Lunch time links
Feb. 3rd, 2006 12:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
harmlessincThought I forgot about all of you again? Nope. Here's some of todays fun.
Student Docs shared lessons learned
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=67019
"Tonight I learned yet another helpful life lesson from one of my patients. If you're on the street corner selling coke and you see the cops coming to bust you don't eat all your coke. Having been taught this valuable lesson I will now know better than to do this and wind up going to the ER in handcuffs, seizing uncontrollably, aspirating my vomit and doing all of this with a white powder moustache looking like and ad for "Got Coke?""
Things get better from there...
Pulled from Metafilter.com
How close does a motorcyclist have to be before you see them? [link is qt video]
http://ruiner.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/howclose.mpg
More from Metafilter
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/48826
Libraries fear digital lockdown
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4675280.stm
"Libraries have warned that the rise of digital publishing may make it harder or even impossible to access items in their collections in the future."
FedEx Afghanistan Home
http://www.fedex.com/af/
You tell me what's wrong with this...
You're in the Army now!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4674366.stm
"A military court in Russia has sentenced a senior officer serving in the country's elite missile forces for hiring out his troops as slave labour."
Honestly, I'm surprised he was convicted more than anything else.
Cookie Monster Metalheads
http://opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110007902
"But while the vocals in early death metal are low, raspy and aggressive, not unlike the vocals by, say, Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead, that extreme degree of Cookieness is missing."
Cookie Monster and Lemmy mentioned in the same WJS OpEd piece. It's a good day.
Who says fear isn't how we run this country
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/13768338.htm
"During a commercial break while the fictional Bauer was desperately searching for canisters of deadly nerve gas that had fallen into the hands of terrorists, viewers saw an advertisement questioning the wisdom of real-life senators who would "weaken" the Patriot Act. "What if they are wrong?" the commercial asked."
Student Docs shared lessons learned
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=67019
"Tonight I learned yet another helpful life lesson from one of my patients. If you're on the street corner selling coke and you see the cops coming to bust you don't eat all your coke. Having been taught this valuable lesson I will now know better than to do this and wind up going to the ER in handcuffs, seizing uncontrollably, aspirating my vomit and doing all of this with a white powder moustache looking like and ad for "Got Coke?""
Things get better from there...
Pulled from Metafilter.com
How close does a motorcyclist have to be before you see them? [link is qt video]
http://ruiner.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/howclose.mpg
More from Metafilter
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/48826
Libraries fear digital lockdown
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4675280.stm
"Libraries have warned that the rise of digital publishing may make it harder or even impossible to access items in their collections in the future."
FedEx Afghanistan Home
http://www.fedex.com/af/
You tell me what's wrong with this...
You're in the Army now!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4674366.stm
"A military court in Russia has sentenced a senior officer serving in the country's elite missile forces for hiring out his troops as slave labour."
Honestly, I'm surprised he was convicted more than anything else.
Cookie Monster Metalheads
http://opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110007902
"But while the vocals in early death metal are low, raspy and aggressive, not unlike the vocals by, say, Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead, that extreme degree of Cookieness is missing."
Cookie Monster and Lemmy mentioned in the same WJS OpEd piece. It's a good day.
Who says fear isn't how we run this country
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/13768338.htm
"During a commercial break while the fictional Bauer was desperately searching for canisters of deadly nerve gas that had fallen into the hands of terrorists, viewers saw an advertisement questioning the wisdom of real-life senators who would "weaken" the Patriot Act. "What if they are wrong?" the commercial asked."
