Perfectly useful example of a mashup

Most mashups popping up today are location data with some kind of overlay – restaurants, real-time friend locator, etc.  And this one is no different, but the detailed data and thoroughly helpful aspects of it merit some chatter.

“Wonder what state or country has been hit hardest by the salmonella outbreak or where the latest cases have been detected? You can find out on HealthMap, a public-health surveillance system that scours Internet news sites and other sources for real-time information on outbreaks of infectious disease, and then plots that data on a freely accessible world map.”

Learning to Live Like an Early Bird

I wish I could be an early bird, it’s just so hard… <twitch>

“Night owls are more creative and flexible, while morning people are healthier and more emotionally stable, studies have found.”

The Wall Street Journal HEALTH JOURNAL, by Melinda Beck