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I need to find device-specific US market share for mobile phones and tablets. I can find plenty of info on mobile/tablet OS and browser market share, but I need % market share for Google Nexus, iPad Mini, etc.
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at 11:28 AM on January 31, 2013
(3 comments)
How can I use PHP (ideally with jQuery) to generate charts
like these that Wikipedia uses to show part shares in
Congress?
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at 3:51 PM on January 11, 2013
(3 comments)
Was
Operation Barbarossa the largest-scale planned human endeavor in history?
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at 9:05 PM on December 6, 2012
(12 comments)
On
July 5, 1816, the passengers and crew of the shipwrecked French
frigate Méduse abandoned 147 people on
a makeshift raft in a gale off the coast of Africa. When the raft was found 13 days later only 15 people were still alive. The incident inspired Théodore Géricault's painting
Le Radeau de la Méduse (
The Raft of the Medusa).
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at 7:49 AM on August 31, 2012
(34 comments)
Netflix's lost year: The inside story of the price-hike train wreck. Leading up to the first anniversary of the Netflix meltdown, CNET interviewed former and current Netflix employees to find out how a series of missteps turned into a lost year, and whether it has rebounded from those self-inflicted wounds.
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at 3:19 PM on July 11, 2012
(115 comments)
Fifty years ago today
Frank Morris,
John Anglin and
Clarence Anglin escaped from
Alcatraz and were never seen again. U.S. Marshal
Michael Dyke is still on the case and thinks at least two of the men successfully escaped.
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at 5:09 AM on June 11, 2012
(18 comments)
The Overlook Hotel: "Ephemera related to Stanley Kubrick's Masterpiece of Modern Horror,
The Shining."
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at 1:30 PM on March 20, 2012
(45 comments)
The Family Hour: An Oral History of The Sopranos
[single-page print version]EDIE FALCO (Carmela Soprano): After we shot the pilot, David said, “Well, that was a lot of fun. Unfortunately, no one will ever watch this show, but you guys have been great.”
And that was the end. Or so we thought.
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at 8:17 AM on March 16, 2012
(61 comments)
What's the best way to get an internet connection on my first generation Mac Pro?
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at 7:49 AM on January 25, 2012
(10 comments)
What's a good gift for a 9-year-old girl?
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at 12:41 PM on January 6, 2012
(23 comments)
I need suggestions and recipes for cooking for 20 people. Challenge: the food has to be microwavable.
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at 10:25 AM on November 10, 2011
(16 comments)
The Texas Rangers were one strike away from winning the World Series for the first time in their 40-year history in
Game 6 Thursday night. Twice.
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at 11:21 PM on October 27, 2011
(140 comments)
Should we sand and prime patched-up holes in our walls or hire someone to do it?
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at 6:50 AM on October 5, 2011
(14 comments)
What are good resources for researching and evaluating enterprise web content management and digital asset management systems?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kirkaracha
at 8:03 AM on September 20, 2011
(4 comments)
"I messed up. I owe everyone an explanation." Netflix has
lost 26% of its value after
raising prices and splitting their DVD and streaming services (
previously); they'll lose lose 600,000 subscribers by September 30 instead of gaining the 400,000 they predicted. Now Netflix is spinning off their DVD-by-mail service into a separate web site, Qwikster.
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 6:46 AM on September 19, 2011
(407 comments)
Over three nights at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood in December 1983, Jonathan Demme filmed Talking Heads'
Stop Making Sense. The band performed
"Psycho Killer," "Heaven," "Thank You for Sending Me an Angel," "Found a Job,"
"Slippery People," "Cities,",
"Burning Down the House," "Life During Wartime," "Making Flippy Floppy,"
"Swamp," "What a Day That Was," "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)," "Once in a Lifetime," "Big Business/I Zimbra," "Genius of Love" (as Tom Tom Club while David Byrne changed into the Big Suit),
"Girlfriend is Better," "Take Me to the River," and "Crosseyed and Painless."
"Thank you. Does anybody have any questions?"
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at 6:34 AM on August 1, 2011
(65 comments)
How can I code an animation that goes through different parts of an iPad-optimized web page?
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at 6:45 AM on June 22, 2011
(2 comments)
World War II: Before the War. Part 1 of a forthcoming weekly 20-part
retrospective of World War II from
The Atlantic's In Focus.
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at 5:07 PM on June 19, 2011
(13 comments)
Any recommendations for an "extranet-in-a-box"?
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at 9:17 AM on May 25, 2011
(1 comment)
How can a family accept online donations to a child's custodial account?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kirkaracha
at 8:37 AM on April 6, 2011
(2 comments)
How can I create a web-based table of contents that links to specific places within a diverse collection of documents?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kirkaracha
at 10:01 AM on March 17, 2011
(4 comments)
Assuming that restaurants need them, what would make a good web site for a restaurant?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kirkaracha
at 12:50 PM on March 2, 2011
(67 comments)
Mapping Slavery. In September 1861 Edwin Hergesheimer of the United States Coast Survey produced
a map based on data from the
1860 census showing the distribution of slaves across the South. It's interesting to compare this to other maps.
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 8:07 AM on January 7, 2011
(32 comments)
What
books (not by James Ellroy) are like the
movie L.A. Confidential?
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at 5:38 PM on December 29, 2010
(12 comments)
The Case of the Vanishing Blonde After a woman living in a hotel in Florida was raped, viciously beaten, and left for dead near the Everglades in 2005, the police investigation quickly went cold. But when the victim sued the Airport Regency, the hotel’s private detective, Ken Brennan, became obsessed with the case: how had the 21-year-old blonde disappeared from her room, unseen by security cameras? The author follows Brennan’s trail as the P.I. worked a chilling hunch that would lead him to other states, other crimes, and a man nobody else suspected.
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at 11:40 AM on November 19, 2010
(131 comments)
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, an exhibit at the
Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, "is the first major museum exhibition to focus on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture."
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at 7:36 PM on November 7, 2010
(24 comments)
"Commuter" by
Michael Patterson,
was the forerunner to a-ha's
"Take On Me" [via].
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 10:54 AM on October 28, 2010
(16 comments)
How can we keep the police from giving out arbitrary and illogical tickets on our block?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kirkaracha
at 10:55 AM on October 18, 2010
(17 comments)
What's the best way to spec font sizes in CSS for a mobile web site for the latest versions of Android, Blackberry, and Safari Mobile?
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at 6:25 PM on September 16, 2010
(1 comment)
Where can I get overalls for a Big Boy costume?
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at 2:10 PM on September 3, 2010
(3 comments)
I Was with Coco. "If you’ve ever seen a criminal standing before a firing squad and felt jealous of all the attention he was receiving, then you would have loved writing for Conan O’Brien."
[via]
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at 10:06 AM on August 25, 2010
(29 comments)
How can I use jQuery to show and hide DIVs based on checkboxes in a submitted form
from a different page?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kirkaracha
at 7:28 AM on July 21, 2010
(9 comments)
Who's Princess Leia's "father"? (Alleged father, not actual father.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by kirkaracha
at 2:25 PM on June 22, 2010
(4 comments)
What fonts can I use to emulate a
Greetings From... postcard?
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at 12:06 PM on June 4, 2010
(5 comments)
The First Decoration Day was held by freed slaves on May 1, 1865 at the
Washington Race Track in Charleston, South Carolina to
honor "The Martyrs of the Race Course": Union POWs who had died in a Confederate prison camp there. Decoration Day later became known as
Memorial Day.
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at 10:34 AM on May 28, 2010
(18 comments)
In 1966, Motown songwriters Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield wrote a song about Strong's relationship troubles, and Smokey Robinson & The Miracles recorded it. Motown CEO Berry Gordy thought the song was "horrible" and shelved it. The song was
"I Heard it Through The Grapevine."
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 5:56 AM on April 19, 2010
(41 comments)
I need a little help with regular expressions.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kirkaracha
at 9:15 AM on March 10, 2010
(11 comments)
Is there a word that encompasses laws and Supreme Court cases?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kirkaracha
at 4:23 PM on February 18, 2010
(18 comments)
Top Videos from MTV's First Day. Most people know that The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" was the first video ever played on MTV, on August 1, 1981. The Top 13 picks the top 13 videos that aired that day.
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 10:08 AM on February 10, 2010
(57 comments)
Interview with Berkeley Breathed on the occasion of a new
five-volume compilation (review) of every
Bloom County strip.
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 10:02 AM on February 2, 2010
(150 comments)
How would it be Constitutional to hold Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United States without trial?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kirkaracha
at 8:57 AM on January 23, 2010
(28 comments)
America Bowl: U.S. Presidents vs. Super Bowls. "44 Presidents. 44 Super Bowls. Finally they battle head-to-head." For example,
Abraham Lincoln vs. Super Bowl XVI: "Super Bowl XVI was pretty good. President 16 was pretty great. With malice toward none -- and in this we include the Bengals -- it's Abraham Lincoln in a walkover."
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at 11:07 AM on January 19, 2010
(28 comments)
What was the economic impact of Jim Crow?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kirkaracha
at 9:50 AM on December 11, 2009
(13 comments)
What kinds of beer should by brother serve at his restaurant?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kirkaracha
at 12:10 PM on December 2, 2009
(39 comments)
Route from the 1969 Movie Easy Rider. Last April MrZip66 rode his motorcycle along the route Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper rode in
Easy Rider. His blog entry has a map of the route and then-and-now photos. This week
Slate's
doing the same thing, except in a PT Cruiser (and flying over part of the route).
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at 4:48 PM on November 19, 2009
(32 comments)
"So, 'now'--ooh, what a wonderful first word, right in the beginning of the play. 'Now.' Not in the past. Not a history play.
Now." Ian McKellen
breaks down Richard III.
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at 7:32 AM on November 5, 2009
(46 comments)
"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." On January 13, 1968, Johnny Cash played two concerts at
Folsom State Prison with June Carter, Carl Perkins, the Statler Brothers, and his band, the Tennessee Three.
At Folsom Prison, drawn mainly from the first show, is often ranked as one of the best albums of all time and
turned Cash's career around. Reporter Gene Beley covered the concert and
recorded some songs from the audience.
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at 9:56 AM on October 23, 2009
(22 comments)
"The unburied come back to haunt us." On July 2, 1937,
Amelia Earhart and navigator
Fred Noonan took off from
Lae, Papua New Guinea (map) in their
Lockheed Electra en route to
Howland Island (map). They were never seen again.
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at 6:11 AM on September 22, 2009
(27 comments)
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