My favorite bits from Dr. Novella:

Every link in the earthing chain of argument is therefore wrong. It is little more than free associating with sciencey terms (i.e., making shit up).

Brilliant work.

We still have not embraced the elegant, delicate flaws in our bodies. In my life, I have taken a number of figure drawing classes and have seen all shapes, all sizes, all aspects of the human body. A beautiful engine, our bodies; indifferent to size, shape, or color.

Photo manipulation tools obscure that subtle beauty in an opaque, gossamer veil of preconceived perfection. A synthetic human, a replicant, dressed in pixels. A ghost made by the machine.

Sometimes, I feel as though we’re walking backwards, missing the world in front of us.

• conversational
• lyrical
• fairly concise

Generally, press events are good for communicating new services, products, or events for the various constituencies a business may accommodate. Recently, Spotify held a press event to announce (drumroll, please): a partnership with Coca-Cola.

Now, in fairness, the rest of the world may very well identify the United States with apple pie, baseball, and Coke. And to the international community, such a partnership with Coke might merit a press event. Well, maybe.

But not here.

Coke may be an internationally recognized brand, but there is nothing new happening in the world of Coca-Cola soda. No new flavor. No new packaging. No new news.

So to the folks at Spotify, I offer this: Welcome to America. Welcome to the new carousel.

It’s Apple’s devotion to Simplicity that forms an unbreakable connection with its customers and inspires customers to evangelize to colleagues, friends, and family.

Create a unique, wonderful experience and your customers market for you.

Meanwhile, 500 Pixels is looking like a magnificent replacement. The company offers a new tiered membership for $20, which is $5 cheaper than Flickr’s Pro Account. But, even more interestingly, 500 Pixels seems to understand something about its users that eludes most companies: users dislike EULAs. More, users dislike the legalese, the byzantine language upon which EULAs are built.

500 Pixels understands. They have the best Terms of Service I have ever read².

1. When a company begins using its patent portfolio in a cannon-like fashion as Yahoo! has recently with Facebook, and is incapable of innovating, sports rotating CEOs, and endures heavy layoffs, it seems safe to say they’re in a bit of a pickle.
2. The key to their success: I actually read it.

Recently, Ze Frank used Kickstarter to fund a new project, this time called A Show.

Great work.