URL Labs Website of the Week for September 4, 2010
4 Sep
It’s a bit of a hit-and-miss mixed bag of a site, but some of it is solid gold.
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URL Labs’ Website of the Week for August 28, 2010
28 Aug
Solve puzzles for Science!
Foldit enables you to contribute to important scientific research by by playing a cool 3d game where you fold proteins. Humans do a way better job of pattern matching than computers can muster (for now) and humans are great at it. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing but the interface is so intuitive and the scoreboard makes your progress or failure easy to track in real-time that I actually found myself addicted in just a few rounds. Enter at your own risk, this is one major potential time-suck, albeit a worthy one… for once.
