I came across the dumbest code I’ve seen in a while at work today.

The really cool thing is that the whole graphic is backed by a google doc spreadsheet that is chock full with explicit references to back up the claims.  My wife of course asked where they got the data – and you can actually check it out (you don’t have to take their word for it).  This is a graphical representation of the “Alternative” medicine trash heap I blogged about previously.

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I had this intermittent problem with my mouse in a VM until I realized it had been converted from a Virtual PC image long ago.  That still left some mouse driver hooks that were breaking the VMWare mouse driver.  Thank goodness for keyboard shortcuts and thank goodness I still know them…  The fix is here:

Actually, the lack of a letter “s”.

Excellent way to get data on just about anything and good graphs to visualize the balance of nutrients to fat.

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Best to have a kid get a cold here or there to reduce the chance of higher inflammation as adults and protect them from cardiovascular diseases.  We were just talking about this…

I think it is a horrible waste that the US spends so much money to fund the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) which investigates non-scientific modalities, many of which have no prior plausibility so would not normally even qualify for scientific investigation.  I prefer the term Supplements and Complementary and Alternative Medicine for the category of woo because it has a better acronym (SCAM) – thanks to Mark Crislip for that.

A brand new study out shows that using sinus rinsing as a prophylactic may actually have the opposite effect of increasing your rate of sinus infections.  Significantly.  As much as 50-60+ % more sinus infections.