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Is it possible for an American to open a UK bank account from outside the UK without a UK address?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pivko
at 6:30 AM on August 1, 2008
(12 comments)
Cowboy Music: I want to learn more about it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by keith0718
at 2:59 PM on July 15, 2008
(14 comments)
Where to start with The Frames?
posted to Ask Metafilter by k8t
at 4:30 AM on July 15, 2008
(12 comments)
In November 1943, the
village of Tyneham in Dorset, England, received an
unexpected letter from the War Department, informing residents that the area would soon be "cleared of all civilians" to make way for Army weapons training. A month later, the displaced villagers left a note on their church door:
Please treat the church and houses with care; we have given up our homes where many of us lived for generations to help win the war to keep men free. We shall return one day and thank you for treating the village kindly. Residents were told they would be allowed to reclaim their homes after the war, but that didn't happen, and Tyneham became a
ghost village. Though most of the cottages have been damaged or fallen into disrepair, the church and school have been preserved and restored. Photo galleries
1,
2,
3,
4. Panoramic
tour [Java required]. Video:
Death of a Village [YouTube, 9 mins.]
posted to MetaFilter by amyms
at 11:11 AM on July 10, 2008
(20 comments)
How does one go about applying for a film production assistant position? Specifically, to whom do I sell a spare chunk of soul in order to be Herzog's crew's serf on
The Piano Tuner?
posted to Ask Metafilter by notquitemaryann
at 7:18 PM on July 6, 2008
(13 comments)
Can someone tell me what I am doing in my brain to cause this sensation in my body? Am I a monk?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 7:43 AM on July 3, 2008
(19 comments)
I'm 33 years old, make a low six figure income, married, no kids. Up for big promotion. Is it time to give up my dreams of being a writer? LOTS more inside...
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 11:38 PM on June 29, 2008
(53 comments)
My girlfriend and I have been living together for about a year, and her conservative Asian parents don't know. How do we break the news to them?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Anonymous
at 5:52 PM on June 25, 2008
(20 comments)
Citations on the fly. WorldCat
previously, the world's online largest catalog of library holdings, got
its own Facebook page in early 2008. That was pretty cool, but now WorldCat has upped the ante again by introducing another Facebook app called
CiteMe. Using CiteMe, Facebook users can look up any item in WorldCat (there's over 1 billion of 'em) and get its properly-formatted citation (choose from APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA, or Turabian styles) instantly. For more than a few citations, you can still build a bibliography of any size in your favorite style,
directly on the WorldCat site.
posted to MetaFilter by Rykey
at 5:59 PM on June 25, 2008
(23 comments)
Where did Bob Dylan's use of the fourth scale degree originate?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dfan
at 4:46 PM on June 24, 2008
(13 comments)
"I have never had an accident where I have pressed a button and accidentally sent seven chapters into cyberspace, never to be seen again. And have you ever tried to hack into my typewriter? It is very secure," says author Frederick Forsyth. In the computer age,
people still love typewriters. BBC News Magazine examines why, with some interesting comments after the article.
Via.
posted to MetaFilter by amyms
at 11:04 PM on June 5, 2008
(80 comments)
I'm looking for funeral chants, prayers and songs that are beautiful and mournful.
posted to Ask Metafilter by naju
at 9:32 PM on June 2, 2008
(25 comments)
Where are all the research papers that say television for children under two is bad?
posted to Ask Metafilter by taff
at 1:31 AM on June 3, 2008
(22 comments)
where can i find faith in humanity online?
posted to Ask Metafilter by nadawi
at 2:40 PM on May 30, 2008
(28 comments)
I think that a thesaurus that was organized in terms of which adjectives typically go with which nouns would be really useful. Like, the adjectives that modify the verb "urge" (as in deep or unfulfilled, say). Same thing could be done for adverbs, e.g., ones that modify "talk" (relentlessly, incessantly, insightfully).
I am aware of WordNet and many other on-line lexical databases like the BNC. I'm looking for something like a compiled list, based on actual usage, of what modifies what.
thanks.
posted to Ask Metafilter by cogneuro
at 4:38 AM on May 29, 2008
(9 comments)
What are your favorite short stories or short story collections, anthologies etc.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Salvatorparadise
at 3:53 PM on May 28, 2008
(54 comments)
What are some of your absolute favourite online essays, articles and other pieces of non-fiction writing?
posted to Ask Metafilter by turgid dahlia
at 4:21 PM on May 1, 2008
(51 comments)
If you could only own one of Nina Simone's albums (not a "best of"), what would it be?
posted to Ask Metafilter by quine's_gavagai
at 12:29 PM on May 24, 2008
(11 comments)
What is the pronunciation of Myanmar?
posted to Ask Metafilter by xetere
at 12:26 PM on May 23, 2008
(23 comments)
Last night, I spent an hour reading the crazy, hilarious stories
posted here. One hour was not enough. I need more davesecretaryatwork - or at least, more like him.
posted to Ask Metafilter by yeoja
at 9:49 AM on May 19, 2008
(23 comments)
In Buddhist philosophy, how is one supposed to
do anything?
posted to Ask Metafilter by phrontist
at 8:16 PM on May 18, 2008
(44 comments)
I'm very interested in becoming an editor, please help...yes, I've read the previous posts.
posted to Ask Metafilter by nikksioux
at 9:01 PM on May 16, 2008
(34 comments)
Seeking the definitive recording of Gustav Holst's
The Planets.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bach
at 5:29 PM on May 15, 2008
(9 comments)
Vagaries of the English Language, part
n: I need to tell my boss why the contraction "I'm" cannot stand alone as a sentence. For example, "Yes, I am" is okay. "Yes, I'm" is not. I haven't been able to find any good logic for this case or that works for the different contractions in general ("don't" can also stand alone, "I'd" and "I've" cannot). Given this is about languages, and particularly English, "just because" is, alas, potentially the best answer.
posted to Ask Metafilter by whatzit
at 6:20 AM on May 15, 2008
(37 comments)
A week in Burma after the storm
is the second of two anonymous eyewitness reports at
danwei.org of the impact and aftermath of
Cyclone Nargis. It is the most gripping and tremendously sad report I have read yet on the human tragedy that is Nargis and the Myanmar Junta's non-response.
posted to MetaFilter by gen
at 3:38 PM on May 14, 2008
(24 comments)
If you spot misspellings in a book, should you notify the author or the publisher? Or will it not even matter?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dr_dank
at 8:41 AM on April 7, 2007
(30 comments)
What do we absolutely have to see/do in Vancouver, Canada while we are there?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Schuby
at 1:23 PM on May 5, 2008
(20 comments)
Are some languages objectively harder than others? If so, which ones?
posted to Ask Metafilter by greytape
at 4:27 AM on April 30, 2008
(50 comments)
Help me understand what it is like to work at home so I can be a better girlfriend and roommate.
posted to Ask Metafilter by spec80
at 6:48 AM on April 10, 2008
(27 comments)
I've got a new mp3 player (hooray!). I love storytelling. Recommend your favorite storytelling podcasts or free downloadables!
posted to Ask Metafilter by po
at 5:14 AM on April 10, 2008
(15 comments)
How do you know you're in the wrong religion?
posted to Ask Metafilter by PinkButterfly
at 11:34 AM on April 8, 2008
(104 comments)
Oh my eyes!... for the past two years I've had tired dry eyes and consulted three "expert" ophtalmologist who haven't found an explanation. It's not dry eye (tear volume is low but normal), an allergy (checked for that), blepharities or a Thyroid problem... maybe something in the cornea but I really don't know how to proceed, please help!
posted to Ask Metafilter by Manouk
at 1:16 PM on April 8, 2008
(13 comments)
I eat oatmeal for breakfast pretty much every day. Help me build a bowl that is as jam-packed with nutrition as possible, while still tasty.
posted to Ask Metafilter by catlet
at 7:52 AM on April 9, 2008
(32 comments)
What are the things and places that make living in Vancouver and Toronto fantastic for day-to-day life? Or, to put it another way, what are the things and places that you would miss if you moved away?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ambilevous
at 3:27 PM on April 9, 2008
(24 comments)
I want my email messages to be in the same state (read, deleted, filed, sent) on three different Macintoshes. Will iSync do what I want? Is there another solution to the chaos?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Capri
at 4:40 AM on February 3, 2008
(15 comments)
