In the movie Hobbit, The Desolation of Smaug, the band enter Mirkwood and are attacked by giant spiders. In the movie - the spiders appear to 'chitter' to one another. After Bilbo puts on the Ring, the chittering stops and he can hear them talking to themselves and each other. My question is ...

I have some chickens named with Borg designations. There were originally 4, so each of them was N of 4. Two of them died though, then I got two new ones, so should the new ones get their own group designation ("of 2") or should they become part of the original "of 4"? I would like to be techni...

Perl Out of all of the things I've done for CodeGolf.SE, this probably took the most time, at least a few hours. $_[0]=eval<>; for(0..$#{$_[0]}**2){ @_[$#_+1]=[\(@{$_[$#_]}),$#{$_[$#_]}+1]; for(1..$#{$_[$#_]}-$#_){ if(eval('${'x$#_.'@{$_[$#_]}[$_-1]'.'}'x$#_)>eval('${'x$#_.'@{$_[$#_]}[$_]'....

Here it is in java. It is utter cheating, unacceptable and unfixable because it creates a MySQL database, insert the number there, do a select with an ORDER BY clause and outputs the numbers given by MySQL. In fact, it is MySQL who is doing the sorting, not the program. package sorter; import j...

It is true that as a fox, I should know this, so consider this a spoilers warning. In a recent post, Geek Girl mentions that the mating call of the fox is a series of sharp, eerie barks and that this is called gekkering. This is supported by a citation in Wikipedia, but the reference is not one ...

It's confusing because you can say docTER but you never say docTOR. I think it's acceptable to say "realter" I think I know the commercial you're talking about. She says it a dozen times in a short period, each time it's "realTOR" Every time I type this on my site http://callkelsey.com I alwa...

Thanks Very much. i was worried very much cuz i saw a movie named "rendition 2007" and a man said "should i say "hello" to her or i would rather not". i was totally confused and perplex that what does he meant. but now i got it. Thnx very much

A joke goes like this: A friend at work had an unusual dental related problem recently. About a month ago he had to have a small steel plate inserted in his mouth. A week later he noticed the plate was starting to rust. The dentist asked him if he had a change in his eating or drinking habits tha...