To Read the Menu, Baby Boomers Turn to Eye Treatments

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Baby Boomers And Social Security

Baby Boomers And Social Security 03/23/2005 10:38 PM
“NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress that the mounting financial pressure of a wave of retiring baby boomers is so great that cuts in future government retirement benefits are all but inevitable.” Well, that’s just great. I’m on the wazoo end of being a baby boomer, just barely qualifying. I know, baby boomers are defined as being the population explosion caused by the ending of WWII, which apparently caused massive…

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Newsletter aims to serve baby boomers

Newsletter aims to serve baby boomers 12/28/2003 08:13 PM
By Anick Jesdanun. NEW YORK - Type ``retirement planning'' into Google's search engine, and you'll get nearly 4.2 million returns. ...

Baby Boomers Take Cover under Tax Lien
Certificates

Baby Boomers Take Cover under Tax Lien
Certificates 05/31/2004 01:51 PM
Unstable political and economical realities make traditional securities far less appealing to Baby Boomers. [PRWEB May 28, 2004]

Baby boomers push sales of recumbent
bikes

Baby boomers push sales of recumbent
bikes 06/07/2004 03:35 PM

New Treatments Turn Off the Tap for
People Who Sweat Too Much

New Treatments Turn Off the Tap for
People Who Sweat Too Much 04/19/2004 05:41 PM
Seven million Americans suffer from hyperhidrosis, or excessive sweating. New treatments now are gaining attention.

"Too Much, Too Late - Baby boomers heap
insincere praise on the "greatest
generation.""

"Too Much, Too Late - Baby boomers heap
insincere praise on the "greatest
generation."" 06/09/2004 10:55 AM

U-turn puts WI cake back on menu

U-turn puts WI cake back on menu 07/29/2004 03:15 PM
A hospital lifts its ban on cakes baked by a WI group after saying the treats posed a risk to patients' health.

22 Italians (funny, it only read 12 when
I first read it this morning) died in a
bomb blast in Iraq

22 Italians (funny, it only read 12 when
I first read it this morning) died in a
bomb blast in Iraq 11/13/2003 08:53 AM
Bombing comes despite attacks on insurgents .. lourd tribut .. CNN

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Free baby photo trojan gets new moms to
sell baby-privacy

Free baby photo trojan gets new moms to
sell baby-privacy 04/04/2005 06:24 AM
Cory Doctorow: A friend of mine worked at Procter and Gamble when they hit on the idea of giving away baskets of baby-related freebies to new moms. The idea was that a couple days after the family went home and they needed more diapers, mom would send dad out with the package from the freebies and say, "More like these, please." It's pretty clever, and I'm cool with it -- especially now that the whole thing is handled through brokers who take products from a variety of vendors, with input from maternity wards.

That, I think, is a pretty good way of marketing to new families. It doesn't compromise privacy, it gives them something they need, and it doesn't force them or lock them in. It's informative, useful, and respectful (provided that the marketing makes it clear that there's no medical endorsement of these products).

Compare that to this: a service that sneakily gets moms to agree to a "free baby photo" while they're signing all their necessary medical forms on the morning of their delivery. The company that takes the picture then sells your contact info to anyone who'll buy it.

On the morning of the delivery, the nurse hands a sheaf of forms to the mother-to-be. Buried within is a release form offering a free portrait of the new baby. Mom is wired to three different machines, having her pulse and blood pressure measured automatically while two others sensors detect uterine contractions and the baby’s heart rate and another chattering electromechanical behemoth plots a seismograph of both...

...[T]he photo enterprise is run by a third party, Growing Family. They’ll shoot a picture of your munchkin, in exchange for his or her name and birthdate and your full name and address...

Growing Family will use your information from time to time to promote additional products, services, rewards and special offers from Growing Family Network and its select Network Partners.

Another friend of mine had his baby daughter die from crib-death a few weeks after she was born. For years afterward, he and his wife got a steady stream of marketing materials, including ghastly "birthday cards" from marketers who'd bought the information that they'd had a baby, but never received the message that the baby had died. Needless to say, when their next baby was born, they never, ever bought products from the companies that ghoulishly continued to market to their dead daughter. Link (via A Whole Lotta Nothing)

Technology For Aging Boomers

Technology For Aging Boomers 02/11/2004 01:32 PM
While the cool market many companies try to aim for is the youth or young adult market, a quick look at some basic demographic information still shows that there are an awful lot of baby boomers out there, and they're getting older. Many who work in the technology field are realizing now would be a good time to come up with new technologies that will help them over the next few decades. Those of us who are younger than the baby boomers are now going to benefit from an awful lot of research and development designed to create technologies that help senior citizens in a variety of ways.

Keeping Boomers Behind the Wheel

Keeping Boomers Behind the Wheel 09/14/2004 08:57 AM
Business Week Sep 14 2004 1:25PM GMT

Cancer Treatments

Cancer Treatments 12/22/2004 01:06 AM
Cancer

be-cancer-smart.com
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Retirement resources a bummer for
boomers

Retirement resources a bummer for
boomers 12/29/2003 07:55 PM
By ANICK JESDANUN. NEW YORK - Type "retirement planning" into Google's search engine, and you'll get nearly 4.2 million returns. ...

Treatments for Menopause May Be Overused
(AP)

Treatments for Menopause May Be Overused
(AP) 03/23/2005 07:50 PM
AP - American women may be overusing treatments for symptoms of menopause, including hormone therapies that can pose a risk, a National Institutes of Health consensus panel said Wednesday. "For women who don't have very serious symptoms, waiting it out may be the best strategy," said Dr. Carol M. Mangione of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Ordering Treatments à la Carte

Ordering Treatments à la Carte 04/12/2004 06:07 PM
Overwhelmed by a confusing array of alternatives, many patients do not want the added stress of being forced to make hard decisions.

Slate article on the onslaught of aging
boomers

Slate article on the onslaught of aging
boomers 12/12/2003 02:12 AM
Why America's Elderly Are So Spoiled .. Steve Chapman at Slate agrees .. Screwing the young

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Treatments: Statins and Diabetes: New
Advice

Treatments: Statins and Diabetes: New
Advice 04/19/2004 05:41 PM
Most patients with Type 2 diabetes should start taking statins, the cholesterol-fighting drugs, as a preventive measure against heart disease.

Brain Tumor Trials And Treatments

Brain Tumor Trials And Treatments 03/29/2005 07:22 AM
Brain Tumor Trials And Treatments
http://virtualtrials.com/

The Musella Foundation For Brain Tumor Research is the owner and maintainer of this site and is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life and survival times for brain tumor patients. They attempt to achieve that goal by using computer technology to streamline the flow of information, organize the brain tumor community and raise money for brain tumor research. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide.

Federal Website Rates Hospitals on
Treatments

Federal Website Rates Hospitals on
Treatments 04/02/2005 09:19 AM
Latimes.com - Sat Apr 2, 08:11 am GMT

ATTRIBUTES CONTEXT MENU (free): Adds a
context menu to all files and folders to
quickly modify their system attributes

ATTRIBUTES CONTEXT MENU (free): Adds a
context menu to all files and folders to
quickly modify their system attributes 10/28/2003 11:06 PM

Heeding a Call to Test Breast Cancer
Treatments

Heeding a Call to Test Breast Cancer
Treatments 07/25/2004 10:35 PM
When Sister Mary Andrew Matesich's breast cancer returned, her doctor's suggestion of entering a clinical trial intrigued her.

Study Finds Equal Success in Treatments
for Cancer

Study Finds Equal Success in Treatments
for Cancer 05/13/2004 12:33 AM
A decade-long study comparing conventional colon cancer surgery with laparoscopic surgery found identical success rates.

'Magic Bullet' adds film treatments on
FCP timeline

'Magic Bullet' adds film treatments on
FCP timeline 04/09/2004 03:55 PM
Red Giant Software LLC on Wednesday announced Magic Bullet for Editors. It's a new plug-in for Apple's Final Cut Pro video editing software that adds treatments on the timeline, offering film stock emulation, diffusion filter effects and film-look presets.

Stephen King: forget piracy, boomers are
just tired of buying crap

Stephen King: forget piracy, boomers are
just tired of buying crap 12/04/2003 07:17 PM
Stephen King's editorial in the new Entertainment Weekly (not online, but the best part is below) opines that the real crisis in the entertainment industry isn't piracy, it's mental fatigue among moneyed baby boomers.

So what happened in the '90s? I think we're seeing an entire generation -- my generation, the baby-boom generation -- turning off the lights upstairs and putting a sign on the door: SORRY, BUT I'M TAKING A NAP. MIND CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. Pretty much the same deal is going on with music sales. Piracy and illegal downloads, although covered to a fare-thee-well in the press, account for only a fraction of the drop in $$. I think what's happening is all too clear: We baby boomers are just too pooped to party. Oh, we do buy some records -- you may have heard that we love the Beatles, Rod Stewart, and those funksters the Rolling Stones. Just don't try to get us to listen to anyone who isn't registered with AARP! Bob Seger was probably correct when he told us rock & roll never forgets, but it sure gets tired.

Movie-ticket sales have remained strong, but only because the studios are selling a product aimed almost solely at Gen-X and Gen-Y. Most R-rated movies go in the tank. PG-13 rules. A film like ''The Fast and the Furious'' strikes box office gold, while Clint Eastwood's ''Mystic River'' muddles along at the box office. I'd argue that 20 years ago, ''Mystic River'' would have done ''Chinatown'' box office numbers. Now the baby boomers look at the previews on TV and think, Nah, that looks too serious. Too hard. Guess I'll stay home and watch ''Jeopardy!'' And the ''Jeopardy!'' answer is ''Just about the saddest thing Steve King can think of.'' The question is ''What do you call a whole generation going to sleep?''

(Thanks, Jason!)

Read My Lips: Read My Lips Proudly
Presents the 89th Edition of the
Carnival of the Vanities

Read My Lips: Read My Lips Proudly
Presents the 89th Edition of the
Carnival of the Vanities 06/03/2004 06:36 AM
Read My Lips: Read My Lips Proudly Presents the 89th Edition of the Carnival of the Vanities

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ALLERCA To Begin Development of Allergen
Free Cats As An Alternative To Current
Allergy Treatments

ALLERCA To Begin Development of Allergen
Free Cats As An Alternative To Current
Allergy Treatments 08/22/2004 02:22 AM
ALLERCA, a division of Geneticas Life Sciences, today announced the approval of a project to produce the world’s first allergen-free cats. Research is to begin using patented technology to eliminate the allergen-producing gene in cats. The allergen-free cats produced by ALLERCA’s genetic technology will allow consumers to enjoy the love and companionship of a pet without the cost, inconvenience, risk, and limited effectiveness of current allergy treatments. The company estimates that potential annual consumer sales of the allergen-free cats in the US alone could be in excess of $1.3 billion per year. [PRWEB Aug 22, 2004]

"If you read nothing else today - READ
THIS"

"If you read nothing else today - READ
THIS" 03/13/2003 03:47 PM

If you read nothing else today - READ
THIS

If you read nothing else today - READ
THIS 03/13/2003 12:46 PM
great piece (full of the truth) .. The French Connection .. New York Times .. him seriously .. Bill Safire

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a distributed computing program runnable
on home computers with internet
connections for screening drug compounds
against HIV viral proteins to discover
possible HIV treatments

a distributed computing program runnable
on home computers with internet
connections for screening drug compounds
against HIV viral proteins to discover
possible HIV treatments 12/02/2003 06:30 AM
Fight AIDS @home

fightaidsathome.scripps.edu
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RSS Menu 1.1.1

RSS Menu 1.1.1 03/23/2005 11:54 PM
Systemwide menu for RSS/Atom feeds.

Menu gone for now

Menu gone for now 06/05/2005 11:47 PM

I've removed the menu on the top of the front page from the site for now. Since I launched it, I've been playing with it on and off, listening to feedback, and trying to determine whether or not it adds or substracts from the user experience of the site. When I got back from vacation, I loaded up kottke.org in the browser and just didn't like the looks of the thing sitting up there. Don't know why exactly, but since it still does that flicker thing in Firefox and doesn't work in Opera at all (thanks to everyone for sending in their fixes, BTW), it's probably for the best. I'm going to work on it some more and it will probably return in some modified form soon.

WWW-Restaurant-Menu-0.1

WWW-Restaurant-Menu-0.1 04/12/2004 04:50 PM

Dock menu tip

Dock menu tip 04/04/2005 09:57 PM
If you choose a news item from NetNewsWire’s dock menu, and hold down the option key, you will jump to NetNewsWire’s view of the news item rather than opening the page in the browser.

McDonald's on the Menu

McDonald's on the Menu 05/10/2004 11:32 AM
Despite April's tragic turn, the fast-food giant's same-store sales remain robust.

PHP Layers Menu

PHP Layers Menu 12/08/2003 12:56 PM
PHP Layers Menu at the Linux Day 2003 in Teramo - Italia

Menu Transitions

Menu Transitions 01/16/2004 11:00 AM
Since I started helping out over at Widgetopia, I've been paying much closer attention to Web menus and how they... (415 words)

Caller ID In Your OS X Menu Bar

Caller ID In Your OS X Menu Bar 04/23/2004 08:28 PM
By Sean Bonner, Unofficial Apple Weblog (via MyAppleMenu)

active-menu.el 1.2.0

active-menu.el 1.2.0 10/31/2003 05:11 PM
An XEmacs module that causes the menubar to be shown only on demand.

Struts Menu

Struts Menu 12/20/2003 09:50 AM
Struts Menu 2.1 Released!
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