voiceofsandiego.org: Online Stroke Diagnosis Proves Almost Perfect

Time to get grandma online!  Think this will work on AOL?

http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2008/08/05/this_just_in/828strokes080408.txt

voiceofsandiego.org: Dog Dollars Denied

Our best and brightest!  Oh, wait, I mean "to protect and serve"...

http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2008/08/05/this_just_in/826dogdollars080408.txt

More on XML

Was googling for XML gui interfaces and started reading about the XForms stuff... there seem to be some good java-based tools that make it pretty easy to make an interface:

http://www.orbeon.com/
http://chibaxforms.org/

Time to start playing... if it can't be done natively in Flex.

Starving when Sick?

I posted this question about getting big sugar cravings when sick to the Vegan Fitness site (one of my favorites!)... any thoughts appreciated.

http://www.veganfitness.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15350

Cringe-worthy Financial Story

This'll make you cringe...I didn't even know they had decided to prevent short-selling on a select basket of "favored" financial stocks!

http://www.hegcap.com/Pdfs/8-1-08%20HCM%20NEWSLETTER.pdf

Long Live the Quest for Exercise without Exercising!

If only there was somewhere more useful for scientists to spend their time...

Couch Mouse to Mr. Mighty by Pills Alone - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/science/01muscle.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Solar Energy and Storage

"Enough sunlight hits this planet every hour to meet its energy needs for an entire year."  Whoa.  True?

Some guy at MIT has apparently made good progress toward efficiently electricity storage.  That's huge.

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/07/31/solar_storage/