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Rate journals with eigenfactor: link Blog post about it: link

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Color brewer: link Adobe Kuler: link ColorJack:Speher link

Very cool use of google maps link

This was surprising to me, but very useful. Occasionally I download a PDF and I am not allowed to save it, or even print preview. That's...

A demonstration of a phase transition in a network -- cool java applet. http://steinbock.org/netlogo/random_buttons.html

A David Attenborough clip. link

An article by Phil Bourne on how to choose a postdoc. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020121

Nature has started testing its collaborative peer review system here

this company (XVIVO) worked with harvard researchers to make this video , which is awesome.

There are a bunch of ways to mix Python and C, including Pyrex (nice technology, but non-standard, so hard to distribute), Boost (never trie...

Following on from Zach's junk charts post, this infosthetics blog is sweet. www.infosthetics.com

ANSI escape codes are surprisingly useful. For Python, the escape code is "\x1b[". Here is an example loading bar. This is a Unix ...

I haven't read the whole thing yet, but PLoS ONE looks like it's going to be very interesting.... link

A scary article on pharma and clinical trials. Money quote: As Dr. Marcia Angell, a former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, no...

Jimmy: I have a crazy friend who says humans and chimps are related. Is he crazy? Troy: No, just ignorant. You see, your crazy friend never ...

Slate has an interesting article on the use of bacteriophages to attack infections instead of antibiotics. They also speculate that unfortun...

I have been testing a bunch of classifiers for a project I am doing. The objective is to classify an intergenic region as ACE1 (or any motif...

This kind of thing helps GM food's image no end... link

I use LaTeX a lot, mainly because Word on the mac is so horrible, and I like not worrying about formatting while typing. This article explai...

Nature Genetics just published a milestone paper from the Fantom/RIKEN consortium compiling an enormous genome-wide collection of transcrip...

There are a bunch of machine learning webcast lectures here. Many of them are tutorials; includes a few biology-focused lectures. link

Some concrete examples on how to write better; concrete! link

academic.live.com just launched. It's a citeseer/google scholar-like search by MSN.

A couple of shortcuts I learned recently. Ctrl-command-D while hovering over a word, will give you a dictionary definition. Shift-command-4 ...

RSA/DSA keys are great because typing in you password every time is so tedious, especially if you do a lot of scping. I do it rarely enough ...

This is actually a pretty good reference. I've been writing stuff in Javascript since last summer and have read two books on it, but the...

Tom Rando gave last Wednesday's Frontiers talk and it was really good. He works on muscle growth and regeneration and the title of the t...

"""If you put every virus particle on Earth together in a row, they would form a line 10 million light-years long. "...

A blog post about the Nature Biotech article that criticized bio-ontologies, featuring our very own Mark Musen. Via postgenomic. nodalpoint

I don't know what it is exactly, but I like it. Postgenomic aggregates posts from life science blogs and then does useful and interestin...

I keep needing to do this all the time (given a list, remove all the duplicates). So a one-liner: dict().fromkeys(yourlist).keys()

10 simple rules from Phil Bourne over at PLOS Comp Bio. They are mostly common sense, but make for some useful reading anyway.

Some graphs showing trends in the use of SVMs/naive Bayes/expert systems etc. Link Similar for bioinformatics. Link

Nice post by Serge. Link

A very nice reference for Python 2.4. Good to keep handy. link

Following up on expertise , it seems like throwing darts at a stock ticker is as good as using mutual funds. I wonder if someone has worked ...

A virus makes you fat ? A virus makes you autistic ? A germ makes you gay ? A germ makes you schizophrenic ? (Remind me not to go near cats)...

is Genentech, apparently. link

Economist article Nature paper

NASA uses humans to find craters on Mars. I wonder how this would work for tumors, or other cell classification tasks.... Clickworkers

An article in New Scientist. The first thing that makes no sense is the placebo effect , which may or may not be real.

An extension to weka for bioinformatics exists. Their added feature list is impressive. Bioweka

A fascinating history of wheat in the Economist. Link . Also: Golden rice

Many real alive people are writing articles about this gift ideas website . I endorse this product.

An interesting New Yorker article on forecasting and ostensible expertise. There are also many studies showing that expertise and experience...

This article has some interesting statistics about cancer and spicy/Indian food. At least something that's good for cancer tastes good....

I recently found out that you can read an NYT article all on one page, by adding ?pagewanted=all to the end of the url. This bookmarklet als...

This is nice, although I am rarely waiting on downloads these days. From here. For example, suppose you want to download the Mandrake 8.0 IS...

At this machine learning blog, they scanned in a number of old papers, including: "Why isn't everyone a Bayesian?" by Efron B,...

George Church comments on a Personal Genome Project... Here

False Discovery Rate is really important for most of us. This paper (lecture notes, actually) covers most of what you need to know. Gil Chu ...

Nature now has a podcast, and it's pretty good. http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/index.html

Choosing typefaces can be stressful, and if you are not careful you could end up using Comic Sans, or Arial (this is Zach-style font snobber...

I stumbled upon this bioinformatics/genomics blog. http://www.ghastlyfop.com/blog/ The 2005 zeitgeist is particularly interesting, it has a ...

Two useful sets of tools for playing with websites... www.dnsstuff.com www.faganfinder.com/urlinfo

If you are doing a PhD, you should be aware of Hofstadter's law , and Parkinson's law . Parkinson's law comes from a very intere...

If it's good enough for Brad Efron (he of bootstrap fame), maybe I should be taking Selenium too... """ Dr. Brad Efron, a...

Nice. I have read all of these and find their ideas intriguing if simple-minded. 1. T.S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 1962...

Pehr Harbury of the Biochemistry Department. Last year, Daphne Koller and Julie Theriot were among the winners. link

Nice piece in the guardian about science communication. He'll really make friends at the Guardian with lines like: "humanities grad...

As I was exploring the potential of Javascript/DHTML in informatics-related applications, I stumbled onto another area where that technology...

Yup, another PLOS journal ! Coming later this year, sounds cool.

I have not heard of that place until today but it sounds pretty amazing. [ link ]

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/06/29/craig_venters_new_co.html

Tinyproxy is a cool little program that allows you to use your linux/mac box as a proxy with little overhead. This is useful because when yo...

Javascript / DHTML are important technologies in bioinformatics. I swear that is why I did this. Just Freecell