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In the Pipeline - Feb 15, 2008
Lab fires don’t happen as often as you might think, at least to hear the way organic chemists talk. We all have alarming stories of alarming reactions (often set up by some rather alarming labmates), but these things …
Tagged: life in the drug labs
Strange Attractor - Feb 15, 2008
After months of talking about it and planning for it, Suw and I are finally married. Thank you to everyone who sent along their congratulations and best wishes. Thank you to Chris ‘Pods and Blogs’ Vallance for being …
Tagged: media 2 0
Copyfight - Feb 15, 2008
Hometown paper the LA Times runs an extensive piece on the complete screw-over that studios give to writers. To say that they lie, cheat, and defraud doesn't begin to cover it. In this case the victim is one Deborah …
Tagged: ip abuse
Online Dating Insider - Feb 15, 2008
Happy Valentine’s Day! Hope you’re feeling the love. I’m taking the day off, normal posting will resume tomorrow.
Tagged: uncategorized
In the Pipeline - Feb 14, 2008
I’ve been reading an interesting paper from JACS with the catchy title of “Optimization of Activity-Based Probes for Proteomic Profiling of Histone Deacetylase Complexes”. This is work from Benjamin Cravatt's lab at …
Tagged: biological news
Copyfight - Feb 14, 2008
Earlier this week I had a chat with Jason Nazar of docstoc.com. The company had contacted me a while back suggesting the chat. They're a beta-level software startup dealing with professional, legal, and business …
Tagged: tech
Copyfight - Feb 14, 2008
The next in what I expect will probably be a chain of parodies of the Yes We Can song has appeared in my inbox: Billionaires for Bush bring us the "No You Can't" song. Unless one of these parodies generates something …
Tagged: blink and 8250
Copyfight - Feb 14, 2008
Creative Commons is boosting signal for Public.Resource.Org, who announced that they have put online - for free, with no restrictions on reuse - a vast source of US caselaw. The total is over 1.8 million pages …
Tagged: blink and 8250
Online Dating Insider - Feb 14, 2008
I finally got around to installing Match.com’s Little black Book Facebook application. I thought it was going to be a welcome respite after doing 7 interviews in a row today. The opening screen wasn’t very inviting …
Tagged: social networking, facebook, traffic
Online Dating Insider - Feb 14, 2008
I just heard from an intrepid reporter asking about Avid Life Media. Who is Avid Life Media? They own the Ashley Madison dating site, and now they own HotorNot. The reporter was wondering about why Avid would acquire …