Not first on the subject...

One of the challenges of writing a blog is to try and provide new content. I've always thought that there was no point in covering information that someone else has already covered - but it's hard to be the first to break every story. So, I figured I'd do something else, which is useful: provide a few links to things that someone else found first.

Today's breaking news was something I found at SeqAnswers.com, on the new relase of information on Pacific Biosystems' new SMRT technology. The open access article is here. Thanks to ECO for updating with that link! (I was trying to get it all morning, to no avail.)

For humour, I wanted to discuss the IgNobel award winning paper: You Bastard: A Narrative Exploration of the Experience of Indignation within Organizations. However, another blogger on my reading list beat me to it.

I was also going to comment on lawsuit launched by the makers of Endnote against Zotero, but the same blogger also beat me to that. (Though, there's certainly a lot to be said about that case in terms of open standards, and people with antiquated business models fighting technology advances by any means possible...) Since I'm still considering using Zotero for my own research, it's probably something I'll save for another day, when there's more information available about the progress of the case.

Otherwise, there's still the new Apple MacBook, milled out of a single piece of aluminum, and the new Dell Mini 9, which I've been debating buying. Since it now comes with Ubuntu pre-installed, maybe I can forgive Dell for not refunding me for the XP licence that they made me buy at xmas last year with my current laptop.

Oh well. Now you know what I've been looking at while I procrastinate on my thesis proposal, and the mound of code changes I need to make ASAP... and now, back to work!