Linkdump for December 21st through January 10th
January 11th, 2009 Chris
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- The case of the 500-mile email – This has been around for many years, but it's worth passing on again.
tags: humor tech internet - Small Things Considered: The Two Edges of the Antibiotic Sword – "Instead of helping combat the pathogens, the drugs weakened the immune response!" (Heavy on the science, but interesting)
tags: science microbial - PolITiGenomics: The Power of R – I missed the proprietary software's bullshit propaganda when I skimmed the article the first time. Someone should tell that woman that the NSA uses free software (SE linux) for it's most secure systems.
tags: science culture freeculture copyleft software - Data for the masses : Article : Nature – "Initiatives for digital research infrastructure should focus more on making standardized data openly available, and less on developing new portals." (Sorry, closed access)
tags: science informatics data - Panel session on molecular bioinformatics for disease – Report from a panel exposing some of the tension between bioinformaticists and more traditional scientists
tags: science bioinformatics culture - Obama Puts Change.gov Under Creative Commons – No longer a fringe movement. Can't help but wonder if we're seeing Lessig's influence here…
tags: politics culture - Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse – We’re talking about terabytes, terabytes of data, of hundreds of thousands of man-hours of work, crafted by people, an anthropological bonanza and a critical part of online history, wiped out because someone had to show that they were cutting costs this quarter.
tags: culture internet - Letterman Audits Bush's Promises – Which campaign promises has he kept?
tags: humor politics - Respectful Insolence: The woo-meister supreme returns, and he's brought his friends – Blistering rebuttal of some high-profile alternative medicine advocates
tags: politics science medicine - Unliving dolls: Women collect fake babies – Possibly even creepier than 'real dolls'
tags: culture - The Java iTunes to Songbird Metadata Importer for Linux – imports the meta info, including ratings, from an iTunes library into Songbird.
tags: linux music - The Sky in Motion – time-lapse film of southern stars
tags: movie space - Las Vegas Slots v. Electronic Voting Machines – Frightening.
tags: security voting system:filetype:gif system:media:image
