The emergency room is at once both a fascinating and terrifying place. It is an exercise in balance and limitations, boiling down to either chaos or controlled chaos. This was my observation at a fully staffed, well stocked 400 bed regional referral center in west Texas. It tests the limits of my imagination to fathom [...]

Just wanted to give a heads up to folks who wrote in about our site’s wiki being down. Thank you very much! We’re in the process of getting it fixed and should have all of the moving pieces up again. In the spirit of keeping things interesting, I wanted to share with you why we [...]

A few days ago, we woke up to the sound of concern.  It seemed to be permeating from our comments board.  In particular, this one: You folks are businessfolks, right? You’re interested in selling as much stuff as possible, right? I read about Healingblade in The Scientist, immediately thought of how much fun it would [...]

We’ve made a ripple on the gentle wave of counter-culture that is Nerdcore HipHop. A few days ago we got a shoutout from BlakLotus, the bassist for one particular MCFrontalot, seen by many as the group of individuals that pioneered the Nerdcore movement. How epic is that?  Here’s a little bit of NCL trivia for [...]

Ok, so while tripping along the intertubes today, we heard about this dude who somehow managed to snag a lifetime ban from Apple, because he chose to grab a few iPads for his mates outside of the US. Hmmm, sounds a lot like the time I grabbed a few gen one playstations for friends of [...]

Gotta love this – a plastic surgeon named Hank Chien just beat the world record in Donkey Kong. For those of you in the know, there is a subculture of retro-gaming that permeates the land, with its trials and tribulations highlighted in the outstanding documentary, “King of Kong.” If you haven’t seen it, we highly [...]

We’re closing in on the final designs for the AMSA 2010 booth, and we wanted to share with you how our little piece of the AMSAverse is shaping up. Be sure to come and visit us (Booth #1) for a chance to get signed copies of the ‘Healing Blade’ game! Also – in random news, [...]

The inspiration for NCL came from a series of lectures I heard in the car while dropping off my brother-in-law, Zab, at the airport. He had downloaded some lectures from itunes U – the Standford Social Enterprise Series, I believe – and we were listening to them. We were basically mesmerized by the premise of [...]

Darren Young, 45 year old bus driver in UK, is allergic to his wife, but only when she wears certain creams and lotions. The reaction is quick and deadly, his body swells up and his heart can stop too, if the amount of chemical is large enough. Unfortunately, this chemical is rather commonly used in [...]

It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No… it’s a scientific paper explaining Superman’s Super Powers! Okay not really. The paper by Ben Tippet makes a few blatant suppositions and then using them builds a rather a strong hypothesis. Now I don’t claim to understand all of it. However, this is the gist in the author’s [...]