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2100 hrs This is a bit of an experiment for me. First, I haven't done a lot of live blogging. Second, I don't know whether science will play any part in tonight's debate. 2102 Lehrer is introducing. Looks like McCain showed up... Lehrer: quoting Eisenhower, re military and econ strength. Obama:…
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…
Well, it's that time again. With the world economy in crisis, and the administration sticking to it's "Everything's gonna be OK" strategy, our candidates are holding a "town hall"-style debate. I live-blogged the last debate, and it wiped me out and pissed off the other people in the room, but…
The main theme of this year's Advances in Genome Biology and Technology meeting should come as no surprise to regular readers: sequencing. Generating as many bases of DNA sequence as quickly, cheaply and accurately as possible is the goal of the moment, and the number of companies jostling to…

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.