If Becker’s right, current ER practices actually kill people — when you’re brought into the ER and you’re not breathing, the first thing they do is flood you with oxygen. But all that does is radically accelerate the speed at which your cells die.
Month: May 2007
Greenwashing
Given our society’s microscopic attention span, and the apparent need of the media to deflate trends they’ve helped pump up, coverage of green business would seem likely headed for a fall. And that might indeed happen, for any number of reasons. From the public’s perspective, this would make it seem like the greening of business was yet another cynical fad that’s now faded into the woodwork. Such perceptions aside, the topic isn’t going away any time soon. Here, in no particular order, are 10 reasons why I think the greening of business will be an enduring issue for years to come, regardless of the media’s attention span.
The real leaders will have focused their sights on being restorative — for example, not being merely CO2 neutral, but being CO2 negative, taking more CO2 out of the atmosphere than they put in.
China stem-cell therapy blogs
100s of patients from across the United States and around the world have flocked to his Beijing surgery practice, where Huang implants cells with amazing healing powers.
beijing is the new lourdes.
GOOGLE.CN.COM
IdealSound
pretty decent compared to the moronic crap on most electronica stations
China 5-Year Guidelines
the Guidelines not only follow in the spirit of previous 5-year plans, they have been developed in line with the current situation. They adopt the strategic concepts of the “Scientific Approach to Development” and “Constructing a Harmonious Socialist Society.” The goals set in the Guidelines reflect a keener attention to the issues of humanity, society and the environment, as well as the economy. And for the first time, the development index has been set to “expected” and “restricted to.”
they still do these? i like “Scientific Approach to Development” and “energy-saving and environmental protection”
Life Posters
After posting photos of my apartment a couple weeks ago I got tons of people asking how I made my “Life Poster” seen in this photo. Here are my instructions to create one in 20-30 min for $29. Good Luck!
with mylifebits, you’ll want to do this automatically. a visual sha1 of a life?
Topoware
Topoware is a tableware collection that questions the landscape of dining.
China MySpace
The front page shows 3 mainland Chinese users and 3 international users, and they can all friend each other. How do they choose who gets on the page as international users? Unclear. But Tom is every Chinese MySpace user’s first friend, as usual. Seems like there might not be that many Chinese users…or maybe not that many writing in English. Unclear.
now we only need instant translations and the fun begins for real
China Internet Culture
Chinese users have lower standards for their glamor shot — blurry and what i called candid webcam shots are in.
heh
2009-03-03:
This view challenges the dominant paradigm we use to understand the Chinese internet, the Great Firewall. Rebecca argues that this makes it harder to understand cybertarianism. We’re tempted to assume that if we just lift the Firewall, China will be free… and that’s an extremely naive view. The GFW only pertains to servers hosted outside of China. For sites hosted within China, the Net Nanny is a much better metaphor for understanding content control.
it is not as straightforward as “the great firewall”
Gregor J. Rothfuss 
