What's a fun way to get these guys to stop calling me?
How can I prank this evil debt collection company? Six weeks ago, Academy Services of Philadelphia (215-320-0424) called my number in search of someone else (same last name) who they are pursuing for...
View ArticleHelp.flv?
I want to send a video on CD to an unsophisticated user of a Macintosh computer. The video is currently in Flash format (video.flv). Will a native-utilities-only installation of OS X have something...
View ArticleRedundancy and Safety Tradeoffs in Industrial Design
How do industrial and product designers or human factors engineers or ergonomics experts talk about the safety implications of redundant controls? I'm having trouble finding a literature that I assume...
View ArticleNo More Maple Candy for You
No more maple syrup candy for you! -- Help me remember this SF novel I read in the 1970s. Everyone lived underground, and sat in specially contoured seats as they ordered their dinners, and the...
View ArticleWhere do realtors go for their commercial real estate market data?
Our landlord wants a five percent per year increase to renew our office lease for two years. Where is the data that shows the commercial market is going the other way? We're a struggling nonprofit in a...
View ArticleMarquee Tag 2.0
What do web designers call the slideshowy flipbook of stories thatappears intheupperleftcornerofthesenewswebsites? Are there effective ways to block or replace these (browser plugins, Greasemonkey...
View ArticleMe, a Company in QuickBooks?
Does anyone have resources to share for using QuickBooks, rather than a dedicated personal finance application like Quicken, to manage personsal finances? I own a copy of QuickBooks 2009 Professional...
View ArticleHow Much Job Is No Job?
California unemployment: Where's the threshold for a reduction of hours constituting job loss? In California, at what point does an employer-mandated reduction of salary/work expectations constitute...
View ArticleWhere Can I Buzz Fiberglass Off My Boat?
Where is a good place in the San Francisco Bay Area to work on a fiberglass boat? I have a little fiberglass dinghy that I'd like to sand, lay down some strips of fiberglass upon, and then sand again....
View ArticleHow Do Cities Vote?
Where do you find American electoral data by city? I occasionally stumble on the claim that all or nearly all big American cities have majority Democratic electorates (for example, Jonathan Raban...
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