Monthly Archives: September 2005

Mocha Polka

September 21, 2005 – 7:33 pm
I’m not a coffee drinker, but I need something to keep me awake during my three-hour afternoon seminar, a class that meets in a crowded, sunny room with window air conditioners someone invariably turns off to reduce noise. Occasionally I catch myself dreaming about Hegel. Then I quickly try to make eye contact [...]
By filosofo | Posted in Humor | 1 comment

Web Search Changes Diagnosis

September 20, 2005 – 10:03 pm
What’s amazing about this story is not that someone learned an important medical fact from a web search–that happens all the time. Rather, it’s that the doctors listened to their patients and were willing to admit they were wrong. How often does that happen? Howard and Melissa of Boca Raton, Florida found out first [...]
By filosofo | Posted in Google, Internet, Medicine | Please write a comment

Opera’s Now Free

September 20, 2005 – 9:42 am
A few weeks ago Opera offered free license codes, but the company recently decided to make its browser free with no advertising banners. Now Opera is in a better spot to help Firefox eat into Internet Explorer’s market share, a good thing for everybody: web developers and users. HT: digg.com
By filosofo | Posted in Internet | Please write a comment

Where There’s No FEMA, There’s Still a Way

September 19, 2005 – 10:22 pm
Kudos to Gulfport’s mayor Brent Warr. When the local hospital needed gas for its power generators, he had his chief of police steal a fuel truck. “Can we hot-wire it?” he asked. Barnes said, “I wasn’t cut out to be a crook; that’s why I went into law enforcement.” “Well, can we get someone from the jail [...]
By filosofo | Posted in Current Events, Gulfport, Katrina | 1 comment

Technorati and Newsweek Join Forces

September 19, 2005 – 2:15 pm
I didn’t learn of this until I happened to post something with just the right tags. Then suddenly I started getting dozens of referrals from MSNBC’s Newsweek section. The online versions of Newsweek and the Washington Post now show related Technorati results in a sidebar. This should help Technorati stand up against the advent [...]
By filosofo | Posted in Internet, Journalism, Media, Newsweek, Technorati, Washington Post | Please write a comment

Hurricane’s Danger Not What You Might Think

September 19, 2005 – 12:37 pm
There’s an interesting tidbit buried in this CNN.com article. Apparently doctors are concerned that they won’t be able to handle the increase of accidental injuries that will occur as people return to New Orleans and try to clean up. Here’s the tidbit: this kind of injury forms a significant part of hurricane casualties. After [...]
By filosofo | Posted in Hurricane, Katrina, New Orleans, Society | 2 comments