This is broken, @Cigna / @CignaQuestions

Hey +Cigna - this is broken on Chrome 35 for the Mac. (Works fine on Firefox 18 and Safari 7) The menu appears by default and you can't make it go away. (You have to uncheck things until PDF moves over far enough to be to visible to the left of the menu.)

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It's also broken in another way... visit a hospital and you interact with a lot of people each of whom bills you separately. For privacy reasons, I understand why you don't list more details on this list, but it makes it difficult to track. I would love to have the ability to assign a status (like received, paid, covered, contested) as well as write short memo so that I can add the doctor's name or other details to this list for my own reference.

Feed Sift (02/14)

From around the web, five things I wanted to highlight.

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Make People Feel Good About Themselves with Two Questions - asking a question about an area of a person's life that they have control over increases the positivity of the answer to a question about their happiness.

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Olympia’s Whacked Out Transportation Priorities (Part 2) - the graphs alone are a clear indication of how politicians can get out of alignment with the desire of those they represent.

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Virtual & Reality: 15 New York City Data Visualizations - making neat pictures, graphis and maps from data about New York City

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The Top 10 Grammar Mistakes to Avoid Making - Just stop it already.

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How Terrible Does Your Life Have To Be To Get 'Mandatory' Weekends?​ - how is "checking your email" *not* work? Yikes.

I'm leaving you, @DirecTV

Dear DirecTV,

I was really excited to return to you after a long, long gap. Finally I once again lived in a place with the appropriate southern access and a cable system I'd had enough of.  A lot had changed since the last time. I still remember the boxes being delivered to my office and me running home on my lunch break to mount the dish on our apartment balcony and make the adjustments necessary to get a signal. Good times. The software was cludgy and slow and the DVR regularly ate The Amazing Race.

And then we moved to a house that couldn't see you and we went with Dish.  And then a new house and we didn't think any sort of southern access was possible and we went with Comcast.  But that got old and someone swore we really could get a southern view and that weather wasn't really the deterrent that it used to be.

And for awhile, things were good. But then, the emails. More and more emails, more and more irrelevant. (Oh, and for a time, impossible to read on an iPad or iPhone. Thanks for making me only complain three times over six months before you fixed it. You're welcome, by the way.)

But the more the email market matured, the more we looked at what's possible with data, the farther and farther away you seemed to get.  Take this email, for instance:

I think I'll take the bus

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Not sure what model of plane is pictured, but I'd call that an adverse relevancy advertising failure.  Oops.

Speaking of CNN, is it just me (am I a low value demographic to advertisers) or do they have really poor and cheap advertisements on their homepage?  You'd think big named advertisers would clamor to be there. But I'm not seeing them.

Offline is teh broke

Our HOA is embarrassing me.  Not only do they spell it "esthetics" but their newsletter is riddled with spelling errors.  (Interesting... a few years ago dictionary.com referred to it as an antiquated spelling of "aesthetics" but now calls it a "U.S." spelling.) 

And now they are apparently just copying stuff off their own website without proofreading it.

Lawyer Link

What on earth?  Who thought this was a good idea?  I can only think this was done intentionally to prevent people from getting to this link in great numbers.

Hey CenturyLink - ever heard of bit.ly?