From Medical Historian Lindsey Fitzharris:
Some tooth-pullers mistook nerves for tooth worms, and extracted both the tooth and the nerve in what was certainly an extremely painful procedure in a period before anaesthetics.
The worst kind of Easter egg:
I just tried with a label named “todomail” and that was not a problem. Then I tried “todos” and that failed just like it did for you. Apparently Gmail disallows certain label names. It would be nice if that was documented somewhere…
It makes sense in hind-sight but I never considered that “Todo” is not an acceptable Gmail label.
Hog Bay is discontinuing all work on iOS apps:
For the last 3 years Grey, Mutahhir, Young Hoo, and myself worked full-time at Hog Bay Software. Unfortunately our sales dropped this year forcing it back to just me again.
It’s sad to hear but I wish Jesse well. Go buy some of his stuff that’s awesome, like FoldingText.
This new Bluetooth version looks great. $60 is a good price point for a peripheral like this. The addition of Bluetooth 4.0 and the apparent lack of cords also makes this very attractive for hardware control freaks.
This is big loss.
AppStorm has always been a bit of a fringe product for us, and one that loses money. Losses on their own would be OK if the site was a great fit for what our company purpose is. But despite my best efforts for the last couple of years, the fit has been loose at best.
AppStorm was among less than 10 sites that actually performed a valuable service by writing detailed, well considered reviews.
Matt Fraction:
i saw something, heard something, a conversation, between a disconnected and numb orderly or intake nurse or nurse-nurse, I don’t know which exactly, and a man that survived a car crash. She told him his wife didn’t survive the crash. She said something to me about it and I wrote it down on an admission form so I wouldn’t forget it, because it was the most horrible thing i had ever heard, and i wrote it down to make it smaller, to make it a thing i could fold up and put in my pocket.
From the MIT Technology Review:
Every five minutes, it searches twitter for several hundred set phrases that tend to correspond to any of the usual tired arguments about how global warming isn’t happening or humans aren’t responsible for it.
I don’t understand the point.
Arguing with people that clearly do not believe in science will produce no viable fruit. A better approach may be to search for Tweets that are asking for information about various theories or data sets and provide links.
Patrick Welker gives a tour of his elaborate methods for processing RSS feeds. It’s an impressive system and there’s a lot to learn. I think the most important take home point is that it’s worth taking the time to understand both the how and the why.
Patrick has too many buckets for my taste but everyone is different. Whatever you think, there’s value in see his organizational structure, which is laid out nicely in a context map.
the latest Nerdist episode has finished off my list of favorite casual podcast episodes for the year:
…all humans we’re all sort of in the same boat in that we don’t know what we’re doing. We’re all confused and we’re all baffled so why not be nice to other humans in the process because there’s a good chance that other humans are a little more confused than you are.
I didn’t even know there was a WebFaction API, but this is neat.
Does the example of programmatically creating Node.js sites from Node.js qualify as a lifeform?
