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Lifted from peterme.com. Nooface: In Search of the Post-PC Interface is a site that documents… well… the search for the post-PC interface.

The latest Nobel prize in physics honors Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, and Carl E. Wieman for work with Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms. What’s that? You don’t really know what Bose-Einstein condensation is? Take a look at the Bose-Einstein condensation homepage at the University of Colorado at Boulder. They have a really nifty site that explains how it works. The animations are high quality and work well to augment the explanation. They also use a cartoonish dialogue explanatory approach that, while it sounds lame to describe it, is I think very successful. The overall physics page for the university looks like it’s loaded with a bunch of other goodies I’ll have to check out later.

Bin Laden’s warning: full text courtesy of the BBC. Read what the man has to say.

After several months of not posting anything, I’ve finally written another piece for the main Star Chamber site, my take on the current political situation. Agree? Disagree? Send me some mail.

This is from Time magazine in the moments just after the attack on the World Trade Center. That makes it old news by now, but Lance Morrow makes a impassioned Case for Rage and Retribution, a call for the kind of Old Testament wrath that it will take to fight an implacable foe.

I was referred to Benjamin Fry’s site at MIT by Martin Wattenberg. He mentioned that Fry has done some interesting visualizations of DNA sequences. Do you know of any nice genomic visualization tools? Tell me about about them.

SmartMoney University looks like a good resource. They make some really terrific tools at Smart Money, including the Market Map and the Stock Screener.

Matt Feazell is a talented minimalist cartoonist. I dig the Amazing Cynicalman.

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Rumors of War. This is a good reference source to help you debunk or confirm some of the stories that are flooding the web regarding our recent state of war. Found via blogdex.

I like wiki. I use it at work all the time. Here is a New York Times article about somebody who wants to use wiki to write an entire encyclopedia. A wikipedia, if you will.