Please explain reverse mortgages to someone who isn't all that savvy about mortgages and property. [more inside]
posted by doubtful_guest on Nov 10, 2009 - 12 answers

I currently work and live in Guildford, UK. I love my job and need to stay there for at least the next 6 months, but I am thoroughly miserable living in Guildford - it's a beautiful town but so dull for a young single person!! I want to move to south London and reverse commute - does anyone do this journey? Is it do-able? I'd probably need to drive although could poss do on train. Was thinking Clapham Common is nice area - what is the traffic like to get down to Guildford in the morning, is it bad? I need to be at work at 8.30am. I finish at 7pm. Are there any other places that are better for commuting and missing traffic - Clapham Junction maybe? Or brixton? Waterloo?
posted by bunnyrabbit22 on Feb 16, 2009 - 9 answers

Are there any reputable paid reverse lookup services if you only have a street/mailing address? I am trying to get an associated name of the resident of an address, and preferably also a phone number, but I have come up dry on the free online sites. The address is in the U.S. and there is a very good reason. [more inside]
posted by gudrun on Jan 9, 2009 - 11 answers

Is it rare, or just infrequent, to find a river branch whose confluence with a creek or other waterway, causes it to reverse direction? [more inside]
posted by skyper on Apr 29, 2008 - 8 answers

Anyone here familiar with the polar opposite of SAD disorder? Or to be more specific it seems a majority of people in every culture suffer varying degrees of sadness and 'the blues' during short and/or inclement weather days. Any number of studies confirm this But what if so called 'beautiful' days depress you? [more inside]
posted by dawson on Jan 12, 2008 - 23 answers

Please help me set up reverse DNS properly for an XServe connected to a network I manage. [more inside]
posted by odinsdream on Jul 27, 2007 - 10 answers

what is a (left-to-right) mirror image of the standard logarithmic graph called? [more inside]
posted by hayeled on Oct 23, 2006 - 16 answers

Is there a database or service that can take an IP address and return the name of the ISP that owns it? [more inside]
posted by b1tr0t on Jun 10, 2006 - 16 answers

Every manual transmission car I've ever driven makes a strange high pitched whining noise when going in reverse at more than about ten miles an hour. They don't make the same noise at the same revs in any forward gear. So why the difference? These are UK / European transmissions if that makes any difference.
posted by twine42 on May 21, 2004 - 15 answers