33: Grains of rice

October 31, 2008 5:44 PM

The 33rd podcast covers the best of the MetaFilter universe for the month of October and since we recorded this on Halloween morning, there are Halloween-themed mentions wherever possible. It runs about 50 minutes long and features music from the October Music Challenge (mostly Halloween-themed)

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Music Mentioned:

Last Night a Werewolf Fell in Love with Me (Silver Lipstick Remix) by February28

Ugly Monster by AppleSeed

Pretorius by sleepy pete


MeFi Jobs:

Library Tech, Library Assistant

Digital Library Applications Analyst at UNC Chapel Hill


MeFi Projects mentioned:

Portland Day of the Dead parade

How Much is Oil?

AJAX Wikipedia search

The Money Meltdown blog


MeFi Posts:

Halloween hobo code for trick or treating

All the People in the World art exhibit (flickr set of the exhibit, MLK speech)

Al Smith Dinner videos

Code switching in Palin's language (Anil's response)

Flawless Emergency Landings

Oldest living human tissue: 123 year old eyes

100 skills every man or woman should know


Ask MeFi questions:

Where did the phrase "get off my lawn you kids!" come from?

Why do people associate cops with doughnuts?

Tape creep in my pockets? (photos of it)

How can I ignore my ego and feelings of self-importance when trying new things? (Nattie's answer)


Great comments:

Standing in line story from Ask MeFi

Story of trying to seek asylum in Canada


More Ask MeFi questions:

Documentaries that are reminiscent of history or science books

Looking for upbeat music for happy dances

What handmade gifts should I make for gifts?

Classical music to scare kids at halloween with?


MetaTalk mentions:

Etsy team being formed of MeFi crafters

Question resolution reminders

Tags come to MetaTalk

posted by mathowie (staff) to MeFi Podcast at 5:44 PM (20 comments total)

Still doesn't play here. The "Music" posts work just fine -- or the three I tried, at least, including Cortex' latest oeuvre.
posted by Dumsnill at 7:38 PM on October 31, 2008

"Stupid at the time"!? The streets will run red with the blood of nonphotographers!!
posted by NortonDC at 8:03 PM on October 31, 2008 [2 favorites]

Oh hi NortonDC! I knew we'd see you in here sooner or later.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:32 PM on October 31, 2008

Still doesn't play here

If the flash player isn't working for you, try the direct MP3 download and play it back in the player of your choice
posted by mathowie (staff) at 8:55 PM on October 31, 2008

The direct link doesn't seem to be working either. It was giving me something like "500 internal server error", but now it just won't load.
posted by Chuckles at 9:50 PM on October 31, 2008

Loading now..
posted by Chuckles at 10:07 PM on October 31, 2008

It won't play for me either, and the direct link gives me the 500 internal server error too. :(
posted by Nattie at 1:40 AM on November 1, 2008

The whole thing worked for me, and now after looking at mathowie's pumpkins I want to turn this into a "look at my pumpkins" thread.

Look at my pumpkins!
posted by aubilenon at 2:08 AM on November 1, 2008

Look at my pumpkin! (and also at the wall o' pumpkins at the Keene Pumpkin Festival)
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:04 AM on November 1, 2008

No, it is my pumpkin at which you should be looking!
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:55 AM on November 1, 2008

Now now. We can look at all your pumpkins equally.
posted by ardgedee at 12:51 PM on November 1, 2008

where's vacapinta's pumpkin?
posted by needled at 3:30 PM on November 1, 2008

My punkins! Let me show you them!

from left to right: Is This Thing On?, contraption, Ambrosia Voyeur
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 3:37 PM on November 1, 2008

Neither the flashplayer, the direct link, nor the download in the iTunes feed (which I assume points to the same place as the direct link...) are working.
posted by sparkletone at 9:45 PM on November 1, 2008

Hooray! All is better now.
posted by sparkletone at 10:03 PM on November 1, 2008

Dag guys, my pumpkin (rather, my picture of someone else's pumpkin) made it all the way to the Huffington Post! I must have been huffing something right!
posted by not_on_display at 10:12 PM on November 1, 2008

True fact: the website was this close to being formally titled "Huffin' with Arianna".
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:16 AM on November 2, 2008 [1 favorite]

I would so go on Ellen, btw. IYKWIM
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 11:09 AM on November 3, 2008

Wow, two of my posts made the podcast! Awesome! (I totally did not get around to carving even a single pumpkin. ::sigh::)

Now get off my lawn!
posted by epersonae at 1:52 PM on November 3, 2008

The audio on this podcast was fantastic. Well done.
posted by popechunk at 6:58 PM on November 3, 2008