links for 2010-04-13

"So you despise the phrase went missing? You think spot on is pretentious, at the end of the day is meaningless filler, and all such British vocabulary invaders should be deep-sixed in Boston Harbor? Well, take heart: We are giving as good as we get these days, annoying our British cousins right back by exporting heaps of everyday Americanisms, along with a garnish of slang."

This is great: a guy trying to reduce info-overload in hospitals by converting signals into music. This speaks a bit to my Rambling on Noise, where I mused on how ways to convert data into different formats to make them easier to sub-consciously monitor signal in the noise.