Just in case you didn’t notice: October is national Breast Cancer Awareness month here in The States. And I (for one) think we should fight this disease in every way that we can. And what better way to do it than through the 5th Annual Boobie-Thon!? (That one is my favorite.) So, to honor the […]
PDF Online Create PDF Online free, PDF API, PDF .NET Server, Consulting (tags: pdf tools freeware) Predicting the future: it’s becoming a science via COSMOS magazine (tags: science future research essay todo)
fleep.com Awesome deep house mixes from a DJ in Japan… (tags: blog music mp3 house) The Magical Number Seven A good essay (article?) that talks about human attention spans and puts it into a scientific context; understanding this goes a long way for understanding usability principles – – especially when it comes to things like […]
Via Autoblog: Apparently some crows have learned how to use vehicular traffic as nutcrackers. And they’ve also figured out how NOT to get run over. Simply put: wow. (YouTube video after the jump.)
A. starts her first class as a professor today. Good luck baby! (Not that you need it…) I’m very proud of you and I know that your students are going to get some great education.
Slashdot seems full of hits-close-to-home posts lately: For A.: Patient Revives After 19 Years By Rewiring Brain For Dad: Bone Marrow Cells Repair Heart
Via /.: Biotech Firm Raises Furor With Rice Plan: The company also has ambitious plans to add its product to infant formula, a $10 billion-a-year market, even though the major food manufacturers have so far shown little interest in using genetically engineered ingredients. But Deeter says Ventria can win over the manufacturers and consumers by […]
On the mind/body front: Are body’s ills really all in the mind? When the woman, having experienced her fourth miscarriage, visited her physician, he gave her a surprising diagnosis: psychosomatic abortion. That is, she had lost the fetuses because of stresses in her life, particularly concerns about her religious affiliation and her husband’s unwillingness to […]
Team F_D breaks 10,000 in the F@H rankings!
Via Neil Gaiman: The 139 page PDF draft of Judge Jones’ ruling in Kitzmiller et al. vs. Dover Area School District et al. This word substitution is telling, significant, and reveals that a purposeful change of words was effected without any corresponding change in content, which directly refutes FTE’s argument that by merely disregarding the […]