Open-source, cross-platform HL7 Interface Engine

Impressive visualization tool for population statistics. Vectored via freakonomics blog. As Levitt commented, “[it creates] such beautiful graphs that it is easy to forget that what you are looking at are correlations, not necessarily anything causal.”

This sort of thing is a lot harder than it should be.

The ‘tubes are just jammed with good stuff today…solstice moon is tomorrow night. It will look huge. Why? Even government rocket scientists aren’t sure.
Via neatorama.

Report on a longitudinal study of mutations in E. coli at Michigan State – from this layman’s perspective, fits well with the “Plausibility of Life” hypotheses.

I don’t have a specific project in mind, but some of these could be useful with that cheap GPS tracker that I previously bookmarked. Not that I’m going to do *that*, either…

Via Wil Wheaton’s blog – reliving my youth, one Sears Wish Book page at a time.

“The Open GPS Tracker is a small device which plugs into a $20 prepaid mobile phone to make a GPS tracker. ”
I don’t need one, but I want one.

Insider’s view of the OLPC implosion