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Women writers like Neal Stephenson, are there any?
posted to Ask Metafilter by exceptinsects
at 9:24 PM on October 5, 2008
(17 comments)
HD-capable HTPC advice / help? I'm overwhelmed here... XBMC, Boxee, MythTV, Windows Media Center, CableCARDS, Popcorn Hour, Apple TV -- too many options!
What should I build to fit my needs within a reasonable cost?
posted to Ask Metafilter by twiggy
at 10:09 AM on October 2, 2008
(16 comments)
Some of us have jobs we've imagined having since we were kids (doctor, lawyer, ballerina...). And some of us have jobs with weird titles we never imagined having or somehow stumbled into (acquisitions editor, paid search marketer, partner services representative, circulation manager, health services coordinator...). Many of us in the latter category love our jobs - either because we're good at them, we get paid well, we like the people we work with, value the company's mission, or all of the above. I want to hear from you happy people with weird job titles.
posted to Ask Metafilter by scarabic
at 8:16 PM on September 29, 2008
(30 comments)
Short Story Askme: I read a short dystopian story many years ago set in a run-down, post apocalyptic future. A queue of people line up on a street to spit at a painting. The painting represents all the problems of the past. It is implied that the painting is The Mona Lisa. What is the story?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bollockovnikov
at 2:56 AM on September 25, 2008
(2 comments)
I need a replacement word for the word clusterf#$k.
posted to Ask Metafilter by gummo
at 4:12 PM on April 17, 2008
(65 comments)
Is it possible to ferment potable alcohol from animal sources? Like, fluids?
posted to Ask Metafilter by kafziel
at 3:09 PM on September 17, 2008
(15 comments)
What's the
cheapest reliable computer I can buy that will play Spore? Challenge: I want to use my 32" HDTV (with VGA) as a monitor.
posted to Ask Metafilter by raygan
at 9:23 AM on September 16, 2008
(22 comments)
I want some computer games that have high replayability, are relatively cheap (0-20$ CAD/USD), NOT need a CD to play, and most importantly, take up as
little hard-drive space and processor power as possible. Possible examples including good pieces of IF (especially mystery, who-killed-X ones), Fallout 2, Rogue-likes, games of the lightweight Boomshine/Peggle/Bejweled group, any RTS or turn-based strategy games, and anything by Nifflas. I'd love blogs that recommend good games, too. Any recommendations?
posted to Ask Metafilter by flibbertigibbet
at 9:45 AM on September 13, 2008
(28 comments)
Remember that
disheartening map that cataloged the ratio of unmarried men to women per city, wherein the East coast was Single Lady Central and the West coast was a Boystown? Now there's an
interactive version where you can adjust for age range, which dramatically affects the results.
[VIA PROJECTS]
posted to MetaFilter by zoomorphic
at 12:38 PM on September 10, 2008
(68 comments)
Craigslistindex graphs data pulled from Craigslist listings.
posted to MetaFilter by Korou
at 8:50 AM on September 11, 2008
(13 comments)
I'd like to teach myself some various languages. Help me find some resources for Spanish and Japanese.
posted to Ask Metafilter by santojulieta
at 5:09 PM on December 19, 2007
(22 comments)
What is the best way to get back into Magic: The Gathering?
posted to Ask Metafilter by utsutsu
at 3:34 PM on July 1, 2008
(18 comments)
Looking for a segment composed by MSNBC's David Schuster in which he compiles a montage of clips showing Bush repeatedly insisting he would get warrants before eavesdropping on phone calls of American citizens.
posted to Ask Metafilter by king walnut
at 11:00 AM on August 5, 2008
(2 comments)
How did songs come to be called 'numbers'?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Pecinpah
at 9:02 AM on August 5, 2008
(13 comments)
What's with my weird compulsion?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Alabaster
at 7:08 PM on July 22, 2008
(127 comments)
Help a college student find a (simple) no-frills man bag!
posted to Ask Metafilter by bradly
at 9:24 AM on July 17, 2008
(16 comments)
Article in UK newspaper The Independent about two members of Nottingham University, U.K., Rizwaan Sabir and Hicham Yezza, who were arrested last week on terrorism charges and held for six days before being released without charge. The reason was that they had downloaded a terrorist manual from a US government website, which MA student Sabir needed for his research into terrorism, and which was approved by his supervisor. His friend Hicham Yezza, former student and current administrator at the university was arrested for helping to print out the 1500 page document. On release Yezza was then immediately rearrested on immigration charges and now faces imminent deportation, despite being a resident of the UK for 13 years and currently in the process of applying for citizenship. A
campaign is currently underway to prevent this.
posted to MetaFilter by leibniz
at 1:29 PM on May 26, 2008
(85 comments)
Do a curly-haired person's curly hairs all (or nearly all) have the same chirality (i.e., left-handed coils or right-handed coils)? Does it vary from person to person?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog
at 6:32 AM on June 5, 2008
(12 comments)
Have you seen blog threads where commenters seem not to have read the initial post, and are way off topic? I'm seeking more examples of this for my dissertation research. Looking for blogs which have garnered comments similar to those mentioned on the earlier MeFi threads
Tuesdays with Maury,
Jeremy Jordan Loves
Demon Dogs, and
How Hawkish. Basically, commenters show up and start commenting as if they haven't read the original post at all, and they don't seem to have any idea what the discussion is about. In many cases they seem to think they're talking to a celebrity, or they are just seeking information in the wrong place.
posted to Ask Metafilter by gusandrews
at 10:49 AM on April 27, 2008
(24 comments)
Like sea monkeys in your pants!
Entomological blogger Bug Girl (
previously) debunked a
web site touting the benefits of giant Japanese non-biting genital lice as personal "pets" (
they just live happily in your underwear. It’s so COOL! They grow, and have families. You can feel em living and crawling around!). She dismissed it as a hoax.
So the site's author
sent her a
sample.
posted to MetaFilter by Turtles all the way down
at 9:34 AM on May 7, 2008
(60 comments)
What's going on with
these two relationship threads?
posted to MetaTalk by mudpuppie
at 8:26 PM on May 1, 2008
(100 comments)
Anyone know how to get "mad scientist hair?"
posted to Ask Metafilter by BrianBoyko
at 12:59 PM on May 1, 2008
(26 comments)
Sometimes, when you've had your fill of people basking in the golden light of their self-righteous indignation, you just wanna hear a song about somebody telling those holier-than-thou-ers where to get off. Something like, say,
Harper Valley PTA.
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite
at 6:29 PM on April 24, 2008
(39 comments)
What does the navel look like from the inside?
posted to Ask Metafilter by uandt
at 10:42 AM on April 21, 2008
(5 comments)
Free Speculative Fiction Online
is a database of free science fiction and fantasy stories online by published authors (no fan-fiction or stories by unpublished writers). Among the authors that FSFO links to are
Paul Di Filippo (14 stories),
James Tiptree, Jr. (4 stories),
Connie Willis (3 stories),
Eleanor Arnason (3 stories),
Bruce Sterling (5 stories),
Robert Heinlein (7 stories),
Ursula K. LeGuin (3 stories),
Jonathan Lethem (5 stories),
Michael Moorcock (6 stories),
Chine Miéville (2 stories),
Samuel R. Delany (3 stories),
Robert Sheckley (8 stories), MeFite
Charles Stross (33 stories) and hundreds of other authors. If you don't know where to start, there's a list of
recommended stories.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus
at 1:52 PM on April 5, 2008
(34 comments)
Philip M. Parker[1][2] has written and published over
85,000 books on Amazon in the past few years, although by his own count the total published is over 200,000. He is like a writing machine - in fact, he has created a machine that churns out an original book about every 20 minutes. A few sample titles:
posted to MetaFilter by stbalbach
at 10:11 AM on February 8, 2008
(46 comments)
Matthew:
For a long time, I have been sad at the loss of HypotheticalFilter. When AskMe was young, such questions would arise. But those days are gone now, as the site matured.
It's simply not done, you'd say. It floods the page with nonsense. It makes the real questions get lost. Still, I thought, I want to know
how to dispose of a body, or
how long we'd survive without the sun. Who would win in a fight? A squirrel, or a squirrel's weight in ants?
posted to MetaTalk by John Kenneth Fisher
at 8:46 AM on April 3, 2008
(97 comments)
In the same vein as
gethuman [
previously.
previously.],
Bringo! is a
nice free little service that helps bypass the (decreasingly) minor annoyance of automated phone answering systems (aka
IVRs). Only it does all the work for you.
posted to MetaFilter by cklennon
at 8:07 PM on March 31, 2008
(12 comments)
What are some activities that are like 'going to the gym' for your profession?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mullingitover
at 11:26 PM on March 27, 2008
(90 comments)
Iwase Yoshiyuki
"In the late 1920s, young Yoshiyuki received an early Kodak camera as a gift. Since the main livelihood of the town came from the sea, he gravitated there, and soon found a passion for "the simple, even primitive beauty" of
ama – girls and women who harvested seaweed, turban shells and abalone from beneath the coastal waters." "By the late 1960s, they had disappeared. This body of work stands as the final, most comprehensive visual document of the life and work of these divers."
[NSFW]
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian
at 10:45 PM on March 27, 2008
(48 comments)
Controlled Safety Test Fireworks Videos :
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris
at 8:11 PM on March 20, 2008
(35 comments)
Hey guys, remember that mefi mail feature? Use it instead of metatalking.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic
at 1:50 PM on March 18, 2008
(136 comments)
Another weekend sitting alone in your apartment? Thinking of sending that two thousand word cry for help to anonymous Ask Metafilter? Maybe you should take a look at the advice at
Succeed Socially first.
posted to MetaFilter by TimTypeZed
at 10:04 PM on February 16, 2008
(63 comments)
Average word count for anonymous queſtions vs average word count for inanonymous queſtions.
posted to MetaTalk by oxford blue
at 5:22 AM on January 27, 2008
(20 comments)
New Orleans after Katrina, as the world knows, is a bleak, desolate place, devoid of hope and perpetually awaiting the change that never arrives. Where better to stage
Waiting for Godot?
posted to MetaFilter by Bromius
at 9:09 PM on January 7, 2008
(31 comments)
