] Each evening, thousands of Americans drift into Chinese
] restaurants or, if they are too lazy to go out, pick up
] the phone and order one of the most popular dishes on the
] menu: General Tso's Chicken, a sugary-spicy melange of
] dark-meat tidbits, deep-fried then fired up with ginger,
] garlic, sesame oil, scallions and hot chili peppers.
]
] Not one in 10,000 knows who General Tso (most commonly
] pronounced "sow") was, nor what terrible times he lived
] through, nor the dark massacres that distinguished his
] baleful, belligerent career. Setting their chopsticks
] aside, patting their stomachs, the satisfied diners spare
] scarcely a thought for General Tso, except to imagine
] that he must have been a great connoisseur of hot
] stir-fried chicken.
]
] Who was he?

Who Was General Tso And Why Are We Eating His Chicken? (washingtonpost.com)

Please keep in mind that these are static jpgs...
Hold onto your seat...

Freak out man!!!

Bioperl is a collection of perl modules that facilitate the development of perl scripts for bioinformatics applications. As such, it does not include ready to use programs in the sense that many commercial packages and free web-based interfaces do (e.g. Entrez, SRS). On the other hand, bioperl does provide reusable perl modules that facilitate writing perl scripts for sequence manipulation, accessing of databases using a range of data formats and execution and parsing of the results of various molecular biology programs including Blast, clustalw, TCoffee, genscan, ESTscan and HMMER. Consequently, bioperl enables developing scripts that can analyze large quantities of sequence data in ways that are typically difficult or impossible with web based systems.

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It is good to know the bioinformatics.

BioPerl FAQ

] Heads up, sharers of music, video and software files: If
] a prominent Michigan lawmaker has his way on Capitol
] Hill, you will soon be a felon.
]
] U.S. Rep. John Conyers, a Detroit Democrat, is the
] sponsor of the Author, Consumer, and Computer Owner
] Protection and Security (ACCOPS) Act of 2003, which
] declares sharing a single copyrighted file online to be a
] felony.
]
] Because the bill doesn't specifically name the type of
] file, you could theoretically become a felon by copying
] and posting this very column on your Web site. (We frown
] on that sort of thing anyway, but webmasters, be warned.)
]
] Giving fake information to the folks who register domain
] names, the basic Internet Web addresses (such as
] freep.com), would be punishable by up to five years in
] prison and a fine. Using a camcorder to record a movie in
] a theater -- whether you share it or not -- would be a
] federal criminal offense.

HEATHER NEWMAN: 60 million file sharers could face prison, fine

] A cheap way to produce human proteins for therapeutic use
] may finally be possible thanks to a genetically modified
] yeast. The "humanised" yeast should lead to greater
] availability of treatments relying on, for example,
] antibodies and human growth hormone, as well as new
] treatments.

Cool :)

Now when does this translate into me getting cheap human growth hormone and IGF-I?

New Scientist - Modified yeast produces fully human proteins

More recommendations from friends in Atlanta. The best explanation that I can offer for this is that its "light" industrial music, if you can imagine such a thing. Like Front 242, but more human. Two thumbs up.

Fischerspooner

What if you could file-share someone's consciousness? Would it be a violation, or the ultimate communication therapy?

This story brought a tear to my eye.

Truncat - A New Short Story by Cory Doctorow

Scientists and engineers like to think that the technical and scientific issues can be separated out from the social, sort of fuzzy issues. My claim is that they're heavily tied together.

A Whole New Worldview

] The tags on the $12 sweaters said %u201CMade in
] Indonesia.%u201D
]
] Sweat-shop labor. Multinational. The Gap (Old Navy%u2019s
] parent company). Shopping malls. All the reasons why such
] authentically middle-class-quality clothes were available
] for lower-middle-class prices. This, I realized, is The
] Gap%u2019s strategy: use globalization to make
] middle-class clothes available to the lower classes at
] Old Navy; solid middle to upper-middle class-type clothes
] clothes at struggling middle-class prices at The Gap; and
] yuppie/upper-middle-class-level clothing at solid
] middle-class prices at its %u201Chigh-end%u201D store,
] Banana Republic. Each offers you an affordable and real
] climb up the socio-economic ladder. Like Wal-Mart.
]
] Here a cruel and almost funny cycle revealed itself.
] Think about it. The $12 sweater in the Old Navy bin is
] made by grossly underpaid Indonesian sweatshop workers.
] Their exploitation allows me and the Latinos to stock up
] on nice sweaters for prices far less in real terms than
] these sweaters might have cost a decade ago. But the
] exploitation also feeds the resentment against America
] that draws Indonesians towards Islamic extremism. That
] extremism feeds terrorism, which leads to America%u2019s
] military response: war. The war is fought predominantly
] by America%u2019s underclass%u2014the very people who
] shop at Old Navy, the very people who benefit from the
] sweatshop labor that produced the terrorism that drew%2

Ames is freaking hilarious and insightful here.

eXile #169 - Feature Story - Elite versus Elitny - by Mark Ames

] And when they presented them at a forum of chief
] information officers of the country's largest financial
] services companies -- clicking on a single cable running
] into a Manhattan office, for example, and revealing the
] names of 25 telecommunications providers -- the
] executives suggested that Gorman and Schintler not be
] allowed to leave the building with the laptop

Dissertation Could Be Security Threat (TechNews.com)