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Neat article covered on slashdot about scientists turning to players of the game Foldit to produce an accurate model of an enzyme from an AIDS-like virus. [posted by @moketronics]

This slashdot article from last night made me laugh. [posted by @moketronics]

Evolution of Video Game Controllers infographic. A friend shared this on facebook and it's pretty fascinating. After some poking around it appears to be available as a print from Pop Chart Lab (which also has lots of other awesome prints. Love the beer one) [posted by @moketronics]

Joost de Valk of Yoast recently posted about the importance of keeping your WordPress Core, Themes and Plugins up to date. By missing an update for a theme on one of the sites hosted he ended up with his server hacked. [posted by @moketronics]

Google announced recently that it is discontinuing the Google Desktop application. Their reasoning is that with the growing use of online (cloud-based) storage will make local storage search irrelevant. I'm using Google Desktop at work, but I probably wouldn't bother if I wasn't on Windows XP. [posted by @moketronics]

Huzzah! Yoast's WordPress SEO plugin is finally stable and has been promoted to version 1.0. It's a great plugin made by Joost de Valk; a man who certainly knows his SEO and Wordpress. [posted be @moketronics]

Found on StumbleUpon this morning. This article is about using some JS to detect signs of human interaction and flip a hidden input's value as an alternative to a CAPTCHA. Probably only effective as long as it doesn't become popular - much like CAPTCHAs themselves - but still a neat idea. [posted by @moketronics]

Stumbled this video before I left for work this morning. I thought it was well done and a good laugh. [posted by @moketronics]