VUE Turns Your Mind-Mapped Ideas Into Presentations - Mind Mappi. @GirafficPark: While I find pen & paper useful for initial thought-entry, it doesn't work well for me after that point. Electronic versions win out because: 1) I don't have to keep track of a pile of papers 2) I can search faster than I can dig through the pile 3)I can edit, rearrange, add more thoughts, etc without having to worry about page space or re-drawing 4) I can potentially link different maps together 5) information entered once can potentially be displayed many different ways depending on context.
That said, I haven't found a program yet that really does everything I want (especially in making best use of 4 and 5), but paper mind maps really only help me as I make them and lose value quickly after that. My ideal system would probably involve a tablet or digital pen input that then is stored and processed digitally. @GirafficPark: "The mental overhead of futzing around. PVC 101. I had produced an Instructable recently on making a PVC Toddler Bed Guard; however there were some concerns over home-made kid safety items and teaching others’ to make it, so, out of empathy, I took it down (it's now back up, check the link below).
I did have a lot of great information in that Instructable that people asked me about in relation to methods of cutting, joining PVC and some great PVC resources. NOTE: The PVC Toddler Bed Guard has returned to Instructables in all of its glory. Check it out here. There have been some other Instructables out there that have identified some basics, such as cutting and painting PVC, but I thought it best that I try to aggregate some of the ideas into one big, ultimate Instructable: PVC 101. I work as a Design Engineer for an architecture/product design firm and I use PVC repeatedly to create prototypes and mock-ups, some of them even to ¼” scale, so one could say that I have a lot of practice with PVC. Let face it. PVC is awesome. Welcome to Repair 2.0 « iFixit Blog. Today iFixit is changing repair forever. Today — Earth Day, 2010 — we are launching a global repair community. Our goal? To teach every person on Earth how to fix every thing they own. You know us as the folks who take apart new hardware and show people how to fix Apple products.
We’re not going to stop doing any of that, but starting today we are going to massively expand our scope: We are relaunching iFixit as the free repair manual that anyone can edit. Repair is stuck in the 20th century. Service manuals are almost never available online, and the few troubleshooting forums that exist are rife with spam and ad-baiting. Making repair accessible to everyone is the best shot we’ve got at reducing e-waste and starting to make our high-tech lives sustainable. What if everyone had free access to a repair manual for everything they owned? We showed our vision to officials at the Environmental Protection Agency, and they were ecstatic. Join us, and together we’ll fix the world! Instructables - Make, How To, and DIY.
Instructables - Make, How To, and DIY. Radiology, Women's Imaging. Proponents say the Connecticut law, enacted in October 2009, is an important first step toward educating the general population regarding the connection between breast density and cancer risk -- and in making better screening tools such as ultrasound available for women with higher breast density. But opponents say that the law was enacted based on political considerations rather than science, and ultrasound's role as a screening modality is still unproven. Even some who favor breast ultrasound screening believe that the time involved in performing breast ultrasound studies in a high-throughput environment means that mammography sites will have to be prepared for the additional workload -- and few are.
Higher risk The link between breast density and breast cancer risk has been demonstrated in multiple clinical studies. “Screening ultrasound is about to come into the mainstream ... and radiology is not prepared.” — Jerry Kolb, Solis Women's Health, Addison, TX Connecticut blazes the trail.