Internet Odds and Ends

Rick at My Biotech Life is organizing all the genetics feeds into a single Feedburner feed. The DNA Network is a collection of feeds from sites that blog on genetics. You can subscribe to the DNA Network Feed to get the web's best genetics content delivered to your newsreader. If you would like to join the network, leave a comment on Rick's blog.

Via Neil Saunders I learned about Google's Image Labeler, in which you team up with another person to come up with labels for random pictures. I presume these labels will be used for smart searching in the future. Beware, this is an amazing time sink.

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