What are these weird posts on the sidewalk in Manhattan? [more inside]
posted by dcjd on Sep 1, 2008 - 4 answers

How do I take a graph that looks like this and display it in a web friendly format? Oh, and there's 300,000 of them. [more inside]
posted by christonabike on Apr 17, 2008 - 6 answers

Why is it that the genetic "distance" between two populations would be determined by the angle between their position vectors rather than the magnitude of their respective displacements? [more inside]
posted by PuGZ on Mar 8, 2008 - 10 answers

I'm seeing red. Does anyone know why? [more inside]
posted by bryon on Jul 26, 2007 - 13 answers

When I was a kid, I found a bizarre pen at my grandmother's house. It was a marker with a roller on the tip and it created a dot pattern similar to zip-a-tone when you wrote with it. The ink was a dull purple, like Spider-Man's webbing in a comic book. She called it a "fax highlighter," but I've never been able to find such a thing in office supply stores or on the internet. It sure would be cool to have one for shading and creating a unique look in quick sketches. Help?
posted by clango on Apr 17, 2007 - 17 answers

What is the white dot on my nipple? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Oct 30, 2006 - 5 answers

Converting an image to a simple dot-matrix pattern? [more inside]
posted by Sreiny on Oct 15, 2006 - 15 answers

I can't figure out a way to browse Amazon via Listmania lists. Is there any way to do this? They show up on nearly every book page I visit, but I'd like to browse through them by user and topic.
posted by wires on Apr 20, 2006 - 2 answers

What is the best use you've seen made of a .Mac account? [more inside]
posted by airguitar on Oct 21, 2005 - 19 answers