Dirty Medicine. Infuriating account of stifled innovation, waste, and corruption. Incidentally, I did not know this little factoid about bloodstream infections: "while most people rarely think about them, these are the most dangerous of the hospital-acquired bugs that afflict one in ten patients in the United States. Their spread has helped to make contact with our health care system the fifth leading cause of death in this country."
The Killer in the Pool. All about killer whales, and the death of SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau.
Been messing with the site feeds, sorry for littering your newsreaders with duplicate posts, posts without content, etc. I’m trying to set it up such that when you click through to a post on your newsreader, you are brought directly to the content I’m referencing rather than my site.
MobilityWOD is the best fitness video weblog I’ve seen in a long time, maybe ever. Kelly Starrett is filming/discussing a mobility workout every day. Engaging speaker, walks the walk, and clearly knows his stuff inside and out.
This is hypnotizing to watch and would be fun to build: Pendulum Waves.
Ran into this recently, with a buddy of mine recommending an old Fresh Air episode that didn’t show up on the list of available episodes in iTunes. I wanted to get it on my iPod in with the other Fresh Air podcasts, rather than dumping it into the “music” folder (which would have worked, if you aren’t compulsive about where things go).
Download and install an MP3 tag editor that can view/edit extended tags. I use Mp3tag.
Download the old podcast you want, and open it in Mp3tag. Pick “extended tags” and create the following tags:
bc.. PODCAST = 1
PODCASTDESC = episode name
PODCASTID = episode URL
PODCASTURL = podcast subscription URL
You can look at the extended tags for an existing podcast to see sample values.
Save the tags, and then drag and drop the podcast into iTunes. It should appear where it belongs.
If you haven’t already seen the full PDF being e-mailed around, Go the Fuck to Sleep is awesome. Will definitely be picking up a copy, and will shelve it next to All My Friends Are Dead.
This may be the first time I’ve laughed out loud at a contraption. Check out the box that really wants to be off. Make sure you watch to the end. (via kottke)
Great xkcd, Marie Curie. Brings to mind my all-time favorite, How it Works.
I love this: The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We’re All Going To Miss Almost Everything:
That’s your moment of understanding that you’ll miss most of the music and the dancing and the art and the books and the films that there have ever been and ever will be, and right now, there’s something being performed somewhere in the world that you’re not seeing that you would love.
It’s sad, but it’s also … great, really. Imagine if you’d seen everything good, or if you knew about everything good. Imagine if you really got to all the recordings and books and movies you’re “supposed to see.” Imagine you got through everybody’s list, until everything you hadn’t read didn’t really need reading. That would imply that all the cultural value the world has managed to produce since a glob of primordial ooze first picked up a violin is so tiny and insignificant that a single human being can gobble all of it in one lifetime. That would make us failures, I think.