as someone who was born 3 months premature this article is interesting. i often forget just how fortunate i was, considering the fact that i was born in the dark ages of neonatal care (1972) and weighed-in at slightly under 2 pounds. so far, i’ve been lucky enough to not notice any effects:
“In one recent study of 150 teenagers who weighed 2 pounds or less at birth, nearly one-third had significant physical disorders, including cerebral palsy, blindness and deafness. Nearly half were receiving special education assistance, compared with 10 percent in a control group. But the study, February in the journal Pediatrics, also found that even those children with minor physical problems scored significantly lower on achievement tests than those in the control group.”
o.k. i’ll get it out of the way: <cheap joke>are you sure i didn’t see you on the short bus?</cheap joke>. anyway, this makes me want to try to make the most of life and remember to enjoy all those perfect moments. something tells me that i’ll forget all about it in the morning. hi. ho.
i know this is very old. but i’m on the road and feeling very internet deprived. i was actually reduced to attempting to use a hotel’s ‘speedy pc’ access. i don’t know about you, but 28.8 doesn’t count as speedy access. anyway for those who haven’t seen it – enjoy the review of pyra.
hmmmm. this seems superfine, but i can’t imagine actually using one – sitting at the computer while reading the paper:
“When the Post and Courier newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina, went to press on Monday, it became the first printed paper to include hyperlinks in its stories.
These are not just printed URLs, but rather tiny barcodes embedded within news stories and advertisements. Readers scan the barcodes, which contain URLs, with a Post and Courier-provided laser pen attached to a PC with Internet access and they are taken directly to the specific websites.”
still – it’ll be interesting to see how this concept evolves. who knows maybe jacob will enlighten us on a better newsreading client.
an economist says that content can’t always be free. the masses beg to differ [at least for news]:
“The survey by Princeton Research Associates for the Web content distributor Screaming Media, found that 89 percent of the 1,232 respondents had never paid for news or information on the Web, and 83 percent were not willing to pay.”
