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MichaelMateas 03 Sep 2008 - 11:40 - NEW IanHolmes
// Michael Mateas: http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~michaelm/ //  
ProceduralRhetoric 03 Sep 2008 - 11:41 - r1.3 IanHolmes
// Logic applied to automated game design // Described in this book: // http://www.bogost.com/books/persuasive games.shtml // Recommended by MichaelMateas // Main.IanHolmes 03 Sep 2008 //  
JavascriptIPhone 30 Aug 2008 - 02:21 - NEW IanHolmes
// Writing Javascript for Safari on the iPhone: // http://www.evotech.net/blog/2007/07/web-development-for-the-iphone/ // Nice code snippet for getting the viewport orientation 8-) // Main.IanHolmes 30 Aug 2008 //  
AstrobiologyRap 29 Aug 2008 - 21:56 - r1.2 IanHolmes
// http://www.youtube.com/v/NL3lhm6oy5I //  
EvolutionAndMedicine 30 Jul 2008 - 18:46 - r1.2 IanHolmes
// http://www.evolutionandmedicine.org/ "a resource for scientists and medical professionals working at the interface of evolutionary biology and medicine" // Includes the 2006 Science editorial Why Medicine Needs Evolution (PDF). // via this post on evolgen. // Main.IanHolmes 31 Jul 2008 //  
GeneDesignSoftware 29 Aug 2008 - 22:01 - r1.2 IanHolmes
// Clotho // http://2008.igem.org/Team:UC Berkeley Tools // APE: A Plasmid Editor. // http://www.biology.utah.edu/jorgensen/wayned/ape/ // Code Monkey video on the youtubes // Gene Designer. // // http://www.dna20.com/tools.php // Main.IanHolmes 14 Mar 2008 //  
XMLandScheme 28 Feb 2008 - 19:18 - r1.6 IanHolmes
// XML as a dialect of Scheme: // http://classes.eclab.byu.edu/330/wiki/index.cgi?XMLandScheme // http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/xml.html // Main.IanHolmes 29 Feb 2008 //  
UrgeMechanics 27 Feb 2008 - 11:22 - r1.10 IanHolmes
// "Urge Mechanics" is my new sexy name for "Ergonomics". // The old word is so stuffily work-oriented: // ergonomics // "scientific study of the efficiency of people in the workplace," coined 1950 from Gk. ergon "work" (see urge (v.)) (ec)onomics . // The Swedish TCO Congress (English page) were recommended to me as having tougher ergonomic emission standards than anyone else. // My friend who recommended them said: // "Unfortunately they only certified one ...  
HoneywellKitchenComputer 29 Aug 2008 - 21:58 - r1.7 IanHolmes
// The Wikipedia:Honeywell 316 // Marketing line: "If only she could cook as well as Honeywell can compute". // Ewwww. So Mad Men. // Via Kevin Kelly // and this Dr Dobbs article. // Current bioinformatics link: OpenQuestions2008 // So Wikipedia:Mad Men ... //  
AncestralSequenceReconstruction 23 Jan 2008 - 12:12 - r1.5 IanHolmes
// ISBN:0199299188 // Oxford University Press // Amazon.com // // http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/21/10/1871 //  
OpenQuestions2008 28 Feb 2008 - 18:49 - r1.10 IanHolmes
// Open questions (moving into) 2008 // Indel processes // Consider all approximations: // gaps as extra substitution character // closed-form approximations: TKF91, TKF92 // xrate: gap-model; gaps as characters; with context... // discrete-time transducers // Statistical alignment MCMC //  
PaleoVirology 19 Dec 2007 - 09:54 - r1.6 IanHolmes
// Paleovirology in the New Yorker. // Mentions Heidmann et al reconstructing the human endogenous retroviral ancestor, "Phoenix". // Thanks to steady advances in computing power and DNA technology, a talented undergraduate with a decent laptop and access to any university biology lab can assemble a virus with ease. // via Bruce Sterling // Main.IanHolmes 19 Dec 2007 //  
HumanChemicalPlant 19 Nov 2007 - 13:02 - r1.3 IanHolmes
// From NIH's Dream Anatomy gallery: // Main.IanHolmes 19 Nov 2007 //  
CyberpunkRealism 10 Oct 2007 - 03:50 - r1.15 IanHolmes
// Rudy coined the word "Transrealism" for the process of creating sci-fi by taking vignettes from your own autobiography and performing stylistic transformations on the key elements like transplantation to a futuristic setting, or substitution of teen alienation with alien abduction . // William, acknowledging that sci-fi is always truly set in the author's subjective present (which, he says, is trapped at least ten years in the past), has insisted on moving ...  
StormWorm 24 Oct 2007 - 13:43 - r1.5 IanHolmes
// From Bruce Schneier: // Peer-to-peer, stealthy, for-profit malware. // Although it's most commonly called a worm, Storm is really more: a worm, a Trojan horse and a bot all rolled into one. It's also the most successful example we have of a new breed of worm, and I've seen estimates that between 1 million and 50 million computers have been infected worldwide. // Old style worms Sasser, Slammer, Nimda were written by hackers looking for fame. They spread ...  
ExtendedEssay 28 Sep 2007 - 12:41 - NEW IanHolmes
// Genius from Man Stroke Woman. This more-or-less sums up what it's like to be a grad student in the UK. // Main.IanHolmes 28 Sep 2007 //  
TradeCards 21 Sep 2007 - 12:58 - r1.10 IanHolmes
// Ooh. // Could these pictures grace the next Main.TopPfams deck? //  
MalwarePhylogeny 30 Aug 2007 - 00:13 - r1.10 IanHolmes
// DataRescue's IDA disassembler applied to computer virus phylogeny (PDF). // The tree includes Wikipedia:Netsky, Wikipedia:Mydoom, Bagle, Sasser and other variants. // Related pages on biowiki: TeachingVirusProgramming, ViralRiboswitches. //  
TheRealWire 28 Aug 2007 - 16:38 - r1.20 IanHolmes
// Source material for HBO's The Wire. // (William Gibson likes this show too.) // This bulletin maintains that the gang violence under review in Baltimore is a symptom of the powerful influence of gang leaders. These gang leaders, though small in number, are largely responsible for the fear that touches Baltimore's citizens. Head gangsters are vulnerable, however, because the violence they command is revulsive to others, and law enforcement can direct that ...  
RiboWiki 01 Sep 2007 - 21:16 - r1.12 IanHolmes
// y'know. wikipedia has a lot of cool stuff. // Wikipedia:RNA world hypothesis // Wikipedia:RNA structure lots of algorithms // Wikipedia:Ribosomal RNA // Wikipedia:Ribozyme // Wikipedia:Aptamer // Wikipedia:Riboswitch // Wikipedia:Hammerhead ribozyme ... I mean, I could go on ... // Wikipedia:RNA // Wikipedia:Non-coding RNA // Wikipedia:WikiProject RNA aims to cultivate articles on each noncoding RNA family //  
SpookCountry 23 Aug 2007 - 22:58 - r1.15 IanHolmes
// William Gibson's new book Spook Country has almost nothing in common with the original proposal, reproduced below. // Publishers Note: In around July 2005 (according to his blog) William // Gibson began writing the novel that became Spook Country and // delivered it 18months later to his publishers. Reproduced below is // William Gibson’s original proposal for this novel // Proposal for a novel by William Gibson //  
BiologicalWarfare 26 Nov 2007 - 13:56 - r1.11 IanHolmes
// As well as being a tool for medicine and biotechnology, molecular biology has functioned as a weapon. // Here are a few random links about molecular biological warfare in ancient and modern times, // in honor of the 25th anniversary of computer viruses. // Anthrax // First used by the Japanese cult Wikipedia:Aum Shinrikyo // More recently the Wikipedia:2001 anthrax attacks // http://www.defencejournal.com/dec98/anthrax.htm // The 1978 assassination of Wikipedia ...  
BritishCensors 01 Sep 2007 - 21:17 - r1.7 IanHolmes
// Rejecting a work is a very serious action and one which we do not take lightly. Where possible we try to consider cuts or, in the case of games, modifications which remove the material which contravenes the Board's published Guidelines. In the case of "Manhunt 2" this has not been possible. "Manhunt 2" is distinguishable from recent high-end video games by its unremitting bleakness and callousness of tone in an overall game context which constantly encourages ...  
ViralRiboswitches 28 Aug 2007 - 16:52 - r1.5 IanHolmes
// Following my earlier post on TeachingVirusProgramming ... // Here's a nice application of aptamers that highlights some of the potential a theophylline-triggered riboswitch implanted in tomato bushy stunt virus: // http://www.f1000biology.com/article/id/1087232 // A systems biology paper from the same F1000 issue, on how noise determines B.subtilis fates: // http://www.f1000biology.com/article/id/1087316 // Main.IanHolmes 24 Jun 2007 // // From the syntheticbiology ...  
TopFiveScubaHits 17 Jun 2007 - 22:12 - r1.5 IanHolmes
// Top five Google hits for Scuba Bay Area // 1 http://www.bdcss.com/ (Burlingame) // 1 http://www.bambooreef.com/ (SF/Monterey/Sonoma/Mendocino) Y :-) // 1 http://www.wallins.com/ (San Carlos) // 1 http://www.sfscubaschools.com/ (SF, San Jose Maui) // 1 http://www.scubamonterey.com/ (Monterey) //  

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OK, I've stopped trying to bend the wiki into being a blog and am now using this subweb as, uh, a wiki for random one-off observations. Images are often reposted at biowiki.org home. Here are the 25 most recent new pages. -- IanHolmes - 04 Jun 2007


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