Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Friday, February 14, 2003

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Is the world that much different than when you were young? "Or are you just older and (hopefully) wiser and are just getting to see things through a different set of eyes? Now that we seem to be on the brink of a massive war, we are hearing talks about nukes, warnings of biological and chemical attacks and terrorist threat levels. These are things that don't seem to fit in to well with what my vision of the world was when I was young." [kuro5hin.org]


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Do blogs really foster conversation? "Denham, Lilia and I are debating whether blogs are indeed suited for conversation or if, on the contrary, collective spaces are needed for true dialogue. Ton, you had something to say here, didn't you?" [Seb's Open Research]


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Big Brother: "You think Google is "way kool"? Think again. There are people who believe that Google is a privacy time bomb, and they do have a point." [via John Robb > The Aardvark Speaks]


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I searched the net for bioinformatics, glycomics, and system biology resources. Here are a few pointers: The journal Genome Biology is interesting, and you can try the online version of the journal for free.