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How can I get a digital copy of my own DNA? How much will it cost? Is the cost likely to become reasonable any time soon?
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at 12:49 PM on March 24, 2008
(19 comments)
What are some good books on calendars, chronology and the division and measurement of time? I'm interested in the history, physics and especially mathematics of it all. A giant encyclopedic reference tome would be excellent. Thanks!
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at 7:35 AM on March 2, 2008
(10 comments)
My girlfriend and her girlfriends are going to see the Spice Girls at the O2 Arena in London tonight, and I've been invited to drive them there. I'm not going to the show, so what is there in the area that I can do between, say, 6pm and 10pm?
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at 4:34 AM on January 4, 2008
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How can I increase my descriptive vocabulary, particularly for the purpose of tagging photos?
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at 8:20 AM on November 21, 2007
(13 comments)
What do I need to know about the queue at Wimbledon? In particular, what kind of tent should I bring?
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at 2:29 PM on June 28, 2007
(3 comments)
One of my best friends just had a major car accident in which a motorcyclist died. What can I do to help him out?
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at 3:15 AM on June 19, 2007
(16 comments)
I once read a claim that the Chinese government had funded "research" whose aim was to prove that Han Chinese are a different species to other humans. It was a physical book, not online. What might it have been? And incidentally, is the claim true?
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at 7:10 AM on May 18, 2007
(14 comments)
There's been plenty of
Bullshit! on MetaFilter before, and now there's more: Boy Scouts [
1,
2,
3] (
"Duty to God ahead of country, others, and self, is the credo of suicide bombers.");
Wal-Mart Hatred (
"Wal-Mart is one of the great anti-poverty programmes in the country.");
Circumcision (
"By the end of this programme, one of these three will drop their pants and show us the restored foreskin on their penis."); and
The Best (
"Stupid? How many of you are searching for it on the web right now?").
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at 3:22 PM on April 27, 2007
(46 comments)
You've heard of
ScummVM and
MAME, but harvest time is approaching in the field of reverse-engineered
open source re-implementations of other classic games too:
OpenTTD (Transport Tycoon),
LinCity (Sim City),
Advanced Strategic Command (Battle Isle),
Freeciv (Civilization),
Enigma (Oxyd),
Widelands (Settlers),
OpenArena (Quake 3),
Spring (Total Annihilation),
JJFFE (Frontier First Encounters),
Vega Strike and
Oolite (Elite),
FreeOrion (Master of Orion),
Pingus (Lemmings),
Stratagus (Warcraft II et al.),
CloneKeen (Commander Keen),
Exult (Ultima VII),
FreeCNC (Command & Conquer),
REminiscence (Flashback),
LGeneral (Panzer General),
Pioneers (Settlers of Catan), and
Freedoom (Doom).
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water
at 3:27 PM on February 1, 2007
(43 comments)
My cousin and her husband would like to set up an online store for selling childrens' clothes, shoes, etc.. They are based in the UK and have very minimal technical know-how.
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at 3:33 AM on January 30, 2007
(8 comments)
How do syndication fees for TV shows like The Simpsons work? Does every episode cost the same to show? Or is it priced by season? Or by episode? Do the good ones cost more to show than the bad ones? Or the new ones more than the old ones?
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at 9:44 AM on November 5, 2006
(6 comments)
What target audience are movie producers trying to reach when they cast women in superfluous bimbo roles in action movies?
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at 1:36 PM on October 19, 2006
(35 comments)
In vino veritas: is there any medical or psychological basis for the idea that alcohol acts as a kind of truth serum?
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at 1:20 AM on August 5, 2006
(11 comments)
New feature please: MeFi Polls. Briefly, it would be great to be able to construct simple polls which can be answered anonymously.
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at 8:41 AM on July 26, 2006
(32 comments)
Please help correct my cold utilitarian calculus: is it ever right to allow a population to starve?
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at 5:19 AM on May 1, 2006
(24 comments)
What instrument is used to make the fast, tinkly, skin-crawling picking-on-a-harp high-pitched sound effect that accompanies spiders and other insects in movies?
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at 9:36 AM on April 23, 2006
(17 comments)
The
MetaFilter Wiki is being destroyed by vandalbots.
As recently as yesterday I used it to look something up, but its brain has been mostly melted. Can it be rolled back to an earlier snapshot? And can you make it so that only registered MeFi users can edit it?
posted to MetaTalk by hoverboards don't work on water
at 6:08 AM on March 21, 2006
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