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the cost of excessive alcohol use in Wisconsin
A “sobering” report recently published from the University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute pegs the annual economic cost of excessive alcohol use at Wisconsin $6.8 billion. Here are the numbers on Dane County alone: Full report: http://uwphi.pophealth.wisc.edu/publications/other/burden-of-excessive-alcohol-use-in-wi.pdf
Internet Explorer use vs. murder rate
Just sayin’…
really, Microsoft?
This is what I get for selecting “[none]” watermark in Microsoft Office’s Print dialogue box…
visualizing digital information storage volumes
I saw that 4 terabyte 3.5″ hard disks have recently become available for $169, which made me ruminate on how much data that actually is, and how far storage density has come. My first few computers used 1.44MB floppy disks,…
list of Mac OS computers I’ve had
Desktop Macintosh SE FDHD Macintosh Plus Macintosh IIcx Macintosh IIci Macintosh IIsi Macintosh Classic Macintosh LC Macintosh LCIII Macintosh Quadra 610 Power Macintosh 6100/60 Power Macintosh 6500/250 Power Macintosh 7200/75 Power Macintosh G3/233 Desktop Power Macintosh G3 266 Minitower Power…
quality carried all the way through
When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re…
comma separated list of United States counties
In case you need a complete CSV list of US counties for your next… killer app or whatever: united-states-counties.csv.zip
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