I'm looking for strange magazines to give as gift subscriptions. Ideas? [more inside]
posted by benzenedream on Nov 23, 2009 - 34 answers

Looking for the best websites to track my diet / exercise / weight.
posted by Aya on Sep 16, 2009 - 24 answers

Around 1990 I read a magazine article about a guy who took an extended journey by canoe, and then another by bicycle, rigging a computer to each to store route data, his journals, etc. Nobody had ever done such a thing before. Who was this man? [more inside]
posted by waldo on May 26, 2009 - 8 answers

I think my b/f read my journal and is mad at me for what I said. Not sure how to ask him if I'm right. [more inside]
posted by my_thai on May 1, 2009 - 28 answers

Looking for short fiction journals. [more inside]
posted by charlesv on Apr 8, 2009 - 11 answers

Deep breath: I am the online editor for a New York college's undergraduate literary journal's blog, and a complete beginner. I'm wondering about increasing net-presence, keeping the site timely, and making it vibrant. Very open to ideas. Hive mind? [more inside]
posted by omnigut on Oct 8, 2008 - 6 answers

My boss, the professor, has accepted the challenge of starting a new electronic academic journal to be self-published by the professional organisation that she currently heads. She is, understandably, very busy, so she has asked me to find out everything we need to do to make this happen, with, of course, a limited budget. [more inside]
posted by b33j on Feb 13, 2008 - 14 answers

In a journaling file system like ext3, a journal entry is written before each file system change, describing the change about to be carried out. This allows quick recovery if the actual file change is interrupted or not carried out due to power outage or whatever. But why is the act of writing the journal entry not susceptible to the exact same threat of being interrupted? [more inside]
posted by chrismear on Apr 10, 2007 - 10 answers