From ProMed:
With the recent explosion of A(H1N1/2009) cases in Japan, it will probably be prudent to monitor for Tamiflu (oseltamivir) resistance. One Roche representative in Hong Kong told me that Japan accounts for about 70 percent of the world’s use of Tamiflu (even before avian H5N1 and the new H1N1/2009 viruses appeared). Thus, if Tamiflu [...]

“In fact, the cable news instant punditry and constant 24-hour nonsense, in which people assess Pres. Obama after three minutes, and after eight minutes — ‘Has he failed? Has he succeeded?’ — the lunacy of that kind of opinionating is clear to most Americans but hasn’t actually dawned on the people putting this stuff out…The [...]

Hotline has a new publication called Word on the Tweet that gathers the Twitter musings of elected officials and reproduces them, misspellings and all. What better time to start this new “service” than on the night of President Obama’s address to Congress? Read ‘em and tweep.
Last night’s speech by Pres. Obama may have been the [...]

What happens when you launch a paper airplane from the 31st floor of a New York City office building? A very cool short video.
Flying from Sam Fuller on Vimeo.

I understand that Twitter is the hottest new social media thingy going, even though it doesn’t make any money — except for goo-gobs of venture capital.
I’m on Twitter —marginally. I mean, there are these people I don’t know who “follow” me, which is creepy, and in return, I “follow” other people I don’t know, [...]

There’s this dead guy on my Facebook page and I don’t know what to do about him. He died back in mid-December, just a few days after he logged in to his Facebook page for the last time. I’d pretty much forgotten he was in my friends list until his birthday notice popped up earlier [...]

At a time when newspapers are imploding, whole newspaper chains are going unsold on the market and the news media are casting about to understand how to serve their audiences in a rapidly changing communications environment, it might not seem the most prudent thing in the world to start up a news organization. But if [...]

New research on the television watching habits of Americans could shed light on the obesity epidemic. The results: we sit on our asses a lot. And by “a lot,” I mean pretty much most of the time.
Nielsen has announced the results of its second annual media consumption survey, which found that television and Internet usage [...]

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die
I’ve been meaning to post this since my sister, who was the witness and “person of honor” at my wedding in October, sent it to me on Wednesday. (Thanks, E!)
Here’s a list of the star-studded cast: