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Questions and Answers - Part 3

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22:34 / 21.06.06

i was always taught by my swiss friends to say a letter with an umlaut with your lips pursed to form a circle, then try saying it. s'fun anyway...

does anyone know why 'clockwise' goes the way it does? if you stand laterally to the sun's path and watch it's shadow sweep across a sundial it travels counter-clockwise to how we use the word now... what gives?

01:49 / 22.06.06

Sundials cast a clockwise moving shadow in the northern hemisphere. Since sundials were invented in the northern hemisphere, the direction of travel for the shadow became the direction of travel for clock hands later on. BTW, southern hemisphere sundials are made with the numbers printed in the opposite direction. Ergo, your Australian sundial would really screw up my sense of time here in Canada.

14:48 / 22.06.06

USA World cup

Some of us are aware...We scored! Actually, scored, w/o any help from Italy! Tense, right now, though

15:05 / 22.06.06

And, perhaps inevitably....ugh. Why must we suck?

17:51 / 22.06.06

Don't feel bad, spectre, you were hard done by. Ghana's penalty was laughable, and foul could have been called on their first goal too. The USA were only really weak in their first game, against the Czech Republic.

08:40 / 27.06.06

I just read an article on the Guardian's new policy on web publishing, and I think I saw the name on Barbelith several times, so I was wondering:

In the British newspaper landscape, how would you evaluate the Guardian? Is this a "quality paper"? Where does it stand politically? What influence does it have on the public?

Thank you!

ONLY NICE THINGS

09:33 / 27.06.06

The Guardian is a broadsheet, and the only notionally left-wing broadsheet on the market (barring arguably the Independent). It has low readership, at around 400,000, with that readership largely ABC1, university-educated and middle class - it's a cliche, but the Guardian is generally associated with social workers, workers in the media, civil servants &c.

Where it stands out in particular is its website, guardian.co.uk. The Guardian has consistently offered almost all its newspaper content online for free, and did so before other British papers, which has allowed it to build a leadership position online.

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

12:40 / 27.06.06

I am having a problem with my computer. Every time I download and try and install software it all seems to works but the software in question seems to dissapear (it's not in the wastebasket). I've checked the security settings and the computer is configured to accept such downloads but it just isn't working. The problem started when I tried to download a new version of Windows Media, this for some reason corrupted my operating system, though that problem should now be sorted out. I have also had a particularly nasty virus almost immediately afterwards but again that has been sorted out.

I'm pretty much technically inept but several of my more technically ept friends have tried to help me with the problem and they are at a loss as to what is causing it. Has anybody ever encountered a problem like this? Has anybody any idea what's causing it or how to fix it? I would really appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks.

19:28 / 27.06.06

Why does the Barbelith Wiki have a sunflower on it?

All Acting Regiment

20:25 / 27.06.06

Where does the line "party like it's (year)!" come from?

20:59 / 27.06.06

i always thought it was prince...

1999?

21:02 / 27.06.06

and someone on the internet agrees.

21:06 / 27.06.06

I think that's just the logo of the software the Wiki uses, Liger -I've seen it on some other wikis as well.

18:32 / 29.06.06

Does anyone have any tips on choosing a broadband supplier in the UK? I've decided dial up sucks and now I have a new flatmate I can afford to upgrade. Basically if anyone has any warnings or recommendations I'd appreciate it.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

23:16 / 29.06.06

What's the round blobby dimple in the middle of some old (Georgian?) windows called? I MUST know.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

23:32 / 29.06.06

Oh look, Crown glass, that's interesting.

YES IT IS.

Shut up.

unheimlich manoeuvre

23:42 / 29.06.06

MC - They're called Roundels too, I think.

00:27 / 30.06.06

Whee! Like bits of lances or circles on airplane wings!

18:56 / 30.06.06

When I was a very young child... 7-9 I think, placing it in the mid-to-late 80s, I remember owning a coloring book with the strangest things into them.

Truck-creatures that were also plants. Think a cross between Swamp Thing and Optimus Prime. I'm lead to believe that the coloring book meant also that the creatures also had a cartoon series, but I can't for the life of me find any information on them. I remember a gigantic teleporting castle thing that GREW the truck-plants inside of it. So it was like Swamp Thing/Optimus Prime/Krull - and those were the BAD guys. Who were the GOOD guys?

Does anyone have any idea what I'm on about? Or any information that might help me in this quest for nostalgia?

19:39 / 30.06.06

Yes, there was a 1980s cartoon about a bunch of guys flying around the universe in a ship that looked like a boat with legs, fighting a race of plant-men who transformed into vehicles using vehicles of their own (with lasers, buzzsaws and the such as weapons), while seeking for the protagonist father, the scientist who first created the plant-men transformers, using a "magic" amulet. There was a pirate, a lttle plant-girl, some old guru-like figure, a token chick, and the hero. Despite what it may sound, it was actually a pretty cool cartoon, but damn me if I can remember the show's name.

19:44 / 30.06.06

There, I found it in almighty wikipedia: Wheeled Warriors

19:47 / 30.06.06

Or, even better:Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors

21:09 / 02.07.06

Oh my dear lord THANK YOU.

ONLY NICE THINGS

07:39 / 03.07.06

How does one dispose of safety razor blades? You know, the flat, butterfly-like ones beloved of coke addicts and self-mutilators alike? Presumably simply putting them in the bin is considered poor form - do you have to get a box and dispose of box and blades alike? Even then, how do you ensure that it is safe for the functionaries disposing of your domestic refuse?

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

08:07 / 03.07.06

Put them in your neighbours bin, that way tey'll get blamed for it.

10:02 / 03.07.06

Severn Trent Water say:

"Put the used blade inside a rigid container, which you are also throwing into the dustbin".

Heh, they also say: "Razor blades should never be flushed down the toilet."

If you want to be super safe, you could check these out - very handy if you decide to have a knife amnesty in your house/flat/log cabin:

Knife Blades Disposal Bins

ONLY NICE THINGS

10:28 / 03.07.06

What kind of a lunatic flushes razor blades down the toilet?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

10:46 / 03.07.06

I usually wrap mine up very carefully in lots of newspaper, then stick the bundle in a small empty box (matchbox or whatever).

11:10 / 03.07.06

What kind of a lunatic flushes razor blades down the toilet?

In 1995 I visited Kassel, a very boring town, so an attraction was visiting the sewage works...

The guy leading us around, told us about all the stuff, they find, that got flushed down and they have to get out. They had huge (ca. 2*5m²) metal combs that were carpet like covered with women hygiene articles. And the men also dispose of their stuff by flushing. It was a real eye (and nose

) opener.

Essential Dazzler

21:30 / 03.07.06

Are there laws about the temperature that retail work-places have to maintain? Because the air conditioning is broken where I am, and I want to know if I have legal grounds to ask for an IV drip of water.

ONLY NICE THINGS

21:54 / 03.07.06

From the retro to the... well, still quite retro, if only because it demonstrates my technological cack-handedness.

What should I use to trim or separate video files (MPG and DIVX) on my PC? There are some files I need to shorten, and can discard the surplus of, and others I would like to separate into a number of different files for ease of storage and transmission (it's my... video art). I have Cyberlink Power Director Express on my Computer, but it's aimed at DV cameras, I think - you have to import video and then export it again. I just want something for dividing exists video files, small, simple and if at all possible inexpensive. I can do it on a Mac, if necessary, but it will be more hassle...

Also, a much more minor thing, but is there something that lets you reorient QuickTime videos? gm3s, or similar, I think - phone videos. I tend to hold my phome as a camera by instinct, long side running left to right, and so my video is always at a right angle. I am a fool.

09:18 / 04.07.06

Sun Cream

Dopey question: is "60 spf" the same as "Factor 60"? I can guess that spf = 'sun protection factor' but I wanna be certain.

Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey

09:38 / 04.07.06

Yes Saveloy, you're right.

09:58 / 04.07.06

Thanks, guv.

11:31 / 04.07.06

Can anyone recommend an interesting and comprehensive book about the human body? I could look this up on Amazon or wherever but I thought some personal recommendations might be nice.

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