madape » jargoning http://www.madape.org matt dan peter Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:06:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.madape.org/2008/10/174/ http://www.madape.org/2008/10/174/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:30:40 +0000 peter http://www.madape.org/?p=174 Watching Tina Fey today was a scary reminder that there is a little election thing going on, and that I should probably cast a vote.  Though planning on being back east during the crucial day, I registered AK absentee (this form, the deadline postmark is Oct. 4, or you can email it in .pdf) I stumbled on google’s nifty election tool, which has registration and other great info wired to your location:

And just to clarify, few sane folk here are into Palin.  There was a great sigh of relief when she was finally allowed onto the public stage without (as many) handlers so she could relay just how close Russia really is to Alaska. A great homegrown explanation for everyone else by a few folks in Juneau can be found here (some of their other videos are pretty okay too, they threw the Palin one together pretty quick). Good luck, ‘merica.

]]> http://www.madape.org/2008/10/174/feed/ 2 Science sentence of the week http://www.madape.org/2007/10/science_sentance_of_the_week/ http://www.madape.org/2007/10/science_sentance_of_the_week/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:08:16 +0000 dan http://www.madape.org/?p=117 From an exploration of how to apply ecological theory to bacteria and other microbes:

Surveys of 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequences have demonstrated the huge diversity of bacterial communities, but if much of the interesting ecological adaptation is conferred by the accessory genome
then the true ecological diversity exists in the rich brew of catabolic plasmids, resistance transposons and pathogenesis islands.

Emphasis added to portion with literary merit.

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