I'm not sure that this exists. I don't think there's a programmatic way to tell if a site is using tables or css for layout.

And besides, the numbers for these sorts of things are never the complete truth. For example, the w3schools browser stats are based only a sample of people who visit that site. And who visits that site? People who make web pages, which is hardly your average person. So you can't trust those numbers. It might get you in the ballpark, but it might... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 9:07 AM on June 12, 2008

Since Web Design is 95% Typography, I suggest you read The Elements of Typographic Style. This website attempts to explain how to achieve some of those techniques, which may or may not be useful to you, given your stated skill level.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 12:21 PM on June 9, 2008

I had french fries once with sumac all over them and a horseradishy dipping sauce. They were amazing.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 10:24 AM on June 4, 2008

Lose your cool.
I stole this line from Saul Williams.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 1:43 PM on June 2, 2008

My favorite veg restaurant is Alice & Friends [yelp], kind of far north but worth it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 2:31 PM on May 30, 2008

It was shaped like a human mouth, not alligator. I suppose I should have mentioned that.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 11:22 AM on May 30, 2008

Here's a drawing.

I would say it as about 80% the size of a normal set of teeth.

Now I'm having a inclination that it was some sort of mouth guard, but those aren't usually made of metal. Maybe the whole thing wasn't metal, but at least the teeth definitely were. Maybe it was some variety of "grill."

/shrugs
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 12:49 PM on May 30, 2008

I was waiting in line to buy donuts at the DD. He came in demanding for a bag to hold all the crap he was carrying with him, which looked to be stuff he just purchased elsewhere. He was carrying various portable foodstuffs, beef jerky, vacuum sealed tuna, etc. and this object.

He was making a scene and it was taking a long time, and I was getting annoyed because I was there first. I commented sarcastically that the clerk should probably tend to paying customers before... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 2:08 PM on May 30, 2008

Backpack looks like a good fit, although their other products might be good too. I've used backpack somewhat and was very impressed by the user interface. It's more intuitive than breathing.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 1:24 PM on May 20, 2008

As far as being in the actual city limits...

Many of the Asian markets near the Argyle red line have Zojirushi stuff.

Also this Korean market near Belmont & Kimball.

Like limeswirltart, I have never specifically looked for Coffee Makers, but I've definitely seen Zojirushi rice makers and electric boilers at these places.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 12:55 PM on May 20, 2008

I'm the same way. When it becomes an issue, I go for compromise.

You try to stop being so critical and they stop trying to be sensitive about it. The idea is to meet halfway.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 9:43 AM on May 1, 2008

We use this at my office.

Which I believe is pretty much the same thing as above, works pretty good on macs.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 9:37 AM on May 1, 2008

Almost everyone I know does Chase. They've let me deposit money into someone's account, no questions asked. At the branch office, that is.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 10:23 AM on April 24, 2008

Keep playing. I couldn't go from G to C for a very long time. As a matter of fact, any time I tried to play C I got all discombobulated.

Some things my guitar teachers have taught me-

1. The idea is to get your strumming hand moving up and down without thinking about it - then you can concentrate on your fretting hand. I like to think of it this way. "Alright. As soon as that crazy hand over there plays this chord 4 times, I'm going to move... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 9:01 AM on April 24, 2008

Not showing up in Firefox beta 3/mac, or safari 3.0.4, but it is showing up in Camino 1.5.1, which, I believe, uses the same version of Gecko that your firefox probably uses.

I replaced this rule in the css:



#menu
{
color: #111111;
position: fixed;
top: 50%;
margin-top: -150px;
left: 40%;
margin-left:... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 3:17 PM on April 23, 2008 marked best answer

Why you would do this instead of just renting the rooms on your own? What's the difference?

They've always seemed like a sucker's deal to me. They use points to confuse you so you won't notice how much money you're wasting.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 12:11 PM on April 23, 2008

A very similar thing happened to me.

I told the girl, we remained friends. The next couple of times I saw her, I was broken up about it - but then the strangest thing happened - my attraction to her ceased. I even started to wonder what I saw in her in the first place.

I didn't expect it, didn't even want it, but it happened, so I think telling her was the best thing I could have done. It allowed me to move on.

So I say... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 9:57 PM on April 17, 2008

I always use mactheripper and toast - which does the shrinking and the burning. Toast isn't free, but it's definitely worth having/paying for.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 9:28 PM on April 17, 2008

That would be giddyup.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 9:20 PM on April 14, 2008 marked best answer

This power I have, it's a blessing AND a curse.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 9:28 PM on April 14, 2008

Fishfucker's got it, this is possible in theory, but some browsers will probably bork it up because flash doesn't take kindly to layers. Definitely try this in multiple browsers. Safari probably won't like it.

Or, do the right thing and tell them to fuck off. This is exactly the kind of crap that cheapens the entire profession.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 2:59 PM on April 7, 2008

I had the exact same problem. Long story short, I "returned" it and got the ps2 version - the buttons were in the correct order and it was a thing of beauty. I haven't noticed any substantial lag, but then again, I am not really interested in MM7.

I haven't tried these, but a company called Retrozone sells this product, and, apparently, you can use it to plug in an SNES or NES controller and play both Virtual Console and normal Gamecube games. Don't know if... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 2:03 PM on April 2, 2008

Krist Novoselic, former bassist of Nirvana.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 8:54 AM on April 2, 2008

I agree with jejune. Seeing a picture of a girl with some dude makes me desperately want to close the browser window.

I've never really understood why people do this. It's supposed to be a picture of you, not your friends. Most of the sites I've been on specifically request that you don't post those sorts of pictures.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 3:03 PM on March 28, 2008

John Vanderslice is good for this sort of thing, although most of his albums are more of a full-band sound. This album is just JV and acoustic guitar and it's pretty amazing.

Here's a bunch of free mp3s.

I noticed a lot of people here mention the mountain goats - JV has produced or somehow been involved with a lot of Darnielle's albums. Here's an interview with them both.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 5:43 PM on March 27, 2008

Just read on daring fireball this morning:

http://daringfireball.net/2008/03/mail_quoting_bug

Summary: Either implement his fixes or switch to plain text mode.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 11:49 AM on March 26, 2008

Whoops. You're totally right, alan.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 1:40 PM on March 26, 2008

Seconding pagesender. We use it here at work, and it's pretty awesome. We have one computer that acts as the "fax machine" - it receives the faxes and prints them automatically, and also saves a pdf. And Since it's on the network, anyone can use it to send a fax from any application that has a print dialog.

At first we tried using the built-in fax capabilities of OS X but found them too limiting.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 10:20 AM on March 21, 2008

Asparagirl has the answer, if you're not willing to use sifr.

If it's for wordpress, though, I imagine it's going to be content that your friend will be writing on his own, say, the titles of new blog entries. In that case, if you really want to do this, you're going to have to use sifr to generate the headlines. Which means you need flash.

But if it's some sort of content that isn't going to change very often, the method Asparagirl describes is both accessible AND pretty.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 9:53 AM on March 21, 2008

I'm not sure, but I do remember my Japanese teacher trying to convince us that the differences in Japanese between the north and the south (what I would consider dialects) was much the same as the differences between Spanish and French, since both were descended from Latin.

This, of course, is a load of crap. I considered it nationalistic hubris on her part.

So I imagine it is due to lack of rigorous study.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 2:36 PM on March 18, 2008

You need to read Wittgenstein. (wiki) The picture theory of language is closest to what you're talking about.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 11:31 AM on March 13, 2008

John Lennon - a real person - has at least two Beatles songs about being sleepy. I'm Only Sleeping (youtube) and I'm So Tired. (youtube)

The I'm Only Sleeping article goes into further detail about how Lennon generally liked to stay in bed.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 12:06 PM on March 4, 2008

When I bought my wall hanger device-a-mabob, I asked the people at the store if it was a good idea, and they said it was, that it was actually better for the guitar than being kept in a case. Something about stretching and tension and whatnot.

In my experience, my guitar stays in tune longer when it's hanging than when I kept it just laying around.

But guitarists are as superstitious as athletes, so who knows?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 1:02 PM on March 3, 2008

I've never used them, but all the cool webcomic artists use Brunetto. His pricing appears to be super awesome. Lots of samples of people that have used him that you may or may not recognize on the main page.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 12:37 PM on March 3, 2008 marked best answer

Radiohead - Fitter Happier.

Many songs off The Apples in Stereo's New Magnetic Wonder use vocoder'd backup vocals.

Pink Floyd's Keep Talking. This is supposedly Stephen Hawking.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 2:30 PM on March 1, 2008

I had to do this for a client once. As I recall, there are basically two ways in outlook to get this to work - 1) Setting it up as a signature or 2) Setting it up as "stationery."

I ended up having to make .html files with the signature and opening up outlook, messing around with the settings to get it to look right, and then writing down the settings as a set of instructions for the client to replicate on their end.

The result is... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 10:14 AM on February 27, 2008

Most of the people I know -1) hipsters, 2) indie rockers, 3) art students, 4) metalheads, 5) gamer geeks, 6) former english majors, 7) democrats, 8) anarchists - none of them seem to be religious. In fact, a lot of our conversations revolve around how much we hate organized religion.

I didn't seek this out, particularly. It seems that my interests tend to weed out the religious.

My point is that maybe it would help to identify the groups of... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 9:02 AM on February 27, 2008

I installed xp on my macbook to play games. It worked just fine.

As far as I understand it, having windows installed on your mac doesn't make it more vulnerable, security-wise, when you're booted into mac os. When you're in windows, all the normal windows risks apply. If you get some nasty virus/spyware, it won't be able to touch your mac os partition.

Use firefox. Make sure you have xp service pack 2. Get a good free anti-virus program like AVG.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 8:30 PM on February 22, 2008

I've not used it myself, but FancyZoom is pretty nice. I noticed it on the 37signals (it's on the examples midway down the page) website and was much impressed, until I found out they didn't make it themselves.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 10:07 AM on February 21, 2008

Totally linked to the wrong page. FancyZoom is here.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 10:08 AM on February 21, 2008

These two tutorials from HTML Dog are particularly well-written.

Looking at the source of a site can be useful, but it can be difficult to understand if the site is complex. Start with simple, non-dynamic sites first.

If you use firefox (and you should!) download the web developer toolbar. Particularly useful is the "view style information" command under the css menu. You can then click on an element of a page and it will show you the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 9:42 PM on February 17, 2008

So America became the world's dominant superpower because Henry Ford made cars cheaply? That absolutely doesn't follow.

My take on what Bill Hicks said - The economy is fake because it only as strong as people believe it to be. If everyone were to decide (or somehow be influenced to believe - by the media, word-of-mouth, and so on.) that the economy was "doing well," the economy would just do well. It has nothing to do with any state of affairs in the world,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 9:22 AM on February 2, 2008

I agree. I started reading a lot more when I stopped reading books that people tell me I should read and started reading books that I wanted to read. Usually, I'll find one author that I really love and then just buy everything they've written.

Here's when I read, and I read about 3 books every two weeks or so.

1) Being in chicago, I take the CTA everywhere. I read on the way to work, from work, to the bar, sometimes home from the bar depending... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 2:30 PM on January 31, 2008

As long as you like it, go ahead and wear it.

But I imagine that the rest of the world will start to notice when you have the wrinkles and the saddlebags &c.

I don't think it's a numerical age, but when someone can look at you and "just tell" that you aren't in your 20s anymore, that's when they start to say things behind your back.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 2:17 PM on January 31, 2008

Kindred was really good, sadly, that's all I've read by Octavia Butler. I have a feeling that you'll be able to find lots of secondary material about this.

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester deals with class issues. It also happens to be flippin' awesome.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 9:50 PM on January 29, 2008

It's a fool's errand to think about this in aggregate. It's something you need to figure out per partner. My experience has been that pretty much every girl responds differently to different things that you're doing.

So you need to ask them if they like it, and if you trust their answer, either 1) work on it or b) feel happy and proud that you're satisfying them.

If you don't trust their answer, that's a different question entirely.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 9:22 PM on January 29, 2008

Try to move on. Even if you might get back together with her, it's not going to happen as a result of anything you do. She's going to have to decide for herself she wants you back. But, generally, I agree with what others have said - try to avoid her as much as possible.

There's someone even better than her out there and your new mission is to find her.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 9:15 PM on January 29, 2008

Well, I imagine shampoo's probably not the best thing in the world to use on clothes, but it didn't make the washer explode, if that's what you mean. I did this every couple of weeks for a period of about 3 months back in 1999. For some reason I had a lot of shampoo lying around.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 9:07 PM on January 29, 2008

Urm, don't really know, but have you tried either: 1) Rebuilding the site cache 2) Deleting the site (just in the dreamweaver site manager) and remaking it? I have to do this from time to time and it usually doesn't end up affecting things to much.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 9:01 PM on January 29, 2008

I dated a bisexual woman. It almost completely didn't matter, except she would sometimes find naked pictures of girls for me to look at. That was pretty cool. So far, though, it was the best relationship I've been in. (Past tense intended.)

More recently, I've been looking at online dating sites, and it seems like an inordinate number of the profiles that seem interesting to me are girls who list themselves as bisexual. I don't seek it out, and often I don't even see it... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by kpmcguire at 8:42 PM on January 29, 2008