How can I work towards more consumer transparency? [more inside]
posted by Vidamond on Jul 10, 2009 - 3 answers

After looking everywhere and which a way, I am at a loss. I am looking for a short story with a near future high tech anarchy as background-- something that resembles David Brin's concept of The Transparent Society, Utopian Version, where every body knows everybody else's business--as opposed to, say, Police Surveillance State On Steroids Big Time where Big Brother knows your business and location as in 1984 meets The Minority Report. [more inside]
posted by y2karl on Mar 10, 2009 - 11 answers

Are private universities non-profit institutions? What standards of transparency/accountability [to the student body and/or public] are they required to uphold? Examples of governance models? [more inside]
posted by lunit on Dec 12, 2008 - 7 answers

I'm really confused about how and when to bring up your level of interest in relationships. [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Oct 28, 2008 - 31 answers

I am a member of an academic committee that handles award nominations. Our job is to chose which of many internal applicants may apply for an external award. Often such awards accept just 1 or 2 applicants from a single organization. What is the most transparent and fair process for making such decisions? Alternatively, what are problems you've faced on similar committees? [more inside]
posted by about_time on Jul 9, 2008 - 8 answers

Color algebra: Given a color C, how do I pick a color F that will be color C when against background color B at opacity N? How would I do the same thing for a color multiplication? [more inside]
posted by weston on Feb 18, 2008 - 18 answers

I'm after for a cheap solution to create very (very) basic captions and turn them into slides for a clunky carousel projector. Lo-fi is the aesthetic - it's for a theatre show. [more inside]
posted by klaatu on Jan 17, 2008 - 5 answers

How can I, a US citizen, be more informed about my lawmakers' decisions and whether they're doing a good job? I have an example that I wonder about intensely, today's Senate Intelligence Committee meeting. [more inside]
posted by cmiller on Oct 18, 2007 - 4 answers

Any hints on creating a transparent .gif that uses solely white content? [more inside]
posted by mattydavy on Aug 18, 2007 - 14 answers

Where can I find a breakdown of government contracts given to nonprofits? [more inside]
posted by viewofdelft on Mar 16, 2007 - 1 answer

Help me watch anime while I work [aka video transparency/opacity solution?] [more inside]
posted by Chorus on Dec 21, 2006 - 10 answers

I need some low-tech advice on displaying exhibits at my upcoming mock trial. [more inside]
posted by Saucy Intruder on Apr 25, 2006 - 7 answers

OK, so I figured out, through lots of painful browsing of MSDN, how to make windows (partially) transparent, and also how to chroma-key windows. And it works great, but only in windows 2000. In windows XP it works only in certain cirumstances. Need windows programmer to help me... [more inside]
posted by RustyBrooks on Feb 20, 2006 - 15 answers

Are there any Windows utilities out there that use transparency in an intelligent way? [more inside]
posted by krisjohn on Oct 12, 2005 - 15 answers

PDF from html with extensive css. How do I resolve my formatting issues? [more inside]
posted by mystyk on Sep 19, 2005 - 8 answers

Is there a way to tint an entire web page a certain colour? As in, not actually altering the images and other content to be tinted that colour, just for the content to look that way when viewed on that page. It sounds to me like something that could be done with CSS but I'm really not sure. Google's results aren't turning up quite what I'm looking for, although maybe I just suck at finding the right words for this query.
posted by DyRE on Jan 10, 2005 - 8 answers

Word to PDF Distortion Filter
I'm distilling a bunch of Word Files which contain tables, over which I am superimposing "semi-transparent" light gray text boxes. When these pages are distilled, the resulting .PDF displays the gray text boxes as "varigated," i.e., having bands of light and dark gray.

Does any kind stranger know if there is some setting I can adjust to make this go away? Thanks!
posted by ParisParamus on Oct 16, 2004 - 4 answers

Photoshop gurus: I've got a rectangular photo, which I plop down in the middle of a colored background. I'd like to create a smooth transparency gradient in the photo with respect to the background (more transparent at the top, opaque at the bottom). How would one do this?

(Specifically, I'm contructing a header image for a website... the top of the header is a solid color, with logo, etc. in it, while the bottom of the header is the photo. I'd like the solid area to dissolve into the photo).

Thanks- if anyone ever needs PHP/Postgresql advice, let me know!
posted by gsteff on Mar 23, 2004 - 6 answers

Is there any easy to implement, close to 100% reliable, HTML, CSS, JS or whatever -hack to make IE correctly implement full alpha transparency in PNGs? It would make the life of this web developer much more happy and carefree.
posted by signal on Mar 14, 2004 - 11 answers