Leisure Town is back. That is all.

You may wish to take a day off work. Having some cheap scotch handy is advised.

The indispensible Cartoonist digs up Hoboken’s The Feelies, and also audio.

Man, I have tons of non-blog writing to do, and I am dawdling up a storm.

BBC NEWS | Health | Transplant cures man of diabetes

I read this on the way in to work this morning. The cure depends on islet transplants, and what the story fails to mention is that as in any transplant, the recipient is dependent on anti-immune-reaction drugs for the rest of their life. The only way around this (barring twins) is to employ cloned islet cells, which to date are solely obtainable via the use of the ever-controversial stem cells, cells taken from foetii, I think.

Viv and I have discussed this, and she rejects, rightly, I think, the idea of replacing one lifetime treatment which she has mastered, it seems, with another which she would need to learn in her forties.

memigo : cut through the infoglut, says the tagline. Or intensify it, really.

Possible alternate MeFi feed-parser for handheld.

MT-Keystrokes offers YA approach to comment spam, one predicated on testing for human input.

It requires a per-template, per-blog modification, as have several recent solutions I have, er, ‘implemented.’

When I get around to fixing the orbital blogs’ comments I will evaluate this.

[credit: Danelope.]

Need Some New Luster? Try Rosie O’Donnell’s Method: Create It by the Blogful [NYT blogerated link]. I find this delightfully weird, but alsoi sooo depressing that the Times, which must know better, is looking for celebrity-blogger stories. What I would give to hear the meeting that has led to all this attention from the Grey Lady to blogland!

Well, I was skeptical, but may be converted. I really didn’t think I wanted a thumboard on the phone. but on the busride home today I just wrote 500 words of a 1500 word rough draft. That’s many, many more than I was ever able to get done using Grafitti on the old Palm.

I am also finding I use the menuing keys to do normal computery things that were always a giant PITA under earlier Palm OSes – like cutting and pasting data from one app to another.

The latest update in the continuing recording-phone-calls quest is twofold. On Monday, the only shipping dual-mode headset for the Trreo arrived, the Seidio 2-in-1 headset. This headset is not really the model I wanted, I just need it now, and the other listed models are currently out of stock.

Unfortunately, right out of the box, it was apparent that the headset sufferes from overly delicate cabling, as it was not so much a stereo headset as a mono headset, with signal intensity randomly adjustable by fiddling with the base of the cable near the elbow join. Feh.

I have an RMA, but it does not appear that MobilePlanet will eat the return freight or that they will overnight a replacement to me.

Further exploring the Treo front, I have been in copious correspondance with Toysoft‘s Danny Wong, the developer of PAR. He has been very prompt, if SMS brief, in replying to my messages.

Unfortunately, this morning, he informed me that “you CAN NOT record conversation with the headset.” Coming from the developer, I’m inclined to take that as accurate, although it differs from what various posters in Treo-oriented fora have indicated. I’m continuing to work with him to try to figure out why I haven’t been able to get the headphone button to work as a record-activation button.

I’m not done working this yet, though. My last hope is a device that would provide ‘loopback’ to the audio-in part of the headphone jack, adding the remote speaker’s voice to the feed after it’s hit the mic and earphone. It’s possible a piece of gear I currently have will do the trick, although I’m loth to bring gear to the picture.