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11/10/07
Pharmacophylogenomics
Now that is a heck of a mouthful of a word. It's the field of application of the theory of evolution to drug discovery.
Now it's not a matter of making things evolve, but rather taking advantage of the effects of common ancestry and the gene and… more »
11/07/07
Strange Bible Verses: Numbers 22:8-35
(NOTE: Update about this story at the end of this post)
There are a number of odd tales in the Bible, but some of them are odder than others.
The tale of Balaam and the talking donkey is an odd one, but not just for the talking donkey. This is a tale… more »
10/25/07
Common Proteins of Life
There is a site that summarizes many of the proteins that creatures have in common with one another. Most of the creatures listed are bacteria, but there are a few multicellular organisms with respective codes: Microsporidia [E], thale cress [A], a worm… more »
The Baby Experience
Dena and I haven't really been posting a ton, with the new baby in tow, but with five weeks and a bit of baby under our belts, I think I'm ready to share a bit of the whole experience :) more »
10/16/07
British Airways Infant Booking Trouble
As of right now, their online booking system does not handle infants very well. more »
10/04/07
DRM-Free Resurrection?
Looks like there's been a small revival in the availability of DRM-free music. No major revolution, but you have the advent of Amazon's DRM-free MP3 collection, which contains quite a number of bands, and even the icon of DRM, iTunes, now has "iTunes… more »
10/02/07
A Little Of The Tree Of Life
So you want to see a little bit of the tree of life for yourself. Maybe use some of the bioinformatics tools on the Internet to see some of the relatedness of life on earth. Can you do that as a layman? Sure you can, and here's a little introduction as… more »
09/23/07
Spammers Infiltrate Missouri-Columbia's Site
We got a small swack of spam comments today which point at pages on http://meta.missouri.edu/ serialize/tmp/@top/ (I've broken up the link here so the spammers don't get more traffic). I've sent the webmasters off a warning.
UPDATE: Yay, the pages are… more »
Evolution of Hox Genes
A commenter at one of the blogs I frequent pointed out in passing this one very cool paper from January 2006 called HOX GENES: Seductive Science, Mysterious Mechanisms in the Ulster Medical Journal.
I love the Hox, or homeobox genes. There aren't too… more »
09/19/07
A Place to Gather Intelligence on 1-800 Callers
800notes.com is a simple site with but two purposes: letting people post information on persistent, unknown callers, and looking up such posted information.
It helped me look up our of our persistent nuisances, 1-800-566-8064, which seems to do cold… more »
09/15/07
SQL Server 2000 Gotcha With Uniqueidentifiers
If you're considering using uniqueidentifiers on your tables, particularly as primary keys, then you might want to upgrade your SQL Server or just check your SQL carefully if you're still running SQL Server 2000.
In particular, doing a COUNT(field) on… more »
09/09/07
Peeing in The Colours of the Rainbow
Why must it always be the same colour, anyhow?
Well, different colours is usually a bad sign, but who knew there was such variety?
With appropriate health warning provisos, here is a list of things that can make your pee change colour. Doing it on… more »
09/07/07
An Even Better Moon Landing Anti-Conspiracy Site
I really enjoy Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy site, and it has much to recommend it apart from its eminently sensible anti-hoax pages, including its oft-updated blog, notes on good and bad astronomy and really good forums.
My new favourite on the anti-hoax… more »
08/24/07
George Kenney's Halton Arp Interview
George Kenney of Electric Politics interviewed Halton Arp back at the beginning of June.
I have transcribed the interview here.
Here is the original podcast.
Arp was a little hard to make out in some spots in the interview, so if you know any of the… more »
From Nigeria to U.S. Soldiers
Oh boy - the sources of free money just keep moving around, like some sort of Quantum Leap scenario. Who's got tons of cash and somehow needs me as a willing partner in crime this time? more »
