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Tired: beer snobs -- Wired: bourbon snobs

'Erotic' pictures to bring Bible back into fashion -- "Forget those old sketches in the Bible. Instead of a boring drawing of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we may well have a couple walking down a New York street, kissing. [...] Most of the models, who will earn up to £10,000 a day, will have their clothes on, but there will be some nudity because the Bible is very sensual and we are going to exploit that. We want to take the Bible off the dusty back shelf and put it on coffee tables. [...] We are negotiating with Virgin [Publishing]. We have had an offer from a Finnish publisher for about £300,000, but we are holding out for Virgin." -- Gustaf-Wilhelm Hellstedt

Bioperl: Standard Perl Modules for Bioinformatics

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Must read: Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health, by Laurie Garrett

The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation, 11/19/1863

Scientific American: June 2001: Puzzling Adventures: Alternating Liars

Interplanetary Internet (IPN): Architectural Definition, by Vint Cerf, et. al.

Must read:

• Spotting and Discovering Terms through Natural Language Processing, by Christian Jacquemin
• The Theory and Practice of Discourse Parsing and Summarization, by Daniel Marcu
• Advances in Automatic Text Summarization, by Inderjeet Mani and Mark T. Maybury (eds.)
• Pulsed Neural Networks, by Wolfgang Maass and Christopher M. Bishop (eds.)
• Computational Modeling of Genetic and Biochemical Networks, by James M. Bower and Hamid Bolouri (eds.)
• Bioinformatics: The Machine Learning Approach, by Pierre Baldi and Søren Brunak
• Machine Musicianship, by Robert Rowe
• Virtual Music: Computer Synthesis of Musical Style, by David Cope

ResearchIndex (CiteSeer): "Towards Multidocument Summarization by Reformulation: Progress and Prospects", by K. McKeown, J. Klavans, V. Hatzivassiloglou, R. Barzilay, E. Eskin

The Standard: "5 Technologies You Need to Know", by Dan Miller

"The Six Essentials? Minimal Requirements for the Darwinian Bootstrapping of Quality", by William H. Calvin

Must read: The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President, by Vincent Bugliosi

I've never seen anything quite like Steuard Jensen's Floaty Things

Must see:

• Kandahar, directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• Shreck

Tired: cloning Jesus -- Wired: cloning Dracula

GORE WON FLORIDA BY 145 VOTES - BUSH SHOULD RESIGN!

Must read: Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills, by Cynthia Gibas & Per Jambeck

"OK, so we went for Al Gore by 12 points. When does the punishment stop?''
-- University of Southern California political scientist Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, reacting to Bush's order to federal agencies in California to reduce energy use through steps such as cutting back on e-mail.

Musical training during childhood may influence regional brain growth

Duke News Service: Lobsters play biological violins -- so, those would be... "biolins"?

Study points to potential role for caffeine in reducing the risk of Parkinson’s disease

CNN: "Robo-eels, critters on chips lead cyborg pack"

Don't let the kids watch the Mickey Mouse Snuff Flick.

Village Voice: "China’s Execution, Inc." by Erik Baard and Rebecca Cooney. -- "Surgical vans must not display hospital logos; surgeons must not wear hospital uniforms when at the execution site; guards must be present until the organ is removed; and the corpses should be promptly cremated following the removal of the organs."

datamining the biobibliome, as seen on slashdot

"The Right To Read", a cautionary tale of the near future, by Richard Stallman

Sushi May Cut Smokers' Lung Cancer Risk

Study uncovers clue to severe PMS

Technology Review: "Search Engines Ready to Learn" -- from keyword search to document classification to "entity extraction" at WhizBang! Labs.

Mark your calendar: The Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio (BEAMS) Electronic Music Marathon, at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. From 9:30am May 5 to 1am May 6 (see schedule). Including works by George Antheil, John Cage, James Dashow, Mario Davidovsky, Jonathan Harvey, Akemi Ishijima, Elsa Justel, Alvin Lucier, Ake Pamerude, Steve Reich, Jean-Claude Risset, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Alejandro Vinao.