What’s on the web? (27 September 2008): Ping pong balls and forecasting the future

• Woman spots baby’s eye cancer online (MSNBC)

It wasn’t easy for Madeleine Robb to send an e-mail to another mom warning that her baby might have a deadly form of eye cancer (retinoblastoma).

• 2008 NSF Scientific Visualization Awards Announced (Medgadget)

• Stripped Science: A scientific comic blog from Viktor S. Poór who I met yesterday at the Researchers’ Night in Budapest.

• Ping pong ball used in surgery (CNN)

• The Superstruct Game: the world’s first massively multiplayer forecasting game. (PIMM and FMSG)