Monday, November 19, 2007

IBM Jingle

1. I.B.M., Happy men, smiling all the way.
oh what fun it is to sell our products night and day.
I.B.M., Watson men, partners of T. J.
In his service to mankind-that's why we are so gay.

- Triumph of the Nerds

* Thanks Snipes.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Community Medicine

I was just reading a "Textbook of Medicine" and I stumbled upon something interesting.  Goiter is a disease caused by a lack of ingested iodine used in the thyroid gland.  It causes thyroid hypertrophy (enlargement).  To publicly reduce this disease, table salt now contains small amount of iodine.  We are being treated for a disease without even knowing it.