This is pretty neat. A site where you post just small entries. They mapped it onto Google Earth, so you can see almost realtime all the people posting and where they are posting from...its fun to watch.

twittervision

Yesterday I did a protein purification from Xenopus (frog) egg extract. I know, I know...most of you are thinking ewwww. Thats gross. But I thought it was pretty cool to be able to take a specific kind of bead that binds a specific kind of sugar modification, and use it to pull out a subset of proteins that contain said sugar modification. Thinking about whats going on in my tubes on a molecular level is pretty damn rad (yes...I am a nerd). Anyway, I am now staining a gel to see whether I was successful, and thus, am quite inundated with the scent of acetic acid. mmmmmmm....delicious science:)

janelane wrote:
I *heart* the intarweb.

-janelane

Wow...now thats just dangerous information:)

RE: Atlanta Drink Specials

So bad its freakin awesome......I know what I am playing at my next halloween party.....

SoulDracula.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)

Prep a bunny for surgery in 60 seconds or less.

10mg | interactive

I am now a big fan of the Starlight Six Drive-in in Atlanta. I went last night and it was so fun, you can expect to find me there more often this summer. They let you bring in pretty much anything you want, so we had beers and even a tiny gas grill. So basically we were having a barbeque while watching a movie on a giant screen. It was awesome...I highly recommend. Nothing better than watching 28 weeks later while lightning jumps from cloud to cloud off in the distance. I am definitely going to be planning another trip out there.

Welcome to Starlight Six Drive-In!

Decius wrote:

This truely is an amazing place. These pictures cannot do it justice, but perhaps its a taste... (Yes we took these.)

Man, that HD camera Mark stole *ahem* I mean found works awesome! Glad you are having fun! Maybe someday I can visit the motherland too! Maybe we can go back when I graduate in 2-5 years and do some hiking in the summertime....

RE: Pictures from Banff so far...

Rudy Rucker's art reminds me of a dream I had after falling asleep after reading his book "The fourth dimension"....that is to say, it is bizarre....but in the good way.

Rudy Rucker's Art

Yes please.

Wine Cellar Sorbet Home

Go to work, come home.

Go to work, come home.

Go to work -- and vanish without a trace.

Billions of bees have done just that, leaving the crop fields they are supposed to pollinate, and scientists are mystified about why.

The phenomenon was first noticed late last year in the United States, where honeybees are used to pollinate $15 billion worth of fruits, nuts and other crops annually. Disappearing bees have also been reported in Europe and Brazil.

Commercial beekeepers would set their bees near a crop field as usual and come back in two or three weeks to find the hives bereft of foraging worker bees, with only the queen and the immature insects remaining. Whatever worker bees survived were often too weak to perform their tasks.

If the bees were dying of pesticide poisoning or freezing, their bodies would be expected to lie around the hive. And if they were absconding because of some threat -- which they have been known to do -- they wouldn't leave without the queen

Good for Tom, bad for the rest of the world. Interesting phenomenon.

Vanishing honeybees mystify scientists - CNN.com