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Itès a mystery. I was typing comments into the MeFi text box, when all of a sudden every apostrophe turned into the letter e with a grave accent. What gives?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 8:31 AM on June 20, 2008
(9 comments)
Help me find an attractive 2008 diary for a friend. She wants 365 dated pages, one page per day to write in. In Vancouver BC, or online would be fine. Thanks.
posted to Ask Metafilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 11:30 AM on January 10, 2008
(13 comments)
A 68 year old. 145 lb. man with a neurological condition was
tasered by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers following a dispute over double parking. The man was picking up his wife, who was delivering newspapers. This happened less than a month after the RCMP tasered a Polish man who had spent 10 frustrating hours trying to find his mother in the Vancouver International Airport following 15 hours of travel.
He died on the scene.
posted to MetaFilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 9:11 AM on November 10, 2007
(320 comments)
What new material would you use to replace an old cedar shingle roof?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 11:03 AM on September 17, 2007
(12 comments)
How common and/or ethical is the practice of auto-renewing a credit card subscription payment without authorization?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 7:14 PM on September 6, 2007
(20 comments)
Small inconsistency. On members' posts/comments pages, < newer / older>> point opposite to all the regular pages, which are < older / newer>>. Not terribly annoying, but easy to fix, no?
posted to MetaTalk by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 1:45 PM on August 31, 2007
(15 comments)
The Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honour, is
forty years old this year. Some of its
Members,
Officers, and
Companions include people like John Kenneth Galbraith, Dan Aykroyd, Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood, Jean Chrétien, Northrop Frye, Pierre Trudeau, Bryan Adams, Roberta Bondar, Bruce Cockburn, Wayne Gretzky, Mary Pratt, David Cronenberg, and current Governor General Michaëlle Jean, who is not only haute, but
hawt.
posted to MetaFilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 5:04 PM on June 29, 2007
(33 comments)
Australian inventor
Chris Bosua, frustrated by the inefficiency of his air compressor, devised a method of recycling the exhaust air from air tools. His Exhausted Air Recycling System
(E.A.R.S.) improves efficiency by eighty percent. It runs cooler, almost halves the power consumption, extends the life of the compressor, provides a cleaner working environment, and reduces the noise of an air tool to that of a sewing machine. Happy
Earth Day, everyone!
posted to MetaFilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 10:05 AM on April 22, 2007
(31 comments)
New surgical
robots are not only capable of working more precisely than human hands, but they have no metal or electrical parts, so will work under
MRI machines on tumors that would otherwise be invisible. The NeuroArm will set you back $27 million, but may confer more karma than that trip to space.
posted to MetaFilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 7:02 PM on April 17, 2007
(25 comments)
Unhappy with her hair style,
a bride flips out just hours before her wedding. Sobbing and screaming, she goes into the hotel washroom, rips apart her coiffure, and cuts her own hair. The episode is caught on video, posted to YouTube, and Farkalarity ensues. But the plot thickens. It turns out the bride is 22 year-old aspiring actress Jodi Behan, and the film was made by Toronto-based Ryerson University grad Ingrid Hass.
It's a hoax, designed to put
a lock on their film careers. We'll see more from these girls. Thursday on the Tonight Show, for a start.
posted to MetaFilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 1:26 PM on February 1, 2007
(65 comments)
Do you know of any examples where facial animation is used as a medical biofeedback interface?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 1:18 PM on January 15, 2007
(4 comments)
How likely is it that you'll find pearls in restaurant oysters?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 8:23 PM on September 14, 2006
(14 comments)
Will a Vivitar 100-400 f4.5-6.7 autofocus zoom lens (originally for a Minolta 505si) fit on any digital cameras?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 3:10 PM on August 31, 2006
(8 comments)
Any tips on spending three weeks in Spain in mid-September with bikes?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 8:49 AM on August 24, 2006
(6 comments)
My home insurance company
(BCAA) has recently started charging 3% interest for monthly premiums debited from my bank account.
posted to Ask Metafilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 11:12 AM on August 15, 2006
(13 comments)
Incheon, Korea to Toronto return flight. Early September. Ten days. Any tips on finding a good travel agent, travel website, and/or economical fare would be much appreciated.
posted to Ask Metafilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 2:01 PM on August 4, 2006
(4 comments)
I'm about to post about a bug.
This little AskMe bug. The question was already answered, nailed immediately by lekvar, so the conversation was drifting pleasantly, and lekvar says:
How can you think they're ugly? They have cute little accordion butts!
posted by lekvar at 7:27 PM PST on June 14
So I reply: "The accordions are necessary for the polka dots."
Now my little pun is deleted. There follow three extremely complimentary references to my pun, none of which is on topic, none of which is deleted. So now it looks like
theperfectcrime made the pun. Now I don't mind deletions; I've had my share. But this is eerily selective, isn't it, jessamyn? Almost the perfect crime.
posted to MetaTalk by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 8:44 PM on June 16, 2006
(29 comments)
You know about numbers, right? Natural numbers, rational numbers, integers, real numbers, complex numbers, prime numbers, funny numbers, illegal numbers. Illegal numbers? Well, there’s the
illegal numbers game. Apparently
69 is illegal in Virginia, among other places. But did you know about
illegal prime numbers? My brain is getting number by the day. (via digg)
posted to MetaFilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 12:18 PM on April 15, 2006
(27 comments)
Accidentally ran a Win 95 boot disk on my Win ME system. Can't restore fully. Please hope me.
posted to Ask Metafilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 12:07 PM on April 14, 2006
(9 comments)
Anyone else confused by the
and links at the bottom? On the Blue,
next points to the right, but goes back to the older threads, yet
next, for most reading, implies the opposite. And
previous page points left, which makes sense, but it goes to the newer threads, which doesn't make sense. The confusion arises in part because we read Metafilter from new to old. To make it more confusing, on AskMe the
previous questions link goes to the
older questions, which is opposite to the Blue, where
right and
next mean back in time.
Did I get that right?
A simple, parallel solution would be to simply have
older and
newer, with older pointing left, and newer pointing right for all.
posted to MetaTalk by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 8:19 AM on March 29, 2006
(53 comments)
Can you provide the name and/or good examples of this logical fallacy?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 11:27 AM on February 4, 2006
(15 comments)
Dirty Tricks Filter: Who would likely benefit from this bogus election email?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 11:04 PM on January 22, 2006
(5 comments)
How should I protect an idea which requires collaboration and may be patentable?
posted to Ask Metafilter by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 12:51 PM on November 25, 2005
(6 comments)
