Just when you think all government endeavors are going to hell, the National Center for Biotechnology Information comes to the rescue (well, has been coming to the scientist near you since 1988). For free, search everything from dna sequences in organisms where the genome is known to searching known Mendelian inheritances for Homo Sapiens (example here). Also of much use and interest is PudMed with the ability to search and read virtually any established molecular biology paper.
posted to MetaFilter by jmd82 at 5:53 PM on June 16, 2004 (4 comments)

For the Digital Art lovers out there, GFXartist.com is a gem with Elite Nominations and Elite Galleries to get a first-time visitors started on some of the more popular artwork the site offers.
posted to MetaFilter by jmd82 at 11:02 PM on March 30, 2004 (5 comments)

After the whole Napster deal, I turned to DALnet for my music needs...but, for the past few weeks, DALnet has been under DDoS attacks preventing me, and countless other from accessing the servers. I find this interesting because while DDoS attacks on RIAA make the news and stop after a few days, but I have yet to see DALnet's problems publicized at all. Anyone else at all find this weird that the hated RIAA his limited DDoS attacks, while smaller and more venerated org like DALnet has attacks lasting more than a week?
posted to MetaFilter by jmd82 at 12:30 PM on January 18, 2003 (39 comments)

Terry Brooks talks about overlooked fantasy genre - am i the only one who thinks he's one the most over rated authors?
posted to MetaFilter by jmd82 at 8:05 PM on October 18, 2001 (37 comments)