While doing my weekly review, I found this page that I made a while ago for someone. It has a pre-made “library lookup” bookmarklet that allows to to look up books from Amazon.com at Ramsey County Public Libraries in one click.
Instructions for use are on the page. I originally created it using John Udell’s LibraryLookup […]

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A groundbreaking study has just come out that used various MRI techniques to map the structure and function of human brains. We are working with MRI experts to do similar things with the heart. Here’s a figure from the paper illustrating the process:

The study was done by an international team of scientists, with first author […]

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Slashdot | GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers
A GoDaddy Vice President has been caught bidding against customers in their own domain name auctions.
I had been pretty happy with GoDaddy, despite their annoyingly busy web site, as my domain name registrar. I’ve even recommended them to other people. Now they go on the list of companies […]

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JHU uses Cisco VPN for outside connections to the university network. Unfortunately, this requires using Cisco’s VPN client, which is not really available for free download on the internet at large. Normally when I have a problem, I just re-install it, but the current version provided by Hopkins refuses to install on 10.5.3, citing a […]

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I finally tried the Spore Creature Creator yesterday, and took a little movie. I then discovered the the software includes a mechanism to auto-upload videos to YouTube. Smart on their part. My first attempt is below.

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