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What's a good newsletter creating / sending application (either on- or offline) that's cheap, easy to use and customizable?
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at 9:33 AM on September 1, 2008
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How to stop Firefox from auto zooming the entire page.
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at 4:38 PM on August 14, 2008
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I need to download a digital version of a road map (think AAA), at a fairly high resolution. Would be really nice if it (a) didn't have any text or (b) was in a vector format (Illustrator, Freehand, etc.) where I could delete/turn off the text.
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at 6:28 PM on July 30, 2008
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My laptop recently died, and I need to replace it. I'm thinking of getting the cheapest macbook or an equivalently priced Dell or Lenovo. Help me figure out which.
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at 1:00 PM on July 23, 2008
(18 comments)
Type is art. Take little pieces of letterforms and make something new.
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at 8:01 AM on July 18, 2008
(10 comments)
I'm playing with a simple python MeFi text-based RSS checker. Code
here.
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at 3:45 PM on July 15, 2008
(24 comments)
The integrated sound card on my 6 year old PC is apparently dead, but LastFM standalone player still plays music.
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at 9:29 AM on July 4, 2008
(6 comments)
This is a crap post. Celebrity gossip, really?
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at 8:50 AM on June 23, 2008
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Looking for a general background/framework within which to define the more technical aspects of a textual analysis project, as well as interesting examples of computer-driven textual analysis.
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at 9:12 PM on June 20, 2008
(1 comment)
code_swarm, an animated visualization of open source software project commits. e.g.:
Python.
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at 8:56 PM on June 18, 2008
(18 comments)
Where can I find tourist-guidey symbols?
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at 12:21 PM on June 9, 2008
(2 comments)
A director friend asked me to design the opening and closing credits for her upcoming film. Please school me on the technical aspects.
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at 9:42 AM on May 27, 2008
(12 comments)
XHTML+CSS issue: IE7 automatically enlarging text and uncentering stuff.
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at 2:50 PM on May 5, 2008
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Code-switching while coding: if you speak more than one language and are a programmer or a web-developer, do you write code in one or the other or both?
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at 12:43 PM on April 9, 2008
(15 comments)
What domain name registrars for the .com TLD hit the sweet spot between ease, reliability and price at present?
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at 10:14 AM on March 1, 2008
(30 comments)
Need Longform Alternate London Fantasy, please.
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at 5:46 PM on January 31, 2008
(22 comments)
I am trying to get pure-css sidenotes to work, and have run up smack against a IE6 (but not 7) css-bug.
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at 1:20 PM on January 21, 2008
(15 comments)
Is there such a thing as industrial-blues?
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at 8:39 AM on January 14, 2008
(16 comments)
Where could I find online scanned stills from movies scored by Morricone? Especially
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and
The Mission.
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at 7:45 PM on January 1, 2008
(5 comments)
I have a gorgeous cast-iron mortar and pestle, that I use a lot for cooking. Unfortunately, it has some rust, especially on the bottom, probably from when it's washed and left to dry still slightly wet on its bottom.
How should I:
a) get rid of the present rust.
b) avoid future rust.
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at 11:56 AM on December 18, 2007
(23 comments)
Resolver One looks and feels like an Excel clone, except that it stores all the data and formulas as a
Python program. You can add more code, or export the whole thing.
It's in public beta now, and the commercial release will be free for open source and personal projects.
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at 9:38 AM on December 17, 2007
(38 comments)
Looking for a fairly simple database driven web application environment / framework. Thinking of Turbogears.
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at 10:19 AM on November 21, 2007
(10 comments)
Can't boot PC, getting "FDC Failure".
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at 7:42 AM on November 14, 2007
(8 comments)
Please suggest can't-fail-lullabies to play for my bouncin' baby boy.
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at 9:22 AM on October 16, 2007
(34 comments)
I've noticed a weird variation on the I-don't-know-the-answer-but-here's-a-wild-guess syndrome on AskMe: in "help me translate this" questions, people who quite clearly don't speak the target language still offer their awkward, ungrammatical or just-plain-wrong translations.
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at 8:37 PM on October 7, 2007
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Be difficult. Be compelling. But above all—
be contrary.
A brand new debating site. Not a lot of content yet, but it seems to have potential.
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at 7:08 AM on September 30, 2007
(18 comments)
My first son should be born any day now. I am concerned about his peaceful coexistence with my cat.
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at 8:38 AM on September 6, 2007
(23 comments)
Looking for any maps containing georeferenced information about Valparaiso, Chile.
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at 4:07 PM on August 12, 2007
In the
Sharkrunners game , players control their ships, but
the sharks are controlled by real-world white sharks with GPS units attached to their fins (...) every shark that players encounter corresponds to a real shark in the real world.
via information aesthetics
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at 6:59 PM on August 4, 2007
(9 comments)
Help me pick out songs to sing and play on the guitar for my soon-to-be-born son.
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at 1:47 PM on August 1, 2007
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The 1
st ever Santiago, Chile meetup.
Somewhere in Providencia on the 16
th of August. dhruva, andrew cooke and myself will be there, anybody else in the neighborhood welcome.
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at 11:45 AM on July 29, 2007
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If you asked a question on AskMe a while ago and got not-so-good* answers, would it be bad form to ask the same question again? Should it be disguised so as to not seem to be the same question?
* to put it politely.
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at 10:56 AM on July 24, 2007
(46 comments)
MySQL: How do I search and replace a value in a table under certain conditions:
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at 2:17 PM on July 19, 2007
(5 comments)
Artag: Augmented reality on your desktop. via Digital Urban, with a
HowTo.
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at 7:40 AM on July 13, 2007
(11 comments)
The task manager on my WIndows XP SP2 box shows 100% CPU usage constantly. Whenever I'm not doing anything actually resource intensive (like using Firefox, sigh), "System" uses up 80-90% of the CPU. This is not normal
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at 7:10 AM on July 6, 2007
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Few books have given me as much sheer joy as Bringhurst's "The Elements of Typographic Style". Tufte's "Visual Explanations" is also up there in terms of content and presentation. What other exceedingly well researched, written and designed non-fiction books would you recommend for somebody interested in Design, Architecture, Programming, Information Visualization, Maps, Math, Music and Science?
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at 11:46 AM on June 27, 2007
(35 comments)
I am finishing work on a short python program for my master's thesis. I am a newbie at python, and would like to ask for help optimizing the program in AskMe, by posting the actual script and having people with more experience give it a look. 2 questions:
1) does this sound too do-my-homework-ish?
2) the program is about 130 lines, would it be kosher to post the whole thing inside the question (not on the front page, obviously)? Or should I just link to the .py file on a server?
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at 10:17 AM on June 10, 2007
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I have been tasked with creating a virtual walkthrough of an existing space, using some sort of 360º panoramas, with zooming, maybe audio.
I am of familiar with QTVR and, VRML, and have heard of X3D, but wonder what the state of the art is for this kind of thing.
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at 7:31 PM on May 30, 2007
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Given a three dimensional triangular mesh M, composed of irregularly sized triangles, is there a program, plugin
1 or algorithm that will create a new mesh M' with the same overall shape as M but with regularly sized triangles (i.e.:all triangles having similar sizes)?
1: For 3dsMax, Rhino, etc.
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at 7:20 AM on May 15, 2007
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