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Interesting timing on Dyson's announcement this week - yesterday NPR ran the first of a 2-part piece on the Excel Dryer Co [1], a US-based Dyson rival.

Though it's not mentioned in the transcript, late in the nine-minute piece, the Excel VP takes the reporter into Excel's R&D where he's shown one of their latest inventions, a faucet that dispenses soap, water, and then drying air...

[1] http://www.npr.org/2013/02/04/171090394/how-one-company-rein...

One thing that really stuck in my mind when I heard the story was that, even 35 years later, "we're now a substantial fraction of a 'light-day' from the Earth..."

With the term "light-years" most commonly mentioned (eg, from a few days ago: http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/astronomers-find-su... ) I think hearing about light-hours and light-days helps to put things a little more into perspective (though it's all still mind-boggling).

This might be the one you're remembering: http://blog.jitbit.com/2011/05/what-if-drivers-were-hired-li...

Oh, thank goodness (and thanks for the clarification - I hadn't thought it through very well).

Hi Mz,

I’m relatively new here and hadn’t caught one of your posts before. Tonight I saw your reply to the Instagram post, someone’s reply to you, and I started to read through your HealthGazelle and KidsLikeMine sites and comments on HN.

I’m grateful and happy that people here have reached out to you, and so I want to try as well. I’ll summarize here and follow up with an email after I’ve had some time to give it some thought.

-- You are a great writer, and your blog posts are a compelling mix of passion with the mundane, common sense and a bit of adventure with trying new things to feel better (“Teeth” and “Throat” on gazelle are examples). Have you thought about publishing an e-book? Just today I heard an “On the Media” story on how people have made money by writing for the Kindle/Amazon platform and pricing their books (of varying quality) at 99 cents. [1]

Though the majority of your CF community may not be ready to listen to your experiences on reclaiming your (and your family’s) health, I think the broader general public is hungry for real-life examples of how people are finding health again. Especially through nature/naturally and on a budget, two things that it seems you are able to do well. And I know you would be able to come with some great book titles that would catch people’s attention (here’s a quick example: “What a walk in the ocean can cure, and other natural health remedies that have worked for my family”).

-- Have you thought about Kickstarter? I haven’t posted a project there, but it seems that there are only two components to listing a project there: 1) a short video describing the project and 2) a written description of the project and the levels of backing. And with your tablet (shoots video?) and skills, you have what you need.

I think your potential funding rewards could be very attractive to folks (eg, $1 gets name added to supporters on site, $10 pledge gets that and an early edition and any updates to your next ebook, $100 gets the person a 1-hr phone/Skype conversation about ways that you’ve been able to get healthy naturally, etc). IANAL and I don’t know what disclaimers you’d need so that you don’t run afoul of medical/legal issues that this might bring up though (related, I did sell a table on craigslist years ago and the lady that bought it gave me a self-published book she published on getting healthy naturally and her belief that her daughter’s health issues were caused by excessive flouride, MSG and aspartame, and she wasn’t a doctor).

Searching Kickstarter for “homeless” turns up a handful of film projects; searching for “health” yields 300+ projects... [2]

Please forgive the late-night ramblings, something just made me want to jump in and try to help if I could.

Hang in there – though with the fight and spirit I’ve read in your posts, it doesn’t seem like I need to even say that...

[1] http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/apr/20/

[2] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93...

That was what jumped out at me as well - I could only think about the $100K that was going into GoDaddy's bank account. ALL the dozens of domains I've moved (and continue to move, sometimes one by one) hardly make a dent when compared to these bulk folks that still use GD. Oh, well, death by a thousand (hundred thousand) blows...

"Tales of Airport Security" is one of my favorite parts of Le Show - though the stories are typically sent in by listeners regarding their first-hand accounts of TSA ineptitude, I could see Shearer delivering this one himself... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Show#News_segments

I heard Aaron interviewed yesterday about tonight's $450M lottery drawing. He wrote this article for American Mathematical Monthly (3 yrs ago)...

This reminds me of one of the first RadioLab shows I ever heard, called simply "Falling".

http://www.radiolab.org/2010/sep/20/

Here's their synopsis: There are so many ways to fall—in love, asleep, even flat on your face. This hour, Radiolab dives into stories of great falls.

We jump into a black hole, take a trip over Niagara Falls, upend some myths about falling cats, and plunge into our favorite songs about falling.

Such a great episode, and great show - I recommend both to everyone.

Agreed. The TSA Out of Our Pants guy goes to the trouble of giving specific examples in a well-articulated video and they respond with some catchy, hip-sounding interwebs keywordz... I feel safer already.

> If you read/watch American news, you think you actually know what other nations are up to?

This reminds me of a recent Daily Show segment that showed how Time magazine offers different cover stories for their international and their US issues on the same date. One example was the Arab Spring (international) and something on "doing chores" for us here in the US.

Brilliant - here's Part 1 that you mentioned (he's posted 300+ videos). I'm afraid I've wrecked what's left of the work day as I follow the saga. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86Krv3gE-c4

Nice - "Because web designers want font families, not just fonts." Thanks for the link, Chris.

Lato is one of my current favorites, glad you included it. Orbitron, Jura and Cabin also work well in certain places.

I do wish there were more fonts with 3+ styles (reg, bold and ital at least), though I'm sure that'll change with time.

I'll start a post when I have enough worth sharing. She's 4 now and we're still working with basic math. I've found a few books that incorporate math that she's enjoyed; right now we're halfway through The Phantom Tollbooth. Milo just left Dictionopolis so we're headed to Digitopolis shortly...

Thanks for posting. I'm trying to keep a collection of these type of things so that when she's ready, it'll be another tool to get/keep my daughter excited about math.

I've been happy with transfers I made from GD to name.com (namecheap wasn't bad, but name.com is more flexible with the way I like to set up multiple accounts).

I wonder whether they'd be willing to work on an affiliate deal with you. And others here could probably suggest more registrars that would be worth including.

Seeing GD in your list (at least it's not at the top) was disheartening. They seem very evil indeed, and not just in recent action.

I figure there's some folks out there that will enjoy these tunes. It's made working late Sunday one of my favorite parts of the week...

The site's not much to look at, but I don't think you can find such diverse music in one spot. I've been listening to him for years (he used to be followed by a show with 3 hours of underground hip-hop, but no longer; didn't know how good I had it back then).

On from 9-11pm PST on Sundays, streams from a couple of places - kxlu.com is a good place to start.

It'd be great to see the iSight script if you're up for sharing. I also wonder what was wrong with your MBP, from the photos it looked like there was some initial activity and then a lot of nothing, then a final check and I guess they returned it fixed? Hilarious, thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the fun post, and led me to reminisce about tinkering as a kid and how it continues for me today.

Whenever something in our home stops working as it should, the little kid inside me is excited to get to take things apart and try to get it to work again. Not only is it more fun but it fits in well with us trying to go beyond simply recycling things and into practicing more reuse.

Exactly. From what I understand, they were key in drafting the legislation and now no distance from it matters.

Action from the company in helping draft an alternative, or bring a discussion to more people would be a huge step forward for them, not more PR or web pages listing people they used to be publicly aligned with (and likely still aligned with in private).

I got it as well, in FF. Most of the time, these things get a one-strike-and-adios policy for me, but on this it seems important enough to try again later...

Here's an intro and the SAY PR: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/readwriteweb_acquired_b...

Nice link - most of those anyone can do, though the last one "magnetic frames" made me laugh.

Someone once recommended Paul McCartney's "eye yoga" YouTube video - really simple exercises that don't require windows with vertical grates or special magnetic frames.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00XqvNwYMoc

PS - the most hilarious part is that the video is blurry, but the rest of my screen/browser/world is in focus, so if I do the exercises enough and suddenly his video is in focus and everything else isn't, I'm going to be pissed...

By the time I hit pg 3 (90 posts) I have so many tabs open with things I want to check out, I make myself go through them. But rather than culling the amount of tabs, it tends to just generate more... Sadly, I rarely make it to 91+.

Reminds me of one of my favorite entries in the urban dictionary: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=link%20diving

Really glad that they address this issue:

Q: Aren’t you going to create a lot of space debris doing this?

A: Debris is a huge concern to everyone in the space community. We certainly want to be responsible space citizens in making sure that we don’t create more of it and will comply with the international rules and guidelines for debris mitigation...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/science/space/06orbi.html

Thanks Revorad - Usaura actually looks a little slicker than the one I remember, and there wasn't a signup or signin, the one I saw just went straight into tests you could do.

I wonder whether it was a usaura test that someone posted and I just went from one test into the next. I'll keep digging around and post here if I find it...