Monthly Archives: June 2007

Will Novartis Knock Out Pfizer’s Viagra

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Novartis’ Boost Plus is being given credit for an extreme case of priapism:

A man has sued the maker of the health drink Boost Plus, claiming the vitamin-enriched beverage gave him an erection that would not subside and caused him to be hospitalized.

Is there any way to tell if Boost Plus sales are rising since this hit the press?
What I don’t see in the article is how much of this stuff he drank and whether he took any initiative to, uhhh, work it off.
If Boost Plus really has this effect a lot more folks would have found out by now. Nevertheless, we can expect this to become a junior high urban legend explanation for more than a few morning woodys.
Perhaps Novartis should follow Pfizer’s lead and warn its consumers that if it stays hard longer than 4 hours they should get medical assistance.

Via Notes from Dr. RW.

Food for Your iPOD

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Download a lecture or two on your favorite subject from iTunes U:

Designed to be completely intuitive, iTunes U is based on the iTunes Store, where millions of people already get their music, movies, and TV shows. Now there’s an area of the iTunes Store devoted entirely to education, where it’s easy to search thousands of audio and video files from schools across the country.
Colleges and universities build their own iTunes U sites. Faculty post content they create for their classes. Students download what they need, and go. Learning isn’t just for the classroom anymore. It’s for anytime and anyplace you’ve got a Mac, a PC, or an iPod.

Via Christopher Dawson at Education IT who notes:

While most universities have been podcasting for some time, this is certainly an innovative way for Apple to facilitate the sharing of this content and give us all one more reason to become pod people. Most of the content is free for the taking…I can almost feel the earbuds now.

A good place to start might be Geography of World Cultures from Stanford.

So You’re Going to New York to Make the Bigtime

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You might want to check out the New York Profit Calculator first:

The wild risks, unexpected niches, and day-in-day-out grind behind making a dollar in New York for everyone… from a drug dealer to Goldman Sachs.

Thanks to the war on drugs it looks like the meth dealer made out pretty well. No wonder there is always someone to fill the void when a dealer gets carted off to jail.

Via Henley.

iPhone Adds

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The new iPhone adds are kind of cool and, gosh, manipulating stuff on the screen with your fingers looks pretty nifty.
Perhaps that explains why Microsoft was eager to show off Surface.
The prices, the prices. I won’t be buying a $500 iPhone or a $xthousand Surface anytime soon.

Via Pharyngula.