Archive for November, 2006

The Relay For Life Screensaver

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

You gotta check this out. This is a
screensaver that uses your photos from Flickr as the images. All you do
is install it and tell it your user name or anyone else’s name and it
pulls down their photos to use.
The cool part for the Society? Thousands of Relay For Life photos are on Flickr already. [...]

Cancer evolution

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Think evolution only applies to long-term life changes? Nope. Increasingly it is apparent that evolution is at work right within tumoigenesis. The following is excerpted from this article on bio.com.
"A tumor cell population is constantly evolving through natural selection," says
Carlo C. Maley, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Molecular and Cellular
Oncogenesis Program at Wistar whose [...]

Secondlife millionaire

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

CNNMoney.com  reports that Anshe Chung
is holding a press conference today to announce that she has now
reached $1,000,000.00 in value in Second Life. Not sure if that means
she has amassed that in holdings or if she has withdrawn that much in
cash. Either way she is most likely not the first to earn that much
from a virtual [...]

If you’re really bored at the airport…

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Today’s big news is that Verizon is going to start offering YouTube clips over its cellular video service. Waahoo! So I’ve got a nominee for this new engrossing viewing: first-time footage of cold methane vents 1000 meters down in the Pacific off New Zealand. I was promised bizarre and fascinating creatures. All I saw was [...]

Small observation

Monday, November 27th, 2006

The headline from a BBC article caught my attention this morning: "What to watch on the web." Over the last year or year-and-a-half I’ve been dumbfounded by how fast video has moved onto the internet. But I didn’t expect to see headlines like that one so soon. Makes me wonder: "How far to the tipping-point [...]

Volunteers, out in front…again

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

We were just having some discussion today in the Nov. 15 thread started by Lisa Meyers about whether or not the ACS would use YouTube as a way to communicate. There are comments that ACS should put some of its "classic" anti-tobacco films on YouTube or other video site. I speculated that the ACS wasn’t [...]

The Department of Oops!

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

There’s an article in this morning’s Washington Post about a study of the problems with training Iraqi soldiers. No, I’m not interested here in the woes of that situation, but I noticed that this study–which seems pretty thorough–was conducted by the Center for Army Lessons Learned.
I’ve thought since I first heard of this Army [...]

Medicine gets (more) personal

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

A week ago I attended the Burrill & Co. Personalized Medicine Conference ‘cross the Bay in San Francisco. What, you may be thinking, is personalized medicine? A paper released the second day of the conference by the Personalized Medicine Coalition titled, "The Case for Personalized Medicine" explains it this way:
In a sense, physicians have always [...]

Rennovations underway

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

This weekend I’m getting around to some overdue maintenance of FISpace. I’ve cleaned out the inactive links in the blogroll, shortened the list of archive links, removed my Frappr map from last summer, and put the recent comments on top of the recent posts.
But the thing I’m most excited about is installing the beginning [...]

Now for the really big bucks

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

From widgets to billionaires. Slate has an article titled, "How Billionaires Give Their Money Away." And don’t we all want to know that?
Essentially the article suggests that billionaires give their money away in much the same way as they got it in the first place: competitively and to be the biggest.
The new philanthropists have [...]