"Double hearts are a good choice for patients whose heart problems
cause extremely high blood pressure in the pulmonary artery [...] Such
a problem generally can’t be solved by replacing the ailing heart with
a donor heart because the new one can’t adapt quickly enough to handle
the excess pressure built up in the lungs."
Via Anne:
http://www.lpch.org/newsEvents/NewsReleases/heterotopic.html
Kotaku has written a harsh review of Oni.
I think this is unfair. Quite to the contrary, I thought that Oni was one of the best games I’d ever played. Perhaps the PS2 version didn’t compare, but the PC version was outstanding. Maybe the levels were “featureless”, but the overall architectural design was impressive, the levels were large and engaging, and very well laid out for interesting fights. The controls were a bit difficult, but very satisfying once I got the hang of them (and configurable, a rarity for other games I was playing at the same time). The focus on hand-to-hand combat (with very smooth physics, also a rarity among other games) meant that stealth and strategy were important, and you couldn’t just charge through the combat. The plot was engaging and interesting, and the pacing was very good.
Come on - is it really fair to pick on a game for ending up in the bargain bin when it’s over 3 years old?
I loved this game. There are a number of versions out there. This one
is nicely illustrated.
Via Anne:
There’s a Gmail exploit that allows an attacker to steal your Gmail cookie, which thereafter identifies them as you to the system, even if you change your password.
This seems like a huge problem for Google, above and beyond the actual security breach. Remember that Gmail uses the same unlimited lifetime Google cookie. The data in that cookie is, presumably, extremely valuable for their tracking efforts, and I’d guess that this will be difficult for them to fix in a way that maintains that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst2004b.html
The newly formed DPWMM shall be charged with enforcing any copyrights and trademarks that may have been erroneously allowed to expire.
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/front_page/109896512934940.xml
http://www.sandybox.com/rdp/000005.html
(Update: James pointed out to me that this is pure probability analysis, not statistical. My bad.)
Of course, to his credit, Bush didn’t lie about this. It IS a poorly tailored shirt - a well-tailored one would cover up the thing underneath it.
‘For the past week, while at home, using his own computers, and off the clock at Caltech and NASA, Nelson has been analyzing images of the president’s back during the debates. A professional physicist and photo analyst for more than 30 years, he speaks earnestly and thoughtfully about his subject. "I am willing to stake my scientific reputation to the statement that Bush was wearing something under his jacket during the debate," he says. "This is not about a bad suit. And there’s no way the bulge can be described as a wrinkled shirt."’
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/29/bulge/index.html
But you know, that’s just more left-wing propaganda.
Via HK:
http://economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?Story_ID=3329802
Jeremy Zawodny asks “is your inbox a stack or a queue”?
I’d have to say it’s a loosely linked queue with some arbitrary graph functionality. I use mutt for the majority of my mail, with the newest messages at the bottom. More importantly, I use mutt’s threaded viewing, which I’ve illustrated with an example of why this is important here.
I felt sad for the loss of the Mr. Blue column, and I was initially not happy with Cary Tennis as a replacement. But he’s grown on me.
http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2004/10/28/politics/index1.html
As you may know, we have three cats.
We switched to Nutro Complete Care Indoor Senior food about two months ago, and it’s worked great - the litter box smells less, they have many fewer hairballs, and there’s generally a lot less shedding.
Highly recommended.
http://www.nutroproducts.com/ncccis.asp
If you have cats younger than 7 years old, use the regular formula:
Wish I’d had a longer lens or a telescope with a photo mount, but some of them came out pretty good.
Remember that contest to design a new NYC streetlight?
Here are the winners:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/ddc/html/citylights/winners.html
Cool!
I find it incredibly ironic that, yet again, Republicans don’t understand the difference between corporate and non-profit.
Them internets is confusing.
I must admit, against my better judgement, I’m getting excited for Episode III. The Darth Vader special on the box set extras disc sent familiar chills down my spine. I haven’t read the actual review, since I don’t want any spoilers (and if you respond to this, and know anything, please keep it to yourself).
Article from Bruce Schneier’s blog about how he came to the conclusion that the RFID functionality in the new US passports is intentionally weak:
"The Bush administration is deliberately choosing a less secure technology without justification. If there were a good offsetting reason to choose that technology over a contact chip, then the choice might make sense."
Google acquires Keyhole, a company specializing in high-resolution satellite imagery.
Add to the list of things Google knows about you: Where you live.
Computer components held together with old cat5 cable and wire
hangers.
http://liquidcode.org.nyud.net:8090/~lostman/stuff/sky_puter/index.html
Facts. Facts. Facts. (Lies.*) Facts.
The New Yorker steps back for a minute, and examines the actual record of the Bush administration. Read this.
Via Mayur:
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?041101ta_talk_editors
(Incidentally, Mayur put it in slightly looser terms, but who else is psyched that the mainstream media has finally grown some fucking balls?!? Imagine that!)
* (You can’t see me!)
The world’s first portable satellite radio. We have an XM radio in the car and a PC receiver. I really like XM Radio, for no reason I can articulate other than "I can always find a station I’d rather stay on than turn off". There you go.
I trust the Zagat ratings less and less as time goes by. The Tasting Room is good, and it’s certainly cozy (that’s code for “one too many tables packed into this tiny space but you have to forgive them because running a restaurant in NYC is really hard”). I enjoyed my meal there a lot, but it really didn’t take my breath away, and I can’t say that I think they deserve such a high rating. Granted, they aim high. But if you’re going to serve foie gras, you’re going up against some masters. It goes without saying that the foie gras at Per Se was better, but that’s not really a fair comparison. But in the same price range, I preferred the foie gras at Le Jardin Bistro.
The Hot Plate : Just a Taste
http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/1321918
Okay, that subject line is a bit facetious, but this is a cool population change map from April 2000 - July 2003.
What happens if a justice is too ill to vote?
Apparently, card games weren’t exciting enough. The new version of Uno has a special launcher that shoots a stream of cards at you if it decides it doesn’t like you.
Cory Doctorow talks about why market forces can’t do anything about
DRM. DRM is an interoperability issue that only really exists when
devices try to talk to each other. Even worse, it can be
retroactively applied to machines you’ve already bought.
‘When this guy goes back to the store, what should he do to protect
his next investment? Say he buys an HP device next, having concluded
that Gateway won’t look out for his interests. He takes it home and
finds that it works fine for his purposes (maybe HP has a "better"
deal with HBO that will let him burn more-restricted DVDs from his HP
media-centre), then, a couple months later, the cablecaster switches
on another flag and suddenly his video won’t work.
Where’s the market-force here? Should he stop being an HBO customer? A
cable customer? A customer for only those PCs that he builds himself
and installs a copy of GNU/Linux on? ‘
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/24/why_marketforces_can.html
Moment of highly efficient matrix calculation.
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200410/msg00202.html
Apparently all tabbed browsers allow any window to pop a dialog
without saying which window it comes from, and let inactive windows
get focus in form fields (so you can be typing, and not realize that
you’re sending data to a window in the background). These should be
relatively easy to fix, but in the meantime, it’s probably a good idea
to not visit "trusted" sites when other tabs are open in the
background.
Healthy people should take the Flu Mist inhalable vaccine. It’s not
approved for the high-risk groups anyway, so you won’t be taking
anything away from anyone who needs it. It will make you feel like
crap for a day or two.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/102404K.shtml
http://www.911forthetruth.com
Google Desktop limits your searches to just your local loopback
interface to prevent people on other machines from querying your
index. Hah! Along comes the Google Desktop Proxy, which allows open
searches from other machines. While this is theoretically meant to be
used for your benefit, I will NOT be surprised if this or something
like it shows up in an email worm somewhere along the line.
This is a HUGE HUGE HUGE point in favor of open source software. "But legitimate companies wouldn’t try install anything