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If a guy thrills to the "Ed Wood" soundtrack, music from the old "Batman" (Adam West) series, the soundtracks to "The Incredibles" and "The Pink Panther," what else would he like?
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at 3:57 PM on July 11, 2008
(21 comments)
I like singers with strange voices. I don't like novelty songs (e.g. Betty Boop) and I don't like "songs" that are so avant-garde that they're basically noise (e.g. someone screaming into a microphone). So I'm not looking for strange music. I'm looking for traditional (melodic) music sung by singers with non-traditional singing voices. Examples of what I like:
Joanna Newsom,
Leon Redbone,
Screamin' Jay Hawkins,
Elaine Stritch.
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at 11:26 AM on June 22, 2008
(104 comments)
Can I learn to create melodies?
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at 8:33 AM on June 15, 2008
(37 comments)
Help me stop cluttering up my (OS X) desktop.
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at 8:41 AM on June 7, 2008
(23 comments)
Is it possible to
rationally settle on an economic theary?
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at 7:29 AM on May 31, 2008
(54 comments)
Is it normal to have a hunger pang and then, a couple of minutes later, to not be hungry?
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at 9:31 AM on May 15, 2008
(12 comments)
My Macbook Pro was stolen. Just about the only non-shitty thing about it is that I keep my huge iTunes library on an external drive. All the music files are on the drive, but the data files (library.xml) were on the stolen Mac. I have another Macbook. What's the simplest way I can rebuild my library on it?
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at 7:39 AM on May 8, 2008
(13 comments)
Design-pattern (programming) question.
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at 10:19 AM on April 16, 2008
(41 comments)
I'd like to photograph the interior of a run-down old building. I live in NYC.
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at 12:06 PM on April 2, 2008
(9 comments)
stupid question: why are there left and right stereo speakers?
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at 1:01 PM on March 23, 2008
(31 comments)
Does anyone know a way to stop icons from bouncing on the OS X doc? I'm NOT talking about unchecking "animate opening applications" in the dock preferences. That only stops opening-app bounces. I want to stop warning bounces, too. They drive me crazy. Please note that I'm using an INTEL Mac (Leopard). I've only been able to find solutions for PowerPC Macs.
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at 8:42 AM on March 10, 2008
(9 comments)
I want to stand up while I program. Please recommend a desk.
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at 8:58 AM on February 19, 2008
(24 comments)
16th-18th Century (Western Europe): Did working-class women wear corsets?
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at 7:18 AM on January 20, 2008
(15 comments)
Why did the emergency-room clerk want to know my wife's religion?
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at 7:13 AM on January 9, 2008
(30 comments)
Is there such a book as "The London Times Historical Atlas"? Google and Amazon are clueless.
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at 9:51 AM on December 22, 2007
(6 comments)
Help me shoot my wife: suggest a first-person shooter we can play against each other. I'm on a Mac (pentium macbook pro); She's on a PC (about four years old, without the latest and greatest graphics card). We have a home network.
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at 11:00 AM on December 13, 2007
(27 comments)
I have to share an office with a "percussionist." He drums on his desk, taps his foot, etc. It drives me crazy, and I feel like my head is about to explode. Is it rude for me to ask him to stop? If so, what else can I do?
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at 10:50 AM on November 29, 2007
(56 comments)
I'm looking for cheap, deep-in-the-ear earbuds for listening to audiobooks. The sound quality doesn't have to be great, because I won't use them to listen to music. I want cheap ones, because I inevitably break headphones, and I don't want to have to spend $100 every month. On the other hand, I'm willing to spend $20 a month if I have to. In-the-ear, because I don't want to keep my wife awake with "leaking" sound.
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at 12:01 PM on November 20, 2007
(22 comments)
Psychology: is there a term for someone who can't define himself -- who has a hard time saying "I'm an X person" or "I'm a Y person"?
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at 2:33 PM on November 5, 2007
(40 comments)
Help me destroy the rain forest: I'm want to print out a huge
manual that only exists as a web site. What (free? cheap?) app exists that will allow me to suck the entire site into a PDF or some other sort of printable document? I'm Mac based but can scare up a PC if necessary.
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at 9:31 AM on October 14, 2007
(5 comments)
Comp Sci: What's the best Design Pattern or structure for dealing with a complex relationship between many booleans?
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at 7:24 PM on September 25, 2007
(34 comments)
Help me ditch Word, yet still deliver a document that uses Word templates.
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at 8:47 AM on September 3, 2007
(17 comments)
Is there a default understanding the word "between," if the speaker/writer doesn't say whether he's being inclusive or exclusive? For instance, if I say "Pick a number between 1 and 10," would you assume that 1 and 10 are okay picks or just 2 through 9? I suspect there isn't a RIGHT answer, but is there a common, colloquial understanding?
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at 10:13 AM on August 8, 2007
(50 comments)
I need to spec out a huge, complex application in UML. I'm looking for good tools/techniques to do this in a fluid situation, where there are a ton of classes and new ones will be added all the time.
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at 10:54 AM on July 26, 2007
(11 comments)
Where can a guy get a good turkey sandwich (the carved-right-off-the-bone kind) in NYC?
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at 5:49 PM on June 28, 2007
(10 comments)
My boss has challenged me to complete some sort of marathon workout at his gym. I'm not very athletic, but if I can finish, my boss will buy all his employees an expensive steak dinner. I need tips -- especially as to what/when to eat. The workout is at 8pm tonight.
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at 8:57 AM on June 19, 2007
(23 comments)
Is there an easy-to-use site that lists all movies, theatres and showtimes in NYC. Please, God, PLEASE don't say citysearch!
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at 9:02 AM on May 27, 2007
(14 comments)
Javascript / Prototype problem: I've written a function that inserts new content in a div whenever you click on a link in that same div. It works, but with the added "feature" of scrolling to the top of the page after the new content has been added. I don't want it to do this. How do I stop it? Here's
the page. (Scroll down to see the link.)
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at 7:04 AM on May 2, 2007
(11 comments)
Can you help a reasonably smart layperson (who is not very good at math) understand how the word "information" is used in physics?
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at 7:05 AM on February 15, 2007
(35 comments)
I'm running Parallels; I need to install Bootcamp.
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at 7:02 AM on January 16, 2007
(9 comments)
What is a TV "Network"?
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at 2:20 PM on December 12, 2006
(23 comments)
I imported some mp3s into iTunes, searched for them in my music library and couldn't find them. I tried re-importing them: same thing. Finally, I found them in the podcast library. I don't want them there. How does iTunes decide to put a particular mp3 in the podcast library? I can't see any obvious tag that tells it to do this. What can I do to these mp3s to get to to show up in my main library?
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at 5:03 PM on December 2, 2006
(9 comments)
I'm having trouble getting anchor tags working in a php-generated page.
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at 2:12 PM on November 12, 2006
(11 comments)
I can't figure out how to password-protect my wireless internet connection.
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at 4:08 PM on October 27, 2006
(10 comments)
I once heard a radio program (probably on NPR or the BBC) about the song "Willow Weep for Me." They claimed it was an extraordinary song for two reasons: it was written by a woman (rare in 1932) and there was striking tempo change in the middle of the song. However, in most recordings, the musicians skip the tempo change. But on the show I listened to, they played a rare recoding that featured the change. I want that recording.
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at 2:37 AM on October 17, 2006
(3 comments)
I'm writing a book on programming for beginners, and I have a question about color-coding.
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at 1:51 PM on October 9, 2006
(36 comments)
What is anti-matter?
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at 12:33 PM on September 26, 2006
(14 comments)
All the audible.com audiobooks vanished from my iTunes library, and iTunes won't let me re-import them.
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at 6:47 AM on September 17, 2006
(17 comments)
Why are there fast people and slow people? Why do different people have different paces?
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at 6:38 PM on August 23, 2006
(34 comments)
How do I learn what goes on "under the hood" of programming languages?
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at 11:36 AM on August 14, 2006
(34 comments)
I'm having trouble connecting my iPod to my PC and to an external speaker system.
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at 3:29 PM on August 6, 2006
(10 comments)
How do you secure a plug so that even if someone yanks on the chord, it doesn't come out of an outlet? It does need to be POSSIBLE to get the plug out sometimes, and it won't work to glue/staple the chord to the wall, because sometimes equipment needs to be moved to another room.
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at 1:13 PM on July 14, 2006
(23 comments)
"Ladies and Gentlemen, I am not selling money for no basketball team. I am just trying to stay off the streets and raise a little cash..." Who is behind this scam?
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at 10:37 AM on July 1, 2006
(57 comments)
Scheduling meetings: I need software (or a good human-based procedure) to help me juggle complicated schedules for a group of people.
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at 6:37 AM on June 20, 2006
(17 comments)
For theatre (and other) projects, I sometimes need music that I can't find on CD. Is there a service that lets you email sheet music to a musician, who then a musician records the song and sends it back to you as an mp3? I'm looking instrumental music -- no vocals. Just a piano/keyboard is generally fine.
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at 5:35 AM on June 12, 2006
(9 comments)
You're a single mother, with no living relatives except your twin daughters, who are both dying of kidney failure. You have one kidney to donate. Is there a moral/ethical philosophy that deals with such rock/hard place dilemmas?
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at 10:06 AM on June 2, 2006
(24 comments)
What's the most exciting novel you've ever read? I mean this in the simplest sense: an exciting plot. I'm looking for page-turners. Novels that keep you on the edge of your seat and refuse to let you sleep until you finish them. I'm looking for genre novels -- but I don't care what genres: Mystery, thriller, sci-fi, etc. (though sci-fi/fantasy has been done-to-death here, so I'm really more interested in other genres.) Oh, I care about words. So no matter how exciting, I'll quit reading if the prose is crappy.
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at 2:41 PM on May 25, 2006
(148 comments)
How do I find a girl that I knew as a child/teen? All I have is her name (she may have changed it through marriage) and the town where she grew up? She doesn't live there any more.
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at 8:11 AM on May 18, 2006
(53 comments)
Who is buying music by Shostakovich, watching silent movies, and reading Thackeray?
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at 11:17 AM on May 10, 2006
(33 comments)
What's wrong with my temporary memory? How can I fix it?
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at 10:20 AM on May 3, 2006
(47 comments)
