Thomas Guy

FDA has RSS feed for food recalls

I am loving this. I just went to check on the pistachio recall. I was checking out a link to FDA recall notices when I found this: http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/rssRecalls.xml I’m kind of stoked on that – a perfect utilization of news feed technology. Now if we could just get the FDA to use Twitterfeed to pushContinue reading “FDA has RSS feed for food recalls”

“Old Custer,” by Eli Cash book review on goodreads.com

I went looking for people who’d posted the famous Eli Cash quote, “Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is… maybe he didn’t?” I got some good results. My favorite so far was the one on Good Reads. Someone has posted a review of the fictional work, “Old Custer” byContinue reading ““Old Custer,” by Eli Cash book review on goodreads.com”

Cancer vaccine developed… in Cuba?!?

What a weird world we live in. Sitting at the doorstep of the world’s largest domestic economy, yet stripped of the right to legitimate trade with that nation, Cuba has been forced to seek some products on its own. To some countries, the products of our pharma companies are our greatest export. Unable to acquireContinue reading “Cancer vaccine developed… in Cuba?!?”

Tilt-shift of Sawtelle Shopping Center

I kept looking for a good photo to use for a tile-shift effect. I finally found one that I took not too long ago at the Sawtelle Shopping center in West LA. I think it works pretty well, but I’m not 100%. I think I have a ways to go yet in getting the effectContinue reading “Tilt-shift of Sawtelle Shopping Center”

Application Programming Interface(s) leading us into the future

Okay, now I’m pretty sure that APIs, combined with some mix of RSS/JSON + AJAX, really are emerging as the defining technology of the web. I’m still trying to piece it all together because it seems like a lot of this stuff is really intelligently heading toward some kind of unification. There’s no doubt anContinue reading “Application Programming Interface(s) leading us into the future”