By MonicaVereanaWilliams - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
If you love cooking and recipes and food and foody things and trivia, lists, tips, quirky history, and/or you love old school web aesthetic, you're really going to love foodreference.com. Find Recipes For a Party Like It's 1999. (Today is Great American Pot Pie Day, by the way 🥧)
Compass by Walt Stoneburner (cc by)
In Metatalk, "MetaFilter’s Global BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) Advisory Board wants to share some context and plans with MetaFilter at large," including Big Picture, scope, background, and future.
Twitter icon by Jurgen Appelo (cc by)
... what ends up happening is you need more and more people to manage smaller and smaller things ... Wow! Very interesting insider comment from wooh on the scale challenges and other issues that have steered the engineering side of Twitter.
So, let's talk about the TVA Archive for a bit. If you think it looks familiar, you may have seen it before ... In FanFare, radwolf76 has some great trivia and background about the actual physical setting of the TVA (Time Variance Authority) archive in the Disney+ Loki series.
MeTa: Check-in thread
MeFi Wiki: ThereIsHelp Resources
MeFi: Modeling the outbreak, Real-time visualizations, Rumor control
AskMe: Managing anxiety, managing travel, getting good information, Meal Planning for the Pandemic
Mefi IRL: IRL now has an "Online" category for virtual meetups
FAQ: We've added a site FAQ for Coronavirus posting and commenting tips, as well as site help and resources
Chat / FanFare: We've opened a "Watch" room in Chat for those who'd like it for livewatch events
[This post is being updated as new posts / features are added]
Vote by H2Woah! (cc by-nc-nd)
lampshade has been collecting voter info resources for the US elections. Handy!
dip dip dip, my blue ship, sailing on the water like a cup and saucer, o-u-t spells out ;-) by *Psyche Delia* (cc by-nc)
Members are now offered a couple of new profile page preference choices: the ability to make their "Contributions" and "Social" fields visible only to logged-in members, and the ability to enter their geographic coordinates without this info being visible. See all the details in this Metatalk post.
BEWARE of DOG by kennymatic (cc by)
You can mark houses visited/not-visited -- were they not visited because nobody was home? Scary dog? (literally has a spot for "scary dog, can't go to door") Do the same people still live there? Is the house on the market? Does the house have a foreclosure notice? It highlights if someone in the house has turned 18 since the last election -- do they still live there? Are they registered to vote?
Eyebrows McGee offers some first-hand insights on how the NGP VAN database works for candidates and and campaign workers.
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.
