The answers to all of life's big questions are not found in...

Sep 19, 2007 17:53

1. Google
2. Pubmed
3. Wikipedia
4. Craigslist

... but boy, you can certainly get a good start on the small ones.

What's your favorite "useful" site, and why?

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drl909 September 20 2007, 00:01:40 UTC
Wikipedia. Definitely Wikipedia.

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tanathalas28 September 20 2007, 14:05:29 UTC
Google
Wikipedia
Metromix
Transitchicago
Wowhead (very limited scope, but lots of info if you play world of warcraft)

I do occasionally use Pubmed and the rest of the NCBI website, but that's work related, and thus, only kinda counts IMO.

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Well, this might give you a chuckle. crainefish September 20 2007, 16:19:15 UTC
One of my labmates asked yesterday if I remembered what was bigger in size, T. brucei or S. cerevisiae. I thought about Pubmed for a second, then went straight to Wikipedia.

Mind you, if it was _important_, I'd go to Pubmed, _after_ using Google to get the first hits for the best starting point article... :-)*

I use Transitchicago a lot as well, but tend to foget Metromix exists.

*Answer: yeast diameter = about 10 microns, vs 3 wide/10 long for brucei. Close enough. We stopped short of actually estimating volume. Hmmm... yeast, 4/3piR^3, approximately 523 cubic microns, brucei, 3x3x10=90 cubic microns, but brucei is irregularly shaped, so brucei's smaller.***

** And now I'm going to go tell him that. How sad is that? ****

*** And as you know, I edited this post after walking away and thinking "wait, that formula can't be right..." This is sadder.

**** I confirmed the formulas through Google :-b *****

***** Hmm, I should probably use the cyllinder formula for brucei, not the box one. 71 cubic centimeters then...

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Re: Well, this might give you a chuckle. tanathalas28 September 20 2007, 17:05:10 UTC
hehe, ok, all the footnotes were great.

oh, and another one I use occasionally when I remember that it exists is grubhub. gotta love a website devoted exclusively to take-out and delivery menues... :)

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limiter3118 September 21 2007, 17:03:41 UTC
And that's why I use Yahoo! . . . ;)

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