What’s intriguing about scriptwriter Richard Farrell is that there sure looks to be a family resemblance. Today on the Morning Media Menu, journalist, author, and screenwriter Richard Farrell gave advice for aspiring screenwriters and memoir writers. Farrell recently publisher his heroin memoir “What’s Left of Us,” and helped write The Fighter–an upcoming film starring Christian… Continue reading
Month: August 2009
Sometimes miracles happen in the lab…. In order to get on of our pigments, we need to synthesise a piece of DNA. A very large piece of DNA, that would normally cost around £3000 to get synthesised, effectively blowing our synthesis budget for this project. I’ve been spending most of last week agonising about how… Continue reading
Larry Moran discusses Carl Zimmer’s latest piece for Science on the origin of eukaryotes: This is well-timed since it appears just when I’ve returned from a meeting on this very topic. [Go here if you can’t see the article on the Science website.] One of the things we learned at the meeting is that the… Continue reading
“Google waits in watch of dishonesty…” I don’t read the Huffington Post, but Barrett Brown’s takedown of William Dembski is one of the best: * In conjunction with his friends at the pro-ID Discovery Institute, Dembski decided to commission a Flash animation ridiculing Judge John Jones, the Bush-appointed churchgoer who, despite being a Bush-appointed churchgoer,… Continue reading
Dan Rayburn says things will get worse before they get better for CDNs. With Limelight reporting earnings last night, it’s now clear that the major players in the CDN space, the vendors that control the vast majority of the market share for video delivery, are all experiencing no growth. Akamai’s M&E business was down and… Continue reading