links for 2008-09-25

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Brings Together Art and Science, Virtual and Real, Under One Big Roof – NYTimes.com
  (tags: technology visualization art)
• Austinist: The Return Of The Ginger Man
  (tags: yay austin)
• The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
  This is more painful than even the Gibson interview. What must the rest of the world be thinking? America is in a profound crisis economically and in two grueling wars. And John McCain thinks that if anything were to happen to him, this person is qualified to run the world.
  (tags: usa politics video tbr)
• Extinct Galapagos tortoise may be resurrected with genetics
  (tags: genetics cool science biology)
• zoe keating: avant cello
  (tags: music technology cool)
• Technology Review: Chemotherapy Gets Personal
  (tags: genetics science research medicine chemotherapy)
• David Foster Wallace (Harper's Magazine)