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SteveB recently installed a distributed computing client on his Playstation3 and earlier today shared this wonderful story with me:

The Folding@Home project…uses software programs to simulate the way proteins change shape - the way they fold - within the human body. Correct folding is necessary for proteins to perform their many functions, such as carrying oxygen [...]

The greatest thing in the world is snuggling up with my 15 month old daughter, Ashby, in the morning and watching TV. Unfortunately the only time she doesn’t mind snuggling is when we watch the ’stupid box’. There is a new Mickey Mouse Clubhouse television show on the Disney channel. It’s awful. Neither Tara nor [...]

I spent the first half of this week at the Dow Jones WebVentures conference in San Mateo. Ken Liu, the CEO Steve and I brought in November, presented in two sessions and I ran a booth. The booth was a good buy for us. The cost was very reasonable, there was a total of five [...]

OpenGarden
MindTouch has launched Wik.is, a community wiki site that simplifies collaboration and knowledge sharing for friends and family members, businesses, associations, students and educators.
The uses of wik.is are as broad as human knowledge and activity: Friends and family: family scrap book, travel log, event planning and celebration (graduation, wedding, anniversary) Personal interest,clubs and associations: sports, [...]

I just attended a keynote from this this guy Ben McConnell. His Powerpoint was killer! It was exactly what PPT should be. The slides were emotional or visual reinforcements of what he was talking about. Every 2nd or 3rd slide had text, but rarely did a slide exceed 5-7 words of text and the most [...]

I’m at the Community 2.0 conference today. It’s the conference’s inaugural event and it’s being held at the Red Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. This is the first conference I’ve been to that started with Champagne being served at 8:30 AM during the keynote. Last night I discovered the event’s blog and this [...]