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I am looking for academic, semi-academic, not academic at all conferences at the intersection of two different fields or two different subjects. In Ask Metafilter, azalea_chant is seeking Interesting Conferences At the Intersections.
MonkeyToes posted Web Curios, a cool, old school "blognewslettertypething which has existed in various forms in various places online since about 2010."
Painting: Cabinet of Curiosities, 1690s, Domenico Remps, via Wikipedia
Colors by estevan_poll (cc by)
Lots of interesting answers to Charity Garfein's question, "Do you know any cool facts about colors?"!
In Ask Metafilter: I've allowed my Reddit feed to become filled with negative stuff ... Can you recommend quality subreddits full of positive vibes and/or longreads and/or interesting links and videos?
Project 365 #90: 310319 Fuzzy Logic by comedy_nose (cc by)
crosswords ↔️ cross words
typewriters ↔️ writer types
mail order ↔️ male order?
catalog ↔️ log a cat
flash fiction ↔️ fash friction
(ps: witness kurumi's cunning coup of cruciverbalist craft!)
Louis Renard fish illustrations
The Go-Go's: "a kinetic effervescence, with a pulse that shimmered and spangled"; Glorious psychedelic fish illustrations, many of actual fish; Remember those brights spots on the Dwarf Planet Ceres?; All of James Sowerby’s mineralogy compendium illustrations arranged by color; DIY hologram chocolate?; Resurrecting the art of China's dragon scale bookbinding
empty plate by stockcatalog (cc by)
Peanut Sauce and pancakes, tea and sandwiches, green soup and glow honey, hamlets and mullets, pickles and cheese.
Redbone, Come and Get Your Love
Hail Hail, what's the matter with your head, yeah
Hail Hail, what's the matter with your mind
And your sign an-a, oh-oh-oh
Hail Hail, nothin' the matter with your head
Baby find it, come on and find it
Hail with it, baby, 'cause you're fine
And you're mine, and you look so divine ...
Push to travel by whatleydude (cc by)
Peter Brathwaite recreates historic Black portraiture at home; 2020: A sheltering in place Space Odyssey; hopping back in time to Chrono Trigger; posting Cats of travels past; Star Trek, The New Regeneration: integrating the outtakes; revisiting the prescient Hollow Man; back to the future with the first science fiction story, second century AD.
Down the rabbit hole she goes by Kodeine Haze (cc by-nc)
Something Happy; Something Handy; Something Head-y; Something Hood-y; Something Hot; Something Haut; Something 😻; Something Hopeful; Something Harmonic; Something Heavenly; Something Horny; Something Hugo.
Manuscript by Muffet (cc by)
An amazing thread on Ask MetaFilter has a simple premise: What are some current-sounding phrases that go back further than you would think--used the way we use them today? The thread is filled with gems like this jawdropper:
"Newfangled" appears in Chaucer's works, circa 1390
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