tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76005992024-03-23T11:44:53.816-07:00Slow BlogLike good wine and fallow fields, this blog does not get daily attention.Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122226608746510574noreply@blogger.comBlogger139125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600599.post-85036620336905021642014-01-20T10:20:00.000-08:002014-01-20T10:20:12.044-08:00Backup and Storage<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">iCloud is quite expensive and frankly, its workflow baffles me. I don't trust any of the synchronization steps Apple takes with iCloud, iTunes, etc. I know a few people who are quite comfortable with these aspects of the Apple offering however. Best case: the cost is about 4x Google Drive and search is much less powerful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Most companies I've worked with recently make a lot of use of DropBox. I don't use it because its pricing policy combined with its work flow make it very easy to run up big bills. Best case: the cost is 2x Google Drive and search is less powerful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyone with piles of raw photos or similar volume has a tough choice: A cloud based system like Google Drive with the problems presented by remote storage or a local high density drive at about $70 per TB. If I needed that kind of volume (100g+) I'd use both for redundancy. (I think 18 mp images require about 24.5 mp each. So, Google Drive offers about 612244 images for free.) My guess is that is enough for a journalist or programmer but not for a photographer.</span></div>
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<li>Local hard drive for photos; I don't take a lot, but I really should move them all from cameras to one place and since most of my photos are from a phone with 4-5 mp, Google Drive is probably fine. But, I need to consolidate. Until I do obsessing about the technology used for storage is a waste of time.</li>
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Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122226608746510574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600599.post-76379044323145126662011-01-22T15:50:00.000-08:002011-01-22T15:50:41.094-08:00kitesurfing plans 2011Don't yet know when I'll have time, but I'm looking at late winter in the Philippines or early summer at the Black Sea.<br />
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Finding the <a href="http://www.kitesurfatlas.com/">KitesurfingAtlas</a> helped with both locations in the Black Sea and the Philippines.<br />
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Philippines: Boracay is the popular place & it looks good, but <a href="http://www.visitpuertoprincesa.com/content/view/49/136/">Puerto Princesa</a> looks less crowded and has a kite school, <a href="http://www.kiteclubpalawan.com/">Kite Club Palawan</a>. Looks like the best place to stay is <a href="http://www.microtel-palawan.com/">Microtel</a> which has OK looking rooms with internet access. At least <a href="http://daneast.dk/awg/?p=304">one review</a> is favorable.Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122226608746510574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600599.post-85220385009925979082010-09-08T23:42:00.000-07:002010-09-08T23:42:26.532-07:00Jonas Galvez: Living Efficiently<a href="http://jonasgalvez.com.br/Writings/Living-Efficiently.html">Jonas Galvez: Living Efficiently</a>: "Every once in a while, someone posts an article on getting things done and managing your time on Hacker News. I know because I keep track of them. I immediately think, 'recovering procrastinator'.<br /><br />The reason why I think this happens is that one of first things an IT geek does when he puts order to his life and starts getting things done is... getting his personal website done and writing about how he did it. That is true for me also. I am just recovering from an insanely unproductive year, following a painful job loss coincidentally amidst but not really related to the housing bubble.Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122226608746510574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600599.post-51004433624947134732010-09-06T12:31:00.000-07:002010-09-06T12:31:16.741-07:00Solar System Scale Model<a href="http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/solarsystem/">Solar System Scale Model</a>: "This page shows a scale model of the solar system, shrunken down to the point where the Sun, normally more than eight hundred thousand milesBlainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122226608746510574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600599.post-41301860347772573772010-08-02T17:30:00.000-07:002010-08-02T17:30:52.740-07:00Bike-Powered Mobile Coffee Shop<a href="http://kickstandbrooklyn.com/">Kickstand Coffee </a><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicbLPbtHGmkSxvtkjhjaOj_Z2zdcsKAE1P8EVaev2seu8kzZYJCN76n4H9WgUooWDzHCI91Ocppdf2b-US6UNUeB4tD0_hpUoGe79K49KByaMcpi8hKSclsL_0mwQfNL0NTx-RjQ/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-08-02+at+5.22.57+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicbLPbtHGmkSxvtkjhjaOj_Z2zdcsKAE1P8EVaev2seu8kzZYJCN76n4H9WgUooWDzHCI91Ocppdf2b-US6UNUeB4tD0_hpUoGe79K49KByaMcpi8hKSclsL_0mwQfNL0NTx-RjQ/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-08-02+at+5.22.57+PM.png" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why can't we do this in Nor*Cal? Don't the foodies out here know how to<span id="goog_1043388049"></span><span id="goog_1043388050"></span> peddle a bike?</span></div><br />
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<div>It seems clear that thoughtful people are faced with nearly impossible choices on food. As I indicated, I think the organic/non-organic dichotomy is interesting, but far from the most important.</div><div><br />
</div><div>For me a more interesting idea is: <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;">“You are not what you eat; you are what you do with what you eat.", a notion Lustig at UCSF expands upon in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM" style="color: #7799bb;" target="_blank">video</a> and <a href="http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.med.59.103106.105628?cookieSet=1&journalCode=med" style="color: #7799bb;" target="_blank">text</a>. [Here is a <a href="http://www.ucsf.edu/science-cafe/articles/obesity-and-metabolic-syndrome-driven-by-fructose-sugar-diet/" style="color: #7799bb;" target="_blank">quick summary</a>. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">]</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"> I'm always telling myself: "It should be possible to eat great food cheaply." <a href="http://consumerist.com/2010/03/why-a-salad-costs-more-than-a-big-mac.html" style="color: #7799bb;" target="_blank">This chart</a> suggests why I'm wrong.</span></div>Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122226608746510574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600599.post-41052612422913048522010-02-18T16:55:00.000-08:002010-02-18T16:55:44.735-08:00Wall Street's Bailout Hustle : Rolling Stone<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/32255149/wall_streets_bailout_hustle/print">Wall Street's Bailout Hustle : Rolling Stone</a><br /><br /><blockquote><h1> Wall Street's Bailout Hustle </h1> <h2> Goldman Sachs and other big banks aren't just pocketing the trillions we gave them to rescue the economy - they're re-creating the conditions for another crash </h2> <p class="author">MATT TAIBBI</p> <p class="dateposted">Posted Feb 17, 2010 5:57 AM</p> <br /><span style="font-size:1px;">O</span>n January 21st, Lloyd Blankfein left a peculiar voicemail message on the work phones of his employees at Goldman Sachs. Fast becoming America's pre-eminent Marvel Comics supervillain, the CEO used the call to deploy his secret weapon: a pair of giant, nuclear-powered testicles. In his message, Blankfein addressed his plan to pay out gigantic year-end bonuses amid widespread controversy over Goldman's role in precipitating the global financial...</blockquote>Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122226608746510574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600599.post-84524385501420429182010-01-21T16:23:00.000-08:002010-01-21T16:23:31.466-08:00Guardian Launches Search Engine for Government Data<a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/guardian_launches_search_engine_for_government_dat.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29&utm_content=Google+Reader">Guardian Launches Search Engine for Government Data</a><br /><blockquote>The <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jan/07/government-data-world">UK Guardian</a>, ostensibly a newspaper but a major proponent for opening data held by governments to use by outside software developers, has launched some software of its own: a search engine that unearths datasets and pathways to data sets provided by governments around the world. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world-government-data">World Government Data Search</a> is now live. <p>Yesterday the UK government released its new data site, <a href="http://data.gov.uk/">data.gov.uk</a>, to rave reviews (<a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/uk_launches_open_data_site_puts_datagov_to_shame.php">including ours</a>). The new Guardian search engine searches across the UK, US, New Zealand and Australian governments' data sites. The company also offered up <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/gallery/2010/jan/20/government-data-applications-vizualisations">a gallery of the 10 best visualizations and mash-ups</a> built on top of government data like this.</p></blockquote><p></p>Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122226608746510574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600599.post-3529326626277832292010-01-20T02:14:00.000-08:002010-01-20T02:14:56.056-08:00Tibetan Technology Center<a href="http://www.tibtec.org/?q=node/59">AirJaldi Mesh Router | Tibetan Technology Center</a><br /><br />The router for their wireless mesh network...<br /><blockquote><p>Air Jaldi Mesh Router (AJMR) Technical Description</p> <p>The AJMR is built around a SBCs (Single Board Computers) which we extract from low-cost popular WiFi devices such as Linksys’s WRT54G.<br />While most of the SBCs we use, utilizes a 200mhz MIPS CPU with 4Mb of Flash memory and 16Mb of RAM, we also use much lower-scale units and recently also more powerful units. We find the Netgear WGT634U, to be most suitable for our application and we are happy to see a constant decrease in it’s price. This small SBC draws less power then its bulkier cousins, features a MiniPCI slot for radio card, hosting a great Atheros b/g radio, double the flash and ram of the WRT54G and maybe the greatest feature of all is a USB2.0 port.<br />Most of our current development is based around this unit....</p></blockquote>Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122226608746510574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600599.post-29473564994074531202010-01-19T09:15:00.000-08:002010-01-19T09:15:19.910-08:00Google the location of a plugin in Eclipse cvs » Eclipse Papercuts<a href="http://www.vogella.de/blog/2010/01/19/google-cvs-plugin-location/">Google the location of a plugin in Eclipse cvs » Eclipse Papercuts</a><a href="http://www.vogella.de/blog/2010/01/19/google-cvs-plugin-location/#commentsection">No Comments <span class="commentmeta"> </span></a><div class="commentinfo"> </div> <div class="postinfo"></div><blockquote><div class="postinfo">by <a href="http://www.vogella.de/blog/author/vogella/" title="Posts by Lars Vogel">Lars Vogel</a> / January 19th, 2010</div> <div class="right"><!-- Adsense Code ( a nice 300x200 works well) --> <!-- end of Adsense Code --> </div> <!--S-ButtonZ 1.1.5 Start--><div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 10px; float: right; width: 42px; padding-right: 10px;"> <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- var dzone_url = "http://www.vogella.de/blog/2010/01/19/google-cvs-plugin-location/"; var dzone_title = "Google the location of a plugin in Eclipse cvs"; var dzone_style = "1"; var dzone_blurb = ""; //--> </script> <script language="javascript" src="http://widgets.dzone.com/widgets/zoneit.js"></script><iframe src="http://widgets.dzone.com/links/widgets/zoneit.html?t=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vogella.de%2Fblog%2F2010%2F01%2F19%2Fgoogle-cvs-plugin-location%2F&title=Google%20the%20location%20of%20a%20plugin%20in%20Eclipse%20cvs" frameborder="0" height="70" scrolling="no" width="50"></iframe></div><!--S-ButtonZ 1.1.5 End--><p>If you want to find the cvs location of a certain <a href="http://www.vogella.de/articles/EclipsePlugIn/article.html">Eclipse plugin</a> you can use Google site search using site:”dev.eclipse.org/viewsvn”.</p> <p>For example if you are looking for the cvs location of the plugin “org.eclipse.e4.tools.ui” you can run the following Google search:</p> <p>“org.eclipse.e4.tools.ui” site:dev.eclipse.org/viewsvn</p> <p>Thanks to <a href="http://remus-software.org/" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/remus-software.org');">Tom Seidel</a> for sharing this tip via twitter. </p></blockquote>Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122226608746510574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600599.post-48407029322684702092010-01-18T22:24:00.000-08:002010-01-18T22:24:17.862-08:00Redis in Practice: Who’s Online?<a href="http://www.lukemelia.com/blog/archives/2010/01/17/redis-in-practice-whos-online/">Luke Melia » Redis in Practice: Who’s Online?</a><br /> <p><a href="http://code.google.com/p/redis/"></a></p><blockquote><a href="http://code.google.com/p/redis/">Redis</a> is one of the most interesting of the NOSQL solutions. It goes beyond a simple key-value store in that keys’ values can be simple strings, but can also be data structures. Redis currently supports lists, sets and sorted sets. This post provides an example of using Redis’ Set data type in a recent feature I implemented for Weplay.</blockquote><p></p>Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122226608746510574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600599.post-76205037867074030212010-01-18T15:36:00.000-08:002010-01-18T15:36:26.357-08:00Catch of the Freezer<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/opinion/09scholz.html?_r=1">Op-Ed Contributors - Catch of the Freezer - NYTimes.com</a><br /><br /> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">function getSharePasskey() { return 'ex=1418101200&en=c9f45e863c819a52&ei=5124';}</script> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript"> function getShareURL() { return encodeURIComponent('http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/opinion/09scholz.html'); } function getShareHeadline() { return encodeURIComponent('Catch of the Freezer'); } function getShareDescription() { return encodeURIComponent('When it comes to fighting global warming, the questions of organic salmon versus conventional and wild versus farmed matter less than whether the fish is frozen or fresh.'); } function getShareKeywords() { return encodeURIComponent('Food,Salmon,Sustainable Living'); } function getShareSection() { return encodeURIComponent('opinion'); } function getShareSectionDisplay() { return encodeURIComponent('Op-Ed Contributors'); } function getShareSubSection() { return encodeURIComponent(''); } function getShareByline() { return encodeURIComponent('By ASTRID SCHOLZ, ULF SONESSON and PETER TYEDMERS'); } function getSharePubdate() { return encodeURIComponent('December 9, 2009'); </script> <nyt_byline version="1.0" type=" "> <div class="byline"></div></nyt_byline><blockquote><nyt_byline version="1.0" type=" "><div class="byline">By ASTRID SCHOLZ, ULF SONESSON and PETER TYEDMERS</div> </nyt_byline> <div class="timestamp">Published: December 8, 2009 </div> <!--NYT_INLINE_IMAGE_POSITION1 --> <p>GO local. Eat organic. Buy fresh. Those food mantras continue to make waves among environmentally conscious consumers. But — as is often the case in these climate-conscious times — if the motivation is to truly make our diets more earth-friendly, then perhaps we need a new mantra: Buy frozen.</p></blockquote><p></p>Please say it is not so!Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122226608746510574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600599.post-10530617595126335432009-12-10T15:44:00.000-08:002009-12-10T15:44:36.937-08:00aziza | san francisco : foodGreat food and even great <span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:100%;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">desserts by melissa chou</span></strong></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.aziza-sf.com/food.html">aziza | san francisco : food</a>: "aziza showcases the abundance of organic produce & free-range meat, game & poultry from local farms & ranches that practice ecologically sound, slow & sustainable agriculture"Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122226608746510574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600599.post-33318270684487456662009-11-11T23:24:00.000-08:002009-11-11T23:24:14.578-08:00PineappleLuv: Bodysurfing<a href="http://pineappleluv.blogspot.com/2009/07/bodysurfing.html">PineappleLuv: Bodysurfing</a>: "Bodysurfing<br />The other day I was thinking a lot about bodysurfing and how pure that is. I think it was in the film Archy that a surfer in San Clemente was saying that a few generations ago, kids started out learning how to bodysurf before learning to surf. That sounded kind of cool to me. My dad grew up bodysurfing in Long Beach and taught my brother and I how to do it when we were kids. It's a fond memory."Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122226608746510574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600599.post-74588043204192763772009-09-30T10:22:00.000-07:002009-09-30T10:22:18.138-07:00Why we learn more from our successes than our failures<a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/successes-0729.html">Why we learn more from our successes than our failures</a>: "If you've ever felt doomed to repeat your mistakes, researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory may have explained why: Brain cells may only learn from experience when we do something right and not when we fail.<br /><br />In the July 30 issue of the journal Neuron, Earl K. Miller, the Picower Professor of Neuroscience, and MIT colleagues Mark Histed and Anitha Pasupathy have created for the first time a unique snapshot of the learning process that shows how single cells change their responses in real time as a result of information about what is the right action and what is the wrong one."Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122226608746510574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600599.post-55270859725791078962009-09-29T23:39:00.000-07:002009-09-29T23:39:07.513-07:00The 'Web Squared' Era - Forbes.com<a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/23/web-squared-oreilly-technology-breakthroughs-web2point0.html">The 'Web Squared' Era - Forbes.com</a>: "O'Reilly Insights<br />The 'Web Squared' Era<br />Tim O'Reilly and Jennifer Pahlka, 09.24.09, 12:19 PM EDT<br />The Web is gaining ears, eyes and other senses through smart sensors. This will be big."Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122226608746510574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600599.post-12892675024164010682009-08-15T10:52:00.000-07:002009-08-15T10:55:45.955-07:00Scala:: IDEs, Java, Adoption<a href="http://fupeg.blogspot.com/2009/08/tipping-point-for-scala.html">Programming and politics: A Tipping Point for Scala</a>:<br /><blockquote>"This past week's BASE meeting was all about IDE support for Scala. You can read my notes, posted to the Scala tools mailing list. I was very surprised by this meeting. Not by the findings, if you will, as I have used all three IDEs at various times in the last few months. What I was surprised by was the feedback from the group, and the logical conclusion of this discussion: Scala is near a tipping point, but IDE support is holding it back."<br /></blockquote>A year ago I was struck by breath of interest in Scala, but the interest I saw was from people with 1) strong interest in functional languages or b) major need to scale.<br /><br />Now I'm seeing something very different. Many people, including Gossling and leads on JRuby and Groovy, are talking about it as a long term replacement for Java -- they are talking about it as a 'better java'. As I remember it, this is exactly how c++ moved into the mainstream -- not as an OO language, but as a 'better C'.<br /><br />Last week's BASE (Bay Area Scala Enthusiasts) meeting examined Scala IDEs. This surprised me. I'd assumed that IDEs would not interest Scala people anymore than they interest Ruby people. Not so.<br />I don't expect any of this to have broad impact soon, but I think that in 12-24 months, having 12 months of Scala background will be nice to have on a resume.<br /><br />As a dynamic language guy, I have been disappointed that jRuby (with good IDE support) or Clojure has not gotten more attention. However, Scala's design pays so much attention to the need for smooth integration into the Java ecosystem, that I no longer care. In other words they have designed the implementation as well as the language. Scala is much more than just a language that runs on the JVM.<br /><br />Plus, perhaps I'll be a real for sure functional programmer in a few years;-)Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122226608746510574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600599.post-64704520750358948402009-08-08T17:42:00.000-07:002009-08-08T17:42:45.611-07:00FT.com / Columnists / Lunch with the FT - Lunch with the FT: Jared Diamond<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/144fa854-82e2-11de-ab4a-00144feabdc0.html">FT.com / Columnists / Lunch with the FT - Lunch with the FT: Jared Diamond</a>: "Lunch with the FT: Jared Diamond<br /><br />By David Pilling<br /><br />Published: August 7 2009 15:22 | Last updated: August 7 2009 15:22<br /><br />Jared DiamondJared Diamond is the guru of collapse. Collapse is the title of one of the books that have made him a world-famous academic. It is a theme that captures the Zeitgeist: markets have collapsed, banks have collapsed and confidence, even in the capitalist system itself, has collapsed."Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122226608746510574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600599.post-83414775396228097492009-06-14T12:27:00.000-07:002009-06-14T12:32:44.249-07:00AP Delivering Nonprofits Journiasm<blockquote style="font-style: italic;">Four nonprofit groups devoted to investigative journalism will have their work distributed by The Associated Press, The A.P. will announce on Saturday, greatly expanding their potential audience and helping newspapers fill the gap left by their own shrinking resources.</blockquote>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/business/media/13press.html?_r=2&ref=media<br /><br />[Thanks to @timoreilly. Tim's twitter suggested that AP: [You should] still link to investigative reporting at its source to give it Googlejuice in the link econ. I'm not sure most professional journalists get 'Googlejuice'. Tim is trying to school them.]Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122226608746510574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600599.post-3768383315729685202009-05-20T02:47:00.000-07:002009-05-20T02:47:10.989-07:00Health Outcomes Driving New Hospital Design - NYTimes.com<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/health/19hosp.html?_r=1&ref=science">Health Outcomes Driving New Hospital Design - NYTimes.com</a>: "Health Outcomes Driving New Hospital Design<br /><br /><br />Article Tools Sponsored By<br />By CAROL ANN CAMPBELL<br />Published: May 18, 2009<br /><br />The curtain between two hospital beds does not stop noise from the television set, offer privacy during sensitive conversations with"Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122226608746510574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600599.post-86621580500725068072009-04-19T10:44:00.000-07:002009-04-19T10:44:18.097-07:00How We Feel Linked To Both Our Culture And How We Behave<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090414153538.htm">How We Feel Linked To Both Our Culture And How We Behave</a>: "How We Feel Linked To Both Our Culture And How We Behave<br /><br />ScienceDaily (Apr. 19, 2009) — Scientists have long been interested in the interplay of emotions and identity, and some have recently focused on cultural identity. One's heritage would seem to be especially stable and impervious to change, simply because it's been passed down generation after generation and is deeply ingrained in the collective psyche. But how deeply, exactly?"Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122226608746510574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600599.post-62218942233861742492009-04-18T08:52:00.000-07:002009-04-18T08:52:25.097-07:00Why Aneesh Chopra is a Great Choice for Federal CTO - O'Reilly Radar<a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/04/aneesh-chopra-great-federal-cto.html">Why Aneesh Chopra is a Great Choice for Federal CTO - O'Reilly Radar</a>: "Why Aneesh Chopra is a Great Choice for Federal CTO<br />by Tim O'Reilly | comments: 5<br /><br />The news has now been leaked that President Obama intends to nominate Aneesh Chopra as the nation's first Chief Technology Officer. The Federal CTO will be an assistant to the President, as well as the Associate Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He will work closely with Vivek Kundra, the recently-named Federal CIO, to develop and implement the President's ambitious technology agenda."Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122226608746510574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600599.post-20548216134527951742009-04-18T08:51:00.000-07:002009-04-18T08:51:32.898-07:00Michael Pollan on Food, Energy, Climate, and Health - O'Reilly Radar<a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/12/michael-pollan-on-food-energy.html">Michael Pollan on Food, Energy, Climate, and Health - O'Reilly Radar</a>: "Michael Pollan on Food, Energy, Climate, and Health<br />by Sara Winge | comments: 21<br /><br />In his latest column, Nicholas Kristof encourages President-Elect Obama to heed Michael Pollan's call for a radically new food policy. Pollan makes a convincing case that our current food system is a 'shadow problem.' If we're serious about working on energy independence, climate change, and health care, we have to change how we're feeding ourselves."Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122226608746510574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600599.post-34800539867028112612009-03-19T06:35:00.000-07:002009-03-19T06:36:31.527-07:00How To Get Uncle Sam To Fund Your Start-Up - Forbes.com<a href="http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/25/small-business-grant-ent-fin-cx_mf_0725governmentgrant.html">How To Get Uncle Sam To Fund Your Start-Up - Forbes.com</a>: "The two main grant categories are Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBTT) grants. Total size of that considerable kitty: about $2.2 billion."<br />[Thanks to Tim's twitter.]Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18122226608746510574noreply@blogger.com