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‘If you want the girl next door, go next door’: Lori Petty
The Guardian profiles actress Lori Petty, who has appeared in Station Eleven, Orange is the New Black, Point Break, A League of Their Own, Tank Girl
dancers extraordinaire Norah, Yarah and Rosa are Let It Happen
And here again are Norah, Yarah and Rosa:
Professor Longhair -- Big Chief Blues (Pt. 2)
2Pac -- Only God Can Judge Me
Common ft. Blackthought, Seun Kuti -- When We Move
aka Let It Happen
So enjoy and as you know...
Professor Longhair -- Big Chief Blues (Pt. 2)
2Pac -- Only God Can Judge Me
Common ft. Blackthought, Seun Kuti -- When We Move
aka Let It Happen
So enjoy and as you know...
Peripatetic Persistent Pirate Puffins' Peregrination Continues: Tokyo to Vladivostok (633 hours) 🐧
Formerly the Remote Non-synchronous Relay Walk. Formally the Peripatetic Persistent Pirate Puffins' Pacific Peregrination: SF to Tokyo 🐧. You say it takes 633 hours of peregrination* to get from Tokyo to Vladivostok. The more you (dear reader) log your hours, the sooner we'll have gone the distance. Join any time. Track our progress (hopefully I can figure it all out soon). Still with our Official Puffin Mascot "S.F. Tokyo, Pirate" (they/them)!
Lay your new music favs on me
After reading this FPP I'd really like to hear what your new music favorites are! I'd like pop and rock and soul music, made in the last, oh, 5 years or so, and I'd be most happy to hear from women artists, though any will do!
"Are you a robot?" "No." "That's exactly what a robot would say."
Stevie Martin and Lola-Rose Maxwell make sketches about the frustrations of dealing with technology, work, and everyday situations, like verifying that you're not a robot, buying food online, working "for exposure", every time you try and go on a website, when you forget your password, trying to print something and others.
The year in cheer
192 ways the world got better in 2021 from Reasons to be Cheerful.
#HockeyTwitter, we need your help!
Nadia Popovici hadn’t woken up yet when what she had done to save a life was going viral on hockey Twitter.
Movie special effects
A couple short videos on movie special effects: The Death of Green Screen, by Mr. Sunday Movies, covers the history of special effects from King Kong to The Mandalorian. Thomas Flight explains Why Dune's Visual Effects Feel So Different.
Amanda Huber Remembers Her Husband Jon
Amanda Huber
, of All Elite Wrestling's Community Outreach Team, shares her memories of her husband Jon, aka Huberboy #2, aka Luke Harper, aka Mr. Brodie Lee. Who, by the way, really had a gift for extracting comedy from a rolled up bunch of paper.
A Strange Loop
A gay black man working as an usher on Broadway is writing a musical about a gay black man working as an usher on Broadway who is writing a musical about a gay black man working a an usher on Broadway writing a musical. This recursion forms the basis for A Strange Loop [Wikipedia, trailer, 2m30s], a musical that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama [Pulitzer.org] but only just NOW is headed to Broadway thanks to COVID [NPR, article with listen link]. Here is the Original Cast Album [YouTube playlist].
All day long, all day long, on the chaise longue
Still looking for a song of the summer? Allow me to recommend Wet Leg's debut single Chaise Longue, which a commenter describes as "like if Anne of Green Gables invented punk." And if you're still looking for fashion inspiration after that, their follow-up suggests... dressing like an Amish lobster? Sexy silly fun stuff all around.
The Faddan More Psalter
In 2006, the remains of an early medieval illuminated manuscript were discovered in a peat bog at Faddan More, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. At YouTube there are short videos about the discovery and conservation of the psalter (psalm-book); and about its significance. For The Guardian, Lisa O'Carroll writes about the manuscript, and the 'terrifying' work led by manuscript conservationist John Gillis, to preserve it.
On "meritocracy."
Turns out, Harvard students aren’t that smart after all.
43% of Harvard’s white students are either recruited athletes, legacy students, on the dean’s interest list (meaning their parents have donated to the school) or children of faculty and staff. The kicker? Roughly three-quarters of these applicants would have been rejected if it weren’t for having rich or Harvard-connected parents or being an athlete. This dynamic is inherently racialized, with almost 70% of all legacy applicants at Harvard being white. A white person’s chances of being admitted increased seven times if they had family who donated to Harvard. Meanwhile, African American, Asian American and Hispanic students make up less than 16% of students who are children of faculty and staff. (SL Grauniad) (archived link)
The Fallacy of Eating the Way Your Great-Grandmother Ate
Our great-grandparents, Pollan and others have argued, didn’t raise their kids on guar gum, soy lecithin, and many of the other ingredients common in today’s processed foods. They served milk fresh from the cow, turnips dug fresh from the garden, and cooked almost everything from scratch. If only we had stuck to this small-scale agrarian lifestyle, our kids would never spill Go-GURT in the backseat or bug us to refill their snack cups with ever more Goldfish crackers. The underlying claim is that if we ate this way, nobody would be fat.
A Game Of Cops And Robots
Have you ever wanted to give your friend or lover a Voight-Kampff test? Then you should probably consider trying Inhuman Conditions (BGG), a free (cards, rules, thematic form) two-player RPG/Quiz in which an interrogator has five minutes to try to determine if an interviewee is a human or a replicant robot.
We got a new garage door. It came with an epic story
Jana takes her measurements, then asks when our home was built.
“Nineteen fifty-six. Is that an issue?”
“Nope.”
Building a roll-top dining room table/jigsaw table
A woman who will stop at nothing to slightly improve her jigsaw puzzle experience
Building the table. A 3D printed tiny bathtub for her sore thumbs. First use of new lathe. Everything is at the right height because the jigsaw puzzle level can be moved up when the dining table isn't being used. A cute dog.
THAT'S TODAY!
For the sixth year in a row, comedy writer Demi Adejuyigbe has released a video in honor of the 21st day of September. Previously
happy first 20 years
Today is my platinum anniversary on MeFi!
Rock out with my Rosetta Stone out
Can you recommend me some good Latin punk/rock bands?
Don’t Believe the Salad Millionaire
You’re smart enough to pick your own lunch, no matter what Sweetgreen's CEO says.
"More interesting, though, is how telling Neman’s salvational ramblings are of a harmful conviction about health that America’s wealthiest, most privileged class long ago laundered into common sense: that people who, unlike them, end up sick or poor have simply refused to make the right choices and help themselves."
Porno Hustlers Of The Atari Age
While doing research for Video Dames, a video documentary series on female protagonists in video games, Kotaku writer Kate Willaert found an article that would lead her into a rabbit hole of excess and outrageousness - resulting in her creating a history of one of the most offensive video games to be made. (SLKotaku)
Short Lease in a Slick Machine
A personal essay by Kate Wagner of McMansion Hell: The apartment I’ve lived in this past year quite frankly and very succinctly encompasses everything I kind of hate about architecture, about design, about the ways people in the profession are expected to live their lives for the benefit and the consumption of others. [via]
What’s MINE to care about and what’s NOT mine to care about?
And yet, when I check social media it feels like
there are voices saying “if you aren’t talking about, doing something about, performatively posting about ___(fill in the blank)___then you are an irredeemably callous, priviledged, bigot who IS PART OF THE PROBLEM” and when I am someone who does actually care about human suffering and injustice (...) it leaves me feeling like absolute shit. I am left with wondering: am I doing enough, sacrificing enough, giving enough, saying enough about all the horrible things right now to think of myself as a good person and subsequently silence the accusing voice in my head?
Bo Burnham vs. Jeff Bezos - Video Essay
2.5 Hr SLYT.
This video essay discusses intimately how we interact with social media, memes, and how it influences society and politics.
Just wait until the summer when they let me out the house!
Rumors feat Cardi B is the first new Lizzo track in 2 years!
"... the sort of things that alter your soul."
For many of us who teach, "Teaching during the pandemic has been an exercise in balancing the utterly mundane with the profoundly traumatic—the sort of things that alter your soul." Sarah E. Smith responds to her student evaluations. [content warning: suicide]
Let Me Get with You Next
Disney alum (slwiki) Olivia Holt has been hanging around the pop and dance charts, amassing a small collection (slyt) of decent-enough, non-cringe pop that sometimes gets you movin'.
Her latest - Next - comes with a clip filmed (by Alex Nazari) around a mansion - and it's a delight!
“You aren’t old, you are merely disappointed”
Writing for Gawker, Brandy Jensen doles out some good (if classic?) advice on aging: “Dear Fuck-Up: I Feel Old and Washed Up”
August is MetaFilter fundraising month
It's fundraising time! MetaFilter depends primarily on user and reader support to continue to operate: that funding pays for moderation, site development, and basic administrative costs like server hosting. It is increasingly difficult to operate a site like ours in the modern web economy, and your financial contributions through one-time contributions and recurring subscriptions have made, and will make, all the difference in keeping MeFi going.
You can start or increase your subscription here. I'll answer some questions about what we need, where the money goes, and what's coming up below, so come on inside if you want more detail.
You can start or increase your subscription here. I'll answer some questions about what we need, where the money goes, and what's coming up below, so come on inside if you want more detail.
Fractal vise
After Hand Tool Rescue restored a "grip anything" fractal vise, everybody got into it. Nebraska-based artist Steve Lindsay has been working on a modern metal one for six years. You can put a downpayment on one for yourself, but he doesn't know how much it'll cost when it's done.
Could I interest you in everything about "Inside"?
Bo Burnham started out as a geeky kid writing parody songs in his room, but the success of his work on YouTube soon launched him into a career in comedy, where he quickly won the respect of comics thrice his age. Three innovative specials and one acclaimed coming-of-age film later, Bo seemed to disappear from the scene for years... only to return in spring 2021 with INSIDE [trailer], a striking one-man/one-room pandemic comedy masterpiece, inventively cinematic in style, which devolves from clever social media parody to incisive sociopolitical critique to dystopian internet horror to a heartbreaking elegy for a dying world as it parallels his own emotional breakdown. Two months later, with six Emmy nominations and a nationwide theatrical release this weekend, there's plenty of Content to chew on -- a full track breakdown, lyrics, commentary, analysis, and beyond. Want it? Good. There's
I literally said OMG at least once watching this
Ride With Juno As It Flies Past the Solar System’s Biggest Moon and Jupiter [JPL/NASA article, embedded video] "Using the spacecraft’s JunoCam imager, the mission team has put together this animation to provide a “starship captain” point of view of each flyby." Juno Flies Past the Moon Ganymede and Jupiter, With Music by Vangelis [4m, direct link to video on YouTube]
Queer readings of The Lord of the Rings are not accidents
Molly Ostertag presents an in-depth and compelling argument that the hobbits' relationship was a romantic one, presented as explicitly as Tolkien felt he could:
It was a conscious choice on the part of “Frodo” and “Sam” to include the many moments when they express love for each other, and it reads much in the same way people from the past delicately referred to their same-sex relationships: wanting to acknowledge their truth while obeying the conventions of the time.
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates joining Howard University
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates are joining the faculty of Howard University, creating a center for Journalism and Democracy. Hannah-Jones' has a sharp and clear statement on her new job and her mistreatment by the University of North Carolina.
Attribution error
Robert Wright, Ode to a world-saving idea: attribution error. "If I had to pick only one scientific finding about how the human mind works and promulgate it in hopes of saving the world, I’d probably go with attribution error."
I'm going to go over the engineering concept you need to make this work
A month ago (previously), Youtuber Veritasium sailed Blackbird (previouslier) directly downwind faster than the wind. Afterwards, a physics professor bet him $10,000 that it didn't happen. Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye weighed in. Veritasium asked Xyla Foxlin to design and build a working model to win the bet. Foxlin (who surprisingly never seems to have been featured on Metafilter) has also built a cedar-strip canoe, built some flame throwing greeting cards, and sent her Miss America crown to the edge of space.
Movie: In the Heights
Adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes' Tony Award-winning musical about an immigrant community in Washington Heights, NYC.
Cameras ain’t what they used to be
The Rise and Fall of an American Tech Giant
, The Atlantic, Kaitlyn Tiffany, July/August 2021 [alternate link]: “Kodak didn’t just teach Americans to take photographs; it taught them what to take photographs of, and it taught them what photographs were for. The Kodak mythology [*], though powerful, was and is easily seen through.” *See Kodak History.
They still said no
You Ain't Never Been No Little Girl, Taylor Townsend
"America hating fat Black women — it’s just part of life. It’s in the culture. It’s in the health-care system. You see it in Hollywood, you see it in sports. You don’t have to look around very hard."
The Man: a Compilation
The Man: a Compilation.
A poem by Rebecca Hazelton about the particular man that many women have not encountered, but know regardless.
A Texas Rainbow Cookies Story
Honestly I never thought a post that literally said more love less hate would result in this kind of backlash to a very small business that is struggling to stay afloat and spread a little cheer through baked goods. This story ends with a line around the block! A happy post some of us may need today.
All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people
We all know we should challenge assumptions, but that calls on us to realize we are making an assumption in the first place, which is not as easy.
More often than not the best advice, the things that stuck with me, came from people who had no background at all in software. We talk a lot about psychological safety and giving people permission to speak their mind, but there’s not a whole lot of guidance around how you do that. Being a person who is not afraid to ask the stupid questions and who lets ideas get thrown out easily without a big argument has created an environment where correcting each other and debate doesn’t feel like that big a deal. It normalizes the process and people stop keeping score because it’s clear that their boss isn’t.
Best Practices for Outlook
This guide will change the way you organize your email, for the better.
"This article was written by the product team that created Microsoft Outlook for the best possible reason — our customers asked. Outlook is designed to be used by a wide audience with many work needs and styles. Although there's no one "right way," there are a few ways of working in the program that we know to be easier than others. We hope that by being aware of the best practices, you will have the best experience possible using Outlook."
Perspective
“Perspective”
by and featuring juggler Taylor Glenn. There’s something kind of hypnotic about the view from above.