Art by Ron Mader, via Flickr
Don't limit yourself to just one language when using slang! Be multi-lingual via gwint's sharing of the untranslatable.co site and bask in the warm glow of being a language weltenbummler!
Screenshot via bleuje.com
Oh, look, it's a rabbit hole! Or vortex! Or swirling, snaking, spinning, curling, looping, rippling, throbbing, tumbling, bubbling, pulsating, erupting sinkhole of digital diversion. AlSweigart posted random computer and mathematical animations by Etienne Jacob.
Screenshot from the 1929 Soviet silent documentary film
Kattullus posted WikiFlix and WikiVibes, nifty tools for searching films and music uploaded to Wikimedia, and we're WikiGlad!
There was recently a bit of saltiness over an American describing the perfect cup of tea. Much outrage ensued over this international incident, as cheerfully chronicled in rory's post!
photo by “Amy Gallatin / Montclair Film”, via Flickr
It's cold in much of the world and who wants to go out when its like that? Wowenthusiast certainly doesn't and is asking for your most favoritest documentaries to watch while avoiding winter weather.
Happy Throwback Thursday! This week we're hitting up the internet archive for the radio dramas that the BBC has been produced for close to a century, thanks to this post by gwint!
Please allow autopilot to introduce you to Margaret Cavendish, science researcher, fashion designer, and writer, who crafted science fiction stories back in 1666! Come explore her "Blazing World"!
Nice weekly free thread discussing the games we play! Don't miss Wobbuffet's commentary about the history of parlor games from antiquity to the present, and how old games reveal themselves in modern equivalents.
protorp posted the Best of 2023 lists from Headphone Commute, featuring stunning ambient, instrumental, experimental, electronic, and modern-classical music.
Inspired by Escher - Photo by See1,Do1,Teach1 on Flickr
In case you missed it, zamboni served up a great list of WTIIF (What The Internet Is For) links in chasles' Metatalk post looking for an Ask Metafilter question about "websites that are amazingly specific, usually maintained by a cranky crank." (it was this one)
Art by Kars Alfrink, from Flickr
Do things! ALL THE THINGS! But not forever, unless you want to! Hop on the SOFA and learn a technique/way of thinking for doing projects, courtesy of this post by brainwane!
Ocean drainage basins of the world Robert Szucs / Grasshopper Geography
Where are the maps that show which ocean rivers drain in to? They're in this post about Hungarian cartographer Robert Szucs that was shared with us by rory.
Screenshot from the video!
Come watch as people show off their favorites dance moves with Ed People in this fantastic video shared by storybored! Grandma has the moves!
Magpie female by Jean and Fred Hort, via Flickr
8-year-old Emma had a question about Australian magpies. 30,000 people (not a typo) responded. Oh the results are interesting, in this community science centered post created by sciatrix!
Ritesh Babu's choice for best of the year:
chavenet posted Comics were real good last year, a short list of lists for best comics of 2023
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