Cyberdog was an OpenDoc-based Internet suite of applications, developed by Apple Computer for the Mac OS line of operating systems. It was introduced as a beta in February 1996[1] and abandoned in March 1997.[2] The last version, Cyberdog 2.0, was released on April 28, 1997.[3] It worked with later versions of System 7 as well as the Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 operating systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberdog

Review: GetCerebral.com for Anxiety & Depression. On an ongoing basis, you’ll have monthly meetings (and the option for unlimited messaging) with your care counselor, have a video call with your prescribing provider (for medication) and receive your medication which is conveniently shipped to your home if you’re prescribed. See 2020-01-17-WhyWeLaunchedCerebralAMentalHealthTelemedicineCompany (more)

main governing body of College Sports

For some people, amateur love. For others, pre-Professional Sports. (more)

a bug up my butt: is it the passive Consumerism of the Spectacle? The arbitrary yet emotionally-intensive Group Identification (Tribalism) ("my team can beat your team") (Pavlovian training for "my country can beat your country"?)? The pretense of College Sports and Olympics events as involving Amateur-s? (more)

cf Spectator Sports, Team Sports

poker → Thinking in Bets

Vernor Steffen Vinge (/ˈvɜːrnər ˈvɪndʒiː/ (About this soundlisten); born October 2, 1944) is an American science fiction (scifi) author and retired professor. He taught mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University. He is the first wide-scale popularizer of the technological singularity concept and perhaps the first to present a fictional "cyberspace".[citation needed] He has won the Hugo Award for his novels and novellas A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999), Rainbows End (2006), Fast Times at Fairmont High (2002), and The Cookie Monster (2004). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge (more)

In George Floyd’s high school, sports was seen as the ticket out. ..1992 state championship game, George Floyd, the starting tight end for mighty Jack Yates High School... At that moment, Floyd’s future was already in jeopardy. He had tried and failed at least twice to pass a mandatory state exam. If he couldn’t pass it, he wouldn’t graduate. A big-time college scholarship would be out of the question. (more)

Kyle Robertson: Why We Launched Cerebral, a Mental Health Telemedicine Company. What do I know about this? When I was 16, I started feeling different. I felt isolated and alone, regardless of how many people I was surrounded by at any given time. (more)

Venkatesh Rao: Notes on Textual Capital. You could call me a textual capitalist, a creator and accumulator of publicly traded words (some more traded than others), which enter the public sphere largely divorced from the private contexts within which I manufacture them, persist for a while, and then depreciate and die. This is an interesting thing to be in a world where planned-obsolescence words, and even near-ephemeral words, are produced at an accelerating rate, by an increasing number of word-producers. see prev (2020-02-24) Rao A Text Renaissance (more)

Roblox files papers with SEC for public offering. The company most recently raised $150 million in venture funding from Andreessen Horowitz in a deal announced in February. Its valuation at that time was $4 billion. (more)

Local propaganda: As the election heads into its final stretch, Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest operator of television stations in the United States, is amplifying Donald Trump's misinformation about mail-in voting (postal voting). (more)

Mark Bernstein on JohnLukacs' The Duel: When Winston Churchill assumed office on May 10, many observers expected England to capitulate and to become a Nazi satellite. Eighty days later, it was clear to all, including Hitler, England would never capitulate and would, in all likelihood, prevail. Yet nothing changed on the ground in this time, no battles were won, and in material terms England, unharmed in May, was by August battered by the blitz. (more)

After my MedScape AMT debacle (2000), I wrote an article (Stock Options and the AMT) about it. (more)

from 2000, so YMMV, IANAL, etc. (more)

Associated heavily with Timothy Gallwey's series of books, starting from The Inner Game of Tennis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Gallwey#Inner_game (more)

There are plenty of blog posts explaining how HMOs and PPOs vary. But I just put together some practical notes, so thought they'd be worth sharing. The details certainly vary from plan to plan, but the ratios are probably pretty similar.... (more)

InterWiki links are a quick way to refer to information in other wikis, without having to remember long or cryptic URLs. To create an InterWiki link, just use the InterWiki name of the foreign wiki, then a colon (:), followed by the name of the page on that wiki. (more)

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