July 2010
38 posts
Hospice medical care for dying patients by Atul... →
Modern medicine is good at staving off death with aggressive interventions—and bad at knowing when to focus, instead, on improving the days that terminal patients have left.
Medical Specialties and Clinical Practice Topics:... →
Slow motion lightning strike →
A lightning strike recorded at 9000 frames per second. The action across time scales displayed in this video is amazing. One strike hovers in the frame almost the entire time while other…
Uremic Frost: Social Media Helps Man Find Kidney Transplant http://bit.ly/aJjdB6
Plan for urine-powered fuel cells leaks out http://bit.ly/bRP1MS
Orchid Fever by Susan Orlean →
The inspiration for Charlie Kaufman’s “Adaptation.”
Cool Tools: The Best Magazine Articles Ever →
The Neuroscience of Inception →
Watch‘Red’
Inside the iPhone Network Meltdown →
“Meanwhile I’m traveling in Southeast Asia in the hot season. Desperately,...”
– Paolo Bacigalupi Talks About The Windup Girl
chillout song :: zefrank.com →
Love the @Audible_com iPhone app. Minor quibbles: no 2x play speed and no pausing with headphone controls.
Improv Everywhere Brings “Star Wars” to NYC Subway... →
iPhone 4 observations: The best GPS experience I’ve had was the Motion X GPS Drive app ($3!) and the Bracketron vent mount kit.
iPhone 4 observations: The antenna signal thing is a non-issue.
I’ve had so many friends ask about the iPhone 4, I figured I’d post some observations.
AI Predicts Manhole Explosions In New York City →
EpicWin, Turning A Todo List App Into a Role... →
Blood Glucose Monitor with Native iPhone Support →
★ Translation From Apple’s Unique Dialect of... →
@Balut: “Nothing keeps the CCU nurses on their toes like my death rattle ringtone.”
And he’s not kidding: http://j.mp/dnT0mk
Who’s Who in the Russian Spy Ring →
June 2010
42 posts
iPhone 4 review →
Andy Ihnatko’s detailed writeup.
“In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties,...”
– Nick Paumgarten: Up and Then Down. (via marco)
“Once an alcoholic starts drinking heavily, the mesolimbic pathway responds by...”
– Secret of AA: After 75 Years, We Don’t Know How It Works
That’s 15 hours of battery life even using FaceTime — which, BTW: OMG.
Revised iPhone 4 battery life estimate: with push notifications off, it’s lasting 15 hours.
I can confirm frequent use of the iPhone 4 will require a midday recharge or a Mophie Juice Pack. (Per @mophielovesyou, one is pending.)
(Addendum: Actually, with push syncing off, I’m getting 14 - 15 hours.)
Steve Jobs at the D8 Conference →
The Anosognosic's Dilemma: Something's Wrong but... →