Using the NCBI Sequence Viewer, you can look up all sorts of neat data on this fleash eating virus and even get it in XML.
What does NCBI do? Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.
Going away soon, customers are looking for a solution and iRise Announces NetD to J2EE Migration Service Line. Oddly enough, the press release doesn't mention that both NetDynamics and the migration toolkit to be used are iPlanet products...
Teen Gunman Shoots Seven at High School is the latest in a series of these terrible tragedies that are happening more and more frequently. Good thing we have the NRA to protect our rights to own guns. Because then where would these kids get the guns to bring to school?
Seriously, these school shootings sadden me terribly. And, in response, people call for tighter gun ownership laws, trigger locks, and the like. However, the NRA is so powerful nothing useful ever gets passed. And the killings continue.
AP is reporting on a side effect of the dotcom bustdown: they're selling off their hardware (routers, servers, etc) and cheaply. Check out Tangent and Used Routers for samples.
This Reuters article sends a scary early warning on a potential plague that wouldn't hit for 15-30 years. On the other hand, maybe this will give scientists enough time to find a cure beforehand. Scary!.
High tech companies have become much more aggressive in preventing employees from moving to the competition (including when the competitor is a startup of which the departing employee is a co-founder) and the courts are giving them an edge: Companies crack down on loose lips.
Note that courts are curtailing employees' rights to take new jobs even when they have not signed any type of non-compete clause or agreement, relying heavily on the theory of inevitable disclosure of trade secrets.
Are the current models for web-based news delivery effective or just a minimalist port of USA Today? Check out this gif of an alternative, part of a very interesting whitepaper by By Ellen Kampinsky for The Editor & Publisher Interactive Newspaper Conference, Feb. 21, 2001.
Well, three cuts in the discount rate aren't enough so Stocks Tumble As Fed Disappoints. Of course, the Fed historically hasn't been too interested in the stock market; many observers have pointed out that the Fed's move on rates are generally intended to put money in the pockets of the bond markets.
Steve Albini's an English record producer who clearly has little or no concern about the reaction his Eyewitness Record Reviews will have from the bands with which he's worked. You and I, on the other hand, get to enjoy his nasty little writeups. Don't worry if you haven't heard of most of the bands, just enjoy the nastiness.
Not going through an identity crises :), just anote that I added an About/Bio page to the site.
Who says Sun Microsystems isn't doing leading edge CPU development? We have Ivan Sutherland, father of computer graphics, who's been working for the last decade on asynchronous computing. Of course, the work is "still five years away from commercialization," he told his conference audience, but the prototype chip "shows how to eliminate system clocks and get much faster chips than are possible by just increasing system clock speeds."
Everyone knows that mathematics is based on the pure rock of certainty, right? Sorry guess again: Gregory Chaitin, New Scientist: The Omega Man, a mathematics researcher at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, has shown that mathematicians can't actually prove very much at all.
Waiting for the brainiacs to publish the oh-so-close Theory of Everything? Don't hold your beath because until this gaping hole can be closed there ain't no such thing.
Some of us love to watch the future as it unfolds into our lives; I've been an eager observer since beginning to read/devour science fiction at the age of six. However, the future doesn't always come with unalloyed blessings, as Aventis Pharma and our nation's farmers are beginning to find out (LA Times: Bio-Corn Tainted 430 Million Bushels, Its Maker Says).
From GirlChick, a hilarious, darkly humourous 1040 for the young and laid-off SF crowd.
A laidback weekend due to illness and lethergy but I did get out with a friend and her daughter to see Disney's new flick Recess: School's Out which had a reasonable story and animation. Also caught a little of the NCAA tourney; only two big disappointments--North Carolina lost to Penn St. and (F)UCLA won. Go Trojans, and wouldn't that be a monumental set of upsets!
