Saturday, May 23, 2015

Story of our times - What happened to screen door latches?

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This is the only screen door latch design sold in our local hardware stores:   The t-shaped metal bar in the center has two prongs that j...

Crime and the enterprise

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What do Seagrams , YouTube , Uber , Elon Musk’s PayPal , 1930’s McKesson , Jobs Rip. Mix. Burn , and Las Vegas have in common? Many very su...

Fixing the iPad: Family share and iBooks

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It’s a geek consensus - the iPad is on its last legs. Mostly this is because it’s nuts to have both a single-user iPhone 6 and a single-use...

Reorganizations - did Petronius Arbiter really say that in AD 27? No.

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John Halamka is unhappy with the direction of federal health computing initiatives . He’s not alone, just about everyone outside of Madison ...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Medical research is hard - two NYT articles on Losartan for Marfan syndrome.

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In 2013 the NYT’s Gina Kolata was optimistic about using Losartan, an angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB), to treat Marfan’s syndrome  … ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Paul Theroux's 1976 visit to Santa Ana, El Salvador - repeat on 2015 Google Street View

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Paul Theroux ’s The Old Patagonian Express was published in 1979. Today it’s as much historical document as travel guide. Part of that hist...

How to (properly) use a nasal spray

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It’s spring in Minnesota, so a new allergy season. Many of us are restarting our nasal sprays - often Flonase, which just went ‘over-the-cou...
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Monday, May 11, 2015

A data lock free local file format for a concept map or mind map application

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It occurred to me, probably not for the first time, that there’s a natural local file store data lock free ‘file format’ for a concept map o...
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Sunday, May 10, 2015

Happy accident fraud - Feds move on Aetna and other health insurers with deceptive provider listings

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Happy accident frauds are emergent frauds — nobody needs to plan them. Don’t put your Disability Claims office on the fifth floor of a bui...
Monday, May 04, 2015

Alpha (the better twitter) on app.net 1 year post-death, is like this...

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Alpha (the better twitter) on app.net , 1 year post-death, is like this ( xkcd: Undocumented Feature   by Randall Munroe, used with permissi...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015

The NYT web site is becoming unreadable on my iPhone

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I subscribe to the NYT so I can go from a Feed rendered in Reeder 2.0 on my i6 to the articles rendered in mobile WedKit. I’ve gotten used t...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

Tech bubble 2015: Billion dollar acquisitions financed by the "rent" we pay MegaCorp monopolies?

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Stratchery claims retail investors are shielded from latest tech bubble because MegaCorp and Finance are buyers, not retail investors . But...
Sunday, April 05, 2015

Pre-Diabetes and the Diabetes Risk Prediction Tool

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Until recently the USPSTF did not recommend screening for diabetes in asymptomatic adults with BP of 135/80 or less. There’s now a draft rec...
Saturday, April 04, 2015

I want a Zenith CruisePad for my iPhone

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I finally realized what I want. I don’t want an iPad. I don’t want an aWatch. I want a Zenith CruisePad for my iPhone … Rather than a ...
Saturday, March 21, 2015

The world needs a global heat map of nation-specific stress levels

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I new Russia was stressed, but I didn’t know it was this bad … G.M. Exiting Russia, for the Most Part - NYTimes.com … Because of the coll...