Daily Archives: November 11, 2004

10×10: 100 Words and 100 Pictures

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10×10 looks both interesting and entertaining:

Every hour, 10×10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour’s most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories.

They also provide links to the related articles and it looks like they intend to archive the hourly reports starting with their beginning back on 11/4. The history funtionality will be cool variation on ‘this day in history’ stuff.
They do not say whether they intend to add more news sources to the three they are now using and the images currently load slowly.
Via LawPundit.

Finding the Cure

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Health care emulates life

I called Dr. Hammami with the news of the final diagnosis and asked why it had been missed by all the doctors the patient saw before arriving at his hospital. He thought for a moment before he answered. ”It’s difficult for a doctor to say, ‘I don’t know,”’ he said. ”The patient doesn’t want to hear it, and the doctor doesn’t want to say it. But in medicine you can’t know everything; you just have to know how to get the answer. I was certain the eosinophils would get us there.”
The rest of life is similar. We don’t know everything and finding solutions to personal, work or social challenges requires a willingness to put in some work and a willingness to look beyond, to step outside of the current framing of a situation.
Via DB’s Medical Rants.