Amgen's official statement on halting GDNF study for Parkinson's

On the one hand, this is exactly what you'd want a drug company to do as soon as indications came up from studies that there may be a fatal safety issue with a drug.

On the other hand, it's a very sad situation, especially tragic for the people who personally feel that they are willing to take the risks with fully informed consent, both for themselves and for hopes of developing a treatment for Parkinson's disease.

GDNF 4 PARKINSON'S -

Very sad. I'm going to be keeping a close eye on this one.

Amgen had clinical trials of a drug that appeared to have fantastic results undoing the effects of Parkinson's. The trials were stopped after animal safety studies showed that in some cases the drug could cause brain damage and death.

But the patients who were seeing life-altering results from the drug are understandably both devastated and angry that Amgen won't provide any more of it at any price.

Tomorrow I'll have my Roku Soundbridge M1000! Whee!

Here are my Roku links.

Brian Eno ambient sampler: "Brian Eno's ambient stuff is just what I was looking for. "

BlogThis is a must-have for anyone who has both Firefox and a Blogger.com account. Go get it now, thank me later.

What's it do? Ok, I'll tell ya. Right-click anywhere on any page in firefox and select "BlogThis" and it opens up a little blogger window with the link pre-populated.

Very similar to the Rhapsody feature, only without the bugs.

I have a del.icio.us account. You should get one too!

This song will probably make Bach smile.: "1. Chinito Chinito - Ry Cooder"

RSS and Attention
from Nick Bradbury

And that's what I'm asking you to blog about (or, if you don't have a blog, comment here). If you believe that you should own your attention data, now is the time to sound off about it. You don't need to link to me or even mention me in your blog - just make sure to include "RSS and Attention" in your entry's title so that everyone who pays attention to this subject (ie: Microsoft, Google, myself, etc.) can find you. I'm taking Microsoft at their word that they'll listen to the conversation while designing their RSS support, so let's test them on this.

Amen!

(This is not the first time I've mentioned Attention!)

Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix: "Why have I never heard this album before? I even owned a few other Teenage Fanclub albums at college and liked them, but they didn't really grab me.

Of course the title of this album, and the cover photo of an F1 car, don't hurt. :-)

Great melodic power pop/rock, like Big Star."

MSNBC Analyst Says Cooper Documents Reveal Karl Rove as Source in Plame Case

OMFG!!!

Not that it'd be a surprise, if true, that Rove was behind this. But shocking that he finally might get caught at one of his dirty tricks.