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I'm going to be relying on my iMac and the music stored on it for a while. I would like to get a set of speakers so that the computer sounds better. What reasonably-priced powered speakers have folks had success with? I'd rather not get a separate subwoofer. I'd be willing to get a small amp and use my small stereo speakers if all the other options are too crappy. Thanks.
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at 6:17 PM on August 7, 2008
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Which are the best books in Continuum's Thirty-Three and a Third series? I just read
Daydream Nation and ended up frustrated and and a bit disappointed.
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at 6:08 AM on July 24, 2008
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I'm looking for citations (including reporting) regarding psychiatric diagnosis in the military over the past several years.
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at 11:06 AM on March 30, 2008
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Meghan McCain's blog.
Just another political blog, by another candidate's daughter. O! what the internet has wrought.
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at 10:31 AM on February 13, 2008
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"He's a dirty jade!" "Go ahead and sleep with him you dirty jade!" This insult was used repeatedly in the Zola book I was reading last night. When I searched for it this morning, Google returned results for other uses in at least three other Zola novels. What does it refer to? (As the more inside explains, I think it's actually an English-language insult, as the original contains something else.)
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at 6:42 AM on January 15, 2008
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"In 1968, I received an invitation to the hundred-mile run at Walton-on-Thames, England, scheduled for October 1969.
I pulled out all the stops for this one, running every marathon possible and enduring unheard-of training mileage when not racing.
In July alone I ran a thousand miles, two hundred short of my goal[...]My only goal was to break the existing American record of 16:07:43." (Which he did, finishing in 13:33; still the U.S. 45 to 49 100-mile record.) Ted Corbitt, Olympian, American Record holder at 100 miles, died yesterday.
NYT obit.
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at 11:37 AM on December 13, 2007
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"Open Vault
provides online access to unique and historically important content produced by public television station WGBH for individual and classroom learning. The ever-expanding site contains video excerpts, searchable transcripts, a select number of complete interviews for purchase, and resource management tools." (Requires QuickTime)
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at 8:03 AM on December 6, 2007
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How does one best go about negotiating a raise when one is not inclined to use resigning as a negotiating tool?
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at 7:06 AM on November 29, 2007
(15 comments)
How can I clean acetone residue out of some glass jugs?
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at 6:34 AM on September 18, 2007
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On Friday on NPR a European banker was talking about "sub-prime countries" and mentioned Iceland in a list that included, for instance, the countries of E. Europe. I wasn't surprised about the latter, but thought it was interesting that Iceland got this designation. Can anyone explain to me the Iceland economy (in broad strokes) and why it might be considered "sub-prime"?
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at 6:32 AM on August 13, 2007
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Is there an American maker of good ginger Shandy? I can get the Carib brand in my neighborhood, but the ginger flavor is kind of sucky. Alternatively, is there such a thing as an alcoholic ginger ale made in the US?
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at 9:48 AM on June 8, 2007
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In the BBC show
Hustle, series 2, the gang stays at a hotel in London decorated with huge dog portraits. They're straight on, un-ironic portraits of dog faces. They're fabulous. Does anyone know who painted them?
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at 9:53 AM on April 26, 2007
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Let's build...
Blarney Castle, a
model building to test on an earthquake simulator, Thoreau's
cabin, a
stirling engine, the
NYC transit system, a
model bridge,
Galileo spacecraft, the
Mars Polar Lander, a flying
Martin XB-51,
Aliens universe papercraft, a
train layout under your bed, a
stereoscope, a
flying saucer. Or we could let The Swell Maps do it:
Let's Build a Car. And don't forget, "
Your country needs scale model planes for the emergency."
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at 1:25 PM on March 20, 2007
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The Gregg Museum of Art & Design at NC State University
has a great
collection of folk arts. The strongest section is in
ceramics, with stupendous representation from the NC wood-fired, salt and alkaline glazed traditions. There's this
1868 Hartsoe Alkaline glazed jug, this
19th cent. jug with kild-drip, this
Hancock Half-Gallon jug, this
Randolph Cty salt-glazed jug with ashy shoulder, and then the moderns:
Burlon Craig,
Vernon Owen,
Mark Hewitt. There are also
great photographs, weird
furniture, outsider
critters, and
more.
There isn't a good browse function, so you need some idea of what you want to search for.
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at 9:22 AM on March 15, 2007
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This thread, which starts with a YouTube link to a video made by an autistic woman, was fascinating in it's own right, but now has a
long comment added by the maker of the video.
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at 5:52 AM on January 26, 2007
(38 comments)
In Werner Herzog's
Lessons of Darkness there are a few images toward the end of oilfield workers
igniting uncapped oil wells. Presuming these are the same workers who had been working to put out the oil field fires (and I think they are), why are they igniting those wells?
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at 9:11 AM on January 2, 2007
(9 comments)
mp3-aiff: What's the best way to preserve the questionable quality of mp3s when converting to aiff so that they'll play on a mix cd?
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at 8:32 AM on October 27, 2006
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Thomas Pynchon Paper Dolls
Something light because, yes, it's the run-up to the November 21st release of Against the Day, the new 1000 page doorstop from Thomas Pynchon.
The Modern Word is using the time to update their already vast Pynchon site. Good luck. (A whole lot of other paper dolls
previously.)
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at 8:26 AM on October 27, 2006
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I think I'd like to buy a letterpress, but I know nothing about them. Please help.
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at 10:41 AM on October 16, 2006
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How can I improve an LP Record with a tight spindle hole?
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at 5:41 AM on October 3, 2006
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The physics of weight lifting: It's often anecdotally said that one should perform lifting reps slowly because the faster you lift the more one develops momentum and the less one actually lifts the weight. The implication is that this builds from rep to rep so that the last one is easier for this reason (developed momentum) than the first rep.
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at 6:03 AM on August 25, 2006
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McKinley Assassination Ink:
"The goal [...]: to gather the largest possible selection of full-text primary source documents relating to the assassination of William McKinley and the immediate aftermath of that event, including the succession of Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency and the incarceration, trial, and execution of [anarchist] assassin Leon Czolgosz."
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at 10:11 AM on August 18, 2006
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