Weekly digest – 2012-07-08

10 year anniversary

10 years ago today I got married to my beautiful wife Olga.  Sometimes, it feels like it was only yesterday.  But more often, I look back at everything that happened since, and I think that our wedding was in a previous life or so.  Regardless, I am very glad that we found each other and that we are still together.

Here are some of the pictures from our wedding party.

Intel.com – an example of good design

Today someone mentioned on Facebook that Intel.com website is very well organized and is quite useful.  Being a fan of useful things, I immediately went to check it out.  And I have to say that I am mighty impressed!  Not only it is very organized, providing quick access to information, but it looks really good as well.  Such a combination is rare these days, but it is particularly rare for a large corporation’s website.

Robert Liston – a genius surgeon

Wikipedia lists some of the most famous operations performed by Robert Liston.  Among them the only surgery in history with 300% mortality rate:

Liston’s most famous case

Amputated the leg in under 212 minutes (the patient died afterwards in the ward from hospital gangrene, they usually did in those pre-Listerian days). He amputated in addition the fingers of his young assistant (who died afterwards in the ward from hospital gangrene, they usually did in those pre-Listerian days). He also slashed through the coat tails of a distinguished surgical spectator, who was so terrified that the knife had pierced his vitals he dropped dead from fright.

That was the only operation in history with a 300 percent mortality.

Via oper.ru.