Tumblelog - May 2008

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Ask Calvin's Dad

TED | Talks | Dan Dennett: Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memes (video)
Twin Peaks - Joost
New Vegetarian Food With Several Health Benefits: "A new vegetarian food that boosts the uptake of iron and offers a good set of proteins. This could be the result of a doctoral dissertation by Charlotte Eklund-Jonsson at the Department of Food Science."
BPA - Biphenyl A - Research
Bill Moyers Journal . Expose on the Journal: Chemicals In Our Food | PBS: Devastating report of industry and government cover-up of damning research on BPA.
3 Ideas That Are Pushing the Edge of Science | Gadgets | DISCOVER Magazine: Sperm powered medical nanobots, etc.
Where do babies come from?: Some analogies are better than others. From storks to web pages.

C*A*S*H | The Daily Show | Comedy Central: Outstanding piece by Stewart.
carina07_hst_big.jpg (JPEG Image, 6000x2906 pixels)

If we hired like we voted - Non Sequitur

Mind Maps Home - www.mindmaps.moonfruit.com: Collection of mind maps, hand drawn/written. Kinda interesting.
Fanatic Fringe: ultralight backpacking gear.
Think Progress Barry Nolan: The Story Behind My O'Reilly Protest
Braun Shaver Clean & Charge Cartridges
Braun Shaver Clean & Charge Cartridges
Google Answers: Braun electric shavers cleaning system
Idea Mapping
Mind map - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "There are benefits to be gained by applying a wide range of graphic organizers, and it follows that the mind map, specifically, is not equally suited to all learning tasks."

"Scholarly research by Farrand, Hussain, and Hennessy (2002) found that the mind map technique had a limited but significant impact on recall only, in undergraduate students (a 10% increase over baseline for a 600-word text only) as compared to preferred study methods (a −6% increase over baseline). This improvement was only robust after a week for those in the mind map group, and there was a significant decrease in motivation compared to the subjects' preferred methods of note taking. They suggested that learners preferred to use other methods because using a mind map was an unfamiliar technique, and its status as a "memory enhancing" technique engendered reluctance to apply it.[4] Pressley, VanEtten, Yokoi, Freebern, and VanMeter (1998) found that learners tended to learn far better by focusing on the content of learning material rather than worrying over any one particular form of note taking."

Buzan has trademarked "Mind Map," which reduces the credibility of his ascertains further. It's a tool, and I think the element of association and organization helps memory recall, but you've gotta go with what works for you. For me, idea mapping is great in organizing info and seeing the whole picture (vs. outline's linear record).
YouTube - Maximise the Power of Your Brain - Tony Buzan MIND MAPPING: Buzan's mindmap instructions, one word per node, curved lines, Color, images....interesting. Radiance.

El camino del Rey - Brightcove: El camino del Rey...Unbelievable video. Watch it large screen. Not for those with vertigo.
Toxel.com » 14 Creative Advertisements
Is The Hobbit Dead In The Water Already? - Hecklerspray: Music, Movies, TV, Celebs, Games and Gossip
TED | Talks | Joshua Klein: The amazing intelligence of crows (video): Fascinating 10 minute talk on the intelligence of crows and how it can be potentially used for the good of us and them.

A Vending Machine for Crows An Experiment in Corvid Learning and Resource Acquisition Strategy Transmission
Google Is Right About This: YouTube Lawsuit Threatens The Net: "Media companies still look on the internet as a content platform. That is, they think of it as a new broadcast medium. Most other folks recognize that the internet is a communications medium, and the focus should be on the ease of communication. When it comes to communication, he argues, the idea of using copyright to restrict content gets weird in a hurry."
English Russia - Graduation 2008: I thought this was cute.
Why Men Have Better Friends
MindRaider - Semantic Web Outliner
The problem(s) with OpenID
Molly, The Horse that Could - Green Expander: "She is Molly. The young pony was abandoned by her owners when Katrina hit Southern Louisiana. After spending several weeks wondering, she was found and taken to an animal shelter. While there, she was attacked by a pit bull, her front leg becoming infected and needing amputation.

"Doctors were impressed how cooperative the pony was during surgery: she allowed people to handle her and shifted her body weight as to protect her leg, almost as she understood what is happening. She recovered amazingly and now serves as an example in shelters, hospitals or anywhere where people need hope. A book featuring Molly has been published to set the example for many other people. The little pony survived the hurricane, an amputation and now she is giving hope to many more."

Molly with an amputated leg.

Mommy's Home!: This image choked me up...

Mind Mapping With Free Mind
Writing an essay with FreeMind
Flash browser - FreeMind - free mind mapping software
Main Page - FreeMind - free mind mapping software: "So you want to write a completely new metaphysics? Why don't you use FreeMind? You have a tool at hand that remarkably resembles the tray slips of Robert Pirsig, described in his sequel to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance called Lila."

I'm becoming enthralled with mind maps. Where an outline is linear, a mind map is two (if not three) dimensions. That extra dimension adds enormous perspective to the ideas in view. Entries (called nodes) can be easily rearranged to test relationships between nodes. There's just something profound in that extra level of perspective. Something profoundly missing from a linear outline. Here's an example.
Influential Marketing Blog
VUE: Mind mapping alternative
Integral Designs Sil Poncho/Tarp 5 x 8 from REI.com
Sierra Designs Microlight Jacket - Men
Recumbent Tricycles | Recumbent Trikes in stock at Bicycle Man: Very knowledgeable, useful info from this seller. Great overview of the field and what to look for in a recumbent trike.
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Quake images show lake forming
How Birthrate Is Turning Modern Conventional Warfare on Its Head | AlterNet
Introducing the amazing ... Shit Box

Beer cheaper than gas

Ideas for using Mind Maps better
What Can You Do With Mind Mapping ?
Main Page - FreeMind - free mind mapping software: Fascinating concept. I tried this a few years ago and didn't get it...Now I do. Incredible tool for following threads of thought into new directions. Something about the way it forces you to ask the question "What is this related to?" and the freedom to move nodes around, change relationships, create new relationships...it's not perfect, but certainly a wonderful tool. Just need to figure a way to embed it into my website. No success yet.
Indiana Jones Movie: Like so many others of my generation (*cough*), I was quite excited to see the story (and character) of Indiana Jones revived. After seeing it last night, I'm sorry to say it was a total dud, a silly film that contributed near nothing to the myth, legend, and character of Henry Jones, Junior...Junior indeed.

First half hour was fun, and I liked the many homages to the previous films. But beyond that, the story, the climax, and final scenes were absolutely ridiculous. Waste of time. Thumbs way down. One of the worst movies I've seen this year.
HyperCard: What Could Have Been
Yemii Pics - The Eiffel Tower
Easy way to reset your sleep cycle: Stop eating | Parenting Squad: "Not eating for 12-16 hours can help people quickly reset their sleep-wake cycle, according to a new study from the Harvard Medical School. This discovery can drastically improve a person's ability to cope with jet lag or adjust to working late shifts."

So figure out the breakfast time for your destination, and don't eat 12-16 hours before that time. This will reset your internal clock.
wild recumbent trike ride: Good perspective on trike riding.

The Greenspeed LineUp: Trikes
Black Diamond Trail Trekking Poles Review: Love these trekking poles!
Moonlight Chronicles!: Dan Price
Cosmic Vehicle Center: Recumbent bikes/trikes. Terratrikes.
YouTube - My new obsession....: Wiz Wheelz
YouTube - BRP Bombardier Can Am Spyder roadster Tricycle: I like this idea a lot. Still dangerous as hell, but interesting concept.

YouTube - In the Bedroom: I liked this, though most people seemed to pan it.

Livermore Cyclery - Contact Us
Map of 7001 Dublin Blvd Dublin, CA by MapQuest
Dublin Cyclery :: Dublin, California: No photos of recumbent products, but closer to home.
Livermore Cyclery - Products: See section on recumbents.
Naked hiking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Never thought about hiking naked...
Trekking / Hiking Poles - Pros and Cons
YouTube - How to Do Rope Magic Tricks : Cut Rope in Half Magic Trick Revealed
diesel sweeties: pixelated robot romance web comic

mental_floss Blog » He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died
Unusual Option Market Activity and the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 - The Journal of Business: "After September 11, 2001, there was a great deal of speculation that the terrorists or their associates had traded in the option market on advanced knowledge of the impending attacks. This paper generates systematic information about option market activity that can be used to assess the option trading that precedes any event of interest. Examination of the option trading leading up to September 11 reveals that there was an unusually high level of put buying. This finding is consistent with informed investors having traded options in advance of the attacks."
How To Reduce Vampire Power - Huddler's Green Home Community
Little girl sitting on a limb staring at the moon...with AK-47

SAS flies slower to save costs and emissions | Environment | Reuters
Healthy Eating Pyramid - What Should You Eat? - The Nutrition Source - Harvard School of Public Health
The original Indiana Jones: Otto Rahn and the temple of doom - Telegraph: "As Indiana Jones returns to our screens, John Preston looks at the Nazi archaeologist who inspired Spielberg's hero, and finds a story more bizarre than anything the director could have dreamt of."
YouTube - Awesome! Beautiful! Champ!

Camping Knots - How To Tie
Foraging With the "Wildman"
YouTube - Eight most useful knots

The Biggest Boom in the Universe | Popular Science: "Blown Away: Heavy elements in the star's core are ejected in all directions. Not even a black hole is left after the explosion. Photo by Medi-Mation"

Discovery News : Discovery Channel: "By hacking off the ends of a failed HIV drug and sticking the resulting molecules onto gold nanoparticles, scientists have stopped HIV from infecting lab-cultured white blood cells. It is the first time gold nanoparticles have shown potential in therapies for HIV."
Cartoon Caption Contest: "I always figured Hell would be less ironic." Ben Snyder, Charlottesville, Va. Drawing by Paul Noth

"I always figured Hell would be less ironic."

Amazing lifehack: Pack a starter pistol to deter luggage theft
Featured Article - Sleep-deprived brains alternate between normal activity and 'power failure'
APOD: 2008 May 21 - A Dangerous Sunrise on Gliese 876d

Firefox 3: Set Firefox 3 to Launch Gmail for mailto Links
Ultralight Backpacking Shelter - Research
About Tarptent Ultralight Shelters
Converted Honda Civic yields 70 MPG: How would you like to cut your gasoline expenses in half by doubling the gas mileage of your current car? It'll take about $400 of material and a few days of work but you can convert just about any automobile into a super gas efficient machine.
The making of a disease: female sexual dysfunction -- Moynihan 326 (7379): 45 -- BMJ: "Is a new disorder being identified to meet unmet needs or to build markets for new medications?"

Where have you been? Yes! Of course! Marketing is all about creating a need and the marketing of drugs is no different.
LiveLeak.com - Why Women should not Appear on TV in Islam: If the captioning is correct, this was a devastating critique or Islam's treatment of women...by a woman.
Google Health: Not sure about this idea. Though I suppose having all your health info online will happen in time. Challenge is controlling access.
Lady Godivas ride naked through London - Telegraph: "Naked women mounted horses to ride through London's Hyde Park today in a truly unashamed publicity stunt for the film Lady Godiva...Up to 50 women bared their all, or stripped down to a slim pair of knickers, for a cancer charity supported by the film's director Vicky Jewson."

Maggie's : Home
jooce.com - power to the people
Jumpcut - Be good to your video
Job Search | one search. all jobs. Indeed
Topix: Your town. Your news. Your take.
Free Personal Finance Software, Money Management, Budget Planner and Tools, Online Financial Planning - Mint.com
Hulu - Watch your favorites. Anytime. For free.
Cooking For Engineers - Step by Step Recipes and Food for the Analytically Minded
10 Cool Websites We Recommend
The Incredible Edible Anus: WTF?! Oh, I get it...For those who can't get tail any otherway.
235 MPG VW of the Future...from 2002 | EcoGeek
Good Math, Bad Math : Selective Data and Global Warming
7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid! | 10e20 Blog
Understanding Evolution: Berkeley is being sued for this site. The plaintiffs argue that a government-funded state university cannot claim that "some religious denominations are better than others." Evolution is not a religion. Natural selection is a theory for a mechanism that tries to explain observations that we commonly label evolution.
Shoes, shoes, shoes! Zappos.com - Fast FREE Shipping, 365-Day Return Policy, HUGE selection of dress shoes, casual shoes, athletic shoes, online shoe store: Wow, I remember hearing about this. Website's not pretty, but it functionality, filtering, search, etc. is excellent.
Hemp powered vehicles | Ride Lust - Motion + Mobility
Webmonkey: the Web Developers Resource
Why Some Hospitals Are Allowing Unnecessary Suffering | Health and Wellness | AlterNet: "Easing pain is arguably as important as saving a life. But far too many U.S. physicians focus only on the latter."
Mythbusters Electric Cars vs. Gas Vehicles - Jamie Hyneman on Fuel Economy - Popular Mechanics
Golite Jam Review
KIMMLite AR 25 / OMM MM25L
Riffs and Licks - Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest Of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World: "This book, by the extraordinary journalist Tracy Kidder, is a sobering portrait of Dr. Paul Farmer, who has spent his life caring for the sick in Haiti and other poverty-stricken parts of the world. He is no Mother Theresa: Acerbic, angry and impatient, he has the incisive just-get-it-done attitude of a Fortune 100 CEO combined with a revolutionary's fury at injustice. While one back-cover review calls it "a true-to-life fairy tale, one that inspires you to believe in happy endings," that's evidence that the reviewer didn't read or understand the book, not an accurate description of the book, which will leave you disturbed and uncomfortable."
Paul Farmer Quotes
Signs of the Times: Cool, poetic blog.
Paul Farmer - Wikiquote: I need to contribute more quotes here.
ITGSWiki
The Worlds Lightest Alcohols Stove
Ultralight hiking : Trangia Stoves!
Water Purifiers and Micro Water Filters: Seagull IV, Nature Pure, First Need - General Ecology Inc.
YouTube - HiperFlow Part ONE
MBD Store: MiniBull Design of mostly alcohol stoves. Interesting videos.
FurTech Feedback: GoLite Jam 2 Review: "One concern is that the bladder tube ports don't look very weather resistant and I intend to use a piece of sticky tape to seal them." My thoughts, too.
GoLite Jam 2 Ultra-Lite Backpack - Review
Melody Petersen - Our Daily Meds - Bill Moyers Journal | PBS: Very informative interview of author Melody Petersen on her book Our Daily Meds.
Plavix Clopidogrel Research Review
Heligoland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Helgoland (Germany)
World. Photos. » Stopped time - part 5
TED | Talks | Mark Bittman: What's wrong with what we eat (video): Nice talk why we need to eat good food...for ourselves and our planet.

20 Useful Tools to Make Web Development More Efficient | Six Revisions
California - Parks & Gardens: One of my pictures used in this guide (with permission). This boring one, too.

Photo by Brent Zupp :)

Effects of Carbs and Sugars on Heart Disease - Research Review: My stab at collecting research about the impact of carbs on heart disease.
www.hikingforums.net
Gossamer Gear : Backpacks : Mariposa™ Ultralight Backpack
GoLite Dealer Locator: (925) 875-1115
ChemTeach
The Cause of (and Cure for) My Obesity - by Shane Ellison
FDA Will Not Tell Parents to Avoid BPA Baby Bottles - Polycarbonate Plastic Bottles and Bisphenol A Risks - thedailygreen.com: The controversy over the safety of the chemical bisphenol A continues, as the U.S. FDA issues a statement saying that the agency sees no reason to tell consumers to stop using products that contain it, Reuters reports. This includes polycarbonate baby bottles, water bottles and more (which should be labeled with the #7 recycling code).
Jay Leno's Garage - 2008 Tesla Roadster: Cool intro and test of Tesla motors first production model by Jay Leno. I think he liked it.
Bayer pulls Trasylol supplies after study | Deals | Regulatory News | Reuters: "Bayer AG is removing remaining supplies of its heart-surgery drug Trasylol from the U.S. market after a long-awaited study found it raised the risk of death compared to two alternatives, U.S. regulators said on Wednesday....The announcement followed publication earlier on Wednesday of a Canadian study by the New England Journal of Medicine that showed patients given Trasylol had a more than 50 percent higher death rate than patients who got other, cheaper drugs."

It pisses me off that, more-often-than-not, we are unwitting test subjects for drugs already on the market. Statins, the ubiquitous cholesterol lower drugs, are a good case. There are no long-term animal or human studies of the drugs, so those taking statins are de facto long-term test subjects.

Add this assertion to the mix: According the Gary Taubes (Good Calories, Bad Calories), when drug companies fund scientific studies, they own the data and results from those studies. And if those results are negative, the drug company can legally choose to refuse to disclose the negative results. That is not science.
Player Bio: Allison Stokke :: Outdoor Track: Here is a case where one photo created a legend...of sorts. After this photo of then high school pole vaulter Allison Stokke hit the Internet, her life changed in a big way. Not all positive of course, but on the good side, she's now competing for the Cal State Berkeley track team.

Fire!

Google Doctype - Google Code
Gametrailers.com - Mirror: Looks like really cool game.
Watson Crick Nature: The famous DNA double helix paper by Watson and Crick. One page, and it changed the course of biology.
Add Gadget to Your Webpage
MIT OpenCourseWare | Biology | 7.012 Introduction to Biology, Fall 2004 | Video Lectures
Universities with the Best Free Online Courses -- Education-Portal.com
How To Set Up A Facebook RSS Feed Reader Application For Your Blog | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
Vestergaard Frandsen : LifeStraw
How T Cell's Machinery Dials Down Autoimmunity
Getting Started with awk
Print "Gazeta Mercantil: Dollar"

Colorization Using Optimization
Patriot Act: 1776 and 2006

Capitalism explained (comic)

Childish superstition: Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear | Science | The Guardian: "The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this." - Albert Einstein
DNA scare over drink additives : thewest.com.au: "Research from Britain showed the preservative 211, known as sodium benzoate, could switch off vital parts of DNA, seriously damaging cells."
What's the difference between a human and a fruit fly?: "The new research, published today (13 May 2008) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, shows that humans have approximately 10 times more protein interactions than the simple fruit fly, and 20 times as many as simple, single-cell yeast organisms....This contradicts comparisons between the numbers of genes in different organisms, which yield surprising results: humans have approximately 24,000 genes, but fruit flies are not far behind, with approximately 14,000 genes."
Real World Haskell: Guide to programming language called Haskell.
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, Brain Supplements, ADD, ADHD, Depression, Books, DVDs, CDs, Mindworks Press, Amen Clinics
Why Emotional Memories Of Traumatic Life Events Are So Persistent: "Emotional memories of traumatic life events such as accidents, war experiences or serious illnesses are stored in a particularly robust way by the brain. This renders effective treatment very difficult."
Rats feel peer pressure too - life - 11 May 2008 - New Scientist: "It's not just humans who succumb to peer pressure - rats do too. Brown rats have a tendency to disregard personal experiences and copy the behaviour of their peers. What's more, the urge to conform appears to be so strong that they will choose to eat food they know to be unpalatable when interacting with other rats that have done the same."
Discovery News : Discovery Channel: "Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest -- dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain."
Landing Sites on the Moon - TIME

Craig (of the List) Looks Beyond the Web - New York Times
Celebrity Imperfections Exposed | GossipNewz.com: Fascinating illustration of how celebrity images are photoshopped.

Busted! What Should I Do Now?
Bay Area Hikes
Target: Women...Yogurt Edition // Current
Bigg Butt Chair

Porcupine Vs. Two Dogs | Offbeat Earth: This is sad...and painful...I get the point.
Tax Rebates Now Arriving - H&R Block Digits
LookupAnyone.com - People Directory - Brent Zupp
ZeldaInformer // www.zeldainformer.com // Less fat than Zelda Universe, and tastes better too!
Exercise Information - Ask Personal Trainers - Best Exercises Nutrition Diet Fitness Information & Advice: Click on body part and exercises presented.
That's a nice plate of sushi--wait a minute!!!

Works of Christopher Gilbert
SonnyRadio.com :: Veg Art: Very clever creations.
YouTube - Gotcha! Hillary Clinton Rehearsing Hand Gestures!: Spot-on voice impersonation of Hillary, and she looks a little like her, too.

After the boomers, meet the children dubbed 'baby losers': "Across Spain, France and Italy, young middle-class professionals with good degrees and diplomas are facing a lifetime on low salaries with unrewarding jobs, forever poorer than their parents. Investigation by Graham Keeley in Barcelona, Jason Burke in Paris and Tom Kington in Rome."
I Am Evolution : NPR
Understanding Molecular Cell Biology
Viginity depends on college major

:Multimedia Production Site:: Biovisions at Harvard. Absolutely profound and educational animation of a handful of cellular processes by John Liebler (and team?). Amazing stuff. "Bio visions" is right.
Mission Peak Regional Preserve - East Bay Regional Park
Preventive Cardiology - Stanford Preventive Cardiology Clinic, Stanford Preventive Cardiology Clinic - Stanford Hospital & Clinics - Stanford University Medical Center: "The Stanford Preventive Cardiology Clinic (PCC) is designed for people who are concerned about their hearts, whether they already have symptoms of heart disease or they want to prevent future cardiac events."
2BrightSparks | Downloads: Free version at bottom of page.
Merrell Moab Ventilator - Lightweight Hiking Boots
Social Bookmarking Sites Which Don't Use NoFollow : Bookmarks and Search Engines
Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS: Excellent essay by Moyers on the return of Rev. Wright. Quite a sane, compassionate analysis.
Irony mark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Rarely used punctuation mark.
Soldiers going to war

Screwed: World's Most Evil Worm Invades Yemen : Environmental News Blog | Environmental Graffiti

Screw Worm Larvae
Image by the US department of agriculture.

"Electricity" Misconceptions Spread By Textbooks
Platypus DNA determined -- -- chicagotribune.com: Yet in its wackiness, Wilson said, the platypus genome offers an unprecedented glimpse of how evolution made its first stabs at producing mammals. It tells the tale of how early mammals learned to nurse their young; how they matched poisonous snakes at their own venomous game; and how they struggled to build a system of fertilization and gestation that would eventually, through relatives that took a different tack, give rise to the first human beings.

"As we learn more about things like platypuses," Wilson said, "we also learn more about ourselves and where we came from and how we work."
Code on the Road: Laid off? The one thing you absolutely need to do on the first day
txt2re: headache relief for programmers :: regular expression generator
Each Grain of Sand a Tiny Work of Art | Earth Science | DISCOVER Magazine: Gorgeous!
ABC News: Animal Kingdom's Odd Couples

National Geographic Channel strikes again...mind blowing!
Hillary is 404

Dark Roasted Blend: Shipwrecks & Sea Disasters
2472927005_901dd036ec.jpg (JPEG Image, 387x500 pixels): Another reason to not snort coke.

Embedded video - Snotr: Tim Nolan's amazing feats.
CCL - Alb - Book Catalog
PmWiki | PITS / 00756
PmWiki | Cookbook / WikiForms
5 Sources for Free Computer Technology Education Online -- Education-Portal.com
Sex In Christ: A Proposal For A Christian Pornography | Word And Verse: Jeez...uh...I mean--Ah, nuts!
Sexuality According to the Word of God: Oh...My...God!
Masters of Photography: Margaret Bourke-White: Margaret Bourke-White, Bread Line during the Louisville flood, Kentucky, 1937

A Comparison of U.S. Home Prices
Wikipedia is Accurate (citation needed) - Teeshirt: But the concept is so beautiful, you don't really give a damn!

Arts & Living: Comics (washingtonpost.com): D-Oh!

YouTube - THE EMPIRE STRIKES BARACK: I thought this was clever.

Welcome! | PIH Model Online
Partners In Health - Making a Difference - Paul Farmer
60 Minutes to watch... and a lifetime to act: Watched this piece on 60 inutes and was so impressed with Paul Farmer and the organization he co-founded Partners in Health (PIH). The stories literally moved me to tears--I sent a donation right after the segment. Farmer is a smart determined guy who is making health care available in some really troubled parts of the world like Haiti and Rowanda. His approach is collaborative--he doesn't want these places to be totally dependent on foreign workers, so he's training natives to take care of their own people. He's also being smart about getting drugs to people in need at lower costs by negotiating with manufacturers to produce lower cost generics. He's treating people with AIDS in these countries, drug resistant TB. As he put it, the health care PIH can provide is better than some receive in the U.S. Indeed, some U.S. health agencies are using PIH as a model for inexpensive health care delivery. Tremendous impact. The dedication he has is obvious.
Charity Navigator - America's Largest Charity Evaluator | Home
Team Heart's Mission to Rwanda
Partners In Health (PIH), Health Care for the Poor
Charity Navigator Rating - Partners In Health: Excellent rating for PIH.
Fuck Them by Pete Nicely: "The summer after I graduated college I decided I needed to quickly move from the seaside of paradise of Santa Barbara (sometimes called 'the Vagina of the west coast') back to Los Angeles (obviously 'the asshole of the west coast') to begin what I thought would be my life."
Think Positive, and You Will Get Smarter: "Learning new things actually strengthens your brain -- especially when you believe you can learn new things. It's a virtuous circle: When you think you're getting smarter, you study harder, making more nerve-cell connections, which in turn makes you ... smarter. This effect shows up consistently among experimental subjects, from seventh graders to college students to businesspeople."
Natural Building Colloquium: Durable home for under $1,000?
Wired.com Readers' Most-Wanted Rare Gadgets: Left: Smallest Mechanical Pocket Calculator - "Designed by an Austrian prisoner (Curt Herzstark) in KZ Buchenwald during World War II, it remains the smallest pure mechanical calculating device on Earth. Its more than 700 pieces are all made out of metal, nearly all types of calculations are possible: Enter the number, turn the crank, and out comes the result."

Kirainet.com - A geek in Japan — The least religious countries

Hive Five: Best Text Editors
Wright's theology not "new or radical" | Salon
"A Cartoon" by Mr. Fish (Harper's Magazine)

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Omgili - Find out what people are saying
(gs) MySQL 3.23 to 4.1 breaks table collation
There's Been An Explosion Of Attention On Gary Taubes, 'Good Calories, Bad Calories'

Click for larger view

SchoolNotes.com - Notes Page
Warren's school
Tim O'Reilly - 7 Principles of Web 2.0

The Web as a platform
Harnessing collective intelligence
Data is the next �Intel inside�
The end of the software release cycle
Lightweight programming models
Software above the level of a single device
Rich user experiences

Six Things in Expelled That Ben Stein Doesn't Want You to Know...: Scientific American
Is Wireless Power Closer Than We Think? : CleanTechnica
Dumbest Idea Ever Used as Pensions Plug Deficits - Bloomberg.com: To cover state pension fund obligations that they don't have the money to pay for, states are issuing bonds. Other choice is taxes. Still, why aren't the pensions sufficiently funded to cover obligations. Were the funds mismanaged?
The Big Picture | Inflation Index Bonds Now Paying 0%: "The earnings rate combines a 0.00% fixed rate of return with the 4.84% annualized rate of inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers (CPI-U). The fixed rate applies for the 30-year life of I bonds purchased during this six-month period."

So the interest rate paid for I-bond or inflation adjusted bonds are a combination of two rates, a fixed rate plus an inflation rate. With inflation high, the U.S. government is offering an inflation rate of 4.84% to be added to a fixed rate of 0%. Fixed rate of 0%!

The fixed rate of 0% applies for the 30 year life of the bond. Jeez!
schipol_fly.jpg (image)

Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails: This surprises me, with all the attention garnered by ROR.
The Meaning of Life: THE difference between men and women?

reddit.com: Why Fat People Always Feel Hungry
Grade Retention: The Great Debate - SchwabLearning.org
scripts: useful and otherwise - No404s
Scientists find a quicker way to make antibodies | Reuters: "A new process to extract and copy the essential elements of cells that make human antibodies has provided a shortcut to making targeted, infection-fighting proteins known as monoclonal antibodies, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday....The process allowed them to make influenza-specific antibodies in as little as a month, and they said the discovery could lead new treatments for other infectious diseases such as hepatitis C, pneumococcal pneumonia or anthrax."
PC World - Business Center: HP Researchers Build Intelligent Memory: "Researchers at Hewlett-Packard have developed a working unit of a memory circuit that has existed in theory for 37 years, which could ultimately replace RAM and make computers more intelligent by tracking data it has retained."

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