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CC0 all the media 23 Jan 2013 | 09:30 pm
I’ve released as CC0 all the pictures I’ve created and shared on Wikimedia Commons. I’ve been thinking about doing this for a while; Aaron’s death and — more specifically — Nina Paley’s release of Sit...
I study body-books 22 Jan 2013 | 05:35 pm
Theo Sanderson has made a text editor that checks if a body of text complies with using only the 1,000 most common English words. This was inspired by XKCD’s “Up-Goer Five” — a description of the Satu...
What can we do in Aaron’s wake? 16 Jan 2013 | 02:54 am
The brother of my friend Noah Swartz committed suicide last Friday. I didn’t know Noah’s brother Aaron, so these are the terms I relate to it in. The Swartz family is close to many of my friends: Mako...
Well, That’s Ironic 11 Dec 2012 | 03:10 am
I’m lucky and grateful to have been recommended by George Church for Genome Technology’s Seventh Annual Young Investigators. The profile they wrote — “Madeleine Price Ball: Free the Data” — is really ...
Celebrating Seven Years with Seven Percent 11 Dec 2012 | 03:10 am
(This is a joint blog post with Chris.) Today is Giving Tuesday. It’s a great idea. Here in the US, something feels odd about following our national day of giving thanks (Thanksgiving) with the consum...
Well, That's Ironic 7 Dec 2012 | 06:36 am
I'm lucky and grateful to have been recommended by George Church for Genome Technology's Seventh Annual Young Investigators. The profile they wrote -- "Madeleine Price Ball: Free the Data" -- is reall...
Celebrating Seven Years with Seven Percent 28 Nov 2012 | 02:55 am
(This is a joint blog post with Chris.) Today is Giving Tuesday. It's a great idea. Here in the US, something feels odd about following our national day of giving thanks (Thanksgiving) with the consu...
Personal Genome Project talk at 2012 Open Science Summit 12 Nov 2012 | 12:03 pm
Finally I have a video to point people to if they're at all curious about what I work on. This is a talk about the Personal Genome Project that I gave at the 2012 Open Science Summit. It’s an overvie...
Personal Genome Project talk at 2012 Open Science Summit 12 Nov 2012 | 07:03 am
Finally I have a video to point people to if they’re at all curious about what I work on. This is a talk about the Personal Genome Project that I gave at the 2012 Open Science Summit. It’s an overview...
Phineas and Name Uniqueness 5 Nov 2012 | 05:00 am
It's been a while since I posted to this personal blog -- so long, in fact, that I have had a child! We named him "Phineas Charles Ball". (Photos are on Flickr.) "Phineas" is a fairly unusual name -- ...
