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I've been offered a new contract/consulting job where I would be paid not by the hour or for a specific deliverable, but at a flat weekly rate. Under this arrangement, how might I make intellectual property distinctions between works that will belong to this client, and outside works I may do for myself or others?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 11:19 AM on April 8, 2008
(12 comments)
Generative Creativity
is a course offered by the University of Sussex through their Informatics department. The
lecture series discusses tools and techniques for generating graphics, music, jokes and riddles, and more.
posted to MetaFilter by weston
at 10:31 AM on April 7, 2008
(7 comments)
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?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 4:39 PM on February 18, 2008
(18 comments)
The Kids from Haiti Cookbook
is a cookbook, a photo album, and a fundraiser for the Holt Fontana Village in Haiti, where four or five children live in small cottages with caregivers rather than in a large institutional style orphanage. Its purpose is (a) to give adoptees from the village a kind of memory book with pictures of their friends, caregivers, and the place they came from when they move to live with their adoptive families, and (b) to fund the construction further facilities at Holt Fontana. The cost is $20 per book, with all profits going to the village.
This is a project by a sister of a friend, and I'm given to understand that contrary to the April 6th deadline stated on the website, orders for the book will be taken through April.
posted to Projects by weston
at 2:20 PM on April 6, 2007
Where do the experienced Javascript / AJAX developers hang out and discuss things on the net?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 9:32 AM on April 6, 2007
(14 comments)
Where are some good places for an aspiring performing songwriter to live? Not so much looking to sweep the pop music world as I am looking to find a spot on the
long tail. But I've been thinking it might be helpful to look for locations where there are sizable audiences of people who regularly choose live but thoughtful music as an entertainment option and artists and venues that oblige them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 12:25 PM on January 26, 2007
(25 comments)
What are some good portable music composition tools? I'm mostly looking for stuff that would work on a handheld electronic device, but anything that'd fit in a pocket or small bag is fair game.
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 7:45 AM on October 31, 2006
(10 comments)
Are there real, decent options for getting group insurance other than from an employer? I'm mostly thinking about unions, associations, professional organizations, etc.
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 11:34 AM on August 24, 2006
(15 comments)
Is there anything one can do to fight a medical bill that appears to be incorrect? I visited the emergency room last fall. I paid a $100 copay at the time of service that appears to have never been applied to my bill. Despite several calls to the ostensible hospital billing office (really a cube-farm in Texas) pointing out some discrepancies, they've left the clock ticking, sent threatening notices, and are apparently determined to slash my credit rating if I don't pay *now*. What can I do?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 2:01 PM on July 24, 2006
(12 comments)
What's
this cable? Would it have enough value to anyone for me to sell it or put it on eBay, or should I just chuck it or try to give it away?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 12:04 PM on May 20, 2006
(12 comments)
How would one create a web page showing a 3D rotating cube, with sides of the cube displaying arbitrary visitor-supplied images as their faces?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 3:11 AM on April 19, 2006
(27 comments)
Considering hiring someone else to do credit repair for me. What differentiates a good service from a bad one? Are there traps or pitfalls? What should I expect to pay?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 11:14 AM on March 24, 2006
(12 comments)
Credit Repair: is the best/fastest way to deal with legitimate unpaid collections on one's credit history to simply pay them off, or to go through some other process? Tips and tricks of the trade?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 11:14 AM on March 9, 2006
(13 comments)
I just ate some supposedly sealed processed cheese spread that I now have reason to believe has been open indefinitely. As in, quite possibly since leaving the packing place. What's the likely fallout?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 12:53 AM on February 2, 2006
(16 comments)
My eyebrows consistently have weird split ends, breaks, hinging. Does this happen to anyone else? Does it mean anything? Is there something I can do to stop this?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 11:59 PM on January 21, 2006
(18 comments)
Cutting Tools: I want to cut shapes out of thick stacks of paper and maybe wood laminates. Easy enough, right? Except I want to be able to do cuts that
only go from one point in the interior to another point in the interior -- cuts that don't go all the way across or otherwise break the edge. Are there good choices for tools?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 12:36 PM on December 30, 2005
(12 comments)
Firewire and Windows XP: I bought an external Firewire Drive on Ebay. When I plug it into a PC, it's not recognized, and the driver search does not go well. Similarly, if I start up my Powerbook G4 as a Firewire device, and hook it to my PC, Windows is again puzzled. What can I do to help Win XP succesfully work with these devices? Or should I send back the drive and pick my Firewire devices more carefully?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 7:42 PM on December 12, 2005
(25 comments)
COBRA/HIPAA: Help me understand how these health insurance laws might apply in several employer-leaving or life-changing events.
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 11:43 PM on October 27, 2005
(7 comments)
Help me learn to
create semi-transparent PNGs for use on the web. Those I'm creating in Macromedia's Fireworks don't seem to work in IE -- even when I use the appropriate IE-specific image filters.
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 5:53 PM on September 20, 2005
(8 comments)
Medical Professionals and Savvy Patients: what advice can you give for working with Doctors most effectively? If I'm not satisfied, should I look for new doctors, or revise my approach, or both?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 6:57 PM on August 17, 2005
(10 comments)
Printing a "booklet" from PDF on the cheap: I'm looking for software that will help me do 2-up on both sides of an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet, but I'm open to any suggestions.
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 12:06 PM on July 7, 2005
(10 comments)
More Hot Powerbook Action! My Powerbook G4 seems to run especially hot since I got a new battery, a generic-ish 3rd party dealie I bought off eBay. And the power adapter just failed. Could the battery cause these troubles? If so, where should I look for proper battery replacements?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 1:54 PM on May 14, 2005
(7 comments)
I'm going to a party tonight, where they're collecting books to donate to a library in Western Samoa. I have two questions: which books would you consider accesible and very helpful to readers in such a community? And second -- are there any NGOs that work on this problem, and do this sort of thing on a regular basis?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 5:37 PM on April 22, 2005
(2 comments)
Backup / Storage: I have a picture of an ideal product in my head. It connects via USB or Firewire, it contains two IDE drives that mirror each others. They're hot swappable, so if one fails, you just by another standard IDE drive of the same size and throw it in. All this is transparent to the machine accessing the device. It's under $300. Does this exist?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 1:32 PM on March 22, 2005
(6 comments)
SXSW: is there a way open to common plebes to get in cheaper than the full pass prices? If not, is it worth it to pay the full price? Or alternatively, just going and hanging out in Austin and catching what one can?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 4:41 PM on February 17, 2005
(10 comments)
I want to learn to make touch interfaces out of conductive glass. Something like
this. Where should I start?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 5:48 PM on February 4, 2005
(4 comments)
I'm looking webhosting with these features: (1) will let me host and manage dns mappings for an unlimited number of domains (2) will let me create and manage an unlimited number of MySQL number of domains (3) ssh access (4) PHP/Perl/Python and maybe even Ruby and (5) Reliability.
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 5:06 PM on January 24, 2005
(9 comments)
I'm looking 2-3 Lou Rawls songs. One is a cover of
Girl from Impanema, the others are songs from
Garfield's Halloween . [more inside]
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 8:13 AM on December 24, 2004
(3 comments)
Affordable, but cool places to live as a career/lifestyle choice: If your work/career/next life project is portable, could you find a place where a two-bedroom apartment is $300 a month? Houses for under $50 grand? Cultural opportunities a resonable drive away? Would you do it this way? Why or why not? [more inside]
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 8:50 AM on December 8, 2004
(46 comments)
Foot Trouble: I can't run anymore due to foot pain. Should I visit a podiatrist or orthopedic specialist or what? [symptoms and stuff within]
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 12:26 AM on November 22, 2004
(7 comments)
HTML Gurus and Browser Mechanics: Is
this test too hard? Too much to expect an applicant to complete?
[more inside]
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 2:19 PM on November 17, 2004
(32 comments)
Cellphones Ergonomics: I used to have Sprint. Part of the reason I dropped coverage was because I didn't like my phone, a Sanyo 4900. It had great battery life, good technical features, and terrible ergonomics: it never felt right against my ear/head, and it tended to heat up after a few minutes use, making it an uncomfortable and sweaty poor fit to my ear/head (as well as conjuring visions of RF zapped brains, no matter how my rational side told me it wasn't happening). Anyway, I'm considering going back to Sprint, and am looking for recommendations about phones that feel good.
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 11:38 AM on November 8, 2004
(7 comments)
Go to
this thread. When I click on the usernames, I don't get user pages, but a thread...
posted to MetaTalk by weston
at 12:26 PM on November 3, 2004
(22 comments)
Double Insurance Coverage: I am now in an interesting situation -- I am covered under my employer's health plan (Regence/Blue Cross Utah), and an individual plan I bought earlier. What kind of rules might exist about how coverage from each applies? [more inside]
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 10:24 AM on October 28, 2004
(7 comments)
Guitar Tablature Software: I'm looking for pro stuff I could actually use to publish with. I'm thinking PostScript or PDF output is therefore a must. It's gotta do the rhythm-notated tab. Is this pretty much Sibelius vs Finale, or are there other options?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 2:01 AM on October 22, 2004
(2 comments)
Conventional wisdom says that it's easier to find a job while you're currently employed. Why is this? [more within]
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 10:52 AM on October 4, 2004
(17 comments)
Javascript Help: Getting position of mouse within an element when that element is clicked on.
[more inside]
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 8:35 AM on September 17, 2004
(4 comments)
Two Years Before the Mast.
"In the following pages I design to give an accurate and authentic narrative of a little more than two years spent as a common sailor,before the mast, in the American merchant service. It is written out from a journal which I kept at the time, and from notes which I made of most of the events as they happened." At the beginning of his third year of Harvard a severe attack of measles interrupted Henry Dana's studies,
and so affected his eyes as to preclude, for a time at least, all idea of study. The state of the family finances was not such as to permit of foreign travel in search of health. Accordingly, prompted by necessity and by a youthful love of adventure, he shipped as a common sailor in the brig, bound for the
California coast.
posted to MetaFilter by weston
at 12:09 PM on September 14, 2004
(22 comments)
Would you quit a job if it meant you had a better chance of
pursuing life goals? Even if it was financially risky and
the economy was tough? Have you taken risks to avoid selling out? Did it work? Why or why not?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 7:22 PM on September 1, 2004
(11 comments)
Everytime I read about the
Stanford Prison Experiment, I become skeptical. I can believe the kinds of things that are described happened, I just can't believe they happened so fast. Is there any evidence things didn't happen as described, that the happenings were exaggerated?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 10:19 PM on August 28, 2004
(28 comments)
MacBrowserHell: I just updgraded from a Lombard 333 Mhz Powerbook to a G4 667 TiBook with 1GB RAM. Camino now seems to run dog-slow. And the others have their troubles...
posted to Ask Metafilter by weston
at 9:55 PM on August 22, 2004
(21 comments)
Lather, rinse, repeat.
"The forums are ablaze with vitriolic rage. Haters pan the device for being less powerful than a Cray X1 while zealots counter that it is both smaller and lighter than a Buick Regal. The virtual slap-fight goes on and on, until obscure technical nuances like,'Will it play multiplexed Ogg Vorbis streams?' become matters of life and death." Perhaps
1 Infinite Loop has an archetypical drama.
[more q daily newsfilter]
posted to MetaFilter by weston
at 12:00 AM on August 5, 2004
(9 comments)
