Need a thank-you gift for a comfortably well-off Indian family.
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posted by Mngo
on Nov 27, 2008 -
2 answers
Help me find this music video from the mid- to late-nineties. Possible data points: I believe I only saw it once, on MTV's
120 Minutes. There were Muppet-style puppets in bright colors but with a slightly out-of-date film stock, as though the video was a Sesame Street spoof. The song lyrics included the word "Lollipop". I think one scene involved refrigerator-magnet plastic letters forming a word. I believe the band was British. That's all I got, man. Half of this may be hallucinated, for I know. Can you help?
posted by Greg Nog
on Nov 27, 2008 -
7 answers
We've just moved to town (Vancouver, BC) and are planning a wedding for next summer (fun!) The reception must be a Chinese banquet and I was wondering if anyone had any positive/happy experiences with attending or having a wedding banquet at any particular Chinese restaurant?
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posted by branparsons
on Nov 26, 2008 -
8 answers
I think my computer just died. I cannot get anything to appear on screen. What are my options?
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posted by bove
on Nov 26, 2008 -
16 answers
Found an old computer in the basement. What steps should I go through to get it up and running?
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posted by djgh
on Nov 26, 2008 -
10 answers
When I was in high school, we had a writing lab with some type of mainframe-ish type terminals setup, where there was writing software available which would list frequently repeated words, point out large paragraphs, spelling errors, document complexity, punctuation errors, etc. This was awhile ago, is this type of thing freely available anywhere these days?
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posted by ceberon
on Nov 26, 2008 -
5 answers
Please help me find inner tubes and fenders for my commuter bike. What is a 700x42c in the US?
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posted by dirty lies
on Nov 26, 2008 -
11 answers
How to break into science writing for magazines? What are the strengths/weaknesses of using a traditional vs non-mainstream approach (eg, a blog).
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posted by Wolfster
on Nov 26, 2008 -
3 answers
How can I create an extremely simple flash slideshow of still photographs that I can embed on my web site ... for free?
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posted by nomad73
on Nov 26, 2008 -
15 answers
I recently adopted a 2 yr. old Shih Tzu from the pound. He's been to the vet and has a clean bill of health. He's settled very well into things here and I'd like to start working on training him. After reading about several different methods I find clicker training the most interesting but I've never done it before. Anyone have any suggestions or tips?
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posted by lysistrata
on Nov 26, 2008 -
10 answers
I am likely to soon get a job offer from Company A. Yesterday, Company B called to schedule an interview for a few weeks from now. I would prefer to work at Company B, but if I didn't get the job, I would want to work at Company A. How do I handle this delicate situation, seeing as we're talking about almost a month until I would have an answer from Company B?
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posted by inatizzy
on Nov 25, 2008 -
11 answers
I want to read more about financial crimes, real and fictitious. Any recommendations?
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posted by reenum
on Nov 25, 2008 -
12 answers
Help a linguistics-obsessed college student learn Latin via the magic of the interwebs.
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posted by fantine
on Nov 25, 2008 -
19 answers
Gifts-for-men filter: don't worry, I know
generally what I want to get, I'm just looking for specific item suggestions/brand names for a) a person who needs gloves, and b) a person who occasionally likes cigars.
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posted by EmpressCallipygos
on Nov 25, 2008 -
13 answers
I always knew I'd go back to grad school to get my PhD in English, but have I shot myself in the foot by picking 2009, aka the year of financial armageddon and joblessness, to apply to top-notch programs?
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posted by zoomorphic
on Nov 25, 2008 -
8 answers
How to move my iTunes library from one computer to another while keeping in tact the original "date added" field for all 100gbs?
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posted by anthropomorphic
on Nov 25, 2008 -
9 answers
ComputerBuildingFilter: As my home PC just recently kicked the bucket, I'm looking into building my own PC for the first time, and I want to make sure the parts I'm looking at buying are compatible.
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posted by Grither
on Nov 25, 2008 -
16 answers
Suggestions for making a Guitar Hero cake look like the guitar controller? The problem is all the black....
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posted by gwenlister
on Nov 25, 2008 -
11 answers
How do I replace non-printable barf from charset mangling with sed/awk or perl? I have a collection of flat html files which at some point in the past got corrupted charset-wise. You can see an example broken file
here. Apache serves them up utf-8 in a clearly broken way, but dropping in a .htaccess to force iso-8859-1 doesn't help (see
here) and ditto windows-1252 (see
here). When I open the files in vim or less, I see "<89>" as if it were one char for what should be ’ (right curly quotation mark). I don't know how to replace that in a programmatic way since it's not a literal bracket-eight-nine-bracket. Halp?
posted by tarheelcoxn
on Nov 24, 2008 -
11 answers
I read the Wikipedia article on Dubai itself, but am still confused as to exactly how businesses such as a hotel located in the country can afford to do things like
put on a larger fireworks show than the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
A friend of mine with Republican/Libertarian leanings told me they do not charge any form of taxes and that is why business has boomed there, but I am a bit dubious about this answer.
I know they use a lot of borderline slave labor to build, but there has to be more than that too.
posted by idyllhands
on Nov 24, 2008 -
25 answers
Where can a leather jacket be repaired near White Plains, NY? My son's new jacket brushed against a metal fence and has a clean slice in the sleeve. 2 tailors want to glue and stitch it, but I'm afraid it will look as if the jacket has a scar. Any suggestions?
posted by suzeQ
on Nov 24, 2008 -
4 answers
In the past I have been paid the following things to sign up for a Credit Card: a slice of pizza, a shirt, a $15 discount, and now at Amazon, a $30 discount. Are there any with a higher value than that?
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posted by brenton
on Nov 24, 2008 -
20 answers
What small (snack-sized), quiet (non-crunchy), neat (non-crumb making) and relatively healthy foods can I keep at my desk?
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posted by dogmom
on Nov 24, 2008 -
42 answers
Out of the blue, my spouse received a form letter from the DMV claiming that he caused more than $750 in damages over two months ago. He doesn't know anything about this...what to do?
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posted by ilyanassa
on Nov 24, 2008 -
12 answers
Where should I study Japanese in the Bay Area? I work at EA and one of my co-workers is visiting from Japan. I'm conversationally fluent but still feel my grammar and vocabulary is really rough (plus, I'm as illiterate as a peasant).
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posted by ebness86
on Nov 24, 2008 -
3 answers
After many years, my Canon PowerShot S20 needs a new Ni-MH battery. Canon sells a
replacement battery for $49. Amazon sells a third party replacement made by
Hi Capacity for about half the price. There are no user reviews for the cheaper batteries. Is the $49 Canon battery a waste of money?
posted by R. Mutt
on Nov 24, 2008 -
8 answers
Online Security Filter: Welcome email contained plain text password. Specific examples of why this is bad needed.
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posted by TauLepton
on Nov 23, 2008 -
19 answers
Looking for a political cartoon in which a gay Republican is asked about how he arrived at his political identity, and he eventually answers, "I'm in a high tax bracket." I remember it as a Tom Tomorrow or possibly Ted Rall cartoon from the late '90s or early '00s, but so far I've had no luck in Googling for it.
posted by backtotherain
on Nov 23, 2008 -
4 answers
I've been browsing through a website whose pages are set up to be viewed as indexes/directories with no HTML. Many of the files listed are image files, and I'd like to be able to see them without having to click on each one individually. Is there some kind of add-on or plugin that will automatically show thumbnails of all the images on the page or am I stuck clicking on each one?
posted by elfgirl
on Nov 23, 2008 -
6 answers
I have a 2-node Windows 2000 Enterprise Server Cluster running SQL 2000 Server. I've added a new Disk Resource to the cluster. The two servers can see the new disk and failover is seamless. However, SQL Server does not see the new disk. I cannot move a database to the new disk, change the backup location to the new disk, etc.
What steps are required to get SQL to see the new disk?
posted by eratus
on Nov 23, 2008 -
5 answers
