Post-vacation random picks
February 18, 2008 — nsaundersRSS feeds are very much “here and now” sources of information, aren’t they? Monitoring them as they come in is no problem at all but if you’re away for a week or two, they lose their immediacy, leading to much “marking as read”.
Anyway - a few that caught my eye on this first day back at work:
- A new computational biology blog from Lars Jensen - Buried Treasure, via Roland. Lars has written a nice summary of the increasingly infamous mitochondrial ID paper which we were alerted to by Attila.
- Bill writes on the proposal for an Open Science Session at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. See One Big Lab for the details.
- Open Students. Early days for this new OA-oriented blog.
- The ever-industrious Pierre brings us a XUL tutorial and a fun Freebase project.
- Jan Aerts on custom glyphs for BioRuby’s Bio::Graphics library.
- Non-science but important and via Bosco’s blog: we finally say sorry.
It’s taken me a while, but I finally figured out the difference between starring (mark as important for later) and sharing (mark as important for others) in Google Reader! Both one-click operations too. I’m quite dense sometimes. Anyway, here are my shared items - also available as a right-sidebar widget at this blog.
That’s several thousand feed items and 150 emails dealt with - back to work I guess. New Zealand, by the way, is impossibly scenic, spectacular and beautiful. Do go there if you can.
February 21, 2008 at 7:21 pm
I like the cut of this Rudd bloke’s jib.
February 21, 2008 at 9:10 pm
I like the cut of this Rudd bloke’s jib
Listening to morning radio is a joy, people have stopped apologising for being Australian. I tell you, it’s like a long dark age has just melted away.