February 2010
36 posts
Google Person Finder: Chile Earthquake →
Tsunami predicted to hit Hawaii at 11:20am & SoCal... →
California is on Advisory only, but the more south facing the beach, the more exposed.
Square peg, REST hole →
William Vambenepe argues why REST doesn’t always work.
Mako Shark at Newport Pier was a HOAX. →
LAME! FYI, there really are Great Whites near San Onofre.
Why does ++[[]][+[]] == 1? →
John Resig explains why “++[[]][+[]]” in JavaScript equals 1.
Feeling Touchy; Learning how to build great touch... →
By Palm’s Dion Almaer
Mayo Clinic Teams Up With GE, Intel for Home... →
I see everyone else is moving along!
How do you delete a response? →
Google Docs is one of the most pathetic of Google products. Deleting a response from a Google Form Spreadsheet won’t effect the analytic data collection. They’re separate!? FAIL.
Using Google Docs to facilitate patient flow in a... →
David Margolius is a medical student at Brown University. He is spending the year in San Francisco as a research fellow and recently began working with Southeast Health Center to improve access, patient care, and clinic flow. He changed patient management at the clinic by using a shared Google Doc to make it easy for staff and providers to communicate in real time, without walkie-talkies, pagers,...
Is your Google number not reachable from certain... →
Google wants details. Fill out their form.
Mako Shark attack at Newport Pier! →
Photographer Dale Kobetich survives a dramatic shark encounter by utilizing courage and calmness! I SURF HERE! Go away Mr. Mako! Go hang out with Great Uncle White at San O! (Wait… I surf there too…)
TEX line breaking algorithm in JavaScript →
An implementation of the Knuth and Plass line breaking algorithm using JavaScript and the HTML5 canvas element by Bram Stein. Very nice!
Room Design Can Enhance Patient Care →
The Space and Interaction Trial (SIT) consisted of 63 pairs of patients and doctors. The pairs were assigned by chance to either a conventional office or to an experimental one. The experimental office placed the patient and the clinician side by side facing the computer screen while seated at a semicircular desk. The researchers found that patient and clinician satisfaction with the conventional...
Instructions for Submitting and Completing the... →
I’m about to delve into some of the deepest levels of red tape I will ever experience…
Are Doctors Ready for Telemedicine? →
According to this NYT article many doctors and nurses don’t want to deal with it. I believe it’s because it is being deployed incorrectly! You have to get the interface right FIRST.
Architect reinvents apartment to solve space... →
Absolutely beautiful. We need these everywhere!
List of black belts that were trained by Carlson... →
Vegan Strip Club →
A strip club that serves vegan food. Too many funny things to say, so I won’t!
Texas Hold'em Experiment →
An absolutely beautiful heuristic. He’s still looking for loaded 5+ player decks! Considering putting this on GitHub…
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GitHub is good for Ruby-SerialPort
I use Git and GitHub for various private projects, but its power came into use for a public one that’s been a little lonely.
ruby-serialport is a ruby library for accessing serial (RS-232) ports. I use ruby-serialport for Martinelli (Telios), a RESTful web service that allows you to control any serial port device over HTTP by using specification written in JavaScript.
Work on...
Steps towards building an accessible site →
by Henny Swan of Opera.