links for 2009-02-12

• First draft of Neanderthal genome is unveiled – life – 12 February 2009 – New Scientist
  (tags: genetics science evolution research anthropology)
• Technology Review: New Clues to How Primates Evolved
  Regions of DNA prone to duplication may have played a vital role in human evolution.
  (tags: genetics evolution science research)
• Technology Review: Taking a Cell's Temperature
  (tags: biology health science research)
• Tuffcode – Home – HTTP Scoop
  HTTP Scoop passively listens for HTTP requests from any browser (or other application for that matter) running on your Mac.

  If you're running a web server or an application server on your machine then you will see requests going to that too.

  You can view request or response data as text or in a hex dump, view images from within the app and save responses to disk. Through the Headers view, you can see cookie exchanges and analyse cache behaviour.

  (tags: osx software utilities networks)
• MDK : Quicklook for markdown
  (tags: markdown osx utilities cool)
• darwinillusion.com
  (tags: evolution optical_illusions cool vision)
• Comment Central – Times Online – WBLG: Can you see Darwin in this image?
  (tags: optical_illusions vision evolution cool)
• Rails Envy: Scaling Rails Screencasts
  (tags: rails ruby scalability videos)
• Must Have Coffee! Zombie T-shirt from Zazzle.com
  (tags: coffee clothing stuff amusements)
• 80 legs
  80legs is a platform for developing web-scale applications at affordable prices. We give you the following capabilities:

  Crawl the web at 2 billion pages/day to find any content you want
  Use our massive compute cloud to analyze that content using your own custom code
  Do the above for $2 per million pages crawled and $0.03 per compute-hour.

• YourFonts
  With YourFonts you can make a TrueType font from your own handwriting for free. The process is simple, quick and basically idiot-proof. Print out a template from the site, write in your letters, scan, upload and — voila — there you have it.
  (tags: typography cool)
• Heartland Breach Affects 135 Banks and Credit Unions (So Far)
  (tags: security finance)
• Onehub Makes FTP Simple, Straightforward, and Sexy – ReadWriteWeb
  (tags: web_app md)
• PicoCool – Tag
  (tags: technology)
• Dell uses Zink Imaging to create an ink-free mobile printer » VentureBeat
  (tags: cool technology)
• first bytes :: home
  First Bytes is an award winning outreach program designed especially for high school women who want a "taste" of computer science through "hands-on" experience. It is designed to dispel myths about computer science and intrigue young women with the potential of computing and the excitement of problem solving.

  First Bytes is sponsored by the Texas Engineering and Technical Consortium to increase both the quality and quantity of undergraduate computer science students graduating from Texas universities.

  (tags: gender computing texas austin)
• Day Sixty-Nine | Satan Said Dance on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
  (tags: photography)
• Roman Le Négrate’s weblog » Blog Archive » Reloading Rails metal applications
  (tags: ruby rails)
• git ready » daily tips for the noob to the guru
  (tags: version_control tips)
• Ruby on Rails Guides
  (tags: ruby rails reference)
• michael galero » Blog Archive » Guide to Rails Metal
  (tags: ruby rails reference)