New online database for genes related to staph infection.
Search engine for IT departments.
Utah preservation grant roundup.
UC Berkeley Project: virtual Ireland.
Webmasters heart the Google search engine.
Search across multiple image/stock photo engines — PictureSandbox.
Christian Science Monitor reviews the Kindle.
Coming up: the alternative search engine of the year. Based on the nominees I would say Exalead, hands down.
Matt Cutts Lecture: anatomy of a search result.
Hey! Vote for the M-W Word of the Year.
Are you flying home for the holidays? You might want to keep this site in mind: it’s a quick, nifty way to get an idea of the delays into/out of a particular airport.
Flight Wait’s at http://www.flightwait.com/ . You’ve got two options for using this site. First option is to click the “Show All Airport Delay” link, and you’ll get a map with lines of flight delays — the lines are colored based on how late the planes are running. Or you can choose an airport code (or zip code or city name if you don’t know the airport code) and then get a set of lines for flights, again colored based on delay.
This is cool. It would be golly-bazooka cool if you could click on a flight line and get information about a particular flight, but that’s probably expecting too much.
This is still under development but sounds way cool. There’s a search engine on the way that will allow you to input a photo and will tell you what celestial objects are in the photo. Furthermore, the photo will be added to a database of sky images.
The site’s at Astrometry.net and it’s in really early alpha. There is a Web-based version of the search tool available, but at this writing it’s in closed alpha testing (there is an e-mail address available to apply for access.) There’s also a downloadable version of the tool you can get at http://astrometry.net/code.html . From the README file it looks like it’s Linux only.
You can get an overview of what the search engine is intended for at the project summary, check out the gallery of solved images (yow!), and, while you’re waiting for this project to get underway, browse links of related interest.
There is a lot of astronomy-language here; I think you’ll need to have a bit of background in it to get the most of it.
