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Art museum painting framing question. A common style of framing in art museums --- especially with abstract paintings such as Cy Twombly and Mark Rothko's works --- involves a thin strip of wood around the edge of a painting, perhaps with a few-millimeter gap between the edge of the canvas and the inner edge of the wood. The strip of wood is usually flush with the face of the painting. That's all there is to it. I would like to replicate this effect with some paintings I have.
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at 5:15 PM on July 21, 2008
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Recommendations for a nice restaurant in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles, for a group of seven on a Saturday night ?
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at 10:47 AM on February 23, 2008
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Diary Junction.
"An internet resource for those interested in historical and literary diaries and diarists." Information pages on over five hundred diarists are included.
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at 1:39 PM on January 12, 2008
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What are tomorrow's avant-garde art/film/writing monuments that are being done today?
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at 4:20 PM on October 2, 2007
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Advice on hiring an Indian call center to answer after-hours calls for a law practice?
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at 3:07 PM on September 23, 2007
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Is it weird to ask a university professor if you can audit his/her class without officially enrolling in the university as an auditor ... and, as part of the arrangement, asking the professor if you can submit papers and have them graded and evaluated?
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at 9:03 PM on August 8, 2007
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Is there any easy way to sell downloadable electronic documents (PDF format) on the web? I'd prefer that it be closely integrated into the interface of an existing website that I maintain. I'm looking for a system where someone chooses a document they want to buy, pays through a third-party site (and the third party then passes the money on to me), and the document is instantly made available to the customer. I know about sites like Lulu.com, etc., but I would prefer that this be done on my website.
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at 1:48 PM on June 23, 2007
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When a caller uses per-call blocking (usually activated by pressing *67 before dialing the number) to mask their identity to the receiver of the call, would subpoenaed phone records for the caller's outbound calls still show the number they dialed?
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at 6:29 PM on May 16, 2007
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I know this is a private website, where the administrator has a strong interest in avoiding litigation by celebrities, but what I saw happen in the last hour or so is just creepy.
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at 8:12 PM on March 12, 2007
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I was recently having a discussion with someone about whether an individual can influence the passage of legislation, by making campaign donations, in the same way that we know corporations do. It seems unlikely, to me, that individual donations would be as effective as corporate donations. But I have a few questions about this.
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at 5:23 PM on February 14, 2007
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Instead of reducing emissions, maybe we can block out the sun.
This is a proposal offered by the United States in response to a draft of a UN report on climate change, prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. According to the linked article, the U.S. has resisted a treaty that would involve binding targets for emissions reductions, and is instead pushing for the exploration of techniques for blocking out the sun, including (according to the Sydney Morning Herald article) "putting a giant screen into orbit, thousands of tiny, shiny balloons, or microscopic sulfate droplets pumped into the high atmosphere to mimic the cooling effects of a volcanic eruption." This is via Yale Law professor Jack Balkin, who
speculates that there is Biblical precedent for this proposal.
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at 5:36 PM on January 29, 2007
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I really love the works of low-budget auteurs like Hal Hartley, Gregg Araki, and Jim Jarmusch (also, although they don't fit so much in the low-budget category, Richard Linklater and War-Kong Wei). Are there any other auteurs out there whose movies I should watch? To refine your suggestions, I'm not looking for classic directors like Godard or Bergman, or big names like Wenders or Greenaway or Tarantino or Von Trier. I'm interested in learning about directors who are not big names. Basically, I'm looking for interesting young directors whose films are available on DVD but have not emerged into the national spotlight.
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at 6:52 PM on December 30, 2006
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My first-ever pony request: In a given thread, what about a link next to each member's individual comments, that is titled "see all comments by this member in this thread." So, say, I want to see all of mathowie's comments in a particular thread, I click on that link and it gives me a page with just mathowie's comments in that thread. I know you can see all of a member's comments by going to their user page, but it's kind of cumbersome to click back and forth and you can't view all the comments together. It would be nice to have them all thrown up on one page. It would help us evaluate the position or argument that the person is developing throughout the thread.
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at 1:43 PM on December 16, 2006
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Can anyone tell me the approximate neck size, sleeve length, waist and inseam for a man who is six foot three and 230 pounds? He is proportioned normally for someone of that height and weight. I need to buy some clothes for a guy and won't have a chance to ask him his sizes before buying.
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at 2:34 PM on November 11, 2006
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The Diary of John Cam Hobhouse.
Hobhouse
(Wiki) (1786-1869) was a close friend of
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, and "Hobby-O's" diary contains a vivid account of Hobhouse's friendship and travels with Byron. As editor Peter Cochran writes: "Educated at Westminster and Trinity College Cambridge, [Hobhouse]
travelled east with Byron in 1809, was Best Man at
Byron’s wedding in 1815,
travelled across Switzerland in Byron’s company in 1816 after the separation,
around Rome with Byron in 1817, and
lived with Byron in Venice in the same year. He
met Byron at Pisa again in 1822, after Byron’s facetious poem on his imprisonment in Newgate,
My Boy Hobby-O, had almost terminated their friendship. As a member of the London Greek Committee he encouraged Byron on his last journey in 1823; and had he insisted, Byron’s memoirs would almost certainly not have
been destroyed in 1824." (Memoirs which, in hindsight, are considered a "
missing masterpiece.") Also read Hobhouse's
account of Byron's funeral.
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at 8:44 PM on November 1, 2006
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My wife and I need a pair of Blackberry-type devices (which also function as cell phones) for lots of text-messaging between ourselves throughout the day. We were thinking we wanted Blackberries, but when we went to the Cingular store tonight (we're locked into a Cingular contract until February 2008) the clerk made it sound as though a Windows Mobile device would be better. Any advice?
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at 8:16 PM on October 25, 2006
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"Welcome to the Archive of the Now.
The Archive of the Now is an online and print repository of recordings, printed texts and manuscripts, focussing on innovative contemporary poetry being written or performed in Britain. It is part of the Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing, at Brunel University in west London, UK. At present, the Archive consists of readings by 65 UK-based poets. This number will continue to grow, and includes newly commissioned, recently acquired and historical recordings."
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at 10:36 AM on October 22, 2006
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Anybody recall a children's show called "Our End of the Attic," from the seventies or eighties? There seems to be no trace of its past existence, anywhere on the internets.
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at 10:52 AM on October 17, 2006
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I have a couple of questions about buyer's agents. My wife and I are interested in selling our current home and buying a new one. We don't have an agent yet, but we swore, after buying our current home and realizing that "our" agent didn't really represent us, that we would never again buy a home without a buyer's agent on our side.
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at 6:49 PM on October 9, 2006
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The Work of Carol Rambo.
(Warning, these articles are all PDF or .doc format.) Carol Rambo is a professor of sociology who paid her way through school by working as an exotic dancer. Rambo has written articles on the sociology of strip clubs, drawing upon her own experience as an exotic dancer.
In one article, Rambo writes about "the discourse of deviance" that exotic dancers use to "organize their identities" in a process Rambo calls "narrative resistance."
In another article, she writes about the concept of old age as it affects exotic dancers.
In a third article, drawing upon her own experiences as a "table dancer," Rambo writes about "Interactional strategies that table dancers use to cultivate counterfeit intimacy," and she concludes that dancers manage to "carve out an autonomous niche in an otherwise oppressive context." Also interesting is her article on growing up as the daughter of a mentally retarded mother,
"On Loving and Hating My Mentally Retarded Mother."
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at 4:05 PM on October 4, 2006
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I have a question about the psychology and ethics of auctions. I have only participated in a handful of online auctions, but the other day I got caught up in an eBay auction that has got me thinking about the nature of auctions ... and curious about whether my actions were ethical.
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at 5:09 PM on September 27, 2006
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Please help me find information about the Best Buy "Centricity" market segmentation program -- specifically, the controversial new "customer profiles" used to identify Best Buy's most desirable demographics.
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at 7:21 AM on September 17, 2006
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Can you suggest any tours from U.S.A. to Europe (including plane fare, transportation between European cities, and hotel accommodations in each visited city) that do not involve doing activities with a tour group?
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at 8:02 PM on August 28, 2006
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Any idea how much a new combination electric A/C and gas heater costs? Our house is approximately 1450 square feet.
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at 7:23 PM on June 28, 2006
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"Sloppiness is my palette."
Neal Medlyn is the self-proclaimed
"Paris Hilton of Performance Art" who looked for "bits and pieces of coolness in normal things or in anything" when he was growing up in small-town Texas.
Now performing regularly in New York City, Medlyn played a nude Dubya shacking up with
Karen Finley's nude Martha Stewart in
George and Martha (here's
a review and
another review; photos NSFW). According to the 2000
Austin Chronicle profile (written by his
future wife) Medlyn came off as a lunatic in his early performances, many of which were sparsely attended, and involved "music, little routines, and group activities, like having everyone sit in the dark and listen very closely to a song he likes." Medlyn has performed, with
Kenny Mellmann, a
show of R. Kelly songs (
watch him performing one; Google Video); he
loves (NSFW) Lionel Richie (whose songs he finds strange and beautiful;
watch mpg here); and he wrote a book inspired by
his own buttocks (NSFW). Medlyn is currently doing, with
Carmine Covelli, a somewhat Peewee Herman-ish video series for
Nerve called
Neal Medlyn's Land of Make-Believe (NSFW; videos depict group sex, performed by various animal puppets). Here is
a 2004 interview with Medlyn. And Medlyn has a
Myspace profile.
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at 9:50 PM on June 17, 2006
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Can any of you folks point me to a good, simple plan for built-in bookshelves? Our book collection has way outgrown the capacity of the bookcases we have, and I'd like to build some bookshelves that are attached to the walls of our house. But the plans I have found in home-improvement books seem too complicated for my (nonexistent) carpentry skills. Here are the tools I've got: a hand-held circular saw, an electric drill, screwdrivers and a hammer. I want something nice-looking and presentable for the public areas of the house; i.e., not a cinderblock solution.
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at 1:06 PM on June 4, 2006
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There was a thread here, a couple of years ago, I think, about the Zen-like (I don't remember if he was actually aligned with that tradition) aphorisms of a wise man. Many of his insights were oddly striking, but some of them seemed kind of obvious, too. An example was something like this: "People look more attractive at night."
I have searched, but not been able to find that thread. Any idea where it is?
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at 7:49 AM on April 29, 2006
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I've noticed that libraries often put a rigid, clear plastic coating on the covers of paperback books. The coating makes the book covers more sturdy and durable. What is that coating, and is it available to retail consumers?
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at 12:45 PM on March 30, 2006
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I am looking for blogs written by low-wage, night-shift employees (such as convenience store clerks) who use their blogs to chronicle interesting experiences from their working lives. Any suggestions?
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at 7:35 PM on March 16, 2006
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I've got two recorded conversations, in .wav format, that I would like remixed into a single song, preferably with a hip-hop beat.
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at 8:55 AM on February 25, 2006
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Can someone else make a claim on my auto insurance?
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at 6:31 AM on February 18, 2006
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What happens to a piece of mail after it is deposited in a USPS mailbox that lists a Sunday pickup time?
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at 2:55 PM on February 5, 2006
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What is the best way to harvest, automatically, information from a website?
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at 3:28 PM on January 15, 2006
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