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I need a raise, but I'm not used to asking for them and I'm really bad at it when I do. Help?
posted to Ask Metafilter by lekvar
at 12:52 PM on May 1, 2008
(13 comments)
I'm looking for a list of cult books. In other words, books that have acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fans.
posted to Ask Metafilter by JPowers
at 4:02 PM on December 26, 2007
(60 comments)
What are some ways to actively avoid emulating undesirable behaviors of a family member? (In other words, how do I not end up like my mom?)
posted to Ask Metafilter by justonegirl
at 5:18 PM on July 26, 2007
(12 comments)
How does one best go about negotiating a raise when one is not inclined to use resigning as a negotiating tool?
posted to Ask Metafilter by OmieWise
at 7:06 AM on November 29, 2007
(15 comments)
What, or where, is harrogatha?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Flying Saucer
at 9:14 AM on November 6, 2007
(46 comments)
How can I copy a list of files in a folder on Windows XP,
without using the print screen key/command?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Brandon Blatcher
at 6:52 AM on November 2, 2007
(14 comments)
I run 5K 4-6 times a week, and I'd like to get my speed up. Should I increase my overall pace, or do sprints/intervals interspersed with jogging?
posted to Ask Metafilter by four panels
at 9:55 AM on September 18, 2007
(13 comments)
How do people go about bringing honest communication into their friendships and relationships?
posted to Ask Metafilter by gregb1007
at 10:12 PM on September 21, 2007
(18 comments)
Does anyone have suggestions on how to deal with a cat that is evil?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bolognius maximus
at 6:06 PM on September 14, 2007
(35 comments)
What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople?
posted to Ask Metafilter by limon
at 5:40 PM on September 8, 2007
(239 comments)
Please help me learn to run.
posted to Ask Metafilter by sequential
at 9:13 AM on August 30, 2007
(18 comments)
I want to map out every possible profession / career. How would I start?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pmaxwell
at 11:33 PM on August 25, 2007
(11 comments)
Are you a female in a profession where females are rare enough that people ask you what it's "like" to be a female whatever-you-are (or just meet you with surprise because of your sex)? If so, what responses do you give to those people, and do they depend on context (stranger at a party, interviewer, etc.)?
posted to Ask Metafilter by sparrows
at 4:34 PM on August 25, 2007
(23 comments)
From a Time magazine article:
A new, innocuously titled book,
Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (Doubleday), consisting primarily of correspondence between Teresa and her confessors and superiors over a period of 66 years, provides the spiritual counterpoint to a life known mostly through its works. The letters, many of them preserved against her wishes (she had requested that they be destroyed but was overruled by her church), reveal that for the last nearly half-century of her life she felt no presence of God whatsoever — or, as the book's compiler and editor, the Rev. Brian Kolodiejchuk, writes, "neither in her heart or in the eucharist."
Previously on Mother Teresa's doubt,
more generally.
posted to MetaFilter by ibmcginty
at 7:54 PM on August 23, 2007
(110 comments)
Foodfilter: vegetable substitutes for pasta?
posted to Ask Metafilter by gregb1007
at 6:15 PM on August 21, 2007
(32 comments)
California Restricts Voting Machines: after a
source code review of
voting machines
turned up "significant, deeply-rooted security weaknesses"
in voting machines by Diebold, Hart, and Sequoia, the California Secretary of
State decertified all three vendors' systems. These weaknesses have been
well
covered here at MeFi, but some are
bad enough to shock even the
well-jaded, including the revelation that Diebold "uses at least two
hard-coded passwords -- one is 'diebold' and another is the eight-byte
sequence
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8." Time to think about
open voting?
posted to MetaFilter by jacobian
at 11:08 AM on August 5, 2007
(48 comments)
Where can I download early jazz songs? 1900-1930s? I've seen a site that has a number of them in RealAudio, but I'd prefer something I can easily load on my iPod. I am hoping that many of these are in The Public Domain. Still, I'd pay.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tcv
at 8:19 PM on August 12, 2007
(12 comments)
Nazi Pop Twins
is an
eerie documentary that debuted this year on BBC's
Channel Four about the neo-Nazi teen folk musicians,
Prussian Blue. The girls are managed by a neo-Nazi stage mom from hell, and the girls already seem to be more interested in shopping at the mall than singing white power lyrics. One of the creepiest scenes includes the twin girls on a phone call with their prison "pen pal,"
David Lane, the Neo-Nazi convicted of the murder of radio talk show host,
Alan Berg. Lane refers to the twin girls as his "fantasy sweethearts," raising issues about whether an obsession with genetic "purity" leads to
pedophilia on the Racist Right. Watch the documentary on YouTube (Parts
1,
2,
3,
4, and
5) (Warning: may be exposed to YouTube comments from racist asshats.)
posted to MetaFilter by jonp72
at 10:43 AM on August 11, 2007
(165 comments)
Jazzy electronic music recommendations? I'm thinking of Squarepusher, some Tortoise, etc.
posted to Ask Metafilter by electric_counterpoint
at 12:48 PM on July 24, 2007
(49 comments)
I imagine that some of my fellow mefites, collectors of the Best of the Web, would have great del.icio.us accounts for me to pick through. I'm not getting enough use out of their networking feature, either. Link your profiles!
Here's me.
posted to MetaTalk by tylermoody
at 6:38 AM on August 1, 2007
(118 comments)
Please recommend software to help me track my fitness activities and goals.
posted to Ask Metafilter by sequential
at 9:40 AM on June 26, 2007
(11 comments)
I'm working on improving my exercise habits, and I need some help on regulating them. How do I maintain useful aerobic exercise without going too light or too heavy? My body and my mind are fighting against me.
posted to Ask Metafilter by JZig
at 7:26 PM on June 24, 2007
(19 comments)
DreamFilter: I sometimes 'remember' dreams for the first time when awake, but seem to think that they occurred weeks ago. Did they? Am I nuts?
posted to Ask Metafilter by fogster
at 11:10 PM on June 24, 2007
(15 comments)
Few books have given me as much sheer joy as Bringhurst's "The Elements of Typographic Style". Tufte's "Visual Explanations" is also up there in terms of content and presentation. What other exceedingly well researched, written and designed non-fiction books would you recommend for somebody interested in Design, Architecture, Programming, Information Visualization, Maps, Math, Music and Science?
posted to Ask Metafilter by signal
at 11:46 AM on June 27, 2007
(35 comments)
What does a person mean when they say they want to 'trade puzzles'?
posted to Ask Metafilter by thelongcon
at 5:04 AM on July 26, 2007
(40 comments)
Which online library is worth paying for?
posted to Ask Metafilter by enriquem
at 4:41 PM on July 26, 2007
(5 comments)
I am looking for examples of secret / esoteric information and facts that changed your perspective on the world or caused you to say 'Now that's interesting, I haven't heard that before!'. For example, this recent thread contained information about
ADM that opened my eyes to the subtleties of the sugar markets. A simpler example of the type of knowledge I am looking for are the
interesting things that grocery stores do to increase sales. Or the unsubstantiated claim that more people speak English in China that they do in America. I am looking for interesting tid-bits of knowledge that you might find in books like The Tipping Point and Freakanomics. Something your Oxford educated, weed-smoking Uncle might whip out during a random conversation at a cocktail party.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kaizen
at 12:09 PM on July 16, 2007
(63 comments)
Late Night Shots
is an "invitation-only" social networking site for elite GOP youth of Washington, DC that the late
Steve Gilliard mockingly described as
"the best and whitest." The Wonkette blog has devoted an
entire section to the site that documents Late Night Shots'
racism,
date rape,
anti-Islamic prejudice, and
incest with second cousins, at least until
Wonkette's editor started getting invited to their parties. The founder of Late Night Shots,
Reed Landry, plans to take his networking site to other cities, but even though Wonkette has lost interest, the Washington City Paper has attracted scrutiny to the site again with a juicy new
exposé.
posted to MetaFilter by jonp72
at 4:06 PM on July 12, 2007
(83 comments)
What web-based RSS reader can I use for multiple people to access the same account at the same time?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jacquilynne
at 11:28 AM on July 9, 2007
(10 comments)
Software filter: looking for a free program to rename lots of image files...
posted to Ask Metafilter by itheearl
at 8:23 PM on July 9, 2007
(16 comments)
Burroughs
A 1983 documentary by Howard Brookner on William S. Burroughs.
89 mins, G-vid, a bit more inside...
posted to MetaFilter by carsonb
at 4:47 PM on July 10, 2007
(13 comments)
The Science of Gaydar.
"That’s what we mean by gaydar—not the skill of the viewer so much as the telltale signs most gay people project, the set of traits that make us unmistakably one....A small constellation of researchers is specifically analyzing the traits and characteristics that, though more pronounced in some than in others, not only make us gay but also make us appear gay."
posted to MetaFilter by jtajta
at 10:27 AM on June 20, 2007
(133 comments)
Return to Crothersville:
Aaron Hall probably wasn't gay, but
his murder in April has become an argument for passage of the
Matthew Shepard Act, which would add attacks based on a victim's perceived sexual orientation to the list of federal hate crimes. The men accused of Aaron's murder are invoking the
"gay panic" defense. A citizen journalist at the Bloomington Alternative has published
a
fascinating article on her investigation of the circumstances of the crime and of Aaron's life, and why uncovering the truth in a place like Crothersville, where the social network is so tight-knit and there's
no local hate crimes law, requires an outside (federal) investigation.
posted to MetaFilter by thirteenkiller
at 10:45 AM on June 20, 2007
(168 comments)
Calorie intake and gaining modest amounts of muscle (i.e. not hardcore body-building). Plus, what is happening when your muscles are getting stronger and harder, but you've been running on a calorie deficit and losing weight?
posted to Ask Metafilter by peep
at 2:22 PM on June 20, 2007
(12 comments)
More on arithmetic in the Amazon
The 10/15 issue of Science has the official publication of Peter Gordon's work on numerical cognition among the Pirahã, and a companion article by Pierre Pica et al. on similar research among another Amazonian tribe, the Mundurukú. What with the U.S. election and the discovery of H. Floresiensis, this is not getting nearly as a much play as the pre-publication back in August of Peter Gordon's work.
Brian Butterworth has an
piece in the Guardian about both articles, and I've put some links, quotes and diagrams
here.
Compared to the reports on the Pirahã, the Mundurukú people, language, and experiments are all somewhat different, although the conclusions are broadly similar.
posted to MetaFilter by myl
at 3:37 AM on October 31, 2004
(19 comments)
How do I forecast costs for database development?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Roach
at 3:12 PM on June 12, 2007
(19 comments)
Why is it hard for me to perform simple mental calculations with certain numbers?
posted to Ask Metafilter by lalex
at 10:51 AM on June 5, 2007
(19 comments)
"Oh, someday, when I am Miss America, I'll tell the world to make things start when you're young. And what fun, it's gonna be, when Regis sings his song to me." In 2001, the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary
Living Dolls captured
child beauty pageants of the South in a
post-Jon Benet world. Parts
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 [Update inside.]
posted to MetaFilter by miss lynnster
at 9:42 PM on June 4, 2007
(66 comments)
I love podcasts, but it very difficult to find new,
quality programs. I am looking for broadcasted material on a range of topics - including philosophy, the mind, avantgarde arts and lectures by creative, original thinkers (see my list of current podcasts for detail)... Can you help?
posted to Ask Metafilter by 0bvious
at 11:18 AM on May 31, 2007
(20 comments)
Why do cats follow you into the bathroom?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bdun01
at 6:18 PM on June 7, 2007
(56 comments)
Where can I find presidential candidate debates online?
posted to Ask Metafilter by carpyful
at 1:31 AM on June 3, 2007
(10 comments)
