Author: gulley

It’d be some fun if they can pull this off… Agilent in Deal for Technique for Speedy Reading of Genes. The article talks about a gadget that would pull DNA through the eye of a “needle” and simply read off the base pairs going by. Eventually someone will succeed at this… RNA does it all the time. But it would be pretty cool if it happened in the next few years.

The InvisibleWeb, yet another index of indices.

StreetTech.com. Worth a look.

Adrian Thompson at the University of Sussex in England has been doing some good work on evolving electrical circuitry. Here’s an article from the Raleigh News & Observer on Computers that improve themselves.

rcdb – Roller Coaster DataBase

From the Playboy site comes “real or fake?”, an actual online test. If you’re easily offended, you can take my word for it that it is mildly interesting. Of course, as long as we’re on the subject of plastic surgery, here is a revolutionary idea about nipple addition surgery can improve your life.

Here’s something I should have seen coming: an O’Reilly book on bioinformatics. Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills

View the news that everybody uses on the Yahoo! News – Most-viewed content page. The more people look at it, the higher up it moves in the ratings. Speedle is attempting to do a similar thing. Just click one button to send a fun page to a friend. Speedle finds out and puts together stats to show what the most-forwarded web pages are. In the future fads will last no more than ten minutes. Who gives a damn about “all your base are belong to us” now?

Want to know all about blood wetted devices and biomaterials? Edward Leonard is your man. Buy yourself an expert at Biospace.com. This kind of expertise on demand (consulting for dummies) strikes me as one of the boons of the Internet age.

Artificial intelligence in games Gamasutra. I’m fascinated by how games are on the leading edge of a lot of interesting stuff in computing, from user interface innovations to virtual reality to artificial intelligence. For instance, the cloying cutesy game Creatures doesn’t interest me much as a game, but it does interest me as a massive experiment in genetic programming. The company takes its genetic programming very seriously and is purposefully expanding the state of the art while making a best-selling game.