Came across the Geenor: Genetic Engineering site
http://www.geneticengineering.org/ on RFF forums.
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Thanks to my hard working, long suffering web master and husband, the intrepid David Lott, the Okal Rel Universe now has an overhauled, revamped website that has been rationalized at least a little. The web master would like to hear about the bugs but warns he isn't interested in stylistic gripes. He insists it's gotta work in Opera or he ain't interested. :-) Fortunately for me and my excursions into programs like Fireworks and Flash in my increasingly mythical spare time, Opera is pretty versatile!

Virtual champagne all around.
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The most recent issue of Science (12 September 2003) contains articles on the results of the 2003 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, and the main Science magazine site (sciencemag.org) has a link (pop-up) to highlights of the winning entries, fabulously intricate, seriously beautiful and (in some cases) seriously high bandwidth.
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... for Canadian SF. Robert J. Sawyer's Hominids won the Hugo at the recent Torcon. According to one of Rob's other pages, the only previous Canadian to win a Hugo was William Gibson for Neuromancer.
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The world has two kinds of people in it. People who will read pre-release chapters of novels, and people who won't. For those who will, HarperCollins/Eos is putting out a chapter every week of Lois McMaster Bujold's latest, Paladin of Souls. It takes up the story of Ista, the mad dowager queen and failed saint of The Curse of Chalion, who discovers to her great chagrin that she has drawn the favour of the Gods - and one God in particular - again. I have a book token I've been saving all summer for this one!
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