“The door is closing. Night is coming. The end, however, is not near... Last week, an important Clinton adviser told Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen (also of Politico) that Clinton had no more than a 10 percent chance of getting the nomination. Now, she’s probably down to a 5 percent chance.

Five percent.

Let’s take a look at what she’s going to put her party through for the sake of that 5 percent chance…” (New York Times op-ed)

“Within minutes of riding on the first trains in Japan, I notice a significant change in advertising, from train to television. The trend? No more printed URL’s. The replacement?

Search boxes! With recommended search terms!

It makes sense, right? All the good domain names are gone. Getting people to a specific page in a big site is difficult (who’s going to write down anything after the first slash?). And, most tellingly, I see increasingly more users already inadvertently put complete domain names like “gmail” and “netflix” into the Search box of their browsers out of habit — and it doesn’t even register that Google pops up and they have to click to get to their destination.

But, I ask you: could this be done in the USA? Wouldn’t search spammers and/or “optimizers” ruin this within seconds? I did a few tests with major name brands and they’re almost always the top hit on Google (surprisingly, even Panic). But if Nabisco ran a nationwide ad campaign for a hot new product and told users to Google for “Burlap Thins” to learn more, wouldn’t someone sneaky get there before they do?” (cabel.name)

“One thing is clear: Although some physicians have been known in the past to dismiss reports of awareness as simply a bad dream, the consensus is that it exists.

Anesthesia awareness – regaining some level of consciousness during surgery – is thought to occur in perhaps one or two out of 1,000 surgical patients in the United States, a total of 20,000 to 40,000 cases a year. The bulk of them do not feel pain.

Still, for some it is so disturbing that they suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder and must undergo counseling.

For general anesthesia, patients typically are given a mix of drugs – including one to “knock them out” and often another called a paralytic.

This relaxes the muscles to make surgery easier. But in the rare case that a patient starts to wake up – not able to speak – the paralytic effect can be horrifying.” (Philadelphia Inquirer)