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KOMAscript: new English manual

keksdose – May 19, 2012
A Tale of Two Questions

Andrew Stacey – May 18, 2012
Using sprite sheets with LaTeX

Paulo Cereda – May 4, 2012
Voting Up, Voting Down

Andrew Stacey – April 22, 2012
TeXtalk: an interview with David Carlisle

Paulo Cereda – April 14, 2012

Photography

Architecture with a Long Lens

elendilthetall – May 17, 2012
Tilt-Shift Basics With the Canon TS-E 17mm F/4

Itai – May 12, 2012
5.2 Beginner’s Tips for Bird Photography

elendilthetall – April 23, 2012
Cheap vs. Professional Telephoto Lenses: What Do You Get For Your Money?

elendilthetall – April 17, 2012
The Definitive Photography Book Guide

Akram Mellice – April 14, 2012

Cooking

Bread Hydration Experiment

derobert – May 9, 2012

Apple

Ask Different Podcast’s Summer Hiatus: Off the Beaten Path

Jason Salaz – May 7, 2012
Podcast #26: New iPad Followup, App Store Upgrade Models

Nathan Greenstein – April 16, 2012
The New iPad Review / Part 3: Real World Use

Nathan Greenstein – March 30, 2012
The New iPad Review / Part 2: First Impressions & Features

Kyle Cronin & Nathan Greenstein – March 28, 2012
The New iPad Review / Part 1: Standing in Line

Kyle Cronin – March 27, 2012

Home Improvement

Clutches, torque and you.

aaronw – April 25, 2012
Intro: First-time Homeowner/DIYer

Josh Maxwell – April 11, 2012
Ground Fault Current Interrupters

lqlarry – March 27, 2012
Arc Fault Breakers

lqlarry – March 6, 2012
Tool Review: Ideal Lil’ Ripper Stripper™

tester101 – February 28, 2012

Server Fault

Upcoming Network Maintenance

Kyle Brandt – April 13, 2012
Business versus Basement: the Half-Assing Mediocrity Parade

Peter Grace – April 2, 2012
Server Fault Survey!

George Beech – March 12, 2012
Architecting for Uptime

Peter Grace – March 6, 2012
Escaping the Cycle of Technical Debt

Kyle Brandt – February 7, 2012

Fitness and Nutrition

Maintaining Your Fitness Motivation

Matt Chan – March 19, 2012
Juggling for Fitness

heather – March 2, 2012
Share Fitness.SE Questions with the RunKeeper Healthy Button!

Lauren Gundrum – February 13, 2012
Open Jars with Ease – A SportGrips SideWinder Review

Matt Chan – February 9, 2012
Getting Started with Yoga

Matt Chan – January 31, 2012

Theoretical Computer Science

Arguments that are too clever for their own good

Arnab Bhattacharyya – March 16, 2012
Something you should know about: Quantifier Elimination (Part II)

Arnab Bhattacharyya – February 18, 2012
FSTTCS 2011 Conference Report

jagadish – February 3, 2012
Boycott Elsevier for Supporting SOPA

gopi – January 14, 2012
How important is knowing how to program for TCS?

gopi – December 5, 2011

English Language and Usage

Book Review – The Adventure of English

Matt Ellen – January 11, 2012
Getting into the spirit

martha – December 20, 2011
Adspeak

martha – December 6, 2011
The Basics of Limerick Composition

Matt Ellen – November 16, 2011
Themed Questions: Wars

waiwai933 – November 11, 2011

Gaming

The Broken Economics of Diablo 3′s Auction House

bwarner – May 18, 2012
The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition

agent86 – April 24, 2012
Art, and the Indie Game

gnomeslice – April 3, 2012
Cause and (Mass) Effect

agent86 – March 14, 2012
My Adventures on Asteroid 5251, Part 5

John the Green – March 12, 2012

Christianity

What churches everyday should be

ChaosGamer – May 14, 2012
What’s Atomic, Aloof, Ubiquitous and Smells Like Fish

Peter Turner – May 7, 2012
Eschewmenical Presents “What is the Church?”

waxeagle – May 1, 2012
Christos Anesti!

Dan O'Day – April 30, 2012
Why We Need Good Friday

affablegeek – April 23, 2012

Bicycles

National Bike Month and Bike To Work Week

nhinkle – May 8, 2012
A great place to ride: Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC

neilfein – April 25, 2012
Review of the Best Bicycle Tail Lights in 2012

nhinkle – March 5, 2012
US Citizens: Act Now To Save Bike Infrastructure!

freiheit – February 13, 2012
How Cars Can Be Nice to Cyclists

neilfein – January 16, 2012

IT Security

QotW #26: Malicious QR Code and Mitigation

roryalsop – May 4, 2012
QotW#25: Introducing QotW

roryalsop – April 27, 2012
QotW #24: Why do people tell me not to use VLANs for security?

scottpack – April 20, 2012
QotW #23: Why is it difficult to catch Anonymous/Lulzsec?

roryalsop – April 13, 2012
Tor: Exploiting the weakest link

lucaskauffman – April 10, 2012

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Avengers vs. X-Men results! Winners announced!

brettwhite – April 20, 2012
Topic of the Week Contest: The Legend of Korra

DavRob60 – April 18, 2012
Avengers vs. X-Men is here!

brettwhite – April 4, 2012
A month of comic exploration

Tony Meyer – April 1, 2012
Stack Exchange is giving away sets of Game of Thrones: Season 1 on Blu-Ray and DVD!

brettwhite – March 7, 2012

Statistical Analysis

Increasing Visibility of the CV blog (and why pie charts kind of suck)

andyw – March 20, 2012
Some notes on making effective tables

andyw – February 10, 2012
AndyW says Small Multiples are the Most Underused Data Visualization

andyw – December 20, 2011
Appendable saving in R

mbq – September 19, 2011
Using Deducer to work with R

andyw – August 16, 2011

Super User

A Guide to Disk Imaging, Backup and Restore

ninefingers – March 19, 2012
Windows 8 & Metro with Mouse and Keyboard

badp – March 9, 2012
Understanding the “improved” in VIM

ninefingers – March 6, 2012
Kon Boot: Getting into a Client’s Computer without using a Portal Gun

bloodphilia – March 1, 2012
FFmpeg: The ultimate Video and Audio Manipulation Tool

slhck – February 24, 2012

GIS

Why do questions get closed?

mapperz – January 27, 2012
Calculation and Compilation in Arcmap

kirkkuykendall – November 7, 2011
It’s all about the data

mattwilkie – November 4, 2011
Maperitive Tutorial: Generating OSM Map For Adobe Illustrator In Seven Easy Steps

Igor Brejc – September 14, 2011
A Quick Guide to GIS Stack Exchange Questions

mapperz – September 13, 2011