I'm guessing that pretty much no one is going to care about this but I think it's cool as hell. This is free (probably not for long) software for the identification of various bacteria based on several different tests. Figuring out what a strain of bacteria is can be real time consuming and generally a pain in the ass. WTG British science.
Doing biology work is often dealing with massive amounts of data and I wish more people into coding and computer information would get into bioinfomatics because that shit is really important and I just don't have the patience for writing code.
http://www.som.soton.ac.uk/staff/tnb/pib.htm NPR thing on ether-
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6253735 Kind of makes me want to whip up a batch of starter fluid ether and have a go at it even though that is probably the worst idea ever.