Links to the landlord-tenant law of every state in the US from Consumerist.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins at 9:40 AM on December 5, 2007 (21 comments)

How do I parse a few lines from several hundred word documents into a spreadsheet?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by gerg at 10:50 PM on December 2, 2007 (7 comments)

Best Web Gallery is an inspirational gallery site where we collect a wide range of quality design websites (Flash & CSS). What is quality design means to us? Quality Design = Visual + Technical + Creativity. Also, Best of CSS design for 2007.
posted to MetaFilter by psmealey at 8:20 AM on December 3, 2007 (14 comments)

It's Saturday night. You're here browsing on the internet. Why not do something intellectual for a change?
posted to MetaFilter by flatluigi at 6:20 PM on December 1, 2007 (27 comments)

When replacing cat pee ruined carpet, what are the best ways to make sure the smell is totally gone?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by shinji_ikari at 10:55 AM on December 1, 2007 (6 comments)

What do I charge for a 3 minute throwaway web edit, and how do I carefully extricate myself from any expectations that may have caused?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Karmakaze at 12:12 PM on November 30, 2007 (33 comments)

Shrinking Cities (virtual and real): Analysis and Interventions.
posted to MetaFilter by salvia at 10:56 PM on November 29, 2007 (12 comments)

Can you recommend some good books about places?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by ersatzkat at 4:15 PM on November 29, 2007 (23 comments)

Urban Exploring. Recently: Sanatorio Popolare Cantonale di Piotta. Sinteranlage, Duisburg. Atomschutz Kurfürstendamm, Berlin (flash). (Previously.)
posted to MetaFilter by Soup at 1:59 PM on November 28, 2007 (4 comments)

Master's Degree in Urban Planning: now, later, or never? I'm in my third year of law school, and I've realized (after taking on a pile of debt) that I don't really want to practice law. I think urban planning is the right field for me. Should I rush to get applications in now to start a program next fall, or should I enter the workplace and try to apply next year? Or should I skip the urban planning degree and start applying for planning jobs with my JD?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by stopgap at 10:29 PM on November 23, 2007 (14 comments)

Traveling a lot this weekend? Long drive, plane or train ride? You can use that transit time to listen to the Dalai Lama talk for more than four hours with neuroscientists and Buddhist scholars on the topic of craving, suffering and choice. Part one. Part two. [iTunes links] If you're stuck at home, you can watch the video. The video link has the full list of participants.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus at 9:57 PM on November 21, 2007 (11 comments)

Free Stuff for Lazy Designers. Dezignus surf the web to give you the best design source links! Icons, brushes and shapes, tutorials and books, vectors and other stuff.
posted to MetaFilter by psmealey at 3:06 AM on November 20, 2007 (17 comments)

Mango is a new beta service offering free online language lessons. 11 languages available (each with 100 lessons). For English speakers there are lessons in French, German, Italian, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese and Pig Latin. For Polish and Spanish speakers, lessons in English.
posted to MetaFilter by nickyskye at 10:21 AM on November 7, 2007 (34 comments)

Help me live up to my potential and get a real job.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by santojulieta at 8:35 AM on November 13, 2007 (9 comments)

Maps new and old. Music maps - Find out who is listening to what and where l Cool Google Maps - Who knew maps could be fun? l Subway maps on five continents l Free printable world map and blank maps l Free Clustr Maps - Locate all site visitors. l Index of some users of WorldKit - Easy web mapping (including the excellent and previously mentioned, RSOE HAVARIA Emergency and Disaster Information Service) l Number of Inhabitants Per Doctor around the world l And some beautiful antique, old and vintage maps, such as this one of the names of the Mediterranean winds in five languages.
posted to MetaFilter by nickyskye at 8:48 AM on November 4, 2007 (15 comments)

ParseFilter: I have a CSV file full of leads I need to parse into a more, er, concise format. What would the hive mind recommend?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cdmwebs at 3:01 PM on November 3, 2007 (22 comments)

Parse freetext postal addresses to structured form for geocoding to KML?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by joshwa at 7:53 PM on November 1, 2007 (3 comments)

Is there a way to rank choices or preferences for a question in a HTML form?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jmevius at 9:02 AM on October 31, 2007 (11 comments)

Plus ça change... (that's a 15941x261 pixel, NSFW-ish jpg).
posted to MetaFilter by Wolfdog at 7:39 AM on October 31, 2007 (46 comments)

EveryScape launched this morning. It's a ground-level mapping service similar to Google's "Street View", only it offers you an "autodrive" feature that automatically moves you through a city or down a ski slope. There are links to information about stores and restaurants in the view and the ability to go inside buildings and look around. It currently features views from Aspen, New York, Boston, and Miami. And of course the obligatory view of a colorful mime with a man-bag. [via]
posted to MetaFilter by cashman at 7:48 AM on October 29, 2007 (12 comments)

VectorMagic is a new site that uses technology from the Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to transform your bitmap images into vector art that can be scaled without becoming blurry of pixelated. Here's the first image I submitted, before and after.
posted to MetaFilter by Turtles all the way down at 3:19 AM on October 29, 2007 (36 comments)

I'm looking for some fairly high-quality geographical maps of the whole planet (preferably contained in a single map, instead of being spread over several), but without any details on it whatsoever to do with places or names, not even names of mountains or rivers - no country/state borders drawn in either - the only detail should be things like the geography (high/low land, desert, mountains, forest, etc) Thanks in advance!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by heylight at 3:50 AM on October 27, 2007 (6 comments)

Got a fun 'date night' idea for a married couple?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by msacheson at 2:23 PM on October 27, 2007 (15 comments)

Is there a way to excuse oneself from family obligations during the holidays? A way that would minimize gossip and guilt-trips? Any successes out there?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Anonymous at 2:46 PM on October 27, 2007 (22 comments)

Chicago filter: How can I make the most of my new (and very exciting) move to ye olde Windy City?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by santojulieta at 10:12 PM on October 25, 2007 (21 comments)

How do I find a part-time GIS job with a nonprofit or NGO in Washington DC?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Morgangr at 2:39 AM on October 26, 2007 (3 comments)

A history of pedestrian crossings. Complete with exciting Flash simulations! More exciting histories here.
posted to MetaFilter by Armitage Shanks at 12:31 PM on October 24, 2007 (9 comments)

Mapping Memory. "Turn the human brain upside down and all around to see how memories are saved (or lost)." National Geographic has a great interactive 3D map of the brain as part of an excellent feature on memory.
posted to MetaFilter by homunculus at 2:55 PM on October 24, 2007 (5 comments)

If cities (or the pressure on city services) grow faster than the wealth held by individuals grows, how does the bottom not fall out given that municipal growth is largely funded by taxes?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by regicide is good for you at 11:54 AM on October 22, 2007 (34 comments)

Segregated Seattle: For most of its history Seattle was a segregated city, as committed to white supremacy as any location in America. Segregated Seattle is a student/community created website and digital archive sponsored by UW's Civil Rights and Labor History Project. Check out the segregation maps, the short films and slide shows, Activist Oral Histories, and a page where you can browse the site by time period or topic. And the Restrictive Covenants Database will help Seattle homeowners determine if the fine print in their deed forbids the property from being "used or occupied by any person of the Ethiopian, Malay, or any Asiatic race."
posted to MetaFilter by LarryC at 5:48 PM on October 19, 2007 (37 comments)

I'll be in Chicago this Sunday (October 21st) through Wednesday. As a first time visitor - what can you commend to me?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by revbrian at 5:12 AM on October 19, 2007 (17 comments)

I need to create scrolling list, with something a bit extra.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by omnipotentq at 6:50 AM on October 18, 2007 (6 comments)

Antique Maps of China A database of 230 maps, charts, pictures, books and atlases from the Special Collections of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library. You can browse thumbnails of maps dating back to the 15th century, then download a splendid colour PDF, for example, the 1923 map Carte des environs de Peking. There are also some world maps and ones of a few other places.
posted to MetaFilter by Abiezer at 12:20 PM on October 15, 2007 (13 comments)

The Global Incident Map is an interactive map displaying "terrorism events and other suspicious activities" happening at this very moment (updated every 5 minutes) all around the world. Click on the various icons for "event details" or scroll down for "announcements, alerts and breaking news." Via.
posted to MetaFilter by amyms at 9:54 AM on October 13, 2007 (25 comments)

My partner wants me to dominate him. That's totally not my style, and his pickiness makes it harder, but I'm trying my best, and it's working! Up to a point. (NSFW text inside.)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Anonymous at 11:31 PM on October 12, 2007 (49 comments)

John Stilgoe is a professor at Harvard who teaches his students how to, among other things, mindfully observe the urban and suburban environments they inhabit.
posted to MetaFilter by jquinby at 8:28 AM on October 11, 2007 (27 comments)

Brazilian Ethnomapping: Inside a thatched-roof schoolhouse in a village deep in Brazil's Amazon rain forest, Surui Indians and former military cartographers huddle over the newest weapons in the tribe's fight for survival: laptop computers, satellite maps and hand-held global positioning systems. Some of the resulting maps.
posted to MetaFilter by dhruva at 1:10 AM on October 11, 2007 (6 comments)

I am an artist with an hell of demons in my past, who wants to start a website for my work without any of said demons tracking me down via google. So... I would like to start using a professional pseudonym, without changing my real name legally. How simple/complicated is this, and how do I go about it?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Anonymous at 11:54 AM on October 9, 2007 (13 comments)

U.S. tax question: Does married filing separately result in the same tax obligation as if a couple living together were filing as single? Does having a child create differering results?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by hodyoaten at 4:53 PM on October 8, 2007 (5 comments)

30 Usability Issues to be aware of In this article we present 30 important usability issues, terms, rules and principles which are usually forgotten, ignored or misunderstood. What is the difference between readability and legibility? What exactly does 80/20 or Pareto principle mean? What is the law of proximity? What is meant with minesweeping and satisficing? And what is Progressive Enhancement and Graceful Degradation? What is banner blindness? How can you measure eye-tracking? Why fold area isn't that important. OK, it’s time to dive in.
posted to MetaFilter by psmealey at 12:43 PM on October 8, 2007 (15 comments)

What is a buddhist to do about bullies?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by rubberkey at 1:32 PM on September 20, 2007 (19 comments)

LiquidNutritionfilter: I know a little about sports nutrition, and a little about parenteral nutrition. Is there a nutritionally complete liquid that healthy people can drink such that the only other necessary is water? If not, what liquid comes closest to being The One Food? If it's not commercially available, what's the closest to it you can buy?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by StrikeTheViol at 2:06 PM on October 6, 2007 (16 comments)

I'm pondering a graduate program in Urban Policy at the New School. I'm wondering where to get my feet wet. As always, more inside.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by GilloD at 4:19 PM on October 6, 2007 (7 comments)

I'm looking for some instruction on the basics of design and layout - and I found this workshop by the National Seminars Group, but am a little suspicious (I didn't even like the layout of the course brochure).
posted to Ask MetaFilter by greggish at 1:05 PM on October 2, 2007 (8 comments)

How can I make money from a web site besides ads? I don't really want to sell email addresses to spammers.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by zorro astor at 7:49 PM on September 30, 2007 (15 comments)

I am an aspiring urban planner who lives in the U.S. I am wondering what urban planners would do differently if they could start from scratch and cost wasn't an issue. For example, it is been proven that round-abouts are far safer than your typical intersections found in the U.S. So, as an urban planner, I would recommend roundabouts. Would all cities be built on a grid system? Would all cities have bullet trains or car-pool lanes? Underground power-lines? Phone-charging stations? What would you do differently if you rebuilt Los Angeles or Miami?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by kaizen at 11:43 AM on September 28, 2007 (40 comments)

The Map of Humanity [large .jpg] created by illustrator James Turner is an effort to describe the human condition in an incredibly detailed map containing thousands of names from history and fiction arranged in a theoretical geography that encompasses islands of Abandonment and Wisdom and regions of Abomination and Courage.
posted to MetaFilter by blahblahblah at 7:08 PM on September 26, 2007 (39 comments)

How can I create a singlegator site like Popurls?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by elmwood at 5:48 PM on September 24, 2007 (9 comments)

Where can I get some noob information on how to read/write simple database tables with ASP?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by yonation at 6:07 AM on September 25, 2007 (4 comments)

Librarian Chick is a blogger who has put together a wiki of literally hundreds of online learning sources with over twenty categories for "students, educators & anyone else who's hip to learning."
posted to MetaFilter by jonson at 6:32 PM on September 21, 2007 (18 comments)