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misadventures at harvard medical school

Month: May, 2007

Yay! Safari Bugs Fixed

No more .png transparency problems in Safari thanks to hicksdesign’s wonderful suggestion of using 2×2 images here.
No overlay issues on the menu — I’ve corrected the z-index values.
Super good.

Quote-times: Farmer’s Manifesto

Dr. Paul Farmer. (Source.)

We should brace ourselves for the next great wave of debate, which will undoubtedly focus on what the modern world owes the destitute sick. If AIDS care becomes a right rather than a commodity, some people believe we will open a Pandora’s box. Others, including me, believe that we have no more [...]

Haplography Funnies

Courtesy of wordsmith.org, a truly delicious little site dedicated to the study of “the magic of words.” Sign up for their daily email at the link above. Seriously, just do it.

A young monk, new to the monastery, noticed that the scribes were copying the scriptures from copies, not originals. He expressed his concern to the [...]

Da Bulls

The past month has been an exciting one on the stock-market front as the Dow Jones Industrial Average has seen a rally (13200+) and the S&P 500 finally returned to its pre-tech- bust peak (1500+). Innaresting (sic).
(In fact, CNN claims that “The Dow has now risen in 23 of the last 26 sessions, marking its [...]

Protected: Graditation! (sic)

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Debussy-tante

http://www.davidcflood.com/sitestuffnotimages/debussy-flaxenhair.mp3

This is my rendition of Debussy’s “La fille aux cheveux de lin” (“The Girl with the Flaxen Hair”), written around 1910 and perhaps the most famous of Debussy’s Préludes. From Wikipedia:

Debussy never intended the pieces [of the Préludes] to be performed in a series; he thought of them as individual works. The titles were given [...]