links for 2009-04-27

CQPolitics on Obama's 100 days in office.

Really, easy solution don't follow the people who spam you and as for @spam is it really that big of a deal?

"A cloned beagle named Ruppy – short for Ruby Puppy – is the world's first transgenic dog. She and four other beagles all produce a fluorescent protein that glows red under ultraviolet light." Science at it again.

"According to Stephen Wolfram, the goal of Alpha is to give everyone access to expert knowledge and the data that a specialist would be able to compute from this information." The demo sounds pretty impressive.

"The international community is better prepared than ever to deal with the threatened spread of a new swine flu virus, a top UN health chief has said. Dr Keiji Fukuda said years of preparing for bird flu had led to improved stocks of anti-virals worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) have warned the outbreak, which they say has killed up to 71 people in Mexico, could become a pandemic." Serious but calm response, just the way it should be.

"The biggest potential change would be in the United States, where, perhaps within days, Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, is expected to introduce legislation aimed at overturning the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act." Personally I'm for this, government messing with a legal business.

That's funny.

"Dr. Ores is also a physician who runs a nonprofit health care cooperative for city restaurant workers that he sees as a model for how national health care could work. The undertaking, which he began last summer, is particularly timely as President Obama contemplates an overhaul of the nation’s health insurance system." Short but little interesting story. Wonder how is his profit margin.