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Four short links: 23 March 2011

Health Prediction, Fake Ads, Bogus Patents, and Realtime Graphing

by Nat Torkington | @gnat | +Nat Torkington | Comment: 1 | March 23, 2011

The Heritage Health Competition — Netflix-like contest to analyze insurance-claims data to develop a model that predicts the number of days a patient will spend in hospital in the coming year. $3M prize. (via Aza Raskin)
Historically Hardcore — fantastic fake Smithsonian ads that manage to make the institution sexy. Naturally they’ve been asked to take them down.
Another Plato Innovation Ignored — turns out the above-the-fold doodle has a long and glorious history, culminating in a fantastic demonstration of our broken patent system.
Graphite — Enterprise scalable realtime graphing. Apache 2.0-licensed, written in Python. (via John Nunemaker)

tags: advertising, fun, graphics, Health 2.0, history, museums, open source, patents, realtime, X Prize

Andy

Google got a PATENT on customizing their logo based on people/events/etc? That’s patentable? Is that for real or is it a joke? That’s a serious question.