Jenny Nicholson's latest video is live, it's a 4 hour review retrospective of Disney's Star Wars Hotel.
posted to MetaFilter by Pendragon at 3:30 AM on May 19, 2024 (16 comments)

Young schoolchildren from County Cork, working with a non-profit children's music & creative space, have created a piece called 'The Spark" for Cruinniú na nÓg, which is the national free day of creativity for young people, run by the Creative Ireland Programme’s Youth Plan. [cw: strobe transition effect on first link]

Take a moment to imagine what you think it might sound like, before you click the link and enjoy 'The Spark'.
posted to MetaFilter by Busy Old Fool at 9:03 AM on May 17, 2024 (14 comments)

From Donald Glover: Childish Gambino - Little Foot Big Foot (Official Video) ft. Young Nudy [6m] Genius lyrics page.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 1:53 PM on May 15, 2024 (27 comments)

You kind of just have to click through to experience the madness. It's literally the worst. All the worst "features" combined into the worst interface of all time - so far.
posted to MetaFilter by Devils Rancher at 8:01 AM on May 14, 2024 (28 comments)

Mostly I just saw two links about pie in the face and here they are. Ask A Manager is asked whether or not a manager HAS to have pie thrown in their face at work. "Under no reasonable definition does it fall within “other duties as assigned.” Judge John Hodgman was also asked in the NYT if someone has to keep pie-ing her husband in the face when he loves it, she doesn't. "Shoving a pie in someone’s face is assault, and you should not do it unless you are certain your partner is into it. Unfortunately, it turns out your husband is really into that pie, and he has unfairly transformed your revenge into his kink."
posted to MetaFilter by jenfullmoon at 10:18 AM on May 13, 2024 (113 comments)

There have been a few posts here on the blue in recent years celebrating some rising young music stars, Yoyoka Soma and Ellen Alaverdyan, to name two. Often, when we see talented young people like that, our first thought is "Hey, they should collaborate!". Well, our wish has been granted.
posted to MetaFilter by hanov3r at 10:30 PM on May 12, 2024 (5 comments)

A tour of a 300 year old business that makes pastels in nearly 2000 colors [youtube - 2024/05/12 Business Insider]
posted to MetaFilter by ursus_comiter at 5:30 PM on May 12, 2024 (8 comments)

This Is What Being in Your Twenties Was Like in 18th-Century London. A newly restored collection of letters describes a 27-year-old’s office job, social life and financial concerns beginning in 1719.
posted to MetaFilter by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 11:42 PM on May 10, 2024 (10 comments)

You could call them “sky flowers,” but that doesn’t really make sense either—after all, the faded blue behind each squiggle is water, not sky, and the squiggles themselves don’t represent solid objects in any tangible, meaningful way. But they look right. The reds and greens and yellows add life and color in a way that a flat blue might not. Those odd shapes, suspended motionless with no clear reason or value, establish a tone. There are a lot of things that don’t make sense on SpongeBob SquarePants. But there’s a clear and coherent vision that runs through the entire show, from the design of SpongeBob’s kitchen-sponge body down to the squeaky-balloon sound of his footsteps. It’s a perspective, and a warm, specific, crazy little world. Of course it has sky flowers in it. What else would be up there?

Today marks 25 years since the original broadcast of "Help Wanted" -- the pilot episode of marine biologist Stephen Hillenburg's educational comic that became a delightful romp of "relentless optimism and fundamental sweetness", a hothouse flower of inventive and absurdist imagination, a cultural touchstone for multiple generations, and one of the most iconic and beloved animated franchises of the 21st century. Are you ready, kids?
posted to MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 3:55 PM on May 1, 2024 (23 comments)

I am a professor of medicine and public health who researches the government’s response to addiction. I also spent more than two decades as a police officer. If cities expect to help reduce our nation’s overdose crisis and not simply ride a policy pendulum back and forth between election cycles, their leaders need to enact compassionate, effective drug policies and ensure fair access to public space at the same time.
posted to MetaFilter by Winnie the Proust at 5:38 AM on April 25, 2024 (30 comments)

The Etak Navigator "Today, I’d like to tell you about the Etak Navigator, a truly revolutionary product and the world’s first practical vehicle navigation system."[via]
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva at 9:48 PM on April 15, 2024 (27 comments)

Conan O’Brien Needs a Doctor While Eating Spicy Wings is the season 23 finale of Hot Ones [previously], where Sean Evans asks Conan O’Brien questions while they eat chicken wings with increasingly spicy hot sauce. It goes off the rails pretty quickly.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus at 1:59 PM on April 13, 2024 (37 comments)

Pompeii: Breathtaking new paintings found at ancient city A wide residential and commercial block, known as "Region 9", is being cleared of several metres of overlying pumice and ash thrown out by Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago.(Pompeii previously)
posted to MetaFilter by bq at 11:59 AM on April 11, 2024 (22 comments)

This is a public thank you to chariot pulled by cassowaries for their frequent posts of good news from the natural world. It brightens my day to read about plants and animals recovering adversity, and people being not-terrible in helping them. Cheers to you.
posted to MetaTalk by seanmpuckett at 1:54 AM on April 6, 2024 (47 comments)

Orville Peck & Willie Nelson - Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond Of Each Other (slyt)
posted to MetaFilter by rubatan at 5:31 PM on April 6, 2024 (18 comments)

Falcon that crashed Taylor Swift concert set-up released back at Stadium Australia. A peregrine falcon that came to ground during the set-up for Taylor Swift's concert has recovered in the care of wildlife professionals and has been released back into his habitat at Stadium Australia.
posted to MetaFilter by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 9:21 AM on April 3, 2024 (10 comments)

March 28, 1999: Futurama. It seems to go on and on forever. In fact, the pilot episode of the original run aired 25 years ago tonight, kicking off what would become one of the smartest and most hilarious comedies in TV history. So celebrate with an overview of character intros, ★ key scenes, clips, ♫ songs, and other links, why not?
posted to MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 11:59 AM on March 28, 2024 (49 comments)

The board forming the MetaFilter nonprofit met Feb. 29.
posted to MetaTalk by NotLost at 8:52 AM on March 26, 2024 (10 comments)

The superbly preserved remains of a Bronze Age settlement offer a glimpse of a “colorful, rich, varied” domestic life circa 850 B.C. Franz Lidz for the New York Times
posted to MetaFilter by bq at 8:18 PM on March 23, 2024 (17 comments)

Hi there, MetaFilter!

Welcome to this month’s Site Update. You can find the last Site Update here.

Reminder: I will be the only mod actively monitoring this thread so please be patient. I’ll reply to your feedback and questions at least twice a week. I’m looking forward to your feedback and questions!
posted to MetaTalk by loup at 9:36 AM on March 20, 2024 (11 comments)

They're still working on figuring out what caused the Champlain Towers South Condo to collapse in Miami in 2021 [Wikipedia]. There was an update of the NIST engineering investigation earlier this month, and Jeff Ostroff will take a half-hour to explain everything they've learned so far. Photos, video, deep analysis... It's a fascinating update to a recent tragedy that is still getting resolved.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 11:30 AM on March 12, 2024 (12 comments)

To know a tree best, it’s important to move beyond biology and to the emotions and sensations it stirs. Beauty as a branch of biology is underrated. from The Extraordinary Lives Of Coast Redwoods [Noema]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:32 AM on March 11, 2024 (5 comments)

Their newly released cover of the Britney Spears' classic "...Baby One More Time" is just plain fun.
posted to MetaFilter by Kitteh at 6:00 AM on March 10, 2024 (18 comments)

Kate Wagner (a cycling journalist best known for her blog McMansion Hell) takes a trip to the Austin Grand Prix for Road and Track magazine as a guest of INEOS F1 team. A subeditor chose the pull quote “If you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about an hour by taking them for a spin around the paddock of a Formula 1 race. The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever.”. Shortly after, an editor chose to pull the article entirely.
posted to MetaFilter by ambrosen at 4:31 PM on March 3, 2024 (90 comments)

A favorite section of mine. Einstein on the Beach... knee play#5 My favorite part of the American opera by Phillip Glass (music) and Robert Wilson (visuals), and Lucinda Childs (choreography). At 4.5 hours long and no
posted to MetaFilter by Czjewel at 3:33 AM on March 2, 2024 (13 comments)

What do King Arthur, Luke Skywalker, Harry Potter, Aragorn and Paul Atreides have in common? Call it Magic Dick Theory. (Although on closer inspection, maybe not Paul so much.) The Ringer offers up a "psychoanalytic reading of canonical chosen-one narratives in fantasy and science fiction."
posted to MetaFilter by gottabefunky at 3:11 PM on March 1, 2024 (62 comments)

The board forming the nonprofit for Metafilter met Feb. 15.
posted to MetaTalk by apartment dweller at 1:53 PM on February 28, 2024 (15 comments)

I'm about as far from this record's target demographic as it's possible to get, but I know a great pop single when I hear one. And THIS is a great pop single: Caity Baser: I'm a Problem
posted to MetaFilter by Paul Slade at 4:56 AM on February 28, 2024 (44 comments)

While reviewing the handful of 747 accidents caused by airframe failings, the narrator mentioned that the United Airlines 747-122 – which had lost its cargo door out of Honolulu on February 24th, 1989 – was repaired and returned to service... I was just curious about what became of United Airlines’ N4713U after the media intensity surrounding that fateful night. Was it was still flying? At the very least, I thought I’d find a story that got more and more “interesting” as the airliner aged. . . And I wouldn’t be disappointed.
posted to MetaFilter by ShooBoo at 12:13 PM on February 26, 2024 (34 comments)

This is not an exciting video. The presentation is not elegant, but it is informative. It probably won't interest many of you. But the title of it is Why do rollercoasters valley and how do they get recovered [55m] by Ryan The Ride Mechanic. And I know there's a subset of you who will be thrilled to watch this very fascinating video about a topic I'd never thought to learn about.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 2:13 PM on February 22, 2024 (6 comments)

I chose to release my submarine novel for free under a Creative Commons license because I am committed to the open-source ideal. Unfortunately, it seems that no publisher would ever touch CC these days, and (more distressingly) lots of readers won't consider it because of our sad cultural heuristic of "free novel = awful". And then the book also doesn't fit nicely into any particular category. It's not really science fiction (the science is realistic). It's not really alternative-history (Hitler doesn't win the war). And it's not even a good fit for submarine novels (the submarines in it are cargo subs, not war subs — it also has strong female leads.) I fear I've doomed the thing to obscurity from the start. But I put years of work into it. I re-wrote it many times. I had it professionally copy-edited. People who do read it, love it. I love it. But this promotion stuff sucks. So if it sounds even vaguely appealing, save me by giving the book a shot! And then tell someone else about it…
posted to MetaFilter Projects by kunstcleaver at 10:11 PM on February 18, 2024 (3 comments)

Hi there, MetaFilter!

Welcome to your second Site Update of the year! You can find the last Site Update here.

Reminder: I will be the only mod actively monitoring this thread so please be patient. I’ll reply to your feedback and questions at least twice a week. I’m looking forward to your feedback and questions!
posted to MetaTalk by loup at 10:23 AM on February 21, 2024 (23 comments)

On its maiden voyage in 1628, the Vasa warship capsized and sank. Originally thought to be caused by too many cannons on too many decks, one of the leading theories now is that shipbuilders used different rulers. Four were found in the wreckage, two calibrated with the Swedish Foot and the other two rulers used the Amsterdam Foot. Not only are they different lengths (29.69 cm versus 28.31 cm), the Dutch Foot was divided into 11 instead of 12 inches. These errors multiplied over the size of the ship led to lopsided construction and potentially the inevitable sinking.
posted to MetaFilter by autopilot at 12:14 PM on February 19, 2024 (58 comments)

The board forming the nonprofit for Metafilter met Feb. 1.
posted to MetaTalk by NotLost at 8:57 AM on February 19, 2024 (20 comments)

Hello MetaFilter!

We are thrilled to announce the latest addition to our team, a hire that has been highly anticipated - Kirkaracha!

posted to MetaTalk by loup at 12:32 PM on February 9, 2024 (60 comments)

This may be why Part Four is precisely four and a half pages long. And rather than name any successful projects, Dixon instead spends his few pages excoriating the "casino" projects that he says have given crypto a bad rap, prompting regulatory scrutiny that is making "ethical entrepreneurs ... afraid to build products" in the United States. In fact, throughout the entire book, Dixon fails to identify a single blockchain project that has successfully provided a non-speculative service at any kind of scale. from Molly White's reviews Chris Dixon's Read Write Own
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:10 PM on February 9, 2024 (12 comments)

Link is episode 1. As of 4 February 2024, he's up to episode 1887. Ron Calverley is a retired bus worker in Winnipeg who, after the death of his wife, decided to build a model ship like he had in his younger days. Actual model-making? Discussions of model-making infrastructure? LONG digressions about videography and computing? Classic old-man musings on life? ALL PROVIDED IN ABUNDANCE!
posted to MetaFilter by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 6:20 PM on February 4, 2024 (5 comments)

and the dark patterns you should try to avoid. From their description: A game review website devoted to helping you find mobile games that aren't riddled with in-app purchases, and don't use psychological tricks to manipulate you into becoming an addicted gamer. Learn about the dark patterns that game designers use to waste your precious time and money.
posted to MetaFilter by wowenthusiast at 10:48 AM on February 5, 2024 (57 comments)

'Take Five' arranged for solo guitar by Lucas Brar.
posted to MetaFilter by MetaFilter World Peace at 8:26 AM on February 2, 2024 (26 comments)

What if you took EVERY DJ break Howard Hesseman ever made, as Dr. Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati, and just ...followed his lead? Would it be possible to construct a three hour radio show, with Fever as host?
posted to MetaFilter by Alvy Ampersand at 11:29 AM on February 1, 2024 (38 comments)

Yes, it is! No, it isn't!

Until scientists get more data from James Webb, or future missions such as ESA’s PLATO launch, it’s all down to what they can do with the existing numbers.

posted to MetaFilter by johnabbe at 12:03 PM on January 31, 2024 (7 comments)

The board forming the nonprofit for Metafilter met Jan. 18.
posted to MetaTalk by NotLost at 12:56 PM on January 30, 2024 (17 comments)

Decider - ‘Fisk’ On Netflix, A Comedy About A Woman Taking An Estate Law Job After Some Life Setbacks: Helen Tudor-Fisk (Kitty Flanagan) used to practice contract law at a high-end Sydney law firm, but after her husband ran off with an older woman, she’s decided to move back to her hometown of Melbourne. Her life is certainly unsettled — she’s living in an Airbnb rental — and she’ll take anything, especially if it involves little interaction with clients. Oh, and she won’t give any references from her old firm. Preview. Kitty Flanagan and the Fisk cast discuss wills and their new Australian legal comedy
posted to FanFare by ShooBoo at 8:47 AM on January 27, 2024 (11 comments)

Warning: sharp, startling static sounds

Turns out if you crash a GBA game and wait a couple hours, it will start singing the entire content of its memory to you: Dumping the ROM of a GBA game by crashing it
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 1:43 PM on January 17, 2024 (19 comments)

Favorite Dance Moves. Ed People gets people to show their favorite dance moves from all around the world.
posted to MetaFilter by storybored at 5:25 PM on January 15, 2024 (19 comments)

You want tomorrow to be different than today, and it may seem the same, or worse, but next year will be different than this one, because those tiny increments added up. The tree today looks a lot like the tree yesterday, and so does the baby. A lot of change is undramatic growth, transformation, or decay, or rather its timescale means the drama might not be perceptible to the impatient. from Slow Change Can Be Radical Change by Rebecca Solnit
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:17 AM on January 13, 2024 (13 comments)

Sometimes, when a rambunctious baked good and a kryptonian/atlantean doofus love each other very much...
posted to MetaTalk by vrakatar at 9:01 AM on January 12, 2024 (54 comments)

An Open Letter to Jeremy Allen White Regarding His Recent Calvin Klein Ad Campaign
posted to MetaFilter by O Time, Thy Pyramids at 8:53 AM on January 9, 2024 (125 comments)

I'm looking for a lightweight video editor with a few specific features that might be able to run without lag on my somewhat-old computer.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by NoneOfTheAbove at 6:34 PM on January 2, 2024 (10 comments)

Unpopular best friends PJ and Josie start a high school fight club to meet girls and lose their virginity. They soon find themselves in over their heads when the most popular students start beating each other up in the name of self-defense.
posted to FanFare by Halloween Jack at 7:19 PM on September 2, 2023 (17 comments)