I agree with this wholeheartedly, except that I use pandoc to convert my Markdown - it's more flexible and can do sophisticated things like citations and tables effortlessly. The only sticking point is having to convert it to Word to share it with colleagues.

"TrackChanges is a package for collaboratively editing LaTeX documents. It allows multiple editors to make changes and add annotations to a document. These changes and notes will be color coded by editor and added to the compiled document. The TrackChanges GUI allows the author to quickly find and accept, reject or modify the suggested edits."

A very clear tutorial on using Tinderbox to create HTML. Covers the basics, but also goes in to some more advanced techniques. You can download the template and files used at GitHub.

A ruby gem utility which adds various academic manuscript related syntax features to Markdown, and helps to pre-process files for later conversion with something like Pandoc. Looks interesting.

An interesting workflow for collecting references, making notes and assembling a paper, on a Mac. I've just upgraded to DEVONthink 2, and am loving it. Now I'm tempted by Sente too.

Marks revisions by each author in real-time, like SubEthaEdit.

Wonderful site featuring 'word photographs' of pictures that the photographer did not take.

"3. Don't worry about scientific accuracy when employing metaphors. If you're writing a book about physics, it doesn't matter if you get your biology right. After all, it's just a metaphor! What better way to demonstrate the theory of relativity than to compare it to how humans evolved from beluga whales?"

Very funny.

A fantastic piece by Ben Goldacre on Gillian McKeith's total lack of scientific understanding. [via plasticbag.org]

Some good tips here that I might pass on to my students. I don't agree with removing error bars though, even for a non-scientific audience. For one thing, scientists read those articles too, and we need our error bars, dammit!

A good article on SUV safety (or lack of it) [via debris.com]

An excellent and very amusing description of the Orthodox Easter service.