It turns out…

… I have nothing to write today.

Medical Hacking

These rogue scientists operated within ethical and legal rules, but they turned their back on traditional and bureaucratic paths to cures. For example, rather than take a bottom up approach by studying and fabricating chemical compounds of drugs, they identified and tested fully manufactured drugs, already approved by the FDA, to see if they had any effect.

STS Forum Notes

Attended in the UT STS forum on Surveillance this morning. I came in a few minutes before the program started and they had a group of actors wandering around snapping photos and making some general point of harassing attendees to trade “anonymity dollars” for masks that would protect the audience from being surveilled. [...]

Justin from justin.tv is annoying

Remember yesterday when I said I could relate to the guys on justin.tv?
Not so much.
The arrogance, blatant misogyny, and let’s face it, frat-boy dialog is getting to be a bit much.
Maybe he’ll settle down in a month when the novelty wears off. At the very least, I hope he’ll take some zoloft and vary the [...]

Iggy Loves his Bio-Mist

This is my iguana (about 10" Snout to Vent, so about 2 years old) after he was spritzed with Bio-Mist, an aloe vera and cactus juice concoction that helps his skin. He’s molting now, so this is a look of pure joy.
Sometimes I wish I was an iguana.

justin.tv and art. lebedev

Justin.tv jostles for attention as the new ze frank. Justin and 3 of his friends have started a company to make online, live video easy. He wears a head-cam 24-7 and their shared apartment / office space has house cams as well. What will keep my attention is that I can relate to [...]

Applescript to transform mail.app message to GTDAlt inbox item

I’m currently using GTDAlt in TextMate as my GTD processing system. It’s a text based system, so it’s upgradable, portable, etc.
Through the TextMate bundle framework, you get some nice collating of contexts, etc.
GTDAlt does rely on some proprietary syntax, but it’s pretty basic and easily parsable.
There is rudimentary support for iterating through items in [...]

Applescript that archives NetNewsWire post to DEVONThink Pro

As a refinement to an earlier script I posted, I made some modifications to my suggested news reading workflow.
The applescript in this post will take the currently selected article in NetNewsWire, prompt the user for tags about the article, and then create a web archive of the article in DEVONThink.
It attaches the referral URL to [...]

dorkbot-sxsw wrap-up

I just posted the dorkbot6 wrapup.

Displaying tags on mephisto

The mephisto liquid tags, drops, and filters are not very well documented. You have to look in the source code (specifically drop_filters.rb) to discover what’s available.
I was able to add rendering of tags/keywords by using:
{{article | linked_tag_list}}

in my template.