164: It's Been A Rough Week

Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast

• Episode: 164: It's Been A Rough Week
• Website: Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast
• Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MeFiPodcast
• Duration: 01:43:04
• Published: 2020-06-03 02:30

Podcast time, and jessamyn and are I back talking about a bunch of stuff we liked from MetaFilter as usual, and talking a bit about the hard stuff surrounding George Floyd and Minneapolis, and also absolutely plotzing about having two new mods join the team! Welcome again, travelingthyme and loup. This episode is long even for us, about an hour and forty total.

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Misc
- 164 is a sum of two squares and I don't care who knows it
- Jessamyn was vexed by a Firefox issue
- secrets revealed: this anonymous keylogger question was actaully jessamyn
- MeFites who play LearnedLeague
- a cartoon about the prospect of banana bread
- I uh got retweeted by William Gibson
- Jessamyn bringing BLM energy to the ALA council whether they like it or not

Jobs
- Looking for summarization of audio of 2-hour meeting by The Pluto Gangsta

Projects
- A Chrome extension for managing your tabs by jasondigitized
- In Sickness: a podcast about caregiving by bajema
- London's coronavirus street art. by Paul Slade
- Create your own 1980s police sketch by odinsdream (MeFi Post)
- Lucid by Tabitha Someday

MetaFilter
- Don't forfeit! Don't cheat! by Chrysostom
- "Take me out with the crowd" by jessamyn
- Engine Rebuilt in Stop Motion by bouvin
- Don't let your memes be schemes by Rhaomi
- Making FPP's by not_on_display
- user RedPooD2thehemodroid has offered an authoritative answer by Fizz
- NY Times gets into some knotty legal issues around fanfic tropes by betweenthebars
- I look at my hands. I can't tell if they're mine. by doctornemo
- The Story of how SNL made the "Stevie Nicks' Fajita Roundup" Sketch by Etrigan
- Minneapolis response to the police killing of George Floyd by mediareport

Ask MeFi
- NOT Astronaut Food by Eyebrows McGee
- Why do vacuum seal box containers lose their seal? by fantasticness
- Phone Exchange Name Query by longhaultrucker, including an answer by jessamyn
- Useful Features for Real Estate Agent Websites by wcmf
- Need a printer, stat by kitten kaboodle
- What was the funniest movie you ever saw when you were a kid? by Mchelly
- Who Are The People That Make Credits Sequences For Television Shows? by WalkerWestridge
- What to say in job application when supervisor will speak unfavorably? by kingbuzzie

MetaTalk
- A thank you, and a question for you. by bondcliff
- MeFiMusicSwap'20? by signal
- MetaMMO: Leeeeeeeeeeeeeroy!!!!! by Fizz
- Please don't use Unicode to make fancy fonts in posts by Space Coyote

Music
Featured in this episode:
- Falling Into Summer - DEMO by nikaspark
- Transcontinental Airway by mykescipark
- Mumbo Jumbo: Light It Up by johnofjack
- 25 Seconds of Wuthering Heights by Television Name
- Flip Side by ob1quixote
- Where The Trail Leads by AppleSeed