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Hey MeFite, Can I Borrow A Couple Of Minutes From You?
http://bestof.metafilter.com/2025/03/Hey-MeFite-can-I-borrow-a-couple-of-minutes-from-you
Published: March 8, 2025 10:48
Musician Tom Waits was born in 1949 and has been playing professionally since the late '60s. Those decades of performance in the age of video and tv allows us a special treat: The ability to compare and contrast Waits performing one of his signatureā¦
Pets Don't Totally Replace A Partner, But...
http://bestof.metafilter.com/2025/03/Pets-dont-totally-replace-a-partner-but
Published: March 8, 2025 00:45
Photo by Trish Hamme, courtesy of Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/trishhamme/)Hey, you're a single woman and that's absolutely alright, according to this study that Kitteh shared. Come for the "duh," stay for the whimsical illustrations!
Poetry is the Rhythmical Creation Of Beauty In Words.
http://bestof.metafilter.com/2025/03/Poetry-is-the-rhythmical-creation-of-beauty-in-words
Published: March 6, 2025 15:55
MeFi seeks a Poet Laureate to create comments that are aureateTo sing praise of worldly beans or the danger of capitalist blue jeansAlas, I can't write poetry so just pretend that you don't meand come on inside this MetaTalk post
The Greatest Crinkly Invention Of All Time!
http://bestof.metafilter.com/2025/03/The-greatest-crinkly-invention-of-all-time
Published: March 5, 2025 23:13
Letter, legal, or tableoid? Ignore all these paltry choices, friend. A4 is all you truly need, according to this post by Thella. Plus there's a bonus!
Good Writing Starts With the Basics
http://bestof.metafilter.com/2025/03/Good-writing-starts-with-the-basics
Published: March 5, 2025 01:19
An early Tombow HOMO drawing pencil with transparent lacquer.In the time before computers, writing tools could be considered works of art. So come read dhruva's post about the golden age of Japanese pencils and discover how true that can be.
FREE THREAD March 3, 2025
http://bestof.metafilter.com/2025/03/FREE-THREAD-March-3-2025
Published: March 4, 2025 01:03
[COMMUNITY] You're going to have to make a lot of decisions this week, but lucky for you this week's Free Thread is geared towards making all of that easy!
LinkMe, March 2025
http://bestof.metafilter.com/2025/03/LinkMe-March-2025
Published: March 2, 2025 16:07
Looking for some interesting content to post on MeFi? Then browse through March's LinkMe, a collection of suggestions to get folks started on making posts!
Just Make A Left At Garlic and Everything Will Fine
http://bestof.metafilter.com/2025/03/Just-make-a-left-at-garlic-and-everything-will-fine
Published: March 1, 2025 10:41
"I built some software that lets me visualize the connections across ingredients as maps."Honestly, if that sentence alone doesn't get you interested enough to click on web5.0's MeFi Project titled "Flavor maps", then I don't know what to say, other thanā¦
Waking Up To Find Something Good
http://bestof.metafilter.com/2025/02/Waking-up-to-find-something-good
Published: February 28, 2025 10:42
image via Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/93413187@N06/It's morning time (somewhere) and your brain isn't quite ready. It needs a bit of an extended warmup to get full up to speed and the news headlines are too toxic. What do you recommend to get theā¦
Blue Or Gold?
http://bestof.metafilter.com/2025/02/Blue-Or-Gold
Published: February 27, 2025 10:40
Ten years ago we were arguing about whether a certain dress was blue or gold, each of certain we were right.Now chavenet has shared a look back at the incident and what we can learn about it and others when we literally see things differently.