Ever think of yourself as a walking server farm??

Now that’s the question I asked myself after reading this fascinating article about DNA as a programing language and the cells as the computers. 

[The Source code] Is here. This not a joke. We can wonder about the license though. Maybe we should ask the walking product of this source: Craig Venter. The source can be viewed via a wonderful set of perl scripts called ‘Ensembl‘. The human genome is about 3 gigabases long, which boils down to 750 megabytes. Depressingly enough, this is only 2.8 Mozilla browsers.

DNA is not like C source but more like byte-compiled code for a virtual machine called ‘the nucleus’. It is very doubtful that there is a source to this byte compilation - what you see is all you get.

And people wonder about the value of reading huge numbers of feeds….

Via Scott Rosenburg (Of Dreaming in Code fame).

Quote of the Day

I’m still here and posting will resume soon. In the mean while:

Amazingly, Adobe seems to have entirely missed the fact that the reason that the Flash video format has taken off is that it’s so fluid, versatile and remixable — not because they sucked up to some Hollysaurs and crippled their technology. - Cory Doctorow

Via Doc Searls