Watson and Crick paper on DNA

Watson and Crick’s original paper on DNA in Nature magazine. It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material. Comments Dae-Hyun Hahm 12 Sep 2006 6:22 am: I am a teaching professor and I need that paper in PDF for teaching in University.

Exchanges using Wisdom of Crowds

Alternate exchanges: Hollywood Stock Exchange, Innovation futures, Blogshares. These exchanges are supposed to be remarkably accurate in predictions.

Google Games

Google games

MIT Social Media Group

MIT’s Social Media Group

Social Network Analysis

Excellent intro to social network analysis

The mad life we have with children

About the mad life we have with children. Aniruddha will appreciate this.

Bald actresses

Bald actresses. They look nice without the hair too. Comments kesh 27 Feb 2009 8:53 pm: where s d photos ? S Anand 28 Feb 2009 7:55 am: Looks like the original link went bad. Have replaced it with a Google search.

Robust software

Dan Briklin on software that lasts 200 years.

Using gmail for backup

Interesting idea to use gmail for backup.

Simulation close enough to reality

Nilesh on the Uncanny valley. The point at which a simulation becomes close enough to reality that it stops matching up. I have seen a lot of this happen in software design too.

Street dogs in Athens are being poisoned

Street dogs in Athens are being poisoned. Maybe this happens everywhere. Maybe it is for the good. I just wish there were another way. (Don’t watch the clip.)

The best Google Answers

The Best Google Answers.

Great Hackers

Excellent article by Paul Graham on great hackers.

Conversational cheap shots

Conversational cheap shots.

Getting things done at a call center

A good way to get things done at a call center.

Gmail performance at 1GB

Kevin Rose tests gmail performance at 1 GB.

How DNA gets converted to proteins

An animated description of how DNA gets converted to proteins.

Productivity software

Marc’s Outlook on Productivity – a good blog on productivity software.

Apologetic software

Apologetic software.

Lookout

Microsoft bought Lookout. Lookout searches for e-mail in Outlook across .pst files. As soon as they did, Microsoft closed downloads of Lookout. In contrast, when Google bought Picasa, they opened it up for free.