British Battles – analysing and documenting British Battles from the previous centuries
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Interesting site: from Hastings through the Boer Wars.
October 2, 2008
September 23, 2008
Clean out your space. Read something beautiful.
Make your life good. Invest in what’s real. Cook a meal for someone you love. Pause before reacting. Clean out your space. Read something beautiful. Treat yourself to something. Go to a city you’ve never been to. Learn something new. Don’t be lazy. Workout and stick with it. GOOP. Make it great.”
– Gwyneth Paltrow. Intro to her new lifestyle Web site: GOOP. Not much there yet, but I loved this intro.
April 29, 2008
Old Bailey Online – The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 – Central Criminal Court
Old Bailey Online – The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 – Central Criminal Court
[courtesy of Auntie K. Thanks, K!]
First thing I did, of course, was pop /towse/ into the search to see what the Towses were up to from 1674-1913.
April 8, 2008
Internet Resources – Writers Resources – Writing Links & Writers Links for Writers
http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/
Hit counter stands at 999439. When it rolls over to zeroes, I plan to swop it for a different counter.
Mercy me. A million hits. Who woulda thunk back when that this day would come to pass?
April 3, 2008
The Memlng Index – A Long, Obscene and Fascinating List Of Links
The Memlng Index – A Long, Obscene and Fascinating List Of Links
Some gems. Some not so. Interesting collection.
February 7, 2008
Human Proteinpedia
Human Proteinpedia — the wonders of the Web.
A researcher at the Johns Hopkins Institute of Genetic Medicine has led the effort to compile to date the largest free resource of experimental information about human proteins. Reporting in the February issue of Nature Biotechnology, the research team describes how all researchers around the world can access this data and speed their own research.
Zounds, eh?
No anonymous postings. Only experimental results. (i.e. no predictions) You must be registered and logged-in to add data, but anyone can query.
Human Proteinpedia is a community portal for sharing and integration of human protein data. It allows research laboratories to contribute and maintain protein annotations. Human Protein Reference Database (HPRD) integrates data, that is deposited in Human Proteinpedia along with the existing literature curated information in the context of an individual protein. All the public data contributed to Human Proteinpedia can be queried, viewed and downloaded.
Data pertaining to post-translational modifications, protein-protein interactions, tissue expression, expression in cell lines, subcellular localization and enzyme substrate relationships can be submitted to Human Proteinpedia.
Protein annotations present in Human Proteinpedia are derived from a number of platforms such as
- Co-immunoprecipitation and mass spectrometry-based protein-protein interaction
- Co-immunoprecipitation and Western blotting based protein-protein interaction
- Fluorescence based experiments
- Immunohistochemistry
- Mass Spectrometric Analysis
- Protein and peptide microarray
- Western blotting
- Yeast two-hybrid based protein-protein interaction
And if you understood all that, this site’s for you.
So far 71 labs have contributed information on 2,695 experiments covering 15,231 protein entries.
Zounds.
THIS IS WHAT THE WEB IS FOR.
The Web wasn’t created just to distribute pron and LOLcats (although it’s very good at that too).
January 13, 2008
Barrymore’s A Christmas Carol — mp3
Every Christmas as the younger guys were growing up, we listened to Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge on an old family record (later xfered to cassette tape the year I gave a tape copy to each of my living siblings).
The older younger guy’s partner had heard about this tradition but the two of them were never over for Christmas Eve and he only knew of the practice from being subjected to “a blot of mustard, a bit of undigested beef” sorts of “God bless us. Every one!” riffs.
Christmas Eve 2006 they stayed with us (so we could all head off the next day to my younger brother’s home for Christmas festivities) but that year we couldn’t track down a sound system to play the tape and didn’t have a record player in the house to play the record.
Finally, this last just past Christmas, the older younger one’s partner finally was over for Christmas Eve and got to sit down and listen en famille to the Barrymore do his Scrooge.
And a wonderful Scrooge he is.
Just got a note that the older younger guy’s partner had found a Barrymore Christmas Carol at the Internet Archive.
And there it is! The Christmas Carol I’ve listened to every Christmas Eve since I was knee-high to a grasshopper.
Barrymore’s A Christmas Carol — mp3
The Web is a wonder. …
(God bless us. Every one!)
December 9, 2007
Welcome to FoodieBytes – eat something new
Welcome to FoodieBytes – eat something new
Choose your city (Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, DC) and fill in “what” you are looking to eat.
Choose “San Francisco”
Enter: foie gras
Read entries for 142 (mas o menos) restaurants that serve foie gras in San Francisco (mostly, found one listed in Larkspur). Some restaurants are listed multiple times for multiple items on the menu. Brief (lunch, appetizer, &c.) indication of where on the menu, brief detail (“with stone fruit mostarda and cornbread”) and a click to View Menu.
Don’t know how current the menus are as the listings included an entry for Monte Cristo which died a while back.
[via Eater SF]
October 11, 2007
[BLOG] Sara Zarr: The Stories of a Girl
Word out in today’s SFChronicle that Sara Zarr — whom I met many many moons ago at a WTQ gathering of misc.writers, back when she lived in this fair city, before she moved to Utah — is a finalist for the National Book Award for The Story of a Girl in the Young People’s Literature division.
Yippee! Yahoo! for Sara!!!!!
Sara’s Web presence: The Stories of a Girl
Sara is published. Sara is a finalist for a National Book Award.
Sara no longer engages with folks on misc.writing.
Hmmm. Is there a connection?
(A slight one, perhaps. Her success is primarily due to … Sara is talented, and determined, and focussed and …)
Yay, hooray for Sara!
September 27, 2007
A plea to anyone linking to Inkspot.com
A request from DebbieRO, my former Inkspot.com boss lady, on her Inkygirl blog.
If you have a link to Inkspot.com, PLEASE DELETE IT.
Pass the word.