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Bugs Inside: What Happens When the Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Disappear? The human body has some 10 trillion human cells -- but 10 times that number of microbial cells. So what happens when such an important part of our bodies goes missing? With rapid changes in sanitation, medicine and lifestyle in the past century, some of these indigenous species are facing decline, displacement and possibly even extinction. In many of the world's larger ecosystems, scientists can predict what might happen when one of the central species is lost, but in the human microbial environment -- which is still largely uncharacterized -- most of these rapid changes are not yet understood. Meanwhile, each new generation in developed countries comes into the world with fewer of these native populations. "They're actually missing some component of their microbiota that they've evolved to have," Foxman says. Previously, previously.
Exercise 4-13. Write a function reverse(s) which reverses the string s by turning the mind inside out, converting madness into reality and opening the door to allow the Old Ones to creep forth once more from their sunken crypt beyond time.
Happy Christmas to one and all! Hope it is appropriately but not excessively White. (It turns out my iPhone dislikes sending text messages with large numbers of recipients, so apologies if you didn't get a text - Steve Jobs is the Grinch today. )
I have all eight, and these are the best promo items ever.
once and for all: just because i'm an aetheist doesn't mean that i don't approve of the spirit of what christmas has become. after all, let's face it: very little about the rituals of christmas have anything to do with jesus and much more to do with pagan solstice rituals. so, for crying out loud, put "christ" back into your own arse and let me get on with having a good time with friends, relatives, D and his family, buying presents, getting presents, seeing kids all excited and happy. okay, having said that, let me go on to say to all of you "happy christmas." this applies to everyone regardless of creed, race, origin, etc. christmas is my way of looking back at the year, counting my friends and fortunes, seeing that i'm very lucky to have you all, acknowledging the setbacks and disappointments, but knowing that moving forward is a matter of mind and not circumstance. and looking back, i want to acknowledge what you all have meant to me this year. and, really, the easiest way to say that is with the pre-coded salutation that we all understand: happy christmas. i'm sure i'll see you all here, on FB, or in person. my love. k
I almost never actually visit the Facebook web site: I follow it through a feed reader (in my case, NetNewsWire) along with all of my other feeds. Besides the obvious benefits to this, one great side effect is that you never, ever see the output of applications (e.g., quiz results) or the other useless noise like "so-and-so is now friends with someone else you already know". The only drawback I've found is that you also don't see notifications about photos that your friends have uploaded. (You do see links that they post, however: just not Facebook-hosted photos. It's a bizarre omission.) Anyway, I just had to explain to someone how to accomplish this feat, which made me realize how completely non-obvious Facebook has made this. Finding these feeds is a complete pain in the ass. They've really gone out of their way to hide the URLs you need to use. So. You have to subscribe to three or four different feeds. - Posts: Find the Posts feed by going to http://www.facebook.com/posted.php. On the upper right of the page is a gray box, and at the bottom of that box is a link entitled "My Friends' Links" with the RSS logo next to it. Copy that URL. Subscribe to it in your feed reader. This is the RSS URL for any links and (external) images that your friends post.
- Notes: Find the Notes feed by going to http://www.facebook.com/notes.php and repeating the above. This is the RSS URL for things that your friends post via the "Notes" app, which is (I guess) the more blog-like way of posting long things to Facebook.
- Notifications: Find the Notifications feed by going to http://www.facebook.com/notifications.php and repeating the above. This is the RSS URL for things like "so-and-so commented on your status". You might not care to subscribe to this one because you can get all of these kind of notifications in email.
- Status Updates: This is the RSS URL for the "What are you doing?" Twitter-like part of Facebook. This is the one you probably care about, and it is trickier, because Facebook no longer links to the feed URL! Nice one guys. You have to construct this URL by editing one of the above URLs. E.g., take the "Notes" URL and change the part of the URL that says "friends_notes" to "friends_status". Keep the parts of the URL before and after that, including the magic numbers at the end.
There. Wasn't that SIMPLE? Previously: How to use Livejournal with a feed reader.
Mon, Dec. 21st, 2009, 10:22 pm
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The week between Christmas and New Year's is traditionally the lowest-traffic week of the year for my site, and I'm gonna be out of town anyway, so I thought I might try something a little different this year. Here's a teaser for my idea:  I've already got the basic idea for the story and will hopefully start working on it before we drive down to Maryland (one advantage of driving down is I can actually bring my big Cintiq with me) for the holiday. Of course, going over my outline and idea list, this might end up being MORE work than the usual QC strips >.< So uh I no promises yet I guess, but hopefully I won't puss out and will actually get this done. |
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