turkey Day marathon (via their YouTube stream) of Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes in the MST Club room all day long! It started at 7 AM and should be going for quite a while, they have a lot of episodes this year, and they've been "surgically enhanced," meaning they're uprezed and restored! Come join us for a while if that sounds fun!
posted to MetaTalk by JHarris at 4:50 AM on November 24, 2022 (1 comment)

It's a directory of blogs. Avoid your family today like it's 2006. Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate!
posted to MetaFilter by COD at 5:05 AM on November 24, 2022 (29 comments)

Marine, aka moonovermarine, is a French embroidery artist much of whose work adapts imagery from games, movies, and other cultural wells. Their current project: a series of scenes from the monochrome ZX Spectrum game "Sentinel".
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 7:51 AM on November 22, 2022 (11 comments)

Please help me find a new laptop [that I can purchase within Canada]. I need something beefier than what I currently have, but I'm also working with a limited budget so I'm keeping my requirements flexible. Details under the fold.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by nightrecordings at 10:00 AM on November 17, 2022 (4 comments)

Statewide police conduct standards will soon be enforceable almost two years after law passed “ From 1999 to Feb. 2021, just 81 law enforcement officers lost their ability to work in Virginia because of unacceptable conduct on the job. Since then, numbers have surged. Between March 2021 and Aug. 5 of this year, 103 Virginia police officers have been decertified” .

the first time a police chief has ever been decertified in Virginia

increased potential crimes involving computer trespass, to include making an unauthorized copy of data.

posted to MetaFilter by screenname00 at 6:22 PM on November 14, 2022 (16 comments)