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Medicine

24: The On Call Edition

Finally. My week on call, including the entire holiday weekend, is over. It started out pretty bad and didn’t get all that much better. I suppose I should be grateful that at least I was getting sleep again by this weekend. In any case, I thought that one particular day was almost worth of a […]

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History World War II

Memorial Day

In the U.S., today is Memorial Day. Although we often forget about it in our rush to head out to the beach or relax over the course of a three day weekend, it is the day set aside to remember those who have died fighting for our nation in its wars. I was debating about […]

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Medicine

Just a phone, dammit!

I’m a pretty big computer geek most of the time, and I do love gadgets. However, even I can sympathize with the consumers in this story: OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Nathan Bales represents a troubling trend for cellular phone carriers. The Kansas City-area countertop installer recently traded in a number of feature-laden phones for a […]

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Blogging

Lemming-like, I follow

OK, PZ, Grrlscientist, and John have all done it. They’ve used a cool little applet to show their blogs as graphs. I figured I’d give it a try, too. Why not? (Click on the image to see the graph construct itself.) Basically, the applet shows the tree structure of a web page in a rather […]

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Humor Paranormal

I could use one of these

Worried about ghosts bothering you? What about demons possessing you? Or aliens abducting you for all sorts of strange experiments, complete with anal probes? Well, fear no more! I’ve discovered just the thing. You need a Paranormal Restraining Order! Feel like sinning and don’t want to be subject to the Lord’s wrath? This is just […]