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Chain emails

Do these actually work? Particularly referring to the ones which protest about some issue or the other and have people from all over the world put their names on it?

blackfive

Aggressive Firewalls??

I had been having problems with premature disconnections from my ISP, sometimes after only a few minutes, which is annoying and expensive in phone charges. This weekend I tried an experiment and...

Kit

My toddler has a glow in the dark beaker and a night light, both of which are plastic and apparently work by absorbing the light during the day and releasing it at night. How does this work? And is...

brawburd

Magazine and Newspaper Inserts

Just HOW annoying? I know that advertising materials that are loosely placed into mags etc can't really be termed unsolicited if I buy the publications knowing there are likely to be some. However, I...

Luigitoo

World Books book club

Will anyone tell me how I may contact World Books? They do not have a number on their website and they do not answer their emails. Can you believe I actually want some catalogues from them and they...

sherby

Which guitar?

Im wanting to start playing guitar, and I just saw the coolest electric one. (It had a snake on it and everything!!) But should I start learning on an acoustic one, would that be easier to start with?...

willpower

Duran Duran

Does anyone know title of the Duran Duran song that contains the words 'blue silver' in the lyrics

Allison

physics

What is chaos theory?

cassandral

Great Expectations

Who is Pip's convict benefactor in Great Expectations?

treaclefight

infinite universe?

says who, and how did they prove it? (i am not a nobel winning scientist so im probably going to have problems understanding the actual answer if there is one, but all opinions count and are welcomed...

Aonz

Are we alone in the Universe?

This of course is open to speculation; I'm just interested to know your opinions. Here are a few details about the Universe. 1) There are some 100 billion galaxies visible to modern telescopes and the...

Uzoma

When is the ' water shed' ?

What time is s**t / b***s**t allowed to be broadcast on TV and other swear words? How about 'worse' swear words? I thought that it was only after 9 pm but I'm beginning to find out I'm wrong.

anthomson

URL - whats it stand for.

URL; I think its universal resource locator - but my better half says it uniform resource locator. I have also heard unique resource locator - which is correct ?

brawburd

Sticking Mouse!

A simple remedy no doubt?! I have a cordless logitech wheel mouse. Started to stick, changed batteries, no difference. Tried to clean ball, which is no doubt the problem, but can't work out how to...

Happymonkey

Java applet

what is a java applet?!?

juney

i came, i saw, i conquered

who said i came, isaw, i conquered?

Einstein

Regular pop-ups

In the last week or so I've noticed that every time I log on to the Internet two windows open - one is called 'Save!' and is for some sort of casino, and can't be closed, the other is a string of...

xyzzy@bok

Referrer Headers

What are referrer headers? Why might i want to stop them? How would I do that?

paulz

water

I'm doing my best [nagged by Mrs p.] to increase my intake of water, it's supposed to be a minimum of 2 Litres a day - I'm told. Does it have to be just water? - it gets so boring! Does tea or Coffee...

Squirrel

Competitions

It seems like whenever I am bored enough to scratch off the foil or look under the label, as if by magic I am a 'Top prize winner.' I know from experience that these prize draw things are a sham '...

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