I am teaching myself typesetting with LaTeX. I learn best by example and so I'm looking for some great examples to follow — especially if they're based on the Memoir class. Ideally, I'd love to find some (public domain) classic literature that stands out as a great study in syntax, style and design. What do you recommend?
posted to Ask Metafilter by tomwheeler at 8:24 PM on September 18, 2008 (9 comments)

Seattle or Eastside: Recommendations for a hairdresser specializing in trendy cuts for men, despite the formidable obstacle of seriously thinning hair. This may be my last chance to look young, hot, and fashionable, before my hair declares to the world the world "Going on middle aged and should know better by now!". I have long hippy hair that has never been fashionable. It's disappearing and I'd like a trendy cut at least once before it's too late. It may already be too late. I fear a stylist is going to misjudge how thin it is (the length disguises this) and botch it. So: Who is a miracle-worker hairstylist who can give guys makeovers to hotness?
posted to Ask Metafilter by anonymisc at 3:58 PM on July 26, 2008 (5 comments)

Butch Cassidy wanted to call his gang The Train Robber's Syndicate, but the name never stuck. The gang's core members - most notable among them The Sundance Kid - and a revolving cast of supporting outlaws were most commonly called The Hole-in-the-Wall Gang and The Wild Bunch, and their goal was to be the most successful train robbers in history. The Butch and Sundance site is a comprehensive collection of "the hundreds, if not thousands, of theories, legends and folk tales" surrounding the gang, including an exhaustive list of biographies of the members, their associates, the lawmen who pursued them and the women who loved them, an archive of transcribed news articles dating from the 1880s (including a letter to the editor from Sundance himself), a picture gallery and more.
posted to MetaFilter by amyms at 11:39 PM on July 22, 2008 (26 comments)

Wordbot Wordbot is where you go to check on drafts that you're about to post, get contextual information from across the web on the topics you've written about, or quickly get considerable extended information about text stored at a URL. In short, it's a set of power tools for the readers and writers of the Internet.
posted to Projects by netaustin at 5:03 PM on July 3, 2008

Elvis rode to fame on one of her covers and Janis got rich on her signature song, but you haven't truly heard Hound Dog or Ball & Chain until you've experienced Big Mama Thornton belting them out. A seminal blues figure who could play the harp with the best of them, she was true original. In her heyday, Willie Mae was a 6-foot tall, 350-pound, gun-toting crossdresser who led a rough and colorful life and took no guff whatsoever. Emaciated but still powerful, she gives a final raw and expressive performance of Ball & Chain and Hound Dog shortly before her death in 1984.
posted to MetaFilter by madamjujujive at 12:24 AM on June 20, 2008 (21 comments)

I'm interested in reading more fun books, written in 1945 or earlier, which clearly set themselves in the time and place that they were written. Examples include Anne of Green Gables, Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers, Pride & Prejudice, and China to Me.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Margalo Epps at 1:59 PM on May 24, 2008 (39 comments)

Resources on amateur cartography? Help me make some maps.
posted to Ask Metafilter by furnace.heart at 2:25 PM on May 12, 2008 (6 comments)

"King Cotton" created a huge demand for land and (slave) labor that changed early America's borders, population, and economics. But just as cotton affected history, history affected cotton: the story of naturally colored cottons -- brown, green, yellow, mauve, and reddish cottons -- has almost been lost.
posted to MetaFilter by Asparagirl at 2:20 PM on May 9, 2008 (16 comments)

I have booked room on a freighter from Pusan to Long Beach. I'm now looking for some tips advice on what to pack and or things I need to prepare myself for during my ten days at sea. Anyone taken the slow boat home before?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vagabond at 10:52 PM on April 24, 2008 (12 comments)

How do I deal with my Hulk-like anger?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jackofsaxons at 1:01 PM on February 10, 2008 (19 comments)

Hannu's Boatyard is a site by a Finnish guy who offers free plans for two dozen simple plywood boats you can build, along with photos illustrating the build process of each. He also describes basic woodbending technique and some of the design process, in a pleasing writing style that makes me want to get off the internet and make things. My favorites: Portuguese style dinghy; tiny stubby halfpea; round, Welsh-style coracle -- if you click on no other link today, click on the coracle link and scroll down at least to the black and white photo.
posted to MetaFilter by LobsterMitten at 11:19 PM on October 12, 2007 (31 comments)

I'm taking a road trip through the southwest, and I'd like to see places with an interesting backstory or that show you "behind the scenes." I'm interested in places with political, economic, environmental, or industrial significance. Can you recommend some?
posted to Ask Metafilter by salvia at 4:25 PM on September 30, 2007 (9 comments)

How can I feel more gregarious? How to more deeply appreciate fellowship?
posted to Ask Metafilter by levijk at 10:47 AM on August 28, 2007 (8 comments)

Bookfilter. I'm looking for recommendations on great nonfiction writing by reporters.
posted to Ask Metafilter by NekulturnY at 6:26 AM on May 27, 2007 (48 comments)

What happened to Phil Agre's Red Rock Eater News Service?
posted to Ask Metafilter by anotherpanacea at 9:55 AM on January 14, 2007 (5 comments)

How do I fix myself on the cheap?
posted to Ask Metafilter by peewinkle at 8:31 PM on December 31, 2006 (27 comments)

The Natural Arch and Bridge Society has many, many interesting pictures and lots of info.
posted to MetaFilter by mediareport at 2:34 PM on December 17, 2006 (8 comments)