Link Buffet

[cjsmith]

(I'd say smorgasbord but I'm too lazy to go find the right character to cut and paste.)

Terri Schiavo's summary autopsy report, courtesy dafydd

Kodak to Discontinue Black-And-White Paper, courtesy indyansel

Korean scientists use stem-cell therapy to successfully cure a woman who has been paralyzed for two decades, courtesy takhisis

The Economist article on "the global housing boom", courtesy joedecker

Comments

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

I'd say smorgasbord but I'm too lazy to go find the right character to cut and paste.

You mean the empty set? Is that the one in that word? ;-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that one. :)

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

I knew a Dane in college of whom I asked the question once what that symbol means, and his response was, "It means 'you can't pronounce this!'" So it truly is the empty set, even linguistically. :-)

Oh, you just fed a kink of mine!

[rampling.livejournal.com]

I can't help myself; I always obsess about such characters when I run into them. I even have a table of them in my Palm for handy reference. Now I see that I can also obsess over them when someone else runs into them! I'm incorrigible!

This HTML character code reference page (http://www.tntluoma.com/sidebars/codes/) gives: ø => ø

OK, now the wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smorgasbord) informs me that the correct spelling is smørgåsbord. (had to dig up the å too!)

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the housing article. Forwarded it to my husband who likes to read up on the housing bubble.

We are waiting for it to fall so we can get a bigger space. We'll never lose any real money on ours, so it's just a question of not getting something way overpriced and watching it fall.

[rampling.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting the stem cell article! The promise of all types of stem cells (both embryonic and not) is so spectacular -- it's exciting to see it beginning to pay off!

[msmichelle.livejournal.com]

I am soo impressed with the Korean scientists. Hopefully they get the momentum going here. God created science, right?

[firecat]

Unrelated to this - double-confirming are we on for dinner Sat 6:30 at Paradise? Inquiring OHs want to know.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ayup!

If you've sent me mail since last Weds., I haven't yet dug through the pile of vacation-accumulated spam to find it. That's this evening's task ;-).

See you on Saturday!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Found the message! Woohoo! :)