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Indestructible

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Published: September 7, 2024 09:39

detail from Mahlathini & The Mahotella Queens album Music Inferno: The Indestructible Beat Tour 1988-89Some great answers in dismas' Ask Metafilter post about Antecedents of the 'worldbeat' guitar sound: "What e.g., Afro-pop artists from the 1980s should I…

The Best Of Copywriting In Advertising

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Published: September 6, 2024 13:19

Screenshot of one of the adsOk, ok, maybe nobody reads the ads. But gentlyepigrams' post about a small archive of print and outdoor ads points that maybe you should read some ads, 'cause the copy is just that good!

Taking A Bite Into Culture

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Published: September 5, 2024 12:16

Phunniemee thinks you should stay fruity! Their encouragement towards this goal is to listen to Matt Bernstein's podcast, "A Bit Fruity", described as a "friendly queer jew w(ith) very long nails" Until next time...

Your Name Never Looked So Beautiful

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Published: September 4, 2024 12:02

Foxfirefey shared the incredibly wonderful "Your Name In Landsat". The site allows you type in a word and each letter will use a Landsat image from Earth! You can even save the word as a collage, check it out!

"Doom 2 Will Not Run Properly On That Weaving."

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Published: September 3, 2024 09:57

Comparison of the Pentium weaving with a Pentium die photo from Intel.Monday, stony Monday posted the excellent The Pentium as a Navajo weaving, about a unique rug design based on Intel's Pentium chip (the P54C, to be exact), painstakingly made using…

Rockets, A Lunar Light Switch, Water, Explosions, and Strange Noises

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Published: September 2, 2024 07:45

Venus' lower clouds, via planetary.orgdoctornemo posted a great roundup of true adventures in space, July-August 2024.

"From Awooga To Whistling Wind"

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Published: September 1, 2024 06:01

from the Red Library: CreaksPink Fuzzy Bunny posted the rather wonderful USC Optical Sound Effects Library – "Classic movie sound effects on optical and magnetic tape from the 30's to the 80's, all carefully restored, catalogued and posted on the Internet…

For the Love Of Movies

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Published: August 31, 2024 15:46

Community member wubbie absolutely loves posters, especially movie posters! So they built a cloud based service that allows anyone to stream over 3,500 movie posters to their device for the most epic and love and movie art ever!

Baby, Don't You Like This Beat?

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Published: August 30, 2024 13:15

Chappell Roan @ Hollywood Palladium 11/18/2022 by Justin Higuchi, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jus10h/) Over in Ask MetaFilter, member The Adventure Begins is looking for music recommendations similar to Chappell Roan's "Hot To Go" aka "high…

Flying High and Low In Brazil

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Published: August 29, 2024 13:29

Photo by Pamela Carls, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/irisdragon/)The kite "wars" are heating up in Brazil to the point that law is having to get involved. Yes, you read that sentence right, chavenet created a post that has the details!