Patricia F. Anderson

Cultivating the Web: High Tech Tools for the Sustainable Food Movement shares success stories from folks who have harnessed the power of the web to further the sustainable food movement. With contributions from Joan Gussow, Marion Nestle, Bill McKibben, Tom Philpott, Bonnie Powell, Kerry Trueman, Anya Fernald, Fritz Haig and many others, the book investigates the best and brightest ways that good food advocates are leveraging the internet to generate social change. "Although it may seem the most unlikely of catalysts, digital technology is jogging our memories of real food and agrarian culture. We may be going back to the land, but lots of us are bringing our smart phones and laptops along." - Destin Joy Layne, director, Eat Well Guide - Patricia F. Anderson

* We need to make the nutritional advantage of local, whole foods more important in our conversation. • Wholesome, nutritious foods can be our health insurance. • We have an entire generation that does not know how to cook. • Cook simple meals at home. • Use the whole animal if and when you cook meat. • CSAs are not just for produce. • How do we create community supported kitchens in other areas? ... There are book clubs, how about a cooking club or a cook-in? - Patricia F. Anderson

No, literature doesn’t provoke revolutions, or if it does they’re restricted to literary circles, but it does assist in social reconstruction, both immediate and far-reaching. It’s an aesthetic reflection of the way things are, to the extent that it captures the critical elements of a society: corruption, for example, betrayal, treason, impunity, injustice. - Patricia F. Anderson

Backhoe is a whole region terrain editor for Second Life. If you own a private island in Second Life, you can download a region's terrain as a file. Backhoe reads those files and gives you the tools to terra-form the entire region at once. Later, you can upload the edited file back to Second Life and your whole region will be changed. - Patricia F. Anderson

Monolith currently has the ability to load structures from the RCSB Protein Data Bank but will also incorporate other datasources in the near future such as loading pdb structural files from arbitrary web sites. Main features: Ability to load any structure within the RCSB Protein Data Bank (more sources in future versions of Monolith) Rapid rez rates (>3200 atoms in 55 seconds) Ability to change color on any atom(s) interactively based on residue #, residue name, and atom element type Ability to set labels over any atom Ability to change transparency (alpha) from opaque to invisible Ability to display only a subset of atoms and then also display in addition atoms that are a specified distance from those selected atoms * image shown is accession number 6tna - Patricia F. Anderson

Drop a notecard too - sometimes IMs get capped ... - Patricia F. Anderson