Tell Tale Hearts
Night Vision by Tracy O (cc by-sa)
The Underpants Monster tells a gravediggin' story; Stanczyk tells a tale of paper and love beyond the grave; elgilito talks about the death of French rural disco
Coordinator for Secret Quonsar
Time to pass the Quons-torch! julen asks, who wants to take over as coordinator for Secret Quonsar?
Who TF does that?
The Association, with Larry Ramos center front
Larry Ramos, that's who. 23skidoo has a great comment about Ramos' skills and background in hippybear's The Association post.
Site finance update, 10/16/19
Here's a quarterly update on MeFi's site finances.
Sady, Sady, Scary Lady
Sady recommends horror: coolname points us toward some excellent film commentary by Sady Doyle that will maybe make you rethink some things you thunk before.
Alt Better
Refreshable braille display by Sebastien.delorme - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 from wikimedia.org
Hippybear posted a very helpful link on how to write image descriptions in Twitter for people with vision impairment or low vision!
Rolling out some updated site documentation
We've updated some site documentation, in particular an updated community guidelines and expectations page and some details on being aware of and avoiding common microaggressions. There's some detail in this MetaTalk post.
Awesome Sauce
Knoblauchmayonnaise. Aioli by marcoverch (cc by)
Looking for dead simple sauces I can make by stirring things together: in Ask Metafilter, CiaoMela asks for your easiest, no-hassle recipes.
Live Long and Puzzle On
Wolfdog has posted the logic puzzle blog, Grandmaster Puzzles, featuring "elegant, hand-crafted designs written by some of the world's best puzzle constructors" ... and Mefites have some more recs in comments.
How To Build a Less Tippy Canoe?
IMG_20140630_110754 by anadem (cc by-nc-sa)
anadem asks advice in Ask Metafilter: I made a little boat, a skin-on-frame canoe. It floats nicely when empty, but when I get in it tips me out. I want to make another boat that's more stable with me in it.
Don't miss the cool photos of the building process linked in the post!
Do you wand to know a secret?
verstegan has a great answer for divabat's question Why do magic wands look the way they do?
Name Dropping
Leghorn Slides by eileenmak (cc by)
Orange Dinosaur Slide proposes Post Your Name Month in Metatalk: post something cool related to your user name, and tag it "PostYourName"!
Help Embiggen These Brains!
Pipedreamer by new 1lluminati (cc by)
In Ask Metafilter, xenization is seeking Essays/Articles That Opened Your Mind for first-year college students; nonfiction that makes you go, "Huh. Never thought of it like that before."
Following Suit
Business Suit. by MIKI Yoshihito. (#mikiyoshihito) (cc by)
As a guy who bought a few hundred thousand suits in a former life...I have thoughts: allkindsoftime weaves a winning yarn about the weft and warp of working inside the garment industry in COD's post about the decline of the power suit.
Everybody Needs a Hygge
17/365 - Weekend Bliss by Phae (cc by-nc-nd)
scenes in firelit rooms while it rains outside; passing long, chilly nights; comfy interiors; hearty meals ... In Ask Metafilter, delight is looking for cozy, satisfying historical fiction for Fall.
Highlighting the best bits from the MetaFilter universe
MetaFilter started as a community weblog in 1999, later added question and answers, then music by members, jobs, projects by members, a podcast, and finally an area dedicated to meetups.
