2.5" and 3.5" SATA stage rack
No need for the hard drive to go into the case. Just plug it into this.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Be smart about your medical Web surfing
3. Invest 30 minutes in the pubmed.gov tutorial
Pubmed.gov searches the medical literature, but it isn't completely intuitive. It's worth the time to learn how to use it by doing the tutorial.
Nervous you won't understand the technical jargon in medical articles? Don't be, says Guthrie. She advises reading the very beginning of a study and the very end. "The conclusion will tell you whether the treatment they studied was effective, moderately effective, or not at all effective."
In addition, the Medical Library Association, has brochures called Deciphering Medspeak to help translate some of the more common medical jargon.
Get higher resolution YouTube with a URL hack
Also points to a Firefox extension with the functions.
Climate science maverick James Lovelock says we're too late
Global warming has passed the tipping point, and catastrophe is unstoppable. "It's just too late for it," he says. "Perhaps if we'd gone along routes like that in 1967, it might have helped. But we don't have time. All these standard green things, like sustainable development, I think these are just words that mean nothing.
One Wilshire -- where 260 ISPs meet
"In the bowels of the world's most densely populated Meet-Me room -- a room where over 260 ISPs connect their networks to each other -- a phalanx of cabling spills out of its containers and silently pumps the world's information to your computer screen."
Why winter is the flu season
Influenza viruses coat themselves in fatty material that hardens and protects them in colder temperatures -- a finding that could explain why winter is the flu season, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.This butter-like coating melts in the respiratory tract, allowing the virus to infect cells, the team at the National Institutes of Health found.
The Dyatlov Pass Accident
In 1959, nine experienced cross country skiers, led by Igor Dyatlov, were trapped in a snowstorm and decided to set camp and sleep it out.
Later that night, something made all nine people leave their tents in such a hurry that they ripped them open from within. These people stumbled down the slope, in subzero weather, only in their underwear with no socks or shoes. All nine were discovered dead and frozen by a search party about a month later.
Here’s where it gets really creepy: three of the nine suffered massive chest and head injuries that could only be caused by forces akin to that of a car crash, but without any external wounds. There were high doses of radioactivity. And if those weren’t weird enough: one victim was missing her tongue.
Read more about the Dyatlov Pass Accident, including how mysterious "bright flying spheres" were seen nearby and why the findings of the investigation were classified as secret.
Prevent websites from opening naked windows in Firefox
Irritating when you can't at least resize those pop-up windows, no?
Ionizing radiation enhance growth of black fungus
"Since ionizing radiation is prevalent in outer space, astronauts might be able to rely on fungi as an inexhaustible food source on long missions or for colonizing other planets," Dadachova said.
Check if your e-mail account has been hacked
Baiting the guy with an enticingly labelled e-mail attachment that will alert you when it's been opened.
Drinking gets you more depressed
Helps to solidify bad memories:
The researchers, led by pharmacology professor Norio Matsuki, gave mild shocks to lab rats to condition them to fear. As a result, the rats would freeze in terror and curl up the moment they were put in their cages.
Researchers then immediately injected the rats with ethanol or saline.
The researchers found that rats with alcohol in their veins froze up for longer, with the fear on average lasting two weeks, compared with rats that did not receive injections.
Bird boy can only communicate with chirps
Pravda reported: "(His mother) had her own domestic birds and fed wild ones. (She) neither beat him nor left him without food. She just never talked to him. It was all the birds that communicated with the boy and taught him birds' language.
"He just chirps and when realising that he is not understood, starts to wave hands in the way birds winnow wings."
WorldFlashReader -- double your reading speed
Just by flashing text?
Some general tips for reading stuff on the Web here.
InfoHub -- more thematic travel
Not total trip planning, but more just a comprehensive tour catalog.
Fish can count
Adult humans use a third counting mechanism, in which they verbally count much larger numbers. Yet as Agrillo points out: 'The most interesting thing is that fish performance is very similar to what is observed in adult humans who possess a very limited vocabulary for numbers.' For example, speakers of the Amazonian language Mundurukú lack words for numbers beyond five. 'Their limits in quantity tasks closely resemble what we found in pre-verbal organisms such as fish!' says Agrillo.
800notes.com -- phone reverse lookup with comments
Did you receive a call but the caller did not leave a message and the Caller ID says "Unavailable"?Looks like the veracity of the details is user-dependent.
Table2Clipboard -- Firefox add-on to copy tables and retain formatting
Or so it seems from the description.
Casting call for banned Xbox 360 commercial
The first video is the original, put up for contrast. Right-click and select Zoom Out for a smaller screen and subsequent better quality.
The hilarity properly begins with the second video, a casting call for the commercial.
Paper vs. styrofoam cups
A study by Canadian scientist Martin Hocking shows that making a paper cup uses as much petroleum or natural gas as a polystyrene cup. Plus, the paper cup uses wood pulp. The Canadian study said, ‘The paper cup consumes 12 times as much steam, 36 times as much electricity, and twice as much cooling water as the plastic cup.’ And because the paper cup uses more raw materials and energy, it also costs 2.5 times more than the plastic cup.
MoFuse -- create a mobile phone version of your website/blog
Don't get left out. $3 per month for own domain and other features.
There is also the free Wirenode.
Drugs, body modification may create second enlightenment
Based on this premise:
Coffee debuted in the late 17th century in Oxford, England -- leading to rowdy coffee houses, jittery arguments and even an attempt by King Charles II to ban the substance for inspiring seditious behavior.
The other consequence: the Enlightenment.
Zicasso -- full trip designing
Fairly complete list of components to choose from to flesh out a trip.
Cookthink -- search for recipes based your craving tags
You keeping layering on up to eight tags and it spits out a recipe. Fine for and improvisational mood.
I fell in love with a female assassin
... Jason P Howe discovered that his girlfriend Marylin was leading a secret double life – as an assassin for right-wing death squads in Colombia's brutal civil war.
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