Best Of MetaFilter

The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan by Ebenezer Wake Cook

Stately pleasure domes now being decreed and/or erected ➡ This Way.

577 - Olympic Rings Texture by Patrick Hoesly (cc by)

Best Olympic news of the day?; Where can I find nation agnostic coverage of the Olympics?; Watching the Olympics - Obscure sports edition; What is the the best way to stream the Tokyo Olympics?

In Ask Metafilter, I'm always feeling, Blue says "what with the state of the world I've been thinking about fire and flood recently. If I had to get up and go right now, what should go in my go-bag?"

Statue of Liberty by Stina Stockholm (cc by-nc-nd)

Halloween Jack on the Statue, amid many other unsettling thread remarks (brrrr!) in signsofrain's post reminiscing about how we worshipped the husk.

Enjoy! Or dip in as a palate cleanser between y2karl's Gorgo 2049 video post (SCP alert!) and GenjiandProust's “I Wear No Mask” and Other Horrors newest weird audio dramas post.

It strikes me that the past is funny and odd and serious and heart-breaking and packed full of people who feel a lot like us: hurdy gurdy girl posts Tom Jackson’s quirky Postcard From the Past Twitter feed and podcast.

Ear by PHOTOGRAPHY Toporowski (cc by)

[I] am an audiologist, hearing aid researcher, and published scientist in this area: Lutoslawski provides a clear channel of info and advice about hearing aids in Ask Metafilter, plus good advice from hearing aid wearers AugustWest and Tchozz.

Come join us in fanfare to watch the Opening Ceremony of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics!

Gorgik: This post is a perfect homage, given the care and obsession that it took to make it. Rhaomi makes a rather spectacular post on comedian Bo Burnham and his pandemic special "Inside."

Billy Goat Tavern by Articulate MediaWorks (cc by)

sandmanwv is asking for tips on eccentric US restaurants or bars with "severely limited menus and/or kind of weird service offerings".

View of the Appalachian Mountains by David Hilowitz (cc by)

Geologist cubeb brings a bit of temporal perspective (and a much better slogan than "diamonds are forever") to the thread for Karmakaze's post on the incomprehensible antiquity of the Appalachian mountains.

I'm still trying to figure out what the hell happened with me." Loquacious gives an inside view of the reality of restaurant work in this grim new Covid + Capitalism timeline.

dystopia by Mosman Library (cc by)

"These deaths lack individuality!": eotvos posts Paste Magazine's 50 Best Dystopian Movies of All Time, and Mefites add their own analyses and offerings.

Exercise by Jeff Tidwell (cc by)

"This next one will be fun!" No it won't. brook horse is looking for non-peppy workout videos for people who hate exercise

Cabbage by shawncampbell (cc by)

> i cant believe how many hot single cabbages there are in my area ... What do you know about cabbage?