Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? (pdf) We assemble a dataset on technology adoption in 1000 BC, 0 AD, and 1500 AD for the predecessors to today’s nation states. We find that this very old history of technology adoption is surprisingly significant for today’s national development outcomes. Although our strongest results are for 1500 A.D., we find that even technology as old as 1000 BC matters in some plausible specifications. (via)
posted to MetaFilter by Kwantsar at 10:57 PM on February 26, 2007 (53 comments)

Anybody know how to remove trojan downloader "a.doginhispen.com?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by ~Sushma~ at 7:12 AM on February 8, 2008 (5 comments)

Kids Korner: "Drugs are Nature's Hugs" The real reason you should be using drugs. (A public service announcement from Something Awful.)
posted to MetaFilter by Steven Den Beste at 2:14 PM on February 2, 2001 (8 comments)

Last week with the help of AskMetaFilter I installed a new hard drive and a fresh install of Windows XP. Thanks! Now I would like opinions on software and utilities. Hopefully free.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by snowjoe at 3:22 PM on October 20, 2007 (24 comments)

The Google Flight Simulator -- an easter egg in Google Earth.
posted to MetaFilter by empath at 9:05 AM on September 1, 2007 (35 comments)

UPDATE: My SO with the aneurysm survived brain surgery. I didn't know if this was appropriate to post here, but the askme response was so comforting. It was the middle of the night and I felt really alone. Now she's home, having survived a craniotomy, and doing great. So, it's late at night again and I'm awake and she's asleep with her giant Frankenstein scar and I wanted to say thank you.
posted to MetaTalk by generic230 at 11:42 PM on July 7, 2007 (56 comments)

There's a 1 pixel square window in the upper left hand corner of my Windows XP computer that I just noticed. How do I figure out which process owns that window?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by yellowbkpk at 9:33 AM on June 27, 2007 (4 comments)

The Cube (1969) , directed by Jim Henson. (Some background)
posted to MetaFilter by growabrain at 11:43 PM on May 14, 2007 (20 comments)

How difficult is it to change suspension forks on a mountain bike to rigid forks?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by ReiToei at 6:31 PM on April 1, 2007 (11 comments)

301 redirectrs in .htaccess: how do I redirect calendar/* to /calendar.html ? I've tried modifying various examples online and they result in either "internal server error" or a 404 caused by incorrectly redirecting /calendar/* to /calendar.html/* .
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Tuwa at 8:10 PM on March 13, 2007 (10 comments)

What's the easiest, cheapest, quickest way to move content from a DVD to individual files on a hard drive?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jbickers at 11:53 AM on March 13, 2007 (16 comments)

navapsvc.exe hogs 62-70% of processor time
posted to Ask MetaFilter by KRS at 8:58 AM on February 7, 2007 (18 comments)

I need a cheap / loaded 1U server.. where should I buy it?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cowmix at 12:36 AM on February 5, 2007 (9 comments)

You've heard of ScummVM and MAME, but harvest time is approaching in the field of reverse-engineered open source re-implementations of other classic games too:
OpenTTD (Transport Tycoon), LinCity (Sim City), Advanced Strategic Command (Battle Isle), Freeciv (Civilization), Enigma (Oxyd), Widelands (Settlers), OpenArena (Quake 3), Spring (Total Annihilation), JJFFE (Frontier First Encounters), Vega Strike and Oolite (Elite), FreeOrion (Master of Orion), Pingus (Lemmings), Stratagus (Warcraft II et al.), CloneKeen (Commander Keen), Exult (Ultima VII), FreeCNC (Command & Conquer), REminiscence (Flashback), LGeneral (Panzer General), Pioneers (Settlers of Catan), and Freedoom (Doom).
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water at 3:27 PM on February 1, 2007 (41 comments)

fandango_matt, please stop posting animal shitting pictures. Thanks.
posted to MetaTalk by The Jesse Helms at 6:32 AM on August 16, 2006 (110 comments)