On November 6, 2008, reports began circulating online and on TV that Sarah Palin did not know (or could not grasp the idea) that Africa was a continent and not a country. The story, embedded with other Palin-McCain-infighting-related revelations that were, according to FoxNews’ Carl Cameron (see below), “put off the record until after the [...]
Continue reading "palin Africa reports result of elaborate internet hoax."November 13, 2008
Google continues to make AIM and Yahoo! irrelevant:
Continue reading "google announces video chat for google talk."November 11, 2008
I am really enjoying the sharing of applications and sites on Twitter. A few have come across lately that I thought I would share here. A few weeks ago Matt tweeted about Picnik, a free, robust online photo editing application that integrates with photos on Facebook, Flickr, myspace, photobucket, and many other applications. I showed it [...]
Continue reading "tweeted apps and sites."November 11, 2008
An article in the November 10, 2008, edition of The New York Times by Carl Zimmer, “Now: The Rest of the Genome,” discusses the thoroughly fascinating (and exceedingly difficult) of mapping the human genome. The article includes this gorgeous graphic, “Mapping the Epigenome” (click image to enlarge): Upon first viewing the image I was struck by [...]
Continue reading "when genes look like texts and texts look like something else."
November 13, 2008
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