For over 10 years I've been playing various rogue-likes. Nethack, Angband, ADOM, and now Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. I've never, ever been able to get past a few levels. [more inside]
posted by PowerCat on Sep 25, 2009 - 18 answers

2 part swimming question - effective core workouts and open water training. [more inside]
posted by protorp on Jun 17, 2009 - 3 answers

Whats the best solution for displaying text and/or rss feed crawls, etc on a TV via a wired or wireless network connection? [more inside]
posted by yeahyeahyeahwhoo on Feb 12, 2008 - 2 answers

Are you really only ever six feet away from a spider at any given time? [more inside]
posted by birdlips on Sep 27, 2007 - 22 answers

We have 50" plasma display in our waiting room. It displays television (via plain old cable.) I want to split it into sections - left 1/3, right 2/3 and bottom crawl. I want to show the TV feed in the right 2/3 and put marketing information in the remaining space. How do I get there from here?? Bonus points for Linux!
posted by cdmwebs on Jul 16, 2007 - 10 answers

Looking for software to crawl/spider a term in google to show me main websites for a topic. And if possible to generate graphs like this. [more inside]
posted by IronWolve on Jul 6, 2007 - 5 answers

I'm trying to find a study I remember seeing that basically argued that the presence of more information on the screen at CNN (i.e., the 'crawl' or 'ticker') left people less likely to remember what was actually on the station during a given time (versus without)... does that ring anyone's bell? A reference would be amazing...
posted by jgballard on Oct 25, 2006 - 2 answers

How come Google ignores my sites I try to submit to it? [more inside]
posted by zek on Dec 10, 2005 - 10 answers