au•to•tel•ic

Pronunciation: (ô"tu-tel'ik), [key]
—adj. Philos.

(of an entity or event) having within itself the purpose of its existence or happening.

Flow and the art of work.

"In the flow state, Csikszentmihalyi found, people engage so completely in what they are doing that they lose track of time. Hours pass in minutes. All sense of self recedes. At the same time, they are pushing beyond their limits and developing new abilities. Indeed, the best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to capacity."

Very pretty graphics from visualcomplexity.

Some great links for you smart children:

Interview with the head of the MIT Media Lab.

"We will undergo another revolution when we give 100 million kids a smart cell phone or a low-cost laptop, and bootstrap the way they learn outside of school. We think of games as a way to kill time, but in the future I think it will be a major vehicle for learning.

Creative expression (is another area). No longer will just a few write or create music. We will see 100 million people creating the content and art shared among them. Easy-to-use programs allow kids to compose everything form ringtones to full-fledged operas. It will change the meaning of creative art in our society."

Some really new Fedora Core 4 RPMS.

A pretty wild rant about programming languages.

Good article about using Genetic Algorithm-like behaviour to design antennas for micro-satellites.

Tools for Genomics.

A course on all the different protein folds

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Structural Neighbors and Structural Alignments: The Science Behind Entrez/3D.

An article on GeneDesign.

A great article on the economics of microprocessors.

Chara, 26 light years from Earth.

Programming in Emacs Lisp.

Emacs Lisp reference for date stamps.

CSS Layout tutorial

Ha ha math guys, you're not so smart now, eh! :)

GeneDesign - A neat website/program to design genes. Needs to be AJAXified.

A neat story about playing pong as hive mind.