How to make Safari allow cut/paste in my Applet's text field?
Specific Safari/Java/Applet question: how do I get Safari to allow cut and paste to work in my applet's text fields? I was wondering if some sage mefi programmer knows a way around this. Here's a test...
View ArticleHow to link to an image with a Kanji filename?
I18n and HTML: How do display images that have kanji filenames, in both IE (PC) and Safari (Mac). So there I was minding my own business writing code that lets users export HTML reports, very...
View ArticleHaunted by a song in a goddamn Coke ad
Recently movie theaters 'round here were showing a Coke ad that had some interesting music. The ad was a series of stills telling a story of someone going back in time and giving [the hated product] to...
View ArticleSuffrin' Safari
Safari is not retaining any history older than a day. This is a problem because it 'forgets' long URLs to auto-complete. How do I make it remember again? This is on OS X 10.3.9 (Panther). I don't see...
View ArticleMy Bloody Dahliantine
What's the music playing in The Black Dahlia movie trailer? Here's a link to the trailer; the song starts about 40% through. It's jangly chorus pedally goodness that makes me feel so happy in a 90s...
View ArticleWhere to start buying a specific house?
We found a house we want to buy, how to get the ball rolling? So there's this house in Sacramento, CA that we found via intensive website skimming. Our finances are in order, we can meet the asking...
View ArticleThe Quote is a Lie
How binding are homeowners insurance quotes? So we bought a house recently. During the whole process I was given a quote for a homeowner's insurance premium of $X premium + $25 fee. This informed my...
View ArticleIt's because they're dicks, right?
Why do people on (phpBB-style) web boards have such a thing against thread necromancy? When an old thread is resurrected by a comment, some of these people just lose their shit, even when it's fully...
View ArticleWhat's it like to live on the Oregon coast?
I've been thinking about moving to the Oregon coast, close to the ocean, along the 101 corridor: Newport, Lincoln City, Tillamook, all that jazz. But right now these towns are just names to me. What's...
View ArticleHow local is the slur, "zombie" = homeless person/addict
I moved to a new area (just outside the Bay Area, California) and encountered a new er unflattering euphemism for homeless people or addicts — zombie. I'd never heard this before. I'm wondering if it's...
View ArticleCan you identify this font?
Can you identify the font in this (cleaned up) image? The person I'm asking for swears the PE is a built-in ligature and this font has a lot of ligatures. Someone I play D&D with had a laptop die...
View ArticleWhat's the type of poem like a clarihew -- but not a clarihew?
Is there a type of poem, or just a famous example, that is like an even shorter clarihew, and ends rather than begins with the proper name, and is maybe wholly alliterative? For some reason I'm...
View ArticleWhat were the old paper colors?
Nostalgia question: At my school in the 80s in the US, the teachers occasionally used colored paper. There were only like 6 colors and they had standard specific names, like canary, goldenrod, and...
View ArticleBook Recommendations for Geeky-But-Busy Book Club
I'm in a new book club, and looking for book recs. The two main criteria. One: it's a geeky group that likes puzzles, so sci-fi, mysteries, historical fiction, etc. are good -- BUT two: people are...
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