I practice a modified form of Zen meditation. Typically thoughts that come up while sitting should be let to pass by, somewhere off away from your conscious attention.
This is complete anathema to the Getting Things Done methodology.
When I’m meditating, a lot of times things that have been bugging me, things I need to [...]

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Two things about FSM. (How appropriate, the day after Darwin Day, yes?)
Molly has alerted me to the hilarious FSM hate-mail page, which has its own RSS feed for your regular entertainment purposes.
Additionally, I found this Baltimore FSM sign on Flickr. It plays on two different Baltimore “sayings”. It’s not far away. I think I need [...]

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Dr. Viatcheslav Gurev, a postdoc in our lab, has been working on an electromechanical model of the heart. Here’s the first demonstration, showing one beat during bi-ventricular pacing:

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This is one of my favorite applications for Mac OS X, and it was only available for PowerPC because of major differences in memory stuff on a low level. Rogue Amoeba has come out with a beta version for Intel.
It shows, in the menu bar, the memory usage of the foreground application. For example, [...]

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A happy 198th birthday to the man who revolutionized biology.

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