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Blue spectrum light is bad at night.
https://justgetflux.com/

The Cobweb http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/cobweb 20% of URLs in journal articles suffer from reference rot. Why we need a “Digital Vellum” & Web #archive

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Twitter is a rare case: it has arranged to archive all of its tweets at the Library of Congress. In 2010, after the announcement, Andy Borowitz tweeted, “Library of Congress to acquire entire Twitter archive—will rename itself Museum of Crap.”
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Last month, a team of digital library researchers based at Los Alamos National Laboratory reported the results of an exacting study of three and a half million scholarly articles published in science,
technology, and medical journals between 1997 and 2012: one in five links provided in the notes suffers from reference rot. It’s like trying to stand on quicksand.
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Copyright is the elephant in the archive. One reason the Library of Congress has a very small Web-page collection, compared with the Internet Archive, is that the Library of Congress generally does not collect a Web page without asking, or, at least, giving notice. “The Internet Archive hoovers,” Abbie Grotke, who runs the Library of Congress’s Web-archive team, says. “We can’t hoover, because we have to notify site owners and get permissions.” (There are some
exceptions.)
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Also, it’s riddled with errors. One kind is created when the dead Web grabs content from the live Web, sometimes because Web archives often crawl different parts of the same page at different times: text in one year, photographs in another. In October, 2012, if you asked the Wayback Machine to show you what cnn.com looked like on September 3, 2008, it would have shown you a page featuring stories about the 2008 McCain-Obama Presidential race, but the advertisement alongside it would have been for the 2012 Romney-Obama debate.
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http://www.wired.com/2015/08/rhythm-suck-addictive-game-can-help/?mbid=social_twitter

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v47/n8/full/ng.3364.html

The indulgent world of…Fitzgerald
http://nypost.com/2015/07/18/cocktails-castles-and-canoodling-the-decadent-world-of-f-scott-fitzgerald/ What the #GreatGatsby’s E & W Egg look like now: F. Scott’s modest home at ~$3M

The real locations of West & East Egg + The Great Gatsby’s author’s real home, currently valued at $3M

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It was in this atmosphere of money — old and new, elegant and garish — that the idea for Fitzgerald’s most celebrated novel, “The Great Gatsby,” took shape.

The Fitzgerald house is up for sale for $2.999 million. It’s been expanded over the years, but it still looks like it did in 1922.

The Gold Coast itself does not. What was once a pastoral escape for the superrich has become a sprawling suburb, with condominiums occupying tracts of land that were once polo fields.

But the geography is the same, and here and there you can catch glimpses of places that may have inspired “The Great Gatsby.”

Fitzgerald famously named the two peninsulas that jet out into the Long Island Sound “East Egg” and “West Egg.”

He liked the word egg, calling friends “colossal eggs” and enemies “unspeakable eggs,” writes biographer Jeffrey Meyers.
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Reconstructing the DNA Methylation Maps of the Neandertal and the Denisovan

David Gokhman,
Eitan Lavi,
Kay Prüfer,
Mario F. Fraga,
José A. Riancho,
Janet Kelso,
Svante Pääbo,
Eran Meshorer,
and Liran Carmel

Science 2 May 2014: 523-527.Published online 17 April 2014

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6181/245.summary

Been playing around a bit with the Wayback machine. It provides a digital history of my lab pages, spanning >12 yrs . Quite useful, here’s some telling snapshots.

** PSEUDOGENE.ORG

Original version in ’02
https://web.archive.org/web/20020805201314/http://pseudogene.org/

Update in ’04
https://web.archive.org/web/20041022032622/http://www.pseudogene.org/main.php

& a similar snapshot a little later
https://web.archive.org/web/20060221043516/http://pseudogene.org/main.php

Update in ’06
https://web.archive.org/web/20060624071350/http://pseudogene.org/main.html

Sleeker look in ’07
https://web.archive.org/web/20071002022344/http://www.pseudogene.org/

Some updating of links in ’11
https://web.archive.org/web/20110718234549/http://pseudogene.org/

Recent (’14) update & revamp
https://web.archive.org/web/20141218044754/http://pseudogene.org/

** LAB SITE (GERSTEINLAB.ORG)

Original (’98) lab homepage
https://web.archive.org/web/19980110164548/http://bioinfo.mbb.yale.edu/

A move to sans-serif (’99)
https://web.archive.org/web/19990202061133/http://bioinfo.mbb.yale.edu/

Complete revamp in ’00
https://web.archive.org/web/20000304132138/http://bioinfo.mbb.yale.edu/

Emphasizing expression data set analysis (’05)
https://web.archive.org/web/20050818020050/http://bioinfo.mbb.yale.edu/

Shift to gersteinlab.org domain (circa ’06)
https://web.archive.org/web/20060903072735/http://www.gersteinlab.org/

Outline layout & CBB link (circa ’08)
https://web.archive.org/web/20080116051043/http://bioinfo.mbb.yale.edu/

Current look (circa ’11)
https://web.archive.org/web/20110808202935/http://www.gersteinlab.org/

** MY HOMEPAGE (GERSTEIN.INFO)

Very old version (from my postdoc!)
https://web.archive.org/web/19990429161656/http://bioinfo.mbb.yale.edu/~mbg/index.html.SU-2

in ’04
https://web.archive.org/web/20040402023228/http://www.gerstein.info/

Update in ’05
https://web.archive.org/web/20050402080657/http://www.gerstein.info/

Current version (around ’05)
https://web.archive.org/web/20070418170601/http://www.gerstein.info/

** FURTHER LINKS (useful links related to archiving)

perma.cc
archive-it.org

Chrome extension

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/memento-time-travel/jgbfpjledahoajcppakbgilmojkaghgm?hl=en

[Great movie of] Endangered Species in an Urban Setting, w/ animal images artfully illuminating the Empire State Bldg http://www.nytimes.com/video/movies/100000003832703/endangered-species-in-an-urban-setting.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_heritability_problem

Soul Cycle = Bike for Cash

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21660170-sweating-purpose-becoming-elite-phenomenon-spin-separate?fsrc=scn%2Ftw%2Fte%2Fpe%2Fed%2FSpintoseparate