If you're looking for something to sink your brain into during this final week of the year, then check out chavenet's post about the first 300 years of data visualization and information graphics. Gorgeous graphics mixed with interesting historical bits? YES, PLEASE!
Community member doctornemo is back at it again with a fantastic and fascinating post that covers humanity’s exploration of space. Click the link and travel inside for wealth of information to pour over!
For this Christmas please allow us to share with you a post from verstegan that tells a story that spans decades. It's a tale of memory and discovery, of hope and wishes, the mischevious goblins of today, and the importance of Noble Professions.
Screenshot from film
Everyone wants to look their best, even creatures of fantasy. So step right and make yourself comfy for this post by Tau Wedel and see how everything can be better for almost everyone with the right haircut!
image from inside the Manor at Hemingford Grey, via inigo.com
Brian Sibley has put online his dramatisation of the 1951 novel The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy Boston. Thanks, paduasoy, this looks fascinating!
Miracle Mile screenshot
DirtyOldTown: This is one of my three or four favorite movies EVER. I have a list of things. I could fill the whole page. Great, interesting comment about Steve de Jarnatt in Lemkin's very interesting post on the film "Miracle Mile". Go ahead and fill the whole page, DoT!
Your weekly Free Thread is here; the annual MST Club Christmas Video Marathon is go; it's (still) the season to be linkin'; the current Gift Swap thank you thread is here.
Best Windows + Lovecraft mashup actual question and answer about cloning the C drive. Tell Me No Lies seeks the truth. gregr calls on the elder Gods to answer.
Screenshot from Stewart Hickman video
Come for the McMansion-enabling truss connector plates, stay for the malt liquor, beer cans, and blunts.
Photo by Saad Akhtar via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/saad/)
You like mangos? Great, just be aware that the mango you're enjoying may not be a mango, but it doesn't matter, it's still delicious! Community member agentofselection created a fantastic and fascinating post about this "controversy".
Hey, did you know about that time when the Idaho Fish and Game program relocated 76 beavers by flying them to central Idaho and then parachuting them to the ground? No? Then let community member sawdustbear tell you all about it via folk musical puppet documentary done with stop motion animation.
The recent news events with UnitedHealthcare CEO has inspired a lot commentary. But what about a song? Well, limeonaire wrote one, a folk song titled “The New Folk Hero”. Come stop by for a listen, the lyrics and the chords!
Photo by Eli Christman, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/gammaman/)
I really need something to cheer myself up tonight. What can I watch?
image via pixabay.com
Answerers are offering some very interesting ideas about different ways to think about accomplishing personal objectives in aeighty's Ask Me thread about creating a plan for achieving goals.
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