Five Live Links by Travis Smith

Many Are Cold But Few Are Frozen: A Physician Considers Cryonics

"Why else do coffins have padding? Of course, to be fair, there are also potential gains from involvement in cryonics which are also independent of whether the technique works or not. Chiefest of these is that cryonics provides a certain amount of comfort for the non-believer. Some of the sting of death can be removed if there remains a chance, however small, that death is not permanent. Of course, the cynic will comment that freezing a corpse is much like putting leftover food in the refrigerator because one cannot immediately tolerate the waste implied in throwing it away. Even if the food is never re-warmed, it is easier to discard if done in two separate steps. So it is, perhaps, with a dead loved-one. Yet comfort is comfort."

posted at 1:37 pm
on Apr. 29, 2006

By Ken Levine: Worst songs of all-time

It's quite the list... Here's a few you might hate. Be sure to go add your own! Surfin Bird....Trashmen He Hit me and it Felt like a Kiss....Crystals Laurie...Dickie Lee Hooray for Hazel....Bobby Roe Yummy Yummy Yummy....1919 Fruit Gum Co. Unicorn Song...Irish Rovers I've Never Been to Me...Charlene Seasons in the Sun...Terry Jacks Ringo...Lorne Green Gallant Men....Senator Everett Dirkson

posted at 3:50 pm
on Apr. 15, 2006

Apple releases Boot Camp, software that lets you boot up in Windows

Marketing GENIUSES! They let the hacker community figure out how to do this themselves, reap all the buzz of that discovery, then release a piece of software they've already developed that does exactly the same thing. Presto, they just got a free zillion dollars in publicity.

posted at 8:57 am
on Apr. 5, 2006

Overheard

“Oh boy! Another great opportunity for personal growth!”

...who said it?

“I’m not bitter about what happened to me as a child, and my mother was instrumental in keeping me from being so. ... She taught me to be grateful for my life regardless of what that entailed, and that’s directly related to the image of Christ on the cross and the example of sacrifice that he gave us. What she taught me is that the deliverance God offers you from pain is not no pain—it’s that the pain is actually a gift. What’s the option? God doesn’t really give you another choice.”

...who said it?

After over a decade of user testing, it is clear that the way we search the web is similar to the way we would search our home for valuables as it was burning to the ground. Frantically.

...who said it?

“We must shift the focus of companies back to the customer and away from shareholder value ... The shift necessitates a fundamental change in our prevailing theory of the firm… The current theory holds that the singular goal of the corporation should be shareholder value maximization. Instead, companies should place customers at the center of the firm and focus on delighting them, while earning an acceptable return for shareholders.”

...who said it?

“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.”

...who said it?

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