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Google rolls out
Mail Goggles, designed to prevent drunk or otherwise impaired emailing by forcing you to answer basic math questions. And no, it's not April 1st.
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at 11:11 AM on October 7, 2008
(66 comments)
Sync Itunes Playlist to Ipod without copying music?
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at 6:08 AM on October 5, 2008
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Vintage poison labels.
"One year I put them on the cocktail glasses at my Halloween party." Via BoingBoing (no Katamari/papercraft/steampunk/DRM content).
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at 3:41 AM on October 3, 2008
(29 comments)
You may have never heard of Kane Kramer, but it's likely you use the product and online store he patented.
In 1979.
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at 2:45 PM on September 9, 2008
(47 comments)
Will Wright's PC game
Spore was released yesterday. The 'Sim Everything' game from the creator of Sim City and The Sims takes the player from cellular growth to space colonization with several stages in between.
Reviews are in, and the consensus is that it's good but not as legendary as its scope (and multi-year development cycle) would suggest. The game's 'draconian' DRM has sparked controversy, causing Amazon users to bomb it with
one-star reviews.
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at 11:45 AM on September 8, 2008
(144 comments)
What are the specific tax loopholes that Obama intends to close, and how much money does each of those 'loopholes' account for?
This article by FactCheck.org indicates that the Obama campaign estimates the revenue from tax reform at $80 billion - so where did that figure come from?
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at 1:31 PM on September 4, 2008
(3 comments)
Are there any good alternatives to the Nintendo Wavebird controller for use with the Wii?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mattholomew
at 9:43 AM on August 4, 2008
(3 comments)
I saw a guy today who had something going on with his legs that I was curious about. He was wearing shorts and had these sort of flesh-colored "sleeves" over both legs and what looked like some sort of therapeutic boot with a very thick sole or padding. He walked as though he had a prosthetic leg, but these were not like any prosthetics I have ever seen. He didn't have a cane, crutches or any other sort of assistance. Any ideas what this was all about?
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at 1:24 PM on June 16, 2008
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An older guy I used to work with (who had no sense of humor) once claimed that Bob's Big Boy subjected their employees to extensive psychological testing and used the results to keep them in the fold no matter what - supposedly this included giving baseball fans season tickets, car buffs a sweet company car, etc. I found this completely implausible and totally hilarious. Can anybody confirm or disprove that Bob's Big Boy was some kind of Machiavellian empire that knew its employees' deepest desires?
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at 6:39 AM on June 1, 2008
(8 comments)
What are the indie rock one-hit wonders?
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at 1:53 PM on April 22, 2008
(51 comments)
I have a 98 Camry with leather seats and I live in Arizona. As you may have surmised, I am an idiot. The car has been great though, and I'm not getting rid of it anytime soon. My problem is that I have a long commute and by the time I get to work or home my pants & the back of my shirt are plastered to me, no matter how much I blast the AC. I'm thinking I need some sort of seat pad that provides ventilation and maybe active cooling. Any recommendations?
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at 11:42 AM on April 3, 2008
(8 comments)
I want to use my Xbox 360 to show slideshows of the Flickr Interestingness RSS feed --- without having to download the photos every day.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mattholomew
at 4:52 AM on March 7, 2008
(5 comments)
Questions about PSP modding (via Pandora's Battery) - will my UMD games still play on it? Will games purchased via playstation online store still work? And if future games are made to not work with modded units, can I 'reverse' the modding and go back to Sony firmware?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mattholomew
at 12:36 PM on February 27, 2008
(3 comments)
Alternative (to Itunes) music transfer service for the Ipod Classic that doesn't suck?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mattholomew
at 4:41 AM on January 23, 2008
(11 comments)
Xbox 360 over an Apple network? Help a brother out (literally!)
posted to Ask Metafilter by mattholomew
at 4:52 PM on January 1, 2008
(4 comments)
Looking for suggestions for running custom firmware on a PSP Slim (please see my stipulations inside!)
posted to Ask Metafilter by mattholomew
at 11:00 AM on November 26, 2007
(3 comments)
Looking for songs about wanting to eat, but not being able to, or hunger, or something like that.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mattholomew
at 8:28 PM on October 23, 2007
(27 comments)
Advice on becoming a tax preparer (in the US)?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mattholomew
at 5:33 AM on October 9, 2007
(1 comment)
My Xbox 360 is in Microsoft's Xbox hospital being repaired and I'm jonesing for some game time, even if I could just play my original Xbox games. I remember back in the NES days you could rent consoles but not so much anymore, I assume because of the complexity and Faberge egg-like delicacy of systems like the 360. But is there someplace, anywhere in the greater Phoenix (AZ) area that I could rent a system? A first gen Xbox would be fine. Failing that, any other creative ideas besides using my computer for games which I've already tried? I'm in the Chandler/Gilbert area FWIW.
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at 1:52 PM on September 26, 2007
(7 comments)
What is this crazy 'antivegan' diet I saw, and is there any science behind it?
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at 12:55 PM on September 18, 2007
(29 comments)
Need help trying to get PC games to open in a window rather than fullscreen.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mattholomew
at 8:13 AM on September 11, 2007
(10 comments)
Need help setting up a home gaming server, if that sort of thing exists
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at 3:03 PM on August 31, 2007
(12 comments)
Need help sharing an EVDO broadband connection among multiple computers
posted to Ask Metafilter by mattholomew
at 10:48 AM on August 22, 2007
(3 comments)
My 1998 Camry has a socket in the dashboard underneath the cigarette lighter that is the same size & shape as a cigarette lighter socket but has a cover over it that says "110V". If I plug in my cell phone charger to this socket it doesn't work, I assume because the voltage on the charger doesn't match.
My question: If I would like to power something from this socket with a standard household 2-pronged plug, what sort of adapter do I need? What's it called? Sorry for my lack of 'lectrical lingo knowledge.
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at 3:18 PM on August 1, 2007
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Fun stuff to do in Vegas with kids? We'll be there for 2 days, staying at Circus Circus, with 7-year old boy/girl twins. Haven't been there in 10 years. Besides walking the strip at night and doing the stuff at the hotel, what else do y'all recommend? Also, what's the rule on kids and casinos? If we take that walkway that goes into Caesar's, I seem to recall it drops you off right in the casino. Are we not allowed to even use this with children, or is it OK as long as we get them out of the casino area quickly?
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at 3:25 PM on July 13, 2007
(15 comments)
How to get the Guitar Hero II controller for Xbox 360 to work with Windows XP & Frets on Fire?
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at 4:26 AM on May 22, 2007
(2 comments)
Graphics card problems with Vista
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at 4:28 AM on April 29, 2007
(9 comments)
I have some contacts on AIM, others on Google Talk, others on MSN messenger. Ideally I'd like to set up an account on all of these, and then if someone sends me a message on one it would be forwarded to the other one I happened to be logged in on; i.e., they send me a message on Google talk and it's automagically forwarded to my MSN messenger account. C'mon MeFites, let's get the construction paper & string & build this thing!
posted to Ask Metafilter by mattholomew
at 2:21 PM on April 19, 2007
(19 comments)
What is the proper anatomical term for the top of your foot?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mattholomew
at 10:27 AM on March 18, 2007
(9 comments)
Looking for an easy and cheap way to animate a photo of a person.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mattholomew
at 6:49 AM on January 21, 2007
(3 comments)
Help! Still trying to get my Xbox 360 to play nice with my PC
posted to Ask Metafilter by mattholomew
at 4:41 AM on December 31, 2006
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What's the easiest way to network my Windows PC with my Xbox 360 to stream music from PC --> Xbox?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mattholomew
at 10:59 AM on December 16, 2006
(3 comments)
Help me complete my groovy retro-kitsch Xmas CD
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at 11:21 AM on November 28, 2006
(19 comments)
Is there a good reference for the standard evolution vs. creationism arguments?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mattholomew
at 5:35 AM on November 21, 2006
(18 comments)
Help using Amarok with a removable drive
posted to Ask Metafilter by mattholomew
at 4:47 AM on November 12, 2006
(2 comments)
How to have an Ubuntu machine display a slideshow of the Flickr 'Interestingness' photos for that day?
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at 1:52 PM on October 19, 2006
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Help me construct the ultimate poor man's Ipod boombox. I have a Sonic Impact T-Amp and 2 Infinity bookshelf speakers. I would like to be able to carry all 3 as a connected unit (Amp velcroed to the top of a speaker, speakers somehow connected together) but separate the speakers when needed. What's a good way to connect the speakers together without damaging them? I'd like to keep it as light weight as possible. Seems like Velcro might be too weak?
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at 7:01 AM on October 8, 2006
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Help-me-find-this-book: Series about 2 girls who get into adventures involving magic. I remember one where they had some kind of invisibility cloak and another where a forest grew inside one of the girls' rooms. They tried to keep the magic hidden from others. I remember reading these books in the mid 1970s.
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at 8:51 PM on September 26, 2006
(5 comments)
Why do I have such a horrible sense of direction? What can I do about it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mattholomew
at 6:06 PM on September 11, 2006
(7 comments)
When/how did 'blurry porn' photography of food become the norm?
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at 6:52 PM on August 30, 2006
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I'm putting together a music playlist for a kids' ice cream social at my son's elementary school and I need a lot of songs about ice cream and candy. Each song should have ice cream and/or candy mentioned prominently (i.e., people who haven't heard the song before and who are only half listening to it should quickly catch the connection). Sexual references/double entendre should be kept to a minimum (i.e., Van Halen's "Ice Cream Man" is OK, but "Candy Shop" by 50 Cent is not) -- we're talking 5-year olds here, but hip 5-year olds. The more genres the better!
Stuff I've got so far:
Ice Cream Man by Van Halen
Lollipop by the Chordettes
Various ice cream truck jingle mp3s from WFMU's Beware of the Blog
Sugar Sugar by the Archies
(Your love is better than) Ice Cream by Sarah McLachlan
I Want Candy by Bow Wow Wow
Ice Cream by Laurie Berkner
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at 4:33 PM on August 14, 2006
(40 comments)
Give me some more internet fads to check out! I've got my hipster pda tucked into the pocket of my moleskine, I'm using brasso to clean my ipod, but I haven't yet bought a pair of Vibram fivefingers. What other stuff is there to make/buy that you wouldn't know about without the internet?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mattholomew
at 7:50 AM on August 4, 2006
(31 comments)
Help me find the great Linux downloader for Emusic that I lost.
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at 10:04 AM on July 22, 2006
(2 comments)
How to create a customized portable ubuntu image? I would like to do something like an Ubuntu livecd but with either flash or a USB hard drive. Basically I would like to have a completely customized Ubuntu environment that will save all my settings when I log out, that I can take to any computer. Ideally I'd like to install a few apps that don't come standard with Ubuntu like Amarok and have those as part of the package. I have a 60 GB Ipod so I could launch from that if possible. I'm a Linux newbie so the simpler, the better!
posted to Ask Metafilter by mattholomew
at 12:34 PM on July 12, 2006
(7 comments)
What is this goofy song about everything the band didn't do?
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at 12:19 PM on July 2, 2006
(11 comments)
How the $%&# can I get DTMF tones to work with Skype??
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at 1:29 PM on June 22, 2006
(4 comments)
Need recommendations for free/low-cost options for putting together a DVD video from still photos with lots of snazzy effects.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mattholomew
at 11:12 AM on June 15, 2006
(4 comments)
