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Tuesday, March 30, 2004
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Google Gets Its Groove On: "The search-engine stud isn't about to be pushed around by competitors. Google unveils a new look designed to drive more traffic to its shopping service, Froogle, and to highlight little-known search tools." [Wired News]
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Today I received a draft version of my article on net collaboration software. This is a short introduction to the available choices, and covers the basic requirements (audio/video, instant messaging, file transfer, shared blackboard, application sharing, etc.). I reviewed software such as Marratech Pro for the article. The text is written in Finnish and will appear in the next issue of the magazine.
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Nano, MEMS, and the wonders of nature: "Mother Nature has an impressive resume as an engineer. In nearly 4 billion years, she's perfected millions of innovative designs and manufacturing techniques in such diverse fields as biochemistry, materials science and mechanical engineering. It's no surprise, then, that small tech researchers are looking to nature's elegance for engineering aid." [via Boing Boing]
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Noah Johnson: Folding Proteins At Home: "In what is rapidly becoming a new world of democratic computing, Noah Johnson's three Power Macs are humming quietly away, helping Stanford University scientists solve a complex problem that, one day, may help them fight disease." [MyAppleMenu]
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Can you have too many choices? "Strangely, we lose sight of our human resilience when we make big choices. People are consistently puzzled that so many things they had dreaded - from getting fired to being ditched by a spouse - 'turned out for the best.' [...] The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us."
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