A few years back, I got to spend a few minutes with Earl Bakken after a conference. The guy exudes vision… There are certain execs that have this amazing vision. Earl’s vision since he retired was one of hi-touch medicine. A concept that one would think odd coming from the founder of a biomedical company. [...]

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TouchGraph GoogleBrowser V1.01
This is sort of a fun way to take a look at your blog. You may find some rather odd linkages to things you never knew before. There is a huge amount of power in looking at these interrelationships.
I took a look at some commercial websites…. wow!!! one can see who the [...]

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The MN Speaker of the House stopped by a year or two ago. I gave him a piece of my mind concerning post secondary education, as its getting shorted and yet funding for criminal justice grow and grows.
In the last 20 years, state funding for post secondary education has dropped as a percentage of the [...]

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Article: Sewage waters a tenth of world’s irrigated crops�| New Scientist
Everytime I come across a health related article I get a good laugh. Are people so far removed that this seems strange, wrong, or is new to them. Amazing, the amount of hoopla things generate. Then again, as stated in the article, “..Water, health, and [...]

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VentureBlog: Accelerating Acceleration
One of the commenters on Andrew Ankers blog brought to light an interesting concept. The derivative of acceleration is jerk, something learned way back when in high school physics classes. He also stated that marketers not engineers are in control, and jerk will increase as product development becomes more customer centric. Responding to [...]

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AC6LA Software - MakeGIF Utility
This is slick, so many times it would be nice to capture a screen shot, and email it as something other than a bmp. The only issue is it does require Excel to run.

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Bobistheoilguys Main Page
This is an interesting page for car folks. I found the section on gear oil additives especially interesting. I not a big fan of additives, we found lots of problems with them back in the 80’s. The tests shown on bobtheoilguys page are pretty convincing.
There is also a forum, and although one must [...]

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spamgourmet - free disposable email addresses, spam blocking
This is super cool. I use hotmail and now yahoo extensively as my primary contact address. Only after a trusted relationship is established do I use my real address. Even then, I still get spam, but its reduced quite a bit. This service is even better.
Spamgourmet is super [...]

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Stage-Gate, Inc. - Giving Wings to New Product Development
Stage Gate development is some new ideas combined with old tested and true methodology. Its sort of a book of the month approach to project management used by the big boys. Its also a great way to bolster ones consulting business.
The orderly approach has great value. [...]

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LMV2011.pdf (application/pdf Object)
The LMV2011 has really decent power supply rejection ratio. Most of the time, its a fake advertising spec, as its only valid for DC to a few Hz. If you try to use the average opamp in audio, it will pass 60Hz hum like there is no tomorrow. While the LMV2011 is overkill [...]

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