Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast

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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Misc
- 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

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
Ask MetaFi...

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...

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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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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