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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:xCal="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xcal" xmlns:geo="https://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#"> <channel> <title>MetaFilter</title> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/</link> <description>The past 24 hours of MetaFilter</description> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 20:55:19 GMT</pubDate> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 20:55:19 GMT</lastBuildDate> <language>en-us</language> <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs> <ttl>60</ttl> <atom:link href="https://rss.metafilter.com/metafilter.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <item> <title>Which Year?</title> <description><![CDATA[<a href="https://whichyr.com/">Guess which year each photo was taken</a>]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/208461/Which-Year</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.208461</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 20:55:19 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>chavenet</dc:creator> <category>Game</category> <category>History</category> <category>Photography</category> <category>WhichYear</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/208461/Which-Year/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>An Equine of an Alternate Hue</title> <description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.livescience.com/health/neuroscience/scientists-hijacked-the-human-eye-to-get-it-to-see-a-brand-new-color-its-called-olo">LiveScience</a>: Researchers detail a method called Oz (referencing the green-tinted glasses worn by the people of Emerald City in the "Wizard of Oz" books) that uses lasers to precisely deliver tiny doses of light to select cone cells in the eyes of five participants, making them the first humans to see a color beyond our normal visual range. They named it <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FxQargTNGw">"olo"</a> , a bluish green with "unprecedented saturation". The closest thing to olo that can be displayed via normal means is the color teal represented by the hexadecimal code <a href="https://www.colorcombos.com/colors/00FFCC">#00FFCC</a>, however that doesn't come near to matching the intensity of olo.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/researchers-discover-new-color-thats-impossible-to-see-without-lasering-your/">Scientific American</a>:<blockquote>"To check if what the participants saw as olo really was a color beyond humans' standard visual range, the researchers completed color-matching experiments in which they could compare olo with a teal laser and adjust the color's saturation by adding or subtracting white light. All participants found that if they added white light to olo, desaturating it, the new color would match the laser, confirming that olo lies beyond the normal human range of color vision."</blockquote> The research team hopes that such a method could eventually be used to scan someone's retina "to display perfect images and videos by delivering light to individual cones—enabling crisp, nonpixelated visuals in impossible colors." They also speculate that this method could be used to let color-blind patients experience colors they wouldn't otherwise be able to see. However the effect is transient, so it wouldn't be an actual treatment.]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/208460/An-Equine-of-an-Alternate-Hue</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.208460</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 19:38:08 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Greg_Ace</dc:creator> <category>color</category> <category>experiment</category> <category>lasers</category> <category>olo</category> <category>Oz</category> <category>supersaturated</category> <category>teal</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/208460/An-Equine-of-an-Alternate-Hue/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>Panelescent Lighting</title> <description><![CDATA[First patented by GE in 1938, I became aware of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroluminescence">electroluminescent lighting</a> in the small, flat pale green night-lights plugged into various sockets around the house. It was the early 1960s, when "Panelescent" lighting could also be found in some automobile dashboards. The Apollo Command and Lunar Modules used EL display panels manufactured by Sylvania. Its most recent appearance may have been those Timex <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiglo">Indiglio</a> watches from the 1990s.<br/><br/>According to that first Wikipedia link <blockquote>An EL film is a so-called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambertian_reflectance">Lambertian</a> radiator: unlike with [tube] or filament lamps, or LEDs, the brightness of the surface appears the same from all angles of view.</blockquote>Here's one of <a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/315041790256?_skw=Panelescent&itmmeta=01JS2YBJVVCHZV2259SVYHV70P&hash=item4959f43930:g:4RMAAOSw4eNlghID&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA0FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1c5dPj5YO7bCW28rZngz9H16QbwXIJDpI7ethm4nFleghxU4lFzQLs1nUgKFtzjV3Uwd9bni%2FFf84sYmk4bw%2B5QXRNxy24AtMbfAjzaP6IaD5qomcJHDfDdMc%2B9ERs4qrVNPLMxWbDM2BujVTIiMu49JVxcQZve6hq9ozF9En%2BMNMcR1%2F2XpmZeSCaIOabwq8CcZBaskkN8bfJjoGyo7u6QVZbx57ARyKzyb6GZuWjIsFdbt8zvIkYr2v4AfxQIhZU%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR4Surt7IZQ">those nite-lites on eBay</a>, the less-desirable but seemingly immortal Trix version. Classic Cars Online has a <a href="https://classiccarsonline.us/panelescent-chryslers-space-age-dashboard-technology/">bulleted history</a> of the technology's use by Chrysler in their dashboards. Recognized now in the mundane red or green block letters of your nearest EXIT sign, or back-lighting that old liquid-crystal display; you'll also see a lot <a href="https://science.howstuffworks.com/electroluminescent-wire.htm">EL Wire</a> in situations like Burning Man.]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/208459/Panelescent-Lighting</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.208459</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 18:10:20 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Rash</dc:creator> <category>electroluminescence</category> <category>ElWire</category> <category>indiglio</category> <category>lambertian</category> <category>panelescent</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/208459/Panelescent-Lighting/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>The bard of almost making it in America</title> <description><![CDATA[If it were up to the world, perhaps that would still be his legacy: an obscure figure whose works scholars cite on rare occasions, but not someone whom readers or critics care about. Most books, as an eminent librarian once said, have rarely been read. But the pantheon of artistic greatness isn't up to the world only. from <a href="https://paw.princeton.edu/article/how-princetonians-saved-great-gatsby">How Princetonians Saved <em>The Great Gatsby</em></a><br/><br/><a href="https://www.metafilter.com/207752/A-society-that-has-confused-material-enterprise-with-moral-achievement">pre</a> <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/206246/The-most-promisingand-the-most-disappointingfragment">vio</a> <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/190031/Ugh-symbolism">usly</a>]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/208458/The-bard-of-almost-making-it-in-America</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.208458</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 09:17:20 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>chavenet</dc:creator> <category>FScottFitzgerald</category> <category>Literature</category> <category>Mizener</category> <category>Princeton</category> <category>Scribner</category> <category>TheGreatGatsby</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/208458/The-bard-of-almost-making-it-in-America/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>I have no idea how these people got their sofa wedged into their corner</title> <description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-largest-sofa-you-can-move-around-a-corner-20250214/">What's the optimum shape for the largest sofa that can fit around a corner?</a> The surprisingly complex answer comes courtesy of a post-doc researcher in Seoul.<br/><br/>A <a href="https://youtu.be/rXfKWIZQIo4">video by Numberphile</a> on YouTube explains this the challenge and its solution with physical mock-ups of the sofa and corridor. The first formal publication considering this was in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_sofa_problem">1966 by Leo Moser</a> (Wikipedia). Several optimal shapes that maximise size and manoeverability have been propsed, including the Hammersley Sofa, the Gerver Sofa and the wonderfully named <a href="https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~romik/movingsofa/">Dan Romik's Ambidextrous Sofa</a> (link to Dan's home page). The most recent paper by Jineon Baek is available <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19826">here</a> (PDF link top right).]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/208457/I-have-no-idea-how-these-people-got-their-sofa-wedged-into-their-corner</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.208457</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 08:51:51 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>NoiselessPenguin</dc:creator> <category>geometry</category> <category>maths</category> <category>sofa</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/208457/I-have-no-idea-how-these-people-got-their-sofa-wedged-into-their-corner/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>news from rainy fascist terf island</title> <description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, <a href="https://supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2024-0042">the UK Supreme Court ruled that the terms "man", "woman" and "sex", when used in the Equality Act 2010, refer to "biological sex"</a>. This ruling means that <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trans-women-supreme-court-definition-b2734287.html">trans women are not legally considered women in the UK under the EA</a> (and similarly trans men).<br/><br/>It has taken some time for the fallout to be assessed by campaign groups and organisations, but it's clear <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trans-woman-supreme-court-gender-prison-hospital-school-b2734937.html">this ruling will have wide-reaching ramifications for trans people in the UK</a>, primarily on their access to single sex spaces like public toilets and changing rooms: <blockquote>The ruling is likely to mean that trans women are no longer able to access women's bathrooms or changing rooms, and trans men are no longer able to enter men's. Baroness Kishwer Falkner, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), said the ruling means single sex spaces "must be based on biological sex". "If a male person is allowed to use a women only service or facility, it isn't any longer single sex, then it becomes a mixed sex space", she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. </blockquote> It also means that<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trans-women-nhs-supreme-court-ruling-b2734976.html"> trans people must be accomodated on wards which align with their biological sex</a> and that NHS provisions which do not enforce this can face legal consequences. <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/trans-women-supreme-court-rights-police-searches-b2735201.html">Trans women will also face searches by male officers of the police and security officials</a>. For years, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/gender-recognition-certificates-trans-supreme-court-b2734986.html">trans people in the UK have been told</a> that they must have <a href="https://www.hardingevans.com/news/2023/09/21/what-is-the-gender-recognition-certificate-process/">a Gender Recognition Certificate</a> in order to be legally considered a man or a woman. This ruling casts that into question, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trans-women-supreme-court-ruling-changing-rooms-b2734872.html">making the GRC effectively useless</a> for those who have struggled to have one granted. The ruling also <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/wearequeeraf.com/post/3lmwzx6fvjd23">legally defined what a lesbian is</a>, excluding trans lesbians from the term. The same ruling will apply to trans men in gay relationships. This ruling would not have reached this point <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/criticalcupcake.bsky.social/post/3lmywbuk3uc2p">if not for the intervention and financial backing of J. K. Rowling</a>, <a href="https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/11/what-has-jk-rowling-said-about-transgender-people-trans-views-tweets/">who has long supported the Scottish anti-trans group's attempts to clarify the law in their favour</a>. Rowling openly <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/feyerabender.bsky.social/post/3lmykcuu2o22c">celebrated the decision on Twitter</a>.]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/208456/news-from-rainy-fascist-terf-island</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.208456</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 08:11:41 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>fight or flight</dc:creator> <category>transgender</category> <category>transrights</category> <category>ukpolitics</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/208456/news-from-rainy-fascist-terf-island/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>A South Australian man faces life in prison for sacrilege</title> <description><![CDATA[A South Australian man faces life in prison for sacrilege. Here's what the controversial charge means. <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-18/controversial-law-sacrilege-blasphemy-australia/105116860">The controversial law of sacrilege — which carries the same maximum penalty of life in jail as murder — still exists in South Australia, but some say it shouldn't</a>.It is really weird to be charging someone with sacrilege since Australia is mostly a quite secular society - in the 2021 Census, 38.9% of Australians said that they had no religion, and in the past ten years churches all over Australia have been sold off as housing due to low levels of church attendance.]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/208455/A-South-Australian-man-faces-life-in-prison-for-sacrilege</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.208455</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 04:38:13 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>chariot pulled by cassowaries</dc:creator> <category>ObscureLaws</category> <category>OldLaws</category> <category>OutOfDateLaws</category> <category>Sacrilege</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/208455/A-South-Australian-man-faces-life-in-prison-for-sacrilege/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>No one in the history of the internet ever clicked on the SITEMAP!</title> <description><![CDATA[25 years ago <a href="https://homestarrunner.com/">a plucky little Flash animation comedy</a> appeared online for the first time. It rapidly gained a following, and its fortunes accelerated when <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHZOJJNpMsw">a certain vampire-staying TV show</a> threw them a shout-out. Well it's 2025 now, and they're still around. Not the vampire-slaying site ya goof, HOMESTAR RUNNER IS STILL AROUND, and they made a new cartoon to celebrate their twentyfifthaversary, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z7kVH9xePM">Back To A Website</a> (that one's Youtube), and, yes, also <a href="https://homestarrunner.com/toons/backtoawebsite">on their website</a>. (And hang out on <a href="https://homestarrunner.com/">their main homepage</a> for a few seconds for some character easter eggs!)]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/208454/No-one-in-the-history-of-the-internet-ever-clicked-on-the-SITEMAP</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.208454</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 02:21:37 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>JHarris</dc:creator> <category>BackToAWebsite</category> <category>dotcom</category> <category>FlashFriday</category> <category>homestarrunner</category> <category>oldweb</category> <category>Ruffle</category> <category>strongbad</category> <category>video</category> <category>Youtube</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/208454/No-one-in-the-history-of-the-internet-ever-clicked-on-the-SITEMAP/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>The Sideboard of Zefram Cochrane.</title> <description><![CDATA["Well, the inclusion of designer furniture on Starfleet ships and Federation planets makes sense—nice things are available to all in a post-scarcity society." He points to French designer Pierre Paulin's Ribbon Chair (1966), which has been featured not only in Star Trek: The Original Series but also in the sci-fi TV series Space: 1999 and the film Blade Runner: 2049. "Paulin chairs are always used to denote luxury..."<br>'<a href="https://metropolismag.com/viewpoints/chairs-in-space-when-design-history-inspires-science-fiction/">Chairs in Space: When Design History Inspires Science Fiction"</a>]]></description> <link>https://www.metafilter.com/208453/The-Sideboard-of-Zefram-Cochrane</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:metafilter.com,2025:site.208453</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 01:17:40 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>clavdivs</dc:creator> <category>design</category> <category>scifi</category> <category>television</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.metafilter.com/208453/The-Sideboard-of-Zefram-Cochrane/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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