Comments on: Disease Cube

Disease Cube

kablam — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 14:32:26 -0800

Disease Cube A rather extraordinary applet. Find out about the reportable communicable diseases in the US. Many hidden features.

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 15:07:40 -0800

Hey - how about a warning that it will try to download/install something? No thanks...

By: Asparagirl

Asparagirl — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 15:29:05 -0800

Yeah, what he said. But I declined the download and it still seemed to load and work okay. Neat app. Would be cool if they open sourced it...

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 15:30:27 -0800

that's java - it's always downloaded. there's some signed stuff, with an expired certificate, but the program will work even if you don't accept the certificate (you just can't save info to disk, as far as i can tell). in other words: if you don't accept the certificate then this is no more nasty than any other java applet.

By: thebabelfish

thebabelfish — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 16:06:02 -0800

A bit off topic, but you've seemed to inadvertently included your IP in the URL: http://www.storydata.com/.../CDCDiseaseData.html?hint=68.2.190.71-1013436412... [tom@wintermute tom] host 68.2.190.71 71.190.2.68.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ip68-2-190-71.ph.ph.cox.net. Using Cox, eh? ; )

By: rough ashlar

rough ashlar — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 16:30:35 -0800

The hidden feature is it does nothing?

By: kablam

kablam — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 17:27:43 -0800

Well, Tom, though I made I slight error of posting an unclean URL, isn't it slightly worse to make a point of it? Now granted, you might be fascinated by other people's IP addresses, but it's sort of like posting "I know where you live! And I'm gonna tell everybody!" If you don't like the link just say so.

By: fold_and_mutilate

fold_and_mutilate — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 18:02:51 -0800

For any who'd like more information on reportable infectious diseases, here's the current list on the CDC site. If you're so inclined, you can track reports of these diseases.

By: alms

alms — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 18:23:38 -0800

If you don't think that Laurie Garrett is a clueless asswipe, you can read what she has to say about infectious diseases. She seems to me on a betrayal of trust kick.

By: Tystnaden

Tystnaden — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 04:47:20 -0800

Who knew Massachusetts had such a Pertussis problem?

By: badstone

badstone — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 09:50:57 -0800

Doesn't work in Mozilla....

By: Tystnaden

Tystnaden — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 10:12:39 -0800

Works fine in Phoenix 0.5 Win2k SP3.

By: thebabelfish

thebabelfish — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 17:40:20 -0800

kablam: I didn't mean to offend you or intend to be childish by posting your IP. I just thought I'd point it out; I won't do it again. As for the link though, I thought it was great.