Friday Cephalod: You'd be grumpy if your name were 'Stubby', too

More like this

Events 1977 - Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched 1984 - STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage. Births 1787 - François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist 1792 - Pierre-Armand Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist 1857 - Konstantin…
The shuffle generated interesting results this week. Apothecary Hymns, "The Marigold". Apothecary Hymns sounding extremely Tull-like. Good stuff. Mogwai, "Katrien". Mogwai is simply brilliant: one of the greatest post-rock groups out there. I keep getting more of their stuff, and I haven't…
Interested in quantum error correction (who isn't!) Daniel Lidar informs me that the talks from the QEC07 conference are now all available online. See such amazing acts as Tutorials Dave Bacon [ppt][video] Daniel Gottesman [ppt][video] Raymond Laflamme…
In these times of economic crisis, war, and uncertainty, it is reassurring to know that our diligent representatives are hard at work in congress to make the country a better place. Behold, House Resolution 847. H. Res. 847 In the House of Representatives, U. S., December 11, 2007. Whereas…