This is a quick introduction of a game I was introduced to called Upgrade Complete, we are playing the second installation of it and its really fun!!!!! Check it out here.

Advances in Digital Biology

A cool new project has come up on Kickstarter concerning Caenorhabitis elegans, also known as roundworms or nematodes. The Caenorhabitis elegans consist of 900 cells with a third of them neurons. The goal is to develop a simulation for the entire elegan organism down to the cellular level. It is an opensource project meaning that anyone can get involved and view the code themselves. So far they have raised $30,000 of their $120,000 goal. Hopefully they will eventually make it so you can run it on a website without having to download it to your computer. Probably the hardest part of the project would be to make it so the program can run smoothly on a computer while performing all of the cellular processes. So far they have enough to have the worm contract muscles. Still a long way to go. I’m really looking forward to messing around with this. For more information check it out at engaget .

Heartbleed Bug

     Although most of us already know heartbleed is old news, but its better late than never to talk about it. For those of us who don't know what heartbleed is, in the simplest terms, its a bug. Not an insect, but a computer bug. The heartbleed bug allows stealing of all the protected information that has been out there from up to two years ago, according to extremetech.com. This information includes communication security and privacy all over the internet such as email, instant messaging, and other internet applications. The heartbleed bug basically lets anyone on the internet read all this information which is stored on the OpenSSL,which is basically a red balloon filled with information. When the heartbleed bug took into effect, the balloon turned from red to clear, allowing everyone to look at everything stored in the balloon. As long as the OpenSSL is still in use, the balloon will remain transparent; however, a fix is being tested and implemented to stop this. to check out more information, check out heartbleed.com.