Bringing back the housecall (kottke.org)
He’s got no office (housecalls only), takes appointment requests via SMS, email, or IM, handles some follow-ups over video chat, and specializes in the 18-40 age group without traditional health insurance. The goal, states Parkinson, is to “mix the service of an old-time, small town doctor with the latest technology to [...]
Amazon Launches Digital Music Store – New York Times
Amazon.com Inc. launched its much-anticipated digital music store Tuesday, a move analysts say represents the first hint of real competition for Apple Inc.’s market-leading iTunes.
Amazon MP3, as the new section of the Web retailer’s site is called, currently stocks nearly 2.3 million songs, all without [...]
eMusic selling DRM-free Random House audiobooks – Boing Boing
Random House and eMusic have begun to sell DRM-free audiobooks on their site. This is pretty big news, since iTunes has an exclusive deal with Audible for ebooks, and Audible won’t sell non-DRM ebooks
for the cataract that developed because of my partially detached retina 2 years ago. It went well and I’m back at work. Being able to see is kinda weird but my depth perception is all off because I’m not wearing glasses or anything over my right eye to deal with the astigmatism. But I can [...]
Personal History: Parallel Play: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Actually, it has been a struggle for me to perceive just what these “boxes†were—why they were there, why other people regarded them as important, where their borderlines might be, how to live safely within and without them.
Asperger’s Syndrome from someone who has it. [...]
A Girl and Her Fed: Archive
adaptive path » blog » david verba » Prototyping for Designers
I was at Rich Web Experience last week and Yahoo’s Bill Scott presented a session on his recently unveiled prototyping library. It’s called Protoscript and he’s written a blog post as well. Both of these sources get technical fairly quickly so the implications [...]
10 colour contrast checking tools to improve the accessibility of your design | 456 Berea Street
In case you’re wondering why I care (and why I think you should care) about the colour contrast of a website, it’s very simple. If text does not have sufficient contrast compared to its background, people will have problems. People [...]
Digital Web Magazine – Web Design 101: Floats
As browsers get better and better, creating layouts with CSS becomes easier and easier. A reliable workhorse in CSS layout options is the float property. Floats are not the only choice when it comes to creating layouts, but they are popular because they survive the unpredictability [...]
Ambrosia Software, Inc. — utilities/itoner
Custom ringtones for the iphone
Evernote Cookbook