tamaranth | All Knowledge is Contained on LiveJournal: Miscellaneous Questions

Answers to all and any gratefully received!

1. Why have Amazon changed their 'Order Summary' view for sellers in such a way that I can't usefully copy-and-paste into a spreadsheet? (Their response did not explain change but invited me to pay £28pcm for the privilege of proper reporting. No thx.)
1a. Do you know a quick and easy way of grabbing data from a webpage full of buttons and dross and shoving it into plain text/CSV? (I've tried 'view source' but it all seems to be dynamically generated.)

2. Does anyone have access to a microtome for non-werk purposes?
2a. If so, would you be able to slice up some bone for me? (I picked it up on the beach, honest. It is for jewellery-making purposes.)
2b. If not, can you suggest a source for 'scientific preparations' that might give me thin slices of bone, shell &co without embedding them in resin or glass or whatever?

3. Jean-Paul Sartre, in Being and Nothingness (a chapter of which I proofread today): "In our Introduction we defined consciousness as ‘a being such that in its being, its being is in question in so far as this being implies a being other than itself’." What?
3a. Was JPS on the good drugs?
3b. Can I be on the good drugs too?

4. Cambridge people: is there actually a branch of HSBC in Cambridge now, other than the one on Hills Rd which closes at 4:30?
4a. Why does HSBC's website still insist there is a branch on Cherry Hinton Rd, when that branch closed in June?

5. As a cyclist, what is my legal status if I fail to brake when a pedestrian steps out in front of me without looking?
5a. If I do brake and the cyclist behind me rear-ends me and I make painful contact with the frame of my bike, is it reasonable to expect the pedestrian to apologise?
5b. Might he also enquire as to my well-being and that of the lady who ran into me?
5c. Would it be disproportionate of me to lie in wait and ambush him tomorrow morning?

6. My nice floppy fake-leather multi-compartment small handbag, bought less than a month ago from Claire's Accessories (no relation to highheeled

fishlifter), was Unfit for Purpose (strap snapped) so they gave me a no-hassle refund. yay Claire's! But where can I find a new one?

7. What is the word for people who deliberately (or possibly just invariably) see the worst in a situation, read the worst into an argument, perceive prejudice and malice where none is intended?

8. In spit Micro$soft IE7, when a link opens in a new window, is there a mouse-free way of making that window open in a different position? or of moving it without using the mouse?
8a. Why did I have to fill in a 30-minute survey on Proper Use of Desk before they would order me a wrist-rest?

edit to add
9. Is anyone playing Monopoly City Streets? Because there doesn't seem to be a 'vacation' option, so I might prefer to sell my property to a Worthy Person rather than lose it to landgrabbers while I'm sunning myself.