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"A team of scientists at the Boston Children's Hospital have invented what is being considered one the greatest medical breakthroughs in recent years. They have designed a microparticle that can be injected into a person's bloodstream that can quickly oxygenate their blood. This will even work if the ability to breathe has been restricted, or even cut off entirely. This finding has the potential to save millions of lives every year. The microparticles can keep an object alive for up to 30 min after respiratory failure. This is accomplished through an injection into the patients' veins. Once injected, the microparticles can oxygenate the blood to near normal levels. This has countless potential uses as it allows life to continue when oxygen is needed but unavailable. For medical personnel, this is just enough time to avoid risking a heart attack or permanent brain injury when oxygen is restricted or cut off to patients." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

oxygum from "marine boy" made real. :-) - Piaw Na

Interesting keyboard. Nice layout (non-staggered keys, important keys rearranged, compact). Cherry brown or red but not blue. - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

I think I use too many different systems to make it worth having one that's different, but if I were typing a lot one one system, this would be rather appealing. Kinesis-like. - Amit Patel

I'd rather have a Kinesis. - Piaw Na

And it's such an unnecessary self-inflicted wound, too. It's as if they came from an alternate universe where they've /heard/ of Twitter and Facebook but never used them, then decided to come up with their own social platform. - Andrew C (✓)

They don't use Facebook/twitter. :-) - Piaw Na

Before you launch your own dogfood, you should know what the competition is offering. - Andrew C (✓) from Android

"According to the report, there has been a lack of interest in reading among Taiwanese and that interest is still declining. On average, Taiwanese read two books per year, compared with 10 books per person per year in France; 8.4 books in Japan; 10.8 books in South Korea, 9.2 books in Singapore; between 10 and 15 books in Israel; and 15 books in Russia, the report said." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

Americans read 1 book a year on average,but aren't worried. Also, reading Chinese is a pain. If I had t read Chinese, I'd read 0 books a year. :-) - Piaw Na

"Can this “beauty” of software be quantized or industrialized? Perhaps not, just as it is with other works of art, but I think there might be some common traits..." - imabonehead from Bookmarklet

"A key requirement for creating a beautiful app is a true product vision, nurtured by its creator(s), the product owner and the product team. This vision needs to engulf the whole product from day one, and can’t be expressed in a backlog or as a user-story. It’s a gut feeling and drive that has to be there, and it has to be allowed to thrive without being pushed back by processes and analysis." - imabonehead

Bleaugh. My idea of beautiful software is EMACS. Give me a swiss army knife instead of a crippled beautiful tool. The concept of "beautiful" is the worst thing that Apple has given us. Apple wants t sell you an appliance that can't be used to do anything else. I refuse to submit to that aesthetic. - Piaw Na

In RTSes I enjoy building up my city and defenses. But the multiplayer focus of most RTSes means that games are designed to be short and fast, with more offense and less defense. So I play tower defense games because they can be slower and defensive — it's no longer the kind of game RTSes are. But I'd much prefer to play an RTS that let me play defensively. - Amit Patel

FF: Revenant Wings for the DS was touchscreen based. It wasn't a build and assault type though. More tactical RTS with some resource management. Touchscreen controls I can see would be difficult for a game like SC. It would probably mostly be used for moving the camera, choosing units, selecting waypoints and targeting and flipping between tactical information screens. With construction and building units, I can see hotkeys still being king of interface control. - Arlan K.

I will not be sad to see all malls disappear from the American landscape. - Piaw Na

"Both factors deteriorated quickly during the economic crisis of 2008-09, but they've shown virtually no improvement since in spite of improved economic conditions." - well, hang on. Unemployment might be lower than 2008-09, but it's still pretty damn high, and wages have been largely stagnant. - Andrew C (✓)

A good idea. I should try some aged spam or other canned foods. :-) - Piaw Na

"As long as the spending ends up lining the right pockets, and the undeserving beneficiaries of public largess are politically connected corporations, conservatives with actual power seem to like Big Government just fine." - Piaw Na

exhibit A in why you can never trust the English majors who are journalists. - Piaw Na

This explains why Twitter's fail whale happened so frequently --- self-taught programmers. They were teaching themselves on Twitter's dime and on the back of twitter's customers. :-) - Piaw Na

I thought OKRs were one of the worst features of Google's management. I don't run my engineering org that way. Project cycles determine my planning cycles, and I provide feedback to my engineers nearly every week, not just on an annual or biennial basis. - Piaw Na

Apple encouraged a throwaway society - Piaw Na

A touching story. - Piaw Na

About 2 years too late. Facebook has already become the internet's single signon. - Piaw Na

It's strange to find people rooting for Samsung as an underdog --- they're a huge conglomerate too. On the other hand, Apple deserves the licking it's taking. - Piaw Na

“That is my experience with the Austrians: whenever you try to pin them down, they insist that you fail to understand their profound ideas. And they have indeed been predicting runaway inflation for years now; it’s interesting that they can neither explain why they were wrong nor admit that this poses a problem.” - Piaw Na

Appealing to shallow people is easy. Computer science is hard. - Piaw Na

I think you may be an outlier on the form/function continuum then. - Andrew C (✓)

Does the deficit and the debt matter? Honest question. If it doesn't matter, I wish we'd stop hearing about it entirely. - Berthe

This is an interesting read http://www.dailykos.com/story... - Scoble, Alex Scoble

"Neuroscientists have discovered that women are better at distinguishing among subtle distinctions in color, while men appear more sensitive to objects moving across their field of vision. [...] In one study, Abramov and his research team showed subjects light and dark bars of different widths and degrees of contrast flickering on a computer screen. The effect was akin to how we might view a car moving in the distance. Men were better than women at seeing the bars, and their advantage increased as the bars became narrower and less distinct." - Mark H from Bookmarklet

It's the worst thing about female UI designers --- they don't make any allowances for color blind folks like me! - Piaw Na

" the Swiss system is more privatized than other European systems — and guess what, it has higher costs, indeed second only to America’s:" - Piaw Na

Google has caught up with Apple --- in the field of pricing underpowered devices for stupid people. - Piaw Na

android cooler than Apple? say it ain't so! - Piaw Na

More reasons to hate LA: “L.A.,” says Shoup, “required 50 times more parking under Disney Hall than San Francisco would allow at their own hall.” Downtown already had an oversupply of garages and lots where music fans could leave their cars. “After a concert in San Francisco,” says Shoup, “the streets are full of people walking to their cars, eating in restaurants, stopping into bars and bookstores. In L.A.? The bar next door at Patina is a ghost town.” Receipts that should have gone to the philharmonic’s endowment instead are funding enough parking for nearly every ticket holder to park a car every night downtown. Via Andrew C. - Piaw Na

Don't believe in global warming? Ask your local Oyster hauler. - Piaw Na

Of course it can't. They've got their seats gerrymandered! - Piaw Na

good policy and good politics - Piaw Na

The party of small government has decided that it can't govern. - Piaw Na

Via Andrew C - Piaw Na

"I'll hold my breath until I get what I want." Classy, Cisco, but it doesn't work on me, and hopefully won't work in Washington. - Piaw Na

I'm betting the real reason is their "success" at acquisitions. - Todd Hoff