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The Personal Genome Project Hits the Web

Ian Lamont writes "The Personal Genome Project has released the data sets and descriptions of traits, ethnic background and other information of the first ten volunteers, which include the project director and nine other people with backgrounds in genetics, medicine, and biotechnology. While the human genome was first sequenced at the beginning of this decade, what's special about this project is these 10 participants are having their names, genome, and other personal data gleaned from questionnaires shared openly on the Web, where interested researchers can freely access them. One of the ultimate aims of the project is to create a public database of 100,000 volunteers that researchers and other parties can use to determine what traits, diseases or other characteristics are associated with specific genetic markers.

Thinking XML: Enrich Schema definitions with SKOS

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New, Old Media Good For Each Other, Huffington Says

New media and old can clash and crowd each other out, but blogger extraordinaire Arianna Huffington argues in a new book that the two worlds are rapidly joining together to bring out the best in each other.

New, old media good for each other, Huffington says

New media and old can clash and crowd each other out, but blogger extraordinaire Arianna Huffington argues in a new book that the two worlds are rapidly joining together to bring out the best in each other.

New, old media good for each other, Huffington says

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New media and old can clash and crowd each other out, but blogger extraordinaire Arianna Huffington argues in a new book that the two worlds are rapidly joining together to bring out the best in each other.

New, old media good for each other, Huffington says

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New media and old can clash and crowd each other out, but blogger extraordinaire Arianna Huffington argues in a new book that the two worlds are rapidly joining together to bring out the best in each other.

New, old media good for each other, Huffington says

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New media and old can clash and crowd each other out, but blogger extraordinaire Arianna Huffington argues in a new book that the two worlds are rapidly joining together to bring out the best in each other.

New, old media good for each other, Huffington says

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New media and old can clash and crowd each other out, but blogger extraordinaire Arianna Huffington argues in a new book that the two worlds are rapidly joining together to bring out the best in each other.

New, old media good for each other, Huffington says

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New media and old can clash and crowd each other out, but blogger extraordinaire Arianna Huffington argues in a new book that the two worlds are rapidly joining together to bring out the best in each other.

New, old media good for each other, Huffington says

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New media and old can clash and crowd each other out, but blogger extraordinaire Arianna Huffington argues in a new book that the two worlds are rapidly joining together to bring out the best in each other.

New, old media good for each other, Huffington says

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New media and old can clash and crowd each other out, but blogger extraordinaire Arianna Huffington argues in a new book that the two worlds are rapidly joining together to bring out the best in each other.

New, old media 'good for each other'

New media and old can clash and crowd each other out, but blogger extraordinaire Arianna Huffington argues in a new book that the two worlds are rapidly joining together to bring out the best in each other.

New and old media good for each other

New media and old can clash and crowd each other out, but blogger extraordinaire Arianna Huffington argues in a new book that the two worlds are rapidly joining together to bring out the best in each other.

Birds Learn Alarm Signals from Other Species

Living in dangerous habitats forced some bird species to develop unusual defense mechanisms, including being able to recognize the alarm signals given off by other species, when they encounter danger. This was proven by scientists at the Australian National University in Canberra, who observed the behavior of the fairy-wrens (Malurus cyaneus) after they were subjected to distress calls emitted by other species.

New, old media good for each other, Huffington says

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New media and old can clash and crowd each other out, but blogger extraordinaire Arianna Huffington argues in a new book that the two worlds are rapidly joining together to bring out the best in each other.

Insomniac's Price: Sony Relationship Very Positive, Can 'See The Other Side Too'

Insomniac's Price: Sony Relationship Very Positive, Can 'See The Other Side Too' As part of an in-depth new Gamasutra interview, Insomniac CEO Ted Price has been discussing the Resistance/Ratchet & Clank developer's exclusive 10-year relationship with Sony, suggesting that for platform exclusives, "Sony is going to market the hell out of your games", but also noting of multiplatform possibilities: "We see the other side too."

Linux Supports More Devices Than Any Other OS

Linux Blog recommends an interview up on the O'Reilly site with Greg Kroah-Hartman, long-time Linux kernel hacker and the current Linux kernel maintainer for the USB driver core. He updates the free Linux driver program announced almost two years ago, which has really caught traction now with more than 300 developers volunteering. The interviewer begins by asking about Kroah-Hartman's claim that the Linux kernel now supports more devices than any other operating system ever has. "[One factor is] the ease of writing drivers; Linux drivers are at normally one-third smaller than Windows drivers or other operating system drivers. We have all the examples there, so it's trivial to write a new one if you have new hardware, usually because you can copy the code and go.

Fed to banks: Go forth and lend

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The Federal Reserve and other bank regulators urged banks on Wednesday to lend more freely to creditworthy borrowers. "The agencies expect all banking organizations to fulfill their fundamental role in the economy as intermediaries of credit to businesses, consumers, and other creditworthy borrowers," the Fed, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Comptroller of Currency and Office of Thrift Supervision said. Fed data show that more banks have tightened credit standards in the past year than at any other time in the past 20 years. The joint interagency statement releaed Wednesday was aimed not just at the banks that have received federal investments and loans, but all banking institutions. End of Story

Where do you find design inspiration?

I was in the bookstore the other day and found a book that purported to be a book for Web design inspiration. I ended up not buying it because it was shrink-wrapped so I couldn't even look at the pages to see if it really would inspire me. And it cost a lot. :-) When I'm working on general projects (like templates or layouts) I find a lot of inspiration from other Web designers. In fact, that's why I created the Web Design Design Gallery - to give myself and others a source of inspiration for Web designs. But I don't think that looking at other websites should be my only, or even my best, source of inspiration. When I'm working on a specific project, I try to find inspiration from the topic of the site. For example, if I were building a site about horses, I would go look at horses, take photos of horses, and make a site that reminded me o

CSS annoyance - or maybe the browser?

I was reading this post on smashing magazine the other day and it mentioned using CSS to set your text to uppercase. Sure, I agree with that. After all, that's what the text-transform property is for. But here's something you may not have known. When I did this the other day in a script that was building documents intended to be copy/pasted, I ran into an unexpected snag. In Firefox 3 (and possibly other browsers, I didn't test) when I would copy the transformed text, it would copy it as it was written in the HTML not as it displayed on the Web page. This was extremely frustrating for the people copy/pasting until I figured out what was going on. I ended up hard coding the all-caps sections just so they would copy and paste correctly.

Analysis: ".tel" Domain Name To Become Available Soon

There's a new top-level domain name ("TLD") on the block, and broadcasters and other media companies will want to protect URLs that include their call signs, unique slogans and positioning statements or other registered marks or names. The new TLD will be ".tel." Unlike .com, .net, .org, and other current TLDs that link to websites, the new .tel TLD is designed specifically for access by mobile devices such as the Blackberry and iPhone and will access to the contact information of the holder of the .tel URL without the need for a standard website. The theory behind the .tel TLD is to allow instant access to contact information without having to access a registrant's website. When contact information is accessed via mobile devices, the telephone numbers will appear as "hot links" that will dial those numbers upon tou

German Foreign Ministry Migrates Desktops To OSS

ruphus13 writes "Here's another example of 'German Engineering' — The Foreign Ministry in Germany is migrating all of its 11,000 desktops to GNU/Linux and other open source applications. According to the article, 'this has drastically reduced maintenance costs in comparison with other ministries. "The Foreign Ministry is running desktops in many far away and some very difficult locations. Yet we spend only one thousand euro per desktop per year. That is far lower than other ministries, that on average spend more than 3000 euro per desktop per year ... Open Source desktops are far cheaper to maintain than proprietary desktop configurations," says Rolf Schuster, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Madrid and the former head of IT at the Foreign Ministry .

400 Demolition Robot

Brokk Inc., Monroe, Wash., has introduced the Brokk 400, a new demolition robot, which is bigger in size and capacity than any other model in the Brokk range. The Brokk 400 is designed for heavy concrete demolition in environments where weight on floor decks is an issue. The machine weighs 4,800 kilograms and has a hitting power of no less than 1048 Joule. The machine can also be uses with other demolition tools, such as concrete crushers, steel shears, scabbler, driller and different types of buckets and grapples. Other features include a higher chassis set-up and a three-part arm system. The machine has a horizontal reach of almost 23 feet and a vertical reach of close to 25 feet. For hot environments, the Brokk 400 can be equipped with heat resistant hoses, extra cylinder protection, caterpillar tracks, steel outrigger pads and an air

Blog cafe : Emerging market dilemmas

A particularly destabilizing aspect [during the crisis] was the tendency of fears about the soundness of banks and expectations of exchange-rate devaluations to reinforce each other... An element that the two type of crises had in common was the so-called "hot money," short-term deposits held by foreigners in domestic banks. On one hand, expectations of devaluation induced outflows of the hot-money deposits (as well as flight by domestic depositors), which threatened to trigger general bank runs. On the other hand, a fall in confidence in a domestic banking system (arising, for example, from the failure of a major bank) of ten led to flight of short-term capital from the country, draining reserves.... Other than abandoning the parity altogether, central banks could do little in the face of banking and exchange-rate crises, as the former s

Blog cafe : Emerging market dilemmas

A particularly destabilizing aspect [during the crisis] was the tendency of fears about the soundness of banks and expectations of exchange-rate devaluations to reinforce each other... An element that the two type of crises had in common was the so-called “hot money,” short-term deposits held by foreigners in domestic banks. On one hand, expectations of devaluation induced outflows of the hot-money deposits (as well as flight by domestic depositors), which threatened to trigger general bank runs. On the other hand, a fall in confidence in a domestic banking system (arising, for example, from the failure of a major bank) of ten led to flight of short-term capital from the country, draining reserves.... Other than abandoning the parity altogether, central banks could do little in the face of banking and exchange-rate crises, as the former s

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