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Were you needing software for designing new genes? Looks like this is the place to go.

 Powerful Search Capability

With lightening fast access to NCBI, iGem, plasmids and more, Genome Compiler allows you to easily find and import genetic information at any scale. Nature’s design is at your fingertips!

 Intuitive User Interface

The Drag and Drop utility provides users with an agile mechanism for engineering DNA. Genome Compiler’s intuitive “lego” construction allows you to move your genetic “bricks” within and between new projects.

 Easy Ordering

The simplest way to order your synthetic DNA designs. Get quotes from multiple providers and choose the one that meets your needs.

 Cloud Storage

Genome Compiler’s Cloud Storage enables seamless collaboration. Simply drag and drop your content to the Cloud and access your project from any machine!

 Built-in Library

Your built-in constructs library includes an extensive list of genetic parts, plasmid vectors, complete genomes, and more

 Undo/Redo Changes

At Genome Compiler, we fully encourage fearless innovation – undo/redo your changes with a single click. Leave the worrying to us.

Subtly Animated GIFs of London Street Scenes Focus on One Person

Oh, I really like these. Thanks Dean. -egg

“One” is a photo series of London street scenes in which a single person in each photo is subtly animated. The animated photos, or “cinemagraphs,” were created by photographer Nicolas Ritter.

The project » one « focuses on the individual in a crowd. It particularly imitates the way in which the human eye observes: not viewing a crowd as a crowd, but observing little micro-scenes inside of it.

Animated street photography by Nicolas Ritter

Animated street photography by Nicolas Ritter

Abstract Expressionism was a CIA plot – Boing Boing

Abstract Expressionism was a CIA plot – Boing Boing.

The decision to include culture and art in the US Cold War arsenal was taken as soon as the CIA was founded in 1947. Dismayed at the appeal communism still had for many intellectuals and artists in the West, the new agency set up a division, the Propaganda Assets Inventory, which at its peak could influence more than 800 newspapers, magazines and public information organisations. They joked that it was like a Wurlitzer jukebox: when the CIA pushed a button it could hear whatever tune it wanted playing across the world.

The next key step came in 1950, when the International Organisations Division (IOD) was set up under Tom Braden. It was this office which subsidised the animated version of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, which sponsored American jazz artists, opera recitals, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s international touring programme. Its agents were placed in the film industry, in publishing houses, even as travel writers for the celebrated Fodor guides. And, we now know, it promoted America’s anarchic avant-garde movement, Abstract Expressionism…

Canvas Furniture that Hangs on Your Wall by YOY | Colossal

Canvas Furniture that Hangs on Your Wall by YOY furniture

Canvas Furniture that Hangs on Your Wall by YOY furniture

Unveiled earlier this month at Salon Satellite at Milan Design Week 2013, Canvas is a set of two-dimensional, lightweight furniture pieces made of wood, aluminum and stretched elastic canvas that can be hung flat on a wall. The surface of each piece is printed with images of the furniture it represents, and once removed can be propped against a wall and used as actual seating. Canvas was designed by spatial designer Naoki Ono, founder of Tokyo-based YOY design studio. While the chairs might not be ideal for long periods of time, they really are ideal for cramped spaces requiring temporary seating. (viahyperallergic)

Reddit and the Marathon Bombers: The Wise Way to Crowdsource a Manhunt : The New Yorker

After Reddit’s attempt to find the Boston Marathon bombers turned into a major failure (for which Reddit’s general manager Erik Martin publicly apologized Monday), the over-all conclusion seems to be that the whole experiment was misguided from the start, and that the Redditors’ inability to identify the Tsarnaev brothers demonstrates the futility of using an online crowd of amateur sleuths to help with a criminal investigation. Or, as theTimes’s Nick Bilton put it, “It looks as if the theory of the ‘wisdom of crowds’ doesn’t apply to terrorist manhunts.”

That proposition may be true. But Reddit’s failure isn’t evidence for it. To begin with, it’s a bit facile to frame this story as a competition between “the crowd” and “the experts,” since the official investigation wasn’t relying on a couple of experts, but rather had its own crowd at work, one made up, in Bilton’s words, of “thousands of local and federal officials.” More important is that the Redditors faced a simple, but insuperable, obstacle when it came to identifying the Tsarnaevs, namely that the two brothers were not, as far as I can tell, in any of the photographs that were widely available before Thursday morning. The footage that convinced investigators that the Tsarnaevs were prime suspects was the footage from the Lord & Taylor surveillance cameras, which hadn’t (and still hasn’t) been released to the public. This is an obvious point, but one that’s been overlooked: Reddit had no real chance of identifying the right suspects because it didn’t have access to the information that mattered. (Had the clip of the Tsarnaevs walking down Boylston Street been publicly available last Tuesday, I don’t think there’s any doubt Redditors would have flagged them as suspicious.) Whatever the value of the wisdom of crowds, it isn’t magic:you can’t ask the crowd to find someone that, in a sense, it’s never seen.

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Reddit and the Marathon Bombers: The Wise Way to Crowdsource a Manhunt : The New Yorker.