Udderings
I felt like after commenting on the “sale” of Pirate Bay yesterday, I should let people know it was a lie. I guess. I don’t know how companies can get away with false announcements…
You know your state’s gone off the deep end when even Bush’s speechwriters are chiding you.
This is an amazing piece of investigative work into the origins of the Joe Kennedy being a bootlegger rumor.
Someone seriously paid $10 million for this? Anyone who used The Pirate Bay would never touch a legal file sharing version. Some people have weird ideas.
If you were freaked out this week when yelp knew about your facebook account, this is how to end some of the silliness facebook is trying to pull on all of us.
Failure Is A Failed Strategy - Paul Krugman
Krugman does a great job in this post explaining why this idea I hear a lot of people express won’t work. Mainly because it was the way the world used to be and it was actually worse. That was a time when these financial crises occurred with much greater frequency.
Anyway, read his post.
Details, Details, Details. Why Apple’s MacBook Pro refresh matters more than you think « GartenBlog
I don’t get why Gruber pointed to this. This example should actually be something Apple should be partially ashamed of. For all we hear about Apple not shipping things until they can do it right (cut and paste, multitasking), they shipped something that was horrible and worse than the other solutions on the market. Other solutions that shipped before Apple’s log out and log back in were hardware switches that just made the screen momentarily flash or detecting when it was plugged into an outlet. I like both of these better than Apple’s old solution. I do agree that the new solution is great though and the best in breed. But this still partially is complimenting Apple on the fact that they essentially shipped a feature that was equivalent to telling a Linux user “restart X when you plug into a projector” in the days before RandR. It’s not a small issue, these things are what we expect Apple to make a big deal about and never ship crappy stuff in the first place.
Molecular Biology test tomorrow? Too easy.
beautiful image, but what are the arbitrary two blocks in between your triplets of base pairs?
3 Buildings down from where I work
As the largest known protein, titin also has the longest IUPAC name. The full chemical name, which starts methionyl… and ends …isoleucine, contains 189,819 letters and is sometimes stated to be the longest word in the English language, or any language.
while interesting, this is probably the most misleading picture I’ve seen in my life.
Length of titin: 34,350 amino acids
Length of PDB id 1bpv (shown in picture): 112 amino acids
That is, the picture is 0.3% of the protein. Wikipedia should be ashamed of showing this picture. It’s roughly equivalent to a picture of Maryland representing the US.
