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Sandwichs!

TwelveTwo — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:28:20 -0800

Who loves sandwiches? I do! But I'm tired of sandwichs designed in the vacuum of my mind. My question is thus: What are some great sandwichs? I'm also curious about sandwich tips and techniques that make any sandwich, or most sandwichs all the better. Bestow unto me your sandwichy wisdoms, Metafilter!

Articles about Neandertals?

Greg Nog — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:57:29 -0800

I've always been interested in early hominids, specifically Neandertals. I'm currently working in a research institution with access to PubMed and a huge array of scientific journals -- a perfect opportunity to get my caveman-learnin' on! Can anyone recommend some good scientific articles about Neandertals? Is there a paleoanthropologist in the house?

A years-old Hotmail problem

reklaw — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:53:15 -0800

Back when it was free for Hotmail to check your POP mail for you (Google says 2002, wow), I set it up to check my ISP email account. Not so long after, the option went paid-for -- meaning that I could no longer turn it off. It has long puzzled me as to what exactly Hotmail did to my email, as the POP emails have continued coming to my Hotmail account for years -- even after I changed the password on the Hotmail account. But it never really bothered me enough to figure it out.

Then, today, I found that I'd not checked my Hotmail account for a month, and so it'd been deactivated, and everyone who sent me email to my ISP POP account was getting bounce messages. But the bounce messages weren't coming from Hotmail -- they were coming from my ISP.

Recipient:
Reason: Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable
Please reply to
if you feel this message to be in error.

"Aha!" I say to myself. It seems obvious that all those years ago, Hotmail changed some kind of setting on my ISP's mail server, telling it to forward emails to the Hotmail account ("and they have the audacity to charge people for that now?", I ask myself).

And so we finally come on to the question:

How on earth do I turn this off? I assume there's some special code I have to somehow send to my ISP's mail server, but what is it?

Woz? More like Was, am I rite?!

basicchannel — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:44:46 -0800

What's the appeal of Steve Wozniak? He's everywhere these days and many nerds love him. To me, he seems like manboy who has managed to ride his Segway Polo-playing well beyond his 15 minutes of fame. He preoccupies himself with toys, is an awkward conversationalist (see here) and generally resembles a larger, mouth-breathing version of The 40 Year Old Virgin.

Seriously... what's the deal?

is an ebay fraud seller free?

airnxtz — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:11:29 -0800

can i EVER get revenge on a fraudulent ebay seller? ok i bought a $3,000 item on ebay a laptop, i never recieved it, i paypaled him the money, and he transfered those funds to his bank account, and then withrdrew it. He then informed me that on the day he was going to ship it out, his car was robbed, and everything (including the laptop and $3,000 cash) was stolen. he lives clear across the country from me, and i know i can get a charge back to my credit card, but is this guy going to get away with it? i mean its not like paypal or ebay can charge his account, as he withdrew the funds. im sure the feds wont do anything for only 3 grand, and the local police on both ends what could they do?

Tracking Down An Address In 1939 Vienna

yankeefog — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 07:22:24 -0800

How can I get my hands on a Vienna phonebook from circa 1938? I will be spending a weekend in Vienna next month, and I would love to see the apartment where my late grandfather lived before fleeing the Nazis. Unfortunately, nobody in the family knows the address, and there aren't any letters or other documents to provide it. Things are also complicated by the fact that I won't be visiting on a weekday, so any archives that might have this information will presumably be closed. Plus, I don't speak German. Am I out of luck, or is there any way to track this information down in the next few weeks?

Dead grasshopper

Homeskillet Freshy Fresh — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:22:21 -0800

My fingers are stuck in a chinese finger trap at the office, and my coworkers refuse to help. Googling 'chinese finger trap solution' isn't working. FIX ME

Porn in the woods.

mr.marx — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:01:38 -0800

Porn in the woods. Did you, as a kid, find porn in the woods? I did, and I have noticed this is a worldwide phenomena. Why the porn in the woods? Where does the porn in the woods come from? Yes, this is a serious question.

Question number 14668

jeremias — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 04:41:03 -0800

Life-altering experiences. Can you point to a single experience in your life, as a child, which you can define as having contributed to the person you are today? (+)

Question number 13267

cillit bang — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 08:18:28 -0800

Why do I associate Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree with great tragedy?

Question number 12278

robbie01 — Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:55:42 -0800

Lost Poem: This one is a toughie. Several years ago (12+) I saw a poem in a magazine, but it wasn't really "printed" in the magazine -- it appeared on a computer screenshot as a companion graphic to the main article. [+]

Question number 12222

noisia — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 09:19:42 -0800

The dead are rising. What do you do?

Question number 10857

LimePi — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:50:12 -0800

From the brand new AxMe Anonymizer

"Is my friend an alcoholic?" [MI]

Question number 8345

leotrotsky — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 18:52:55 -0800

Are there any sites more elitist than Mefi? By that I mean either more limited in membership, or more sought after and/or influential. The whole gmail / mefi swap, plus the periodic "expand the membership" pleas got me thinking about it, along with the occasional mentions of the site that is not to be named

Question number 8234

snarfodox — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 06:47:45 -0800

There are some amazing old posts in the MetaFilter archives, but the sheer volume of material makes it a needle/haystack exercise to find them. Jimbob made an excellent comment in this thread where he suggested that the community could put together a collection of favourite old MetaFilter discussions. So how about it, what classic MetaFilter post do you think qualifies as a must-read thread?

Question number 7921

ashbury — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 17:48:37 -0800

Suppose you killed somebody...

How would you dispose of the body without getting caught? Would you dump it somewhere? Bury it in the backyard or basement? Dissolve it in lime? What? What would your master plan be that would allow you to get away with it?

And no, I haven't killed anybody and I'm not planning to - I was just curious.

Question number 7028

Kwantsar — Wed, 05 May 2004 14:41:36 -0800

Could a typical young man, armed only with a knife, (say, six or eight inches long) be trained to consistently "win" fights with a grizzly bear? Assume no element of surprise.

Question number 4156

troutfishing — Wed, 24 Dec 2003 11:15:37 -0800

Recently, on the "Mary Celeste" Metafilter thread, Languagehat, Davehat, and I spontaneously coauthored (with no prior discussion) a bizarre, surrealist triptych I've dubbed "Food-Based Psychic Spying defense technology in the Cold War - A retrospective". I think we may polish it up a bit, add some bits here and there, and try to have it published - in hardcopy - somewhere. But where? Any suggestions for venues or submission protocol? Thanks.

Question number 3759

Quartermass — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:34:58 -0800

I am writing a term paper right now on Virtual Community (surprise - I am using MeFi as my case study!). Can I ask people here if they consider MeFi to be a 'real' community? Why or why not? (Interpret 'real' as you will). Also, any links to prior MeTa discussion on this topic would be grrreat. Thanks!

Question number 3725

y6y6y6 — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 07:50:35 -0800

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