116: Escape from Pony Island, with pb

Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast

• Episode: 116: Escape from Pony Island, with pb
• Website: Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast
• Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MeFiPodcast
• Duration: 01:55:51
• Published: 2016-05-03 20:43

This episode starts with a chat with departing tech wizard pb, talking about his time on MeFi, blogospheric history, and the wikipedia pages of Nebraskan high schools. After that, jessamyn and I get into our usual what's-neat-on-mefi routine. This episode covers April 8 through May 2 and is just a hair under two hours.

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Misc
- Pyra labs: the beginning of Blogger
- pb diptych
- mascots, get your mascots
- Get Your Shit Together
- Mr. Rogers wiki


Jobs
- MetaFilter is hiring a new tech person!
- Research Assistant who is also a boardgame fan by blahblahblah
- Photoshop some poorly taken wedding photos to look better? by arnicae
- Looking for a copy of Misi, last spotted in an Ecuadorian book store by tilde


Projects
- Hurt (NIN Fat Angus cover) by lmfsilva
- The Disability Integration Act of 2015 by gauche
- The hats of your mortal enemies, turned inside-out and used as flowerpots by gnimmel (MeFi Post)
- Tameline — Your Twitter, Organized by philosophistry
- Most Popular Video in the World by darkpony


MetaFilter
- NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TO ABANDON CAPSLOCK by Hactar
- Where is my Owooooo? by philip-random
- Tweeteorology by not_on_display
- oh my god i hope he only saw the sfw version by Uncle Ira
- Octopuses are famous escape artists. by Existential Dread
- BUT SHE WAS A BUNKO SCREAM JAR by JHarris
- or ? by blahblahblah
- Emoji Tracker. by Rumple
- Or, disdyakis triacontahedron by ChurchHatesTucker
- Nothing Compares by Potomac Avenue
- Velocipedia by Gianluca Gimini by rebent
- adermatoglyphia! by cortex


Ask MeFi
- Did Snapchat hellban my garden injuries? by jessamyn
- In search of brainbreaking episodes of Mister Rogers by PhoBWanKenobi
- How do you find a really good professional organizer? by fermion
- Umbrella Museum comment by mskyle
- Why do so few people live in Wyoming? by Monochrome
- What's the name of this magazine layout technique? by pdinnen
- What Companies Have Remote Tech Support Opportunities? by masquesoporfavor
- What is like MetaFilter, but not brutally depressing? by brennen
- Oh googley eyes, you make stuff come alive by KathrynT (and here's some results)
- What's the most fun / innovative trivia round you've played lately? by bjork24
- Fun, distracting websites for down-time by armadillo1224
- What did Mickey Spillane mean by this word? by Silky Slim


Music
Featured in this episode:
- They Though He Was Part of the Ship by The Great Big Mulp
- The Difference by pugh
- Take Me to Church - live performance by ocherdraco
- Weekend of Arps by ageispolis (and AppleSeed, and CarrotAdventure)


FanFare
- You better believe it's Game of Thrones time again.


MetaTalk
- Testing Inline Flag Notes by pb
- May is #keepmefiweird month by griphus
- Happy birthday Cortex! by scrittore
- *end theme from Incredible Hulk plays* by cortex
- Hiring a new tech person, revisiting expectations by cortex
- MealFilter by feckless fecal fear mongering