http://blog.kindproject.com Inspired by a fake story Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:10:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I like the fact that major players in the game, yahoo and now google are hosting javascript files. They have the global presence and resources to ensure that copies of the same libraries are served most efficiently from a single network, zipped, compressed and closest to the user. Yahoo started ... http://blog.kindproject.com/2008/06/17/js-hosted-files-yahoo-and-now-google/ Since managers started platooning players and succumbing to the theory that the handedness of pitchers allows for a distinct advantage recoding an out, switch hitting has been on the rise. In the first case I have heard of the yanks are trotting out a switch-pitcher. Unfortunately the yankee pitching scouts ... http://blog.kindproject.com/2008/06/13/yankees-score-an-ambidextrous-pitcher/  NameScore 1.JBK100 2.WTF97 3.OMG92 Next week, Wednesday, will be my 100th doctors appointment with my retina surgeon. I have asked that they put a leader board up like the old school arcade games. At the very least I am hoping for a cake :) Since I started seeing this doctor, he has built out his own ... http://blog.kindproject.com/2008/05/17/100th-doctors-visit-for-a-detached-retina/ New yorkers have have heard of the yankees-mets rivalry and probably the china town bus wars. You might be familiar with other local rival businesses of cable fame portrayed on shows like Discovery's the deadliest catch, History's ice road truckers and axmen, but this one is new. Good Humor ... http://blog.kindproject.com/2008/05/14/ice-cream-truck-wars-next-season-on-discovery/ I have been seeing more articles about this new personal genome service, 23andMe. On the patientslikeme.com blog, a staff writer talked about the privacy implications of submitting her info, but in the end she spit since her company, patientslikeme, is all about sharing of medical info. Yesterday at work ... http://blog.kindproject.com/2008/05/12/23andme/ Sometimes you have to stop and ponder good inventions. 218 years ago today the french created the metric system. Despite signing the Treaty of Meter in 1875 and our friendship with the french during the period of the metric systems birth, we Americans still have not adopted this most logical ... http://blog.kindproject.com/2008/05/08/day-of-measurement/ My wife and I have long believed that the anti-bacterial germaphobed American masses have lost touch with the natural cycle of life. Ashes to ashes dust to dust is lost on the control-freak, ocd culture of Americans. I am a firm believer in "the Hygiene Hypothesis, formulated by the epidemiologist ... http://blog.kindproject.com/2008/05/06/is-fido-good-for-johny-jr/ Here at google aka neverland ranch, they have a great authors series where guess what authors come to speak about their books. Not only that, they give books away and in return the author gets some youtube video exposure. In honor of world book day on Wednesday I finally made ... http://blog.kindproject.com/2008/04/26/world-book-day-chapter-ii/ For some unknown reason I'm all into days with causes lately. Next week I'm looking forward to nopantsday, which should have a good flickr stream. I have been preparing my daughter to squirm around in diapers only. But for today, world book day, I had to pick up a new book ... http://blog.kindproject.com/2008/04/23/world-book-day/ PBS has captured my attention on Tuesday nights with its primetime line up of Nova and Frontline. Yes I watch tv on tv and I don't own a tivo, how old fashion of me. Luckily for you pbs, frontline, has a nice online archive of shows for you to watch ... http://blog.kindproject.com/2008/04/23/pbs-tuesday-night-lineup/