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Sunday, September 19, 2004
Why blogs can be right
"How can any news organization research department hope to compete with the largest pool of subject matter experts the world has ever seen? We are a
  • totally networked
  • dynamically interactive
  • mutually vetting
congregation of legal experts, physicists and mathematicians, futurists, military experts, grammarians, historians, political analysts, linguists, geographers, economists, sociologists, doctors, philosophers, computer experts, communications and media specialists, and skilled practitioners of every discipline under the sun. We are a research department to die for."

[Via American Daughter.]

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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. --Friedrich Nietzsche


Saturday, September 11, 2004
Self-warming ECG Pads?

If you've ever had surgery or another medical procedure requiring monitoring of vital signs, you may remember the cold ECG pads which had to be applied to your skin. I've often though that it would be nifty to invent a conductive gel that, when the plastic backing is removed, heats up so the ECG pad feels warm (especially that left limb lead). This is the kind of thing one thinks of in private practice, I guess (as opposed to the the academic thoughts of academic anesthesiologists). Well, the makers of KY Jelly may have a solution. KY has a 'Warming Ultra-Gel' which 'Creates a gentle warming sensation on contact'. Make it electroconductive, slap it on an ECG pad, and you've got a winner.

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It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived. --Publilius Syrus


Tuesday, September 16, 2003
I want a refrigerator with built-in fountain drinks

You can buy refrigerators with built-in ice water dispensers. Why not tanks for fountain drinks? Why must I continue to buy liters and liters of caffeine-free Diet Coke, haul them home, recycle the bottles it came in after I've finished them, and invariably run out, have it run flat, have it not be cold, have it be a bad batch, etc.

Funny what you think about when you're on vacation.

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To-day is the pupil of yesterday. -Publilius Syrus