Links 4/18/11

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Happy Sunny Saturday! If you're trapped inside, I have links for you. Science: Love p-values for what they are, don't try to make them what they're not Genomics: High-throughput "Next-Generation" Sequencing Facilities Map Illumina still dominate sequencing market: ABI and 454 Jockey for 2nd Place…
It was 50 degrees yesterday; now it's below freezing. Warm up with some HOT links. Science: Science is not democratic Ion Torrent's $3-Million Community Incentive Plan Musk Oxen Live to Tell a Survivors' Tale (I want a pet musk ox!) Other: Journal Register Company's Open Newsroom Launches New…
Michael Blim wrote a column at 3 Quarks Daily about when his doctor decided to drop him in a move to a boutique medicine practice. For those of you who don't know what that is, it is a family medicine practice where the physician has a limited number of patients who pay an annual fee in addition…
After being sworn-in on Wednesday (1/5/11), the new Republican-controlled House of Representatives are promising to do at least two things this week: (1) read on the House floor the U.S. Constitution, and (2) repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the healthcare overhaul…

The article about Windows provides considerable amusement. I don't necessarily disagree with it but to quote executives from VMWARE, that is one of the developers of software (VMWARE Player and Fusion) to allow Windows to run on Macs (the other developer being Parallels) is rather fine.