TV chitchat hour
Ban ‘Killer Robots’ Before It’s Too Late by wackystuff (cc by-sa)
Do you have opinions about the best TV theme songs? Bring 'em over here.
Best Of MetaFilter
Posts from May 2017
Good stuff to watch
art by Bahman Farzad
How about some nice videos for pleasant watching?
-Candy-pulling around the world from Lexica
-Time-lapse of clouds in the Grand Canyon from clawsoon
-Time-lapse of a sculptor at work from not_the_water
-Shipwright builds a wooden boat from scratch from cubby
-Steam-engine hobbyist gently critiques an engine from cortex
-Soccer match: two pro football players vs. thirty 8-year-olds from Stark
-Karate in a Victorian dress from loquacious
-Thirsty farm animals, from the bucket's-eye view from ShooBoo
-Collection of art tutorial channels from Wolfdog
Weekend chillout reading: collections, DIY builds, classic tv logos, and rhyming synonyms
The last one... by isfullofcrap (cc by)
ben30's kid wants to know, are there any synonyms that rhyme?
Chrysostom's post about classic physical special-effects in TV logos drew a bunch of other fun examples in the comments.
Do you know what a billhook is? Well, jedicus found one guy with a huge encyclopedic website about 'em -- and in the comments, zamboni gave an amazing list of "one person's highly-specific passion" websites.
While we're at it, how about pjern's thread of unbelievable garden sheds. And did you catch mrbill's thread a while ago about the amazing garage renovation detailed in a novel-length forum thread?
Thella asks, what do I do with this really weird banister situation in my apartment?
Making room for pronouns on the profile page
Heya, we've tweaked the "Gender" field in Preferences to include "...and/or pronouns". Here's the MetaTalk announcement.
128: Dumpin' m' beef with Jess and Josh
Hey, the new podcast is late but it's here and here it is!
Eurovision 2017
Semifinal 1 EUROVISION 2008 by proteusbcn (cc by)
It's Eurovision time! Jump in today with Tuesday's Eurovision semifinal, and find future installments at Fanfare's Eurovision Club.
Do sneezes freeze in cold weather?
Frozen-Sneeze Vittorio by Emanuele Longo (cc by)
eotvos talks about sneezing while at the South Pole at -70s °F ... and mucus control while wearing a balaclava. Apparently, s'not that pretty.
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