Friday Links #28
06 Dec 2008Friday Fun: Solve Puzzles to Help Out Scientists - Foldit attempts to predict the structure of a protein by taking advantage of humans’ puzzle-solving intuitions and having people play competitively to fold the best proteins. Improve your problem solving skills and the world at the same time.
Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede – Even more amazing when you consider this was a healthy and large man.
| [CodeThinked | Taking the Magic out of Expression |
Sara Ford’s WebLog : Did you know… You can double-click on the properties folder in the Solution Explorer to open the project properties page - #368 – This one wins the award for being the most hidden.
Free Web Plan Being Pushed by FCC Head - WSJ.com – Our government actually proposing something useful for a change.
The Best Online Storage Service - Windows SkyDrive – 25GB is great but they still can’t upload an entire folder which makes it somewhat useless.
| [Jeff Blankenburg | Blankenthoughts: Keeping Your Head In The Cloud ](http://jeffblankenburg.com/2008/11/keeping-your-head-in-cloud.aspx)- Your applications are hosted inside Microsoft’s global datacenters, and are automatically distributed and managed. |
Python 3.0 Release – New features but no backwards compatibility. Gutsy move but sometimes you have to break things to make them better.
Featured Firefox Extension: OpenXML Viewer Opens Word 2007 Docx Files in Your Browser – Anything to keep Microsoft Word off my computer.
First superconducting transistor promises PC revolution - tech - 03 December 2008 - New Scientist – Still not room temperature but they’re getting closer.
Featured Windows Download: Wordpad 2009 Offers Windows 7-Like Ribbon Interface – Anything to keep Microsoft Word off my computer, anything.
moq – The simplest mocking library for .NET 3.5 with deep C# 3.0 integration - Moq is designed to be a very practical, unobtrusive and straight-forward way to quickly setup dependencies for your tests. Its API design helps even novice users to fall in the “pit of success” and avoid most common misuses/abuses of mocking. Checkout the QuickStart.