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My favorite plotting application for MacOSX Plot has been updated. New features include new plot styles (histogram, sticks and dots), better axis scaling and dynamic symbols — besides the “obligatory” bug fixes.

Thank you Michael!

Tony has posted a quick howto for building your own Inexpensive Gel Documentation System with a computer and a digital camera.

While thewhole idea of Sciencecast.net is a very promising one – Ⅰ just had to stop listening to it after about 5 minutes, Ⅰ could not stand the speech melody any more. Too bad, Ⅰ rather stick witzh the naked scientists

The BBC show Periodic Tales is available on the web now. Stories about the chemical elements… all available in RealAudio format (not iPod compatible, and no podcast!!)

Where is the technorati for science? A site that accumulates all abstracts of scientific publications that you can search for – based on content, author, publication, keywords. A site that offers RSS feeds for those searches.

What else could be done with a system like this?

• it would be very easy to stay up-to-date with current scientific progress – new publications on a subject would just appear in your inbox
• there would finally be a single place that would be the source of all your inquiries – your RSS feed reader! User’s choice!
• since RSS feeds can contain quite a bunch of meta data it would be very easy to integrate your reference manager – just point and click and save the abstract plus reference info, directly from the feed reader.
• integrate the system with social reference managers like citeUlike or connotea – making those social networks and meta information much more valuable as well as accessible.

But then Ⅰ just realize this may not ever going to happen – too many publishers are probably afraid of sharing that much freely; the service would probably be even interesting to scientists if it was not for free, if academic discounts are available.