geeking out

So Mark asked me yesterday why I didn't install "noscript". I had no idea what the heck "noscript" was, but today since I am using his desktop, I discovered what it is. It is something (I think a Firefox extension) that does not let me view Youtube videos. I can't decide if this is a curse, or a blessing.

the last four things I read

Edward Gorey is coming to the big screen!
A panel of anonymous physicians coughs up secrets of the trade. This is an *essential* read. I'm kind of wondering why they didn't interview any internal medicine providers or pediatricians. But that's just me.
In Beijing, parents and caretakers camp outside a hospital in order to avoid paying overnight fees.
Shanghaiist discusses the rescue of 31 slaves from a brickworks factory in Shanxi province.

amusing item related to knocked up

From the Wave Magazine (a free Silicon Valley rag):

TW: Judd, why did you have to show the baby coming out not once, but twice?

Judd Apatow: No, three times. You blocked one out. It’s three different angles. The reason that I show the crowning shot is if I don’t, it just looks like an episode of Friends. I’m trying to make you feel the pain of that experience, because it is the most intense moment in people’s lives. I had to do something that hadn’t been done before. My original goal was to find a woman who would allow me to shoot the baby coming out and then match it into Katherine, the same sheets, the same bed. And we got close to getting it done, but here’s why we weren’t allowed to: The state of California says you can’t do that because the unborn child would need a worker’s permit, and I can’t get it till he’s born. There is a Kurt Vonnegut problem right there. We weren’t able to do it, so it became a prosthetic.