Entries from June 2004 ↓

很有趣也有难度。要倾斜地面让球运动，刚开始还是蛮有难度的。

See more screenshots of Neverball

I imported all of the TOCs received to my Gmail account using gExodus. It is about 1700 mails and they occupied about 26MB.

I will move all my mailinglists and newsgroups subscription to my Gmail account, using it to view the mailing lists is convenient.

Gmail offered space for us to store nearly everything. Two tools offered us to import mails to Gmail box. Take a look at them and enjoy.

redemption in a blog: gExodus – a graphical Gmail import tool

Mark Lyon’s Google GMail Loader (GML)

From doron’s blaahg

A group from MIT just published a paper of making electrical cells that are powered by plant proteins from the chloroplasts of spinach leaves. “They intergrated electrically active photosynthetic protein-molecular complexes in solid-state devices, realized photodetectors and photovoltaic cells with internal quantum efficiencies of approximately 12%.

“The molecules are delicate and tend to stop working when removed from their natural environment. So the researchers preserved them by mixing them with soap-like molecules called peptide surfactants. The protective molecules appear to form a shield around the energy-producing proteins, fooling them into thinking that they are still part of the plant.

“The proteins were layered on to a thin gold film, attached to a sheet of transparent, electrically conducting metal, and then covered with a top layer of organic, conducting material. When light is shone on to the unlikely sandwich, the proteins spit out electrons, which pass into the lower layer in the form of an electric current.

“The prototype cells still need a little refinement. At present, they can generate current for up to 21 days; then they give up.

Read the original article: Integration of Photosynthetic Protein Molecular Complexes in Solid-State Electronic Devices

Read Nature‘s ScienceUpdate about this: Could laptops run on spinach?

Finally we can enjoy a win of penalty shootout.

It’s a nice Java based prog and needs less conf when compared with AmphetaDesk for personal use.

顺着前一篇的提示，我找到了Kelly LaMarco & Rebecca WardTips for Writing a Scientific Manuscript (HTML版本)。

顺便提一句，Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society 在他的一期Newsletter中专门介绍了一些关于 Writing Scientific Manuscripts 的网络资源.

Google 在今年找些时候推出了中文拼音查找的方式，现在他们又推出了适用于中国大陆的中英文字典，股票，天气，邮编区号和手机号码查询.

Try it.

The Journal of Cell Biology offered this feature in its newest issue, in which the author suggested “a few small steps that the individual can take to make his or her writing clear, straightforward, and digestible.”