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Entries from May 2008

Sized to its best advantage

May 28th, 2008 No Comments

The url for the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging is:
http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/
компютри
Brings to mind one of those business cards for pro-fessional folks with all sorts of letters after the title.

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In Furtherance of the Esthetic

May 9th, 2008 No Comments

The muxtape.com source opens with this little gem:

I enjoy the minimalistic design. Hope enough music gets bought to cover all the s3 costs and inevitable law suits.
I would enjoy a more multi-upload and reconfigure type interface, but the one-song-at-a-time instills an ideal of effort and discrimination.
In conclusion, my taste is questionable, while Bobby Cupp’s is [...]

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Shriek

May 9th, 2008 No Comments

Ginsberg’s Howl can be turned into a strangled love song with some noun -> pronoun substitutions.
Original:
Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the
loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy
judger [...]

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Mannered Results

May 6th, 2008 No Comments

From a slavish recitation of Eddie Lampert’s invest prowess comes the quote:
Recently, Lampert has bought shares in Citigroup (C), Motorola (MOT), and Clear Channel Communications (CCU). His positions in these investments are worth $780 million, $16 million, and $30 million respectively.
This was all published just about one year ago, allowing us the benefit [...]

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The Universal Chain

May 5th, 2008 No Comments

The Nationals will almost certainly finish near last in the standings and attendence. One reason:
Then Jack Abramoff tried to buy off all of Washington. New lobbying laws soon followed, and now the maximum gift given to a lawmaker cannot exceed $50. Which means all the Presidential tickets – $325 for single-game ones, $335 on Saturday [...]

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Disintermediating disrepair

May 3rd, 2008 No Comments

Interesting paper at PLoS ONE. Some folks at Berkeley propose a centralized telemedicine network using cell phones:
Most medical devices have three main components: a) the data acquisition hardware which is in contact with the patient, b) the image display unit and c) the imaging processing hardware. We propose that physically separating these three units could [...]

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Reassignation

May 3rd, 2008 No Comments

It strikes me that the chorus from Sheryl Crow’s, annoyingly earwormy song, All I Wanna Do could be coerced into something slightly more accusatory and unsettling.
In the original:
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I’m not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I’m not [...]

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