Thursday, March 29, 2001

I ususally have a long list of books I'm planning on reading. At other times I am stumped. Finding a good fiction book can be particularly difficult. Book Forager can help. You chose from a range such as: happy/sad, sex/no sex, optimistic/bleak, etc. You can also choose by setting, plot (success against the odds, for example) or the character's race, age sexuality and gender. It actually make quite good suggestions. You can also trick it with combinations that don't make sense such as happy and bleak.
http://www.branching-out.net/forager/forager.htm

Thursday, March 15, 2001

I believe I may have Nintendinitis (Brasington, R., 1990, "Nintendinitis [letter].", New England Journal of Mecicine. 322(20):1743-4) Which was origionally refered to as Pac-Man phalanx (Gibofsky, A., 1983, "Pac-Man phalanx.", Arthritis & Rheumatism. 26(1):120) Luckily, I have not yet experienced Nintendo epilepsy (Hart, E.J., 1990, "Nintendo epilepsy [letter].", New England Journal of Medicine. 322(20):1473) Which is known as Dark Warrier epilepsy in Britian (Daneshment, T.K. and M.J. Campbell, 1982,British Medical Journal Clinical Research Ed. 284(6331):1751-2)

Mutant fungus from space!

The Pacific Northwest Coastal Ecosystems Regional Study has got a shit-heap of information about (what else) Pacific Northwest coastal ecosystems. Right now I'm reading through resident surveys, it really is an amazing place to live.
http://www.pncers.org

Tuesday, March 13, 2001

This guy really hates Baltimore!
Baltimore City Woes : http://baltimore.home-page.org/

Dover publications my favorite publisher (known for their thrift-editions, clip-art, paper-dolls, math texts, decoupage material, etc.) is now online. http://store.doverpublications.com/ Even if you don't want to shop online, use the site to order all of their specialty catalogs and their complete catalog (free of course).

I knew I remembered something about a gene being named hedgehog, turns out Sonic is in the medical news again:
http://www.uchospitals.edu/news/Sonic.html