Oregonian

Five simple selection strategies for choosing a wine

WINE NOTES: Forget the usual factoids in favor of a fresh perspective on taste and value By KATHERINE COLE Special to The Oregonian Does the sight of a restaurant wine list strike you with terror? Do ...
MusicRadar

Rediscover your forgotten sounds with Rando, a simple sampler plugin that lays a random selection across your MIDI keyboard or piano roll

Many of us have huge sample collections, but how many of these sounds do you actually use? Not many, reckons software developer MonkeyC, which is why it’s released Rando, a new lightweight sampler ...
Ars Technica

simple unix question: how to sort the output of du -sh by KB, MB and GB?

I know it's a simple question but I can't figure it out!! When I run du -sh /directory/ it spits out all the respective directories sizes but how do I sort by KB, MB, and GB? When I pipe to a sort -rn ...
Nature

Selection of pairings reaching evenly across the data (SPREAD): A simple algorithm to design maximally informative fully crossed mating experiments

Researchers planning mating experiments are faced with a critical design choice—deciding how many pairs and which pairs of individuals to mate. The number of crosses in a mating experiment can ...