Wish you’d taken a second to explain how her stories differed over time.
I find it difficult to research elections online, especially for smaller positions. I wish there was one site where you could see your ballot well ahead of time, with links to the candidates websites, and meta critic style statistics and links to endorsements, record, etc.
If you happen to already know a good website for looking up phone numbers, it’s fine. But trying to do a google search for said website brings up tons of crap. And trying to directly google the number is similarly spam filled.
And in general, spammy sites have gotten too good at gaming their search ranks.
I really miss a feature google used to have that captured video stills and closed captioning from TV.
I find it bizarre that google continues to deny the existence of Wikia. It will always correct it as wiki. Even worse, even though Wikia is an offshoot of Wikipedia, they have some weird policy about not linking to it.
I’d love to see google partner with distributers so I could search for local stores that sell a particular product.
I also find it frustrating when websites dont include some basic essential feature of their regular site in either their mobile or app versions.
Also, there’s a particular scifi short story about Baby New Year I can find no sign of existing. And yes I asked on that website.
Oh, and Spike’s shirt.
Pornography.
Huh. I have found a bit, although none featuring my preferred fetish.
I can’t find any english language clips of the early 1990s cartoon The Island Of The Bears. I think I found the credits in French.
I find when you’re looking for a tv advert from not so long ago it can be hard to find. Ones from the '80s or earlier seem to be well represented and in the last few years companies have taken to posting their tv ads on youtube and the like but if you want to find a particular advert from 2003 say it can be difficult. Not yet old enough to be remarkable.
I’ve never been able to find out anything about a (supposed) book called Napoleon’s Book Of Legerdemain. The only references online to it are when I posted here about it in 2007.
While US and UK pop cultural artefacts are ten a penny online it’s much harder to find local shows, products, product labels etc. from the past.
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The current air temperature at Chicago’s lakefront.
Not the temperature at the airports. Not the temperature at a some generalized location carelessly labeled “Chicago” (because that’s really just from one of the airports!). Not the water temperature of Lake Michigan. Not archived data for what the temperature was yesterday at the lakefront. No no no no no. Current. Air. Temperature. Chicago. Lakefront. (Preferably adjacent to downtown, but really, I’d take anything within a quarter mile of the water and still in Chicago proper.)
I consider the lack of easy access to this information* to be one of the greatest failings of the the early 21st century. Frankly, if mankind doesn’t solve this problem within the next few years, I advocate just pulling the plug on this whole “Internet” thing.
*I’ve searched in vain for such a resource annually over the last several years. However, I distinctly did NOT perform such a search before writing this post, in the hope that someone will come along and say, “you dope, I found it in four seconds with Google.” I’d gladly look like a dope here in order to finally capture this missing piece of my life, and I just know that if I went off looking for this great white whale myself, my own search would actually cause its removal – if it existed in the first place – from the Internet.
The opening titles to the TV show ‘Murder One’. I remember the music and editing being particularly good, and I just assumed someone, somewhere would have uploaded it to YouTube at some point. So far I haven’t been able to find it anywhere.
I have not been able to find the background music for the show “Spiderman and his amazing friends”. I thought it was remarkably evocative of childhood, and expected someone would have put it up. I was surprised to find no one had, even though there was a site devoted to the show, and the original music composer’s estate had released the musical score.
I saw it somewhere over the…
Please try to leave out political jabs in threads unrelated to politics as it sometimes can derail a topic.
Just a note, not a warning.
Someone who I can commission to build me a small scale replica of a TARDIS. So far, I’ve managed to find a site with various blueprints for building your own (blueprints which are routinely taken down by either the BBC or some British government organization who have a copyright on the shape of police boxes), but I lack the tools and the know how. If you’d asked me a year ago, I’d have assumed it easy finding someone willing to knock out a two foot high blue box for a few hundred dollars, but apparently not, because here I am, one year later, TARDISless, cursing societal gender constraints which guided high school me into a home ec classroom instead of the woodworking class I’d have preferred. Grr.
I don’t know the area too well, but have you checked the weather stations about half-way down the page on Weather Underground’s Chicago page? They’re often people’s personal stations in random locations.
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The second season of the USA TV show “The Mole”.
I’ve even resorted to trying to bootleg it, but I can’t find it anywhere. At least not a version that will actual stream/download.
I wanted to show my wife it. It was great. 
Mission of San Nohero
I’ve been looking really hard for man-portable nuclear weapons and having no luck at all.
That’s probably several hundred feet in from the shore.