I'm looking for a freeware Windows bandwidth monitor that can be minimized to an icon sitting in the taskbar that displays a graph (think Process Explorer-style) of the up/down bandwidth. [more inside]
posted by griphus on Jan 23, 2008 - 5 answers

I understand that there are three different ways to adhere postage for bulk nonprofit mailings. Permit imprint, pre-canceled stamps or a postage meter. However we are getting conflicting information from our local post office and the USPS. Can we print postage with the meter at the non-profit rate and not use the permit imprint number? [more inside]
posted by mac-way on Nov 17, 2007 - 9 answers

My brother is looking for an inverter to use with a deep cycle battery while camping. [more inside]
posted by croutonsupafreak on Aug 12, 2007 - 8 answers

Does anyone have any experience with the Canon A-1 (or other Canon A-series SLRs)? [more inside]
posted by Venadium on Jun 11, 2007 - 14 answers

I just found out that I'm paying for another tenant's electricity usage (and have been for the last 4 years). What now? [more inside]
posted by NYScott on Oct 3, 2006 - 20 answers

Yeah, but what's the real difference between 3/4 and 6/8 time? [more inside]
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane on Aug 6, 2006 - 23 answers

In church Hymnals what do the numbers below the title mean? [more inside]
posted by drezdn on Jul 10, 2006 - 8 answers

How do electric meters work? How do they measure the amount of charge you used? I suspect they must know the amount of charge that enters the home, and then they have some way to measure the amount of charge that leaves the house, but I'm really not sure. [more inside]
posted by willnot on Jul 3, 2006 - 18 answers

Make/Buy an Applause-O-Meter? [more inside]
posted by prettyboyfloyd on Mar 22, 2006 - 12 answers

I got a ticket this morning on my car in Boston on Newbury Street. Do I have to keep paying the meter all day or does the ticket allow me to just keep my car there for as long as I need to? It's 25 bucks for another ticket, and its 25 cents for 15 minutes on the meter. Im out of quarters, im lazy, and I want to go back to bed.
posted by pwally on Jan 3, 2006 - 19 answers

Today, in my graduate linguistics class, we studied Gerard Manley Hopkins' "sprung rhythm." It seems an interesting experiment, but I'm now curious: do any metafilter literary types know if a poet (or poets) since Hopkins has used sprung rhythm in poetry?
posted by rockstar on Oct 25, 2005 - 9 answers

How did people learn how to write poetry back in the days when rhyme and meter were standard? [mi]
posted by nebulawindphone on Feb 1, 2005 - 15 answers

Dave Brubeck, Radiohead, Juliana Hatfield, Weezer, and Ben Folds write music in a variety of odd time signatures-- 3/4, 5/4, 7/8, etc-- and are some of my most favorite acts. Can anyone introduce me to some new music that also features songs written in odd times?
posted by trharlan on Jan 17, 2004 - 39 answers