at the heart of so much human misery

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Hopkins begins human trials with donor
adult stem cells to repair muscle
damaged from heart attack

Hopkins begins human trials with donor
adult stem cells to repair muscle
damaged from heart attack 03/26/2005 02:36 AM
Technocrat.net Mar 26 2005 7:21AM GMT

Woman has heart-attack on plane that
also happens to be carrying 15 heart
specialists on their way to a medical
conference

Woman has heart-attack on plane that
also happens to be carrying 15 heart
specialists on their way to a medical
conference 01/01/2004 04:27 AM
Sick airline passenger had many doctors .. You don't get any luckier than this

cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/12/31/britain.lucky.ap/index.html
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World Heart gets big order, 20 Novacor
heart pumps for German centre

World Heart gets big order, 20 Novacor
heart pumps for German centre 02/17/2004 03:51 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Feb 17 2004 7:46PM GMT

State-of-the Art Heart Auscultation
Diagnosis Tools are Highlighted on World
Heart Day

State-of-the Art Heart Auscultation
Diagnosis Tools are Highlighted on World
Heart Day 09/27/2004 02:32 AM
Biosignetics Corporation has developed and applied state-of-the art signal processing computational algorithms aiming to stimulate basic research and to teach physicians and medical students to perform “digital” heart auscultation diagnosis during the routine medical checkups. Patent pending Heart Energy Signature has a great potential to become de-facto standard to record, store, compare and track sound based heart diagnosis data. [PRWEB Sep 27, 2004]

Heart pump maker World Heart narrows Q2
loss but misses revised sale target

Heart pump maker World Heart narrows Q2
loss but misses revised sale target 08/14/2004 01:31 PM
Canadian Press Aug 14 2004 4:14PM GMT

Human, all too human -- News-Digests.Com
re-launches

Human, all too human -- News-Digests.Com
re-launches 06/08/2004 02:59 AM
Human news aggregation operation expands to multiple publications. [PRWEB Jun 8, 2004]

Sweet misery

Sweet misery 09/26/2004 07:14 AM
Just this morning, we were in the shower together, quoting Eddie Izzard to each other and laughing.

Now, a few measly hours later, my love is gone again, going back North, and the house seems so awfully empty. The sun is shining, it is warm outside, like a summer's day, and a lost fly flies frantically about in my apartment, desperately seeking something but only finding a place to die.

I still have packing to do, as I am leaving for Stuttgart in a couple of hours.

I wrote some code yesterday morning, as she was still sleeping, as I did not have the heart to wake her up.

I just miss her so terribly already.

Gel 'will end the misery of acne'

Gel 'will end the misery of acne' 04/21/2004 07:57 PM
A scientist says he can develop a gel which will treat acne.

More weather misery expected

More weather misery expected 07/08/2004 02:13 AM
High winds and rain, which left thousands without power, are due to batter parts of England and Wales for a second day.

Misery loves company. And Nortel

Misery loves company. And Nortel 09/16/2004 09:11 AM
Still no accounts, now a profit warning too...

How came any reasonable being to subject
himself to such a yoke of misery?

How came any reasonable being to subject
himself to such a yoke of misery? 04/05/2005 04:25 PM
Con fessions of an EBay opium addict - Like anyone trolling the Internet at 4 a.m., I had been looking for some kind of temporary drug fix. I found it on eBay under Crafts>Floral Supplies>Flowers, Foliage>Dried. (via Alternet)

Operation For Obesity Leaves Some in
Misery

Operation For Obesity Leaves Some in
Misery 05/03/2004 07:26 PM
Gastric bypass has become big business, but experts fear that inexperienced surgeons and inadequate screening and follow-up may harm patients.

ESPN.com: Page 2 - The MLB Misery Index

ESPN.com: Page 2 - The MLB Misery Index 04/14/2004 06:22 AM
Caple's ranking of how miserable it is to be a fan of a team .. ESPN DOES ITS OWN MISERY INDEX

sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/040407
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Hurricane leaves Florida misery

Hurricane leaves Florida misery 08/14/2004 09:39 AM
Hurricane Charley leaves an unknown number of dead and widespread damage as it slams through Florida.

Many face needless asthma misery

Many face needless asthma misery 07/20/2004 06:24 PM
More than 500,000 people have an avoidable asthma attack almost every day, finds research.

Shaq's Dunk Delivers Lakers From Misery
(AP)

Shaq's Dunk Delivers Lakers From Misery
(AP) 04/18/2004 08:33 AM
AP - The playoffs arrived, and the Los Angeles Lakers hardly looked like championship material. But Shaquille O'Neal was in the right place to bail them out — barely in time. O'Neal's only basket of the second half, a dunk off an airball by Kobe Bryant with 17.4 seconds remaining, provided the winning points in the Lakers' 72-71 victory over the Houston Rockets on Saturday night.

Art Imitates Iraqi Life in All Its Chaos
and Misery

Art Imitates Iraqi Life in All Its Chaos
and Misery 07/24/2004 02:52 PM
The war has been especially disillusioning for young Iraqi artists, many of whom believed the American promises of freedom.

Jeanne Delivers More Misery (Los Angeles
Times)

Jeanne Delivers More Misery (Los Angeles
Times) 09/27/2004 05:30 AM
Los Angeles Times - STUART, Fla. — Storm-weary Floridians weathered their fourth hurricane in six weeks as Jeanne lashed the Sunshine State with 120-mph winds and torrential rains Sunday that turned neighborhood streets into muddy rivers, ripped roofs from trailers and knocked out power to 2 million homes and businesses.

South Asia flood misery spreads

South Asia flood misery spreads 07/17/2004 07:59 AM
More than 20 million people are stranded and hungry as floodwaters surge through South Asia.

Orange punters face more mobile misery

Orange punters face more mobile misery 06/11/2004 11:18 AM
Number's up

Federer Hits Form, Misery for Sharapova

Federer Hits Form, Misery for Sharapova 09/04/2004 10:44 PM
Reuters via Wired News Sep 5 2004 1:42AM GMT

Millions face rail travel misery

Millions face rail travel misery 06/21/2004 12:39 PM
Up to 15,000 workers on Network Rail and London Underground call a joint 24-hour strike over pay.

Phone spam misery looms Stateside

Phone spam misery looms Stateside 08/05/2004 07:50 PM
Just the fax

Panther FileVault data-loss misery

Panther FileVault data-loss misery 11/04/2003 01:18 PM

Mastery, Mystery and Misery of the User
Interface

Mastery, Mystery and Misery of the User
Interface 09/01/2004 11:32 AM
Jakob serves up a classic analogy to describe the current state of UI design.

Another Year of Living Misery in Baghdad
(washingtonpost.com)

Another Year of Living Misery in Baghdad
(washingtonpost.com) 06/24/2005 03:17 PM
washingtonpost.com - BAGHDAD, June 23 -- In the streets of Baghdad, people wondered Thursday what else could possibly go wrong.

"Mastery, Mystery, and Misery: The
Ideologies of Web Design"

"Mastery, Mystery, and Misery: The
Ideologies of Web Design" 08/31/2004 08:45 PM

Human Capital Institute and Human
Capital Magazine Announce Agreement

Human Capital Institute and Human
Capital Magazine Announce Agreement 06/22/2005 03:00 AM
The Human Capital Institute (HCI), a non-profit think tank, educator and professional association, and Human Capital, a leading talent management magazine, announced today an agreement to bring HCI's game-changing research and information to readers of Human Capital. [PRWEB Jun 22, 2005]

Motorola slashes Freescale float as
misery grips IPO market

Motorola slashes Freescale float as
misery grips IPO market 07/16/2004 10:18 AM
eFinancial News Jul 16 2004 1:40PM GMT

Mastery, Mystery, and Misery: The
Ideologies of Web Design (Jakob
Nielsen's Alertbox)

Mastery, Mystery, and Misery: The
Ideologies of Web Design (Jakob
Nielsen's Alertbox) 08/30/2004 08:53 PM
Mastery, Mystery, and Misery: The Ideologies of Web Design .. Jakob Nielsen's latest essay

useit.com/alertbox/20040830.html
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AUTHENTIC
MISERY

AUTHENTIC
MISERY 12/19/2004 02:54 PM

Have you been suffering from annoying bouts of optimism and hopefulness that things might actually get better soon? Now you can banish those anxiety-causing thoughts forever with Dr. Ebenezer Scrooge's masterful program of despair, Authentic Misery®. Here's how it works. Simply select the three statements from the list of 24 below that you most agree with. The words in bold in those three statements are your Signature Weaknesses. In order to experience Authentic Misery, simply dwell constantly on these weaknesses and berate yourself for them. Assure yourself that they're all your fault, because they are! You are obviously weak, and have inferior values, or you would be cheerful and care-free like the US Presnit. I am unimaginative, uncreative, a copier and a follower in everything, and I don't have an original bone in my body. I am bored and indifferent, always waiting for someone or something to entertain me. If that doesn't happen, I look for someone to hurt or something to set fire to, to amuse myself. I am intolerant and blindly accepting, always believing what others tell me, no matter how ludicrous. I am quick to find fault, and I am arbitrary on who I blame, damn you. I am ignorant, and like it that way. Books put me to sleep. They're too long and complicated. I am aggravating and stupid, and others view me as prejudiced, biased, judgemental and idiotic, when they can stand putting up with my company at all. I am cowardly. I never stand up for my convictions, and watch other people do what I used to dream of doing. Fear is a great de-motivator. I am a procrastinator and quitter. I give up easily and leave things half I am dishonest. I'm never straight with people and never say what I mean. Not even about this. I am lazy. I don't care enough to be diligent and am half-hearted in everything I do. Don't bug me. I am distant. I don't get close to people or let them get close to me. Leave me alone. Not that alone. I am stingy and selfish. I don't share, don't care. It's all about me, me, me. I am insensitive. I am able to offend and hurt people without even trying, you piece of excrement. I am greedy, petulant and irresponsible. I take credit for others' work and stab people in the back. And I complain and whine non-stop. Jesus, this list is long. Is there a point to this post? I am unfair and unreasonable. Justice is for fools. And I'm the judge. I am passive. I do what I'm told and don't think, or act, for myself. Let someone else do it. You do it. I am angry and vengeful. I have a long memory and I hold grudges. I am egotistical. If you don't toot your own horn, no one else will do it for you. I am reckless. Speak and act first and think later, if at all. I am undisciplined. Gimme those chips and chocolates, and stay out of my face. I am unappreciative. Life sucks and then you die. Thanks for nothing, asshole. I am ungrateful, and take everything for granted. I am pessimistic. Everything's going to hell. Not like the good old days. I am unpleasant. The only joke around here is your face and your friend's bad taste. I am agnostic. There is no purpose or meaning to life. Only shit is real. Please kill me already. Once you have identified your Signature Weaknesses, blame yourself incessantly for them. You can only be truly miserable when you realize that the situation is absolutely hopeless. If you harp on this fanatically enough, you can actually get yourself into a catatonic state of suicidal despair. This is the ideal 'zen' state of Authentic Misery. If this isn't enough to keep you truly and perpetually miserable, try this Being In The Moment exercise. Go and visit your local factory farm, penitentiary, crack neighbourhood, women's shelter or soup kitchen and talk to the people there. Hear their stories. Then realize there are millions, billions of pathetic people and suffering animals living in environments that are even worse, every day for their increasingly long lives, and that no one is willing to take responsibility for what has led to their situation, and that between environmental destruction, corporatism, endless wars over increasingly scarce resources, profligate spending, interminable cuts to government services, and skyrocketing corporate subsidies, their situation is going to get unimaginably worse still very soon. And the outlook for the next generation is ten times worse again. Another excellent exercise for entrenching your state of Authentic Misery is called Negative Imaging. Picture yourself as the nurturing, caring wife of a brutal and abusive man who has convinced everyone you know that he is the perfect, strict father. He drinks himself into a constant blind rage and takes it all out on you and your nine deprived and starving children. He gambles away all the money you earn and save, which he's lost to his incredibly rich poker buddies. Are you getting into the Authentic Misery spirit yet? Great. Because it's really that bad. Now, let's rewrite that obnoxious Serenity Prayer in the spirit of Authentic Misery. The original version, which was plagiarized anyway reads: Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Ugh. Here's a better version: You can't change anything, and you're stupid to try. But you should still feel guilty about it, because it's your fault it's so bad in the first place. And it's a lot of other people's fault, too, so you should be very angry with everyone else as well. Christmas is a great time to spread Authentic Misery to everyone around you. Why not buy a copy of Dr. Scrooge's great new book The Power of Negative Thinking for everyone on your list. Make Christmas a season of unbearable gloom for everyone you foolishly love and care about. After all, if you're not happy, why should anyone else be? And what's the point anyway? [with sincere apologies to Martin Seligman] On a more serious note, here are my personal answers to the questions I posed in October on the subject of happiness, and their implications for saving the world: What is happiness? The absence of suffering. Does happiness drive our behaviour? In a way -- it makes us passive. It is only when we are really unhappy that we change our behaviour, and act. Does more information actually inhibit our ability and willingness to act? Absolutely. At best, it can paralyze us with uncertainty and doubt. At worst, it can be an excuse for doing nothing. Which is the easiest route to happiness: lowering your expectations, putting your dissatisfaction in rational perspective, or focusing on the positive? Depends on the individual. For the optimist, it's the first, for the pragmatist the second, and for the pessimist and idealist (that's me), the third. But none of them is that easy. Would you trade away your ability to think, for permanent happiness? In a heartbeat. I guess that shows my age. Or my mental state. Thinking is overrated. Sensing and instinct are more powerful, and important. I'm looking forward to Malcolm Gladwell's new book Blink ("The Power of Thinking Without Thinking"). Gladwell says: "You could also say that it's a book about intuition, except that I don't like that word." Intuition is a great word with a bad rap -- I wish I'd known the thesis of the book before he excised this word from it. I might have got him to change the title. Is news really information, if it doesn't inform us what to do? No. The word 'information' means "to put meaning around". News is mostly meaning-less, an addiction, like gambling and fast food. Very dangerous, but curable if you quit cold turkey. Are children, as a whole, happier than adults in the same culture and economic situation? Yes, because they sense more and think less. They are wiser than we are. Is the role of modern Western man to write and direct his own story? Yes, because he has lost his way. Many great stories are about finding one's way home, and that is the story that modern Western man is writing, each one a lonely, individual story. They are sad, violent stories compared to the great stories of prehistory -- stories of joy, of belonging, of community, of relationship. Collective stories. I don't really believe in Authentic Happiness, so it is perhaps unfair of me to satirize it. I keep saying that Things are the way they are for a reason, and I believe the endemic unhappiness in our world of unprecedented wealth is completely authentic, and not the creation of advertisers trying to instill unhappiness to drive more consumption. The more we know, the more unhappy we are, and to me that legitimizes our unhappiness. I do love the James Thurber quote: "I always say you can have too much philosophy", Mrs. Kirkfield said. "It isn't good for you. It's disorganizing. Everybody's got to wake up sometime feeling that everything is terrible, because it is." So what do we do with all this wisdom about unhappiness? We cope with it. We keep looking for answers that will make the world much less "terrible". We acknowledge that in a terrible world we are justified in being unhappy and likely to spend most of our lives that way. If we're really convinced that there's nothing we can do that will make any significant difference, we escape the pain as often as possible, using any means at our disposal: Sex, drugs, music, prayer, self-delusion, denial, feigned ignorance, suicide -- whatever works for each of us. And if we believe there is something we can do that will make a significant difference, then we either do it or die, or, worse, we wimp out, and feel guilty our whole lives for not acting on our instincts, and then die regretting what could have been. At this season when our society's happiness and unhappiness both reach their annual crescendo, I wish you -- not either of these two delusional states -- but instead, courage, to do. Your instincts will tell you what to do.

Meg Follows Her Heart...

Meg Follows Her Heart... 09/15/2004 03:32 AM
...From Geek to Chef, with all good wishes from here.

A heart apart

A heart apart 09/03/2004 11:51 AM
Bill Clinton has had a heart attack. Currently he is in a New York hospital awaiting emergency surgery.

I heart NYC

I heart NYC 09/01/2004 08:00 AM

This appeared in the Village Voice [via Rox Populi.]

I've been apologizing to Europeans here about these idiots - called our government. I explain that there are two Amerikas right now - the two coasts and big cities - and all the rest.

I understand rich people votinmg for Bush - and clearly they'll steal the election (liek Osama is going to be found in late october - mark my words) - but what's up with all these poor white trash, crackers and religous nuts?

Have they looked at their paychecks recently? Gas prices? Health costs? Remember the words from the song by Country Joe Fish: "be the first one on the block, to bring your boy right home in a box."

I heart you, lab boy

I heart you, lab boy 02/01/2005 08:45 PM

(I heart you, lab boy, originally uploaded by ChrisJ)

Love is everywhere

We have your best interests at heart

We have your best interests at heart 06/18/2004 02:36 PM
SOMA, Orgy-Porgy, Centrifugal BumblePuppy help!

Bleeding Heart 1.0

Bleeding Heart 1.0 06/16/2004 01:30 PM
A rather dark, sad theme.

Heart [Flickr]

Heart [Flickr] 01/05/2005 10:44 PM

mathowie posted a photo:

Heart

"The Heart of America"

"The Heart of America" 12/19/2004 03:21 PM

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