Hong Kong at Dusk

Place your cursor at the top of the photo.

You will notice it is 6:10 PM.

Bring the mouse down slowly over the photo without pressing the button on the mouse.

Do not right or left click.

Night time appears, the lights come on, and at 7:40 PM, it's dark!

http://61226.com/share/hk.swf

Evidence for Evolution

Kevin Padian's Web site @ http://www.sciohost.org/ncse/kvd/Padian/Padian_transcript.html#class

On Cancer Treatments

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/health/research/29cancer.html, please pay special attention to the comments

and

http://www.gutsense.org/crc/crc_colonoscopy.html

Perspectives on Cyber-Security

http://www.cfr.org/publication/20562/cybersecurity.html

http://www.cfr.org/publication/21052/prioritizing_us_cybersecurity.html?breadcrumb=%2Fpublication%2Fby_type%2Finterview

http://www.cfr.org/publication/21054/capability_of_the_peoples_republic_of_china_to_conduct_cyber_warfare_and_computer_network_exploitation.html

http://csis.org/category/topics/technology/cybersecurity

Lessons from 60 years of pharmaceutical innovation

In an article titled "Lessons from 60 years of pharmaceutical innovation" by Bernard Munos in the Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 8, 959-968 (December 2009) we read:

"... by analysing data on the companies that introduced the 1,200 new drugs that have been approved by the FDA since 1950. This analysis shows that the new-drug output from pharmaceutical companies in this period has essentially been constant, and remains so despite the attempts to increase it. ... the new-drug output is not depressed, but may simply reflect the limitations of the current R&D model."

See also the editorial in the same issue, titled "Escaping the pincer"

I wonder about the results of analogous studies in other research areas; physical science, software, etc.

Debugging Rules

This site - http://www.debuggingrules.com/ - contains resources to help debug mostly software and electronic hardware, but other systems as well.

Learn Genetics

Interesting interactive Web site at the University of Utah:

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/insideacell/

Value of College Education

A Total Cost of Ownership tool for the value of a college education:

www.HumanCapitalScore.com

On World Economy

American Enterprise Institute Resident Fellow Desmond Lachman writes on lurking dangers to the World Economy in 2010:

http://www.aei.org/docLib/LurkingDangers.pdf

Best Buy

Turning stupidity into money: http://www.geekstir.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/76SC6.jpg

Charles de Gaulle - "The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs."

The SEMAT Initiative

From the on-line edition of Dr. Dobb's Journal:

http://www.ddj.com/architect/222001342

Tip: Loading lmhosts File

To load/update the lmhosts file (in : \Windows\System32\drivers\etc\ folder)

Open a Command Windows and type:

NBTStat -R

Sunrise from Space

Wearable Motherboards

Research on the design and development of a "Smart Shirt" for Combat Casualty Care has led to the realization of the world's first Wearable Motherboard™ or an "intelligent" garment for the 21st Century.

Learn more @ http://www.gtwm.gatech.edu/.

On RTM

In a letter to the editor of the CrossTalk Magazine, I expressed my views on the Requirements Traceability Matrix. Find the letter @
http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/CrossTalk/2009/11/0911LettertotheEditor.html

Father of MP3 Player

This is surely a case of Life imitating Art - from the story "The Martian Shop" by Howard Fast, originally published in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1959:

"....it was of pale yellow synthetic...Two slight depressions on the top of this box activated it, a slight touch of one depression to start it, a second touch on the same depression to stop it. The second depression , when touched, changed the category of music desired. There were twenty-two categories of music available...the music box could be compiled out of available technical knowledge, specially since the discovery of transistor electronics...that a content of eleven thousand works was beyond present day knowledge and skill..."