What, or where could I find out, are the most common guns and ergo the most common types of ammunition in the United States? [more inside]
posted by ZaneJ. on Sep 24, 2009 - 17 answers

Did somebody shoot my car? [more inside]
posted by escabeche on Aug 9, 2009 - 20 answers

Why do word processors screw up the size of bullets in bulleted lists? [more inside]
posted by Meatbomb on Jul 9, 2008 - 11 answers

An empty field. Nothing for miles and miles and miles. And a gun. I shoot the gun. The bullet blasts out of the barrel and doesn't stop until....well, that's my question. Few more details inside. [more inside]
posted by ryecatcher on Jun 10, 2007 - 19 answers

I'm trying to install the Eve3 framework on a Powerbook G4 in order to run the Magic Bullet Suite 2.1 plug-in for Adobe After Effects Pro 6.5. I have the downloaded framework file, but when I copy it to the Frameworks folder, the UNIX Eve3 executable file changes into a document, rendering the thing non-functional. [more inside]
posted by Toolshed on Apr 4, 2006 - 4 answers

Quark/Font filter: Using Gill Sans in an existing XPress layout. •, ', ™, and - fail to print. Rather, they are replaced with yen, nothing, opening double curly quote, and en dash, respectively. [more inside]
posted by Wild_Eep on Mar 16, 2006 - 6 answers

A friend of mine insists that he's seen what he refers to as a "bullet carafe." Evidently it's a glass carafe with a bullet embedded in the side within a raised circle of glass. Nobody seems to believe him, though a few people have asserted that they think such a thing might possibly exist. [more inside]
posted by mph on Dec 10, 2005 - 11 answers

Has anyone written some sort of scholarly critique or observations about infomercials and their bizarre and sort of addictive appeal? [more inside]
posted by Slimemonster on Jul 13, 2005 - 15 answers