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day trip from Saint Louis?
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at 11:47 PM on July 10, 2008
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Few years ago, an ad ... maybe using the "Mad World" song from Donnie Darko (no, not the GoW spot of late)
Black/white shot from overhead, showed kids playing, forming pictures with their bodies... maybe it was for a car?
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at 9:49 AM on December 9, 2007
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Outlook Express (Win XP) deleted
some of my inbox... a few months worth of mail. Not your standard "lost my whole folder" corrupted-file type of problem, I'm suddenly missing the last 4 months of mail. Desperate!
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at 2:40 PM on October 17, 2007
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some form of street sport "invented" by sneaker folks... did I make this up?
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at 6:41 PM on September 20, 2007
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The sadness of Second Life, if you know any examples. Bad things that have happened in there, stats about why people leave, anecdotes about what's wrong with it, etc.
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at 8:37 AM on May 31, 2007
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Anxiety about the long term prognosis for the United States, the middle class, homo sapiens sapiens. Am I the only one who finds the fear about these things overwhelming? If I
am the only one, what comfort should I take?
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at 7:28 PM on April 14, 2007
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Desperately looking for images of people en masse, spelling something with their bodies. Or in stadiums, when they make a picture by having everyone hold up a colored card.
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at 9:48 PM on January 16, 2007
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Bordeaux for a week, with my mother (~65 years old). What to do, where to go?
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at 10:08 AM on November 18, 2006
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Doctor Larry Brilliant (mentioned before)
spoke at TED this year, calling himself the "luckiest man in the world." He played witness to the last case of Smallpox, and played a significant role in making it the last case. Inspiring/terrifying video
here, long, with some
graphic images of smallpox.
Back in 1974, Brilliant's technique for early detection in India was to take graphic photos door to door, asking if anyone inside
looks like this. Now, as head of Google's philanthropic efforts, he's advocating systems for "early detection, early response." Unsurprisingly, Google, etc, are an important piece of that system: can we detect what's happening before it can spread?
One of the first responses to Brilliant is up already, a means for doctors to
immediately text epidemiological information straight into a global spatial database. It's a rough and promising start, and its fascinating that it's coming from the bottom up, instead of NGOs like the Red Cross.
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at 12:24 AM on August 30, 2006
(17 comments)
Cell phone standards around the world. Specifically, a map that shows which ones are where, that would be great...
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at 12:55 PM on June 12, 2006
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Buying a new Macintosh to edit video, I could ask Apple, but I'm asking MeFi:
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at 11:16 PM on May 31, 2006
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Resources on cultural ideas/identities/images of Hong Kong. Not for travel, for a kind of research. What
City of Quartz does for LA, what
Maximum City does for Mumbai. What does that for HK?
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at 7:56 AM on March 19, 2006
(1 comment)
Periodic DNS dropouts on my cable modem?
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at 10:04 PM on February 26, 2006
(12 comments)
Remarkable human connections made possible through the web. Blogs, Flickr, etc.
Not "love connections," but rather people who might have recognized an old relative in a photo, or a family member they never knew existed. Stumbling across each other, not searching. (more)
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at 5:05 PM on February 12, 2006
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What exactly happened to the coin-op videogame industry?
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at 11:42 AM on January 26, 2006
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Etherpeg, but on XP?
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at 9:56 AM on January 4, 2006
(4 comments)
Sunday New York Times, probably November 27th, an article about urban games, possibly on the front page?
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at 7:47 PM on December 24, 2005
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I'm working with some folks on a theater piece and we need visual references for historical Sri Lankan / Colombo / Ceylon documents. In particular, land use maps, government documents for marriage, property, etc.
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at 10:26 PM on September 2, 2005
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I'm a bit ignorant as regards Japan and all things Japanese, and am not quite sure where to start. But I have some very specific questions that I hope MeFi might help with, having to do with use of the Roman alphabet for electronic communications, in Japan. How do email addresses work? URLs?
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at 12:14 PM on August 9, 2005
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