MeFi Holiday Card Exchange Planning currently happening in Metatalk, as well as discussing the idea of a CD micro SD Swap, and the possibility of a MeFi Visual Arts Club.
“Are You Perhaps In Your 40s Or Maybe 50s?”
0xF8 by 0x FF (cc by)someone forgot to tell like 99% of the human race this is going to happen to them … flug with some great information about presbyopia in the What is up with my glasses? Ask Metafilter thread
“But We Are Going Astray”
Coat of arms of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, via WikipediaJoe in Australia on why beavers are fish in this super fun thread on Defector’s ranking of state flags, included mainly because the comment contains the phrase “born through supernatura…
Please Don’t Stop the Music
Music Expands by byzantiumbooks (cc by)Algorithms are great *but* don’t go to any guilty pleasures or allow any other person to use your account, unless you want those choices feeding into it. I don’t know a way to come back from the pollution of one’s…
“Something Disturbing To Raise Your Spirits”
Leftovers by JD Hancock (cc by)GenjiandProust’s Increasingly Strange Stories for an Increasingly Strange Year is another faboo roundup of weird audio dramas, again with tons of info and links to each one … And for yet more weird and wonderful, PussKi…
How Do I Love Thee In the Aughts and Beyond?
Nothing Beats a Fountain Pen by kartikay.sahay (cc by-nc)In Ask Metafilter, pleasebekind asks “Can you recommend any contemporary love poems or poetry collections?” … I would really like to read more works by women and queer poets, as well as poets o…
Goo Dreads
Close up of a burning book by wuestenigel (cc by)Speaking as an author here: I hate Goodreads and want it to die. — cstross in bitteschoen’s post on Goodreads’ problem with extortion scams and review bombing
Housekeeping
cake house by masha_k_sh (cc by-nc-nd)Oh, look, the new Mefi newsletter has a name! And a second edition! Whee! Also, the latest Metatalktail Hour asks members to tell the least plausible story about yourself, and it’s so, so great. Also, also, don’t f…
Sweet Art, I Really Love You!
Yale Art Gallery – Heart by m01229 (cc by)Weird Science theme week has ended (see all the excellent weird science posts here!), and for the second theme of our August fundraising month, Sweet Art week has begun! Please help us make a spectacle of ourse…
Bookfilter: Magical Economies
In Ask Metafilter, miles per flower asks, “I’ve recently enjoyed a couple books that dive deep on what magic costs — Sanjena Sathian’s Gold Diggers and Naomi Novik’s A Deadly Education — and I’m looking for more to read along those lines: detailed mech…