Nice scientific collection of everything we know about living things (or at least it will be). Try the polar bear pictures.
Monthly Archive for February, 2008
For some reason, this world chart made me laugh. The others in the set are also worth a view, although I can´t work out which songs many of them are.
Some more considered remarks on anti-depressants from Ben Goldacre (my mistakes are here) .He’s right to point out that the SSRI news isn’t news, and that the really interesing part of the discussion is around which trial results are published or not.
Very interesting concept: outsource your staff, partly. A PEO employs your employees (and does most of the HR and payroll stuff you would expect) and leases them to you for their operational role on a service contract.
My gut instinct tells me that Adobe AIR won’t be mainstream despite some nice looking applications. Why? Isn’t it easier for most purposes to be in the browser, with a single set of enhancements (like plugins – how mainstream are they though) that suit your working style?
To counter that instinct, Adobe’s example is of iTunes – a web-technology enhanced stand-alone application. The critical difference with iTunes is that Apple gives you no choice over alternative routes to the iTunes shop. I guess Air might allow people to be Apple-like for less. You can see eBay say: “our Air application is the best route for power sellers”, for example.
The ability of a rich application to knit together web scale (such as S3 storage, web service lookup, Wikipedia) in a highly-functional local interface does sound valuable, and willsuit high volume application users – like eBay power sellers.
The data will still be stored securely on the web, accessible anywhere with a browser (and I mean out of home and office as well as on mobiles, etc).
The issue must be how effective the security of the platform will be: if you can install a dodgy application that has full access to my machine and the web, you can do what you like!
I like the idea of a collaborative collection of “hidden” application preferences and a preference pane to list them. Neat.
Hadn’t come across Magellan’s, a US travel supplies company which has a UK arm. I was led there by sleep masks.
Along with Witch (which looks great). I am trying these things for greater Mac happiness:
For some reason, this world chart made me laugh. The others in the set are also worth a view, although I can’t work out which songs many of them are.