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Archive for March, 2008

Colbert on the big state argument

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »

Here is esteemed pundit Stephen Colbert's take on Sen. Clinton's "big state" argument, i.e., because she has won the "big" states, she should be the nominee despite trailing in pledged ... Read more..

Local boy makes good

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in genomics | No Comments »

I was reading Slashdot recently and came across this story about bad science journalism. More specifically it talks about how the media glorifies the scientific underdog and often mischaracterizes ... Read more..

Creative Commons

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in genomics, IT, politics | 2 Comments »

All original content on this blog is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. That means you are free to use, share, remix, etc. the content of ... Read more..

Illumina Genome Analyzer Pipeline and LSF

Friday, March 7th, 2008 Posted in IT | No Comments »

Many centers who use Platform LSF to manage their computational cluster have had trouble running the Illumina (Solexa) Genome Analyzer Pipeline (GAPipeline). The GAPipeline is the series of programs, ... Read more..

FeedBurner

Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in IT | No Comments »

I have switched my feed to start using FeedBurner. So now you can either subscribe to the feed through your favorite news aggregator or get my posts sent to ... Read more..

Drum beat to election

Monday, March 3rd, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »

When reading Charles Krauthammer's editorial entitled The Audacity of Selling Hope, I was transported back to 2003 and the run up to the Iraq war. The liberal peppering of ... Read more..

Construction delays

Monday, March 3rd, 2008 Posted in genomics, IT | No Comments »

Here is another update on the progress of construction for the Genome Data Center. Below is a picture of our 2 MW generator. Unfortunately, we will not ... Read more..

What ever happened to bias?

Monday, March 3rd, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »

A recent Newsweek article entitled The Myth of Objectivity discusses the recent (i.e., perpetual) uproar about media bias. Of course by bias, people mean that someone wrote an article ... Read more..