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France Fights Universal Care's High Cost
via online.wsj.com
From the Wall Street Journal, an excellent comparison of US and French health care systems. The article points out how attached we French our to our system, and it is true. It is a matter of pride and identity, even as costs rise. Clickl the link below the chart (above) for the full article.
Parmi toutes les choses pour lesquelles je ne suis pas doué...
"Parmi toutes les choses pour lesquelles je ne suis pas doué, la vie quotidienne occupe sans doute la première place."
- Bill Bryson, American rigolos
Gestion du temps : Tasck.com
Depuis plusieurs jours, j'utilise le site Tasck pour gérer mes différents To Do's de la journée. J'aime utiliser ce site car il correspond à mes besoins: clair, facile et épuré, il me permet de voir immédiatement ce que j'ai à faire ( à la différence de Remember The Milk, très complet mais pas assez "immédiat" à mon goût).
Les fonctionnalités de Tasck sont très simples. Il suffit d'ajouter les tâches dans l'espace prévu à cet effet. Pour prioriser certaines tâches, il faut simplement mettre une majuscule au début de celle-ci. Une fois une tâche effectuée, on peut la marquer comme telle. Un compteur en bas à gauche de l'écran indique le nombre de tâches effectuées depuis la création du compte. Ce qui me plaît vraiment, c'est que je peux combiner l'utilisation de Tasck avec la méthode des Most Important Tasks de Leo Babauta. Je commence ma journée en me loggant sur Tasck et j'y entre mes 3 MITs à l'aide d'une majuscule. Je peux ajouter les tâches annexes sans majuscule. Tout cela me permet de bien organiser mes journées, qui sont bien chargées malgré les vacances!Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement: How to write strong arguments
The Internet desperately needs more attention paid to increasing the quality of discourse in blogs, comments, and really everywhere online.
Posterous Now Supports Posting to Facebook Pages!
We're happy to unveil our newest feature -- Posterous for Facebook Pages. Now it's super easy to update your page's wall using Posterous -- just email us, and we'll automatically post a feed item to keep your fans updated! Engage your fans even more by allowing them to read your Posterous blog directly from Facebook just by adding the Posterous tab to your page.
There are a few differences between autopost to normal Facebook profiles and pages. Due to the limitations of the Facebook platform, we're unable to post to your page's photo and video albums. Hopefully Facebook will support this in the near future! Set up is easy. Start by adding Facebook as an autopost site. Then edit the settings for your Facebook autopost site. If you have any pages, you will have the option to post to them. Any questions? Just email us.
Eddie Adams
Eddie Adams
is a very well known, famed photographer. He is most known for the
photograph above, which won him the Pulitzer Prize. The photograph is
timeless. Unfortunately, life is not and with the passing of Eddie
Adams we receive another timeless piece of art, An Unlikely Weapon, a film that documents Mr. Eddie Adams fascinating life.
Example of Bravery
A Spanish Naval captain was walking leisurely on his battleship when a subordinate rushes over to him and says "Sir, an enemy battleship is fast approaching us. We should be ready"
The captain replies coolly "Go. Get my Red shirt" The subordinate rushes over and gets the Shirt for his captain. The captain wears the red shirt.
After some time, the enemy battleship comes in range. Consequently heavy rounds of fire are exchanged between the two battleships. After much effort, the Spanish win.
The subordinate approaches his boss, "Congratulations for the victory sir, but why did you require the red shirt in the first place?"
The captain replies "Because, during the war if I got injured then my blood should not have been seen as I did not want my men to lose hope and to Fight with the same ferocity."
Just then another subordinate rushes over. "Sir, we just spotted another 20 enemy battleships heading in our direction."
The captain replies coolly “Go. Get my yellow trousers”
Posterous API: We're a direct replacement for TwitPic
The Posterous API is a direct replacement for the TwitPic API used in desktop twitter clients and iPhone applications. It lets you upload photos to your Posterous site using just Twitter credentials.
Except it's better. We allow you to upload multiple photos and you get an image gallery. We offer the full size download of the image, or a zip file of multiple images. It posts to *your* Posterous site, which may have a custom domain and Google Analytics. And we autopost not just to Twitter, but also Facebook, Flickr, and many blogs. Oh, and TwitPic is down all the time. That's no fun.
Michael Arrington, Guy Kawasaki, and Rainn Wilson all use Posterous in place of Twitpic. They email photos to Posterous, and we update their Twitter and Facebook accounts. We're extending this to the desktop and iPhone apps with this API.
Coming soon: support for audio, video, and other files. We can handle it all.
If you use a Twitter client that has TwitPic support, email them and let them know they can add Posterous support today! We use all the same methods, responses and errors, so integration should be a breeze.
API documentation can be found here.
See the release on Techcrunch here.
