Recipes and tips on cooking for a horde (~200 people). [more inside]
posted by ottereroticist on May 13, 2009 - 9 answers

Help me feed a crowd of people, adults and children, on a trip. Ideas? More inside. [more inside]
posted by maxg94 on Feb 9, 2009 - 6 answers

I'm looking for a website where people post source code and then others comment on improvements.
posted by zzztimbo on Sep 26, 2008 - 6 answers

What are some examples of "the show going on" under the threat of a riot? [more inside]
posted by umbú on May 1, 2008 - 23 answers

What is the largest live crowd to ever witness a couple having sex? [more inside]
posted by ktoad on Dec 8, 2007 - 8 answers

WisdomOfCrowdsFilter: I read a theory smewhere that there's a peculiar thing that happens when you ask a group of people to estimate something. As I remember it, there's something about the magic number of 50%, but I'm not wholly sure how this works. The idea was basically that when at least 50% of the individuals were estimating properly in some way, the average estimate would eventually converge on the true value, but when less then 50% of the individuals estimated properly, widely divergent values would emerge. Essentially, more then 50% or _something_ produced good estimates, less then 50% produced estimates that were substantially worse than those produced by just one individual. I've spent some time with Google and Wikipedia on Estimation and Delphi methods, but to no avial. Any mifites know what I'm talking about?
posted by zachlipton on Apr 21, 2007 - 19 answers

Desperately looking for images of people en masse, spelling something with their bodies. Or in stadiums, when they make a picture by having everyone hold up a colored card. [more inside]
posted by cloudscratcher on Jan 16, 2007 - 18 answers

How does the media predict the number of fans traveling to see an away game? [more inside]
posted by dead_ on Sep 15, 2006 - 6 answers

Is there any way I can find attendance statistics for amusement parks? Planning a trip to Six Flags here in Maryland. My theory: July 5th would be a good day to go. It's my belief that people are more likely to take off Friday for a 4 day weekend, than a Tuesday, and other's would be lees likely to take a day off, since it's just after a holiday, so July 5th would be less crowded than normal. Everyone else seems to think I'm crazy and that any day near a holiday would be a mess. If no one knows where I can get statistics, I will certainly accept opinions on the validity/insanity of my theory.
posted by emptybowl on Jun 9, 2005 - 10 answers