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Like big enough to create real positive change

Seriously, what could people do to make the #occupywallst protests bigger soon? I don't think they're big enough to really force a change with the powers that be and I'm curious what ideas people have...

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The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle applied to photography: I can see you...

I do video. I obsessively read lens reviews on photography sites that tend to criticize certain lenses for being soft. Does the lower resolution of the video output (1920x1080) lessen the issues of...

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How can we see shared time better?

I regularly need to schedule complex parallel tasks with my co-workers. Is there a visual (like with circles for each hour with time divided into pie slices) google template that could be filled out...

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How do I show you that I love you?

What would the modern America Sickle and Hammer look like? The Hammer and Sickle represented the alliance between urban factory workers and rural agricultural workers. If you were to make a symbol for...

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I want to make something beautiful, but I need some help with this paintbrush...

I want to make an awesome web resource, but have hit a wall on the technical side of it and need to know what to ask for. I want to make an image with a slider that reveals and hides different...

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I want to hide the thing that will promote it once you've wandered inside.

Iframes and CSS insertion. Help or a better idea? So I'm making this map timeline that is slowly crystallizing into something beautiful. It Fancyboxes several hundred entries into an iframe on...

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Always Be Circulating

I occasionally like to stamp things (rubber stamps in ink on paper approximately the size of a dollar bill; I'll do a few dozen at a time). Does a device exist where I could feed lots of paper through...

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Inversely, will a high end DSLR make me long for a P&S's small size?

For motion itself, will a new canon point and shoot (digic5) have the same movement quality as the 5d mark 3 (their nice digic 5 slr)? I understand that the lens quality will differ (chromatic...

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I spent a long time looking at those empty plastic bottles, wondering if they...

If I was in a life threatening crisis, how much time would the oxygen in a soda bottle buy me. Not that I was driving through the holland tunnel recently or anything, wondering about what I would do if...

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Yes I'm ask metafiltering nineties techno. Don't judge.

In the mid-ninties, there was this techno song with a vocal instructing the listeners to raise up their hands, "raise them up." His voice was calm and could've been sampled from a movie (it was not...

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Curating an rss for my parents

We are web junkies, the parents are hip but have some issues adopting multi-step tech solutions, can we cut the lessons and just curate their readers? All of them are on flipboard, but rarely add new...

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Looking for the other side of Iran Contrahistory

Has there been a definitive account of the Iran-Contra Scandal written from the vantage point of either Iran or Nicaragua? I am NOT looking for an American account that incorporates this material in,...

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What is the publication history of Philip Agee's Inside the Company?

What is the publication history of Philip Agee's Inside the Company: CIA Diary? Are European editions vastly different? Or, more to the point, are American versions censored? Is there a resource for...

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Where are Ho Chi Minh's message to America?

Where can I find ALL of the writings of Ho Chi Minh intended for an American audience? For example, messages to the American people as well as letters and telegrams to elected officials.

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Is there a history of librarian collusion and resistance to repression?

In this New Yorker blog post, Internet Archive's Brewster Kahle mentions this in an answer: "Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records—who’s...

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I am aware of gravity, yes.

Why do blocks fall? I was stacking some of my son's blocks yesterday, sturdy square blocks, and after a certain height, it just seemed like the ability to balance them became more and more difficult,...

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I want to see the 1527 Puerto Rico Revolt.

Trying to find paintings, statues, illustrations, etc of the 1527 Puerto Rico Revolt (as described on page 398 of volume 2 of Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion). Any concrete ideas? (Also,...

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Seventeen thousand books, no carpentry experience, limited budget

We have a lot of books, are moving next week, and want floor to ceiling (nine feet high), wall to wall bookcases in one room of our new place. How difficult would it be for us to do this ourselves?...

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I need a nice ladder. Where do I find this?

I need a nice folding ladder that can be used in a library with nine-foot ceilings. I don't think we have the room or the budget for one with rails. Everything I see is short, metal, or ugly. Where can...

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Good Examples of Collected Journalism

Can people recommend good examples of the collected works of an individual journalist, collected and published as a book? I want to see how great journalists arrange and contextualize distinct pieces...

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