It would help if you told us the specific industry or target market, but I’ll just throw Panic out there as an example of what I think is a great site design, particularly the subsite for Coda.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 8:41 AM on July 3, 2008

Learn to sear meat. Make a simple pan sauce by deglazing the fond and the pan will be very easy to clean afterwards. It usually takes me about 15-20 minutes to prep, cook, and sauce a batch of 4 pork chops, which will keep well in the fridge for several days. A variety of simple sauce recipes can be found in How to Cook Without a Book by Pam Anderson.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 12:34 PM on June 18, 2008

Be aware that the 1 TB WD My Book is in fact two 500 GB disks being “striped” to appear as a single logical volume. This is where some of the price differential comes from (two smaller disks are often cheaper than one larger.) I would not recommend this device with disk striping for backups: when either one of those disks fails, your data is lost. I think you can configure it to use “mirroring” instead of striping, which means your data is safely redundant, but you only have half the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 11:20 AM on June 17, 2008

Possibly an Hellenic Hare Hound, a.k.a. Greek Hound, or Hellenikos Ichnilatis.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 11:27 AM on June 2, 2008

You haven’t told us what sort of transportation you’ll have. Will you be limited to walking distance from the COP area? If you’ll have a car, I recommend Six Feet Under (seafood) or Daddy D’z (bar-be-que) which are both in the area of Oakland Cemetary. These are both uniquely ATL establishments. There are a glut of chains, such as Ted’s Montana Grill or Hard Rock Cafe in the immediate vicinity of COP.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 7:58 AM on May 27, 2008

Also, what night of the week will you be in town? Some places (Six Feet Under) will have very long waits on the weekends. Others (Daddy D’z) are pretty easy to get in and eat more quickly at nearly any time.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 8:03 AM on May 27, 2008

There are two good, moderately-priced Indian restaurants in Little 5 Points. Calcutta is on Euclid Ave, and they have a good lunch special. For dinner, I lean towards Bombay Cafe on Moreland. There’s also the Brewhouse Pub in L5P on the corner of Euclid and Moreland.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 11:25 AM on May 27, 2008

Python Essential Reference
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 7:50 AM on May 21, 2008 marked best answer

“a minute” — probably more like a few hours
“around the bend” — at least 10 miles
“directly” — when I get around to it
“(feeling) poorly” — hung over
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 7:50 AM on May 8, 2008

“kindly” — like / kind of / sort of
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 7:51 AM on May 8, 2008

“watch for deer” — watch for deer (when driving)
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 7:52 AM on May 8, 2008

“pert’near” — close proximity
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 7:54 AM on May 8, 2008

One of my high school teachers told us she’d never heard “fixin’to” used to mean “about to” as in, “I’m fixin’to whoop yo ass.”
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 7:58 AM on May 8, 2008

Many trade jobs, such as plumbing and electrician, can be learned through apprenticeships and on-the-job training. You will almost certainly need a GED for this. I would advise taking the GED regardless.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 8:26 AM on May 7, 2008

I’ve never used the Thermapen; I always see them using it on America’s Test Kitchen. I use and prefer a Pyrex-branded one similar to yours with a remote display and timer, which I picked up at Bed Bath & Beyond for about $20. I’m truly surprised by how expensive the Thermapen is, and by the fact that each unit operates exclusively in metric or Imperial units. I’ve seen Alton Brown using a non-contact IR thermometer like this. Honestly, I don’t... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 12:19 PM on April 21, 2008

“Even a really good $30 thermometer takes a good 10-15 seconds to come up to temp.”

Yeah, but with the remote probe/timer style, the probe sits in the meat the whole time, and ought to be tracking the temperature continuously. When I’m roasting, I don’t want to keep opening the oven door and probing the meat. My thermometer alarms when the preset internal temperature has been reached.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 1:51 PM on April 21, 2008

I haven’t listened to it in forever, but it looks like there’s a podcast for Selected Shorts.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 6:01 AM on April 10, 2008

I agree with le morte de bea arthur, I wouldn’t use any meat stock that has been in the refrigerator for more than 4 days or so.

If you frequently make your own stock and freeze it, consider freezing small portions. The recommendations I’ve seen say to reduce the stock more than you normally would, making it about double strength, then freezing it in an ice cube tray. With such small portions, you never have to worry about having leftovers. When you use the small... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 6:04 AM on April 9, 2008 marked best answer

Religion is a tool, a means to an end. Maybe you should ask yourself to what end you want your religion to take you. If it is your goal to find the objectively stated “one right belief,” then you will surely be disappointed, because so many religions state that they are that one.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 11:48 AM on April 8, 2008

I’d also like to point out that the question of “true” religion dates back much earlier even than the genesis of Christianity. The first line of the Tao Te Ching states, “The Way that can be spoken of is not the true Way,” implying that the truth lies in one’s own ineffable experience of the Way.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 12:18 PM on April 8, 2008

jejune: do you think people in non-Christian cultures who aren't even exposed to Christianity are all going to hell?
The teaching is that, most likely yes.

Yes, but the question isn’t what were you taught, the question is what do you think.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 12:45 PM on April 8, 2008

div#outer {
position: fixed;
height: 75%;
width: 75%;
}
div#inner {
overflow-y: auto;
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
bottom: 24px; /* leaves room at the bottom for the button */
}
#close {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
}

I subbed height for max-height. Don’t know if that will make a significant diff in... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 11:48 AM on April 4, 2008

Be sure to set a min-height if you must use max-height.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 12:22 PM on April 4, 2008

Also, isolate your problems; test the code on a page that only contains the elements you’re working with. Integration comes later.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 12:24 PM on April 4, 2008

I’m with Floydd; each cable in its own clear zip-top bag.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 11:30 AM on March 18, 2008

Clipart.com has royalty-free illustrations from Dover.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 11:07 AM on March 18, 2008

IANG, but I hung out in a bar on Decatur called Aunt Tiki’s that I think was a gay bar. It was a very low-key dive, and seemed to cater to the hipster locals. I think I was there on a week night, because my friends and I were nearly the only patrons, but the bartender was very friendly.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 7:02 AM on March 14, 2008

Since I just watched the You’re Gonna Miss Me documentary last night, I’ll suggest looking into The 13th Floor Elevators.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 10:04 AM on March 13, 2008

I’m just going to add another voice to suggest trying to further tune your queries. If your data is fragmented, you may be suffering very bad cache usage at every stage from the filesystem and RAM to the RDBMS. PostgreSQL has an index clustering feature that keeps similar rows physically local. MySQL doesn’t have this feature for indexes other than the primary, that I’m aware of, but you can simulate it by inserting the records in order. I have seen a 10-fold increase in MySQL query... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 2:13 PM on March 12, 2008

The table I was talking about comprises over 20 million rows, and weighs around 3 GB. A typical query executes in less than 10 seconds. It’s very likely that the records in your orders table were inserted in chronological order, and are therefore ordered that way on the disk. If your major selection criterion is a type column in the orders table, rebuild the table by inserting the records in the order of that column, and you will probably see a big performance boost, because the records... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 2:32 PM on March 12, 2008

I like farfalle tossed with wilted spinach, sautéed carrots, onions, and tempeh, dressed with tahini.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 12:35 PM on March 3, 2008

I’m surprised no one has mentioned Katt Williams. All of his DVDs are really funny, although he does reuse some of his material.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 11:36 AM on February 28, 2008

stikkit.com analyzes your notes and tries to identify and relate things like people, places, dates, etc.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 8:49 AM on February 28, 2008

I would try citrus. It would probably be even more effective if you can manage to catch the cats on the mat and spray citrus oil at them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 6:14 AM on February 26, 2008

Even if you aren’t a white cop, even if your dog is the friendliest in the world, this sort of image is still a very real memory for people in the South, and these teenagers may have learned this fear from their parents or grandparents. “Don’t touch that dog! That’s whitey’s dog!” Believe it or not, these are the literal words that came from a young child in a Southern town.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 5:47 AM on February 26, 2008

If you want to save energy, don’t start by speculating on how to make small improvements to arbitrary appliances. Take a look at your electric bill and see how many kWh you are consuming. Then look up the Energy Star stats on your refigerator. What portion of your energy consumption is drawn by your refrigerator? Does it make sense to focus on a 10-15% portion of the bill? Or can you make more significant improvements in other areas, like replacing incandescent bulbs with CF, or making sure... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 8:24 AM on February 21, 2008

The first season of Dexter is nicely wrapped up by the last episode, yet the potential for more is definitely there. I enjoyed the show enough to want to watch more, and my gf is reading the novels upon which the show is based.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 7:53 AM on February 12, 2008

How to Design Programs is a teaching text for the Scheme language that begins with the fundamentals of elementary arithmetic and progresses through functional abstraction and composition, recursion, and symbolic logic.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 8:10 AM on January 24, 2008

Umm, I may be confused, but what you’re describing looks exactly like the normal form behaviour when the request method is GET.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 12:26 PM on January 23, 2008

That is to say, if your plain-vanilla HTML form looks something like this:

<form method="GET" action="http://www.search.com/query">
<input type="checkbox" name="type" value="widgets">
<input type="checkbox" name="type" value="doodads">
<input type="checkbox" name="type"... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 12:30 PM on January 23, 2008 marked best answer

Yes, the URI for the GET is assembled by the browser on the client side, including the form variables. However, I don’t understand your question, “is it still submitting the individual variables to the search application on the remote site?”

Ignoring cookies, in a GET request, the only input to the remote application is the URI. It’s up to the remote application to interpret the meaning of any variables in the query portion of the URI.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 12:46 PM on January 23, 2008

I don’t think you can do any computation within the SetEnv directive in httpd.conf. So you probably won’t be able to dynamically determine the pre-existing value of Pythons sys.path. But the PYTHONPATH environment variable is defined to augment Python’s sys.path. So this might work:

SetEnv PYTHONPATH "/path/to/python/published/modules"

posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 12:34 PM on January 18, 2008

Also, if you need to specify multiple paths within that variable, the Unix convention is to separate the paths with a colon (:) character. See the ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES section of the Python man page for more info.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 12:37 PM on January 18, 2008

Most programming language communities have an active IRC channel. I’m not a Java developer myself, but I see that #java on irc.freenode.net has over 300 connected people right now.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 10:48 AM on January 17, 2008

There’s a list of notable RPG game systems at the bottom of this Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing_game_system
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 10:32 AM on January 17, 2008

You might also take a look at the roguelike Dungeon Crawl, which is intended to be very extensible and customizable via a scripting system using the Lua language.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 10:41 AM on January 17, 2008

I always recommend checking the "Special Deals" section of Apple’s online store. (Look in the left column, near the bottom of the page for the “Refurbished Mac” link.) The amount of discount varies, but when an Apple product nears the end of its upgrade cycle, the current models can be had for 10-40% off the normal price. I’ve personally bought a number of Apple computers, iPods, and accessories this way.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 6:06 AM on January 7, 2008

Oh, and I wouldn't count on an iMac update next week. Even if there is one, it will likely be incremental: slightly faster, slightly more storage. I haven’t seen anyone positing on major new features for the iMac or Mac mini lines.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 6:09 AM on January 7, 2008

Ommegang had a table at my local annual beer festival, and they were selling their glassware for $10 a piece.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 8:01 AM on December 31, 2007

I tried Huey’s for the first time a few days ago. The cajun omelette I had was pretty tasty, if a bit overpriced, but the service was really poor.

I meant to warn you away from Copeland’s in my earlier comment, but I couldn’t remember the name of the place. I hated it the one time I was there.
posted to Ask Metafilter by breaks the guidelines? at 12:15 PM on December 17, 2007