Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast

110: Stealin' Lincoln, with Eyebrows McGee

Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast

It's a short podcast! By our standards, which is to say only an hour and twenty minutes or so. Jessamyn and I are joined by the midwest's own Eyebrows McGee as we chatter semi-hurriedly about a bunch of stuff from Metafilter and also Abe Lincoln's corpse. We cover October 8th-ish through November 2.

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Misc
- birthday song of the lonely Rover
- Lin-Manuel Miranda's childhood book report
- and rapping on The Electric Company
- seriously ColdChef enough already with the Hamilton stuff, your family is worried about you
- jessamyn recently read Stealing Lincoln's Body
- also here's that wonderful/terrifying Pekinese costume again
- lot of lists of kinds of dead people on Wikipedia
- the noble mangelwurzel

Jobs
- Freelance VFX artist for budget scifi flick
- it's too late to help someone move

Projects
- The Astronaut Instruction Manual by Mike Mongo (MeFi thread)
- The Toast redesign by verb
- It's Autumn on Arrakis by womprat78 (MeFi thread)
- Scoring Lyrical ClichΓ©s with N-Grams by thetruthisjustalie
- Carbon Costume by thomaspark
- @Everyword: the book by aparrish

MetaFilter
- CAPS LOCK DAY 2015
- Googler who lives in a van in the parking lot
- jessamyn dealing out some library knowledge
- running backwards in reverse
- playing metal on the banjo
- everything you never knew about tap dancing
- No one tweets like Bot-ston
- Can Men Have It All?
- Halloween with a toddler
- why are glasses so damn expensive
- locally-sourced hand-crafted artisinal password sales

Ask MeFi
- What happens if a player dies on the sports field?
- Who's the X's X's X?
- Surprising everyday details from the past (and bonus MeTa shoutout)
- Choral cultural appropriation
- strategies for going on the run
- two months in a row: camper hacks

FanFare
We're starting to experiment with Books! And book clubs:
- Historical Fiction Book Club
- Random Fiction Book Club
- Apocalypse Fiction Club
- Dune Club
Also, folks talking about lots of TV and stuff, e.g. Walking Dead

MetaTalk
- about that books stuff
- learning to ask the Ask inside of you

Music
Songs used for interstitials this month:
- Treasure by Josh Rogan
- Body Break by ageispolis
- Just Won't Do by remlapm

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