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Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast

Jessamyn West and Josh Millard

A longform freewheeling monthly recap of site doings, with the original MeFi team.
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164: It's Been A Rough Week

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06/03/20 • 103 min

Podcast time, and jessamyn and are I back talking about a bunch of stuff we liked from MetaFilter as usual, and talking a bit about the hard stuff surrounding George Floyd and Minneapolis, and also absolutely plotzing about having two new mods join the team! Welcome again, travelingthyme and loup. This episode is long even for us, about an hour and forty total.
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- 164 is a sum of two squares and I don't care who knows it
- Jessamyn was vexed by a Firefox issue
- secrets revealed: this anonymous keylogger question was actaully jessamyn
- MeFites who play LearnedLeague
- a cartoon about the prospect of banana bread
- I uh got retweeted by William Gibson
- Jessamyn bringing BLM energy to the ALA council whether they like it or not
Jobs
- Looking for summarization of audio of 2-hour meeting by The Pluto Gangsta
Projects
- A Chrome extension for managing your tabs by jasondigitized
- In Sickness: a podcast about caregiving by bajema
- London's coronavirus street art. by Paul Slade
- Create your own 1980s police sketch by odinsdream (MeFi Post)
- Lucid by Tabitha Someday
MetaFilter
- Don't forfeit! Don't cheat! by Chrysostom
- "Take me out with the crowd" by jessamyn
- Engine Rebuilt in Stop Motion by bouvin
- Don't let your memes be schemes by Rhaomi
- Making FPP's by not_on_display
- user RedPooD2thehemodroid has offered an authoritative answer by Fizz
- NY Times gets into some knotty legal issues around fanfic tropes by betweenthebars
- I look at my hands. I can't tell if they're mine. by doctornemo
- The Story of how SNL made the "Stevie Nicks' Fajita Roundup" Sketch by Etrigan
- Minneapolis response to the police killing of George Floyd by
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163: You must understand!

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05/01/20 • 94 min

It was a time known as The Great Resetting, when, after a months of wandering in a week late or so with episodes, jessamyn and I finally managed to release a new episode smack dab on the 1st. It was spoken of in legend as...episode 163 of the MetaFilter podcast.
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- jessamyn has been placing jokes in the local paper
- revisit the old Is MetaFilter Back Yet?" video Jess and I made, good god, NINE years ago
- Sufjan Stevens: teach the controversy
- Bruce fucken Campbell
Jobs
- Designer for print + web publication by Rich Text
Projects
- TV Opening Sequences Quiz by AndrewStephens (MeFi Post)
- I have eaten the plums by Lazlo Hollyfeld
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Deanna (TNG edition) by avocet
- Ultimate Quarantine House Selection! by Iridic (MeFi Post)
- Basho poems by vacapinta
- StockOrrery by lucidium
- Restoring 100- to 200-year-old woodworking planes by not_the_water
MetaFilter
- Twitch.tv is more than just video-games: by Fizz
- Rage Within the Machine by theodolite
- Aprs Sufjan, le dluge by Etrigan
- Evil Elvis sings Original Elvis by filthy light thief
- One Gruff Harding, Two Gruff Harding by i_am_joe's_spleen
- it's gotta be big and it's got to be dumb by Fizz
- Hello, Gordon! Hello, Gordon! Hello, Gor-- by cortex
- early "Stay Away" by jessamyn
- Gorgeous Libraries by Iris Gambol
- Mathematician John Horton Conway died yesterday of COVID-19. by Obscure Reference
- Bird's Eye View of What We Call the Brand Zoom Funk by WCityMike
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162: Grip It And Rip It

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04/04/20 • 81 min

Jessamyn and I do what we do best: manage to show up and record a podcast despite it all. We talk about (a) a bunch of COVID stuff and (b) a bunch of stuff that has nothing to do with COVID and (c) the whole process of trying to navigate that balance. I drink most of a tall beer. Jessamyn is hopped up on decaf coffee. It's wild. Runs about 80 minutes.
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- Stay The Fuck In Line -side
- people have feelings about the Archive.org library
- get yourself some library-themed video call backgrounds
- fuck you I'm not Chandler
MeFi Projects
- Voleflix public domain movie site by malevolent
- All Up In My Grille by Fiasco da Gama
- quarantimer: a coronavirus quarantine timer web app for your things by joeyh
- COVID-19 - Should I Stay Home? by kristi
- ha ha joke is on you I remembered to delete that duplicate link
- Big Deal or No Big Deal by oulipian
- How many pigeons fit in a child by Just this guy, y'know
Jobs
- Custom sewing work by pH Indicating Socks
- Data Engineer, Enterprise Partnerships by taltalim
- Production Executive by adrianhon
MetaFilter
- Not Pounded By Anything As I Practice Responsible Social Distancing by hippybear
- | ̅ ̅ ̅| ͟ ͟ ͟ | ̅ ̅| ͟ ͟ | ̅ ̅| ͟ ͟ | ̅| ͟ ͟| ̅| ͟ | ̅ ̅ ̅| ͟ ͟ ͟ by acb
- The pee rag will become your BFF by TrishaU
- (Beyond Belief)/2 by curious nu
- How Many Librarians Does It Take to Find a Forgotten Book? by MonkeyToes
- You're The Man Once Again, Dog by kmz
- Who's Ready For Some HOCKEY HAIR???? by Gray Duck
- Turnips are very sensitive to time paradoxes. by Fizz
- Which character are you? by mbrubeck
- by Fizz
- One ye...
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161: Change Your Ding-Dang Clocks

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03/06/20 • 76 min

Podcast? Podcast! Me and jessamyn, podcasting. It's the podcast thing, with jessamyn and with me, and it's this! Here you go. Seventy-five minutes? Podcast. Hi. Hello. Don't forget to reset your clocks if that happens this weekend. Podcast.
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- 161 is boring
- jessamyn saw some taxidermy at the library
- I have lately been carving stuff in linoleum and making some prints
- yes dammit the Marblelympics exists
Projects
- Greens Alignment Chart by youarenothere
- YOU (September 1994 – June 1996) by dng
- The Amazing Kondoizer by morspin
- Avocado'n'Toast by malevolent (MeFi Post)
Jobs
- Project Coordinator, National Farmers Union-Ontario by mcbaya
- Help us find a name for our music app by vert canard
MetaFilter
- Inspire! Engage! Empower! by jessamyn
- My 72 Hours in a Viral Tweet Vortex: A Diary by Etrigan
- Comment Culture, or, What The Hell Is Wrong With People? by soundguy99
- Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet by growabrain
- Google controls which political emails land in your inbox by clawsoon
- "never wtf is wrong w/ you" by not_the_water
Ask MeFi
- Do you know anything about working in a cookie factory in the 1960s? by swheatie
- How did The Simpsons translate 'cromulent' in other countries? by some little punk in a rocket
- What is the worst thing you could find while digging in your back yard? by Black Cordelia
- UTC time with the most uniform date by Tehhund
MetaTalk
- Trans people on MeFi - discussion space? by winterhill
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160: That Was A Bood Posscat

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02/08/20 • 56 min

Like Frodo and Sam enduring the travails of Mordor, Jessamyn and I have managed somehow to surmount the difficulties of the world to produce a podcast episode this month. Instead of getting a finger bit off we just lost some of our usual running time, so this is a lembas-thin 56 minutes. Also just to be clear there is literally no discussion of Tolkeinian mythology in this episode, I'm just punchy on a Friday night and you're getting whatever comes out of the keyboard at this point. Elevensies.
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We just kinda smashed that link and describe button, so this shit's not really organized this time out. Revel in the anarchy.
- Disability-related posts appreciation by DrAstroZoom
- Final Results of the January 2020 Best Post Contest by taz
- This is very dumb by Going To Maine
- #poctakeover by Conspire
- Interlude: jessamyn does a tweet
- Book: Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by MonkeyToes
- That famous cello prelude, deconstructed by tonycpsu
- What would it be like to ride a Space Elevator? by Narrative Priorities
- How NOT to be a doormat? by catspajammies
- 文言文編程語言 A programming language for the ancient Chinese by daisyk
- Adapting to Ask Culture by 4rtemis
- Art Garfunkel's Reading Habits by Jasper Friendly Bear
- 100 Days of Art History Jinjins by rebent
- Special Event: Superbowl LIV: NFL football 2020 championship by LobsterMitten
- Golden Arm! Wait, no ... Radiant Form. Wait, no ... by komara
- What else is like Corner Gas? by Ender's Friend
- looking for recipes using lots of maple syrup by maurice
- What are some good examples of repeated words/names/phrases? by AgentRocket
- Interlude: Balrog!
- What gift can I get for my wife to celebrate her new job as a librarian? by NoneOfTheAbove
- What to include in a Library of Things? by daisyace
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159: Enter The Talkredoers

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01/10/20 • 81 min

Kicking off the year with a podcast that tried very hard not to happen, but by god me and jessamyn pulled it off after all, despite reschedules and weird recording problems that cost us a little bit of audio early on. Runs about 80 minutes and features some robot noises.
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- The number 159 spells "CLIX" in Roman numerals
- not to be confused with these various clixen
- hey, remember KLAX?
- not_on_display and an ad-hoc menorah
- I made my dad a stained glass menorah
- of which context about my grandpa's unfinished menorah design
- googly eyes on jessamyn's mending
Jobs
- Hiring a part-time MeFi moderator by cortex (cf. MetaTalk thread; cf. restless_nomad heading onward soon)
- Girl Scout Cookies by raccoon409
Projects
- #8PrimatesOfChanukah on Twitter by ChuraChura (MeFi Post)
- Tinseltown Tasty Times by smasuch
- This Film Is 100 Years Old by dng
- Advisory Circular LA by jjwiseman
MetaFilter
- haystack in the needle by cortex
- Art Garfunkel's Reading Habits by Jasper Friendly Bear
- Simon Must Be Boring by Partial Law
- Romance Whiters of America by jacquilynne
- to finally see Mr. Hooper once more by mightygodking
- "The first website debuted only a couple years prior to my retirement" by Kattullus
- R.I.P. Gahan Wilson by doctornemo (cf. a NUTS strips)
- a whole bunch of great posts the last few weeks under the poctakeover tag
Ask MeFi
- a comment by Nerd of the North
- So, I'm land rich and cash poor. What should I do? by shoesietart
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12/03/19 • 92 min

It's me! It's jessamyn! It's episode 158 of us podcasting about about the sort of MetaFiltery things we're wont to podcast about! It's about ninety minutes!
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- turns out there's no Dunkins Donuts in Portland anymore
- Jessamyn has some cables
- and a plow neighbor
- and a daylight lamp
- and a newsletter
- Tom West, clock synchronizer
- a few years ago I made a Snake game called Shai Hulud
Jobs
- Hey, somebody helped out btfreek with their job thing!
- Purchase a ticket for a show in Osaka by btfreek
- MeFites italiani per favore aiutatemi! by mattdidthat
- Full-Time (Salaried) Retail Associate at the Crow Museum of Asian Art by macrowave
- Photoshop an 80s style double exposure for my family holiday card by tatiana wishbone
- Social media freelance help by arnicae
- Looking for someone to pick up a small heavy table on long island ny and take it to greyhound by arnicae
Projects
- The Drag Kings of Taipei by storytam (MeFi Post)
- AI Dictionary (Twitter bot) by you (MeFi Post)
- Niche Museums by simonw
- NYRB discussion group by The Ted
- Absolute Bleeding Edge by maxsparber
MetaFilter
- Gimme some money by mandolin conspiracy
- A Deepfake Nixon Delivers Eulogy for the Apollo 11 Astronauts by Etrigan
- what on earth is this: '⋮'? by jessamyn
- Imaging, Reconstruct, Erase, Noise, Etc. - IRENE finds words by jessamyn
- Right now, the official U. S. Time is: by Going To Maine
- What time is it? by silusGROK
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11/01/19 • 86 min

It's our Halloween episode, which is not particularly spooOOOOooOOoooky because I accidentally left it out on the counter overnight after we recorded it yesterday. But jessamyn and I catch up on the last month of MeFi stuff and you can't prove that there wasn't also a ghost on the call. Runs about 90 minutes.
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- Jessamyn went to trivia as a kangaroo
- eyeball humanoid street art
- on the subject of RIP blogs
- Beware of Mr. [Ginger] Baker
- No Context No Context Twitter Accounts
- the MeFi wiki's Hey, That's Me! page
Jobs
- Old Photo Retouching by kathrynm
- arXiv.org python developer by bdc34
Projects
- Printable Totally Real Birds of the World 2020 Calendar by COBRA!
- Orange Grove Tool Sheds and Utility Boxes of Oliva, Spain by dobbs (MeFi Post)
- ??, an emoji adventure by NMcCoy
- Images in Detail by rory
- All the Buddha Boxes: 70 Songs for 70 Years of China by beijingbrown
- What Is Your Deal With Carly Rae Jepsen? by Maaik
MetaFilter
- Christians (actually) hiding secret messages on vinyl records! by jessamyn
- 80×25 by cgc373
- Basketball is basketball. You know what I'm saying? by cashman
- Thinking Outside the Plane by aws17576
- Nice Is Different Than Good by The Whelk
- TIL... how to do picture descriptions in twitter for blind/sight-limited by hippybear
- The Mystery of the "Terminator" Theme Time Signature by WCityMike
- :emoji: by Fizz
- Ginger Baker is gone. by Freedomboy
- Then it happened. Tyler finally croaked. by Atom Eyes
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165: Take What We've Got

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07/03/20 • 92 min

It's July, which is podcast season, or so the man at the podcast store told me. So jessamyn and I bought ourselves a podcast and took it out on the lake and, honestly, I don't know where I'm going with this. It's Friday, I'm pooped, we talk about MeFi stuff a bunch, it's about 90 minutes long, here you go.
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- 165 is a number but did you know it was also a year
- there's a book called Lost Butt, it's about a lost butt
- jessamyn and not_on_display have been playing scrabble for ten years, how about a spreadsheet
- also, jess on the ALA talking about racism in the library sector
Jobs
- EU National with mgmt/admin background - possible business collaboration by Meatbomb
- Product Manager by nolnacs
- Redesign My Website by Atrahasis
- API Technical Writer by phoenixy
Projects
- singingbush.online by overeducated_alligator
- The Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS by thomaspark (MeFi Post)
- Break Into Us by avapoet
- Kaggle Birdcall Identification Competition by kaibutsu
MetaFilter
- "Take me out with the crowd" by jessamyn
- ə ə ə the most versatile vowel by spamandkimchi
- The Mysteries of Majorana by vacapinta
- An Overwhelming Band for Overwhelming Times by yasaman
- Are you hearing unusual levels of fireworks? by seanmpuckett
- I Will Nuke My Own Country Because God Wants Us Dead by 1970s Antihero
- Easing functions by Foci for Analysis
- The Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS by Going To Maine
- Solutions and Other Problems by JHarris
- Goldman Sachs is Sans a lot of things, if you ask me by jedicus
- "Being open right now is dangerous, miserable, and borderline abusive." by jenfullmoon<...
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Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast currently has 48 episodes available.

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The podcast is about News, Tech News, Podcasts and Technology.

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The episode title '164: It's Been A Rough Week' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast is 150 minutes.

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Episodes of Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast are typically released every 30 days, 9 hours.

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The first episode of Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast was released on Nov 5, 2018.

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