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"the suggestion that pharmaceutical companies make vaccines hoping to pocket huge profits is ludicrous to Offit. Vaccines, after all, are given once or twice or three times in a lifetime. Diabetes drugs, neurological drugs, Lipitor, Viagra, even Rogaine — stuff that a large number of people use every day — that’s where the money is.... In 2008, Merck’s revenue from RotaTeq was $665 million. Meanwhile, a blockbuster drug like Pfizer’s Lipitor is a $12 billion-a-year business."

I'd be ok with Yahoo mail then? :) - Ian May

No, it's not credibility, it's marketing. You're selling your brand, and a domain provides many ways to help reinforce it. - LogEx

What'd I miss? Or is this about that lovely AoA thanksgiving "cartoon"? - Erika Sevetson

Yeah. - David Rothman (☤)

People who make medical decisions for their kids in contradiction of the best available medical evidence make me angry. Also: sending death threats to people like Offit pisses me off. - David Rothman (☤)

;) - Paul Buchheit

very punny. - winterismute

"At a meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an anti-vaccine protester emerged from a crowd of people holding signs that featured Offit’s face emblazoned with the word terrorist and grabbed the unsuspecting, 6-foot-tall physician by the jacket." - edythe from Bookmarklet

this is a very, very good article in this month's Wired. - edythe

"“I don’t think he wanted to hurt me,” Offit recalls. “He was just excited to be close to the personification of such evil.” Still, whenever Offit gets a letter with an unfamiliar return address, he holds the envelope at arm’s length before gingerly tearing it open. “I think about it,” he admits. “Anthrax.” So what has this award-winning 58-year-old scientist done to elicit such venom?... more... - edythe

tavşan mı havuçtan, havuç mu tavşandan? - GokceGoksel

Tavşanlar neden gözlük takmaz? - Sinan AYHAN

"The 20th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray and DVD of Say Anything came out yesterday, and to mark the occasion, numerous men with lots of free time dressed up in trench coats and hoisted boomboxes above their heads and marched throughout New York City serenading people with the strains of Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes," and a cover version of the same song by The Lloyd Dobler Effect." - LogEx from Bookmarklet

"Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. on Tuesday agreed to buy Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., making a $34 billion bet on the future of the U.S. economy." - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from Bookmarklet

"It's here! Fox has finally debuted the epic 3 ½ minute trailer for James Cameron's Avatar in glorious high def today on Yahoo. This is the trailer we've been waiting for, the one that finally shows that there's more to Avatar than just giant blue Na'vi aliens, that it's a story about love and survival and the importance of life. And it looks absolutely incredible. I think this could be one of the best trailers of the entire year, it's truly epic, and truly exciting. Many of you may have seen this trailer in theaters over the weekend, but now is your chance to voice your opinion and see it again. Without further ado, watch the new trailer below!" - Amani from Bookmarklet

I got to see the video game in person this week too. Looked like a bland FPS. Wonder if the non-interactive version will be any better ;) - alphaxion

Didn't they just fix this bridge? - Andrew Leyden

Actually, there's no traffic at all on the bridge. - Glen Mistletoe from iPhone

çekmeceli merdivenler dahiyane ^^ - mayamisa

artık merdivenlere oturur bütün gün kalkmazsın cemilecim :))) - Hande Ünver

"Gay Wilkinson enjoys blowing anvils more than 100 feet in the air. So much so that is a world champion at the activity." (via http://www.boingboing.net/2009...) - Gary Burd from Bookmarklet

Wasn't there something like this in the movie "Sweet Home Alabama" with Reese Witherspoon? My daughter rented the DVD and I watched it with her. One of the characters had an eccentric grandfather who was always blasting something into the air... I don't think it was anvils, but something similarly "thud-worthy." Hilarious! - Mark Jepsen

They're "incredible" because they've finally caught up with the rest of the Intel-based computer world? I don't see much incredibleness in this announcement. - Kenton

+1 Kenton. I've been saying this for a while, now. When I'm able to order a Macbook Pro with a quad-core processor, 8 gigs of RAM and a 1-gig dedicated video card, then I'll be impressed that Mac is finally providing what I've been able to get in my Windows-based laptop for over a year. - Curtiss Grymala

just display nicer.The hardware specs r mediocre @ best.1can build a hackintosh for less, more powerful & performs better.WHY THE HYPE I DON'T get. - Baba

Super mouse with trackpad on top. Maybe a new keyboard that supports gestures too. - Cristo

We built WebTV into an RCA TV once, called eTV. I thought it was a terrible idea then. The only advantage you get is the remote only needs to control one device (assuming there's not a separate cable box), but the lack of ability to upgrade one component without the other is a huge minus for me. - Cristo

Woohoo!!! So glad I bought at $53! - ha3rvey (needs soup)

Dang. Talk about an after-hours rally. 203 now. - Andrew Leyden

Leo, that is the coolest. I like this. GPS coordinates following you. - Bob Thomas

If you get lost, follow the Beatles' advice: Turn left at Greenland. - Andrew Leyden

I've heard you can just add a calendar named "Arsenal", and Google figures it out for you(?) Haven't tried it myself since I used the "official" site calendar - Uche Ogbuji

omg - polou/indigo_bow

LOL http://chakopaul.com "It should be noted that despite claims made, the Citadel has only ordered the deaths of a dozen or so individual males who entered the city without proper authority. Either you are known to our people or your life is forefit." - Gus

Love this post as mush as I would love to know where is there a village full of hot lesbians... - Eric Gagne

Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff–like callousness by the world’s fisheries. Beginning in the 1950s, as their operations became increasingly industrialized--with onboard refrigeration, acoustic fish-finders, and, later, GPS--they first depleted stocks of cod, hake, flounder, sole, and halibut in the Northern Hemisphere. As those stocks disappeared, the fleets moved southward, to the coasts of developing nations and, ultimately, all the way to the shores of Antarctica, searching for icefishes and rockcods, and, more recently, for small, shrimplike krill. As the bounty of coastal waters dropped, fisheries moved further offshore, to deeper waters. And, finally, as the larger fish began to disappear, boats began to catch fish that were smaller and uglier--fish never before considered fit for human consumption. Many were renamed so that they could be marketed: The suspicious slimehead became the delicious orange roughy, while the worrisome... more... - Eric Logan from Bookmarklet

Calamari. I mean, who the F thought 'hey, look at that thing, it'll taste great'. - Andrew Leyden