the dao of flow

EN: Nature published an analysis of their open peer review trial. A quite disappointing result that reminds me on a comment (Nature subscription needed) [1] from Gred Tyrelle:
I find it ironic that science is about the adoption, discovery and exploitation of new knowledge and techniques, yet the biggest revolution on the web is passing us [...]

EN: Working in (life) sciences? No budget for visiting a conference anymore? Give the First Online EMBL PhD Symposium a try. This virtual meeting will start next Monday and is for free. You are warmly invited to participate and to contribute. (I have to admit … I am involved in it.)

EN: I can warmly recommend to test the new interface of Google Book Search. Much more JavaScript magic was added which make scrolling through and searching in the book much better. So you can start to burn your hard copy books now*.
[Via Google Blog]
* (if you can life with the fact that some book in [...]

EN: The Lancet was not afraid to ask and made a series about sexual and reproductive health public. Unfortunately the articles are only available with a subscription but the free podcast gives already a good impression about the series. Many topics are covered including sexual transmitted diseases, contraception, abortion and general sexual behaviour. Some [...]

EN: As every half year OpenBSD the open-source unix flavour for the practical paranoid released it’s newest version. Some new features are the support for three new platforms (armish, sparc64, zaurus) the Zaurus 3200 (in zaurus), for UltraSparc III (in sparc64) and for various ARM-platforms in the newly introduced armish, the replacement of GNU [...]

EN: As pointed out on nodailpoint.org the BMC journal Source Code for Biology and Medicine has now published its first volume. So far there are not enough articles to judge if there is really a filtering regarding code quality (including good documentation) going on what I really would like to see.

DE: Der Wahlcomputer-Hack des Chaos Computer Club und der niederlÀndischen Initiative Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet (“Wir vertrauen Wahlcomputern nicht”) zeigt sehr deutlich, dass diese GerÀte nicht geeignet sind um sichere und nachvollziehbare politische Wahlen durchzufÌhren. Diese Petition* an den deutschen Bundestag fordert eine GesetzesÀnderung (§35 BWahlG), so dass Wahlcomputer nicht mehr in Wahlen [...]

EN: Google announced a new service – Co-op – Google Custom Search Engine. This make it possible for everybody to adapt the Google search engine to personal needs and share this modified version with others.
I created a quick test which searches in PubMed, Connotea, CiteULike: