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Sustainability of Digital Formats
: a repository of mostly technical information about digital content file formats related to storing images (moving and still), text, sound and websites
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at 11:52 PM on August 29, 2008
(9 comments)
I can't connect to a couple of sites from any browser. One of them being Wikipedia.
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at 3:50 AM on July 12, 2008
(11 comments)
I need help choosing a new motherboard around a used Intel P4 chip.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Gyan
at 6:01 AM on January 4, 2008
(14 comments)
The Checklist
- "If a new drug were as effective at saving lives as Peter Pronovost’s checklist, there would be a nationwide marketing campaign urging doctors to use it"
[single page]
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at 6:14 AM on January 2, 2008
(65 comments)
TheDataWeb
- a network of online data libraries on topics including census data, economic data, health data, income and unemployment data, population data, labor data, cancer data, crime and transportation data, family dynamics, vital statistics data
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at 7:03 AM on December 26, 2007
(10 comments)
Which are the good/acclaimed live-action television shows from around the world outside of US/UK/Canada?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Gyan
at 8:06 AM on December 14, 2007
(13 comments)
How do I edit audio in a MPEG1 without going through a video re-encode?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Gyan
at 11:23 PM on November 13, 2007
(7 comments)
Wiki City Rome
- "
anyone with an Internet connection will be able to see a unique map of the Italian capital that shows the movements of crowds, event locations, the whereabouts of well-known Roman personalities, and the real-time position of city buses and trains."
posted to MetaFilter by Gyan
at 10:22 PM on September 7, 2007
(3 comments)
Where the Engineers Are
- "To guide education policy and maintain its innovation leadership, the United States must acquire an accurate understanding of the quantity and quality of engineering graduates in India and China."
posted to MetaFilter by Gyan
at 2:01 AM on August 24, 2007
(39 comments)
A request for 'tag groups' and 'tag aliases'. Explained inside.
posted to MetaTalk by Gyan
at 12:09 AM on August 14, 2007
(32 comments)
Name some good online sources for recommendations and also reviews of recorded performances of classical music.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Gyan
at 9:38 AM on August 2, 2007
(4 comments)
I'm considering downgrading my cable broadband from 512kbps-800MB/month to 256kbps-uncapped. I'd like to estimate the real-world hit in terms of casual web browsing and more intensive applications.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Gyan
at 3:50 AM on May 12, 2007
(10 comments)
Magic Ink
- Information Software and the Graphical Interface
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at 11:14 PM on April 7, 2007
(29 comments)
Neurolaw
- The Brain on the Stand
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at 6:06 AM on March 11, 2007
(8 comments)
Water footprint
- "of an individual, business or nation is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the goods and services consumed by the individual, business or nation"
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at 1:09 PM on January 11, 2007
(9 comments)
Cost of Government Day
- "
n. the date of the calendar year, counting from January 1, on which the average American has earned enough in cumulative gross income to pay for his or her share of government spending (total federal, state, and local) plus the cost of regulation."
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at 10:55 PM on December 3, 2006
(16 comments)
Recommend a good flash-based audio player.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Gyan
at 6:37 PM on December 1, 2006
(11 comments)
Diary of a Collapsing Superpower
- "Seventeen years ago, the Berlin Wall fell, and two years later the Soviet Union broke apart. More than 1,400 minutes published earlier this month in Russia from meetings that took place behind the closed doors of the Politburo in Moscow read like a thriller from the highest levels of the Kremlin. They reveal Mikhail Gorbachev as a party chief who had to fight bitterly for his reforms and ultimately lost his battle. But in doing so, he changed the course of history and helped bring an end to the Cold War."
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at 7:48 AM on November 28, 2006
(32 comments)
Andras Schiff's
lecture-recitals on Beethoven's piano sonatas
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at 6:30 PM on November 1, 2006
(16 comments)
Neuroscience Gateway
- "a comprehensive source for the latest research, news and events in neuroscience and genomics research"
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at 4:27 PM on October 2, 2006
(6 comments)
Still in the uncanny
valley? - a great attempt at photorealism.
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at 6:21 PM on August 31, 2006
(50 comments)
Grigory Perelman, awarded the Fields Medal for his work on the Poincare Conjecture,
talks to the New Yorker.
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at 8:36 PM on August 29, 2006
(17 comments)
Motion Mountain
- "
The project aims to produce a simple, vivid and up-to-date introduction to modern physics, with emphasis on the fundamental ideas of motion. 'Simple' means that concepts are stressed more than formalism; 'vivid' means that the reader is continuously challenged; 'up-to-date' means that modern research and ideas about unification are included."
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at 7:26 PM on August 17, 2006
(4 comments)
I'm selling my current computer soon. There's a few GB worth of files that I'd like to preserve. Are there any free or cheap online services that will provide this service? I'll only need access to it once or twice later on, to restore it on my new computer. I only have a few blank CDs and not enough time to burn everything, and no concurrent access to the two computers. Besides, I prefer flexible online access. On a related note, I'd like store some information about the files in a text file. In the good ol' DOS days, I could pipe the 'dir' output to a text file. Except these files have some metadata that can't be displayed in the command prompt. Equivalent functionality for Windows Explorer or other GUI shells?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Gyan
at 3:41 PM on July 24, 2006
(22 comments)
The Human Speechome Project
- "A baby is to be
monitored by a network of microphones and video cameras for 14 hours a day, 365 days a year, in an effort to unravel the seemingly miraculous process by which children acquire language.". Selected video
clips.
Paper (PDF, 750KB). To test hypotheses of how children learn, Prof Deb Roy's team at MIT will develop machine learning systems that “step into the shoes” of his son by processing the sights and sounds of three years of life at home. Total storage required:
1.4 petabytes.
posted to MetaFilter by Gyan
at 12:40 PM on July 23, 2006
(21 comments)
Nature has a somewhat technical but free
supplement on stem cells (alongwith a podcast and related
blog).
posted to MetaFilter by Gyan
at 8:12 AM on July 2, 2006
(6 comments)
