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What is there to do in Newport, RI? Any sights, tours, or restaurants we shouldn't miss?
posted to Ask Metafilter by slmorri
at 5:53 PM on July 7, 2008
(17 comments)
How can I plan a trip to Iceland this August? What do you recommend to do, where to stay, what to budget ... and how can we spend money intelligently rather than in tourist traps, etc.
posted to Ask Metafilter by chinese_fashion
at 11:12 AM on July 7, 2008
(8 comments)
How can I learn some basic electronics?
posted to Ask Metafilter by greenie2600
at 7:56 AM on June 15, 2008
(17 comments)
Looking for decently written, page-turning historical fiction.
posted to Ask Metafilter by banjo_and_the_pork
at 6:20 AM on June 15, 2008
(66 comments)
Help me change careers.
posted to Ask Metafilter by TigerCrane
at 2:44 PM on June 12, 2008
(6 comments)
In the 1980s,
Richard Lenski hypothesized that his research team should be able to watch random mutations and natural selection taking place in a lab by observing a bacteria population over many generations. In 1988, beginning with a single bacterium, he started several replicate colonies. Recently, after 33,127 generations,
his team has observed natural selection.
posted to MetaFilter by Tehanu
at 4:36 PM on June 10, 2008
(55 comments)
How can a self-described "lazy" person develop really effective and successful long-term work habits?
posted to Ask Metafilter by itchi23
at 8:09 AM on June 3, 2008
(22 comments)
BostonNorthEndDinnerFilter: Quick! Where should we eat tonight.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jk252b
at 8:57 AM on May 30, 2008
(22 comments)
What is
this building in Kenmore Square with the murals done by JP art students?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Texasjake987
at 1:23 PM on May 27, 2008
(3 comments)
I'm very tall (6'6"), and like most tall people, struggle with posture - I tend to slump my shoulders forward and tilt my head down, especially when standing. Are there any exercises that target that area (upper back, neck) that will pull the shoulders back and make standing/sitting properly "feel right"? (I lift weights regularly, but I think my back is a weak spot - the more I lift, the worse I feel my posture gets.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by jbickers
at 3:54 AM on May 21, 2008
(16 comments)
Why can't CISC instruction sets be converted to RISC/uops by an advanced assembler so that CISC chips, such as Intel's Atom, would be able to run with a simpler instruction decode hardware?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bdc34
at 9:25 AM on May 20, 2008
(23 comments)
I'd like to do my PhD in a scientific field, full-time in the NY Metro area.
How can I make it work money-wise?
posted to Ask Metafilter by spacefire
at 7:54 PM on May 18, 2008
(16 comments)
I'm looking for a fuzzy text-matching algorithm for an autocomplete widget.
posted to Ask Metafilter by sonofslim
at 9:44 AM on May 10, 2008
(9 comments)
Klezmer hip hop? Did I hear that correctly?
posted to Ask Metafilter by msali
at 2:47 PM on May 9, 2008
(11 comments)
A few friends and I are planning a trip to Trinidad & Tobago this summer. We are going to spend a few days in each place. Does anyone have any recommendations on places to stay, things we should do, where we should eat, who makes the best roti, places to see old style Calypso or modern Soca or Rapso, where to find the best rum tour, etc...? I have been researching ideas at the library and on various travel forums, but I would like to hear from any of you who have been to (or live in) Trinidad or Tobago.
posted to Ask Metafilter by toddst
at 8:12 AM on May 6, 2008
(9 comments)
The other day I happened to come upon a music video that is just so grooving, so human and so
real, that, well, it
moved me, darling.
Just check it out. After watching the clip, I learned that these guys are mostly disabled by polio (that's why several of them are in those rather unusual wheelchairs) and that they were living on the grounds of the Kinshasa zoo, which is where the clip was filmed. Then I learned that last year they were seeking to bring
a lawsuit against the UN. Then I found
some other clips. And now I am a
major fan of
Staff Benda Bilili.
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite
at 3:30 AM on April 26, 2008
(47 comments)
I often find myself with an open weekend and an urge to fly to no place in particular, just to go exploring. Whether it's Sioux City, Billings, or Biloxi, I figure I can entertain myself anywhere for a weekend. Are there websites that allow you to search for cheap, last minute flights from a given origin, irrespective of destination? Most sites require you to enter a destination, which makes the whole process a lot more difficult.
posted to Ask Metafilter by decoherence
at 2:01 PM on April 24, 2008
(16 comments)
What are some interesting, uncommon "vocabulary" words that you use regularly or semi-regularly?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Metroid Baby
at 1:24 PM on April 22, 2008
(90 comments)
I'm looking for jokes that sound like they are going to be very involved at the start but end up being very short.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Carbolic
at 8:28 AM on April 17, 2008
(61 comments)
The stark, modal banjo and achingly poignant, weathered voice of the great
Dock Boggs [previous] are the perfect aural accompaniment to a slideshow of
William Gedney's
[previous] powerfully intimate photographs:
Kentucky, 1964.
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite
at 6:14 AM on April 15, 2008
(11 comments)
What is the iconic (or just "your favorite") dead-tree product catalog (listing of merchandise for mail-order sale) for your hobby, industry, or trade?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cadastral
at 9:23 AM on April 1, 2008
(72 comments)
How to delete a huge directory on Linux
without overloading the system?
posted to Ask Metafilter by justkevin
at 9:42 AM on April 10, 2008
(14 comments)
When I was a kid I could buy the world for $20 but now with $100 I can’t get crap. What can I buy for $100 that’s fun?
posted to Ask Metafilter by doorsfan
at 12:11 PM on April 9, 2008
(64 comments)
What are some good sci-fi stories (both short and full-length) that explore the idea of
singularity?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pedmands
at 8:57 PM on March 30, 2008
(37 comments)
What books have transported you to another place, and occupied your thoughts for days whilst you read them?
posted to Ask Metafilter by takeyourmedicine
at 3:18 PM on March 24, 2008
(101 comments)
Can whales get rabies? Are there any documented cases of whales catching rabies? This seems like a good premise for a bad horror movie.
posted to Ask Metafilter by respond
at 2:17 AM on March 22, 2008
(8 comments)
Why is it that the genetic "distance" between two populations would be determined by the angle between their position vectors rather than the magnitude of their respective displacements?
posted to Ask Metafilter by PuGZ
at 9:18 PM on March 8, 2008
(10 comments)
I'm bored.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mpls2
at 6:40 PM on March 5, 2008
(42 comments)
If you could use a great big free handbook of discrete math and algorithms, Jörg Arndt's
fxtbook wants to be your friend. Plain text
table of contents to whet your appetite.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog
at 7:02 AM on March 5, 2008
(11 comments)
I'm interested in aspects of benchmarking with the help of UNIX's
time, specifically, what
user,
system and
elapsed times correspond to, within the functional context of the system and the tested application.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 11:24 PM on March 4, 2008
(4 comments)
I want to be an IT mercenary, how do I get started doing freelance/contract SysAdmin/Programming?
posted to Ask Metafilter by rhizome
at 1:57 PM on March 4, 2008
(6 comments)
My wife has agreed to give a single science fiction or fantasy book of my choice a try - I only have one chance, so help me choose wisely.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blahblahblah
at 10:49 PM on April 30, 2006
(160 comments)
My girlfriend's mother and I have a real intellectual rapport, in some ways. Recently we've been talking about literature. She's extraordinarily widely read, but only really within the canon. I've been fronting, claiming that genre fiction like sci-fi has plenty of stuff of genuine literary merit in it. She's called my bluff and asked for a recommendation. What would you suggest? I was thinking something strange and ornate like Cordwainer Smith, but am open to advice.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nicolas léonard sadi carnot
at 5:57 AM on March 4, 2008
(74 comments)
Favorite secret reading spots in and around Boston?
posted to Ask Metafilter by raztaj
at 9:58 AM on March 2, 2008
(8 comments)
Praying that some statistically-minded MeFites are online today! I'm trying to run a generalized raking (aka "iterative proportional fitting") algorithm on some survey data as a poststratification approach. The literature I've read suggests that this
should both improve the quality of my estimates
and potentially reduce my standard errors by a decent amount. Instead, my SEs are increasing by a factor of about 1.4 (ugh!!!) Can someone offer some suggestions as to why this might be happening?
posted to Ask Metafilter by shelbaroo
at 10:50 AM on March 1, 2008
(2 comments)
I'm a sucker for the "dying but smiling" feeling I get from the sound of a banjo. What modern/recent songs have banjo in them? I'm looking for things that don't fall neatly under the category of bluegrass - a pop/rock/alternative song that just happens to have a banjo rather than Bela Fleck/String Cheese Incident/Cherryholmes type stuff.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kappi
at 4:12 PM on February 29, 2008
(47 comments)
What strategy/simulation based games would I love?
posted to Ask Metafilter by JPowers
at 8:35 PM on February 27, 2008
(34 comments)
As an "outsider", how do I find a back door in to a school or institution of research? Is there any way to "test in" to such a program - or to a degree?
posted to Ask Metafilter by loquacious
at 5:28 AM on March 28, 2007
(13 comments)
I never finished college, instead I've been a passionate self-learner for a long time now. I'm interested mostly in cognitive in behavioral sciences. I've read a number of academic and college textbooks on the subject. And now, I really don't know what to do with all this knowledge.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 1:44 PM on February 20, 2008
(16 comments)
Robotics question: simple and high-payoff project, don't have the time/leet skillz/rationale to jump in the deep end of the pool (i.e. academic smartypantses building attack vehicles), don't want to spend the money on/deal with the physical bulk of the shallow end (Mindstorms et al). What is in the middle?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Your Time Machine Sucks
at 3:07 AM on February 21, 2008
(10 comments)
Solve the pattern: Patrick O'Brian, Alan Furst, Neal Stephenson... who comes next?
posted to Ask Metafilter by It ain't over yet
at 6:47 PM on February 13, 2008
(37 comments)
Is there any way to move UNIX terminals on from VT100 emulation?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dehowell
at 8:03 AM on February 7, 2008
(16 comments)
Looking for the name of a sci-fi book. Man is injected with a serum that causes him to shrink forever, eventually discovering there are universes smaller than atoms.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Gudlyf
at 8:45 AM on February 7, 2008
(9 comments)
