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irishjohnnieon Alan Kay at Demo: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental

What Microsoft did was hire Charles Simonyi in order to productize the research into Word

irishjohnnieon Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler

I was hoping they would update Rotor to reflect the new CLR

irishjohnnieon Depression is an inflammatory disease; where does inflammation come from? [pdf]

Check out http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16500874

irishjohnnieon Depression is an inflammatory disease; where does inflammation come from? [pdf]

Plus the Japanese diet tastes better than a fish oil gel cap ... speaking of which, does this mean that the incidence of depression in Japan is low?

irishjohnnieon Depression is an inflammatory disease; where does inflammation come from? [pdf]

I don't know about countries exporting grass fed meat, but in the US there is a growing movement for raising grass-fed cattle and pastured chickens (for meat and eggs) usually within 100 miles of major cities, as opposed to grain-fed livestock raised in large factory farms.

The Omega 3 to 6 ratios of the resulting meat (and eggs) is better than the grain-fed ones. It seems that a lot of these inflammation problems are not only caused by the diet of the average person but also caused by the diet of the average livestock that we're consuming.

irishjohnnieon Depression is an inflammatory disease; where does inflammation come from? [pdf]

Farming salmon contributes to overfishing

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-02-24/your-best-s...

irishjohnnieon Depression is an inflammatory disease; where does inflammation come from? [pdf]

Grass fed beef is apparently also a good source of Omega-3

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16500874