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How does natural selection account for male pattern balding?
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 8:28 PM on August 16, 2007
(47 comments)
If a yankee plays for the Blue Jays is he paid in Canadian money? Can he become a Canadian citizen? Is it any less difficult for him than it would be anyone else? If a Mexican citizen plays for a US team can he become a US citizen? Is it any less difficult for him than it would be anyone else? How do other teams, leagues, countries traditionally accommodate transnational players?
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 6:29 PM on April 19, 2007
(13 comments)
I installed Acrobat Reader 8. OS X no longer
prints to PDF. How do I fix that?
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 5:40 PM on January 18, 2007
(5 comments)
Why is Heidi Klum's English accent better than Henry Kissinger's?
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 6:02 AM on November 29, 2006
(14 comments)
What do I have to buy to have everything Peyton Manning says I should?
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 4:11 PM on October 21, 2006
(13 comments)
If you pick up a piece of trash and put it back where you found it, is that littering?
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 7:12 PM on October 1, 2006
(30 comments)
What can I do with a dead iPod?
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 2:27 PM on September 9, 2006
(22 comments)
Who writes for The Economist?
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 6:39 PM on July 10, 2006
(10 comments)
Is the 'th' sound native to any languages other than English?
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 4:54 PM on June 24, 2006
(31 comments)
Is someone going to write a book about Metafilter? I would read it, maybe.
posted to MetaTalk by airguitar
at 9:13 AM on May 18, 2006
(89 comments)
The days of
needing to remember several telephone numbers, numerous VOIP or
instant message identities and other points of
contact for our social and professional networks are over.
posted to MetaFilter by airguitar
at 2:26 PM on May 17, 2006
(20 comments)
Why does Safari offer to remember usernames and passwords for some sites, but not others? Specifically del.icio.us.
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 3:25 PM on May 7, 2006
(4 comments)
How old is Web 2.0?
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 10:58 AM on April 26, 2006
(18 comments)
Latin
America
Turning
Left?
From the top
:
Lula da Silva*,
Lopez Obrador,
Nestor Kirchner,
Hugo Chavez*,
Alvaro Uribe,
Michelle Bachelet*,
Ollanta Humala,
Alfredo Palacio,
Oscar Berger,
Leonel Fernandez,
Oscar Arias,
Tony Saca,
Tabare Vazquez,
Martín Torrijos,
Evo Morales*
Manuel Zelaya,
Nicanor Duarte,
Daniel Ortega,
Rene Preval*.
posted to MetaFilter by airguitar
at 8:57 AM on April 13, 2006
(30 comments)
If you were interviewing passengers on a city bus, what would you ask?
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 11:07 AM on March 30, 2006
(31 comments)
If you owe a bunch of back child-support (14 years for the older child, three years for the second, two different women), are married to a woman you could take or leave (not the mother of either), have no custody of the children, have never met the second child, have had no contact with the first for the past ten years, would like to begin to become current with past due payments, would like a closer relationship with your children, don't want to go to jail, don't consider yourself to be someone having a strong job
skill-set, are currently unemployed {leisurely, if not pleasantly, subject to the arbitrary whims of said spouse [of which include no requirements for earning an income (lots of time to play video games, watch movies, and think)]}, don't believe you can support yourself alone with the work that you believe you
can find, are afraid to find a job, move out, lose the maximum in state-mandated garnishments from each check, fail again and end up living with/under someone else, would like to learn and travel, wouldn't mind medical, dental, vision and life insurance, could use a retirement fund; would enlisting in the US Army be a strategically effective
next action?
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 5:11 PM on March 15, 2006
(45 comments)
Getting a zine printed. Have you any experience with this?
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 5:46 PM on March 7, 2006
(15 comments)
How can the energy cost of an electronic device over a span of time be calculated?
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 10:56 AM on February 21, 2006
(6 comments)
The
Johari Window was invented by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingram in the 1950s as a model for mapping personality awareness. By describing yourself from a fixed list of adjectives, then asking your friends and colleagues to describe you from the same list, a grid of overlap and difference can be built up. To start, pick the five or six words that you feel best describe you. Your results will be saved, under a name of your choosing, so that you can send your friends and colleagues directly to your Window.
posted to MetaFilter by airguitar
at 6:17 PM on February 15, 2006
(17 comments)
Sex, Drugs, Einstein, & Elves: Sushi, Psychedelics, Parallel Universes and the Quest for Transcendence (
♫);
Solving all the world’s problems with nanotechnology (
♫);
Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Robot Rebellion (
♫);
Origins of the Homebrew Computer Club (
♫);
Philip K. Dick, the robot (
♫);
Found processes as conceptual art (
♫);
Hip: The History (
♫);
Poetry slams, feminist burlesque performance art and the war against the past
(
♫);
Arthur! (
♫);
BoingBoing co-founder (
♫);
Evolution Control Committee (
♫);
Singularitarianism (
♫);
Burning Man (
♫);
UFOs, time travel, and making the technology of Star Trek a reality (
♫);
RE/Search Publications reprints J.G. Ballard (
♫);
Was 9/11 a Conspiracy? (
♫);
The last editor of the first great website (
♫);
Everybody Into The Pool (
♫).
Podcasting with
RU Sirius and
The MondoGlobo Network.
(video of the studio)
posted to MetaFilter by airguitar
at 5:31 PM on February 14, 2006
(21 comments)
Help me understand Honduras.
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 1:04 AM on January 25, 2006
(7 comments)
It's been six years. Do you have, or does anyone you know use a term, in conversation, comparable to 'the nineties' or '
the eighties' for this decade?
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 12:49 AM on January 2, 2006
(71 comments)
“Time is on the side of open disclosure that there are ethical Extraterrestrial civilizations visiting Earth. Our Canadian government
needs to openly address these important issues of the possible deployment of weapons in outer war plans against ethical ET societies
.”
via
posted to MetaFilter by airguitar
at 10:27 AM on November 29, 2005
(15 comments)
23. It's like Flickr,
a lot like Flickr--and maybe better. Better at some things.
Stories. Upload limits.
The layout. Ordering prints. They are doing things from the beginning that Flickr worked a couple years to figure out in the
first place. Flickr of course is
way ahead of 23 in numbers (people and money). Does it make sense to challenge that lead? (And to do so with an
overt knock-off?) If 23 provides a better service, should they lose out for being second to the party? How can they pay their
debt of gratitude to Flickr for being the obvious inspiration and an open-book instruction manual, and should they? When does the flattery of imitation become legitimate--or illegitimate--competition? Notice in the
terms they claim ownership of the concept and the design. Can 23 apply for any of the street cred Flickr may have given up in favor of being Yahoo!ed? Is it reasonable to expect better work from a
scrappy upstart than a happy sell-out? Can two successful photo sharing sites
co-exist, or join forces? Is there enough community to support
more than one
good one?
posted to MetaFilter by airguitar
at 12:32 PM on November 26, 2005
(32 comments)
"
Imagine finding friendship and love on your iPod ...
with ...
the world's first dating/social networking site that brings together the growing popularity of the online dating space and the enormous success of the iPod."
via
posted to MetaFilter by airguitar
at 2:31 PM on November 17, 2005
(11 comments)
Good books to read before wandering about Central and South America for a few months?
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 10:56 AM on November 11, 2005
(19 comments)
What is the best use you've seen made of a .Mac account?
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 8:47 AM on October 21, 2005
(19 comments)
If the bulb is out, or empty, but the switch is on, are you still paying for power?
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 1:04 PM on October 1, 2005
(17 comments)
I saw this old horror movie about eight years ago, but I think it's from the seventies. A young couple moves into an old house and people start dying. As it turns out, the ghost either is, or looks just like, the young woman. The ghost speaks to her through the mirror. The only line of dialog I remember is when she was walking along a flight of stairs with an old man, and he says something to the effect that, "people today are so impolite."
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 5:42 AM on May 20, 2005
(6 comments)
Total chaos, no way to see the race, not even the track...nobody cares. Big lines at the outdoor betting windows, then stand back to watch winning numbers flash on the big board, like a giant bingo game.
Old blacks arguing about bets; "Hold on there, I'll handle this" (waving pint of whiskey, fistful of dollar bills); girl riding piggyback, T-shirt says, "Stolen from Fort Lauderdale Jail." Thousands of teen-agers, group singing "Let the Sun Shine In," ten soldiers guarding the American flag and a huge fat drunk wearing a blue football jersey (No. 80) reeling around with quart of beer in hand.
No booze sold out here, too dangerous...no bathrooms either. Muscle Beach...Woodstock...many cops with riot sticks, but no sign of a riot. Far across the track the clubhouse looks like a postcard from the Kentucky Derby.
posted to MetaFilter by airguitar
at 4:10 PM on May 6, 2005
(25 comments)
How do you take your bike along when you ride the bus/train/plane?
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 9:02 AM on April 20, 2005
(11 comments)
Have you ever watched a television show from the studio audience?
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 10:14 PM on April 12, 2005
(33 comments)
That most hallowed of foolish holidays is upon us, minus one. So you've got time... What's the best
April Fool's Day joke you've ever heard or been a part of? I need some ideas.
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 1:41 PM on March 31, 2005
(18 comments)
What do you do with old notebooks, letters, pictures, home movies?
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 12:28 PM on March 6, 2005
(24 comments)
Does anyone know of a program for Windows 2000/XP that will bring several different types of document files and image files together into one interface? This application should be able to reorder and renumber the pages accordingly. Also the tool must be able to export the end product into a universal format such as PDF or Word.
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 2:35 PM on February 22, 2005
(4 comments)
When you think of Cincinnati, what do you think?
posted to Ask Metafilter by airguitar
at 2:21 AM on February 15, 2005
(44 comments)
I may be in D.C. for the
inauguration. Anyone else? I've never been to Washington. Any tips for travellers? Or tips for someone going to a public gathering like this? I've been to a football game before, but I imagine this is a different type of get-together.
posted to MetaTalk by airguitar
at 6:26 AM on January 16, 2005
(21 comments)
