Links for March 10th 2009: Failed Negotiations - YouTube Will Block Music Videos in the UK [NYTimes.com] - “YouTube just announced that it wasn’t able to reach a new deal with the UK’s Performing Rights Society (PRS for Music), which collects licensing fees for musicians and labels...

by Elio The southern end of the volcanic Kol- beinsey Ridge with its isolated seamounts perched on the Mid-Atlantic ridge north of Iceland. Source. We don't know about you, but we've become pretty blase about the stream of papers, each with the customary two dozen or more authors, reporting the comp...

"I can hear DNA on the internet."  No, it's not Philip K. Dick's facebook status: it's what you could say too, listening to the broadcast of an entire human genome online.  A project that's already started, and is going on right now. The fantastic folk over at DNA-Rainbow have re...

I know today's supposed to be alllll about Watchmen lunacy, but there's another new flick that's really piqued my interest, mainly because it's a horror film (and I love horror films), but also because it stars Dennis Quaid, and I'll always find time to watch a Dennis Quaid movie. Even a lame one. B...

I got this off Senator John McCain’s Twitter (yes, he now tweets). Over the last few days, the Arizona lawmaker has been tweeting his version of “The Top Porkiest Projects� in the Omnibus spending bill. Here are science/genetics projects that Sen. McCain consider earmarks or pork-barrel: “$8...

Biotech, cancer, Drugs Luke Timmerman wrote: Nowhere but America makes it possible for a company to pursue its dreams for 28 years without making a profit. Even in the most optimistic times, it’s hard to explain. So how can it possibly be, in the depths of recession, that things are looking up...

About His Deposit...: Caroline Hall was supposed to sign the contract a month ago guaranteeing a kindergarten spot for her son at an Upper East Side private school. He had already spent two happy years attending its early-childhood program. But Ms. Hall, a corporate counsel, began ducking the school...

A Los Angeles clinic is offering the ultimate in designer babies. Want a son with brown eyes black hair and a dark complexion? Or a paleskinned blonde greeneyed daughter?...

S. 422, a bill introduced by Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan earlier this month, has a companion in the House, Lois Capps‘ H.R. 1032. It takes the short title of the “HEART for Women Act of 2009,” with HEART being an acronym for “Heart Disease Education, Analysis Research...

In approaching this film late and just now getting around to the review, I had two very good reasons.  First, I am rather lazy and second, this movie could easily have been ten tons of steaming fecal matter.  How is one supposed to react when they’re approached with a cinematic goth opera ab...