My favorite quote from this story about the discovery of a new particle is from Marcello Giorgi, from the University of Pisa, Italy, who leads the BaBar collaboration:

“We have discovered a new charm particle in an experiment designed to probe the difference between matter and antimatter using bottom quarks.”

I’ll just nod sagely. As usual, though, I love science stories that mention antimatter.

There’s a page with the Big Mac Index listed all the time. It does a good job with the currency variations, but not so good a job with the Big Mac price variations.

About 30 copies of a single two page resume ended up in the recycle bin today. Along with a string of past jobs involving food service (some for as little as 3 months) and jobs that have the distinct flavor of charity, are some gems that are sure to get this resume noticed:

VOLUNTEER Penile Mission – Seattle, WA

and

EMPLOYMENT

The Economist has released its annual Big Mac Index, which is a surprisingly reliable indicator of currency under- or over-valuation for having such high entertainment value.

The Soda Pop Stop stocks a staggering array of soda, and even includes an ingredient list.

Spammers are apparently using trojan horses to get more hosts through which to deliver their shit. I first observed what looked like distributed spam attacks early this year, but I couldn’t find any reference to malware being used to recruit hosts to the effort. I now feel vindicated. For what that’s worth.

Feeding America: the Historic American Cookbook Project

from The Golden Compass:

“Why en’t you cold, Serafina Pekkala?”

“We feel cold, but we don’t mind it, because we will not come to

harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn’t feel other

things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the

Aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin.

It’s worth being cold for that.”

Along with all you voyageurs re-enactors, let’s add some Elizabethans! It should be quite a party.

fatherdan at memepool seems to be a thoughtful person. I’d like to link directly to his bit about Tim Robbins’s speech at the National Press Club, but I don’t see a way to do it. It was posted to Commentary on 17 April.