Wednesday, February 29, 2012

iPhone. Photography. Awesomized. Free. schmoo, smugmug.com … it...



iPhone. Photography. Awesomized. Free.
schmoo, smugmug.com

… it is by far one of the most full-powered cam­era apps I’ve used, and it marks an excit­ing advance for smart­phone cam­eras.
– The Wall Street Jour­nal

Here at last. Our baby. As you know, pho­tog­ra­phy is our life and our pas­sion. So we…

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Photo



Camera Awesome Test



Camera Awesome Test

Tim Siedell: Do modern-day pirates stil ...

Tim Siedell: Do modern-day pirates stil ...:

twitter.com

"Neuroscientists are novices at deception. Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception..."

“Neuroscientists are novices at deception. Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years.”

- Teller Reveals His Secrets | Smithsonian Magazine

livelymorgue: An archival photo from The New York Times shows...





livelymorgue:

An archival photo from The New York Times shows news pictures being sorted in the newspaper’s photo “morgue,” which houses millions of images. Here they are — several each week — for you to see. Welcome to The Lively Morgue. Photo: The New York Times

Tempus



I’ve tried many iPhone calendar apps. By far, my favorite is “Tempus” (short for “tempus fugit”, Latin for “time flies”).

Monday, February 27, 2012

Amazon's Hit Man

Amazon's Hit Man:

And now this. Amazon could be an unstoppable competitor to big publishing houses. If history is any guide, Bezos, who declined to comment for this story, doesn’t care whether he loses money on books for the larger cause of stocking the Kindle with exclusive content unavailable in Barnes & Noble’s Nook or Apple’s iBookstores. He’s also got almost infinitely deep pockets for spending on advances to top authors. Even more awkwardly for publishers, Amazon is their largest retailer, so they are now in the position of having to compete against an important business partner. On the West Coast people cheerfully call this kind of arrangement coopetition. On the East Coast it’s usually referred to as getting stabbed in the back.

I have a theory the number one reason most doctors don’t email their patients is this: they...

I have a theory the number one reason most doctors don’t email their patients is this: they can’t type well.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Currently Watching: Deadwood.



Currently Watching: Deadwood.

Yogurt Maker Warning (Taken with instagram)



Yogurt Maker Warning (Taken with instagram)

jtotheizzoe: scipsy: Variability of brain size and external...



jtotheizzoe:

scipsy:

Variability of brain size and external topography.

Photographs and weights of the brains of different species. Primates: human (Homo sapiens, 1.176 kg), chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes, 273 g), baboon (Papio cynocephalus, 151 g), mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx, 123 g), macaque (Macaca tonkeana, 110 g). Carnivores: bear (Ursus arctos, 289 g), lion (Panthera leo, 165 g), cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus, 119 g), dog (Canis familiaris, 95 g), cat (Felis catus, 32 g). Artiodactyls: giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis, 700 g), kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros, 166 g), mouflon (Ovis musimon, 118 g), ibex (Capra pyrenaica, 115 g); peccary (Tayassu pecari, 41 g). Marsupials: wallaby (Protemnodon rufogrisea, 28 g). Lagomorphs: rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus, 5.2 g). Rodents: rat (Rattus rattus, 2.6 g), mouse (Mus musculus, 0.5 g). (via Frontiers)

What the hell is going on with that rabbit brain? Huge olfactory bulb on the left (as in the rat and mouse, big smellers) and an inverted cerebellum on the right hanging off like a couple “brain eyes”.

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Caffeinated Gum

Why was I not previously informed that caffeinated gum exists?

"You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other..."

“You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other sane onlooker) would be willing to invest. My partner, Penn, and I once produced 500 live cockroaches from a top hat on the desk of talk-show host David Letterman. To prepare this took weeks. We hired an entomologist who provided slow-moving, camera-friendly cockroaches (the kind from under your stove don’t hang around for close-ups) and taught us to pick the bugs up without screaming like preadolescent girls. Then we built a secret compartment out of foam-core (one of the few materials cockroaches can’t cling to) and worked out a devious routine for sneaking the compartment into the hat. More trouble than the trick was worth? To you, probably. But not to magicians.”

- Teller Reveals His Secrets, Smithsonian Magazine

How to Sell Your Excess Stuff for Cash in Just a Few Hours with Amazon's Fulfillment Program

How to Sell Your Excess Stuff for Cash in Just a Few Hours with Amazon's Fulfillment Program:

The name of the program is Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA). Although it is designed to let sellers with high inventory have sales, shipping, and customer support handled entirely by Amazon, you can use it too. The primary advantage of using the FBA program is convenience. You basically dump your crap in a box, tell Amazon what’s inside of that box, print out a shipping label, and schedule a pickup request. The process generally takes an hour or two, unless you have more stuff than you could ever possibly sell, and if you’ve already got the box(es) you’re going to use you don’t even have to leave your home. When Amazon gets the box, they’ll post all your items for sale on their product pages and people will be able to buy them. Amazon will ship the items out for you in their own packaging and handle any customer issues that may arise post-sale.

Who Can Profit from Selling 1-Cent Books on Amazon? Robots.

Who Can Profit from Selling 1-Cent Books on Amazon? Robots.:

What do you call a thriving marketplace of robots buying nonexistent books from other robots for millions of dollars?

Apparently, Amazon.com.

If you like NEJM Images in Clin­i­cal Med­i­cine, you’ll...



If you like NEJM Images in Clin­i­cal Med­i­cine, you’ll love the strik­ing new page we’ve added to the NEJM 200th anniver­sary web­site. We’ve gath­ered a selec­tion of images from this pop­u­lar week­ly series, and put them into a gallery.

Google Reader’s “sort by magic” was an overlooked gem, but Flipboard’s...

Google Reader’s “sort by magic” was an overlooked gem, but Flipboard’s “cover stories” is even better.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

"What is the correct style? Dark Side of the Force vs dark side of the Force vs dark side of the..."

“What is the correct style? Dark Side of the Force vs dark side of the Force vs dark side of the force? Thank you.”

- @steverubel

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

ACC launches texting program to prevent and manage cardiovascular disease

ACC launches texting program to prevent and manage cardiovascular disease:

imedicalapps.com

by Tim Bre­drup

The Amer­i­can Col­lege of Car­di­ol­o­gy (ACC) recent­ly launched Car­dioS­mart­TXT™, a free tex­ting pro­gram to pre­vent and man­age car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease. Car­dioS­mart­TXT will pro­vide sup­port, infor­ma­tion,…

They give you this real-time locator badge when you check-in at...



They give you this real-time locator badge when you check-in at Dana Farber outpatient. It tracks you wherever you go in the building. If you’re ever in a waiting room for more than 20m, it alerts the page nurse so she can find you another nurse and get you in faster.
superamit, instagr.am

Informal Curriculum: Lesson 2. – In White Ink

Informal Curriculum: Lesson 2. – In White Ink:

When I first meet patients, my preamble goes something like this:

Hi. My name is Dr. Yang and I work as a psychiatrist. We have about 45 minutes together. I’ll be asking you a lot of questions, some of which might make you wonder, “Why is she asking me that?” If you find me interrupting you, I’m not trying to be rude; I just want to make sure I get the right information.

"Bits Blog: Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End http://t.co/Jai4bWwA"

“Bits Blog: Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End http://t.co/Jai4bWwA

- @nytimestech

"Currently I am the traveling dad holding his laptop to the window so his son 2,500 miles away can..."

“Currently I am the traveling dad holding his laptop to the window so his son 2,500 miles away can see the Empire State Building. (“Oooh!”)”

- @torrez

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Seahorses.



Seahorses.

Full Spectrum Reading List: 7 Great Books by TED 2012 Speakers

Full Spectrum Reading List: 7 Great Books by TED 2012 Speakers:

Anatomy of introversion, inside the brain’s optimism bias, and a blueprint for doomsday from PC Guy.

paleoillustration: Diabloceratops eatoni,...



paleoillustration:

Diabloceratops eatoni, by PaleoPastori.

bloodypencil sketches

“Possessing brow horns and two nasal horns, Diabloceratops eatoni is the most primitive centrosaur described so far. It was discovered in 2002 by the Utah Geological Survey in the middle Campanian (~80 MA) Wahweap Formation in southern Utah. It took several years of excavation, with a helicoptor lift, and many hundreds of hours of preparation to reveal the beauty of this skull before it was described formally in 2010 by Jim Kirkland and its discoverer and preparator Don DeBlieux. Diabloceratops is unique in that, other than the long ornamental horns at the back of its narrow, upright frill, the horns on the side of the frill decrease in size from the front to the back. Additionally, the presence of an accessory antorbital fenestra or hole behind naries, shared by Zuniceratops indicates the origin of the large ceratopsids is not via Protoceratops, but through the less well know Bagaceratops and Magnirostra”.

Jim Kirkland
Utah State Paleontologist
Utah Geological Survey