Life in the dark ages -- of 1900 America

Marginal Revolution: Which countries face a medical cost crunch?

... the level in China would be comparable to that of the U.S. in about 1900. At that time the average American male suffered from six chronic medical conditions, and it was very likely that at least one of those six was debilitating, meaning the person could not work.

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Wealthy enough not to die, but lacking the technology to avoid exterme suffering. The average american back then was relatively young as well ...

An amazing quote. I wonder if it's true.

Microsoft Outlook Categories: Tips and References

Microsoft Outlook Categories

Rarely has a potentially useful feature been so incompetently implemented for so many years. Outlook categories belong in the Microsoft Hall of Shame -- dwarfed, of course, by Word Style Sheets.

Password generator: site specific passwords

Password generator

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This is bloody brilliant. Talk about a modest guy -- Nic doesn't put much on this plain page -- except a JavaScript tool that

will concatenate two fields and MD5 them. The idea is that you choose one master password to secure all your others, and then generate passwords for each site, server, router, &c. by putting a completely obvious name for that resource in the "Site name" field.

It doesn't work with IE, but IE's unsafe on the public net anyways. I love his comment on IE "... too long for Internet Explorer which I believe to have been written by trained otters" A harsh slur on otters though.

macosxhints - Use wildcards to build iPhoto smart albums

macosxhints - Use wildcards to build iPhoto smart albums

? and * are wild cards in smart albums
[] are escape characters to search on wildcards

macosxhints - Keyword Assistant -- iPhoto keywords made easy!

macosxhints - Keyword Assistant -- iPhoto keywords made easy!

If htis works, it will be tremendous. I'll test and update here.

NASA's earth observatory image collection: for when your desktop needs a makeover

EO Newsroom: New Images Index

macosxhints - Paste multiple bookmarks into Safari

macosxhints - Paste multiple bookmarks into Safari

If you paste a text block containing URLs into a Safari bookmark folder, it will create separate bookmarks for each url.