Random items that I'd like to blog about

Sorry about the lack of posts. The lost week spent roaming around the California wilderness has really taken a toll. I have been microinjecting my brains out, but fortunately it looks like I'll be able to get the last piece of data that the reviewers asked for. In addition there has been much post-scifoo activity that I have yet to contend with. And then yesterday I sacrificed a day's worth of work to be with a dear friend who is leaving town this morning. We'll miss you, pumpkin seeds.

As for posts that I wanted to write include the new Singer paper, the Vault paper, the incredible imaging paper that appeared in the Aug 9th edition of Nature where researchers have used "the dusty mirror principle" to form holograms of 140nm spheres (will X-ray crystallography become obsolete? will electron microscopy be replaced by femtosecond holography?). I also have some more thoughts about the ENCODE paper and work from our neighbor. We'll see how much I can get done ...