https://www.metafilter.com/ The past 24 hours of MetaFilter Sun, 21 Jun 2026 04:43:19 GMT Sun, 21 Jun 2026 04:43:19 GMT en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 When Prince was on the Muppet Show! ]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213582/When-you-cant-pronounce-the-guest-hosts-name tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213582 Sun, 21 Jun 2026 04:43:19 GMT dfm500 Muppets Prince https://www.metafilter.com/213582/When-you-cant-pronounce-the-guest-hosts-name/rss The project at Raine Island, where 90 per cent of northern green sea turtles nest, has been working for a decade to improve hatching success. (Australia)]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213581/Thousands-of-green-sea-turtle-hatchlings-swim-to-sea-in-conservation-win tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213581 Sun, 21 Jun 2026 03:09:25 GMT chariot pulled by cassowaries GreatBarrierReefGreenSeaTurtles GreenSeaTurtles NorthernGreatBarrierReefGreenSeaTurtles SeaTurtles https://www.metafilter.com/213581/Thousands-of-green-sea-turtle-hatchlings-swim-to-sea-in-conservation-win/rss to play and rank (completely scientifically, of course) every game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System. He discussed the three-year passion project with CTV's Your Morning, and revealed that for a sequel, he will give the same comprehensive treatment to the N64. So what NES games win the laurels? They may not be what you expect...

Gerstmann's intent was to judge how games hold up up without the rose-tinted glasses through which we tend to view our nostalgic faves. The Contra of our hearts is different from the Contra as viewed through the cold eyes of Science! And Zelda II, perhaps we judged you too harshly... The list in the first link is lovingly maintained by fans, not Gerstmann himself; you can find the full playlist of his streams here. Here are the top ten: 1. Mega Man 2 2. Bionic Commando 3. Super Mario Bros. 4. The Legend of Zelda 5. Super Mario Bros. 3 6. Zelda II: The Adventure of Link 7. Kirby's Adventure 8. Rygar 9. River City Ransom 10. Super Mario Bros. 2 Let the quibbling begin! I'll start: Blaster Master was robbed!]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213580/3-years-8-bits-751-games tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213580 Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:52:15 GMT BlackLeotardFront 8bit famicom games gaming nes nintendo nostalgia retro https://www.metafilter.com/213580/3-years-8-bits-751-games/rss these extraordinary structures were unremarked and unrecorded, hidden in plain sight across one of the most remote and inaccessible deserts on earth. The desert kept its treasures to itself. Then, in the early years of this century, teams of archaeologists armed with satellite imagery looked down from orbit and saw what no one had properly seen before: an entire civilisation gazing back.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213579/This-was-a-state-sophisticated-urban-and-lost-to-history tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213579 Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:45:56 GMT chavenet Archaeology Desert Fez Foggaras Garamantes Libya Sahara https://www.metafilter.com/213579/This-was-a-state-sophisticated-urban-and-lost-to-history/rss The 26 Most American Books of All Time [Esquire; ungated]

1. American Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster 2. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass 3. Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville 4. The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant 5. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 6. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 7. The Naked And the Dead by Norman Mailer 8. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White 9. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin 10. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 11. The Gay Place by Billy Lee Brammer 12. True Grit by Charles Portis 13. Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion 14. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro 15. Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music by Greil Marcus 16. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 17. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe 18. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy 19. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 20. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 21. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace 22. It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium by John Ed Bradley 23. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara 24. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward 25. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 26. There There by Tommy Orange]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213578/We-crossed-off-the-usual-suspects-because-youve-already-read-them tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213578 Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:40:08 GMT chavenet AmericanLiterature MostAmerican NoDeLillo NoGaddis NoPynchon https://www.metafilter.com/213578/We-crossed-off-the-usual-suspects-because-youve-already-read-them/rss