arafalov on February 2nd, 2006

Lose weight and learn DNA structures at the same time - sounds good to me. In yet another example of (sort-of) serious games, Dance Dance Revolution stepping game (or more likely the open source StepMania) has been adapted to use DNA base symbols as direction pads in a game, where correct dance sequence will cause [...]

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Both my wife and I borrow a lot of books from the library (great NYPL), but even with the generous renewal policies, sometimes the books get lost between two cards and we get overdue fines.
So, I was very glad to find a link to LibraryElf (via LibraryStuff), which will take your [...]

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arafalov on January 30th, 2006

I have always wanted to read through the classics of the Western literature. But the life is too short and too busy to try slogging through the volumnous writings. Now, the “Squashed Philosophers” website (via StingyScholar) offers condenced versions of materials where only the important points are kept - in the original language - and [...]

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arafalov on August 14th, 2005

I blog. Obviously! But I felt that an influential blogger like Hugh Hewitt might give a good overview and write a book worth reading. Boy, was I mistaken.
This book is squarely targeted at non-technical, right-wing, religious Americans who don’t mind being sneered at. Anybody else should try to avoid it.
For that Anybody else group, here [...]

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