Sunday Silliness: 1984 edition

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Courtesy of security expert  Bruce Schneier, a link to SnapScouts, an Android program for “crowd sourcing crime prevention.” If you have any doubt as to what point the website owners are making, their company is called “MiniTru.”

Tonka tough

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Engadget is mostly a consumer electronics site, so it’s kind of odd that they would have a brief blurb about the Lifepak 15–but at least they came up with a great title for it: Medtronic’s LIFEPAK 15 defibrillator for extreme conditions, or extremely clumsy paramedics

To hell with the official EMS Week slogan

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A slogan for every year….

When no means no

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Turning a compliment into not-a-compliment, one missing word at a time.

Sunday Silliness: first we kill all the lawyers edition

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From the always-entertaining Failblog:

EMS on the Hill Day 2010 summary

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In which the author doffs his scrubs for a suit, and attempts to brown his nose in DC.

Dr. Smith (er, ex-medic) goes to Washington

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Only squeaky wheels get any lubricant.

Sunday Silliness: naming rights edition

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The unfortunate thing about global commerce is that company names that aren’t problematic in, say, German, can become offensive or silly in other languages.  Would you buy from Assmann Electronics?

A tripsheet too far

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I realize that we don’t always get EMS tripsheets quickly enough for the data in them to make a difference, but that’s no reason to make a tripsheet totally worthless to anyone reading it.