"his failure was epic"
Woodcut of Guillaume Le Gentil's attempted shipboard observation of the 1761 transit of Venus
Great question and answers in storybored's Ask Metafilter post "Who are some lesser known scientists who failed heroically?"
Best Of MetaFilter
Posts from March 2023
43 minutes of tremendous cringe
screen capture from video
JHarris posts The Hole of Cartoon Badness, The Best of the Worst Cartoons Ever, with many illuminating notations!
Metafilter podcast 192: The week between last week and this week is up!
"And that, children, is what we did before AskMetafilter."
When I was a student in the mid-90s, there was a cubicle in one of the University ladies’ toilets that was “the problem toilet.” It was like a problem page...
Great comment by penguin pie on wowenthusiast's question about pre-internet physical bulletin boards.
The (Whiskey) Fungus Among Us
EmpressCallipygos posts about the strange, dark, sooty Baudoinia compniacensis, otherwise known as "the whiskey fungus."
"what the whole-ass fuck"
Food court by ewen and donabel (cc by)
taquito sunrise has an hilarious reminiscence of tween angst in "The Soul of the American Teen Can Be Found Next to the Sbarro" post about today’s mall teens.
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.
