Links for 2010-12-01

"For the second year in a row, Mormon President Thomas S. Monson stands atop the list. As the divine prophet, seer, and revelator for 5.5 million Americans and more than 12 million people around the world, he's the most powerful 83-year-old we could find. Look for Monson to stay on top for years to come--at least until Boyd K. Packer, octogenarian president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, succeeds him as the alpha Mormon."

"A while back, Dmitry Maslov who is currently a program direct at the NSF pointed out to me that there wasn't really a good mailing list for the greater quantum computing community.  As you may have noticed this blog has turned into a place where I post such announcements.  Of course this gets in the way of important blog posts that could occur at the Quantum Pontiff, like those discussing politics and conference "referee" reports. (*ahem*)  So in order to get around this I've gone out and done created what Dmitry suggested: a quantum information science mailing list."

"It... levitates unicorns."