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Ah, well, not much you can do about that, then.

If you're in the U.S. and this happens you can and should file a HIPAA complaint. Vision care providers are bound by HIPAA just like other medical providers and with few exceptions…

> stretched museum quality canvas prints What does that mean? It seems like a contradiction in terms. Stretched-canvas prints were invented for the interior design market. While I …

I can think of several local restaurants and several national chains that do. In fact I'll bet most national chains do. I actually get a nontrivial amount of value out of local pla…

You can click on "More search tools" on the left sidebar and below "Any time" choose "Past month," "Past year," etc., or "Custom range..." As a Rails developer I use "Past year" co…

This is cool. Realtime? Awesome. Some thoughts: * As others have mentioned, it's too easy to single-click accidentally and create a note. * Pasting a URL to an image isn't discover…

From the FAQ: "Well, it's true that Spine was inspired by Backbone, an excellent library, and its controller API is very similar. However, the similarities end there. Internally th…

That's as many as four tens!

Interesting. As gilesc points out, this is only possible by reverse-engineering (i.e. decompiling) the Flash client to get the encryption and decryption keys (crypt_key_input.h and…

For some more perspective: InterFax's smallest--and highest cost-per-page package--is $0.11/page. So to send 15 pages through InterFax will cost a developer at most $1.65: http://w…

There's already a Stack Exchange-based site for this: Recipe Labs. http://ask.recipelabs.com/ I'm partial to it because it has a cheeky alternate URL: http://steakoverflow.com/

I agree. You can see it here in text with links and all that: http://bettween.com/mpjamesmoore/doctorow/desc (Note: you have to keep clicking "More" at the bottom to see the whole …

Contrary to what these initial comments are suggesting, Mahalo isn't duplicating content across all of these sites. These sites are each targeted at specific verticals, and (are in…

wkhtmltopdf renders web pages to PDF using WebKit and works great on Windows, for what it's worth. It's just one more step to go from PDF to PNG. The results were great when I used…

It will take an empty set of quotes for that, e.g. 'chicken "" egg'.

Hasbro has been breathing down their necks and their getting shut down has been a very real possibility for months. I suspect they've been working on this for quite awhile.

Neil Young's answer to digital distribution is physical media? A disc you have to go the store and buy in person or have delivered by a guy in a truck? A disc, I think it's safe to…

Frankly I'd rather have Wikipedia search that doesn't suck.

Calacanis founded Silicon Alley Reporter. Whatever your feelings about him, he's definitely got journalist cred.

Don't forget thefacebook.com.