Okay what is the name of the kind of swing music where the band does call and response with the singer? Not the backup singers. The horn section. [more inside]
posted by rileyray3000 on Dec 14, 2009 - 10 answers

Seeking fire department incident response websites from anywhere in the world – updated on the fly (e.g. Toronto) or whenever they get the chance (Shropshire), it doesn't matter. Does your area's fire service do this?
posted by avocet on Dec 6, 2009 - 10 answers

Is it possible to get a strobe light to respond to sound input? [more inside]
posted by cloeburner on Sep 5, 2009 - 2 answers

What do you say to someone who apologizes for something they've done that you're not okay with at all? This would be in a non-personal type relationship... more of a setting where you're the customer. [more inside]
posted by FortyT-wo on Aug 24, 2008 - 30 answers

I'll soon be training some new employees remotely via shared desktop + speakerphone (possibly + webcam). I/ we have never done this before, so if I'm put on the spot, what are good, different ways to deflect questions that I don't know the answer to whilst keeping my cool and not sounding like I'm clueless? [more inside]
posted by forallmankind on May 24, 2008 - 8 answers

What should the response be at the end of a college interview? [more inside]
posted by Corduroy on Mar 24, 2008 - 11 answers

Juggling job offers? (wordy, follow-up) [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Nov 7, 2007 - 6 answers

I've a midterm tomorrow on direct response marketing, but if I look at my notes one more time I'll projectile vomit. Can someone recommend a podcast or engaging article I can chill out to instead?
posted by cameron.case on Nov 6, 2007 - 6 answers

Help with my immature self: if someone offends me, my response is to not speak to them - and I can drag it out for ages, too. Worse still, I've found this to be quite an effective technique, so I'm consistently experiencing a degree of positive feedback. However, I do know that it's rather immature and not particularly constructive, so I'd like to know how better to deal with such a situation - what's a more mature technique/ what works for you? (I'm 35...).
posted by anonymous on Apr 28, 2007 - 32 answers

In Eddie Izzard's Dressed to Kill, he says that how people respond to you is based 70% on how you look, 20% on how you sound, and 10% on what you say. What branch of psychology studies these reactions? [more inside]
posted by The_Partridge_Family on Dec 25, 2006 - 14 answers

Is it possible to sue a police department for crummy response time? [more inside]
posted by SpecialK on Oct 9, 2006 - 29 answers

What is the importance of the "Utstein-style" in (disaster) medicine? Specifically, I was looking at this publication.
posted by about_time on Nov 9, 2005 - 2 answers

What is the easiest way, in Windows, to sniff the HTTP (and HTTPS) requests and responses back from the server for an application that won't let you tell it to use a proxy? [more inside]
posted by ralawrence on Mar 30, 2005 - 9 answers

SpamFilter (literally): When setting up an email account for my own domain, I'm setting up a catch-all for any spam or emails that might go to *@mydomain.com. Is it a bad idea, especially with spammers, to have an automated response be sent back saying that address does not exist? [MoIn] [more inside]
posted by MrAnonymous on Jun 10, 2004 - 17 answers

A couple of months ago - maybe as far back as six months - there was an article on Yahoo News about how scientists had discovered that there was a neurochemical response to watching other people in pain. The example they gave was that when you watch a person stubbing their toe (or something similar) you yourself "experience" the pain yourself in a way, at least as far as your brain chemistry is concerned.

I'm a little fuzzy on the details, but does anyone remember this, and where I can read more about it?
posted by interrobang on Apr 8, 2004 - 5 answers