"I Dream - Ice Cream" [front] by Boston Public Library (cc by)
Who's the model on this sewing pattern?
Do you remember a poster with a towering stack of ice cream scoops from the 1980s?
What were the white long-handled wands used for museum audio tours in the 1980s?
Did you have one of those tape recordings of a barking dog that you could play for home security?
Strong Prime Spiralators by chrstphre (cc by)
It turns out there's an unintentional easter egg in AskMe. When you click Random Question in AskMe, how many clicks will it take you to arrive at this, the most likely AskMe question?
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.
'They made me wear my bathrobe' [screen capture from video via hlntv.com]
Now is the time when I am typing. I am typing on my computer doing internet things. Isn't this interesting? Cool internet things. I solved a puzzle and now people are taking pictures of me pretending to solve a puzzle. – harperpitt
JannaK reports that the HLN network has produced a short video episode featuring the Ask Metafilter post requesting help with her late grandmother's coded messages, and "the true hero of this story: Metafilter's own harperpitt, her code-breaking skills, and the power of the hive mind in tackling web mysteries."
(Post title text grabbed from littlesq!)
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