September 2009
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-27) →
Architeq (135)
The Beatles (45)
Imogen Heap (29)
Boys Like Girls (25)
Discovery (19)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-20) →
Boys Like Girls (189)
Sing It Loud (77)
Katy Perry (37)
Kanye West (21)
Imogen Heap (17)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-13) →
Boys Like Girls (177)
M83 (24)
Cartel (18)
Fleet Foxes (15)
Ladyhawke (15)
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Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in... →
Pretty scary article in the New York Times today. Hat tip to @leed0 ;)
In fact, her entire family tries to avoid any contact with the water. Her youngest son has scabs on his arms, legs and chest where the bathwater — polluted with lead, nickel and other heavy metals — caused painful rashes. Many of his brother’s teeth were capped to replace enamel that was eaten away.
Neighbors apply special...
“The Democrats just never learn: Americans don’t really care which side of...”
– Bill Maher: New Rule: Float Like Obama, Sting Like Ali
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-6) →
M83 (95)
Cash Cash (42)
The Maine (36)
Cartel (36)
Forever the Sickest Kids (36)
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On Influenza A (H1N1)— bunnie's blog →
To ground this in a specific example, six bits stored as “ATG” on your hard drive (DNA) is loaded into RAM (RNA) as “AUG” (remember the T->U transcription). When the RNA program in RAM is executed, “AUG” is translated to a pixel (amino acid) of color “M”, or methionine (which is incidentally the biological “start” codon, the first instruction in every valid RNA program). As a short-hand, since...