Pattern on the Stone

In my last post, I’d included a quote by Danny Hillis on the massive increases of different uses of computers brought on by the staggering increases in power coupled with similar decreases in size — specifically, a computer in every doorknob. I was going through some receipts today when I noticed that a book I […]

Guidelines, Learning Objects, & Competency Definitions

Over the last 15 months, I’ve been working as part of the Massage Therapy Foundation’s Best Practices Committee on defining a protocol for creating evidence-based guidelines for massage therapy. Fairly early on in the process I did a draft literature review of existing criteria for guideline creation. Recently, I’ve been thinking of how to define […]

Getting the Virtual Feel of Fabric

My wife is a fabric “junkie” who has increasingly been using the Internet to shop on the long-tail of the distribution of what’s available. According to a recent press release the HAPTEX project at the University of Geneva is working to make such remote purchases even more satisfying by providing a virtual feel of the […]

LEDs can help your SADs

With a few days more than a month to go until Winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, the days are getting short. Even at noon, the sun is a lot closer to the horizon than it was a month or two ago. For many, the lack of light also triggers a set of depressive symptoms […]

The Pain of Splogs

In her Massage and Bodywork Journal Blog, Julie Onofrio was complaining last August about ad farms that lift her content. I’ve had that happen too. A couple of months back I’d tracked down a set of interacting domains that were hijacking content and sent the information to Technorati, since they were indexing these fake blogs. […]