Consider Convergence

I’m notorious for carrying more electronics than I need, and I still try to combine devices whenever it’s possible and wise.

Something Xavier Lanier might consider:

I put my MacBook Pro and HP Envy 13 in one tray and all of my gadgets in another.  Amongst the gadgets I’m carrying is my Sanyo Xacti  HD1010 camcorder, a pair of Seagate portable drives, a Gorilla Pod, a Blackberry Pearl, a pair of iPhones, a Monster travel surge protector, a portable speaker from Radio Shack, a Reliance 3G modem, a Call Pod Duo and a couple of SanDisk CF card readers.

Changing Tastes

I don't like beer, but if it keeps me healthy...

Beer could be the new weapon against cancer - Scotsman.com News: "MEN now have another excuse to go down the pub thanks to new research suggesting that a compound in beer may prevent prostate cancer.
Tests showed that the ingredient, xanthohumol, blocked a biological pathway that allows prostate cancer to be fuelled by the male hormone testosterone.

The disease is commonly treated with drugs that act in a similar way."

Join listing

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that having everyone's connections on the front page is not compelling news.

I know you're just getting started, but this really does make me want to go elsewhere.

in reference to: http://egether.com/ (view on Google Sidewiki)

So THAT’S why

Shamus explains it all…

It’s all done through Twitter, so you have to have a Twitter account to vote. I’m sorry. It’s a web 2.0 thing. Didn’t you know? Web 2.0 is about connecting every social media site to every other one in a giant clusterfarg of account names and logins until the whole network collapses in on itself and forms a CSS-compliant singularity.

The value of a life

This is the kind of attitude that informs the health care bills.  The health adviser to the President says:

 

According to Emanuel, “The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a two-month-old girl.” I doubt the parents of the two-month-old agree.

In what world is that intuitive?

And, if you are a child with disabilities, the government has already completely given up on you. Emanuel believes“services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed.” What’s worse, since he does not believe in “guaranteeing neuropsychological services to ensure children with learning disabilities can read and learn to reason,” once the public option puts the private sector out of business, these types of life-changing services for children will no longer exist.

It wasn’t that long ago that how we care for our sick was a rallying cry.

The Vancouver Reunion Show

This weeks’ Dollhouse brings back some of my favorites from several Genre series:

Tonight's back-to-back episodes, "The Public Eye" and "The Left Hand," feature Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Alexis Denisof, who guest-stars as U.S. Sen. Daniel Perrin. He's on a mission to expose the secrets of the Dollhouse with the help of Madeline/November (Miracle Laurie). The team heads to Washington and runs into Bennett Halverson, a brilliant programmer who has a connection to Echo's past. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles' Summer Glau plays Bennett, and Reaper's Ray Wise plays her boss, Stewart.

I’m especially excited to see Ray Wise in something.  He was creepily devious as Reaper’s resident Prince of Lies, and I’m eager to see what else he has up his sleeve.

Healthcare Alternatives

Lots of people talk about allowing the market to take care of healthcare, but what exactly does that mean?

The prospect of paying for my own health insurance is actually kind of daunting, but if I had more money coming in, and I was allowed to price shop, I might find something more comfortable…