121: The Gold Medal For Restraint

Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast

• Episode: 121: The Gold Medal For Restraint
• Website: Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast
• Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MeFiPodcast
• Duration: 01:00:41
• Published: 2016-10-04 22:31

They said it couldn't be done, but here it is: an episode of the podcast that's just one hour long. Jess and I breeze through the site after a mutually busy month, covering stuff from September 8th through October 4th.

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Misc.
- Facts about 121
- self-driving trolley problems
- on Death and MetaFilter

Jobs
- Take my picture! by unannihilated
- A small job, but a very sensitive one by scottymac

Projects
- The Corey Press by robocop is bleeding
- Unknown Pleasures Album Cover Gif Generator by dreyfusfinucane
- From Garching to Innsbruck in 7 days by wachhundfisch
- I built a multi-plane animation stand by tessmartin
- May Your Fave Be Unproblematic by Juliet Banana
- Guided By Voices song title bot (@favoriteGBVsong) by yukonho

MetaFilter
- 3,536 exhibitions online by OmieWise
- Sparkling Water by me3dia
- A tiny vestibule of literary happiness by adept256
- Constrained Synthesis by tocts
- WIN THESE SWELL PRIZES (59 years later) by Etrigan (working news link BUT IS IT A MYSTERY?!)
- The story of a new name by tavegyl
- "All I know is American Airlines loves me." by jessamyn

Ask MeFi
- Doctors/Scientists/Researchers Whose Work Involved Their Own Condition? by sevenofspades
- Comfort me with comfort food by Kitteh
- Should we name a kid after a dead guinea pig? by kendrak
- Please help us spell this name by Anonymous
- I take measurements, you mail me clothes by megancita
- The visually impaired leading the visually impaired by Promethea
- What must I do with misdirected mail? by primethyme
- What are your favorite transcendent, gives you the chills, performances? by Gosha_Dog

MeFi Music
Featured in this episode:
- wrong color for a heart by ajryan
- Crunky by ultrabuff
- Passing By And Thought I'd Drop In by signal
- totally generic action by Grangousier
- Worry About The World (cover/mashup) by aspenkf

MetaTalk
- jbickers has passed away by cortex
- In celebration of mefi connections by ActionPopulated
- Any chance of resurrecting this favorites pony request? by limeonaire
- The Election Debate Logistics Thread by restless_nomad