August 30, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-08-30

• Veterans up in arms over Microsoft Vista: "The timing of Microsoft's announcement is most unfortunate," said Maury Pepper, Chairman of Worldvista. "Microsoft is aware of the VA's use of 'Vista' and yet insists on detracting from the nationwide effort to provide the Vista electronic health record
  ( *MSC VistA co_Microsoft sw_WindowsVista )
• GOAL: Goal the movie -- younf Mexican American travels to play at Newcastle United FC
  ( *ToSee Cinema sport_Football )

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August 29, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-08-29

• Corky's BBQ: Corky's BBQ, old fashioned and world famous!
  ( Food Tn. )

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August 27, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-08-27

• NPR : Master Spy Storyteller: John Le Carre: Le Carre is the pen name of David John Moore Cornwell, who was a member of the British Foreign Service before his name was given up to the Russians by a notorious double agent.
  ( Books Cinema Interviews people_LeCarre )
• John le Carre - British spy novelist
  ( *ToRead Books people_LeCarre )
• NPR : Bringing Le Carre's 'Constant Gardener' to the Big Screen: Based on the John Le Carre novel, the movie tells a story of love, betrayal and big pharmaceutical companies set in East Africa.
  ( *ToWatch Books Cinema people_LeCarre )
• NPR : Dutch Noir: 'Memory of a Killer': Film critic Kenneth Turan reviews Memory of a Killer, a Dutch noir thriller about a hit man who's developed Alzheimer's disease.
  ( *ToWatch Cinema )

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August 26, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-08-26

• Paint.NET - Home: an image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, or Server 2003. It started development at Washington State University as an undergraduate senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently be
  ( C# Images Photography Software Win32 )
• maxq.tigris.org: MaxQ records you using a web site. It turns the links you click on and any other input into a Python script that you can play back at any time.
  ( Benchmarking Python Software Testing WebDev )
• OP/EN - Open Enterprise Platform: FreeB is the worlds first and only GPL Medical Bill Formatting Engine. As a third-generation billing engine it is capable of interfacing with any Practice Management System or Electronic Medical Record to provide the capability to generate medical bills.
  ( *MSC Billing Healthcare Software )
• CHiT Staff Eager to Evaluate VistA Office EHR Software -- American Academy of Family Physicians: "There's been lots of buzz about this product," said Steven Waldren, M.D., assistant director of CHiT. "We at CHiT are waiting for the release of this product so we can evaluate it using the same criteria we use to evaluate all health information technolo
  ( *MSC VistA dept_CMS org_AAFP )

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August 25, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-08-25

• M-AUDIO - DX4 - Professional Desktop Audio Monitoring System: M-Audio Studiophile monitors are used by top recording engineers and producers in studios around the world. Now you can enjoy the same professional standard of audio quality right on your desktop. The Studiophile DX4s match custom tuned cabinet design, op
  ( Audio HiFi ToBuy )
• US Copyright Flowchart - Bromberg & Sunstein LLP - Intellectual Property, Business, Litigation: Flowchart for determining when U.S. copyrights in fixed works expire
  ( Copyright Law Legal )
• Fighting to Live as the Towers Died - New York Times: They began as calls for help, information, guidance. They quickly turned into soundings of desperation, and anger, and love. Now they are the remembered voices of the men and women who were trapped on the high floors of the twin towers.
  ( 9/11 Articles )

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August 24, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-08-24

• NPR : 'The Rabbi's Cat' Wishes to Be Jewish Too: No superheroes here, no modern-day eccentrics and no symbolic mice. Instead Sfar's work features an Algerian rabbi, his cat and a variety of adventures in theology.
  ( Books Comics Jewish radio_NPR )

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August 23, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-08-23

• Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus. Free access.: English, Medical, Legal, Financial, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Acronyms, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine all in one!
  ( Dictionaries Legal Medical )

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August 17, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-08-17

• How to replace a BMW headliner; with step by step pictures.: The headliner is replaced basically the same way as any other car; but slightly more complicated because of the sunroof and recessed handles, and a few other goodies, like the headliner board being removed through the rear passenger door.
  ( Autos BMW Tutorials )

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August 13, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-08-13

• Zimbra™ - Home: Zimbra™ is delivering better business email through innovation, open source, and seamless integration with existing applications and systems.
  ( Software WebApps eMail )
• ActiveGrid - Turn on the LAMP in the Enterprise: Introducing ActiveGrid Enterprise LAMP. Comprised of the ActiveGrid Application Builder and the ActiveGrid LAMP Application Server, ActiveGrid Enterprise LAMP delivers the enterprise features that enterprises require to adopt the LAMP stack.
  ( LAMPS Linux Software )

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August 10, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-08-10

• Mercurial Distributed SCM: Mercurial is a fast, lightweight source control management system designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects.
  ( Programming SCM Software )
• PBM National Formulary: Pharmacy Benefits Management - Strategic Healthcare Group
  ( *MSC Pharm VistA dept_VA )

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August 08, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-08-08

• Medical Software From Feds Could Benefit Big Health Care: CMS expects to announce the distribution plans for its Vista-Office EHR software this month. The announcement, which has already been widely publicized, was due to take place last week but didn't materialize.
  ( *MSC VistA dept_CMS )

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August 05, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-08-05

• CRN | Open Source: new frontier is opening up in the open-source space, where a third wave of software adoption is taking root higher up the stack—at the business application layer—and further downmarket, where solution providers are best positioned to profit.
  ( *MSC Opensource VistA people_Augustin )

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August 04, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-08-04

• HHS to offer private physicians 'free' software: Kizer, pres and ceo of the National Quality Forum, said VistA-Office will need a lot of support to succeed, even in the hands of sophisticated users. Kizer said he worries that without vendor support, "a good product would get tarnished."
  ( *MSC EHR VistA dept_CMS people_Kizer )
• Feds To Offer Low-Cost Health-Care Software > August 1, 2005: This week, a government agency will try to step up that adoption rate with a program to provide doctor offices and clinics with low-cost E-health-record software.
  ( *MSC EHR VistA dept_CMS )
• Bombich Software: Carbon Copy Cloner: Have you ever wanted a simple, complete, bootable backup of your hard drive? Have you ever wanted to upgrade to a larger hard drive with minimal hassle and without reinstalling your OS and all of your applications? Have you ever wanted to move your enti
  ( MacOSX Software Storage )

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August 03, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-08-03

• Deep into Sleep: a psychiatrist in private practice telephoned associate professor of psychiatry Robert Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist specializing in sleep research. He asked whether Stickgold knew of any reason not to prescribe modafinil, a new wakefulness-promot
  ( Research Sleep edu_Harvard )
• TheOpenCD.org: TheOpenCD is a collection of high quality Free and Open Source Software. The programs run in Windows and cover the most common tasks such as word processing, presentations, e-mail, web browsing, web design, and image manipulation.
  ( Linux Software Win32 )
• Nvu - The Complete Web Authoring System for Linux, Macintosh and Windows: complete Web Authoring System for Linux Desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver.
  ( CSS Linux MacOSX Software WYSIWYG Win32 XHTML )

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August 02, 2005

Notable URLs on 2005-08-02

• An Analysis of Netflix's DVD Allocation System: When the number of customers who have a movie at the the top of their queue is greater than the number of copies available, Netflix must decide which customers to allocate the available copies to.
  ( Articles co )
• Netflix Turnaround Prediction Calculator: Netflix turnaround time is the time between dropping off a Netflix rental in the mail and receiving a replacement for that rental in your mailbox.
  ( Calculator DVD co_NetFlix )
• Reinventing EHR - Computerworld: Wait, there's more. VistA was built on a database engine named MUMPS (now called just M). VistA is free, but M requires a license fee. VistA has also been rewritten as an open-source version called OpenVista, which runs on Linux and uses its own open-sour
  ( *MSC VistA )
• iLounge - Read this first: A guide to installing an ipod in your car: What follows is an outline of the various approaches to installing the ipod in a car, parts needed for each type of install, examples of products and relative sound quality of each option.
  ( Autos Tutorials iPod )

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