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May 31
How can I follow the World Cup live from my computer at work? I don't want to miss out!
[more inside]posted by kendrak at 8:57 PM PST - 14 comments 
Why would Canada Post want to ship a package (from Amazon.ca) bound for Montreal and originating in Mississauga, Ontario (about 350 miles from Montreal) via Richmond, British Columbia (about 3000 miles from Montreal)?
[more inside]posted by Ricky_gr10 at 8:44 PM PST - 16 comments
Last week I went to the emergency room with massive bladder/stomach pains. Six hours later after a bunch of x-rays and CT scans the doc said I had a kidney stone. He gave me a vicodin perscription and told me to pee in a strainer to catch it. When I left the hospital, the pain was gone.
It's now nine days later and apart from occasional but more frequent urges to pee little amounts I have not experienced the hell like pain that i've read about
here and else where around the web. Everyone Kidney Stone victim I've spoken describe constant pain from the beginning until the stone comes out.
I assume my stone has passed my urethra and it's just swimming around inside my bladder. Is it normal for stones to hang in your body pain free for days? Is there any way I can force it out any sooner? I've been drinking plenty of water and all my pee has been pain and stone free. I'd rather suffer now than wait for it to strike randomly.
I called my doctor but he's on the vacay. I'm freaking out, living in fear, clutcing my vicodin bottle, waiting for the apocolypse of doom to strike down on me at any moment.
posted by sammich at 8:36 PM PST - 23 comments
On two separate laptops, Windows XP is misbehaving in an odd manner that prevents the user from doing anything. Error messages such as "Not enough quota is available to process this command." and "Windows cannot create a shortcut here. Do you ant the shortcut to be placed on the desktop instead?"
[more inside]posted by yellowbkpk at 8:14 PM PST - 1 comments
Why do some people have a difficult time remembering things such as left and right?
[more inside]posted by Kraki at 7:45 PM PST - 50 comments
Quick question: I plan on moving to England for an indefinite but legal period of time, do I need a round-trip ticket to get clearance into the country?
[more inside]posted by cloeburner at 7:14 PM PST - 10 comments
When something is gone from Costco, is it like totally gone forever and there's no chance I can ever purchase the item? I know they do seasonal stuff, but I saw this item less than a month ago and checking three locations reveals they replaced the item with a different yet similar product. Do they ever have overstock sales? Should I call every Costco within several hours of driving distance?
[more inside]posted by mathowie at 6:25 PM PST - 22 comments
I am looking for a work chair that I can take along with me on my business travels - something portable that would provide a level of comfort and functionality that was, at least, remotely similar to my Aeron at home. I know this is a VERY TALL order, so if there are any suggestions for chairs that would simply let me work comfortably in a hotel room - the crappy chairs in those are horrible - I'd appreciate that, as well.
posted by soulbarn at 5:56 PM PST - 12 comments
We need advice on how to structure our band practice sessions. We've been jamming together monthly for years and have just decided to start a band and have weekly rehearsals. What's the best way to organize our practice sessions?
[more inside]posted by richg at 4:54 PM PST - 9 comments
Some radio streams I listen to seem to play very softly, even when my system is at full-volume. Is there free software I can download to boost the volume coming out of my laptop speakers?
[more inside]posted by scarylarry at 4:21 PM PST - 5 comments
Looking for (free) email autoresponder software, the kind that tries to answer questions by matching keywords from an email to answers in a knowledgebase. Can anyone point me to some?
posted by krisjohn at 3:52 PM PST - 2 comments
I want to change the group policy on windows xp home. It is easy to do on Windows xp professional, but I have a computer that is running windows xp home.
The windows firewall is greyed out and will not let me reactivate.
When I try it tells me that the firewall is being controlled by group policy.
Where can I find group policy on xp home??
I'm running sp2. Is this a known issue with SP2??
thanks.
posted by tesseract420 at 2:27 PM PST - 10 comments
What is the best approach for appealing a dental insurance claim that was denied for a pre-existing condition when I have had continuous coverage? Does HIPAA apply?
[more inside]posted by eisbaer at 2:13 PM PST - 6 comments
Can childless couples have fulfilling lives? How do they spend all their free time and money? Is it a lonely existence?
[more inside]posted by zaebiz at 1:41 PM PST - 57 comments
I'm looking for a piece of software that will spider the company's intranet. After looking around for a few days, I've generated a list of requirements.
[more inside]posted by jennaba at 1:40 PM PST - 9 comments
Are there any online resources that would tell me what percent of Americans have a certain brand of credit card? Like an industry group site or a government site? Thanks
posted by punkfloyd at 1:08 PM PST - 6 comments
Anyone else using Office 12 Beta? I've recently installed it on my laptop, and I can't find a way to synchronize Outlook 12 with my palm pilot. Anyone know how to do this?
posted by lisaj32 at 1:01 PM PST - 3 comments
Help!I think I'm "catching" a nervous tic. How can I stop this before it gets out of hand?
[more inside]posted by clubfoote at 12:53 PM PST - 8 comments
Cluelessfilter: So I got an income tax refund and the only organizations marked on the check are 'United States Treasury' and 'Treasury / Financial Management Service'. Where is such a check cashed?
posted by Firas at 12:31 PM PST - 21 comments
I want to work with animals, specifically, big cats. I currently work in IT. Is it too late to get my dream job?
[more inside]posted by Mwongozi at 12:18 PM PST - 14 comments
I recently discovered that a co-worker has been suggesting that I am ill-suited for my recent promotion; should I respond?
[more inside]posted by GIRLesq at 12:16 PM PST - 17 comments
Can anyone identify the song right after the UFO sequence in
this video? If you know of similar music, please reccomend it.
[more inside]posted by phrontist at 11:57 AM PST - 11 comments
So, I got a portable MiniDisc player cheap at a garage sale (I don't have an ipod, I'm slow at these types of things) and it didnt come with instructions or any "line-out" type of thing. I wanna make mixes for it but I can't figure out how (I DO have itunes). Can anyone direct me to/give me info on how to transfer music onto a minidisc?
posted by hellameangirl at 11:47 AM PST - 10 comments
New laptop three part question; Just got a new Lenovo Thinkpad,
a. I want to make sure I have all the correct settings to make it run properly.
b. Wanted to see what accessories I should look at to make it easier/efficient to use? I have an ipod, a pda, and use microsoft office for work.
c. Any other comments or suggestions I should be aware of?
Thanks for the help guys!
posted by boyinmiami at 10:37 AM PST - 7 comments
I'd like to create a category for outsider scientists at Wikipedia. But I tried "outsider scientist" and it was voted down.
[more inside]posted by cda at 10:00 AM PST - 19 comments
What would you call
this thing? The only names I can find for it are "adapter" and "insert," but I could have sworn it had a different name (
i.e., "spacer" or something) when I used to use it to play 45s (when I was a wee lad, of course).
posted by *burp* at 9:08 AM PST - 8 comments
Name that tune: It serves as the soundtrack to the HBO Documentary Films commercial that currently plays before movies at Landmark Theaters. It's beautiful.
[more inside]posted by grrarrgh00 at 7:57 AM PST - 7 comments
Do these animals require a lot of care? Will it stink up my house or her room? Does it have to be potty trained? How big will it get? When we go on trips do we take it with us or is there a ferret kennel? What will it do during the day when no one is at home? What do they eat? I dunno if letting her get one is a good idea.
posted by sandra194 at 6:49 AM PST - 23 comments
I need some very basic groupware. It has to have file-sharing, calendar and discussion-board. It should be able to run on a java or php enabled server. Open source or free solutions are preferred.
[more inside]posted by FidelDonson at 6:27 AM PST - 5 comments
My hard drive recently started sparking, then smoking and burning. I quickly turned off the computer, but now I need to recover my data. I can see the spot on the hard drive that is black, so I know where the problem is. Is it safe for me to spend thirty minutes or so backing data off of this damaged drive? Alternatively, is it possible to repair the drive, at least enough to backup my data? Or have I lost everything?
[more inside]posted by gd779 at 6:01 AM PST - 35 comments
Is there any evidence that physical laws have changed, or could possibly change over time? For example, has the speed of light - since the beginning of the universe - been the same, and will it always remain the same into the future?
[more inside]posted by extrabox at 5:37 AM PST - 23 comments
Who are good uptempo Brazilian musicians, people similar to Tania Maria?
posted by Raybun at 4:44 AM PST - 4 comments
Student Loan Question. I know it has been asked several times in the past month on askmefi, but i do not believe my specific question has been addressed...
[more inside]posted by I_am_jesus at 4:24 AM PST - 18 comments
How does a web browser decide whether it can display a numerical character reference?
[more inside]posted by Nothing at 3:16 AM PST - 5 comments
How did the ritual of inverting a single cigarette in a fresh pack of cigarettes start? Was there some cultural reason, or a simple good luck charm?
posted by nibaq at 3:11 AM PST - 41 comments
TV shows, movies, books, or other media that involve people living as "someone else" temporarily - whether swapping roles, taking a new role, or pretending to be someone else - to see life in someone else's shoes.
[more inside]posted by divabat at 2:55 AM PST - 48 comments
So some Sunday in mid June I'm going to be driving from Los Angeles to Fresno. I will meeting a vegetarian with a sensitivity to wheat and soy products for lunch. I'm thinking about finding someone in Los Angeles to prepare an Indian tiffin for me. I'll need to pick up the tiffin on Saturday afternoon in order to make it to Fresno in time for lunch. Since this mid-June I'll also pick up a basket of organic cherries. I'm looking for someone who does delicious Indian take out food that can be stored overnight. I'm open to suggestions for non-indian treats.
posted by rdr at 1:30 AM PST - 3 comments
May 30
I'd like to get my group at work using a wiki for certain projects. However, I've uncovered very few wiki implementations that would allow offline editing and syncback; this is a dealbreaker. Any ideas?
[more inside]posted by lbergstr at 10:30 PM PST - 5 comments
E-mails I receive and compose in Microsoft Outlook 2003 have inexplicably and recently begun to be displayed with a gray background!
[more inside]posted by wubbie at 10:23 PM PST - 6 comments
Small whitish soft-hard stinky balls coming out of my throat once in blue moon when I cough hard. They have a foul smell. I can't see them inside my mouth. But they occassionally 'fall out' when I cough. The odour is soooo bad.
At first I thought they were food particles, but no.. this has happened atleast 2-3 times in the past week.
They are not big at all, they're very small.. no particular shape.
What is it, and how do I get rid of them?
posted by Devileyezz at 9:35 PM PST - 40 comments
Hello all,
A friend of mine recently completed his feature film as well as a short film which he had premiere at a few indie theaters. He is wondering what other sites such as IMDB allow users to submit their movie information? IMDB seems to be rather tough and not so kind on small and upcoming film makers, so I guess I'm trying to help him find 'other' film/info sites with likes of IMDB.
Thanks in advance!
posted by cheero at 9:17 PM PST - 2 comments
I'm looking to buy a new Macbook as a secondary computer, however, I want it to be the sole host to my 60gb iPod. I currently have a Toshiba laptop, which has an 80BG hard drive. After two years of use, I've realized I need at least a 120 GB hard drive in any new laptop I get. I don't want to shell out the cash for Apple to throw an upgraded drive in ($250!!!!), but instead I want to buy a new hard drive off ebay or something and replace the 80GB one inside the fresh Macbook. Since I'm only accustomed to the Windows OS -- How do I go about doing this for an Apple computer? Also, does anyone know where I can get a good deal on a laptop drive? :)
[more inside]posted by drkrdglo at 8:14 PM PST - 30 comments
My mother has been experiencing severe swelling under her eyes at night. None of the doctors she visited have helped. More inside...
[more inside]posted by frogmoses at 8:03 PM PST - 3 comments
Does a person born deaf blind experience dreams?
My curiousity has always wondered if a person who is born deaf blind has the ability to experience dream? What would dreaming be like if you never have been able to see or hear anything around you. Is a dream a purely visual thing for us sighted ones? Any research sites or personal stories on this topic?
posted by randomthoughts at 7:59 PM PST - 12 comments
Mind over matter: what strategies are good for psyching yourself up to do something scary, uncomfortable, difficult or painful? The moments I'm thinking of aren't interpersonal situations. More like: you're standing on the high dive. Or you're doing your own bikini wax, and it's time to rip it off. Or you're on a bridge about to bungee. You're at the top of the half-pipe, about to take off. You're about to get stuck with a needle for medical or decorative purposes. Surely "just do it" isn't the only strategy?
posted by xo at 7:58 PM PST - 34 comments
Where's the best place to watch the World Cup in Los Angeles? Looking for general recommendations, and also suggestions as to where might be a good World Cup event or viewing party.
posted by cell divide at 7:57 PM PST - 1 comments
I'd like to purchase the online publication rights to a book originally published in the 1960s, and long out of print. How do I go about doing this?
[more inside]posted by russilwvong at 7:30 PM PST - 6 comments
I damaged my All-Clad MC2 cookware by using Cascade powder in the dishwasher. Now the exterior surface is all dull and rough-feeling. Any idea how I can repair the damage?
posted by frenchbenj at 7:20 PM PST - 15 comments
I'm really interested in the soon coming
iPod+Nike technology: Basically a really high tech way of tracking your running, syncing it with your computer, tracking your progress, interacting with others, etc. However, I'd really kind of like to avoid Nike for it's high prices and other reasons, so does anyone know any other similar high tech products that could help me track my run? Extra points for Mac compatibility.
posted by patr1ck at 5:51 PM PST - 9 comments
EVDOFilter: I'm interested in Sprint or Verizon EVDO phone-as-modem mobile broadband service with my Powerbook, but I've never had a celphone before. Help!
[more inside]posted by Alterscape at 5:01 PM PST - 16 comments
Is it possible make a browser window go full screen? Not "fake full screen," but full-on, PowerPoint style full screen mode?
[more inside]posted by josh.ev9 at 4:31 PM PST - 16 comments
I'm looking for articles, books, or insights in any format relating to a common theme in long-term relationships.
[more inside]posted by Roach at 4:12 PM PST - 16 comments
Another question about sleep apnea - specifically about how to deal with the actual moment of waking up choking.
[more inside]posted by ORthey at 3:46 PM PST - 15 comments
Why does Dreamweaver 8 (mac) show my cursor insertion point in the wrong spot in design view?
[more inside]posted by miss tea at 3:01 PM PST - 1 comments
Having grown up with very little good childhood memories and the absence of both parents, I'm trying to read/learn as much as possible on parenting before my child is born.
[more inside]posted by Sallysings at 2:58 PM PST - 26 comments
How can I find out how many days around 30 degrees celcius there are going to be this summer in Ontario Canada?
[more inside]posted by dino terror at 2:25 PM PST - 7 comments
I'm thinking about converting my mountain bike into something more like a comfort bike. Am I crazy?
[more inside]posted by wezelboy at 2:24 PM PST - 19 comments
Where in the Boston area can one host a large barbeque? (we may or may not be doing the actual grilling ourselves)
[more inside]posted by darsh at 1:55 PM PST - 13 comments
EnergyPurchaseFilter: What is the deal with non-regulated electric purchasing? Who's had experience with this, and was it all the [highly suspect] awesome hoopla that it's played to be by the companies/government? Bonus points if you live/have lived in New Hampshire, where I'm trying to figure out this whole mess.
[more inside]posted by plaidrabbit at 1:52 PM PST - 3 comments
I carry my cell phone in my pocket (front right), and they have all suffered from "dust under the screen" syndrome. I thought the problem would be solved by switching to a clam shell (my trusty Razr), but no...
it still persists.
[more inside]posted by c:\awesome at 1:44 PM PST - 13 comments
How can I create driving directions in Google Maps to multiple locations at once?
[more inside]posted by nitsuj at 1:18 PM PST - 10 comments
One of my favorite Tackhead songs is "What's My Mission Now? (Fight the Devil!)" from the album "Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System." It includes quotes from some kind of military brass dude talking about what the military can and can't do. Who is it talking and in what context? The samples are not identified/acknowledged.
[more inside]posted by edheil at 1:12 PM PST - 6 comments
[NoveltySongFilter] I am compiling lists of the following:
1. Bad hiphop tracks from the soundtracks of films from the late 80s and early 90s that summarized the plot during the end credits. You remember...Organized Krime's joint from the end of
TMNT 2: The Secret of the Ooze or Tag Team's reprise of their hit "Whoomp, There it is" for
Addam's Family Values.
2. Hidden, unlisted and secret joke tracks from the end of albums. Off the top of my head I can only think of more dreck from the mid-90s like Korn's track with Cheech Marin from
Follow the Leader or the Green Day track "All by Myself" from
Dookie
3. Backwards masking. Kiss and the Beatles were accused of doing it so bands like Ministry thought it would be a good idea. Who else?
4. Funk or soul songs with theremin.
Please add to my list.
[more inside]posted by elr at 1:03 PM PST - 35 comments
My friends and I were wondering if there is any legal precedent for what happens if someone is a week or very close to turning 21 and then receives an MIP or similar charge?
[more inside]posted by geoff. at 12:51 PM PST - 9 comments
Is "My Mother Told Me Not to Shout" an acronym (like "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally") for something?
[more inside]posted by fogster at 12:38 PM PST - 30 comments
Help me figure out these weird Spanish, Danish, and Portugese characters in an address given to me via the Internet. I don't think what I see is what is meant.
[more inside]posted by chef_boyardee at 12:20 PM PST - 9 comments
HPV and all that it entails. Transmission, treatment, talking with partners. I've read
this and
this and
this. I've talked to my doctor, I've read the websites, I'm still confused. And do I need a new doctor?
[more inside]posted by anonymous at 12:14 PM PST - 6 comments
Bird Song-o-rama: Northern California Sierras, two pairs of doublet whistles (notes G-G/ [lower] D-D), song used often by two birds as call and response. Ring any bells?
[more inside]posted by Ogre Lawless at 11:38 AM PST - 5 comments
Who is responsible for the wonderful type engraved in stone seen on gated walls around the Harvard campus? I am not talking about architectural lettering, but about the several quotes engraved in slabs of smooth stone and mounted in the walls separating various parts of the campus. The work looks contemporary, or at least very well-cared-for.
posted by luriete at 11:21 AM PST - 13 comments
What are some good moderate-sized, alternative-y music festivals in the US along the lines of Intonation?
posted by gottabefunky at 10:31 AM PST - 11 comments
I'm looking for a gift to get somebody who's really interested in
death.
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[more inside]posted by pinto at 9:50 AM PST - 26 comments
Where do I find a good gynecologist in the Baltimore area that's covered by my insurance? There aren't any rating websites, are there? That would be weird, but cool. There is
[more inside]posted by schroedinger at 9:47 AM PST - 9 comments
Is my rose bush dead? Last fall I didn't prune back my rose bushs. This spring 3 of them finally turned green after I pruned back some of the dead wood, but the last one (a climbing rose) is still seemingly dead sticks. Each one has successfully grown for years, never w/ much consistency in pruning, but now I have 2 feet of dead sticks on the remaining bush. How do I know if I should give up on it? Does it have a chance next year? I'm in Colorado in zone 5, for what it's worth.
posted by artifarce at 9:15 AM PST - 4 comments
Need advice for two tent camping newbies about to travel the country via Honda Accord. Is KOA generally reputable/nonscuzzy nowadays? Any other hints for this year's summer season? Recommendations on equipment? Do you have to reserve ahead of time (we are trying to not schedule ourselves too much!) or can you usually show up in the evening and get a spot? This question is as broad as can be - all advice welcome. We are happy to do some off-trail places but don't want to backpack necessarily.
[more inside]posted by kirstin at 8:57 AM PST - 24 comments
When I was a music student, we had a visit from a music psychologist who worked in a conservatory in London... I think it was The Royal Academy.
During her lecture, she described an experiment where performers were asked to play either with no physical movement, or with obviously physically expressive movements.
The performers who had no physical movement were divided into 2 groups; one group was asked to play in an emotionally expressive way, and the other group was asked to play mechanically.
The result of this experiment was that non-musicians could not tell apart the 2 groups of motionless performers, they could only tell a performer was being expressive if they could see them moving.
In short, non-musicians cannot tell if a musician is playing expressively by listening alone.
Musicians could of course tell the difference between all of them.
I'm now a music photographer, so these findings are of huge interest to me, especially when it comes to persuading musicians just how important it is to communicate on a visual level as well as a musical one.
Does anyone have any idea where I can reference this study, or anything remotely similar?
Thanks!
posted by BobsterLobster at 8:28 AM PST - 4 comments
QuoteFilter: what's the origin of the phrase "pass the sugar"? Aussies, anyone, help me out here!
[more inside]posted by rmm at 8:22 AM PST - 14 comments
How long after applying for a job should you accept that you're not getting called up for an interview?
[more inside]posted by XQUZYPHYR at 8:13 AM PST - 23 comments
I shot a roll of print film (Kodak Gold 200) using the wrong filter (80a instead of polarizing). Can it be fixed in the developing — like when you push b/w film — or later, in the computer?
posted by LeLiLo at 6:06 AM PST - 7 comments
PublishingAuctionFilter: I'm looking for online, eBay-like auction companies/sites that allow: a) writers to auction articles/books to publishers (of books, magazines, newspapers, websites, whatever); b) publishers to auction licensed articles/books to other publishers (ditto); c) publishers to auction ad space to advertisers (“media buyers,” as they say). I've got one so far: eBay is setting up a system to do C. Anyone have A or B? Thanx.
posted by MarshallPoe at 5:11 AM PST - 3 comments
Suitable venue for a working dinner, delegates from Canterbury, Brighton, Guildford, where to go?? The M25 /M23 junction? UK mefites, Urgent help needed! More inside....
[more inside]posted by Wilder at 2:50 AM PST - 9 comments
Did you learn CPR before 1988? If so, did you they teach to to shake your resusci-Annie and say "Annie, Annie, are you okay?"
[more inside]posted by neda at 12:56 AM PST - 38 comments
May 29
So my computer has been doing a lot of
this lately. Only a hard reset will fix it. Hardware malfunction suspected, but what? Video card? Or could it be something else...
[more inside]posted by sophist at 10:48 PM PST - 17 comments
Other then releasing press releases, how would I get my business/myself interviewed or written about?
[more inside]posted by Izzmeister at 10:17 PM PST - 15 comments
GoogleFilter: Is there a quick and easy way to eliminate results from Wikipedia and its many mirrors in Google searches?
[more inside]posted by gubo at 9:36 PM PST - 10 comments
My wife is pregnant with baby number 4. As a way to get our other kids interested and involved, she would like to print out approximate week-by-week sizes of the baby's feet and hands. Has anyone seen this online, or (second choice) in a book?
posted by Jesco at 7:48 PM PST - 8 comments
SvenskFilter: English translation of Bertil Mårtensson's "Maktens Vägar" (Paths of Power?) appears not to exist...
[more inside]posted by lundman at 7:38 PM PST - 1 comments
When considering marriage, how can you tell the difference between annoyances and dealbreakers?
[more inside]posted by tabulem at 6:51 PM PST - 50 comments
How do I get an orchid to produce blooms? It is a healthy plant that just keeps producing more green leaves, but no orchids.
posted by sushrob at 6:28 PM PST - 11 comments
Culture shock, loneliness or a whole new adventure? I am considering a move from Central New Jersey to Thousand Oaks , California for a great job opportunity. I am a divorced 46 year old female. My mother and one brother live within 2 hours of the new location. My boyfriend and I broke up 2 months ago, I have lived in NJ for decades, I have long time friends here, prefer intellectual versus athletic pursuits, like witty sarcasm, and worry that it is difficult to make friends at this age/stage. Wondering if that is a deal breaker (I am quite shy). Any advice, thoughts on the culture out there?
posted by artemis at 6:15 PM PST - 23 comments
A long long time ago in the year 2000 I bought a copy of the compilation album "
Indie 2000 Volume 5". In the track listing on the second CD there was listed the BIS song "Action and Drama", but when I played the album the song that was on the CD was "Theme from Tokyo" from the same artist. To make things even more confusing I knew someone who bought the same album and their copy had the correctly listed song.
My question to you, is how on earth is this possible?
posted by a. at 5:37 PM PST - 4 comments
My fiance has a platinum engagement ring and the bottom seems to be warping due to plat being a soft metal. We are not sure why this is happening.
[more inside]posted by UMDirector at 5:32 PM PST - 6 comments
What's the state-of-the-art for cracking wi-fi under Windows? Knoppix CD with aircrack / airsnort / kismet? Or are there some decent Windows binaries these days?
posted by obiwanwasabi at 4:35 PM PST - 15 comments
I've got my DV camcorder, my big hard drive and my PowerBook all set and ready to go with Final Cut Pro. I've tinkered around a bit, but I want to really get to know what I'm doing. What now?
[more inside]posted by Captaintripps at 4:33 PM PST - 9 comments
I need recommendations for a casual (read: jeans) restaurant in San Diego's Gaslamp district. My only other requirement is that they take reservations, as we will be a party of 8.
posted by rorycberger at 4:24 PM PST - 12 comments
Tell me what web-forms really, really impress you. I'm stuck in "form-developer" block mode, and after muddling through mountains and mountains of layouts and best practises sites, I think I'm about to explode.
[more inside]posted by purephase at 3:48 PM PST - 13 comments
Help me find a series of fantasy books (NOT the Gor series) I read in the 1980s about an Earth man periodically teleported by mysterious god-like beings/aliens to dangerous situations on another planet, which had a swords-and-sorcery tech level. He spent years on this other planet, built a life there, etc. Over 30 books in the series, I think.
[more inside]posted by mistersix at 3:39 PM PST - 15 comments
What were the court costs in Jarndyce? (Spoilers inside if you aren't familiar with
Bleak House.)
[more inside]posted by languagehat at 2:33 PM PST - 2 comments
My computer's on/off fan is driving me mad; and I don't need the power. How can I limit the available processor power so that I can run it silently?
[more inside]posted by jamescridland at 2:16 PM PST - 13 comments
Where to stay in South Beach (Miami) for large group (40+) of the post-collegiate (but not too serious) type for a weekend in September? Trying to find places $150-$200 which deal with groups (10 rooms or so) often.
[more inside]posted by sandmanwv at 1:51 PM PST - 4 comments
Anyone know of a service or business that will reverse-engineer an existing piece of clothing, and either produce a pattern, or be willing to copy it in a different material? Oh yeah, and for not an exhorbitant fee.
[more inside]posted by ackptui at 1:11 PM PST - 11 comments
I'm looking for literature analysis websites. Are there any suggestions for worthwhile sources? I've found a bunch of essay websites, but they seem conflicting or written by students. I'm looking for accurate information that will give me some new perspectives in a wide variety of literature. In time I would like to be able to teach more about hidden symbolism to other people including students. Right now I'm looking specifically for interpretations of Margaret Atwood's "A Handmaid's Tale" and George Orwell's "1984". Thanks in advance if anyone has any advice or tips.
posted by Knigel at 12:58 PM PST - 12 comments
Does membership in Professional (non-legislated) Associations make my resume look better? Or am I just paying money to add useless acronyms to it?
[more inside]posted by tiamat at 12:54 PM PST - 12 comments
I'm looking for a free genealogy website - one where I can upload my GEDCOM file, reference various databases and the like.
[more inside]posted by rinkjustice at 12:24 PM PST - 8 comments
Two friends and I are looking for a crazy adventure story-of-a-lifetime vacation in Central or South America for roughly a week, and I am completely stumped. Help?
[more inside]posted by bryak at 11:39 AM PST - 20 comments
In regards to design and press printing. Towards the bottom of this
Paper Specs article it touches on an overprint varnishing technique called "dot-on-dot varnishing."
Is anyone familiar with this technique and care to elaborate on how it is accomplished and the effect it has on the final piece?
[more inside]posted by monsta coty scott at 10:53 AM PST - 4 comments
Laptop can't resolve the domain name when I first type it in, but it does upon refresh.
[more inside]posted by taumeson at 10:32 AM PST - 3 comments
Anyone ever hear a hilarious radio special on the CBC called "Not the History of Rock and Roll"? There were two of these produced. I've heard Part 2, it's got really funny impersonations and faux interviews of David Byrne, Michael Jackson, James Brown and others. I'm trying to locate the first part. Anyone have an idea of where to find it?
posted by storybored at 10:26 AM PST - 3 comments
Should I let other people use expensive and easily breakable pieces of portable electronics I have like a camera or Palm? Especially if I rely on them like the latter?
[more inside]posted by grouse at 10:19 AM PST - 22 comments
FetishFilter: can a person overcome a dangerous or detrimental sexual fetish? or any fetish for that matter?
posted by brandz at 9:49 AM PST - 16 comments
My 4 year old daughter has seen a few anime shows and really likes them. She especially likes them subtitled, so she can hear the original Japanese voices. What are some anime series, appropriate to her age that I can pick up to encourage this?
I know it's a long shot, but I'd like to find something that keeps her entertained, but doesn't drive me crazy. Some Japanese equivalent of Spongebob - a show I'd watch even if I didn't have children.
posted by fcain at 8:09 AM PST - 19 comments
In this month's GQ, there's a longer update to the
Milford High drug bust story, in which a 23-year-old private detective went undercover at a high school, leading to the eventual arrest of seventeen high school students. (The story inspired a decidedly banal
MeFi thread.) My question--not covered in the previous thread, the news coverage, or the GQ article--is simple: how in the world is it legal for a private detective to buy drugs? And for the reported purchase of drugs to lead to an arrest?
[more inside]posted by Ian A.T. at 7:51 AM PST - 13 comments
On my WinXP Pro laptop I can ping, nslookup, and tracert to whatever address I like, but no browser can load any pages, even by IP address. I get connection timeouts 100% of the time. Why, and how can I fix it?
[more inside]posted by Songdog at 7:37 AM PST - 14 comments
What steps should one take to see published the letters their grandfather wrote during the Second World War?
[more inside]posted by Atreides at 7:34 AM PST - 16 comments
Thanks to
advice here on the green, I have sorted out my transportation logistics for getting to the World Cup. Before and after the Paraguay vs. Trinidad game, I will be visiting Paris, Florence, and Madrid for a few days each. Where should we stay? I don't mind paying $200-$300 a night. Just looking for some nice hotels in good locations for people who don't speak the local languages.
posted by jasondigitized at 7:27 AM PST - 6 comments
I'm looking for two kinds of charity groups: One that helps the children of soldiers killed in Iraq, and one that helps children in Iraq who have lost parents. Any know vetted organizations that fit this bill?
posted by gwint at 7:14 AM PST - 4 comments
Is there software that will let a user (say, a teacher) broadcast the contents of his computer screen to a number of other users (say, students), so that all the screens are showing what the server's screen is showing?
posted by Jairus at 5:57 AM PST - 14 comments
May 28
Are there any Firewire or USB external hard drive enclosures that support translation of SMART messages?
[more inside]posted by rajbot at 8:45 PM PST - 5 comments
My cell phone is being bugged, I have changed my number several times. My corded landline phone is also bugged. My apartment has been bugged , don't know if it still is since I have moved. Don't know how they were able to bug my last apartment but it was. Can anyone help me
posted by 10jubilee at 8:26 PM PST - 79 comments
Help connecting to the internet needed! I'm in a new house and the internet all of a sudden stopped working. My wireless can "see" several networks, have a strong signal and good speed, but I don't get assigned a network address. (the networks are unsecured.) Sometimes I'll connect yet have "limited or no connectivity". Why would my connection suddenly stop working? I have no viruses, I checked.
[more inside]posted by gilsonal at 7:16 PM PST - 9 comments
The deck / patio on my mother's house is completely exposed to the sun and umbrellas haven't been working as shade providers. The wind breaks them. Or they provide insufficient shading. Besides building a roof over the deck, what else can we try to turn her deck into a nicely shaded space?
posted by Aghast. at 5:21 PM PST - 18 comments
For my work, I've been asked to prevent a client's son from browsing porn on the family computer without spending money on NetNanny style products. I confess to encountering some difficulty. I have set Win XP to use the MVPS hosts file and tried a couple of free porn filters but have come up against a brick wall. Help me!
[more inside]posted by dance at 3:35 PM PST - 38 comments
I've started singing with a group, but my skills in reading sheet music are... lacking.
[more inside]posted by tomble at 3:34 PM PST - 8 comments
How can I find out what music shows will be happening while I'm traveling around Europe?
[more inside]posted by chimmyc at 3:25 PM PST - 9 comments
I have this idea that I want to walk to and from the grocery store to have an excuse to take a long walk (perhaps as long as an hour each way). How long can the walk be before the food becomes unsafe to eat?
[more inside]posted by mrkohrea at 2:11 PM PST - 33 comments
Is my tea kettle poisonous? I put the kettle on to boil, then was called away to face some kind of (I have a six-year-old) emergency. When I returned, the forgotten kettle had boiled away all of the water and had been probably been firing away empty for about ten minutes. Is that bad? Should I toss it? Why?
posted by cometwendy at 1:24 PM PST - 31 comments
Feel like I am missing out on some great music, but need convincing. recommendations for the best Who, Stones and Beatles album please.
[more inside]posted by calvinorr at 11:39 AM PST - 43 comments
Owners of the US version of
Taiko Drum Master for the PS2 - how loud is the drum? More plastic-drum-related questions lurk within!
[more inside]posted by terpsichoria at 10:28 AM PST - 5 comments
Aside from the standard knives, what would be a good gift for a student off to culinary school?
[more inside]posted by garbo at 10:01 AM PST - 29 comments
Can anyone recommend a good, woman-friendly physician or nurse practitioner at Kaiser-Permanente's Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles facility?
[more inside]posted by Scram at 9:54 AM PST - 6 comments
InTheMeantimeFilter: I've got a formerly filled, chipped tooth with exposed dentin that doesn't hurt .. yet. What can I do in the meantime before the dentist visit?
[more inside]posted by vanoakenfold at 7:49 AM PST - 12 comments
Anyone have medical/anatomical knowledge to support the observation that the pelvic girdle/hips grow wider as a person ages? I don't mean getting fat - I mean literally do the bones spread outwards, increasing the hip size and so the width between the legs. I see this on old men especially
posted by A189Nut at 7:18 AM PST - 4 comments
When trying to change the batteries in my maglite after a long period of neglect, I found that the cap wouldn't unscrew. After persuading it open with a pair of mol-grips, I could see that one of the batteries had leaked and there was a big grey corroded-looking stain on the inside of the battery compartment. Is there any way I can clean this up, or should I bid farewell to my trusty torch? The battery is a D cell alkaline.
posted by primer_dimer at 7:02 AM PST - 7 comments
May 27
I could use some insight/support from those who suffer from generalized or social anxiety disorder and their loved ones. Despite being medicated to the hilt - which works only to the extent that it deflects and masks total public meltdowns - I am increasingly unable to tolerate social functions or recover from "weird" encounters or awkward conversations. The problem is that I am feeling tremendous amounts of guilt for essentially ditching my awesome, beautiful, incredibly supportive wife by leaving her to fend for herself at parties or any kind of large gatherings.
[more inside]posted by anonymous at 10:54 PM PST - 18 comments
Where should a Hastings student and a Caltrain commuter live in San Francisco?
[more inside]posted by natan at 9:51 PM PST - 14 comments
X3/internetsfilter: *SPOILERS*Question about a line in the new Xmen movie as related to an internet meme.*SPOILERS*
[more inside]posted by fidgets at 9:41 PM PST - 17 comments
Wool mattress topper, who has had experiences with them? I'm looking for input on comfort, cleaning, and anything else anyone has to say about them.
[more inside]posted by 6:1 at 8:49 PM PST - 10 comments
Tomorrow I have a telephone interview for a job at a regional metro daily newspaper. What might they ask me? And, er, how should I answer?
[more inside]posted by t0astie at 8:46 PM PST - 13 comments
How gross is a used mattress? Is there a way to determine "how used" a mattress is? If I got a used mattress with no visible urine/ejaculate/other(?) stains on it, and covered it with a nice thick mattress pad, would you think less of me?
[more inside]posted by folara at 8:24 PM PST - 39 comments
I am reading Douglas Coupland's new book (JPod) and I'm always a little frustrated by him. He seems to get the general vibe of nerds but is horribly off on details sometimes (in the first 50 pages, he makes reference to a "56k floppy disk"), which is agonizing. Anyway, he posits a math problem (I don't think this counts as a spoiler, I'll even omit the context and just pose the problem with page number, but if you really don't want to see anything about the book, don't read on, I guess.)
[more inside]posted by oxonium at 6:54 PM PST - 42 comments
I have a access query that is making me tear my hair out. My database has 40 fields that have three possible values (OK, NG, NA). I need to list only the entries that have NG in any one of those 40 fields.
[more inside]posted by JonnyRotten at 6:33 PM PST - 23 comments
How do I fix my display resolution? Warning: This is not as simple a question as it appears to be.
[more inside]posted by ZakDaddy at 6:20 PM PST - 5 comments
How sinister is a pre-employment "investigative consumer report" that includes interviews with acquaintances? What do those interviews involve exactly?
[more inside]posted by anonymous at 5:50 PM PST - 14 comments
I am thinking about buying an acre or so in Western NC on which to build a home and
[more inside]posted by Scottk at 5:14 PM PST - 10 comments
What's the best way to estimate monthly unique visitors for a website when Google Analytics chokes on more than two weeks of data?
[more inside]posted by teaperson at 5:02 PM PST - 5 comments
I need a good Irish bar in San Francisco. The kind where there's lots of drunken singing of faux-Irish songs.
[more inside]posted by jewzilla at 3:48 PM PST - 20 comments
"When will I see my companion again?" I recall hearing a
poem including this line (or a subtle variation), but cannot
identify its name or the author. Can you help me identify this poem?
[more inside]posted by shinnin at 3:20 PM PST - 3 comments
My best female friend is very emotionally sensitive-- to the point where we can't mention a specific ex-boyfriend from three years ago in her presence. I and her other close friends are starting to think she can't control her responses about this, and that it's starting to impact how honest we can be with her. What can we do?
[more inside]posted by woot at 2:07 PM PST - 22 comments
Where can i sit on a patio and drink a reasonably priced margarita in New York City right now!? Right NOW!
[more inside]posted by c at 1:32 PM PST - 11 comments
What's the best way to do shrink wrapping at home? I have a few magazines, books, boxed games, etc.. that I want to protect from moisture. Is there a shrink wrapping system for home users?
posted by stbalbach at 1:32 PM PST - 8 comments
Where can I find hip, designer-ish tee shirts in New York City? I am thinking of places like Odin, if you are familiar with it.
posted by Falconetti at 11:30 AM PST - 4 comments
Where do the affluent shop/hang-out online? I'm looking for examples of websites that target the wealthy. Bonus points if they are real-estate related.
[more inside]posted by Mick at 10:41 AM PST - 14 comments
I am trying to reverse-engineer a data file comprised of various integers, strings, floats, and so on. Is there a good Windows tool that will help me group the records and start picking the fields apart? I'd rather not try this in a plain vanilla hex editor.
posted by rolypolyman at 10:25 AM PST - 5 comments
I have 90GB of mp3s on a hard drive and 27GB of mp3s on my 5th generation iPod. How do I determine which songs on my iPod are already present in my 90GB library, and which ones aren't, using a smart playlist?
[more inside]posted by vkxmai at 10:12 AM PST - 6 comments
My wife and I have really started to get into bike riding lately - nothing extreme or long distance, just urban riding (10 miles or less). I have an old Huffy multi-speed that I'd like to dismantle, clean up, and repaint, but I don't know the first thing about bicycle maintenance and dis/assembly. Help!
[more inside]posted by bjork24 at 10:11 AM PST - 20 comments
How much is a picture worth? I recently received an e-mail from a well known publisher of travel books. The e-mail was inquiring about a picture that I took that they would like to use for an upcoming publication. The publication will run for 2 years with an estimated print run of 50,000 copies. One of the questions asked is how much I would charge for them to use my picture. I am not a professional photographer so I have no idea how much I should charge. Some ideas or a point in the right direction would be appreciated.
posted by cjw333 at 9:05 AM PST - 6 comments
What a surprise: I'm working on another music mix and would like suggestions. This mix features folk/bluegrass/country songs that tell stories. The less production, the less instrumentation, the more acoustic the better.
[more inside]posted by jdroth at 9:01 AM PST - 44 comments
Billboards around town offer the service of "Any (lab) test." The companies offering the service vary, but they all include the word "lab" in parentheses. Why the consistent parenthetical? The service wouldn't really make sense without the parentheses, would it?
posted by tegoo at 7:58 AM PST - 4 comments
VPN on Windows 2000: I need to connect to both the VPN and the Internet at the same time. I need some IP addresses to go through the VPN, and others to go through my router's gateway.
[more inside]posted by Sharcho at 7:52 AM PST - 11 comments
How do I get a daily post to my Movable Type 3.2 blog of my del.icio.us links with one particular tag?
[more inside]posted by bevedog at 7:44 AM PST - 5 comments
I work odd hours. I wake up at 4am, work in a warehouse doing physical work for 5 hours, go home rest for a few hours, then suit up for a 7 hour shift (15:00 - 22:00) as a security guard doing primarily stationary work. Because of the long hours my meal schedule is quite irregular and I usually over eat or binge eat. Any ideas on how I can start regulating my meals?
[more inside]posted by klwatts at 4:10 AM PST - 6 comments
So I've just deleted a bunch of files which were held on an Ubuntu server, from my XP laptop, via a Samba share. Is there any way to retrieve them?
posted by pompomtom at 3:00 AM PST - 3 comments
May 26
I plan on upgrading to a larger memory iPod, and I want to sell my 4th generation 20G iPod, but I don't know how much it's worth.
[more inside]posted by Four-Eyed Girl at 11:43 PM PST - 10 comments
I'm shocked, horrified, and absolutely appalled that several people I know and love have not seen the John Basedow commercial featuring his new theme song. Where can I find this video or audio clip?
[more inside]posted by spiderskull at 9:46 PM PST - 10 comments
I noticed my computer starting to beep often about 2 years ago (I think) even when I'm just browsing the Inkernet. I have a feeling that's not normal.
[more inside]posted by mordecai at 9:09 PM PST - 8 comments
What are the "must see" places and "must do" activities when the wife and I visit Newfoundland, the Gaspe Peninsula, New Brunswick & possibly Nova Scotia in mid-July? If you have ideas for quaint, clean and reasonable places to stay that will provide lasting, fond memories, please suggest those too. If you have photos to post or link to, you receive bonus points! The trip will begin & end in Boston.
posted by thebarron at 7:53 PM PST - 11 comments
Just before heavy rain/thunderstorms (especially so if lightning is involved) I get incredibly lethargic, fall in and out of sleep, get severe headaches, become panicky and restless and then after the whole spectacle is over, the horrible state I'm in vanishes. Why does this happen, and is there is a good way to treat/prevent it?
posted by aletheia at 7:53 PM PST - 14 comments
What is the best (preferably online) tutorial for teaching the basics of HTML (and CSS, although that's not as necessary)?
[more inside]posted by stefnet at 7:25 PM PST - 10 comments
Nature abhors a vacuum; thus I need Access training in the Toronto/GTA area, any recommendations?
[more inside]posted by strangelove at 6:35 PM PST - 2 comments
A group of my friends and I are looking to hike the first leg of the Nantahala area AT this weekend, and can't figure out where to park and enter.
[more inside]posted by jruckman at 2:46 PM PST - 2 comments
Can I connect to my wireless internet? I live in an apartment with wireless DSL already set up and used by a mac, but I started trying to use my Windows machine with it, and it's not working.
[more inside]posted by Packy_1962 at 1:57 PM PST - 8 comments
A year or so ago, I happened across a single php file I could drop in a website directory which then enabled the browsing of image files in said directory. I have since forgotten its name. What is this application or any simple, light-weight image directory browser?
posted by Korou at 1:34 PM PST - 7 comments
Trying to think of movies in which the main story concerns a character trying to win back a lost love. For example: Gene Hackman attempts to re-woo his estranged wife in "The Royal Tenenbaums". Julia Roberts goes for her ex in "My Best Friend's Wedding". Any more?
posted by soiled cowboy at 1:33 PM PST - 32 comments
Can you Help a Big Fat guy find his Ideal weight?
I am 6'9" (205 cm) and none of the charts go that high.
[more inside]posted by Megafly at 12:36 PM PST - 24 comments
Can anyone give me wallpaper stripping/removal tips? My fiance and I just purchased a home (built in 1988) that is pretty much covered in wallpaper. And we hate it. I've heard the process is torturous. Help!
posted by fabesfaves at 12:28 PM PST - 21 comments
What is the best sub woofer system for my car for circa 250 bucks (willing to go up to 300 probably). All in ones are welcome, but I hear bad things about the bass tubes.. All wiring is already installed and I get free hook up of the sub.
[more inside]posted by crewshell at 12:08 PM PST - 3 comments
I have a gig helping someone get up to speed developing marketing capacity for a startup, and one of the first things that we're going to do is make sure good info is coming IN to the company. Please help me figure out the best tools to use!
[more inside]posted by mikel at 12:03 PM PST - 1 comments
Antique Mac/Butler SQL question. (System 7.6) Recovering or resetting the Butler SQL admin password.
[more inside]posted by spock at 11:35 AM PST - 1 comments
About 15 years ago, I gave the GF a pair of diamond earrings. Nothing grand – we were both young and poor – about 5/8 carat. When I found out she was cheating, I demanded them back (among other things). Flash forward 15 years – I am now married (to someone else obviously), and just came across the long forgotten earrings in an old box.
[more inside]posted by JimBobNoPants at 11:29 AM PST - 61 comments
help me find movie or TV scenes that vividly depict the cult of individuality OR the scary nature of fake / plastic ["i drank the cool-aid"] community...
[more inside]posted by rubberfish at 11:27 AM PST - 17 comments
Where do I find doccos that tell me how to authenticate my PAM-capable unix boxen against Microsoft's Active Directory?
[more inside]posted by Mozai at 11:11 AM PST - 8 comments
Help me jump over a bar (superman-like), land on the ground and roll. Without hurting myself.
[more inside]posted by aeighty at 10:41 AM PST - 22 comments
What are the best, most useful, most ingenious backpack/messenger bag features you've ever seen?
[more inside]posted by Alison at 10:34 AM PST - 22 comments
I'm taking care of my buddy's stag in Montreal and we are looking to get him into the last trouble he will ever see for the rest of his life. Which strip clubs / bars / clubs would you recommend in Montreal to have a good time?
[more inside]posted by PWA_BadBoy at 10:10 AM PST - 15 comments
What law, specifically, is violated if a government official discloses secret information? For example, if a CIA operative told his cousin about an operation that was supposed to be classified, which law is his guilty of breaking?
[more inside]posted by jackypaper at 10:05 AM PST - 7 comments
my ex gf who has bipolar recently packed up her things and left the state of Florida WITHOUT TELLING ME. She was apparently manic depressed etc and cut her hair. After two weeks I found out she eventually made it home with her parents. I supported emotionally and financially and boy was it crazy. And then my mom passed away and my ex wont even acknowledge the passing only to tell me that everything is my fault i ruined everything etc. She hates me for whatever reason and will not have contact. Are her actions ever forgivable if she ever calls me. Having no contact has been good because i need to figure out if i want to be a caretaker for the rest of my life....Any advice?
posted by magic74 at 10:03 AM PST - 40 comments
Hot/stuck pixels in a new consumer-grade digital camera? Fact of life, or defect?
[more inside]posted by drew3d at 10:03 AM PST - 18 comments
Need help identifying a recent-ish Kaiser Chiefs/Arctive Monkeys/Futureheads/etc nu-indie NME type record...
[more inside]posted by cillit bang at 9:57 AM PST - 2 comments
I'm looking into planning a trip to Montreal in late July and seek accommodation recommendations in the US$ 70-90 range. Not too difficult, right? But the room must have a private bathroom.
[more inside]posted by desuetude at 9:57 AM PST - 11 comments
Is it possible to fit a queen-sized mattress and boxspring in a full-sized pickup truck?
[more inside]posted by 10ch at 9:31 AM PST - 10 comments
"La Riviera Maya" (er, coastal Quintana Roo, Mexico) or Costa Rica for a Totally Awesome Father-Son Bonding Experience in March/April/May 2007?
[more inside]posted by mdonley at 8:22 AM PST - 13 comments
Are there any unlocked k750i users who have successfully gotten their phone to tether to their powerbook and work reliably as a bluetooth modem with t-mobile in the US?
[more inside]posted by andshewas at 8:10 AM PST - 3 comments
Does Knowledge Management have any validity as a professional field of expertise or have internal wikis made it obsolete?
[more inside]posted by Xurando at 7:04 AM PST - 8 comments
I'm trying to figure out a way to convert a vector map image, in Adobe Illustrator, to a .shp shapefile usable in GIS software like ArcSoft. I know very little about ArcSoft and shapefiles. Is there a plugin? Is there some intermediary format I could export from one and import to the other? Is this simply impossible? My research thus far has been fruitless, so any help would be much appreciated.
posted by ab3 at 7:01 AM PST - 6 comments
There have been a few questions about this previously but none were concerned with online driving resources.
[more inside]posted by Damhna at 6:26 AM PST - 2 comments
My girlfriend's job takes her away from me for the next three months. Until then, what's the Xbox 360 game that will add the most utility to my life?
[more inside]posted by commander_cool at 4:55 AM PST - 29 comments
I know what's wrong with my Dell computer - I need to repair reinstall. But of course, Dells don't come with a Windows install disc, so I'm waiting for them to send me one [two weeks and counting...], but the tech support rep is contradicting himself and I don't know what to do.
[more inside]posted by Chorus at 4:01 AM PST - 26 comments
Do you think you could choose a future partner purely on the basis of his or her music (or book) collection? Have any of you, in fact, ever done this? If so what were the deciding factors and did it work out?
[more inside]posted by rongorongo at 3:23 AM PST - 66 comments
I want a quick, real tan but I'm pale...really pale. People need sun glasses when I take my shirt off to avoid the glare... (more paleness inside)
[more inside]posted by lazywhinerkid at 3:03 AM PST - 15 comments
Indiebandfilter: Help me find some unknown bands that I'd like, considering that I like the bands listed in my more inside:
[more inside]posted by antifuse at 2:09 AM PST - 19 comments
My employer recently banned listening to music at work. Anyone know of any research related to the effects music has at the workplace?
[more inside]posted by rhyax at 12:25 AM PST - 17 comments
PostOfficeAvoidanceFilter: Has anyone made a weight calculator (or just recorded weights of commonly mailed objects) such that I can figure out how much a double DVD case, 2 dvds, and a bubble mailer would typically weigh?
[more inside]posted by anonymoose at 12:22 AM PST - 10 comments
I absolutely loved playing Pikmin 1 & 2 on Gamecube. What other games would I like?
[more inside]posted by azuma at 12:12 AM PST - 12 comments
Are there Italian language learning videos like Fokus Deutsch or French in Action? If not, are there any really easy to understand videos in Italian anyone could recommend?
[more inside]posted by sirion at 12:03 AM PST - 1 comments
May 25
That fateful day is almost upon us!
6-06-06! Will fire rain down upon us from the heavens, or will the avian flu start spreading like a bad case of the Da Vinci Code? To celebrate these exciting times, I would like to throw an Apocalypse-themed party where we party like it's 1666! But I need some suggestions.
[more inside]posted by tweak at 11:58 PM PST - 39 comments
I'm writing a (perl) script that opens up files in IE. I'm having problems getting them to open in the current IE window and not a new window.
[more inside]posted by inkyz at 11:52 PM PST - 5 comments
If I get a Bachelors of Arts from Excelsior University (formerly Regents College), am I going to have a problem getting into a grad school? I was specifically thinking about a
psychology major. [more inside]posted by bigmusic at 11:49 PM PST - 8 comments
I have a G5 running MacOS 10.4 and a very old Win98 Compaq that has a certain sound card required for a piece of Generative Music software by Brian Eno. I have a wireless network at home for the mac, but the PC does not have a wireless card. Can I connect the Mac and the PC via an ethernet crossover cable and control the PC from the Mac?
posted by tonyballinger at 11:07 PM PST - 7 comments
I've forgotten the name of an author I used to read as a child. His last name ended in "aard", I think, and maybe started with a K or an L? He wrote a number of books about dogs...
[more inside]posted by vorfeed at 11:01 PM PST - 14 comments
Should I buy a Nintendo DS Lite when I already own an original model DS? Is it really all that worth it?
posted by Effigy2000 at 10:30 PM PST - 15 comments
Wanting to send a nice bottle of wine to a friend as a "thank you" for letting me stay at his house.
Problem #1 : He lives in Seattle and I live in NYC.
Problem #2 : I know nothing about wine.
[more inside]posted by Afroblanco at 8:03 PM PST - 11 comments
Dorothy Parker has beguiled and confounded me! And she's dead. What a gal. I'm looking for help figuring out a puzzling casual remark from one of her short stories.
[more inside]posted by Skot at 8:02 PM PST - 22 comments
Outdoor cinema-fi - I'm running an outdoor community movie series in an urban park. Should attract up to 200 people. I need recommendations for an audio set up. Last year I used my NAD amp/receiver with some home-made speakers; this set up occasionally shorted the amp (it switched off). This year I have a budget of about $1k for amp, speakers and wiring. Any suggestions? What are the major considerations? Thx
posted by libelula at 6:00 PM PST - 11 comments
Gross insectfilter: What are these larval-looking things my daughter and her friends found in some stagnant water on my property in the Tampa Bay area of Florida?
[more inside]posted by tomierna at 5:33 PM PST - 8 comments
Bookworm MeFites: I'm looking for novels, short stories, and plays by white authors where their non-white characters speak in a dialect. For instance, the slave Jim in Twain's
Huckleberry Finn.
[more inside]posted by rossination at 5:24 PM PST - 45 comments
I need to record my screen while I operate/explain a piece of software to new users. There seems to be a number of applications available, but I am hoping to find a free, *reputable* one.
[more inside]posted by mdpc98 at 4:58 PM PST - 14 comments
Name that sitcom: I vaguely remember seeing a sitcom about a college or university faculty, where a new lecturer arrives (teaching english lit?) and tries to get to grips with the job. He had long curly dark hair. I think the theme tune was the Eels'
Novocaine for the soul, but given how easily googleable that should make it (which it isn't), I might be wrong on that. It was aired somewhere in the middle of the nineties on NBC, though it was NBC in europe, parts of which differ from the US NBC broadcast, so it might not have been on in the US at that time.
[more inside]posted by fvw at 4:13 PM PST - 5 comments
My setup came with the R15 DVR that Direct TV makes. I want to get my DVR'd programs onto my ipod so I can watch them at the gym. Let me know what I have to do.
Do I need to trade it for a standard Direct TV reciever and get a Tivo with Tivo to Go?
Will that work with direct TV?
Is there some sort of program that will work with my system and my XP laptop? Or is there something you can do to mod the R15?
Is there a guy who hacks the boxes and lets you use the seemingly dead USB outputs?
AND, if none of that works...should I ditch the ipod and get one of those PVP's that records videos and just set that up on TOP of my DVR?
Or do they not work with satellite?
I know, this is a lot. But any help would be appreciated.
posted by rileyray3000 at 3:55 PM PST - 1 comments
Probability of one binomially-distributed variable being greater than another one - is there a closed form for this?
[more inside]posted by wanderingmind at 3:54 PM PST - 11 comments
I'm sending an old computer off to recycling. What is the best way to delete old programs, files and personal information? Anything else I should do to it before recycling?
posted by socrateaser at 2:45 PM PST - 25 comments
What's the most exciting novel you've ever read? I mean this in the simplest sense: an exciting plot. I'm looking for page-turners. Novels that keep you on the edge of your seat and refuse to let you sleep until you finish them. I'm looking for genre novels -- but I don't care what genres: Mystery, thriller, sci-fi, etc. (though sci-fi/fantasy has been done-to-death here, so I'm really more interested in other genres.) Oh, I care about words. So no matter how exciting, I'll quit reading if the prose is crappy.
[more inside]posted by grumblebee at 2:41 PM PST - 148 comments
My wife really, really likes the Grand Theft Auto series. She doesn't play the story line or missions, just likes to walk/ride around shooting people, cars, helicopters, etc. She uses cheats constantly. Like I said, it's not about completing or competing, just shooting stuff. What other game could she have a good time in?
posted by signal at 2:33 PM PST - 49 comments
I own a website that targets a certain demographic / niche, how do I get my site in front of ad agencies with campaigns that target this niche?
[more inside]posted by matimer at 2:32 PM PST - 5 comments
I want to append a line of text to the end of a text file in a password protected WebDAV directory on my webserver from a normal php webpage outside this directory. Can this be done?
[more inside]posted by ontic at 1:44 PM PST - 6 comments
I found a few references to herbal dog calming remedies in the MeFi archives, but I specifically want some testimonials (positive or negative) about products such as
Actipet Anxiety-Free tablets. Or similar products containing St. John's Wort, chamomile, valerian, hops and yeast. Bonus points if you've tried them on a basenji.
posted by nancoix at 1:30 PM PST - 10 comments
Anybody got a good recipe for galub jamun? The "Urban Peasant" recipe that keeps popping up on Google isn't quite what I'm looking for. As authentic as you've got, please and thank you.
posted by briank at 1:28 PM PST - 6 comments
Last year I bought all of the gear my wife and I need to start spending more of our free time in the woods, hiking and camping. The issue is she is a city girl (well, Long Island) and has never been camping and is deathly afraid that bears (or other wild animals) will get us.
[more inside]posted by camworld at 1:26 PM PST - 39 comments
My partner and I once saw a photographic phrasebook / dictionary while at the National Gallery in Canberra, Australia allowing the language impaired to point to an image. Does anyone know of the book we're referring to?
(An Amazon ref would be grand)
[more inside]posted by pipstar at 1:24 PM PST - 3 comments
I want to make a CD for the upcoming World Cup. Can you help me with some song ideas to celebrate the beautiful game?
[more inside]posted by UncleHornHead at 12:40 PM PST - 27 comments
My better half's MP3 flash drive says its full even though there's nothing on it. Please help. She hopes to have some tunes for a flight/train journey tomorrow. Any ideas?
[more inside]posted by ClanvidHorse at 12:39 PM PST - 10 comments
Compliant-vs-speed filter: Aluminum vs Carbon Fiber, aggressive vs less-aggressive? Steel junkies leave your opinions at the door please.
[more inside]posted by neilkod at 12:30 PM PST - 14 comments
Royalty-free video sources for trade shows? I have a trade show coming up in a few weeks. As part of our technology demo we want to show relatively high-quality video signals passing through our devices.
[more inside]posted by ZenMasterThis at 12:22 PM PST - 4 comments
XML Character Woes: I'm getting the error Reference to undefined entity 'ldquo' (and 'rdquo, etc) when I try to open my XML files with IE or Firefox. Can you help me fix it?
[more inside]posted by miniape at 12:13 PM PST - 9 comments
I have no clue what to get my boyfriend of four years, who is turning 26 in two weeks. I’d like to give him something fun, like an experience, but all of the “experience” websites cost way more than I’m looking to spend. Here’s the details: we live in the DC/Baltimore area and he’s into piano, karate, and listening to jazz/funk music. Looking to spend less than $100, as I already bought a ticket to fly home with him for his birthday so he can see his family. Also, it has to be a “family-safe” gift since he will probably open it in front of them.
posted by ml98tu at 11:56 AM PST - 7 comments
A friend of mine has an employer who is asking my friend (who is quitting voluntarily to move cross-country) to sign what I believe is a non-legal waiver. Can any legally savvy Mefites help out?
[more inside]posted by InnocentBystander at 10:41 AM PST - 29 comments
Anyone know of used bookstores in the Washington, DC area that give cash for books?
Second Story and Idle Times do not. Thanks.
posted by mookieproof at 10:19 AM PST - 10 comments
What affordable, high quality halogen desk lamp/task light would you recommend? Ideally, the lamp should not have too large a footprint.
posted by NYCinephile at 10:11 AM PST - 13 comments
Job filter: any advice for a recent graduate trying to write a cover letter that isn't all inane buzzwords and useless filler?
[more inside]posted by Mayor West at 10:03 AM PST - 11 comments
My 17-year-old sister and I will be driving to New York City from Minneapolis, MN some time this summer. When should we go? What route should we take? Where should we stop on the way?
[more inside]posted by yogurtisgenocide at 9:38 AM PST - 18 comments
I need your help. I'm a licensed acupuncturist and a herbalist. I have been involved in many out reach programs in the past. My goal was to reach out to as many immigrant groups with no to low health insurance coverage and educating them of available resources. The unique experience came working with the Korean community in New York City. This group tends to have such a high stomach cancer rate and about 70% of the patient population I came in contact with tested positive for H. pylori. The standard of treatment for H. pylori is course of antibiotic drugs. I don't know if you guys are aware but if you don't have health insurance to cover for these meds, it cost about $300 out of pocket expense.
So, my thing is this - I wanted to set up a research program using simple herbs that are readily available and in low cost. I know nothing about setting up a research program. What do I need to do and who do I need to talk to? Any advice is greatly appreciated.
posted by haesung at 9:31 AM PST - 11 comments
Thinking about buying a NuView camcorder adapter (discontinued product, shoots interlaced 3D video) and I would like to see some content before I buy...if there's any way someone could point me to an MPEG/AVI/QT/any type of movie so I could watch/convert it, I'd greatly appreciate it.
posted by ostranenie at 9:01 AM PST - 2 comments
Hi, I just wanted to figure out the song to
this video. If you could help me, it'd be great.
posted by sk2613 at 8:33 AM PST - 4 comments
Where can I buy/otherwise obtain a copy of the Open Theater's production of "The Serpent"?
[more inside]posted by Soulbee at 8:09 AM PST - 0 comments
Hello.
Here’s the lowdown: I’m the senior sound designer / managing director for a leading international sound library company who’s been successfully running a company that doesn’t belong to me for 6 years. I’ve exhausted this opportunity, as the company is limited in its ability to grow due to the owners methods. In short, although I still have my job (and could have it forever, so to speak), I need to get out. I’m striving to create an opportunity for myself (and potentially for some of the other amazing employees I’ve hired who are looking for better opportunities) by starting a new company, and I must act now as I am not getting any younger.. I’ve been thinking this through for almost 6 months now, and something seeming great has just happened. Can you help me make the most out of it?
[more inside]posted by AdInfinitum at 7:42 AM PST - 13 comments
I'm about to self-study myself to an MCSA (Microsoft Certified System Administrator) and would like advice on certification guides, practice tests, e-learning, etc.
[more inside]posted by lhauser at 7:35 AM PST - 5 comments
Before building a CMS for my University project, i tried out a whole bunch of alternatives...but i cant remember what a specific one was called now that i'm trying to write about it. Google is failing me :(
[more inside]posted by lemonfridge at 7:23 AM PST - 6 comments
I'm trying to identify a musical artist: one guy with a zither, who might've toured with They Might Be Giants in the early 90's.
[more inside]posted by Drastic at 7:04 AM PST - 9 comments
HPV etiquette: Given the ubiquity of this organism and its imperviosness to condom use, what is the etiquette for informing a new sexual partner that you have been discovered to harbor the virus, for both men and women? (Given the absence of symptoms and the inability to test in males, some sleuthing will disclose how it was discovered.) For women, if you have been diagnosed with the virus at age 20, should you be expected to disclose it to new partners indefinitely?
posted by megatherium at 6:24 AM PST - 32 comments
Something called MPREXE has invaded my computer. Is it a virus or part of Microsoft's evil empire... in any case it is making my PC screwy.... help me get rid of it please!
[more inside]posted by zaelic at 5:14 AM PST - 16 comments
How would I look into hiring a celebrity for an event in the UK? Before you mention it, I know it's expensive...
[more inside]posted by wibbler at 3:30 AM PST - 8 comments
Olderwomenwholikeyoubutwon'thavesexwithyoufilter: There it is. 75% of the women I've dated in the last 8 months (and ALL of them have been older than me) have a strange issue, in that we can make out all night to the point of being naked, kissing, touching, but that final step of actively engaging an orgasm seems to be too much for them. So... what the... ?
[more inside]posted by saysthis at 3:07 AM PST - 39 comments
I spotted this housing post on Craigslist, and when I clicked on the link posted inside it, it sent me straight into the inbox of my Yahoo mail account. Was this a phishing attempt?
[more inside]posted by Esther Festers at 2:44 AM PST - 12 comments
I plan to create a video podcast with moving or animated backgrounds like we see on TV weather shows. I have a trial version of Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 but it doesn't come with any animated backgrounds. I like the ones that are on digitaljuice.com but since it is just an experiment, I am looking for a free resource where I could download them.
Can somewhen please post links where I can download video sets and backgrounds. I just need a couple of them. If anyone here has done this before, a link to learning tutorial would also be much appreciated.
Thank you everyone.
posted by labnol at 2:15 AM PST - 3 comments
What are your favorite homemade dry rubs for meats? I'm especially looking for a good homemade jerk chicken/pork dry rub (or marinade).
[more inside]posted by skechada at 1:24 AM PST - 9 comments
May 24
In the papers, I routinely read about thousands of people pouring into the streets protesting some sort of injustice in what seems like a spontaneous gathering. What are the logistics behind this? How do people know where to go? And how does mob mentality function internationally, exactly?
[more inside]posted by i8ny3x at 10:38 PM PST - 10 comments
I've just copied all my data from an iBook G4 to a Macbook. For some reason, the delete and return keys don't work in Safari and Mail.app on the Macbook. I think I've solved this before but I can't remember how and can't find the answer.
[more inside]posted by Mo Nickels at 7:35 PM PST - 4 comments
For those of you who don't live in Japan and who aren't familiar with its culture: Do you know the term NEET?
[more inside]posted by misozaki at 7:12 PM PST - 43 comments
I am looking for a free, easy to use, web site where people with my last name can have a discussion board, post photos to a gallery, as well as create some wiki-type pages...
[more inside]posted by pantufla at 6:51 PM PST - 7 comments
WorldCupSoccer(Football)inNewYorkFilter : A Mate of mine will be in NYC for the most important sporting event of the last 4 years. Where to watch ?
[more inside]posted by doogyrev at 6:39 PM PST - 8 comments
How to Sync Palm Treo with Outlook 2007
I took the plunge, downloaded the Office 2007 (Beta), and started playing with it. One problem (so far), while you can keep old Office programs on your computer (in case the new ones don't work), the Outlook 2007 Beta required deletion of Outlook 2003. So, now my Treo won't sync anymore. Palmsource's Hotsync Manager 6.01 is not comaptible with Outlook 2007. I do not want to buy the Chapura program. Has anyone discovered a solution? In the meantime, word to the wise, if you rely on your Treo ... don't upgrade to the MS Office Beta (yet).
posted by Carsey at 5:30 PM PST - 1 comments
I just ran barefoot on a hot street for a few minutes and my feet came back red and promising terrible blisterage. What can I do to speed up the healing process and/or soothe the burn while the healing is going on?
posted by sdis at 5:09 PM PST - 16 comments
What is the copyright status of works derived from the Cthulhu Mythos? more specifically, could someone just put out their own book, movie or comic extending the Mythos (and using shared characters) or would they have to get permission and pay someone first?
[more inside]posted by Artw at 3:29 PM PST - 24 comments
Does anyone have any idea what the phrase "common or garden" actually means? I mean I know it means "ordinary" but what is the garden bit about? or is it common as in Greenham Common, perhaps?
posted by criticalbill at 3:27 PM PST - 12 comments
MovieFilter:
Movies or TV shows that have someone running across a bridge that's collapsing as they're crossing it. Perhaps at the end they make a final leap to safety. Rope, stone, wood , the material doesn't matter. Here's what I have so far...
[more inside]posted by asavage at 3:18 PM PST - 41 comments
What have been your experiences with the effect of changes in diet and nutrition on depression?
[more inside]posted by echo0720 at 2:31 PM PST - 31 comments
Please help me start to search for volunteering opportunities for a high-tech worker in Asia.
[more inside]posted by jfuller at 2:15 PM PST - 6 comments
What's the simplest way to charge someone to download a song from a web site? Can it be done with Paypal?
posted by wsg at 1:50 PM PST - 5 comments
After several years of a healthy diet, exercise and a loving relationship, I got hooked to an MMO and let all three go down the crapper over the course of about a year and a half. On Monday I finally quit and now I'm trying to recover (as silly as that might sound). One aspect of this is trying to get back into a healthy routine.
[more inside]posted by Raze2k at 1:46 PM PST - 24 comments
What are the possible repercussions (legal or otherwise) of subletting my bedroom which has, in the past three months, been treated for a mild bedbug infestation? We discovered bedbugs in our apartment earlier this year. We treated the apt ourselves (very thoroughly, though) and I purchased a new bed. I have gotten a few bites over the past few weeks but am planning to have a professional extermination of my room before I leave. I have not said anything to the subletter. I am wondering what the subletter could do if, god forbid, he/she is bitten over the course of the summer. I feel I have dealt with this problem responsibly and thoroughly but I know there is no guarantee that he/she will be bite-free during his/her stay. Could I be sued? More generally, is it totally unethical of me to sublet given the situation - especially given the fact that I have not mentioned any of this to the subletter?
posted by anonymous at 1:38 PM PST - 22 comments
Does anyone own a hot air balloon? I have had a desire to own one and go on some amazing trips but is it feasible?
[more inside]posted by zaebiz at 1:25 PM PST - 12 comments
I'm beginning to go bald (AAARGH), how useful is propecia, what are mefites experiences of using and where can I get me some in the UK?
[more inside]posted by prentiz at 1:10 PM PST - 14 comments
Where is a good place to meet some friends for dinner close to
here in Alameda, CA?
posted by quadog at 12:58 PM PST - 6 comments
We were recently given a region free DVD player. What great DVDs should we get to play in it that we could not otherwise see in the US?
A couple of other notes are the [more inside]posted by anastasiav at 12:53 PM PST - 24 comments
My father is looking for an easy way to showcase his paintings online. I'm thinking photo blog.
[more inside]posted by blueberry at 12:41 PM PST - 10 comments
How do I turn off my home email client when I am away from the (macintosh) computer?
[more inside]posted by Gungho at 12:22 PM PST - 16 comments
One of these days I'll be going to Amsterdam and would like to know what I'll be in for with Absinthe.
[more inside]posted by shmegegge at 12:17 PM PST - 39 comments
I need to purchase a new dive computer for recreational scuba. Looking for recommendations.
[more inside]posted by jeffmshaw at 12:13 PM PST - 4 comments
My friend from CA is going to be in NYC soon - what would be some good activities for a Tuesday/Wednesday adventure?
[more inside]posted by Lizc at 12:03 PM PST - 9 comments
50 Newton St., Buffalo NY: Good neighborhood or bad neighborhood? Heck, if you'd be so kind, just tell me all about this neighborhood.
[more inside]posted by light bulb at 11:40 AM PST - 15 comments
A friend whose birthday is approaching would love a very nice King James Bible. Does anyone have a recommendation for a nice, possibly leather-bound KJV Bible, perferably between $50 and $100?
posted by xorowo at 11:05 AM PST - 14 comments
Bibliophiles: I want to read a book on every US president for my summer reading project. Recommendations?
[more inside]posted by state fxn at 10:11 AM PST - 17 comments
I'm looking for a new job. I would like to find out more about a position within a large multi-national company than contacts within the firm can tell me. How do I go about this?
[more inside]posted by fox_terrier_guy at 8:54 AM PST - 2 comments
So I started to do my paperwork on the internet on top of my computer. I began in pen to write on top of my keyboard, in a bout of busyness, I did not notice that my task bar got on steroids at that instant. I tried everything including a small diet and control panel. Needless to say, nothing worked and my taskbar and whatever else looks big, looks BIG! Anyway to get any of this back to normal? Why does godforsaken XP make everything so damn hard? I just want to shrink it.
posted by Gabe014 at 8:47 AM PST - 5 comments
Hypothetically, what would happen if an inventor (one of several) did not sign a patent application?
[more inside]posted by forforf at 8:01 AM PST - 9 comments
I have enough doubts regarding the integrity of the American criminal justice system that I'm uncomfortable with the prospect of jury duty. Advice?
[more inside]posted by stuart_s at 7:25 AM PST - 56 comments
Does anybody know where I can get an appreciable quantity of
moo boxes in the UK? Bonus problem: We would like them to make other noises besides moo, although we do want some that moo.
posted by By The Grace of God at 7:04 AM PST - 1 comments
How do I watch the local news live in multiple television markets other than the one I currently reside in?
[more inside]posted by kcmck at 6:57 AM PST - 15 comments
Let's say you emigrated to the USA from Italy with your family when you were just a child and you're now in your 20's. You find yourself in a situation where, for one reason or another, you've lost your birth certificate, your citizenship papers and your passport and you want to set about obtaining them again. How would you go about doing it? Where would you even start? Could you come up with a detailed step-by-step plan? It would seem to be a Catch-22. Can you get one document without having the other.
posted by TheManticore at 6:54 AM PST - 20 comments
My doctor wants to put me on anti-depressants, but I'm hesitant. What experiences do you have with them, and would you recommend dealing with the depression naturally or with the medication?
[more inside]posted by jonathanstrange at 6:53 AM PST - 44 comments
Bipartite ChavezFilter: Are there any (at least vaguely scientific) polls out there of U.S. public opinion of Hugo Chavez--ideally, with responses broken down by political leanings? As for Question Two,
[more inside]posted by kittyprecious at 5:28 AM PST - 17 comments
I need some examples of (major) news stories that were either generated, or kept alive, by blogs and bloggers. but my mind has gone blank. Can anyone help? All suggestions welcome..
posted by ascullion at 5:18 AM PST - 17 comments
Where can I find screws to temporarily attach fabric to upholstery? (Description inside)
[more inside]posted by Joleta at 5:10 AM PST - 7 comments
UKPropertyFilter: I'm in the process of buying my first house. Can anyone offer the wisdom of their experience of employing a conveyancer? Specifically I'm interested in using a local firm of solicitors/conveyancers vs. using the cheaper on-line alternative.
[more inside]posted by brighton at 3:56 AM PST - 6 comments
It says "sou deshoune" on some Japanese candy. I assume this is Romanji. What does it mean? Is there a free dictionary online where I can figure out this stuff?
posted by anonymous at 3:04 AM PST - 6 comments
My wife and I recently adopted a rescue cat, he is a 1 year old moggy male. But after a month or so he still won't let either my wife or myself come near him.
[more inside]posted by ndaguiar at 2:54 AM PST - 14 comments
I'd like to find a news aggregator that will also automatically download podcasts
[more inside]posted by Kraki at 2:14 AM PST - 5 comments
May 23
I need help cooking a dynamite Indian dinner for my girlfriend who has never had Indian food before. Of course, there is
[more inside]posted by shokod at 11:47 PM PST - 8 comments
A friend of mine who is 19 is dating a 16 year old girl. He is getting a lot of negative comments about him and keeps trying to confide in me. I think if the chemistry is there and they are cool with it why not. Any opinions?
posted by isopropyl at 11:04 PM PST - 49 comments
is there any way to grey out the background on modal popup boxes (in windows xp) like the "shut down" box automagically does?
[more inside]posted by yonation at 10:03 PM PST - 9 comments
Can anyone identify the artist, title, and location of
this artwork? (It's a cropping of a larger work, and it may be a version of the Last Judgement, that's all I know....)
posted by extrabox at 9:57 PM PST - 5 comments
Is there any way to reduce the font size used by my Palm OS device? Palm OS provides four font-size options for its system apps, but the smallest of these four is still much bigger than my ideal size.
[more inside]posted by allterrainbrain at 7:59 PM PST - 8 comments
I've recently become interested in brewing beer and stuff, and I have to wonder - How the hell do they make
Bia Hoi? It's an incredibly cheap, evidently preservative-free beer that they make in Vietnam and is generally drank the day it's released. Is it just hastily made lager like anything else? I'm basically just intrigued by the concept of making cheap, easy beer that tastes okay to pretty good.
posted by borkingchikapa at 7:39 PM PST - 16 comments
For the sake of my productivity and my sanity, I need to block certain websites that eat up waaaaay too much of my time. I use Firefox (specifically, Deer Park) on a Mac. How can I do this? Oh, and there's a twist inside...
[more inside]posted by logovisual at 7:17 PM PST - 9 comments
[Caribbean Vacation Filter] Suggest me somewhere to go to in the Caribbean for two weeks at the end of August. There is
[more inside]posted by defcom1 at 7:12 PM PST - 14 comments
Selling custom t-shirts: alternatives to CafePress? Also, questions about getting off the ground, general advice very welcome.
[more inside]posted by lychee at 6:19 PM PST - 14 comments
An internal serial ATA (SATA) 3.5" hard drive pulled from an iMac G5 (the iMac is not accessible). A FireWire IDE enclosure. I live in Brooklyn and want some place open tonight (magically) or early tomorrow to find either a USB2 adapter for the SATA drive, a cheap USB2/FireWire enclosure, or an SATA>IDE adapter so I can use my current enclosure. (Give me any ideas that don't involve J&R.) Bonus points for Brooklyn - other boroughs are cool too, or any of these devices on loan from someone extremely generous would also be awesome!
posted by thejoshu at 5:49 PM PST - 3 comments
Help me find or compile a list of recently discovered animals in reverse chronological order!
[more inside]posted by beerbajay at 5:30 PM PST - 4 comments
I read a lot of text on screen (on a CRT) at work. Is there anything available to minimize eyestrain while doing it? (something like Tofu, but for Windows) Suggestions for settings are also welcome.
posted by northernsoul at 5:09 PM PST - 11 comments
I want to compare the prices of common consumer commodities over time within a specific region of the U.S. Is there any clearinghouse for this information?
[more inside]posted by croutonsupafreak at 4:37 PM PST - 4 comments
Do I have a driver issue? I need to start 'Wireless Zero Configuration' on my Dell after each boot to access any wireless networks.
[more inside]posted by scarylarry at 4:16 PM PST - 7 comments
Speaker/ReceiverFilter: I have a recently acquired NAD 7240PE receiver, and a pair of older but fairly decent (I think) floorstanding speakers. The input source is clean (its a CD player that has its own headphones jack, and that's clean), but I'm running into a problem with the speakers + receiver.
[more inside]posted by devilsbrigade at 3:21 PM PST - 10 comments
Is there any (circumstantial) evidence that ancient people performed 'archeology' or 'paleontology'?
[more inside]posted by Harry at 3:02 PM PST - 15 comments
Where can I find market share information on what devices are used to listen to podcasts?
posted by SpecialK at 2:26 PM PST - 1 comments
CMSFilter -- recommendations and de-recommandations. Say I can get Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress installed with equal ease. Which do I want for a relatively simple site?
[more inside]posted by AmbroseChapel at 2:24 PM PST - 13 comments
I need a Safari plugin that will allow me to download all of the files/folders from a given website. Does this exist? Where?
posted by youcancallmeal at 2:19 PM PST - 13 comments
My cable company offers On Demand movies and shows. The free content works fine. It also claims to offer premium channels' On Demand offerings, but those are not working. What can I do?
[more inside]posted by bovious at 1:59 PM PST - 12 comments
Looking to record classical guitar music near me for a reasonable price - I am thinking of posting something up at the music school at the nearby university, and maybe a guitar shop or two in town if I can do that, and making some recordings with willing musicians. Is this a reasonable concept or a blindingly stupid idea? If it's workable, what sort of price range should I pay the musician(s)?
[more inside]posted by beth at 1:33 PM PST - 12 comments
Songs of Obsession...? Putting together a 'Mix Tape' of sexual fixation/obsession... in the vein of "Every Breath You Take." Suggestions?
posted by eatdonuts at 1:08 PM PST - 73 comments
Some time ago I went to the Boston Pops reformance. My seat was on the far wing of the first balcony that overlooked the orchestra. One of the performers was operating a large darkroom timer in addition to his instrument. What was he doing with this timer?
posted by Raybun at 1:00 PM PST - 8 comments
My room has an angled ceiling. I have measured its height at the highest and lowest points, and I have the dimensions of the room. Help me determine what height the ceiling is at a particular point on the floor, and where exactly the skylight is.
[more inside]posted by xo at 12:41 PM PST - 11 comments
My father is an independent consultant, and works for $900/day in the formulated food business. What rate should he charge for travel time (per day) when he travels coast-to-coast for an assignment?
[more inside]posted by naelyn at 11:59 AM PST - 11 comments
Should we attempt to hire out for a mailserver or let the seemingly incompetent corporate IT department run our mail, with all the restrictions they want to impose?
[more inside]posted by anonpeon at 11:53 AM PST - 12 comments
Where can I get a copy of Pitchfork Media's original review of "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel?
[more inside]posted by unknowncommand at 11:50 AM PST - 22 comments
I am going insane trying to find this book. The author was interviewed on Fresh Air (it might have been a repeat, but played not that long ago). In order to help you help me, there is . . .
[more inside]posted by Medieval Maven at 11:43 AM PST - 7 comments
My two true talents are writing and spending entirely too much time on videogames. Help this flakey fanboy combine his pointless pursuits for profit.
[more inside]posted by EatTheWeak at 11:40 AM PST - 16 comments
I recently shifted the content management for my blog (www.sindark.com) from Blogger to WordPress. I shifted the Blogger version into a sub-directory, so that people who prefer to access old posts in that format can. Now, I want to use htaccess to automatically redirect people who try to access the Blogger archives in the old location. I want them sent to the Blogger files in the new location.
[more inside]posted by sindark at 11:29 AM PST - 4 comments
Someone has asked to buy some paper I've written on... A few questions inside.
[more inside]posted by dobbs at 10:43 AM PST - 35 comments
I've had a couple smaller splogs that gave up after a period of time. However, one splog has persisted and, through volume, is showing up higher in searches than my original posts. What can I do?
[more inside]posted by IndigoSkye at 10:08 AM PST - 6 comments
My cousin (a musician/producer-type) and I are taking a spectacular North American gear hunting road trip. What hot spots can you recommend?
[more inside]posted by glibhamdreck at 9:14 AM PST - 2 comments
A new management company has taken over my apartment building, and my lease is up. Should I stay where I am, or should I start looking for a new apartment?
[more inside]posted by MeetMegan at 8:59 AM PST - 9 comments
I just got some of this nifty
resinated chirimen fabric. The manufacturer won't tell what's in it. It hasn't darkened the fabric, doesn't leave a residue on your hands, doesn't smell. It's very pliable, holds a crease, holds a curl, keeps it from fraying.
[more inside]posted by lobakgo at 8:38 AM PST - 4 comments
Trouble with XP, Firefox 1.5.0.3, and Adobe Reader 7.0.7... I have reinstalled everything other than the OS. Firefox crashes every time it loads a PDF... How do I remedy this?
[more inside]posted by seinfeld at 8:31 AM PST - 12 comments
Where can one download simple or "obsolete" games for little/no money? I'm having a hard time finding anything decent.
[more inside]posted by scaryblackdeath at 8:22 AM PST - 22 comments
Should I leave my ibook in an unairconditioned apartment in muggy Hong Kong while I go to China for a week? Not worried about security; paranoid about humidity damage. It's hot and humid here. Walking around is a bit like taking a sticky bath. Leaving the a/c on is expensive and wasteful. Not interested in taking the laptop with me on vacation. What should I do?
posted by typewriter at 8:14 AM PST - 20 comments
There was a staff announcer that did ABC promos (and newscast intros for affiliates) in the 1970s-80s-90s. He also appeared (in sample form) on the Beatmasters remix of Depeche Mode's "Route 66." He had this distinctive baritone, and it's bugging me that I can't figure out his name. Sound samples included.
[more inside]posted by dw at 8:13 AM PST - 12 comments
Okay, so I often use free wireless connections...whether they be in coffee shops or occasionally my neighbor's open network. My question is, how much of what I post online/what sites I visit can be seen? Sometimes I post things I don't want to share with my neighbors, also I check email.
If other open wireless network users CAN see what I'm looking at, how do I prevent it? The network I use is belkin 54g.
This shouldn't be a problem soon, as I am getting my own connection. When I had my own, I left it open so others could share. I assume my neighbor is doing the same thing? But for now, I would like to know that my neighbors can't see the pix I send my long-distance boyfriend and/or what I post on our shared journal. Is this unrealistic?
Thank you for your help.
posted by urania at 8:08 AM PST - 52 comments
I'm flying from Portland to DC in mid July for 2 weeks. Tickets are currently $400-500 and haven't budged for weeks. Anyone here have experience in the travel industry that can comment on the likelihood of prices falling in the near future? I'm a little stressed that I'm playing with fire by waiting. If it matters, I'm more interested in the non-stop option, for which there are fewer flights.
posted by docpops at 7:54 AM PST - 9 comments
Boys! And their manifestation of physical energy + why do they have a love/hate relationship with trying to kill each other?
[more inside]posted by LadyBonita at 7:49 AM PST - 27 comments
Why does Blogspot's "Blogthis" work fine when I click on the example link at blogspot.com 's help section, but not when placed as a link in my favorites folder?
[more inside]posted by jak68 at 7:05 AM PST - 2 comments
Filemaker Pro 8 Instant Web Publishing Filter: Am I doing something wrong or is it really glitchy?
[more inside]posted by crapples at 5:06 AM PST - 2 comments
What is an innovative way to share a project with many schools around the world via the internet?
[more inside]posted by k8t at 3:35 AM PST - 5 comments
My wife & I will be spending 4 days in Northern Italy this weekend and would like to do some walking - does anyone have any recommendations or know of any sites where I can find itineraries for day or half day walks?
[more inside]posted by jontyjago at 2:45 AM PST - 5 comments
Honda Filter: Since replacing my driver door mirror, I've been having weird coincidental electrical problems on my 98 accord 4-door.
[more inside]posted by sammich at 1:17 AM PST - 4 comments
I was thinking about setting up a flickr page to display a very extensive set of photos I took during high school, between 1996 and 2000. Since most of the things I do on the internet come back to bite me in the ass, I thought I would ask about the legal and ethical questions this kind of project might raise and what kind of pertinent information I may have overlooked.
[more inside]posted by elr at 1:06 AM PST - 14 comments
"Writer's block," "swimmer's ear," and "athlete's foot" are all examples of occupation-specific conditions. Are there any others?
[more inside]posted by jenovus at 12:22 AM PST - 62 comments
May 22
DivX to .SWF conversion always converting without a sync.
I have a video that is an .AVI (DVcodec), I converted it to DivX via VirtualDub and later on converted it from DivX to .SWF via (Flash Video Studio 1). For some unknown reason, whenever it gets converted to .SWF, the audio/video are not in sync.
[more inside]posted by cheero at 9:53 PM PST - 7 comments
so i started this new job a couple of months back. There are a lot of people there around my age who seem really nice, though not so much in my department. My first couple of weeks, I went out for drinks a few times with a bunch of them & had a good time, we seemed to be clicking & I was kind of stoked about working in a somewhat more social/fun environment than I've been accustomed to in previous jobs. What happened?
[more inside]posted by octavia at 9:02 PM PST - 46 comments
I've got a similar situation to the American Idol runner-up: My right ear is fully functional, but I am 90% deaf on my left ear. However, my left ear was deformed at birth, so my earbuds don't fit in it.
[more inside]posted by beammeup4 at 7:26 PM PST - 13 comments
How can I deposit a check made out to an as-yet-nonexistent business entity rather than to me personally?
[more inside]posted by killdevil at 7:08 PM PST - 10 comments
Erm, I just ate raw swordfish. I mean, it was microwaved for a couple minutes. But mostly-- ceviche. Am I gonna die?
[more inside]posted by greggish at 6:54 PM PST - 11 comments
I've downloaded the Sibelius Scorch sheet music plugin for both Firefox and IE. When I purchase Scorch sheet music, Scorch only plays the first page, even though I've purchased the entire song. The back/forward page buttons are grayed out. I've downloaded several songs from different Web sites, and I always get the same result. This happens with both browsers. Any ideas?
posted by zembla3 at 6:36 PM PST - 1 comments
My boyfriend has epilepsy. So far I've only witnessed two seizures (tonic-clonic, or what they used to call grand mal). While I felt mostly prepared for them (I'd done a lot of internet research) I found timing them quite difficult because while the beginning was distinct, the end wasn't.
[more inside]posted by anonymous at 5:48 PM PST - 33 comments
GiftFilter: a friend has been accepted into a prestigious graduate program for screenwriting.
[more inside]posted by simbiotic at 4:42 PM PST - 9 comments
I like to be taken on a journey far beyond my own culinary cultural milieu. What is the worst tasting food?
[more inside]posted by roofus at 3:55 PM PST - 69 comments
confused....
met this guy thru on-line dating since early 02/06. We started to date in 04/06 and physically involved. He calls a couple of times a week, haven't said he miss me or anything smooches. But when we together (2-3 times a week), he's very attentive and very loving. I asked him about his feelings but the response was "I'm a slow mover"..... We're both in our late 40s. I'd like to be with someone who is affectionated and open with his emotions.... What should I do? Give him time or move on....
posted by teapot at 1:19 PM PST - 31 comments
Creative, clever gift-filter. I need an appropriate gift for each of two separate occasions in June: My mom's retirement, and my ex-girlfriend's wedding.
[more inside]posted by |n$eCur3 at 1:04 PM PST - 14 comments
Thoughts on doing a year long foreign exchange stint at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan.
[more inside]posted by matkline at 12:55 PM PST - 6 comments
I'm thinking of organizing an office pool on the World Cup. I'm based in VA. I'd probably set up something similar to what gets done with NCAA bracket pools. My question is though:
Is this illegal given US gambling laws?
[more inside]posted by Mave_80 at 12:51 PM PST - 9 comments
A young adult vampire book, published late 70's, early 80's? Involves a kid who meets the vampire in the basement of a library, falls asleep and wakes up having no memory of it. Main vampire's name is Radu, but I believe there were several other vampires around, also with "traditional" names (a "Carmilla" perhaps?).
[more inside]posted by Brainy at 12:43 PM PST - 4 comments
In the past two weeks a bird (let's call him Stan) has developed a weird attachment to the rear view mirrors on our car. (The car is parked outside.) At all hours of the day Stan can be found sitting on the side of one of the mirrors pecking furiously. He seems to prefer one side mirror more than the other but doesn't really care too much. I'd really like to discourage little Stan from his behavior because he might scratch up the mirror and he's pooping all over the doors.
[more inside]posted by mpemulis at 12:21 PM PST - 11 comments
My six year old daughter has recently (past few months or so) had a recurring fear of being kidnapped. I have tried many different tactics to quell this fear of hers, but would love to hear some possible tactics to relax my nervous midget.
posted by Ateo Fiel at 11:27 AM PST - 23 comments
Will a GPS device help my running and what are the best weapons against unfriendly animals and dangerous humans?
[more inside]posted by Juicylicious at 11:21 AM PST - 19 comments
BeachFilter: My wife has put me in charge of locating a nice beach to go to this August. We live in DC and will be taking our son (he'll be 13 months old in August). We are planning on going over a long weekend, maybe 4 days. We'd like to keep the driving distance to less than six hours.
[more inside]posted by i_am_a_Jedi at 10:50 AM PST - 20 comments
Can you suggest places for young teens to shop in Atlanta (besides Lennox Square Mall). Any funky offbeat clothing stores--not too expensive of course. We will be there this coming weekend. Thanks!
posted by sandra194 at 10:40 AM PST - 9 comments
Anybody know of any good boutiques/clothing stores in major cities that sell hip, fresh apparel to 18-26 year old men and women?
[more inside]posted by bamassippi at 10:27 AM PST - 15 comments
Can I bring food to RFK Stadium? There are
conflicting reports as to weather food is
allowed to be brought into RFK. I'm going to a baseball game soon and I'm sick and tired of paying $6 for a handful of peanuts. I desire an unending supply.
posted by pithy comment at 10:13 AM PST - 13 comments
In South Boston, at the intersection of Babe Ruth Rd and Columbia Rd near Carson Beach, there's a stone memorial. There are four names inscribed in it, along with ages (all between 16 and 20) and date of death (all June 19, 1982). There's no explanation, besides a mournful poem. What's the story?
[more inside]posted by Plutor at 9:54 AM PST - 6 comments
My google fu is failing me on these two very random queries: 1) info about a beer commercial from a few years ago where a guy paints himself in a kung fu pose with a giant afro, 2) an image of the painting that the son paints in
Wedding Crashers...
[more inside]posted by EnormousTalkingOnion at 9:13 AM PST - 6 comments
I'm working on a website for my band, and I would like to have a section on the main page which lists news items. I don't want to have to edit the html file every time I want to add an update though. I'd like it to run from a database or something, so can I set something up to display the 5 most recent database entries on my website?
[more inside]posted by bajema at 8:32 AM PST - 11 comments
BaseballFilter: A friend is trying to determine who has the single season Major League Baseball record for most games in a season with at least one hit.
[more inside]posted by saladpants at 6:58 AM PST - 17 comments
What is the etymology of "Genius of the restoration / Aid in our resuscitation" from The Last Crusade? Remember? Marcus and Dr. Jones Sr. do a little dance in a german tank, and Jones says "Genius of the Re-Sto-Ration!" and Marcus automatically replies "Aid in our Resus-ci-tation!" Anybody know where this came from? It smacks of inside Ivy League joke, and I want to know bad. Thanks metafilter.
posted by excitementMD at 6:51 AM PST - 5 comments
Is there any way one can buy an international plane ticket while waiting for a replacement passport?
[more inside]posted by trinarian at 6:04 AM PST - 15 comments
Final Cut Pro users: What do you do with your bulky collection of project and video files when you're ostensibly done with the project?
posted by evil holiday magic at 3:02 AM PST - 5 comments
Since my lady and I mostly just lay in bed all day, we're looking for some more appropriate clothing for our lifestyles. What are your favorite lounging around clothes?
[more inside]posted by my homunculus is drowning at 1:20 AM PST - 16 comments
May 21
My wife succumbed to a high-pressure car salesman when I was out of town. Help me get some or all of my money back!
[more inside]posted by cosmicbandito at 10:41 PM PST - 36 comments
WorthaBuyFilter: So I was perusing an antique store and came across an old photograph of U.S. Army soldiers in China during the 1890's. The price was $175. Is it worth it?
[more inside]posted by Atreides at 9:48 PM PST - 15 comments
Are there any video players aside from Quicktime and iTunes that will play an iTunes .m4v video file?
[more inside]posted by goatdog at 9:07 PM PST - 8 comments
Which Washington, D.C. neighborhood is right for my interracial, liberal, priced-out-of New York, two-child family?
[more inside]posted by hhc5 at 8:36 PM PST - 28 comments
How do I replace a failing disk in a jbod array setup using the windows XP Pro dynamic disk system?
[more inside]posted by Jezztek at 8:25 PM PST - 8 comments
Why do I pick fights with people close to me and how can I stop? I'm not like this with friends, just relatives and S.O.
[more inside]posted by anonymous at 7:55 PM PST - 38 comments
after being on birth control pills for many (8+) years, i had to go off them (permanently) for medical reasons. six months later, my breasts have noticeably shrunk almost a full cup size.
[more inside]posted by anonymous at 7:55 PM PST - 15 comments
Prime Minister's Questions questions. UK citizens, please explain a couple of things to this curious American.
[more inside]posted by shifafa at 7:14 PM PST - 19 comments
FirefoxFilter: why is the date displayed in American format (mm/dd/yy) using firefox on a website, and correctly (dd/mm/yy) using IE? Followup, how do I fix my firefox settings?
posted by wilful at 5:43 PM PST - 11 comments
My question is, other than antibiotics what can be a natural medicine known to treat urinary infections. I heard a lot about drinking chamomile, cranberry juice, even weird things like boiling and drinking cherry stems! Any ideas of possible natural treatments that work to avoid medications?
[more inside]posted by convex at 5:42 PM PST - 23 comments
What free software can I use to open and convert an Adobe InDesign .indd file on Windows XP? Will GIMP do the job? Inkscape? Yes, I've read the answers to
this question.
posted by obiwanwasabi at 5:35 PM PST - 6 comments
My girlfriend is starting a master's public health program next fall and she's looking for funding.
[more inside]posted by stratastar at 5:20 PM PST - 3 comments
The back of my
DLP HDTV, has a vent in the back for the light projector. Some light escapes out of this vent. A small bug got into the house recently and found the light from the vent. It then discovered an illumination jackpot inside the set. This resulted in a big bug inside the unit and projected onto the screen that I couldn't get out.
Does anyone have tips on keeping small insects out of a projection TV like a DLP without restricting the airflow to the lamp, potentially damaging the set?
posted by quixado at 5:17 PM PST - 8 comments
Weird skin thing-- for the last month or so I've been getting these teeny tiny blisters on the pads of my thumbs and forefingers.
[more inside]posted by orangemiles at 3:58 PM PST - 18 comments
My mousepad is in its last throes. Help me find a new one that has some pizzazz. Something unusual or perhaps one like yours. Extra points for anything geeky, retro, or tattoo culture oriented. Much obliged.
posted by captainscared at 3:28 PM PST - 17 comments
I'm trying to remember the name of an old Atari game. It's been about 20 years since I played it so my description may be a bit hazy.
[more inside]posted by tomble at 3:19 PM PST - 14 comments
I'm backpacking through Europe this summer and I just realized that I might be able to make it to Siena, Italy in time to see the
Palio horse race. Can anyone offer me tips to make it a great experience?
[more inside]posted by PercussivePaul at 1:53 PM PST - 8 comments
What are some techniques you use to find websites similar to a random website that you come across and like?
[more inside]posted by mrkohrea at 1:42 PM PST - 13 comments
I love having my ears kissed/licked, but this seems to cause ear infections sometimes. Is there a way to avoid the infections?
posted by rwatson at 1:31 PM PST - 17 comments
I would like to know if it is possible to fly from Canada into the United States with only a one way ticket. I have searched many U.S. government web sites and have been unable to find any information. Will customs let me through, or will they deny me access?
posted by vansly at 1:24 PM PST - 12 comments
Moving to Philly! Where should I live? When should I start looking for a late-August move? Any good source of apartment listings, besides craigslist?
[more inside]posted by footnote at 1:07 PM PST - 9 comments
I just finished the first draft of the second half of my first book. Now I have to revise it, and I have to revise it good.
[more inside]posted by snortlebort at 1:03 PM PST - 3 comments
AdSense: Is it possible to force Google to broaden (or randomize) some of the ads on my Adsense for Content banner? I run a forum and I think I'm losing potential revenue because Google tends to serve up a lot of the same ads all the time. Can I put keywords into a meta tag to bring up new ads?
posted by chef_boyardee at 1:02 PM PST - 4 comments
Has anyone gotten a travel visa to India at the consulate in New York City? Just wondering if it's a long long wait and if I should use a visa service (and pay for the trouble)
posted by dearleader at 12:55 PM PST - 5 comments
What's the best DVD recorder (hopefully with a VCR as well) which could capture a 2-hour movie from the cable box with the highest quality?
posted by quintno at 12:42 PM PST - 1 comments
What are some upper body exercises I can do without putting any load on my wrists?
[more inside]posted by grouse at 12:41 PM PST - 29 comments
Home schooling filter: Where else can I find non-religious, relatively complete curricula for home schooling purposes?
[more inside]posted by Zinger at 12:41 PM PST - 12 comments
Should I report a (probably) one time medical event to the driver's license medical board?
[more inside]posted by anonymous at 11:57 AM PST - 7 comments
What are the legal implications of a university monitoring, storing, and cataloging all incoming and outgoing email into a searchable database? What if I have first hand knowledge of a university doing this?
[more inside]posted by anonymous at 11:53 AM PST - 15 comments
Well, I've looked through
other posts and took the advice to heart. Anybody have any recommendations for a divorce attorney in the San Francisco Bay Area? Preferably on the Peninsula.
posted by Daddio at 10:32 AM PST - 4 comments
I need help with an Excel formula. Warning: this may venture into the realms of calculus. Maybe.
[more inside]posted by thecjm at 10:10 AM PST - 7 comments
Are there archives of
Television without Pity's initial smaller recaplets anywhere? I can only seem to find archives of their full multi-page recaps, but I'd enjoy going back and reading through an entire season of something using the smaller recaplets.
posted by Robot Johnny at 9:07 AM PST - 4 comments
Excelfilter: how do I compute a rolling seven-day average for something that happens at sporadic intervals?
[more inside]posted by jessamyn at 8:51 AM PST - 21 comments
I believe that another tenant has place an air "freshener" in the hallway out side of our apartments in violation of their lease. I want it removed. What should I do?
[more inside]posted by Fat Guy at 8:33 AM PST - 47 comments
Cell phones for elementary school kids? My kid wants one, I don't see the need. Am I missing something here?
[more inside]posted by Flakypastry at 7:18 AM PST - 35 comments
I had an incredibly rude, and I think incredibly unethical run-in with the liquor patrol at the bars last night. I wish to do something about it but I do not know where to start.
[more inside]posted by anonymous at 4:56 AM PST - 28 comments
Where would I look for a couple of experienced game designers in the Baltimore Washington area who aren't so experienced that they avoid startups?
[more inside]posted by Grod at 2:28 AM PST - 3 comments
My car's engine heat indicator suddenly began soaring anytime I idle. This can't be good. What is the cause, and how do I fix?
[more inside]posted by donmayo at 1:24 AM PST - 12 comments
May 20
Philosophy-Filter: In reading a paper about mathematics philosophy I came across a reference to the term "idiotic infinity"; which Hegel used to express the unlimited accumulation of ideas, all of which become equally profound. I'd like to read more of what Hegel said about this idea, but I cannot find the term in use anywhere. Does anyone familiar with Hegel know where in his enormous corpus I might find the discussion of the "idiotic infinity"? There is also the off-chance that the math paper reference was wrong, and the term might have originated with another philosopher entirely.
posted by archae at 10:47 PM PST - 5 comments
I would like to make or use a web2.0ish personal address book. Little image for the person, birth date, phone number that opens up skype and starts dialing, address, etc. Does something like this exist?
[more inside]posted by allthewhile at 10:34 PM PST - 5 comments
At a local traditional Japanese restaurant a while ago, the server brought a little fabric ball with a bell on a string with our check where you'd usually expect mints. She made it clear that it was for us to take, but we didn't learn anything more about it, and now I'm wondering if there's any symbolism, meaning or tradition behind it. There's a picture and
[more inside]posted by mendel at 10:08 PM PST - 4 comments
Safari is not retaining any history older than a day. This is a problem because it 'forgets' long URLs to auto-complete. How do I make it remember again?
[more inside]posted by fleacircus at 8:41 PM PST - 5 comments
When you sign for your credit card, do they save the digital signature? (A little more to it, too)
[more inside]posted by starman at 8:07 PM PST - 21 comments
Can anyone recommend good books to read to a two-year-old boy who's going to be taking his first airplane trip in ten days?
[more inside]posted by Songdog at 6:48 PM PST - 18 comments
A slightly different PowerPoint/ presentation filter: What are your tips, tricks, tools and resources for making kick-ass presentations?
[more inside]posted by special-k at 5:40 PM PST - 23 comments
Apart from the Fulton Fish Market, where in NYC could I buy frozen greenshell mussels?
posted by Smart Dalek at 5:00 PM PST - 5 comments
I have an iPod 4G with a click wheel that the USB cable has died on. I was going to order a generic cable for $5 from Amazon rather than the $20 connector from Apple. I read a review (two actually) on Amazon saying that there were sync problems with this cable. Anyone have experience with these cables?
posted by spartacusroosevelt at 3:39 PM PST - 5 comments
As a birthday present, I want to make my spouse's dream meal, which is apparently a feta cheese or greek-style crepe from Crepes On Cole in San Francisco. I've never been there and don't live in SF. Can any one guess at the recipe that I'm after?
[more inside]posted by about_time at 3:20 PM PST - 5 comments
A number of online photo printing services have been mentioned here on AskMeFi, but a search hasn't revealed one that will print to my liking. I'm looking for a top notch black and white print with archival borders - 8x10 image on 11x14 paper. I'm working with high quality scans of black and white negatives. Suggestions?
posted by aladfar at 2:36 PM PST - 4 comments
Two computer questions really, if that's legal. How do I make my wireless network safe, and what the heck is this cmdlog that keeps popping up in my documents.
[more inside]posted by Ber at 2:28 PM PST - 19 comments
Say I wanted to be on the first commercial flight of an Airbus A380. Would it be possible and how would I go about arranging it?
[more inside]posted by ciaron at 2:27 PM PST - 8 comments
It is Eurovision Song Contest time tonight - is it just the UK or is it a joke to the rest of Europe as well?
[more inside]posted by badrolemodel at 1:23 PM PST - 28 comments
On my XP system, the recently installed Norton anti-worm app told me that my Netgear RP614v2 NAT-enabled router attempted to udp connect to my port number 2061 from its port 12024. However, there is no port fowarding or triggering enabled, nor is there a DMZ address configured at all.
[more inside]posted by Ethereal Bligh at 1:09 PM PST - 8 comments
For a late June, post-wedding escape from L.A., my groom and I would like to find an off-the-beaten-path town/hotel. Our requirements must be odd, of which
[more inside]posted by Scram at 12:56 PM PST - 16 comments
Can anyone speak to acquiring a license (if it's even necessary) to use AP Photos on your web site? I've searched and I've searched and I've searched.
posted by xmutex at 12:42 PM PST - 3 comments
A white, circular discoloration has appeared on my oak coffee table. It was probably caused by condensation on a vase. Is there anyway to remove this stain without refinishing the entire table top?
posted by partner at 12:31 PM PST - 7 comments
ShowerDrainFilter: Every six months or so our shower drain clogs and we have to call a plumber to snake it out. That costs about $125 each time. We asked him the last time if we could buy our own snake and do it ourselves and he strongly cautioned us against that.
[more inside]posted by Taken Outtacontext at 12:16 PM PST - 33 comments
What's
this cable? Would it have enough value to anyone for me to sell it or put it on eBay, or should I just chuck it or try to give it away?
[more inside]posted by weston at 12:04 PM PST - 12 comments
How do I convert my Palm into a guitar player's best friend?
[more inside]posted by bd at 10:33 AM PST - 2 comments
I tried to remove IE7 beta1 from my pc and the uninstall failed. If I try to reinstall it that fails as well. This is causing problems in various other programs e.g. Dreamweaver. Help!
[more inside]posted by kenchie at 8:18 AM PST - 5 comments
computer vision: i need an algorithm to extract statistics about the diameters (in pixels) of some roughly-circular objects from an image file.
[more inside]posted by sergeant sandwich at 7:19 AM PST - 15 comments
I am in Philadelphia. My wife and I would like to travel from Reading Terminal Market to the zoo by public transportation. How do we best do it?
Also, we would like to get to Citizens Bank Park via public transport today. Is this possible? The web site has a lot of information about parking but nothing about getting there by public transport.
posted by Mayor Curley at 6:21 AM PST - 7 comments
Two friends agreeing to marry each other if they are single by a certain age: does this really happen in real life?
[more inside]posted by divabat at 5:46 AM PST - 47 comments
Hard drive password: the Samsung laptop my wife uses suddenly started asking for HDD 0 password on bootup. Checking in the bios confirms that a password has been set on the HDD. She swears she didn't do it, and has no idea what happened. What to do?
[more inside]posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:03 AM PST - 15 comments
Does anyone know how it's possible to produce an interface for checkbox selection like the one in
Gmail? Namely, where you can hold down shift and click the first and last items in a list, and it'll automatically select all the ones in between. Is it possible with simple JavaScript without having to use AJAX or other fancy-pants technology...
posted by tommorris at 2:07 AM PST - 8 comments
[Chewing Gum] Does this exist? A sugarless, flavorless chewing gum that loses its pliableness the longer you chew it?
[more inside]posted by zippity at 12:24 AM PST - 10 comments
Outlook question: I tried to recall a message, and now every day I get 30 or so e-mails telling me that the recall effort failed. How do I stop these 'failed recall' e-mails? (the message was re-called to correct a typo and in any case has been obe'd, i.e., "overtaken by events").
Thanks.
posted by tesseract420 at 12:10 AM PST - 5 comments
May 19
java: If a private method can't be overriden, but it's possible to create a method in a subclass with the same signature, what's the difference?
[more inside]posted by bingo at 11:57 PM PST - 20 comments
Is there anywhere I can download software shareware and cost-free software with the assurance that it's spyware free?
[more inside]posted by delmoi at 10:19 PM PST - 10 comments
How do the air purifiers integrated into a house's heating/cooling system work?
[more inside]posted by Anoxs at 9:35 PM PST - 4 comments
Help me find the website with pics of the (Japanese?) woman who dressed up like a sexy Ronald McDonald! My Google skills have failed me, enough that I'm not even sure I saw this thing I think I saw in the last 2 years...
[more inside]posted by stevil at 9:00 PM PST - 10 comments
Does anyone know a source for this story? I once heard about a railroad crossing that had quite a few fatal accidents, because drivers would routinely duck under the barrier gates as they closed instead of waiting several minutes for interminable freight trains to pass. But there's a twist ...
[more inside]posted by Quietgal at 7:53 PM PST - 8 comments
Where can I find more writing about metaphor? I vaguely remember reading something about how, when machines became ubiquitous, people began understanding their lives in terms of machines. I'm looking for that sort of thing.
[more inside]posted by Aghast. at 6:22 PM PST - 21 comments
What is it like to give birth? I'm male, and one of the side affects is that I'll never get pregnant. I'm wondering what it's actually like to give birth to a whole new person.
[more inside]posted by twirlypen at 5:36 PM PST - 33 comments
Can anyone recommend a good insurance broker for the San Francisco Bay Area? My current guy is getting very flaky and I want to shop around for my home owners and car insurance. I'm looking for someone I can trust. -Thanks.
posted by tichance at 4:21 PM PST - 4 comments
I want to create a short movie (DVD) clip that does the cinema count-down 10, 9, 8 ... gray circle with black numbers. Can someone more creative and smarter than me advise how?
[more inside]posted by johoney at 3:52 PM PST - 7 comments
AJAX / DHTML / javascript-filter: If I have an HTML table of numbers, is there a script I can add which would allow me to have a little -/+ button for each cell that would adjust the value of a number in the cell? This is for simple inventory management and would preferably just run as a local HTML file on a Mac OS X machine. (or flash drive)
posted by clango at 3:33 PM PST - 21 comments
This has been bugging me for years; someone has to know the answer. In "The Jerk" (Steve Martin, 1979), Steve Martin's character gets out of bed to snap his fingers and dance to a song on the radio he claims "speaks" to him. What is that song, and who performed it?
[more inside]posted by sportbucket at 3:33 PM PST - 8 comments
fundamentalists; My nephew is graduating from High School this month. He has been given a scholarship to an extremely fundamental christian college, similar to a Liberty or Bob Jones.....I have been invited to;
[more inside]posted by jamie939 at 3:23 PM PST - 49 comments
I'm getting married in a week to a girl I've been dating for just over three months. We decided last night. It just sort of came up in conversation, but I need to come up with some creative way to formally propose to her in the next few days. She's got a sense of humor as twisted as my own, so the key adjective here is wacky.
[more inside]posted by signalnine at 3:04 PM PST - 50 comments
What is the fastest way to micro-commute one mile to the bus stop? The bus may not have space for bikes. I'd like to spend under $200 inclusive of protective gear/clothing.
[more inside]posted by hammurderer at 2:58 PM PST - 32 comments
Help me identify a no-frills cell phone and carrier. I have two firm requirements involving design (gotta be small!) and custom ring tones.
[more inside]posted by Rash at 2:36 PM PST - 13 comments
Given the current economic trends, what will happen to the chinese currency when it is no longer pegged to the us currency? That's about it, I am just curious whether people think the chinese currency would gain or lose ground to the dollar if that happened.
posted by batou_ at 2:30 PM PST - 7 comments
ObscureStatisticsFilter: Help me find usage and market adoption statistics for major streaming audio servers.
[more inside]posted by bhance at 1:06 PM PST - 3 comments
My work wants to accept payments online but doesn't want to accept credit cards. Most banks issue debit cards that work as credit cards. Is there a way to determine the difference?
[more inside]posted by lockle at 1:00 PM PST - 21 comments
What are the best books/dvds/cds/websites out there for Turkish learning? What did you use and recommend? Are there any tips or things that helped you?
[more inside]posted by tozturk at 12:04 PM PST - 3 comments
Please recommend a good book blog where I can hang out. Because heaven knows I don't fritter away enough time on the Internet.
[more inside]posted by orange swan at 11:41 AM PST - 13 comments
ExcelFilter: I need help creating a pie chart as a separate worksheet in Excel that counts how often values appear in a column and creates a pie graph based on that data. I'm stumped, I'm not using the right Google terms, and my company's help desk couldn't guide me through the process, either. (That sounds awkward, so I describe it more comprehensibly inside.)
[more inside]posted by WCityMike at 11:33 AM PST - 9 comments
I currently just finished my second year of college. As a electrical engineering major I find that I sometimes go back to look at course notes and material from past semesters. Thus, I have a lot of paper and not a whole lot of room to put it. Currently each class I have taken is in its own manilla folder and in a file caddy I have. This is less than ideal as most classes don't really fit in a single folder yet I do it anyway so I can keep track of them. I am looking for a creative and space saving way to store them for semi-easy access and more importantly organization. I have thought about 3 hole punching everything, but I would probably end up spending a day or so doing that. Any suggestions.
posted by dyno04 at 10:31 AM PST - 13 comments
TravelFilter: This summer I and 3 friends are planning on travelling around part of Europe by train and are looking for advice on the main areas we plan to stay in. Information on hostels or other cheap accommodation (first hand if possible) would be great (more inside)
[more inside]posted by knapah at 10:14 AM PST - 9 comments
I found a $100 Series EE savings bond of mine that matured in 1999. Did it continue appreciating after 1999 or is it limited to $100 forever? None of the resources I've checked tell me the answer. Where can I redeem it locally (U.S.) if I don't have a local bank branch?
posted by rolypolyman at 9:38 AM PST - 13 comments
I need a goretex Anorak for hiking in spring/fall that is rainproof, breathable and provides some warmth for varied terrain across Norway. Priced out some options in country, but am very hesitant to pay 3000 Kroner (500 bucks) for top model gear here when my brother is coming over from the states in June. Any suggestions?
[more inside]posted by Funmonkey1 at 9:18 AM PST - 16 comments
How do you get yourself to stick with routines that will improve your life? I'm trying to get myself to stick with simple & easy routines surrounding issues like my finances, my health, and my work, but have trouble being consistent.
[more inside]posted by tastybrains at 8:56 AM PST - 23 comments
So, I just received a Timex Sinclair 1000 (WITH the 16k memory upgrade! and flight simulator!) as a gift. Should I open the box and play to my hearts content? Or will this monolith of computing power be worth enough in the future, to justify it staying trapped and suffocated in its yellowed shinkwrap?
[more inside]posted by Mach5 at 8:31 AM PST - 16 comments
Where can I find free DHTML menu code that doesn't require a visible link back to the developer's website?
posted by tizzie at 8:14 AM PST - 11 comments
I'm trying to find a poster of Ludwig van Beethoven for my wall at home.
I would love to have a poster with an image of Beethoven, perhaps some notes or sheet music, and some of the text (the original German, not a translation) of the Choral movement of the 9th. Obviously, I want something very specific. I've looked at allposters.com and several other online poster sites and I haven't found quite what I'm looking for. Does such a thing exist?
[more inside]posted by Nafai at 8:00 AM PST - 4 comments
What are some good books about the international arms trade? Nonfiction or informative fiction, please.
posted by Sticherbeast at 7:41 AM PST - 9 comments
CitiBank has just released a new round of their humorous identity theft ads for May, 2006. You know them instantly by the mismatched video and voices. Here are the
original ads from 2004. I've Googled using all possible tags with no success to see who might have them posted for download. Thanks for the hunt!
posted by thebarron at 7:25 AM PST - 6 comments
I just bought a new car. I seem to remember hearing that you should keep the speed to, say, 50 mph, for its first couple hundred miles - something to do with tires or brakes... Is that right? Do I need to do this?
posted by crepeMyrtle at 7:19 AM PST - 15 comments
How are the envelope window and sleeve barcode use at the netflix sorting facility?
[more inside]posted by killyb at 6:33 AM PST - 15 comments
I found a magnet hiding under my PC yesterday. Now Windows is telling me that my second hard drive isn't formatted, but it's unable to format it when I try to do so. I don't care about the data on the drive, I just want a useable disk again! Any suggestions?
[more inside]posted by billybunny at 6:14 AM PST - 9 comments
If a guy is not a player why would he continue to frequent a dating site a month into what seems to be a pretty good relationship for both of us?
[more inside]posted by terra at 4:30 AM PST - 36 comments
I have a question about bidding on eBay. Take a look at the bid history for
this crazy auction to get a place on UK TV's Big Brother programme. Why are some bidders such as
ceo_of_crazy_thursdays,
puppy_sandwich and
robthecricketer posting multiple bids in a row which often add thousands onto the price? Why not post just one big bid? Even stranger, why put up the price so much with sucessive bids before waiting to see who outbids you? The actions of these people appear to only serve to help the seller as it'll massivily boost the final price - so is this some sort of scam?
posted by mr_silver at 4:09 AM PST - 8 comments
After hearing "Imitation of Life", I'd like to listen and enjoy some more R.E.M. music. Where should I start? What albums are recommended for a newbie to R.E.M?
posted by vac2003 at 3:02 AM PST - 34 comments
May 18
I really want these shoes, but they don't ship outside of the U.K.....
[more inside]posted by Ugh at 9:19 PM PST - 10 comments
My girlfriend asked me if I'd ever have sex with a man. I replied by saying that I'd never say never. Does this make me less of a heterosexual?
[more inside]posted by sjvilla79 at 7:23 PM PST - 45 comments
Ive read that cancer can be pretty clever - securing nutrition by releasing hormones which cause the creation of blood vessels, employing various methods of fooling our immune system etc. All these seem (at least to my layman's mind) to be pretty specialized eh... 'behaviors' i guess is the word. My question is, how would they evolve?
[more inside]posted by Tryptophan-5ht at 7:22 PM PST - 22 comments
I am going to be detailing the interior of my 2002 Ford Mustang this weekend. I'm looking for the best techniques/products for the job. My goal is for it to end up looking like a professional detail job (or at least as close as I can get it to be). What has worked for you? I have no leather seats so I don't have to worry about that. But what about the cloth seats...carpets...dashboard...steering wheel...sticky soda drips? What do you suggest?
posted by ieatwords at 5:52 PM PST - 7 comments
My friend swears that he once saw a video of a guy dropping highly reactive marble sized pieces of metal in a bathtub. The guy would drop in more reactive pieces of metal until eventually "a geyser shot up from the water and the tub split in twain." Is this remotely possible?
[more inside]posted by comatose at 5:15 PM PST - 36 comments
The MacBook calls to me. But I have a desktop (PC). Is there any justification for having a desktop AND a laptop computer? If not, is there any way I can sell a desktop computer without taking a huge loss?
posted by miltoncat at 4:45 PM PST - 29 comments
I'm looking for discussion list software that will allow users to receive e-mails only from other users that are within X miles of their zip code.
[more inside]posted by retrorider at 3:49 PM PST - 1 comments
Part of my garden has been growing wild for some time: I've decided it is time to reclaim it. But my current tools aren't up to the job. Any suggestions?
[more inside]posted by baggers at 1:31 PM PST - 12 comments
Job ethics: I have decided to leave my job two months from now. Do I let them know now so they have more time to find a good replacement, or do I wait and just give my two weeks notice?
[more inside]posted by cgs at 12:42 PM PST - 35 comments
How do I determine the sell value of a site that has 5000+ readers per day (including RSS readers), 3300+ articles written, 120,000+ comments, 40+ active authors, and a high Google PageRank of 7?
[more inside]posted by camworld at 12:26 PM PST - 22 comments
What are good resources, books, etc. on how to find investors/business partners for buying a bar?
[more inside]posted by scody at 12:21 PM PST - 4 comments
Assuming denomination of currency was not specified in the contract, could someone hold the terms of a contract unfulfilled because the denomination of currency was inconvenient and/or costly to process?
[more inside]posted by ontic at 11:43 AM PST - 8 comments
Does anyone know of a passenger ferry service which leaves from Chicago and goes on Lake Michigan to ANYWHERE? I'm looking to get away for a weekend to somewhere in maybe Wisconsin or Michigan (think Door County or Mackinac Island) and would like to not have to drive much, if possible. I thought it would be fun to take a boat ride to my destination starting from the lake in Chicago, but so far have not found anything online. Chicagoans, let me in on your secrets!
posted by achmorrison at 11:00 AM PST - 10 comments
I work at a national retail store full-time, and the majority of the time when I'm not working the register it's all very simple stuff like straightening and folding clothes. It only takes maybe 15%* of my focus. I need suggestions for things to think about, mental games, and methods of mental improvement to take up the other 85%.
[more inside]posted by ElfWord at 10:41 AM PST - 25 comments
Can one partner of a divorcing couple compel the sale of the house for the purpose of division of assets?
[more inside]posted by pgoes at 10:24 AM PST - 7 comments
I'd like to learn a new language to help improve my skills in the IT field. I manage multiple teams in a support environment, both desktop and server. A foreign language seems to be a good way to improve my offerings to employers and help broaden my mind.
[more inside]posted by zymurgy at 10:00 AM PST - 18 comments
Hi! I'm looking to compile a list of travel-oriented songs in any genre, specifically ones that hit on the independent, vagabonding, adventure, exploration style of traveling. Let's hear your suggestion!
posted by nitsuj at 9:52 AM PST - 56 comments
I am organizing a bachelor party to be held in Calgary, Canada and I could use some suggestions to increase the awesome.
[more inside]posted by metaname at 9:45 AM PST - 8 comments
Help me fulfill my nerdly destiny and make my lantern into a decent Golden Age Green Lantern prop.
[more inside]posted by luftmensch at 9:40 AM PST - 5 comments
Have you worn PureVision contact lenses? Do they really "combine breathtaking clarity with incredible health and comfort," and would you recommend them?
[more inside]posted by hsoltz at 9:22 AM PST - 13 comments
Calling all armchair MacGuyvers: My car is locked in my garage, and there must be a way to get it out.
[more inside]posted by hamster at 8:23 AM PST - 24 comments
How do I find a girl that I knew as a child/teen? All I have is her name (she may have changed it through marriage) and the town where she grew up? She doesn't live there any more.
[more inside]posted by grumblebee at 8:11 AM PST - 53 comments
There is a hawk's nest in the lot next to our house with babies in it. They are about to clear cut the land to put yet another crappy built house there (all in the name of "money"). Is there anything that can be done to save that nest?
posted by Hands of Manos at 8:05 AM PST - 18 comments
When I pour sugar in my coffee the total volume in my mug increases. What happen to the volume when the sugar dissolves (decreasing or stable ?) ?
posted by vincentm at 7:56 AM PST - 9 comments
Please help me figure out the most affordable, logical phone/internet package for my house. There are too many options, and I'm not quite sure where to start.
[more inside]posted by Dr. Wu at 7:34 AM PST - 12 comments
I'm writing a business plan for a company that will develop software for scientists doing biomedical research. I need to estimate the size of the market--e.g. how many labs in the U.S. fit this category. One starting point would be the number of grants given out annually by the NIH. Does any one know this number or know where I can find it? Any other suggestions as to how to make this estimate?
posted by Turtles all the way down at 7:15 AM PST - 6 comments
Gardenfilter: I'm starting my garden this weekend and never had a real vegetable/herb garden. I'd like to grow some unusual/heirloom varieties of vegetables but wasn't together enough to order seeds, etc. Any Mass/Southern NH Mefites know of a garden nursery or greenhouse that has LOTS of variety for veggies for plants??
posted by beccaj at 7:01 AM PST - 7 comments
I will leave Japan to travel back to the UK this August and am looking for interesting, original places and/or ways to make my way back. Where/how should I go?
[more inside]posted by 0bvious at 3:37 AM PST - 8 comments
Can someone translate this phrase from an Indian language (Hindi?) into English please? Many thanks.
[more inside]posted by dydecker at 2:02 AM PST - 4 comments
I recently received
this cool watch as a gift. What I want to do is figure out how to do all the nifty functions, namely the bezel and all numbers running along the rim(s). It's a (partial) calculator I know, and has techy-sounding words like "STAT" and "NAUT" and "Flight Timer", which I deduce will allow pilots to...well, do what? Can someone help me decipher all the geeky goodness so I can impress my fellow nerd friends?
[more inside]posted by zardoz at 1:34 AM PST - 11 comments
May 17
My live-in girlfriend has flown to Europe for a month and a half, and I feel a little lost as to what I should do with myself now.
[more inside]posted by chimmyc at 9:37 PM PST - 20 comments
I need a scan or photo of a Swedish airmail envelope (not an aerogram), as in, from Sweden to elsewhere. Ideally from around 2002 but I'll take what I can get.
[more inside]posted by jruckman at 9:22 PM PST - 3 comments
Suggestions on a portable digital recorder, with compactness, data portability and price as the key features
[more inside]posted by nanojath at 8:25 PM PST - 15 comments
I bought an ibook recently on ebay here in Australia. I've just been emailed by the police today, informing me that the laptop was stolen merchandise. I'm resigned to the fact that I'll have to return the laptop to the original owner. (I would want no less if it was stolen from me) - but do I have a chance of getting compensation from ebay? the laptop was about $1,200 AUD. Any tips on approaching ebay and negotiating this are very welcome.
posted by Dag Maggot at 7:59 PM PST - 14 comments
Generally it seems frowned upon to allow information about the extent to which someone supports charity enter the public sphere. What is the reason for this or if that is too obvious the origin of this belief?
[more inside]posted by I Foody at 7:43 PM PST - 19 comments
I have a file in Word with a header that consists of a date, centered. Is there any way I can add 29 pages to the document to make a total of 30, dated " Thursday, June 1, 2006" - "Friday, June 30, 2006"? It seems like some sort of mail-mergy voodoo might work.
[more inside]posted by rossination at 7:22 PM PST - 6 comments
Why does Windows think I want to permanently type in "accent character" mode?
[more inside]posted by Jimbob at 6:22 PM PST - 7 comments
Is Project Entropia a good playground for a 14-year-old? Does its economic model encourage the exercising of real-world social skills, or is it just another unaccountable identity-hopping scammer's paradise?
[more inside]posted by flabdablet at 5:27 PM PST - 4 comments
I need to find an apartment in LA, where I am moving for a new job in Burbank. I know nothing about LA. Do you have any advice on neighborhoods? Buildings? Rental companies? Apartment brokers or services?
[more inside]posted by Mid at 4:31 PM PST - 15 comments
Why does Jon Stewart insist that his guests sit down before he does? He will keep standing no matter what, even if it creates an uncomfortable situation. It's awkward and has always bugged me.
posted by parallax7d at 4:09 PM PST - 18 comments
I'm asking a question for my roommate. She's trying to decide between 2 cars, same price. Which should she choose?
1) '98 Subaru Forester S Series, 160k miles, Power everything, anti-lock brakes
2) '97 Volvo GLT 850 5-cyl Turbo wagon, 150k miles.
Any experiences with either car? Opinions? Advice? Thanks.
posted by slow, man at 3:59 PM PST - 21 comments
Where can I make a charitable donation that will provide me with cool benefits?
[more inside]posted by etc. at 3:08 PM PST - 21 comments
Is it just me, or has 2006 in Los Angeles been extraordinarily foggy and overcast? And if I'm right, is there an explanation? Something about jetstreams or low-pressure systems in the Indian Ocean or maybe butterflies?
posted by lbergstr at 2:36 PM PST - 6 comments
I'm having troubles with my ISP (UK) and I need to prove the times when my internet connection is out. How can I record if my connection is up or down when I’m not there to check?
[more inside]posted by lagavulin at 2:15 PM PST - 6 comments
In a UK company with 3 shareholders, with percentages 51%, 24.5%, 24.5%. Can the person with the majority force the other 2 holders to sell-out ?
[more inside]posted by toocan at 2:02 PM PST - 16 comments
After spending so many years in *nix environments, I need to get up to speed with Microsoft products (specifically vb.net) without losing my sanity.
[more inside]posted by (lambda (x) x) at 12:57 PM PST - 10 comments
I'm using Microsoft Access 2003, SP2. Does it come with triggers and procedures? I searched Help, and it says trigger is only available to Access project. What's Access project? Help please.
posted by dy at 12:20 PM PST - 6 comments
Does This Exist: A standalone compact flash card reader that can copy (and then delete!) pictures from a camera onto a hard drive for later retrieval?
[more inside]posted by fvox13 at 12:12 PM PST - 16 comments
Bay area landscape gardeners—anyone have a recommendation for a good landscape gardener on the peninsula? My yard is sad.
posted by Kafkaesque at 11:52 AM PST - 2 comments
I'm failing to see the joke or point in this week's Perry Bible Fellowship.
http://70.86.201.113/imageserv2/temporary/PBF101ADTheShortcutExpress.jpg
Is there one?
posted by juniper at 10:53 AM PST - 29 comments
Where can I find good resources/tips for how to improve the curb appeal of my semi-detached house?
[more inside]posted by KathyK at 10:18 AM PST - 3 comments
LibrarianFilter: Is this even legal? My school has just announced they will be increasing student fees by over 60% for the next semester. I've sent an email to the director, but what can I, or other students, reasonably do to combat this? Do I have to drop out of school because I can't afford an additional $5,000? Full text of the announcement is below.
[more inside]posted by booknerd at 10:17 AM PST - 16 comments
Is there such a thing as a "cool" lunch box or bag? Not cool as in 1970s Godzilla lunch box, but one that you would carry to work and is not a lunch sack or one of the ones you always see? I like a nice design aesthetic (if possible), and I have been unhappy with the ones I have seen.
Extra points for insulation and something that can fit in a briefcase if inclined.
posted by gnash at 10:10 AM PST - 18 comments
I use my ipod Mini for audiobooks. When I stop and turn the ipod off and then later turn it back on, I usually have to search for my place. Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem?
posted by leavens at 9:56 AM PST - 7 comments
I'm looking for companies that offer quasi-entry level jobs for professionals making a career change.
[more inside]posted by BigBrownBear at 9:56 AM PST - 2 comments
My fiancee and I are thinking about getting married in New Orleans. Advice? Is it still in bad enough shape that this is a bad idea?
[more inside]posted by Gucky at 9:49 AM PST - 10 comments
I am tired of being connected and available all the time. To that end I have decided to drop my Treo PDA phone and just get a simple phone that will give me access to my calendar and contacts - but no email - no web - mobi-video - just plain old POTS. Any recommendations for simple cell phones?
posted by eaglemoon at 9:27 AM PST - 16 comments
So I got a new Motorola SLVR L7, what are some cool things I can do with it? Bonus points for OSX-Friendly apps/solutions.
[more inside]posted by neilkod at 9:17 AM PST - 10 comments
In Access (and Excel as well I would imagine) what is the symbol for "Not Equals"? I would imagine since = is equals there must be a symbol for everything excluding said parameter
[more inside]posted by JonnyRotten at 9:08 AM PST - 14 comments
Cooking Filter: I need to convert a recipe that serves eight into a recipe that serves 100.
[more inside]posted by Sara Anne at 8:49 AM PST - 4 comments
I'm curious about equipment seen at larger concerts: opaque plastic (?) disc, clear plastic tube attached to one side, spiral wire around the tube, cable coming out of the other side of the disc. Some kind of microphone?
[more inside]posted by valleys at 8:38 AM PST - 7 comments
I need to create a simple and small screensaver, like the logon.scr that comes with windows server 2003, that has my company's logo instead of "Windows Server 2003."
[more inside]posted by bloodniece at 8:36 AM PST - 8 comments
The Merrimack River in Massachusetts decided to become part of my backyard these past few days, but thankfully has receded. My question is, how do I disinfect my lawn from all the bacteria and what not that was in the river without actually killing the lawn?
posted by kraagenskul at 7:57 AM PST - 15 comments
I'm going to NYC for a week in September. I need recommendations of the best alternative/weird/unusual/eye-opening places in Manhattan.
[more inside]posted by pollystark at 6:45 AM PST - 40 comments
Does anyone know off the top of their head what Mishima says about exercise? I'm talking about the 1985 film by Paul Schrader. The scene I'm talking about is when he's using a sort of rowing machine and you see him topless.
[more inside]posted by Napierzaza at 6:43 AM PST - 5 comments
Cheap and innovative bridge solution that doesn't interfere with the river, or the banks at all?
[more inside]posted by jcruden at 6:04 AM PST - 14 comments
My iBook has started freezing on me. When I start it up, it starts making a buzzing, whirring sound from under the left of the trackpad, then won't do anything else. I'm thinking it's some sort of a fan problem or HD-related issue, but I'm at a loss, and very frustrated. Can you help?
[more inside]posted by macdara at 3:44 AM PST - 10 comments
Do you "pose" for snapshots? Should I? It has been kindly brought to my attention that I look like crap in photos--worse than in person.
[more inside]posted by QueSeraSera at 12:31 AM PST - 20 comments
Teachingfilter: So, fellow mefiteachers, how do you deal with the exhaustion that comes with the job?
[more inside]posted by saysthis at 12:20 AM PST - 24 comments
[CollectiveMemoryFilter] Please help me find an FPP from a while back with a single link to a short video skit about a guy serenading a girl in a coffee shop early in the morning, with the help of the other patrons.
[more inside]posted by anotherpanacea at 12:20 AM PST - 4 comments
May 16
In the last two weeks, a weird nodule has formed on the bottom of my tongue. I think it's a ranula, but I'm not a doctor and can't say that for certain. I don't have health insurance, but I gotta get rid of this thing before it gets massive and more painful. What kind of doctor do I see to get this removed? How much will something like this (getting a "thing" on your tongue removed) typically cost?
[more inside]posted by anonymous at 10:56 PM PST - 17 comments
I need a web scraper script/proggie to download and thumbnailize images for a long list of search terms.
[more inside]posted by Moistener at 10:08 PM PST - 6 comments
I recently bought a bunch of Star Trek DVDs cheap and need ideas on how to sell them, preferably easily.
[more inside]posted by MadamM at 9:42 PM PST - 13 comments
I see corrections in newspapers all the time. And now come to think about it Ive NEVER seen my local TV news do a correction. Nobody is perfect. So how do they deal with mea culpas?
[more inside]posted by freeflytim at 9:03 PM PST - 17 comments
Syncing an old PDA with a USB/Serial Adapter. Help me figure out why I can't choose a COM port that isn't busy, and what I need to do about it.
[more inside]posted by BT at 8:34 PM PST - 4 comments
I have an IP address and I would like to work out where it is. I know it is on a university network but I would like a more accurate placing of it than that. Can anyone recommend a technique, software or website, which might give me the information?
Thanks.
posted by Hermit at 7:53 PM PST - 9 comments
Help me make my hard working wife's feet happy. My wife is a surgery nurse and is due for a new great pair of nursing shoes. We'll be in the greater Minneapolis/St. Paul area in a few weeks. Anyone have any recommendations on a great place to buy such a pair of shoes in that area?
posted by killThisKid at 7:52 PM PST - 24 comments
It's 80s-music-nostalgia-filter: For sentimental reasons, I'm trying to track down versions of Peter Gabriel singing "In Your Eyes" live with Youssou N'Dour. How many versions are out there? And what albums are they on? Bonus question: Is there an "IYE" cover that beats the original? Thanks.
posted by MonkeyToes at 7:48 PM PST - 11 comments
Got a sparkly new MacBook today, and I want to listen to my Gameday Audio subscription on mlb.com. but Windows Media is blocking my way.
[more inside]posted by DandyRandy at 7:43 PM PST - 7 comments
Does this device exist: standalone video player with a builtin harddrive, component video outs, menu system & remote, ethernet/wifi. Does not rely on computer in the house. Can be turned off/made silent like a normal device when I'm not using it. But when it's on I can watch shows and movies I've transferred to it over the network without excessive hacks-- hopefully it can decode most common video formats and play in HD if necessary. Does not need video in--I don't want a recorder.
[more inside]posted by neustile at 7:27 PM PST - 11 comments
I've been asked to set up a mail server for a small company with a specific auditing requirement. How do I insure their requirement "show me all emails from May 30, 2005 to June 30, 2005", for example, is fulfilled?
[more inside]posted by bkudria at 7:20 PM PST - 4 comments
What methods and processes can I use to manage the content of a university-school website?
[more inside]posted by b33j at 7:05 PM PST - 13 comments
Where can I find Murakami's website that allowed readers to submit questions regarding the meaning of the book Kafka On the Shore?
[more inside]posted by pelican at 6:22 PM PST - 2 comments
[New York City apartment filter] So my future roommate and I found a place we thought was perfect. We're thisclose to signing the lease. And then a search with HPD turns up 96 open violations in the building. How concerned should I be?
[more inside]posted by anjamu at 6:17 PM PST - 17 comments
Investment finance question: Where can i find the historical correlation coefficients between Certificates of Deposits and US. Gov't bonds? Where can I find the equivalent info for Canadian GICs vs Canadian gov't bonds?
posted by storybored at 6:14 PM PST - 2 comments
Can you recommend a good online record/CD price guide database to help sell part of my collection?
[more inside]posted by sleepy pete at 5:56 PM PST - 9 comments
Has anyone written and published very brief, dense prose works akin to Borges'
ficciones, and are they any good?
[more inside]posted by jack_mo at 5:41 PM PST - 17 comments
I've been applying to adopt a dog in Massachusetts for about a year. I live in a tenant-at-will apartment, so they won't give me one. My situation is such that I rent from a friend, his elderly aunt lives downstairs and I look after her, and she would love to have the companionship of a dog during the day when I'm at work. But it seems I can't have one, even though my landlady has given me the go ahead. She is deaf and partially blind, but able to play with a dog. I read the post about dogs being euthanized in Georgia (May 11, MeFi) Maybe these people should advertise in other states. I'd be happy to pay the transportation fee for a long-life friend. I don't want to buy one from a breeder, because that's a waste. I want a nice, friendly pooch, I don't care what it looks like, just that he's in my lap in the evenings when I'm watching TV, and an inspiration to get me up early in the mornings for the morning and evening pee, happily clutching my plastic bag to pick up the poo. Anyone in Massachusetts have any ideas?
posted by WaterSprite at 5:28 PM PST - 24 comments
Help me remember this website! Small website consulting company.
It had two words, most likely starting with "web____". It was award winning, made with flash, punchy animations and a distinctive tango-like soundtrack.
posted by omidius at 5:17 PM PST - 4 comments
I can't FTP to my domains johnbrownlow.com and pinkheadedbug.com, which are both hosted with Westhost.com. Help me figure out the weirdness -- this isn't a firewall issue as far as I can tell.
[more inside]posted by unSane at 3:39 PM PST - 10 comments
This should be a layup for AskMeFi. Funny video of two male roommates communicating with each other ONLY via IM, even though they're sitting in the same room together.
[more inside]posted by wubbie at 3:29 PM PST - 4 comments
what's the name of that song, couple years back, cello, acoustic guitars, male and female duet, b&w video with the camera slowly spinning from the inside of a circle of singers/musicians and a portion of the lyrics go something like "
hurricane come knock me down"
(or maybe it was 'tornado'?) is it just me or is it impossible to search for song lyrics on the intarwebs! posted by garfy3 at 2:48 PM PST - 9 comments
Does anyone have specific examples of products that were either boosted or busted solely from buzz created on the "blogosphere?"
[more inside]posted by bjork24 at 2:48 PM PST - 44 comments
My parents just bought a new condo in Naples, Florida. What is the best way for them to rent it seasonally?
[more inside]posted by SweetJesus at 12:48 PM PST - 5 comments
I want to easily and quickly synchronize my work laptop with my home office desktop every evening when I get home, and visa versa just before I leave for work. What software and what hardware do I need. Cost is not a primary issue, but time and convenience are. A seamless "plug this here" "two clicks there" operation is my goal. Machine 1/2 is backup for machine 2/1 every 12 hours.
posted by elmaddog at 12:44 PM PST - 15 comments
Questions about grad school housing: 1. Anybody know a good site to find apartments on? I'm moving to Mt. Pleasant, MI in August and need a place for me to live that takes cats. I tried rent.com but its not helping much.
2. Are there any sites that help match you up with roommates?
3. Living with your classmates? High compatibility or just plain dumb (I'll be in a class of 7)
[more inside]posted by gilsonal at 12:23 PM PST - 5 comments
I'm looking for a word that is like "obsequious", but has more to do with gushing gratitude -- to the point of being obnoxious -- rather than compliance and approval-seeking.
[more inside]posted by toomanyplugs at 12:11 PM PST - 31 comments
MovieSongFilter: Need some help getting the name and performer of a song I've heard now in two separate movies.
[more inside]posted by plaidrabbit at 10:52 AM PST - 9 comments
I'm thinking about cooking up a Sinner's Dinner. Help me make my shopping list of religiously forbidden foods.
[more inside]posted by 23skidoo at 10:09 AM PST - 42 comments
I need a reliable, cheap online source for printer ink. Where should I go?
[more inside]posted by jtron at 9:41 AM PST - 9 comments
I want a car that carries more than 5 passengers AND gets good fuel economy! I did see some similar recent posts on this question, but not explicitly including the more than 5 seating issue!
Right now I drive a tiny civic hatch back. I don't care about having a BIG car, I just want a car that can carry more people than the members of my immediate family. I hate to switch from 35 mpg to the 18 that even the most efficient minivan provides. Any creative seating solutions (Optional rear bench? Back facing station wagon seating?) will be considered!
posted by serazin at 9:14 AM PST - 27 comments
Can anyone recommend a good site for borrowing books online? Physical books I mean, not e-books. I've found Booksfree; are there any others out there?
posted by JanetLand at 9:09 AM PST - 10 comments
Why are movies on airplanes so bad? I just sat through 12 hours of oxygen-deprived mediocrity (Cheaper by the Dozen 2, Rumor Has It, King Kong, The Transporter 2). I mean, it is just simple economics -- do the airline companies get a better deal on movies that suck? But then why does it cost no more to watch or rent a good movie than a bad one? If they're aiming for wide mainstream taste, couldn't they at least have things everyone wanted to see -- movies that have won awards, or genuinely done well at the box office?
posted by jgballard at 8:52 AM PST - 38 comments
I have to move by July 30th, and I've started looking for a place. I would prefer a private landlord vs. a managed complex. In my searching, an apartment locator service has come up, and I'm wondering if I should use them.
[more inside]posted by golden_lady at 8:51 AM PST - 5 comments
Does it make sense that unknown exposure -- allergies or sensitivities -- is making me wildly moody?
[more inside]posted by yesster at 8:47 AM PST - 7 comments
Is it possible to move up and down the continuum of human sexuality? That is, can gays turn straighter or straights turn gayer? And how would you go about doing it?
[more inside]posted by schroedinger at 7:57 AM PST - 49 comments
I'm encountering what I imagine is an entirely rudimentary SQL error, but am baffled as to how to solve it.
[more inside]posted by boombot at 7:18 AM PST - 80 comments
Can someone point me towards an online version of the screenplay or at least a transcript of Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Thanksverymuch.
posted by Skyanth at 6:51 AM PST - 2 comments
I am headed to World Cup for the Trinidad vs. Paraguay game. I will be flying into London from Bermuda. I am planning on heading to Germany for the game, and then heading to Italy for a few days, and then to Madrid for a few more, ultimately going back to London and then onto Bermuda. What is the best / cheapest way to get to these countries once I am into London. Should I fly, take a train? Use a ticket broker like AirTreks. Look at RyanAir??
posted by jasondigitized at 6:24 AM PST - 8 comments
Help me find a great wedding photographer for my wedding on Long Island next June!
[more inside]posted by josh at 4:46 AM PST - 12 comments
I want to get into making electronic music on my PC. What software should I purchase for ambient moody pop stuff? Any help greatly appreciated!
[more inside]posted by mosspink at 1:52 AM PST - 19 comments
Can I figure out email addresses for mobile numbers outside North America, if I know the provider? Does most of the world who use SMS even send/receive email through their mobiles?
[more inside]posted by lizardqueen at 12:19 AM PST - 11 comments
May 15
How good is the reputation of Swinburne University in Victoria, Australia? Are they more focused on teaching or research?
[more inside]posted by ranglin at 7:29 PM PST - 7 comments
Hi. I recently (about six months ago) switched health insurance providers. I filled out the application form honestly, except for one thing: I forgot to note that I'd received a prescription two years ago for an albuterol inhaler (which is an inexpensive inhaler used to relieve asthma attacks while they're occuring.)
[more inside]posted by soulbarn at 6:24 PM PST - 13 comments
1950s era Low Voltage Relay Lighting - My new home has a system, and I'm not sure what to do if it ever breaks. Are there any good resources for parts out there? Any good discussions on these systems? Books I should pick up?
posted by salsamander at 6:02 PM PST - 2 comments
Let's say I want to make a chart that's like an excel bubble chart, but I don't want the size of the bubble to vary depending on a third variable. Instead, I want the width of each bubble to vary by some amount, and the height of each bubble to vary by a different amount.
[more inside]posted by sentient at 4:39 PM PST - 2 comments
What website layouts work best for a site selling some books and/or software? Ideas? Examples? What about NOT-recommended ideas and examples?
[more inside]posted by zek at 3:23 PM PST - 5 comments
I would like to find resources, either in print or online, for learning as much as I can about video color space, specifically where it applies to compositing/keying work.
[more inside]posted by shmegegge at 3:22 PM PST - 6 comments
You are suspended in a large, hollow sphere. The inside of the sphere is perfectly mirrored. There is nothing else in the sphere, and all you carry is a flashlight. You turn the flashlight on. What do you see?
[more inside]posted by tweebiscuit at 2:49 PM PST - 41 comments
Song name problem. I remember an upbeat and poppy tune from a CMJ issue from the late 90's. The lyrics I can recall are "Take a bubble bath baby. There's a towel on the towel rack" and "Got a pimple, keep it simple".
I've tried searching lyrics sites via google and had no luck.
posted by srboisvert at 2:47 PM PST - 3 comments
IpodFilter: I have the photo ipod and am looking for a really good sport case I can use at the gym.....
[more inside]posted by deeman at 2:19 PM PST - 8 comments
I just found out that I have the entire month of August to do with as I please. This may be the last time in a long time I have a big chunk of time like this. Help me use it wisely?
[more inside]posted by jennyjenny at 1:58 PM PST - 10 comments
I'd like to gather some recommendations for good bed & breakfasts or rental cabins for a weekend couple getaway in the Oregon Coast area or other areas of Oregon with great natural beauty. Requirements are listed on the inside.
[more inside]posted by matildaben at 1:29 PM PST - 11 comments
How do I convert the various popular flavors of digital video floating around the Internet into a format I can easily and reliably burn to DVD and play on a DVD player?
[more inside]posted by killdevil at 1:05 PM PST - 7 comments
Please help me help my ex girlfriend find a design class for 2-10 weeks anywhere in the world.
[more inside]posted by sveskemus at 12:44 PM PST - 3 comments
ChurchFilter:I don't know if I should stay with this congregation or cut my losses and find a new parish...
[more inside]posted by Biblio at 11:50 AM PST - 24 comments
Excel use question: what's the term (and usage, if you don't mind) for the concept of "copy only the rows with (special indicator here) from that worksheet"?
[more inside]posted by Steve3 at 11:15 AM PST - 3 comments
Roadtrip Filter: I need advice on how to kill 72 hours in a mini-van, among other things. We leave on Friday.
[more inside]posted by kevin_2864212 at 10:57 AM PST - 20 comments
We're going to Istanbul for about a week and a half in early June. Any suggestions?
posted by lalalana at 10:50 AM PST - 9 comments
CatFilter: Sometimes in the early morning my cat who sleeps near my shoulder puts his paw in my mouth...
[more inside]posted by TheLibrarian at 10:41 AM PST - 29 comments
Hi8 to DVD - easiest solution?
Looking for a USB capture device/software package for transferring all of my Hi8 home movies to DVD
[more inside]posted by tom_g at 9:46 AM PST - 3 comments
I want to store a few dozen CDs with their liner notes and inserts (we're talking the regular American style thick CD jewel cases). Most of the CD binders seem only able to store the booklet, not the tray inserts. I'd like one that can store everything except the plastic. I want to be able to stick them back into jewel cases if I ever decide to get rid of them.
[more inside]posted by inthe80s at 8:50 AM PST - 9 comments
The other night my wife and I heard a creature calling in the woods, near our house, for about half an hour. It was an alarming cry that neither of us have heard after a lifetime of living in the woods of central Virginia. Naturally,
we recorded the sound (190k MP3) knowing we could just Ask Metafilter. Can anybody ID this critter?
posted by waldo at 8:39 AM PST - 38 comments
Should I (male) stay friends with someone (female) who I love uncontrollably when there is no reciprocation? Messy story and a lot
[more inside]posted by anonymous at 7:56 AM PST - 42 comments
My twenty month old jammed three cds into my car cd player. The eject button is less than useless. What is the best way to recover them?
[more inside]posted by Apoch at 6:52 AM PST - 10 comments
Carving docks into desk: If we're going to sling some MDF or other density chipboard style wood between two walls as a benchtop, how can we cut holes for ipods, phones, and usb plugs without having hideous amounts of chipboard showing through?
[more inside]posted by taita_cakes at 5:02 AM PST - 13 comments
Guarantee question. Bought a load of stuff from Mothercare in the UK. Arranged to have it delivered to home. Some of the stuff was not in stock, so it took them nearly 2 months to deliver it all. Now this is not a problem, baby's not due for another couple of weeks, my problem is they are stating that the guarantee for each of the items starts on the day of purchase and not on the actual day we took delivery from them. So in effect we've been stiffed of 2 months guarantee. Is this right?
posted by lloyder at 4:33 AM PST - 9 comments
Teach me a card trick. Inspired by a recent post on card tricks, I'd like to learn a simple but reasonably impressive trick with which to pester children at family gatherings etc.
[more inside]posted by bystander at 4:03 AM PST - 17 comments
My invisalign-type retainer has broken and I won't see my orthodontist for months! What should I do?
[more inside]posted by nervestaple at 3:23 AM PST - 3 comments
What's the easiest way to extra data
about my emails? It's for the purposes of making a visualization along similar lines to
Mountain.
[more inside]posted by bruceyeah at 3:01 AM PST - 7 comments
OnlineSalesFilter: ClickBank | eBook selling; is anyone here in affiliate marketing for these ebooks?
[more inside]posted by Izzmeister at 12:08 AM PST - 1 comments
Is there a name for the type of vocal 'whoop'ing that sometimes happens at some dance parties or raves or somesuch, where the audience will all yell out 'whoop' or 'whoop whoop' in time with the music? Bonus cool points for recommending songs that actually have samples of said whooping in them.
posted by geekhorde at 12:01 AM PST - 10 comments
May 14
I'm best man at my friend's wedding in July. What are all of my responsibilities?
[more inside]posted by sdis at 11:44 PM PST - 16 comments
My wife is planning a 'stagette' type party for her soon-to-be-married friend, and needs some info about Seattle.
[more inside]posted by BorgLove at 10:59 PM PST - 5 comments
All diplomatic efforts at a peaceful solution have failed. I have no choice but to invade and depose the ty-
rat-ical government in my roof. But I don't want to injure the canine civilians. Can I do this myself or do I need to bring in the elite forces?
posted by zaebiz at 10:55 PM PST - 16 comments
Need SALAD or DESSERT recipe for a pot luck with a group of friends with lots of different food sensitivities.
[more inside]posted by marsha56 at 9:26 PM PST - 12 comments
We have two small children, and we're thinking of hiring an
au pair. We're looking for advice from those who have done this.
[more inside]posted by richg at 9:00 PM PST - 8 comments
My husband, a friend and I have started a community theatre group. We're in the midst of our first show, and we've gotten great publicity and we're getting healthy first-time audiences. We want to keep doing this, but we think we need to incorporate (become an LLC, LLP, something) before we get in too far. A lot . . .
[more inside]posted by Medieval Maven at 8:03 PM PST - 4 comments
I am a Mac Geek and will be setting up a Windows XP Pro computer for my computer novice mother, but I am concerned about XP security.
[more inside]posted by DuckFOO at 8:00 PM PST - 19 comments
I know similar questions have been asked, but here goes...I've had anxiety and depression for awhile now, but more severely the last few months. I've been seeing a therapist, and have been on some medicine, and both have helped, but I'm looking for more help
[more inside]posted by rbf1138 at 7:14 PM PST - 14 comments
I live in Canada and cannot buy Marzetti Original Slaw Dressing. I have tried twice, but cannot get the egg taste. Even with 3 eggs, sugar and oil in a double boiler, I cannot get the taste right. Can anyone help?
posted by bright77blue at 6:59 PM PST - 5 comments
Has anyone successfully installed CivIII or Age of Empires on a MacBook Pro running Win XP SP2 over Parallels?
[more inside]posted by eirelander at 6:45 PM PST - 2 comments
I want to make large lifestyle changes, but I'm fighting my own ingrained negative mental attitudes that go back 17 or more years, and they're winning. Help me overcome them.
[more inside]posted by scrump at 6:06 PM PST - 33 comments
I need to find a mouse to suit someone with large, but not long, fingers. Who's left handed.
[more inside]posted by krisjohn at 6:05 PM PST - 8 comments
Tomorrow I sign a lease for a huge old house built in the 1800's, and I am worried about how much oil will be required to heat the place. How can this be predicted without appropriate historical data?
[more inside]posted by brundlefly at 5:22 PM PST - 10 comments
I'd like to trigger a relay that momentarily closes a switch based on the voltage of another wire. Maybe. I think. Please help me with this basic (I hope) electronics project.
[more inside]posted by odinsdream at 4:15 PM PST - 6 comments
What unique methods can I use to find a graphic/web designer who is also a good teacher?
[more inside]posted by jeremias at 3:52 PM PST - 9 comments
My Dad sells computer games on the Internet as a hobby. He has done nothing to protect his intellectual property rights other than placing a copyright notice on an "About" screen. He thinks Nintendo might like one of his game ideas and would like to contact them about it. Should he be concerned about protecting his IP rights before contacting Nintendo or is it too late?
[more inside]posted by lizjohn at 3:52 PM PST - 13 comments
I need recommendations for the best book to buy for my sales team helping them understand the basics of information technology. More specifically we are an organization that offers computer training. Classes cover Microsoft certifications, Novell, Citrix.....etc....
This team is very green and I need to help them learn this stuff faster.
Any ideas?
posted by sandrapbrady at 3:41 PM PST - 4 comments
I've recently been promoted to VP, and I've realized that my skill set needs an upgrade. I need a methodology for setting goals for my reports. I need a system in which I can feel confident with their progress (and coach where needed) without micromanaging. Any suggestions or books I can read?
[more inside]posted by Kenshiro70 at 3:12 PM PST - 4 comments
What are the best resources ( public records etc) for locating someone in Canada. Possibly in Ontario but not sure. All suggestions very much appreciated. The name is very common-- internet search not successful so far...
posted by GoodJob! at 1:55 PM PST - 4 comments
I just bought a
new graphics card. The only thing I need it to do is to output my computer display to a television. To this effect, the card has three output options: (1) RCA, (2) S-video, (3) HD (red, blue and green cord). The first two options work great. The third, which is the one I'm really jonesing for, doesn't. What appears on the TV through the HD-out is all wonky and strange -- I can sort of make out stuff, but just barely. Any ideas as to how to get this up and running? I'm on XP (Home Edition), and
here is the TV I'm using.
posted by JPowers at 12:43 PM PST - 8 comments
I want to buy a very comfortable blanket/cover to wraparound when I read. Please recommend some nice samples.
posted by growabrain at 12:41 PM PST - 15 comments
Long time listener First Time caller, can someone please explain to me why my volume control Icon on my task bar keeps removing itself. (More inside).
[more inside]posted by Unregistered User at 12:01 PM PST - 12 comments
Why does my computer keep doing
this? Moving around an open window does
this. The purple lines usually pop out of nowhere, independent of what I'm doing. It started this week and has been happening more often as time goes on. Restarting the computer seems to be the only cure.
posted by lotsofno at 11:50 AM PST - 17 comments
What kind of documentation will convince a non-software guy that writing a program is actual work?
[more inside]posted by jacalata at 7:54 AM PST - 18 comments
May 13
So-- I go to boarding school. At my school, there's a senior position entitled Vice President of Social Life. I've already made it to the finals- just two candidates left. I have to give a speech on Tuesday. I was wondering if the MeFi community had any good ideas for social events to be held for a 9th through 12th grade high school.
[more inside]posted by daviss at 11:59 PM PST - 14 comments
Who is the actress that plays the naked flying woman that Billy Crudup and Dennis Leary see in the movie "
Jesus' Son?" The Dennis Leary character says it's his wife, though I'm not sure we're meant to take that literally, and we never see the woman before or after that scene. IMDB and Google give no love.
posted by artlung at 11:54 PM PST - 6 comments
Giant slugs with odd appendages bent on destroying all life run over kid, feel bad about it, then heal him. [more inside]posted by hatsix at 11:40 PM PST - 11 comments
What exactly do I need to do to play AVIs and the like on my Playstation 2? I have a CD-RW drive and don't want to spend any money.
posted by squidlarkin at 11:30 PM PST - 9 comments
Great googly moogly! When I open my Breath Right Nasal Strip at night in the dark, it briefly flashes with an eerie light. What the heck is causing this unearthly phenomenon, and must I seek an exorcist to properly address my sleep apnea?
posted by Astro Zombie at 11:08 PM PST - 7 comments
Help! I just lost a very expensive, very old, and a very beloved family heirloom of a diamond ring down the drain of my bathtub.
[more inside]posted by TheGoldenOne at 11:01 PM PST - 22 comments
Suppose there's a web form with 50 checkboxes (representing options or interests), and that checking one has no effect on any of the others. A user could select any two boxes, or a half dozen, or a different half dozen, or all 50. The only constraint on the form submission is that the user must check at least two boxes. How many possible combinations are there?
[more inside]posted by Tuwa at 10:22 PM PST - 17 comments
I have a large collection of Photoshop brushes and am looking for the best way to organize them.
[more inside]posted by medelle at 9:06 PM PST - 0 comments
linguists: i vaguely remember a story that i can't verify. the gist is this: two groups of people who spoke the same language became separated by some minor geographical obstacles, like hills, and remained so for a period of years (decades, i think). upon analysis some years later, their common tongue had forked noticeably into fairly different languages. is this true?
[more inside]posted by patricking at 7:52 PM PST - 17 comments
I'd like to be able to download unread articles from Bloglines to my Palm T|X via the Wifi - no PC sync involved.
[more inside]posted by djgh at 7:22 PM PST - 1 comments
At P.F. Chang's, our waiter didn't write any portion of my family's order down (party of six.) This seemed to be the custom at this particular location, but I don't understand why. Do restaurant managers specifically instruct their wait staff not to write the order down? Why? Is it considered more personal and attentive?
[more inside]posted by invisible ink at 6:52 PM PST - 37 comments
Is regular unleaded gasoline made with only petroleum-derived compounds better than gasoline containing ethanol?
[more inside]posted by ackptui at 6:29 PM PST - 8 comments
I'm looking for easy outdoor party themes and ideas. Do you have a memory of a good outdoor party? What makes an outdoor gathering memorable for you?
[more inside]posted by FunkyHelix at 5:57 PM PST - 21 comments
NYC FurnitureFilter: Moving to a new place on the UES and looking for some cool furniture on a budget.
[more inside]posted by slapshot57 at 5:57 PM PST - 6 comments
My laptop died. I mounted the hard drive in a USB enclosure. If you can solve permission problems, that would help. If you can solve Mac / PC compatibility problems, that would help. If you can solve both, that would be great!
[more inside]posted by salvia at 5:57 PM PST - 10 comments
Our waitress took the late, over-cooked burger off the check. Should we have tipped on the pre- or post-adjustment amount?
[more inside]posted by reeddavid at 5:31 PM PST - 44 comments
How can I install a window air conditioner into my metal framed window with no place to screw in the rails?
[more inside]posted by j-dawg at 4:41 PM PST - 5 comments
How do I merge/combine 4 separate photographs onto a single sheet? This is for an insurance record. Four separate photos might be more easily lost in my insurance agents' filing cabinet. i need to keep the four separate images intact and unmodified. I have Photoshop Elements 3, Photoshop 7 (which I have never used) and Corel Photopaint 8 and could not find (or did not know how to properly phrase a question to find) a description of how to do this I any of these programs. Can this be done in any of these programs? I would prefer to use PE3.
posted by Raybun at 3:27 PM PST - 9 comments
My last left contact (-3.50 Power, BC 8.3, Dia 14) ripped. Anticipating this, I placed an order at 1800-CONTACTS a week ago, but it's in the mail. Help me see!
posted by sirion at 12:38 PM PST - 15 comments
Does anyone have the skinny on what's going on with allofmp3.com? I haven't been able to order anything or add funds for a week now and every day seems to produce a different error message.
posted by helcat at 12:14 PM PST - 34 comments
I would like to purchase a GPS receiver for my car. I primarily need it for work covering Chicago and suburbs. I would like one that can speak and talk me to my destination. There are just too many models to choose from! I do not want to purchase the cheapest model and regret the decision later. Neither do I need one to cover all of North America and Canada. I am just seeking a good reliable system that has a good reputation for always picking up the signal. Any assistance would be appreciated.
posted by Mckoan1 at 11:52 AM PST - 9 comments
A couple of months ago I read an article that stated that world class athletes or musicians were not that much more talented than other people: they just worked harder. Does anybody know which article I mean? I am also interested to learn other opinions about this. How good can you become if you are very motivated and willing to invest the time? My personal interest is in long distance running, but I am also interested in general stories/opinions/articles.
posted by davar at 11:44 AM PST - 23 comments
Interesting summer work for a technology/IT enthusiast soon to be graduate
[more inside]posted by dance at 11:43 AM PST - 4 comments
My wife is hosting a baby shower for a mother-to-be that wants 50 people to be invited (she's even providing the list). But I have heard that here in Toronto, you need to have a permit for private gatherings of more than 25 where alcohol will be served. We can't find any detailed information on this though.
Anyone know where to look, or know the answer?
posted by iTristan at 11:10 AM PST - 7 comments
My ISP doesn't like "unrestricted" peer-to-peer, so shouldn't "restricted" peer-to-peer (namely BitTorrent) be ok?
[more inside]posted by mrhaydel at 10:17 AM PST - 19 comments
In a few years I’d like to drop out of an unfulfilling IT career, buy some good land, and do something related to small-scale sustainable organic agriculture. Does anyone have any advice or ideas for making a modest income in this area, or is this just a naïve dream?
posted by Meridian at 6:45 AM PST - 14 comments
InterviewFilter: Help me ace an interview with a hiring committee -- of my current and former professors!
[more inside]posted by Alterscape at 6:35 AM PST - 8 comments
Efficient string array comparisons in PHP, and a question about Apache and PHP performance...
[more inside]posted by Mr. Six at 4:34 AM PST - 16 comments
I have to spend time professionally with a former lover next week.
I still have frequent thoughts about her which I would rather not have, since they are unhelpful in trying to 'move on' . Please suggest some songs that will help me with this?
[more inside]posted by funboytree at 4:32 AM PST - 35 comments
Is there any benefit to using the yellow legal-pads instead of the white legal-pads. I used to buy the yellow for note taking simply because they were cheaper, but now I am finding I perfer the white. I am simply curious if the yellow paper has any benecit such as being better for the eyes or something, or if it is entirely just personal preference.
posted by dbooster at 3:58 AM PST - 16 comments
I'm looking for a book on how to manipulate and control a group of humans, non-physically. Governments use manipulation to convince it's citizens to agree with them. Companies invest billions of dollars into researching how to convince a consumer to buy a product.
[more inside]posted by JokingClown at 2:49 AM PST - 17 comments
May 12
Java: What is the difference between a String starting with a certain character, and a String having that character as its prefix?
[more inside]posted by bingo at 9:33 PM PST - 21 comments
Although I've created sites hosted on Apache servers before, I've never had to take form results from a page and send them to a specific email (i.e. a standard form request) with Apache/PHP. Done it many times with CDONTS/CDOSYS or similar mail objects. Is there an equivalent object with Apache? I can't get an answer from the host provider (yet.)
posted by juiceCake at 7:55 PM PST - 6 comments
New York City: My husband and I will be travelling to NYC next weekend. The weather is supposed to be rainy. Suggested activities for this kind of weather?
[more inside]posted by alexmikayla at 7:52 PM PST - 13 comments
Civilization IV: if a UN civics resolution passes, is it possible to change those civics
ever again in the game? How about if you become Secretary General?
posted by crush-onastick at 7:06 PM PST - 4 comments
What are the comparative participation rates of workers in sex-related industries country to country?
[more inside]posted by modernnomad at 6:50 PM PST - 9 comments
I'm looking at renting a house with two or three friends. We're all young (early 20s) and I'm the only one that really has much of a credit history. What do I need to know about working this out?
[more inside]posted by Bondrake at 6:35 PM PST - 11 comments
In a course I teach, I've assigned students to remix a cultural text of their choosing. One student, after missing many classes, has turned in Henry V's famous "Once more unto the breach" monologue pasted into the word balloons of an old WWII comic showing the English at El Alamein, and I'm suspicious of plagiarism, especially since he's shown no previous drafts. (I'm hoping I'm wrong, because if he came up with it on his own, it's a really cool idea.) It's one page, five panels, with Montgomery speaking as Henry V. Has anybody seen this elsewhere?
posted by vitia at 5:11 PM PST - 21 comments
I want to move to Oregon. I have heard good things about Ashland, Medford, Roseburg, Eugene, Corvallis, Salem, Beaverton, and Portland. How can I choose where to try first? We have ‘up and moved’ before (without plans, no jobs waiting at new city) and I don’t want to do that again. I can see us moving summer 2007.
[more inside]posted by saragoodman3 at 3:57 PM PST - 30 comments
Why is it that I cannot see shared drives on other machines on my home network unless I install "NetBEUI Protocol" on each participating machine's network configuration?
[more inside]posted by chef_boyardee at 2:56 PM PST - 10 comments
Should I be concerned about my emails and letters to my US Senate and House representatives ? I have written to my Maryland federal representatives expressing my opinion on the War on Drugs and support for legalization (marijuana) and decriminilzation (all other "illegal" drugs). I have listed my address as to not be a crackpot when I sent the email. With this issue spiraling out of control - how concerned should I be that I am now going to be on some list somewhere for thinking for myself? I know I am asking this after sending but I was just curious to see what everyone else thought.
posted by evilelvis at 2:31 PM PST - 17 comments
Today's big science news story about a theoretically
infinite number of big bangs immediately triggered memories of a non-fiction book or essay by Isaac Asimov that proposed the same theory of the universe. Am I recollecting Asimov's conjecture correctly, which if I remember correctly he proposed almost as a flight of poetic fancy. Does anyone remember what book this was in?
posted by Kattullus at 2:13 PM PST - 3 comments
Clock Face Templates? Bought an old clock. The paper face is stained and ruined. Are there any websites offering templates of clock faces that I can re-size and print? Looking for something about 3 inches square with cool art deco numerals.
posted by nancoix at 2:09 PM PST - 2 comments
I would like to purchase a high-mileage / low-emissions vehicle which I can drive (alone) in the carpool lanes around the Bay Area. Hybrids present one option, though I'd rather be in a diesel VW Golf, running biodiesel. I need help figuring out
the requirements listed here to see if a diesel Golf meets them. And does anyone know if filling it with biodiesel changes anything? What other vehicle options are there?
posted by scarabic at 1:35 PM PST - 15 comments
My curiosity has gotten the better of me. Somewhat gross bodily function question inside.
[more inside]posted by contessa at 1:32 PM PST - 37 comments
HousewarmingPartyFilter: Is is impolite to invite some coworkers (my immediate team) to a housewarming party but not others (the office at large)?
[more inside]posted by anonymous at 1:07 PM PST - 16 comments
Is this "chrono shift" - your memories shuffle chronological order? Does this happen to other people, is there a medical term? (Drinking involved)
[more inside]posted by andrewyakovlev at 12:16 PM PST - 6 comments
I use
Miraflow as my daily contact lens cleaner. I use either
AOSept or
AMO UltraCare as a disinfectant. All three products have completely disappeared from the shelves, in stores and online. What is going on, is anyone else experiencing this, and can anyone suggest an alternative for cleaners or disinfectants - even my eye doctor's doesn't know what's going on.
posted by The_Partridge_Family at 12:15 PM PST - 9 comments
Why do kids dislike spicy food and is this culturally specific? What about Mexican/Thai/Indian/etc kids who can't avoid it?
posted by arcticwoman at 11:50 AM PST - 33 comments
Suggestions for vineyards in the Pacific Northwest where one can do the "pick grapes and make your own wine" thing?
posted by bradhill at 11:23 AM PST - 3 comments
I'm going to my first opera tomorrow night. It's
Don Giovanni here in Portland. It's opening night. We have cheap seats, I think. I'm moderately overweight, and so cannot fit into my truly nice clothes (which aren't even really
that nice to begin with).
What the hell do I wear? [more inside]posted by jdroth at 11:19 AM PST - 18 comments
Buying a used car in Vancouver, BC, dealers you'd recommend, or conversely, those to absolutely avoid?
[more inside]posted by eurasian at 10:55 AM PST - 7 comments
Looking for this old IT cartoon: a manager walking away from one or more programmers while saying, "You start coding, I'll ask what they want." My husband and I have found many references to the cartoon, but not the cartoon itself.
posted by rosemere at 10:40 AM PST - 4 comments
The conventional wisdom is to not buy "Rev A" Apple hardware. How can I tell what revision a specific piece of hardware is?
[more inside]posted by shaneflyer at 10:11 AM PST - 16 comments
I like to carry my cellphone in a cargo pants pocket, on the outside of my body away from vital organs. I believe this is good for my health because the odds of microwaving my kidneys and intestines and all that other good stuff are reduced. Am I being crazy?
posted by clango at 10:04 AM PST - 38 comments
Asking for the girlfriend (if that wasn't clear): My significant other is plagued by oral contraceptive -induced sunlight sensitivity.
[more inside]posted by glibhamdreck at 9:56 AM PST - 13 comments
LoanConsolidationFilter.
I know this question has been asked before, but I can't find any information about my specific student loan cirucmstance. Please help! Should I consolidate in-school and lock in low rates? Ive been told i need to do it before July 1st or i cant consolidate in school anymore!
[more inside]posted by jare2003 at 9:54 AM PST - 7 comments
FedEx Help - - I did a driving course online and I need the documentation in my hot little hands before I go to the judge on monday. I paid for next day and should have received it yesterday.
[more inside]posted by bigmusic at 9:40 AM PST - 16 comments
Where do I look for information on Jewish violence? Does Judaism have much violence in its history? I'm specifically looking for information on pre-Zionist Jewish militance, if such existed. Were there any major battles or wars involving Jews before the twentieth century?
posted by goo at 9:24 AM PST - 14 comments
I'm trying to find the name of a Mexican male "performance" enchancer that I once saw at a Walgreens in Berkeley. It comes in a yellow box and has a picture of a bull's head on it and is apparently made from bull's testicles. The design is fantastic, and I'm having no luck google-fuing up a name.
posted by AArtaud at 9:03 AM PST - 7 comments
Standing upright and relaxed, my left shoulder appears to rest higher than my right. Who do I go see?
[more inside]posted by striker at 8:41 AM PST - 24 comments
Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional: I've got a document with several hundred links in it. Right now, they're all invisible; I'd like to change them all to dotted rectangles of a particular color. Is there any way to change the appearance of every link in the document simultaneously? "Make this the default appearance" doesn't do it; it only affects the links you make in the future. Help?
posted by logovisual at 8:41 AM PST - 1 comments
How much documentation should my non-profit expect from our web developer at the conclusion of our new website project?
[more inside]posted by rubberfish at 7:51 AM PST - 12 comments
Ridiculously Specific Travel Filter: I'm driving from Washington to Hartford on Saturday to visit the family. My well-honed route involves taking the Jersey Turnpike to the Garden State Parkway to 684. I'd like to grab lunch somewhere interesting along the way. Assuming I'm flexible about what time I leave, and I don't want to go too far out of the way -- under 10 miles -- where should I go?
posted by jed at 7:21 AM PST - 7 comments
Manteo / Nag's Head (NC) lodging - 10-ish minutes or less from Jockey's Ridge, lets us microwave/refrigerate our own veggie food, clean (mold-free, non-stinky) -- where can we stay for a minimalist hang-gliding-school weekend?
[more inside]posted by amtho at 7:04 AM PST - 8 comments
I just got a ticket for parking at a commercial meter in NYC. Can I leave the car there for the rest of the day or do I need to move it?
posted by MrMulan at 5:46 AM PST - 13 comments
My father has primary liver cancer, how do I prepare for the coming months emotionally and financially?
[more inside]posted by a22lamia at 5:17 AM PST - 23 comments
At the grand old age of 37, I've suddenly been hit by the realization that I'm in the wrong career and it's corroding by soul. I want to work in something to do with the surveying and production of maps (I love maps). Does anyone work in this field and have advice on what qualifications I'll need and be able to tell me what sort of stuff they do?
posted by DZ-015 at 4:20 AM PST - 12 comments
So, it looks like this internet thing is here to stay and it's playing a bigger and bigger role in my professional and personal life. Hence, I want to bite the bullet and learn how it really works. I'm looking for suggestions of great resources (online and otherwise).
[more inside]posted by primer_dimer at 3:43 AM PST - 14 comments
What are some good breakup movies? Think, "How Stella Got Her Groove Back," not the sort of movie where the two get back together at the end.
posted by digitalis at 2:41 AM PST - 53 comments
Can anyone share their experiences of working in the Alaskan fishing industry (commercial not sport), either harvesting or processing? Did you have a blast or wish you were dead? Make loads of cash or left with nothing?
[more inside]posted by visit beautiful mount weather! at 1:05 AM PST - 21 comments
Let it be known, first, that I devoured past posts on
Macs and backup tools, and see a lot of things I want to try. However, I used Apple's own
Mac Backup 3 application (a .Mac tool) prior to learning here that it sucks. So, for those who have also similarly (if inexplicably) used Mac Backup, I have a question. How do I know if it worked?
[more inside]posted by pzarquon at 12:37 AM PST - 5 comments
May 11
Can anyone recommend some pensive, melancholy, dirge-like chamber music for rainy days and blue moods? (Other genres, like post-rock, are also acceptable--but no vocals please . . .) Thanks.
posted by Crotalus at 11:07 PM PST - 31 comments
Anyone know of somewhere one can either borrow or rent a paper shredder in San Francisco?
[more inside]posted by nadise at 10:49 PM PST - 5 comments
I'm trying to get in touch with one of my middle school english teachers. I've found everyone I've ever looked for by using google but this guy is totally eluding me.
[more inside]posted by snsranch at 9:19 PM PST - 7 comments
I'm looking for a very old French film where some characters take a train that eventually takes off an crashes into the sun.
[more inside]posted by takeyourmedicine at 6:10 PM PST - 10 comments
Fox's House MD features a theme tune by Massive Attack in the US, but in Europe it has a different theme called "House" due to licensing problems.
What other programs have had to do this, and what does a "licensing problem" mean, exactly?
posted by twine42 at 3:27 PM PST - 14 comments
Surprise! Paul Simon's newest album works on an external CD player but not on either of my Macs. I assume this is a DRM issue (my experience, backed up by one Amazon review). The iBook says it can't recognize the CD and spits it out; the PowerBook says nothing and spits it out. Any ideas here, beyond bittorrent, returning the disc or initiating the class-action lawsuit? The label is Warner. There is no mention of DRM/compatibility on the disc.
posted by thejoshu at 3:09 PM PST - 16 comments
New computer, yet want all my old stuff...
I have a new (to me) G4. I want to take all of my stuff, but most specifically my
Thunderbird email and settings (bolded for easy scanning on the page) and put it on the new computer.
[more inside]posted by klangklangston at 2:44 PM PST - 8 comments
Many years ago, I found this keychain on the ground near Columbus Circle in NYC. It looks to be solid silver, and there are identifying marks of some kind on the clasp and one of the links. The text appears to be Arabic...
[more inside]posted by modge at 2:25 PM PST - 7 comments
What's a good, thorough full-body workout that you can do without any machines, like in a hotel room?
posted by gottabefunky at 2:03 PM PST - 21 comments
My 4 yr old has recently been put on an eye patch to make his back eye strong. He won't wear it! What do I do?
I have tried everything.
[more inside]posted by Tiffanyfinch2003 at 1:46 PM PST - 45 comments
NewHomeFilter: I have a few questions about moving into my first new condo. I'm on a budget and green to the process with questions about: furniture (where to get), TV service (see inside), and lots...
[more inside]posted by twiggy at 1:43 PM PST - 14 comments
I had Micro$oft OneNote installed on my laptop. My laptop died (hard drive= OK) & I lost the install CD (which has the serial number). How do I get the serial number from the old install so I can register it on my new laptop?
[more inside]posted by special-k at 1:43 PM PST - 9 comments
I need to buy one or two *good* books about speaking in public. Techniques, how to build a good presentation, usage of humour, tips, etc. The works. There are thousands available on Amazon and I don't want to waste my money. Any good recommendations?
posted by falameufilho at 1:32 PM PST - 7 comments
Looking for songs that have a wistful, bittersweet feel to them that captures the move from adolescence into "adult" life - eg the moments before leaving school, or before getting your first job.
[more inside]posted by greycap at 12:22 PM PST - 97 comments
How do I encrypt my http traffic so my company can't read it? Oh, did I mention SSL is no longer an option since they intend to decrypt all SSL traffic that passes through their proxies?
[more inside]posted by Spoonman at 11:51 AM PST - 35 comments
I need to lose a lot of weight, but I'm worried about being left with excess skin. Like, it worries me to the point where I'm reluctant to even start Project Weightloss. My question is: do people sometimes regret losing a massive amount of weight?
[more inside]posted by anonymous at 11:20 AM PST - 43 comments
What is the relative safety of certain sexual acts with a partner who has had one confirmed outbreak of genital herpes and no subsequent outbreaks?
[more inside]posted by anonymous at 11:19 AM PST - 11 comments
I can't get my new XBOX360 to work, should I return it? I have a premium system with the wireless controller and I can't get it to stay connected. I hold down the thing in the middle until the upper left quadrent stays green, and there's also a green upper left quadrent on the XBOX360. When I let go of the button (after I have the solid green) it goes dark again and I get a thing saying "Please Reconnect XBOX360"
[more inside]posted by geoff. at 11:10 AM PST - 11 comments
I'm strongly leaning toward dumping Verizon and switching to
Gizmo. What I'm curious about is the actual user experience of making and receiving VOIP calls. Is it be a hassle to be tethered to the computer via a headset? Do I need to leave my computer on all the time? How do I check voicemail (it's got something to do with e-mail, apparently -- does Gizmo e-mail me WAV files or something)? How do I dial out? If I'm making a call to an automated system that requires touch-tone data entry, how would I do this? How expensive and complicated would it be to route my calls to a conventional handset?
posted by Artifice_Eternity at 10:55 AM PST - 8 comments
Please Explain two things I've observed at any of the several health club I've belonged to -- one involving people (usually women) avoiding the locker room, the other a tradition among racquetball players involving their gloves.
[more inside]posted by Rash at 10:21 AM PST - 51 comments
I've finished ironing, and I set aside the iron to cool before putting it away. It's still half-full of water. Will the iron cool down more quickly if I empty the water before it cools down, or after?
[more inside]posted by Chrysostom at 8:59 AM PST - 8 comments
Who's carrything the breakcore/gabber/drill'n'bass/whatever torch these days?
[more inside]posted by moift at 8:51 AM PST - 16 comments
"Managing" the development of an application: I'm the lead developer on a project that has swelled to 6 people. How do I smartly break tasks up into discrete chunks, assign them to people, get accurate estimates of how long it takes someone else to do something and track their progress?
[more inside]posted by yerfatma at 8:41 AM PST - 14 comments
I need, post haste, a perl or shell script that will loop through a directory and combine files. The files are named like this:
212_Class001, 212_Class002, 212_Class0**
There are some gaps in the sequence. In retrospect it was a bad idea to store class notes in individual files. I'd like to combine them in the sequence they are numbered. Can someone please help ‽
posted by Grod at 8:11 AM PST - 10 comments
I've been checking out grad schools for a while and Tuesday evening found the program I want to apply to. The deadline for Fall 06 is June 1.
[more inside]posted by jdl at 7:18 AM PST - 13 comments
I need advice on temping in Atlanta. I relocated to Atlanta from Boston a week ago and would like to start working as soon as possible. I've been sending out resumes, but haven't had any bites yet. I have a lot of professional administrative experience and have previously worked for colleges and public television. I've had experience with less than great temp offices (Office Team) and would like to know if anyone could suggest a good place to try.
[more inside]posted by Constant Reader at 7:13 AM PST - 4 comments
There was recently an article published that basically said that it was healthy - even beneficial - to have a "nemesis." I would really like to find that article again. Anyone know where I can find it?
posted by ilikecookies at 6:29 AM PST - 2 comments
We had a table saw injury this week at the furniture factory where I work. Does anyone have experience with the SawStop? The web page is impressive. Interested in experiences good, bad, and indifferent.
posted by bobduckles at 5:45 AM PST - 4 comments
I’m a Brit living in the US and my husband is a New Yorker. I really suffer in the presence of my in-laws and don’t know whether this is just a cultural difference and I need to be more understanding and less uptight or if they really are insufferable and I need to draw a line. Below are the main issues. (Long sorry!)
[more inside]posted by anapurna at 5:27 AM PST - 61 comments
Looking to re-develop an intranet around task orientation rather than business structure. Have you done this?
[more inside]posted by TheDonF at 3:09 AM PST - 8 comments
Does anyone have any recommendations about how one could go about gaining access (legally) to interesting roofs in interesting buildings in interesting cities around the world?
[more inside]posted by numberstation at 1:59 AM PST - 8 comments
soundeffectfilter: Looking for the sound effect that is used when a bad joke falls flat.
[more inside]posted by MarvinJ at 1:58 AM PST - 7 comments
Help me identify this physical characteristic. What would you call what Jamie Oliver has? A lisp?
[more inside]posted by zardoz at 1:14 AM PST - 6 comments
What are some cool/interesting grad school programs for someone with a B.S. in physics and 7 years of programming experience but which would be outside of those fields.
[more inside]posted by zgott300 at 12:34 AM PST - 8 comments
May 10
Our young (1 1/2 year) mini Jack Russell has a new habit. He growls at nothing. Or more specifically, ever-changing places around the room, but with much intensity, looking to us and obviously bothered. He's also sniffing the air a lot.
[more inside]posted by dreamsign at 9:50 PM PST - 24 comments
Can anyone make out the complete lyrics to "Goodbye, My Friend" (sample
here), the catchy but hard-to-decipher theme song from the 1974 Italian movie "Street Law," starring Franco Nero?
posted by johngoren at 8:37 PM PST - 9 comments
[badcreditfilter] Does moving out of state affect your credit status for the good, for the bad, or no?
[more inside]posted by damnjezebel at 6:51 PM PST - 8 comments
Is every crime committed in the District of Columbia considered a federal crime?
posted by pealco at 6:15 PM PST - 9 comments
My brother is going away to college this upcoming fall, and for a high school graduation present, my mom is getting him a laptop to take with him. He is interested in trying a Mac. We are both life-long PC users. I am the most technologically-inclined in my family. My brother knows the basics and has no trouble with them, but anything more is my job.
[more inside]posted by willmillar at 5:12 PM PST - 37 comments
Giving celphones to charity in Montréal? I've heard of women's shelters accepting and/or refurbishing celphones so that battered wives can call for help.
[more inside]posted by Mozai at 3:39 PM PST - 4 comments
What is a reasonable/fair amount of time to date a person while you are trying to determine if you have feelings for them, could develop stronger feelings for them and if they have long-term potential?
[more inside]posted by socrateaser at 3:27 PM PST - 28 comments
(Note: I'm in the US) My pharmacist this week was unable to fill my prescription for indomethacin. I was able to find it at another pharmacy; but several pharmacies are out of it and my regular pharmacist says that the manufacturer has stopped making it. Does anyone have any information about this?
[more inside]posted by Ethereal Bligh at 3:04 PM PST - 16 comments
I have had a pretty unhealthy lifestyle for several years - too much alcohol and coffee, not enough sleep and exercise and its all catching up with me - I feel old and knackered. I know long term changes are needed but I'm also looking for some quick fixes to get me motivated. Any tips for quick and easy changes that will have a big impact?
posted by janecr at 1:53 PM PST - 28 comments
Is it a bad idea to check a bag on an airplane with a small form factor (SFF) computer in it?
[more inside]posted by D Wiz at 1:22 PM PST - 30 comments
I want to get some moles removed. Will the scars heal by this day in June? I want to look pretty for a wedding.
[more inside]posted by mdiskin at 12:59 PM PST - 23 comments
JavaScript filter: how can I change the onMouseOver for an element by name from within another javascript function?
[more inside]posted by TunnelArmr at 12:21 PM PST - 7 comments
Can I drive across the USA in 12 days? Say a route from LA to Las Vegas to Salt Lake to Denver to Mt Rushmore to St Louis to Nashville and on to New York
posted by A189Nut at 12:09 PM PST - 23 comments
Is there a conceivable method of getting a Palm to have a full-size (say, 15" laptop screen) display?
[more inside]posted by penciltopper at 11:48 AM PST - 9 comments
Any rental property owners with experience using a property management service?
[more inside]posted by eas98 at 11:32 AM PST - 11 comments
I'm going to be writing a certification workbook, and am trying to come up with an engaging design. I'd like ideas for study guide features/layouts you like and those you hate.
[more inside]posted by hodyoaten at 11:12 AM PST - 3 comments
I'm looking for a intelligent (i.e. successful) way to advertise a new blog about baseball. We just started up and I want to increase readership but want to avoid scammy blog ad techniques that don't work.
posted by xmutex at 11:02 AM PST - 6 comments
My dog ate my brand new digital camera. It's a Panasonic Lumix FX-9, and is pretty much a goner. The LCD is cracked and since the camera is a ultra-compact, it has no analog viewfinder to fall back on. The lens housing is also a little bent up and doesn't seem to extend all the way.
[more inside]posted by maniactown at 10:19 AM PST - 11 comments
Why can't my fairly powerful system play HD video content? When ever I try, the audio works fine but the video stutters and lags behind.
[more inside]posted by Orange Goblin at 9:30 AM PST - 19 comments
I've often wondered if the quote from the movie Good Will Hunting: "You wasted 150 grand on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library" is feasible.
[more inside]posted by pwally at 8:55 AM PST - 43 comments
How do I get my great-grandfather's and great-grandmother's birth and marriage certificates from the town of Randazzo (province of Catania, Sicily), Italy?
[more inside]posted by mdonley at 8:34 AM PST - 12 comments
Labor, Vacation and an Unreasonable Policy. I need help figuring out how to strike an acceptable live/work balance when my company's "policy" is designed to crush my soul.
[more inside]posted by cior at 8:29 AM PST - 47 comments
I'm one of the top two candidates being for a very large and complex public art project. It's the second location of a high profile hospitality industry brand leader, and they want to do a similar art treatment as they did successfully at their first location.
[more inside]posted by extrabox at 7:53 AM PST - 5 comments
I run Mac G5 with OSX. I have several folders on my desktop that I use to place various documents, downloads, music files etc... My question is: can I protect the folder (s) with a password? For instance when you double click on the folder icon a password box pops up, you enter the password then gain access to it, as opposed to the folder immediately opening up once its double clicked...
posted by Cohiba4009 at 7:47 AM PST - 13 comments
Can anyone recommend affordable, beginner classical ballet, or tango, classes in NYC?
[more inside]posted by milarepa at 7:26 AM PST - 6 comments
My ironing board is broken. The lever-thingie that you use to close it fell off, and I can't figure out how to put it back in. I would like to know how the closing mechanism works, how to release the catch, so that a) I might not need a new board or b) if I do need a new one, it won't be a pain to carry an open ironing board 5 flights down to the sidewalk.
posted by chelseagirl at 7:12 AM PST - 4 comments
How do you phrase a letter politely to let an ex (or whomever) know that you no longer want to be contacted by them? No bitterness, no hurt - just the expression of the preference that you would prefer all future contact to cease?
[more inside]posted by buddha9090 at 6:57 AM PST - 26 comments
Any murderer who killed own parent became famous later on for a valued skill? Is Mary Lamb the only person you know of? Who else?
[more inside]posted by studentguru at 5:48 AM PST - 23 comments
Flying Robot Planes? The analysts seem to think there is no good way to stop these things. Why isn't the government interested in using the wisdom of crowds to prevent terrorist attacks?
[more inside]posted by tweak at 3:28 AM PST - 16 comments
How have your life lessons/philosophies/epiphanies etc changed over the course of your life so far? What has changed now? What don't you believe in now that you did ten years ago? And vice versa.
[more inside]posted by twirlypen at 2:16 AM PST - 26 comments
Hi, I want to make a page on my site that mimics the wiki template, but isn't a wiki (ie: isn't editable by anyone, doesn't have their complex cross-reference page, etc...) Help?
[more inside]posted by ruelle at 2:08 AM PST - 6 comments
Question for the SQL ninjas in the house. Say you're grabbing data from a bunch of similar tables in a big union. Now say you want the last ten items added anywhere to the database, from any one of those tables. What's the most efficient way to do that?
[more inside]posted by mathowie at 12:06 AM PST - 22 comments
May 9
Please identify this Japanese tea cup. A friend is looking to find other pieces of the set. She is hoping that someone can identify the brand or provide more information, probable dating, etc.
First picture,
Second picture. Thank you.
posted by user92371 at 10:46 PM PST - 7 comments
How do you set up a Legal Defense Fund? I have a very good friend who is a legal bind and will very possibly be charged with three felonies as a result of a barroom brawl.
[more inside]posted by thebarron at 9:40 PM PST - 12 comments
How can I bundle OCXs, DLLs, and other required files with my Visual Basic application?
[more inside]posted by fvox13 at 9:06 PM PST - 4 comments
Need juvenile boot camp recomendations for a troubled 14 year old, particularly around Virginia but anywhere will do.
[more inside]posted by exhilaration at 8:15 PM PST - 14 comments
I'm a US citizen, but through my dad I also have Swiss citizenship and a Swiss passport. I have to travel to Brazil for work and I found that for US citizens a visa is required (about $160), but Swiss citizens are exempt. Is it possible for me to travel to Brazil on my Swiss passport? If so, how would I go about doing that?
[more inside]posted by yasny_jp at 8:09 PM PST - 14 comments
My friends and I are throwing a large, time-travel themed dance party. I need recommendations for funk, soul, and R&B to play during the 50s, 60s, and 70s, as I'm deeply asea in this area.
[more inside]posted by deafmute at 7:55 PM PST - 16 comments
One of the rubber "feet" on the bottom of my notebook computer came off and I can't seem to find it. Where can I purchase a replacement? I called technical support (Gateway), and they said they do not ship them nor can they repair it in their warehouse.
[more inside]posted by beammeup4 at 6:52 PM PST - 6 comments
Does chewing gum increase serotonin production in the brain?
posted by iced_borsch at 6:52 PM PST - 6 comments
When we hesitate when we speak, the most often heard sound is "um". Why is this? Is it learned? Mechanical? Is it the same in other languages?
posted by peacay at 5:30 PM PST - 37 comments
I have some copyright and trademark questions for the fine folks at AskMe. Ok, so I run this online t-shirt store and I had a design based on
Godzilla playing the drums. I know some of the Godzilla movies had passed into the public domain, so I just assumed (or perhaps hoped) that would place my design firmly into fair use territory. Welp, I got a cease and desist from the folks that own the trademark and copyright on Godzilla, so I was just hoping to find out more about my options here.
[more inside]posted by Jezztek at 5:30 PM PST - 27 comments
Looking for car *brands* currently sold at dealerships in the United States.
I've got a 40+ member list (after the jump) that strikes me as fairly exhaustive but I also have this nagging feeling that I'm missing one or more "niche" brands.
[more inside]posted by The Confessor at 5:10 PM PST - 18 comments
I just took delivery of a large TV, ordered with "white glove" service (an extra $100+ on top of the $250+ standard delivery charge) to have the deliverymen carry the set into the house and set it up wherever I want, and dispose of the packaing...
[more inside]posted by robbie01 at 4:46 PM PST - 29 comments
I'm looking for someplace in the DC area (bonus points: Montgomery County, Maryland) that has (jetted) hot tubs that can be rented by the hour. Google searches just turn up dealers who sell hot tubs; the yellow pages (DC, Maryland) also show nothing. Suggestions?
[more inside]posted by WestCoaster at 4:45 PM PST - 7 comments
I am looking for word processing software that will do very specific accented-character-related tasks.
[more inside]posted by anjamu at 4:42 PM PST - 5 comments
Can I recoup the value on my car that somebody hit (and ran from)?
My car was hit, person admitted to it, they're insured, now what? All the juicy details are inside.
[more inside]posted by cubedweller at 4:31 PM PST - 8 comments
A few years ago I found online a method of folding a CD case out of a sheet of letter paper. I can't find it again. There was no cutting involved. It was not a pdf file. It was not the one which requires you to divide the top of the paper into 5 equal segments, it was more of an asymetrical thing.
posted by TiredStarling at 3:31 PM PST - 10 comments
How do I stop a neighborhood stray from coming into the yard and antagonizing my indoor cat? The howling! The hissing! The fighting!
[more inside]posted by oldkentucky at 2:59 PM PST - 20 comments
HelpMeGiveGoodAdviceFilter: My very early-20s friend is in a long-term relationship approaching two years. They love each other, they love each other a lot, but he's restless for the "hunt" among other issues. I'm torn between telling him settling down is inevitable in any LTR and cautioning him not to commit himself too early before he's gotten his play out of his system. There's much
[more inside]posted by anonymous at 2:58 PM PST - 23 comments
Can anyone give me directions on how to fold
this style of collapsing map. It's fairly easy to reverse engineer but I would like to have some comprehensive guidelines if possible.
[more inside]posted by Glum at 2:33 PM PST - 6 comments
I'm presently working on a set of Pimsleur Mandarin CDs, and the Pimsleur system is spoken-only. I'm dying to write down what I've learned (I'm addicted to practicing with note cards, I don't feel that I'm really working hard on a language until I have a thick deck of dirty, dog-eared note cards.) But I'm nowhere near ready to write stuff down in Chinese characters. Is there a standard or widely used way of transliterating Mandarin into Latin characters, and somehow also indicating the tonal content?
posted by jfuller at 2:05 PM PST - 9 comments
I am looking for clear vinyl sleeves for trading cards that have the dimensions 120 mm x 70 mm (4.72" by 2.7559" inches). Ideally the sleeves would fit the cards fairly snugly.
It's an odd size, and I don't believe that any generic card sleeves will work. Thanks for any suggestions. They are for a game called "Blue Moon" by Reiner Knizia.
[more inside]posted by craniac at 1:46 PM PST - 8 comments
Aside from price, are there any other reasons why I should not buy a Mac Mini for video editing? I want to learn how to edit video and maybe put together some short films. I can spend $1000-$1300. I've heard the defacto standard is Final Cut Pro. I probably don't need that immediately but if it's the standard i'd like to work up to it. I have two old PCs but no Mac experience.
posted by storybored at 1:28 PM PST - 18 comments
Why does the equipment at the gym that uses rotational resistance not have generator feeding electrical power back into the power grid?
[more inside]posted by Keith Talent at 12:56 PM PST - 48 comments
What is the most profane novel ever written? I'm talking about the absolute dirtiest work of fiction. And by "dirty" I don't really mean sexual content, like a de Sade book. I'm more interested in sheer volume of swears. Thanks!
posted by ktoad at 12:53 PM PST - 36 comments
I need recommendations for a very cheap (<$5/750mL) but hearty, flavorful, and tasty red wine. This will be used as a braising liquid and then reduced to make a sauce for beef short ribs.
[more inside]posted by rorycberger at 12:27 PM PST - 27 comments
My husband and I have just moved into an unfurnished house in Dublin, Ireland and we want to kit the place out as quickly as possible. But antique shops are incredibly expensive, and most furniture suppliers seem to take ages to deliver. Does anyone have any ideas as to how we can move this along?
posted by Mrs.Doyle at 12:27 PM PST - 13 comments
My laptop is mysteriously not turning on. I hit the power button, the fans and lights go on, but then it shuts off within about three seconds.
[more inside]posted by borkingchikapa at 12:26 PM PST - 11 comments
I am applying for a job at a large computer/electronics retail chain. It's an entry level job, but some experience is required, which I genuinely have, but I am thinking of lying on my resume about having my degree. What are the odds that they will check?
[more inside]posted by anonymous at 11:49 AM PST - 27 comments
I think my s/o has been logging into my gmail account, is there any way to check this. I know I could change my password to prevent it, but I'd rather just know if it were happening....
posted by sdm at 11:06 AM PST - 23 comments
How can I lose weight? I'm entering a kickboxing tournament in July and I need to cut about 25 lbs... It's not going well.
[more inside]posted by youthenrage at 10:53 AM PST - 20 comments
There have been numerous articles lately that the US dollar will lose its value a big time pretty soon, given the fact of our huge trade deficit and over spending.
check this article If the US dollar will be on sale soon, I'm wondering if I should still contribute $ to my 401K for retirement. I'm no where near retirement age. But what's the point of saving for retirement, while the value of the saving is going down, faster than inflation? What would you do otherwise for your retirement?
posted by dy at 10:40 AM PST - 19 comments
I'm looking for a children's book that was a collection of rhymes, based on the alphabet and kids' names.
[more inside]posted by OhPuhLeez at 10:31 AM PST - 7 comments
I need a phone number, preferably a local one, that does nothing but play a recorded greeting/message and collect voicemail. Is there an inexpensive or even free solution? If so, does anyone have any recommendations?
[more inside]posted by grabbingsand at 10:19 AM PST - 12 comments
I'm looking for an electronic dictionary to help out when visiting Taiwan. I've found reviews of Japanese models but not much for Chinese ones. Can anyone recommend somewhere that will help, or perhaps a particular brand or model to go for?
posted by kerplunk at 10:04 AM PST - 1 comments
Is there a site that highlights shows where Star Trek alumni have appeared together?
Is Boston Legal the biggest (ie, decent ratings, longetivity, etc.) show to include Star Trek actors?
[more inside]posted by notcostello at 9:58 AM PST - 16 comments
I want to expand the number of keys available for mapping as hotkeys in some of my games. Is it possible to connect a second keyboard under Windows XP, possibly a USB one, and use it as, essentially, a very large keypad? If so, how would I go about it without causing IRQ conflicts?
[more inside]posted by slavlin at 9:48 AM PST - 5 comments
Anybody know what's happened to plastic.com? I haven't been able to get to it in over a week. Is the site down? Anyone know what the story is?
posted by jwest at 9:45 AM PST - 6 comments
How can I log into a second-hand NeXT computer without knowing the username/password?
[more inside]posted by soda pop at 9:42 AM PST - 4 comments
This shouldn't be too tough, but I can't find it: I'm looking for a book whose cover is a teenager or man with a tattoo of Mickey Mouse's profile accross his face. It was incredibly shocking when I saw it, but the title didn't stick with me and googling isn't turning anything up.
[more inside]posted by mike_bling at 9:23 AM PST - 2 comments
Anyone know a
reliable quick delivery service/van owner in Toronto (ie, same day service)?
[more inside]posted by dobbs at 9:13 AM PST - 4 comments
When my Windows XP laptop starts up it gets to a point where there's a few minutes of delay before the network or other critical stuff starts. I've tracked it down in the log to a specific app's starting but the "did not register with DCOM within the required timeout" error is eluding my efforts at resolution.
[more inside]posted by phearlez at 8:56 AM PST - 5 comments
Asian Ball Jointed Dolls Filter -- Can you recommend a reputable American seller/dealer, and what has been your experience with them (the vendor)? It seems like the only ones I can find are foreign companies and I'd rather buy from someplace stateside if I can, unless I'm confident enough in them from recommendations..
[more inside]posted by vanoakenfold at 8:48 AM PST - 2 comments
What is the probability that google will loose my data (mails and calendars) ?
posted by vincentm at 7:19 AM PST - 10 comments
What is the title of a children's book about a large family of mice, all of whose names are derived from numbers?
[more inside]posted by msbrauer at 7:19 AM PST - 5 comments
After a tree fell on my old gas grill 2 years ago I finally got a new one last night. I'm looking for your favorite recipes, techniques, how-to's for a gas grill....
[more inside]posted by beccaj at 7:17 AM PST - 14 comments
Is there a good online resource for lectures on .mp3? Particularly in fields (soooo mefi) of liberal arts, psychoanalysis, culture, internet and politics. Oh and my girlfriend (yeah right) wonders if theres any fashion/Jane Austen stuff out there? Please help me find something interesting for a long car journey!
posted by you're only jung once at 6:25 AM PST - 16 comments
Is it possible to partition a hard drive without reinstalling windows or formatting the drive? I have a 60 gig HD and would like to partition part of it to install ubuntu linux on.
[more inside]posted by nosophoros at 3:10 AM PST - 9 comments
Why can't I get high like I used to?
(and a bevy of semirelated drug questions)
[more inside]posted by elr at 3:00 AM PST - 42 comments
CatFilter: I have a one-eyed (somewhat overly affectionate) male cat and a new roommate moving in. New roomie has two cats, one adult male and one 8 month old female. I know all the standard ways to introduce them, but the circumstances have me a little worried.
[more inside]posted by bedhead at 2:56 AM PST - 4 comments
What experiments have been carried out where animals perform
better than us at particular cognitive tasks?
[more inside]posted by 0bvious at 1:10 AM PST - 13 comments
Japanese music recommendations: if I love stuff by the Boredoms, OOIOO and Rovo, what else might I like?
[more inside]posted by misteraitch at 1:02 AM PST - 24 comments
May 8
I shipped something to Nigeria through USPS and it didn't get there. I told them I wanted to insure it for $300 (it was a PS2) and paid $60 to insure and ship it but my reciept says it's only insured for $50. Is there anything I can do?
[more inside]posted by joshuak at 10:33 PM PST - 23 comments
Are there any weight loss (or maintenance) benefits to eating one large meal a day along with two small ones?
[more inside]posted by miltoncat at 9:49 PM PST - 23 comments
Any suggestions for classic literature that offers the hope of belly laughs? I'm looking for laugh-out-loud funny classic fiction, preferably pre-1900. Kind of like
this question, but with books instead of movies.
[more inside]posted by mediareport at 9:03 PM PST - 62 comments
So, I just hooked up my laserdisc player to the HDTV, and boy does it look bad. Looks like I'll need a scaler/upconverter, but they seem prohibitively expensive. Help!
[more inside]posted by eschatfische at 8:46 PM PST - 4 comments
My new steel travel mugs make my coffee taste like.. steel. It's not enhancing my morning caffeination rituals. Brushed steel, all metal mugs.
[more inside]posted by theora55 at 8:31 PM PST - 8 comments
Anyone have experience with online certification through CBTDirect? Is this on the level or a total scam?
[more inside]posted by Gucky at 8:09 PM PST - 5 comments
Grading dilemma: Can the median be a fair measure of a set of quiz scores? Here's the situation ...
[more inside]posted by imposster at 7:50 PM PST - 24 comments
So, went to a festival of nations (a neat place full of different country's foods) and had some sort of african "meat pocket".
[more inside]posted by jeribus at 7:48 PM PST - 7 comments
David Blaine living underwater for a week. How was it done? I don't have enough info on the stunt, so pardon my ignorance. Was the sphere uncovered the entire time? If it was covered at any point, why?
posted by sharksandwich at 7:35 PM PST - 14 comments
We need to put our cat in a cattery while we take a month-long overseas trip. We've never done this before. Anyone have any recommendations for a cattery in Melbourne, Australia? And what indicates a good or a bad cattery?
[more inside]posted by andraste at 6:10 PM PST - 4 comments
Bah! My online store made a sale on April 24th for around $40, and shipped out the order USPS Priority Mail. Delivery confirmation (no insurance, no signature involved) indicates it was delivered on April 26th. Today, I get an e-mail from the customer asking where it was. A correspondence later, the situations seems that she never received it.
[more inside]posted by arrhn at 5:31 PM PST - 13 comments
PoliticalFictionFilter: Looking for a book from the 60s about an America gone very mad and how the good guys became worse than the bad guys to bring it down.
[more inside]posted by codswallop at 5:12 PM PST - 4 comments
I'm visiting Chicago for the first time for the week leading up to, and including, the Memorial Day weekend. Advice? Transit tips? Cheap eats? Interesting events that week? I plan on visiting the Art Institute, but what else do I need to complete my visit and get the full Windy City experience?
[more inside]posted by Robot Johnny at 4:37 PM PST - 25 comments
Where can I get a steady supply of cheap blue computer cases? Alternatively, how do I paint a standard case blue, for cheap?
[more inside]posted by bkudria at 4:31 PM PST - 6 comments
BaseballFilter: Any statistical analyses on Barry Bonds' alleged steroid use?
[more inside]posted by Xalf at 4:31 PM PST - 16 comments
Ever since Pujols beat the MLB record for most homeruns in April, I've been wondering what the current records are for all the other months.
[more inside]posted by bjork24 at 4:13 PM PST - 5 comments
Name That Book! I'm trying to track down a book I read probably 20 or 25 years ago, when I would have been in my early teens. It was vaguely science fiction-ish, featured teenagers as the main characters and *may* have been Canadian. Plot synopsis inside...
[more inside]posted by schwap23 at 4:07 PM PST - 11 comments
Help me set up QOS on my Actiontec GT701-WG. I get the basic gist of what QOS is supposed to do, but I don't understand the technicalities of setting it up.
[more inside]posted by kc0dxh at 2:51 PM PST - 2 comments
Are there any particularly easy to use, simple, and bulletproof webcam/software combos out there?
[more inside]posted by SpecialK at 12:05 PM PST - 5 comments
I am a small builder who would like to move my operations to a resort area of Mexico to build for the impending baby boomer migration. I have been having trouble finding reasonable sources for construction loans as most developers either pre-sell their units (time consuming) or use Mexican banks, whose rates are prohibitive. Is anyone familiar with any banks that are lending $3 million dollars or more for residential developments to experienced developers? Thanks!
posted by wormwood at 11:57 AM PST - 1 comments
I recently got into a graduate school program which would fund me for the next 5 years. The thing is, in the first year I am expected to do lab rotations (3 in total), and I talked with a professor about seriously wanting to join hs group rather enthusiastically without consulting others first.
[more inside]posted by anonymous at 11:47 AM PST - 9 comments
I've started to write this question a dozen times in the last year, but I always stopped before clicking the submit button because I'm afraid that the answer is that there is no answer. So, here goes nothing: How do I get therapy (or improve my situation) without money, friends, transportation, or any other useful resources?
[more inside]posted by anonymous at 11:45 AM PST - 31 comments
I'm a full time webmaster running a news website on the Internet. The more popular my site becomes, the more my technical shortcomings are becoming clear to me. I don't have the money to hire out the work, so I want to build up my own skills (PHP, MySQL, Linux, XML, etc). Where can I find an inexpensive technical guru who can mentor me from afar and bring my skills up.
posted by fcain at 11:41 AM PST - 13 comments
What is the recommended tire pressure for a 95 honda civic ex coupe? Also I know nothing about checking the pressure or giving a tire air.
[more inside]posted by icespide at 11:24 AM PST - 14 comments
Can embedded Flash videos (ala YouTube and Google Video) automatically export as full screen to a second monitor like Windows Media Player and Quicktime does?
[more inside]posted by nitsuj at 11:16 AM PST - 2 comments
Does anyone have advice on neighborhoods or general suggestions about safe rental housing options nearby for a student starting grad school at Wayne State University in Detroit?
posted by hdfische at 11:02 AM PST - 10 comments
For all you sound designers: How can I make my own personal soundtrack? What kind of equipment could I mount on my own body? And what sounds would you use?
[more inside]posted by mammary16 at 10:23 AM PST - 19 comments
Car theft: I'm looking into buying a convertible, and would like a feel for when you would leave the vehicle with the top down.
[more inside]posted by -harlequin- at 9:38 AM PST - 19 comments
Is there anywhere online, mail order or in the UK that actually has 'it's not carpal tunnel syndrome in stock? Or another way to get hold of it?
[more inside]posted by lunkfish at 9:19 AM PST - 4 comments
Recommendations for networking equipment in a Mac household? NAT, NAS, print server, and wifi
[more inside]posted by adamrice at 8:59 AM PST - 3 comments
Firefox seems to have spontaneously switched back to an older set of bookmarks and settings...
[more inside]posted by docpops at 8:40 AM PST - 4 comments
Where did I read the claim that organized society as we know it here in the US could fall apart in as little as 72 hours?
[more inside]posted by junkbox at 8:33 AM PST - 22 comments
2006 World Cup. Help me come up with some scenarios that show how the different scoring would work in Round 1 of the world cup!
[more inside]posted by Mave_80 at 8:21 AM PST - 6 comments
How do I go about finding someone, preferably local to Minneapolis, to build a new rear wheel for my bicycle?
[more inside]posted by mcstayinskool at 8:03 AM PST - 9 comments
My band have been offered a contract from by a record company and want to get it checked out before we sign it.
Basically I'm looking for personal recommendations of entertainment lawyers in the UK. I don't just want to pick one out of the yellow pages if I can avoid it.
posted by chrispy108 at 7:57 AM PST - 11 comments
I'm taking a holiday from around the 25th of July for 5 weeks to the UK, France and Germany. As well as doing plenty of sightseeing, I'd love to see some great live music by some bands/DJs that might not make it to Australia for a few years. Being in Melbourne, and having never been to the UK before, I have no idea about what source to go to, to find out what festivals or gigs by bands/DJs are coming up. Melburnians know to check their local street press, where do the Brits go to find out all their music news?
Please recommend some great websites for news, reviews and schedules. Anything with an RSS feed would be awesome, but I'm not worried if it doesn't have one.
A poke around in google found
www.virtualfestivals.com which seems to be good for festivals, but not much for gigs. Not like the usual street press that I'm used to reading.
I had the thought to go to Reading/Leeds Festivals or Creamfields, but I think they might already be sold out. I also have no idea where to buy tickets from. Are there major ticket agencies to head to? Is ebay a good option?
Also, any thoughts, recommendations or live music experiences for festivals, gigs or venues are more than welcome!
Thanks!
posted by snarkle at 7:42 AM PST - 10 comments
I've noticed that movie and television characters rarely say goodbye on the telephone. They just hang up on each other. Why is this?
posted by futility closet at 7:23 AM PST - 26 comments
I need to get a glamour shot done ASAP for a friend. Is there a place in Toronto (downtown preferably but I don't mind going up to the suburbs) where I can get one done quickly and relatively cheaply? A google search has revealed nada so far.
posted by lemur at 7:20 AM PST - 6 comments
I'm looking for scientific or anecdotal evidence for neurofeedback as a treatment for depression
posted by dugnorth at 6:56 AM PST - 6 comments
Is there a Republican ex-Senator named Edwards? He was quoted at the end of yesterday's CSPAN Radio's weekend edition Sunday about Porter Goss affair.
[more inside]posted by destro at 6:42 AM PST - 5 comments
I have a HP Compaq Tablet PC TC1100 that I have bought for work purposes, I would like to hack the pen, so I can make it smaller, and mountable on a Bluetooth wireless scanner that is used in conjunction with the tablet.
[more inside]posted by JonnyRotten at 5:42 AM PST - 6 comments
How can I grow my IT business while trying to make a living?
I run a one man band IT support business in the UK.
Business was great and got a lot of work through recommendations, then for a better life, me and my family moved into the country 200 miles from our original location.
[more inside]posted by Ostrich at 5:07 AM PST - 12 comments
60 Minutes last evening had a devestating report on the biggest college lending company, Sallie May. Seems they make money when loans plus interest returned; if defaulted, the govt pays tab; and additionally they own the collection agencies going after--relentlessly--those in default.
Any suggestions for a superior or decent outfit from which to borrow college money for my son, who goes off to college in the Fall.
posted by Postroad at 5:07 AM PST - 16 comments
My partner suffered a collapse yesterday, perhaps someone can enlighten us as to what she experienced.
[more inside]posted by anonymous at 3:01 AM PST - 9 comments
Question for the married/attached mefi folk - What do you wish you would have done as a younger, single person to help you (emotionally, sexually, romantically, personally) with your relationship today? Help a reformed serial dater enjoy singledom while thinking about the future positively!
[more inside]posted by anonymous at 3:00 AM PST - 15 comments
Our landlord has decided to sell his house. As renters, is it reasonable to ask for some form of compensation for the constant "open houses" that we must partake in?
[more inside]posted by FearTormento at 1:37 AM PST - 21 comments
May 7
Say you're a professional golfer/tennis player/racing driver on the international circuit. This presumably means you're going to need a lot of visas and work permits. While you're likely to get waved through on a 'outstanding ability' class, how do the logistics work? Does Michael Schumacher get to skip interviews at consulates? What about support staff: coaches, caddies, technical crew, etc?
posted by holgate at 10:37 PM PST - 7 comments
Help me find a mirror ball to purchase. No, not *that* kind of mirror ball - the other kind...
[more inside]posted by unixrat at 10:15 PM PST - 7 comments
Do you really need fire bricks for a pizza oven or would house bricks do?
posted by wilful at 9:39 PM PST - 21 comments
I'm trying to track down a flower I encountered once a few years ago, but I don't know what it's called.
[more inside]posted by brina at 9:30 PM PST - 8 comments
Does anyone know why Christopher Hitchens is wearing an Indian Flag on a lapel pin on his jacket?
[more inside]posted by jak68 at 7:48 PM PST - 2 comments
Can you reformat part of a partitioned hard drive without erasing the contents of the other partitions?
[more inside]posted by mert at 7:39 PM PST - 12 comments
Looking for the perfect rack/stand/shelf for the home theatre equipment in my living room. Specifics inside.
[more inside]posted by adamk at 5:42 PM PST - 4 comments
The pages on this HP LaserJet 4 are coming out partially grey. Replace the Fuser, or something else?
[more inside]posted by Orb2069 at 4:52 PM PST - 8 comments
I'd like to set up a private car share arrangement with a friend, or a stranger, and I'd like to set up an actual written contract.
[more inside]posted by Meggers_75 at 4:21 PM PST - 17 comments
Why does Safari offer to remember usernames and passwords for some sites, but not others? Specifically del.icio.us.
posted by airguitar at 3:25 PM PST - 4 comments
How do I get people to stop eating my food? We have a common refrigerator on my hallway (in a dorm at college), and someone at 3 of the 4 fruit tarts that I had put in there on Friday night (and no, I didn't label them as mine, but that's beside the point. I'd like to post a humorous, but clear note on the fridge commenting that taking other's food is not ok.
[more inside]posted by chefscotticus at 1:39 PM PST - 59 comments
Ok, so I'm an Anthropology major ,and I decided taking a course called Quantification of Archaeological Data would be a good idea...
[more inside]posted by rbf1138 at 1:27 PM PST - 3 comments
I need a new dentist. They've just opened a VitalDent in my neighborhood, and they've been marketing heavily with coupons for free consultations, cleanings, etc. What's the catch?
[more inside]posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 1:20 PM PST - 11 comments
My partner and I recently tried indian food for the first time at Bombay Sweets in Milwaukee (http://www.milwaukeefood.com/bombaysweets/). We liked the food so much we'd like to learn how to cook it ourselves, but we can't figure out what the food was called.
[more inside]posted by jennaba at 10:25 AM PST - 28 comments
I was prompted to download the "Windows Genuine Advantage Validation tool". Any reason why I shouldn't do this?
posted by schoenbc at 9:07 AM PST - 17 comments
Skirting the legal ramifications here, but any suggestions for sites where I can get quality foreign (specially french) films with english subtitles via bittorrent.
[more inside]posted by sk381 at 8:15 AM PST - 2 comments
I do a lot of
photography in swamps and woods lugging a big (4x5, 6x12, or 6x17) camera around. Up here, the sun is fierce, the swamps are wet, and the bugs are vicious. What hat, sunscreen and bugspray do mefi-ers recommend from personal experience?
[more inside]posted by unSane at 8:01 AM PST - 17 comments
Gah! The monitor on my Dell laptop decided to die last night. I could really use the files on my hard drive right about now. Where can I take it?
[more inside]posted by Saucy Intruder at 7:43 AM PST - 23 comments
I have been asked to rapidly (tomorrow night) put together a plan to re-launch/re-design a website. What are the pitifalls/costs/technical factors that of which I should be made aware?
[more inside]posted by Duck_Lips at 7:35 AM PST - 10 comments
I'd like to stream my videos and movies on my XP Pro computer to my XBOX 360, without having to buy Windows Media Center and then having to do a complete OS reinstall. Is there any way?
[more inside]posted by wibbler at 2:45 AM PST - 3 comments
What's the best way to compress a large mp3 file (70MB) to something that I can send via e-mail on AOL (limit 11 MB)? WinZip only compresses it to 68 MB? Any free programs do the trick?
posted by quintno at 2:45 AM PST - 18 comments
My JDM PIC programmer and the serial routines I've got stuffed in the little chip were working just fine....
[more inside]posted by IronLizard at 1:21 AM PST - 5 comments
May 6
Polylingualkidsfilter: (Hypothetical) I'm a Fluent English/French speaker and my wife is a fluent English/Mandarin speaker. Living in an English-speaking country (Australia), in what language should we speak to our kids?
[more inside]posted by PuGZ at 11:24 PM PST - 31 comments
I'm 17 years old and considering moving to Europe after graduate school, roughly 8 years from now if all goes to plan. I am a dual citizen (Belgium-US). What should I do during the coming years of college towards this end?
[more inside]posted by phrontist at 10:40 PM PST - 10 comments
Looking for an obituary for an acquanitence that passed away on May 5, 2006 in Minervaplein (Holland, Europe).
[more inside]posted by seinfeld at 10:04 PM PST - 11 comments
My laptop died today and I am in the market for a new computer. I am building my own system and am having trouble figuring out which video card to get. I want to spend between $100 and $200 for a PCI Express 16x card with DVI output.
[more inside]posted by Riemann at 8:23 PM PST - 5 comments
Legend has it Navy SEALs (among others, certainly) can slow their heart rate and breathing down to almost nil. So could Michael Valentine Smith, for what its worth. Practically, to what degree is this possible, and how does one go about beginning to control ones breathing/heart/body in general more precisely?
posted by devilsbrigade at 6:49 PM PST - 17 comments
Quotation Filter: We'd like to have a quote painted on the ceiling over our dining room table. All of the ones we're turning up are coming up short. The basic idea is a celebration of happiness, warmth, friends, family and food.
[more inside]posted by deanj at 6:43 PM PST - 24 comments
There's Joe Btfsplk from the L'il Abner comic strip, Mr. Mxyztplk from Superman comics, and Metafilter's own
XQUZYPHYR. What other characters, fictional or otherwise, have names that are a deliberately impossible-to-pronounce mishmash of consonants?
[more inside]posted by painquale at 4:54 PM PST - 36 comments
I'm in a dorm in MA and my space is tight. I'm not going to need my long underwear (along with any other items) until Winter. Should I buy some
Space Bags? How about a cheap, small, vacuum cleaner to go with it?
posted by jhscott at 4:48 PM PST - 8 comments
I'm 99% sure I found it on metafilter, but my google-fu fails me. I'm looking for the video of several Improv/Pranksters singing to their professor in a vaguely opera style.
posted by hatsix at 4:47 PM PST - 3 comments
419Filter: I read a couple of years ago, a website that was a chap who would reply to phishing and spam emails, and take the scammers for a ride. There was one very funny one where the guy pretended to have drowned his girlfriend, and his mistress, and convinced the guy to fly to Amsterdam, amongst other things. Does anybody know where I can find this online?
[more inside]posted by gaby at 2:48 PM PST - 10 comments
I interviewed for a position in a local library branch a few weeks ago. She said she would be in touch early this week and that they had several other canidates to interview....
[more inside]posted by TheLibrarian at 1:44 PM PST - 19 comments
Should someone in high school consider attending a foreign medical school instead of going to college in the US?
[more inside]posted by shivohum at 1:33 PM PST - 24 comments
Whilst at school in the UK in the late sixties I borrowed a book from the local library.The thesis of this non-fiction book was that aliens lived and walked amongst us and could be recognised by a predilection for wearing black.The argument was presented in a fairly low key,rational manner and,if I remember rightly,the book was published by Gollancz in their standard yellow and black cover.Not a lot to go on I know.Something deep within me wants to know if it was good rubbish or bad rubbish.
posted by Dr.Pill at 1:27 PM PST - 6 comments
Any word on what the some of the most credible, competent, and friendly domain name registrars are for European TLDs? Looking at registering some stuff for Spain, Portugal, France, and Italy, possibly Germany and others later.
posted by namespan at 11:56 AM PST - 4 comments
I'm looking at having a bicycle shipped from Scotland (Glasgow) to America. Has anyone out there had similar good/bad experiences? What's the least expensive way to do it?
[more inside]posted by pullayup at 11:55 AM PST - 4 comments
I'm going on a six month exchange to Lyon, France, in August and I'd like to play football (soccer) while I'm over there. I can play at a reasonable level, and I'd be in open womens agewise. Ideally I'd play through university (Lumiere) or in a club with a similar group of people, but I'm having trouble finding specific club information online.
[more inside]posted by jacalata at 11:29 AM PST - 5 comments
Help me daydream! What are some fairly inexpensive, delightfully exotic places to live that have excellent internet connections?
[more inside]posted by LarryC at 9:55 AM PST - 13 comments
so my friend is trying to locate an online service whereby one can type a message to a phone number over the web, and an operator than reads that message to the other end over the phone. So essentially its a computer text-to-voice over phone service, it may be intended for deaf-blind individuals. any ideas?
posted by Kifer85 at 9:38 AM PST - 13 comments
I frequently see bumper stickers that say "De Colores," which I only know as the name of a Raffi song (from my son's toddler days).
The other one I wonder about says "SVEIKS!"
Please enlighten!
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 9:35 AM PST - 17 comments
Is there a glue that will un-glue without damage to the glued items?
[more inside]posted by ra at 8:31 AM PST - 7 comments
It seems like all local TV news anchors have that goofy habit of bobbing their head up and down, to and fro, while they're talking, as if to punctuate the text they're reading. Is this something they are taught in broadcast journalism school, or just an unspoken convention?
posted by yalestar at 7:07 AM PST - 17 comments
I am not a programmer. I just know basic html and I design web sites in Front Page using tables. That's it. So, the question is, is there some sort of open source...thing...that will allow me to make a web site like myspace, such that members of a certain group of people will be able to come there and each sign up for an account, and make their own user page, and link to each other as they wish?
[more inside]posted by light bulb at 7:04 AM PST - 12 comments
Any advice for my son, his girlfriend and their black lab, who are driving from Seattle to Kenai, Alaska, leaving tomorrow in a stuffed Subaru. Cautions, cheap hotels, not-to-be-missed sites, route suggestions, something they should not forget to bring (they have duct tape at least) They're 26ish and going to Kenai for jobs.
posted by lois1950 at 1:04 AM PST - 5 comments
May 5
I'm sort of in a crisis right now... Basically I am halfway through a bachelor in Film Studies and I realize it's garbage. I want to change my major to something that is useful.
[more inside]posted by Napierzaza at 11:42 PM PST - 14 comments
I'm moving to Brooklyn, and would like to hire a company to help me get my stuff up to my apartment. Any suggestions? Any tips on moving to NYC at all?
posted by deliquescent at 9:34 PM PST - 6 comments
How do I break down a video file (or preferably, a segment of a video) into separate frames?
[more inside]posted by TheRoach at 8:53 PM PST - 8 comments
Does anyone have any insight into living/coping with a mate who has unpredictable angry outbursts and a mean streak? Not a first marriage for either of us. . . 3 kids that are mine(2) and ours(1). Thought he was my long-awaited dream come true.
[more inside]posted by anonymous at 8:38 PM PST - 17 comments
Inspired by the AskMe below:
I'm interested in comparing life in Denver, CO to the California Bay Area.
[more inside]posted by lekvar at 7:47 PM PST - 7 comments
I'm interested in comparing life in D.C. to Boston. I love Boston but the housing costs are outrageous and the winters are much too long. Any thoughts on how these two cities compare?
posted by mintchip at 6:43 PM PST - 18 comments
I am looking for a Japanese/English dictionary I can load onto my ipod. I am moving to Japan soon, and at the present time I can't afford one of the electronic dictionaries, so I was wondering if I might make use of my nano for this purpose.
posted by dbooster at 4:45 PM PST - 5 comments
Help me save my Powerbook G4. It keeps freezing and I have to force quit it. It will not last more than five minutes without freezing. What can I do? Is my computer dead? Is there no hope?
[more inside]posted by billysumday at 4:29 PM PST - 15 comments
Is it unhealthy to ingest/breath laser printer toner? Just wondering how much could affect someone's health.
[more inside]posted by svdodge at 4:03 PM PST - 7 comments
How do I approach my neighbor about splitting the cost of a fence?
An old cedar fence that's between our house and our neighbor's is falling apart. It's on my property. I'm planning on replacing it, but I know my neighbor sort of appreciates this fence as well...
[more inside]posted by diastematic at 3:39 PM PST - 33 comments
Anyone know if there is an MP3 of the
Gnarls Barkley performance on Top of the Pops floating around? Or, does anyone know how to make an MP3 out of audio from a You Tube video?
posted by abbyladybug at 3:15 PM PST - 11 comments
My mom loved
The Secret Life of Bees and
The Year of Magical Thinking. She couldn't get through much of
The Time Traveler's Wife. What else might she like?
[more inside]posted by barnone at 1:23 PM PST - 30 comments
Our company is moving and getting Verizon FIOS with 5 IP's. They said all 5 IPs are coming in on one ethernet cable. How does this work? Bonus question: What's the best router to handle this job?
[more inside]posted by Mach5 at 12:56 PM PST - 15 comments
I want to send a can of
Gruv Glide from Los Angeles to Sweden via air post. Would an aerosol can explode during shipping?
posted by starscream at 12:31 PM PST - 6 comments
What's the name of the big band tune playing in "White Heat" during the scene about halfway through when Big Ed and Verna are discussing their options in the hideout?
posted by keswick at 12:06 PM PST - 6 comments
Is there a way to save/download slideshow content from the New York Times?
I use OS X Tiger, and I believe the content is Flash.
I would appreciate any help you can extend to me.
posted by muse at 11:47 AM PST - 2 comments
I'm 3 months pregnant and suffering from massive congestion, sinus headaches, ichy eyes, runnynose, and in the past week it's beginning to keep me up at nights. Help!
[more inside]posted by Sallysings at 11:42 AM PST - 11 comments
Two Hasidim just came into my office, looking for Jews to pray with. What's going on?
[Question contains lots of Jewish terminology.] [more inside]posted by Faint of Butt at 11:37 AM PST - 38 comments
Does anyone know an online resource where I could get a layman drawing and parts of a Franklin stove? I'm interested in how it was built and how it works.
[more inside]posted by eatdonuts at 11:34 AM PST - 6 comments
Who is underwriting Schwarzenegger's California $20 billion bond issue just passed by Congress today (5 May 2006)?
[more inside]posted by blythe at 10:19 AM PST - 7 comments
My employment agreement specifies a mutual notice-giving of 30 days between myself and an employer should either of us wish me to move on, but Virginia is an at-will state. How enforceable is the agreement from either direction? I fear that my employer is putting me at a disadvantage with respect to my moving on (It's hard to find potential future employers who will accept 30 days' delay on the start date) that it might end up they won't be held accountable to if they should decide to give me the air. How do I find out if this agreement is at all enforceable?
[more inside]posted by kalessin at 9:39 AM PST - 14 comments
I need to fix up my brother's POS car to sell it. How much effort should I go to? My brother is moving out of state, and since my parents are also no longer in the area, it has fallen on me to sell the car and send the money on to my Dad. (My parents actually paid for the car.)
[more inside]posted by voidcontext at 9:01 AM PST - 21 comments
What is the emotion that drives lashing out behavior which leads to guilt & regret? Anecdotes & personal insights our encouraged.
[more inside]posted by Brainy at 8:44 AM PST - 14 comments
Green Card Filter - Affordable immigration lawyer who specializes in National Interest Waiver (NIW - EB2) category preferably with a track record?
[more inside]posted by lalochezia at 8:40 AM PST - 4 comments
How much math is there in graduate level psychology relative to graduate level economics?
posted by I Foody at 8:33 AM PST - 11 comments
Last night on ABC news there was a guy with a VW beetle (silver) who put a wicked-huge wing on the back and claimed some ridiculously-high MPG figure. Alas, my google fu fails me. Why would this wing possibly work? They guy wasn't a tuner, AFAICT.
posted by Wild_Eep at 8:12 AM PST - 27 comments
Where can I find good online resources for TV, out-of-home and print advertising in the US and particularly Europe/UK?
[more inside]posted by runkelfinker at 8:05 AM PST - 2 comments
I live in a New York apartment and I like to cook. When I go to the farmer's market, I'm always tempted to buy herbs in little pots and put them in my window. Questions: (1) If I buy herbs in little pots and put them in my window, how long will they last? (2) How often do you water? (3) If I want to use them for cooking, do I just snip them off and use them and if I do (4) do the herbs grow back? Basically: how do I start a windowsill herb garden?
posted by adrober at 8:01 AM PST - 10 comments
I use that Blu Tac stuff for earplugs every night. It's that blue (or sometimes yellow) adhesive that you use to stick posters to the wall.
[more inside]posted by parallax7d at 7:28 AM PST - 23 comments
Any thoughts on why we (humans) roll our eyes back while thinking. We also sometimes crunch our brows. I notice people, including myself, do this when no one is looking at them as well as a signifier during conversation. But it is the action acted out alone that interests me? Could this action actually improve the brains ability to think? What, if any, evolutionary advantage could this offer?
posted by shawnzam at 7:09 AM PST - 15 comments
Help me identify this golfer in one of the Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2006 PC game intro movies.
[more inside]posted by Raven13 at 6:56 AM PST - 5 comments
Help me put my father's mind at ease, please. He retired & sold his house & relocated out of state. He is losing sleep at night, worrying that he will be sued by the buyers of his house.
[more inside]posted by Alpenglow at 6:39 AM PST - 22 comments
There should only be 5 mb of data on my 1 gig usb drive, but it says there's 493 mb used up. what's going on?
[more inside]posted by jadanzzy at 6:08 AM PST - 15 comments
How can thieves profit from stolen masterpieces by using them as "collateral" for drug trafficking? How might they use the stolen works for money laundering?
[more inside]posted by taz at 5:10 AM PST - 7 comments
How to negotiate a good deal on rent with an owner inexperienced with the rental market?
[more inside]posted by saffron at 4:50 AM PST - 4 comments
I've taken a few hundred continuous photos with a digital camera. Having uploaded them to my computer, is there any simple way I can make them into a movie, where i can set the rate they move across the screen, and perhaps set them to music.
[more inside]posted by jrengreen at 3:36 AM PST - 13 comments
LookingForWebsiteFilter: I'm looking for a site I saw, but failed to bookmark. The page is kinda blog-y (but also has projects and other stuff), and the top left corner has a page-curl effect, under which there's a round, grey "Home" icon linking back to the homepage. Black text on white background, otherwise. Anyone know it?
posted by slater at 1:57 AM PST - 5 comments
Is there a good, free, non-shareware limited batch converter for taking a bunch of mp3s and making them into wavs?
[more inside]posted by juv3nal at 12:00 AM PST - 10 comments
May 4
Say a business has had various articles written about them in newspapers. Could that business then reproduce those articles on its own website, for informational purposes?
e.g. 'Click here to see what the NYT had to say about us,' etc. I know that I could just link to the articles on the newspaper's site, but I can't guarantee that those will stay online.
posted by bingo at 10:07 PM PST - 20 comments
I've been reading about evolutionary computing and artificial life and suchlike. As an exercise, I would like to make a multi-player online game where players can design creatures, which would then compete for survival.
[more inside]posted by MetaMonkey at 5:34 PM PST - 18 comments
CSS Help: I have a element 650 wide and 180 high. I want items to appear in it and there to be a scroll bar along the bottom so it scrolls horizontally. However, when the elements reach the right edge, a scroll bar appears on the right side and the new element appears on the left under the first element. Why?
[more inside]posted by Manhasset at 4:29 PM PST - 8 comments
I've been offered a position in both Boston & Seattle. Help me weigh the pluses and minuses of moving to either place.
[more inside]posted by bamassippi at 4:25 PM PST - 57 comments
I want to watch Arsenal win the Champions League final from a bar somewhere in Portland, OR.
[more inside]posted by pdb at 3:51 PM PST - 3 comments
Is it too late for me to get a buyer's agent involved before bidding on a house? (more)
[more inside]posted by GregW at 3:31 PM PST - 10 comments
As far back as I can remember, I have gotten a feeling in my chest when I am experiencing a feeling of longing - someone leaving that I'll miss, departing a place I love, or knowing that something is coming to an end. It's like a flutter, or a lightness...I can't really describe it well. The funny thing is, I also used to get it at decidedly unimportant times, like when a store is closing and they announce that everyone should make their way to the checkout. What is this all about?
[more inside]posted by Bud Dickman at 1:10 PM PST - 36 comments
Website/Weblog/Apache/Chroot/mod_rewrite Wordpress?
I've been hired to create website content for a record store. That's turned into also being in charge of the website creation/management. They already have hosting, a virtual server that uses chroot to keep separate clients separate. I had hoped to use Wordpress, and the guys who hired me want something that looks bloggish, even while maintaining their eBay store as the ecommerce backend (posts/album descriptions with samples would link to eBay auctions). The problem is that Wordpress needs to use mod_rewrite access (in Apache) to create permalinks when content is added (through .htaccess), and the host has said that mod_rewrite is a security risk for the rest of his clients unless we go for dedicated hosting. He's talked about using read/write permissions access to circumvent the need for .htaccess.
[more inside]posted by klangklangston at 12:54 PM PST - 13 comments
A tool that takes a US zip code and tells me the ten largest towns/cities within a radius of
x miles?
[more inside]posted by panoptican at 12:40 PM PST - 9 comments
Geeky question to be sure: But in the history of magic, from Houdini to the present, what have been the most significant moments? For example, David Copperfield making the statue of Liberty disappear should certainly be on the list. What else belongs?
posted by captainscared at 12:32 PM PST - 16 comments
Humans sometimes feel depressed or anxious with no apparent
environmental cause. Does this happen in animals? Or do humans possibly have brains that are too evolved/sophisticated for our own good, in a way?
[more inside]posted by needs more cowbell at 11:26 AM PST - 24 comments
At the end of August, I'll be moving from northern British Columbia to London, Ontario. How should I get there?
[more inside]posted by synecdoche at 11:21 AM PST - 17 comments
Is there a freeware utility (PC) that takes in an image file containing a scan of multiple photos, then removes each individual photo, straightens, crops, and saves each photo as an individual file?
Here is a sample if my description is unclear. It seems my photoshop 7 will not do it (although newer versions do).
posted by masymas at 10:54 AM PST - 3 comments
Now that ABC is streaming episodes of "Lost," any way one can view it from outside the US and/or download it (copy the stream)?
posted by Cochise at 10:09 AM PST - 8 comments
I'm considering writing a book about game systems in the 80's and would like to be able to include screenshots of many of the games. What do I need to do to be able to include those screenshots without being sued? Does this fall under the copyright law's "fair use"? Does the fact that they are older games make any difference? Apologies if this has been asked before - I couldn't find anything related to publishing game screenshots.
posted by aceyprime at 9:54 AM PST - 9 comments
I own all of the southpark dvds and I want to rip each episode to an individual file for my media center. I know I can do this manually but it is tedious. Is there any Rip software that can do a batch conversion?
posted by lukeomalley at 9:48 AM PST - 2 comments
I have some vacation time coming up. Rather than one big trip, I'm thinking about taking 2 or 3 short little road trips (3 to 5 days each). Los Angeles is my starting point. Photography is my main activity. Where should I go, and where should I stay when I get there?
[more inside]posted by willnot at 9:42 AM PST - 9 comments
I'm doing a write-up about rock musicians and age. Who are the good, bad, ugly, and new? Is Rock and Roll strictly for the young and hungry?
[more inside]posted by sourwookie at 9:27 AM PST - 77 comments
[BusinessCardFilter] I know that a lot of people have asked for recommendations of business cards printers online, but I want really funky geeky techy cards. Ideas?
[more inside]posted by k8t at 8:26 AM PST - 15 comments
In the UK we have cheap rate electricity between 12.30am and 7.30am, but how does it work?
[more inside]posted by twine42 at 8:02 AM PST - 19 comments
In certain applications I am unable to locate or open files via the menu tree within the application because my root (c) directory isn't displayed.
In these applications, I can only open files which reside in either 'My Documents' (or any folders within it), or 'Desktop'
I'm running Windows XP Professional SP2.
TIA,
Tim
posted by haelen at 7:58 AM PST - 9 comments
How do I stop passwords from expiring in my home Windows XP / Linux (Samba) network?
[more inside]posted by Nelson at 7:53 AM PST - 7 comments
Is there a travel search engine that will search airfares to multiple cities at once?
[more inside]posted by kimdog at 7:15 AM PST - 13 comments
What book should I get as an award for two outstanding 8th grade grads? I'm their faculty advisor. They've each won an end-of-year award, and I'm tasked with finding them a suitable book to mark the occasion. I want to find something more than a dry dictionary or reference book, and I'd love to inspire them to continue their great work without being too sappy or preachy. My range is $15 - $20. Any suggestions?
posted by tomadelic at 6:47 AM PST - 51 comments
As medical doctor I want to follow some postgraduate studies related to health (good if in research) so I can be in tracks in two or three years
[more inside]posted by zouhair at 6:29 AM PST - 2 comments
New York mefites, please give me some info about proselytizing / busking / begging in New York City.
[more inside]posted by Meatbomb at 5:09 AM PST - 18 comments
Back in CT in the 80s, while the comic series
Watchmen was coming out, I saw a masterpiece of fan art on the wall of a friend's dorm. It was a postcard captioned "Superman vs. Dr. Manhattan" (roughly) and showed Superman pulling his fist back to deliver a mighty blow to Dr. Manhattan, who calmly pointed a finger at Superman's head, blowing his head off and spattering his brains in every direction. The overall anticlimactic effect was similar to the famous scene in
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom where a bunch of guys elaborately menace Indy with swords and he calmly pulls out a gun -- oh, you know the one. I'll give anyone who can tell me where I can find this cartoon, especially on the web, a million billion dollars.
posted by rwhe at 2:20 AM PST - 8 comments
For a day-long business trip, I have to wake up at 4 am to catch a train and be at a client's site by 10 am, and be functional once I'm there. How can I prepare to deal with the drastic change to my sleep schedule (both falling asleep the night before & keeping energy up during the day) so I can do a good job?
[more inside]posted by tastybrains at 2:11 AM PST - 14 comments
May 3
Male in need of a good hair stylist near the UC Berkeley campus, much preferably within walking distance. $30 max. No barber shops, no supercuts. Where should he go? The more specific, the better.
[more inside]posted by |n$eCur3 at 10:18 PM PST - 6 comments
We have several hundred old family photographs in various sizes, shapes, and conditions that we would like to have scanned. We're looking for advice from anyone who has had personal experience with specific companies.
[more inside]posted by dmd at 7:46 PM PST - 11 comments
You are currently using 2657 MB (98%) of your 2720 MB. My Gmail account is reaching its limit. There doesn't seem to be a way to sort by size. What's the smartest way to weed out the larger attachments?
[more inside]posted by signal at 7:45 PM PST - 17 comments
Parking at LAX: Any cheaper 3rd-party options that are good and won't make me late to my plane? (need to park for 3 days). I'll take suggestions for Burbank, too, just for future reference.
posted by anonymoose at 7:38 PM PST - 6 comments
We got our Green-Cheek Conure about 10 days ago; he is about 4 months old. This afternoon at his checkup to make sure he was “fit for purchase,” a strange microorganism was found in his fecal sample. The vet had never seen it before.
The microorganism is about equal in size to Megabacteria (i.e. really big for something microscopic) and it looks like a pine needle: a long, skinny, tapered cigar shape. Some of the pine needles have nodes in the center (see drawing inside for a rough visual interpretation.)
Have any of you ever seen or heard of a microorganism like this? Research online has turned up nothing so far. Our best guess is that it is a yeast of some sort (like Megabacteria, also known as Avian Gastric Yeast.)
[more inside]posted by Infernarl at 7:27 PM PST - 3 comments
MakeMyPhotosClickableFilter:
I have a list of URLs that is about 2000 long. The problem is that none of them begin with http:// and are therefore not "clickable." I need to post this list on my website and allow people to click on the links, rather than cut n paste and have them add the http:// ..... What method could I use to add the http:// and make it "clickable" without actually typing it into each url one-by-one (which would take me forever). Examples of the URLs are below (they are non-working, I just made them up - but are similar to the long list I have).....
img301.imageshack.us/img301/7323/freepic26nt.jpg
images3.theimagehosting.com/albums/754/5088064.jpg
Is there *anything* I could use, paste my list into, etc. that would automatically make them clickable?
posted by Gerard Sorme at 7:22 PM PST - 23 comments
I'm looking for earbuds that offer superior sound quality and that I can wear while running. My over the ear Ravemp buds finally gave out. I haven't been able to find any decent sounding replacements that don't fall out of my ears after a few minutes of running. Price range < $75. Must be available on the internet.
posted by Juicylicious at 7:22 PM PST - 13 comments
From jr. high through grad school, we may see the following letters on our report cards : A, B, C, D, F.
Why no E?
posted by Afroblanco at 6:46 PM PST - 34 comments
A colleague and I want to raise money for a project our company currently can't take on. How to get this ball rolling?
[more inside]posted by Mikey-San at 6:24 PM PST - 12 comments
Why do American cookbooks give ingredient measurements by volume and number instead of weight?
[more inside]posted by betterton at 6:01 PM PST - 36 comments
Is there a way to "reserve" a certain % of the processor for Windows, no matter how much any individual application requests?
[more inside]posted by stuckie at 5:09 PM PST - 13 comments
I have a Nintendo DS. I want to be able to watch videos on it. What is the easiest and cheapest way to do this?
[more inside]posted by MadamM at 4:45 PM PST - 9 comments
Is there any way to get insurance on behalf of an independent contractor for a specific manual-labor project? Has anyone done this? If so, how much was it and is there anything I need to know to be smart about arranging this?
[more inside]posted by shelbaroo at 3:55 PM PST - 5 comments
Which schools do mefites recommend for "digital media" or "media design" studies?
posted by xod at 3:06 PM PST - 16 comments
Instead of getting a four-bay Firewire enclosure, could I just get a cheap PC case and use that to build a RAID?
[more inside]posted by ImJustRick at 2:58 PM PST - 18 comments
RomanceFilter: Looking for romantic ideas to help g/f through stressful times ....so the stress doesn't kill our long distance relationship.
[more inside]posted by TheDude at 12:46 PM PST - 27 comments
Is there a third party alternative to Adobe's Acrobat reader for Palm OS? I find their reader to be far too slow clunky for effective use.
posted by BritishBestMan at 12:31 PM PST - 3 comments
How does one make a site like this one ... ? http://www.playgroundsfestival.nl/playgrounds.asp What I mean is how does one make the huge background, and add the elements onto it? Point to a tutorial helpful.
Thank you,
posted by bright77blue at 12:12 PM PST - 11 comments
I'm very introverted, I have a very extroverted friend who is spending the weekend... how can I remain a good host?
[more inside]posted by jacobjacobs at 12:10 PM PST - 16 comments
If a domain name reseller (eg Lycos UK) is doing a really crappy job at the basics (letting you renew your own domains, letting you unlock your domain to transfer to another company, being contactable at all) is there anyone higher up to complain to to get something done? We're talking about a .com address here.
posted by cillit bang at 11:10 AM PST - 3 comments
Where are your favorite places to shop in New York City, specifically interesting, unique shops and fabric stores?
[more inside]posted by Alison at 10:57 AM PST - 26 comments
Used Furniture filter: I'm in a small college town and I need to get rid (very much want to sell) most of the furniture in my apartment. Beyond putting flyers up on the college campus, are there any other ways for me to get rid of my furnishings?
[more inside]posted by Atreides at 10:48 AM PST - 17 comments
Help! I am creating an outline for a very important exam tomorrow, and Word keeps dropping my formatting.
[more inside]posted by ohio at 10:28 AM PST - 12 comments
Car and Driver magazine, I have been told, had an article many years ago that described a person who built his own engine. He supposedly made the crankshaft for this engine with just a file and a hacksaw. I believe my source of this to be trustworthy. Anyone familiar with this person or with the article?
posted by Raybun at 10:04 AM PST - 6 comments
I'm looking for advice on effective live music promotion and building a following. Also: flyers?
[more inside]posted by ludwig_van at 10:03 AM PST - 9 comments
HELP ME WITH WAX ON MY COUCH.
A few days ago some candles leaked from their rightful place resting on a shelf above my couch.
A very good amount of wax melted onto the cotton based covers of this couch before the candle was blown out.
I've managed to peel off some of the bigger spots of the cooled and now hardened wax. Please help me with any tricks to get the rest off.
How does one go about getting wax splatters and hardened wax spots off the material??
posted by sandrapbrady at 9:44 AM PST - 19 comments
Does anyone have any documentation/evidence (anecdotal or otherwise) that expandable ads (banner ads that expand beyond the confines of the banner space, usually flash, usually animated) turn users off and/or drive them away?
[more inside]posted by o2b at 9:38 AM PST - 17 comments
What's the original source of the phrase, "fly your freak flag high?"
posted by Chrysostom at 9:30 AM PST - 11 comments
OCFilter: ok, on the OC Sandy is going to be investigated for criminal wrongdoing. What did he do?
posted by josher71 at 9:14 AM PST - 9 comments
I have several t-shirts that I can't wear because there are small oil stains on them. Can anyone tell me how to remove these stains without damaging the dye?
posted by leavens at 9:08 AM PST - 12 comments
How can I search for and buy second-hand books online without having to pay lots of postage fees to separate sellers?
[more inside]posted by spiff101 at 8:31 AM PST - 9 comments
I discovered over the weekend that someone has taken a photograph and an article of mine and published it in a book on cafe press without my permission or acknowledgement, what can I do?
[more inside]posted by [insert clever name here] at 7:36 AM PST - 15 comments
ParisFilter: Michelin-starred-quality restaurants on short notice? (Spoilers inside for those going with me on the trip.)
[more inside]posted by commander_cool at 7:19 AM PST - 13 comments
About 10 years ago, a friend of mine received a book as a gift. It was a series of (fictional, I think) love letters written between a man and a woman, but the book itself contained envelopes and letters written on different types of stationary and such. Kind of a multimedium format. I believe the title had both of the characters names in it. Does this really vague description ring a bell with anyone?
posted by Roger Dodger at 7:15 AM PST - 13 comments
How can I determine exactly from where or how a server's email queue is being filled with outgoing spam from user 'nobody'?
[more inside]posted by Witty at 6:54 AM PST - 6 comments
My brother found....uh.....something......under his deck. What IS it? (NSF People with weak stomachs)
[more inside]posted by emptybowl at 6:03 AM PST - 24 comments
Mom wants a bottle of Bal A Versailles perfume for Mother's Day. Can't find it in any of the local upscale stores, and it was suggested to purchase it online.
[more inside]posted by WolfDaddy at 5:53 AM PST - 6 comments
Is Lean Cuisine the type of overly processed food I should be trying to avoid, and if so, why?
[more inside]posted by Amizu at 5:35 AM PST - 9 comments
Health insurance question: My daughter
needs a "non-covered procedure". Can I successfully fight that? Can anyone provide any tips for successfully challenging the denial of coverage for a given procedure?
[more inside]posted by spock at 5:22 AM PST - 14 comments
Is there such a think as a temporary credit card that works like a visa, but only has a certain value to it? Like a gift card, but works wherever a Visa or mastercard is accepted?
[more inside]posted by GernBlandston at 4:28 AM PST - 12 comments
I want a large stencil-like image on my bedroom wall and door. How do I go about this?
[more inside]posted by Skyanth at 1:57 AM PST - 17 comments
May 2
Can I get Thunderbird Calendar to automatically update from a remote calendar file?
[more inside]posted by asok at 11:47 PM PST - 3 comments
Mac gurus: the last couple of days my 867 TiPowerbook has been behaving erratically. The transfer rate of the harddrive seems to have slowed right down, so even though the drive sounds normal, it's accessing
all the time. Lots and lots of drive activity and pinwheeling, but barely any results.
[more inside]posted by BorgLove at 11:12 PM PST - 13 comments
Looking for suggestions for a good dry food to feed two cats with slightly different needs. They refuse to play nice and eat from their "own" bowls, each preferring the other's food.
[more inside]posted by gilsonal at 10:20 PM PST - 7 comments
My accountant who I've used the last several years to prepare my taxes, just sent a form letter to all his clients saying he's sold his practice because he has cancer that has metastasized to his brain and has a few weeks to live. (I was fully expecting it to be a bill)
Do I send a letter or email to offer condolences? Or best to just feel bad for him, and do nothing?
posted by delladlux at 9:49 PM PST - 15 comments
How does one in California become a delegate for the Democratic National Convention?
posted by semmi at 8:49 PM PST - 3 comments
My wife has two kids from a previous marriage. Can I consider myself, legally, to be their step Father? (If so, does that entail any certain rights as such?) Should or can I adopt them? Since the Mom and I have raised them for most of their lives (90%), we would like to do something (together) to set them up in case something happens to us. Death etc. M.I.
[more inside]posted by snsranch at 8:19 PM PST - 14 comments
How can I truly judge the quality of a book originally written in a foreign language?
[more inside]posted by zardoz at 8:16 PM PST - 31 comments
Which air purifier should I consider buying for my best friend who suffers from allergies and wakes up every morning complaining how his chest hurts. (He's also a non smoker)
I went to a local pharmacy (CVS) and saw one of those Vicks Air Purifiers that ran at about $30.00. I am wondering which would be the best one to get under the $50.00 price range.
posted by cheero at 8:14 PM PST - 7 comments
What is the best webstats package for a windows server?
posted by banished at 7:39 PM PST - 5 comments
My wife asked me to choose between 6 kinds of small trees to plant in the 4 foot x 15 foot strip of grass between the street and the sidewalk in my (Missouri) front yard. I know nothing of the pros and cons of any of these choices. Is there an obvious best one?
[more inside]posted by davebug at 7:06 PM PST - 11 comments
Autofilter: What are some good family (2 adults, 2 toddlers) cars on the market in Europe?
[more inside]posted by smcniven at 5:40 PM PST - 8 comments
Kidfilter: My 4 year old niece has a problem of peeing in random places around the house while sleepwalking. Any experiences or ideas on how to stop her.
[more inside]posted by arruns at 5:21 PM PST - 5 comments
I want to apply multiple 'tags' over time to songs in Itunes on WinXP. How to do this without overwriting previous tags?
[more inside]posted by mattholomew at 4:44 PM PST - 10 comments
Anything wrong with getting a Sidekick I from eBay to hold me off until the Sidekick III comes out? [ext]
[more inside]posted by whatitis at 4:36 PM PST - 9 comments
Enron execs are being charged with '31 counts of fraud, conspiracy, insider trading and lying to auditors' (BBC). This seems to cover the loss of pensions and investors' stakes but what about their manipulation of electricity prices in California -- swindling old grannies and perhaps (indirectly) causing loss of life. Are they on trial for this? Was it illegal? What gives?
[more inside]posted by NailsTheCat at 4:19 PM PST - 4 comments
In general, how long must a layover at an airport be to be able to leave the airport, see the city (even for a short amount of time), and get back without missing your connecting flight?
[more inside]posted by thebabelfish at 3:57 PM PST - 14 comments
Is fairtrade a good thing?
I've always been in favour of fair trade principles but...
[more inside]posted by Lanark at 3:51 PM PST - 11 comments
What effect would a massive growth in renewable energy sources have on the environment?
[more inside]posted by ganseki at 3:47 PM PST - 7 comments
Can you help me find an online programming class that will fulfill my prerequisite for graduate school?
[more inside]posted by D Wiz at 2:06 PM PST - 7 comments
Some random loser is sending lewd text messages to my girlfriend's mobile telephone. I have his first name and mobile number only. What can I legally do to stop him texting her again?
[more inside]posted by sjvilla79 at 2:04 PM PST - 17 comments
Turns out my dream of mounting my soon to be bought LCD TV into the wall is a no go, as the wall is directly over my fireplace and apparently THAT will cause damage to the cables. So I'm looking for the tallest thinnest credenza possible to mount it on. I'd build it myself, but a history of collapsed childhood treehouses seems to argue against that. Any ideas?
posted by rileyray3000 at 2:01 PM PST - 9 comments
Very wonkish CSS question: how do I keep the left edge of a DIV visible, despite how small a user makes the browser viewport?
[more inside]posted by killdevil at 1:38 PM PST - 10 comments
I know how to encode mp3 files and how to store them on an ftp server. The shopping cart app (oscommerce) claims to be able to deliver virtual merchandise. My question is: once the customer pays for the mp3, what has to be done to deliver the link to him for download? Is there a plugin for oscommerce to make this happen?
[more inside]posted by La Cieca at 1:21 PM PST - 3 comments
I have a 2 year old that is telling me "no" and telling me that I am "not nice". She puonds fer fists on her legs when she gets mad and I am at my wits end. Please Help
posted by Tiffanyfinch2003 at 1:09 PM PST - 29 comments
Had a car accident, one witnesssays I ran red light, but I don't think I did. What do I do now?
[more inside]posted by anonpeon at 12:56 PM PST - 16 comments
Where can I board my dog in Providence, Rhode Island, for about 24 hours over memorial day weekend?
[more inside]posted by eileen at 12:46 PM PST - 3 comments
Very simple. How can I set up a rule in apple mail to disregard foreign languages (particularly asian and cyrillic languages)?
[more inside]posted by filmgeek at 12:31 PM PST - 9 comments
What's your favorite waltz? Bonus points for being easy to dance to and for finding me a "country waltz."
[more inside]posted by hwickline at 12:18 PM PST - 18 comments
What's a good place to meet a friend, hang out and maybe have some lunch that's roughly half way between LA and Thousand Oaks?
[more inside]posted by robabroad at 12:04 PM PST - 10 comments
Where is a good place to get a manicure/pedicure in Long Beach, California?
posted by thesiameseffect at 11:28 AM PST - 7 comments
Why are some wars referred to by country
names ("Vietnam War," "Iraq War," "Iran-Iraq War") while others are referred to by country
adjectives ("Korean War," "Spanish-American War")?
posted by Jaltcoh at 11:02 AM PST - 22 comments
Child eating habits filter: My step-son (now 11 years old) has developed an issue with his food. When he was younger, he ate anything and everything, but since about 5 or 6, he has become an extremely picky eater.
[more inside]posted by JimBobNoPants at 10:47 AM PST - 39 comments
I asked this
in 2004... but I'll ask this year too. Is there a way for me to watch the IIHF world championship in ice hockey in the US? I have cable tv and broadband internet.
[more inside]posted by edlundart at 10:41 AM PST - 6 comments
How can I convert Excel 95 to at least '97 when uploaded to a server (iis) or...
[more inside]posted by Mick at 9:58 AM PST - 7 comments
So, I got a new 320GB internal ATA hard drive, hooked it up as a slave to my 80GB hard drive, and put all my video, music, and photos on the new 320GB drive. Then, problems arise: when I'm downloading things onto the new drive (via BitTorrent), the computer stutters and is generally slow. Also, when opening and saving photos (~300MB TIFFs) in Photoshop, it takes an eternity. Is there a better way to configure my system on the hard drives?
[more inside]posted by monsterhero at 9:42 AM PST - 17 comments
Blog syndication: What standard (RSS, Atom, etc.) is best for syndicating full blog post contents?
[more inside]posted by cadge at 9:38 AM PST - 7 comments
I'd love some help/direction/inspiration finding stories and quotes about inventions and technologies that are now ubiquitous, but were once considered to be unnecessary or impractical.
[more inside]posted by padraigin at 9:38 AM PST - 18 comments
I’m looking for examples of web-based learning tools, specifically, self-testing tools such as flashcards, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank.
[more inside]posted by ijoshua at 9:31 AM PST - 3 comments
My 1994 Volvo 940 wagon seems to have minor, intermittent electrical problems. The cruise control went a few months ago. The illumination on the transmission indicator went for a while and now it's back. The sunroof was a bit testy for a few days. Now the blower for the climate control is out. What's going on, you think? This last one's a pisser, and it might be fixed with a fuse, but it's been too cold and wet to try. But something sinister is going on even if I just need a fuse.
posted by Mayor Curley at 9:25 AM PST - 8 comments
Infuriating Microsoft Access questionfilter: I have a database that I inherited in which queries are set up to pull records which have dates of birth between certain dates. It works right in one database but is not working right in another, for a very particular reason..
[more inside]posted by By The Grace of God at 9:05 AM PST - 7 comments
Political Action Committee (and 501C) financial statements: where can I find them, hopefully online w/o paper requests? (Googling gives me a myriad of the not-so-helpful.)
posted by Shane at 8:34 AM PST - 3 comments
I'm looking for an anniversary gift I can order online to be delivered in London tomorrow. It's for my fiancee; he's in London and I'm in Australia (boo!).
[more inside]posted by hot soup girl at 8:16 AM PST - 11 comments
Sparked by Mr. Blaine's latest feat of endurance, I wondered: How did David Copperfield (and others) make really big things (like the Statue of Liberty, I seem to recall) disappear?
posted by docgonzo at 8:11 AM PST - 20 comments
For my undergrad senior project, I want to create a Java version o
