Upcoming: Halloween & Cemetery Tour

At the Cedar Rest Cemetery in downtown BSL.  Info here.
Note to self: event goes from sunset to 8.  Not "be there by 8."

And here we go: FTL Neutrino Mystery Solved

Probably.  The paper still needs some peer-review and general sniffing-around, but it seems about right.  The problem seems to have been timing differences between lab-on-the-ground and GPS-in-orbit reference frames.  Here's a synopsis.  The discrepancy and its correction agree to about 3%, plenty of accuracy to confirm that these neutrinos were in fact moving slower than light.

Last week, Jobs. Now Ritchie.

Dennis who?  Dennis Ritchie, who cooked up C and unix in his spare time, just so he could load a home-brew space travel program on a surplussed PDP-7, that's who.  Not as flashy as Jobs, but with a list of achievements even more crucial to today's computing infrastructure.

Obit here.

Wiki biography here.

Slashdot reactions here.

Yet another one who will be sadly missed.

Defies Description

The master of children's rhyme meets the master of horror:

The rest can be found here.

Hurricane Season Wrap-Up

Here's a nice picture:

And some humor from xkcd for the small handful of hurricane geeks out there.

MTBing in Africa: Yr doing it wrongs

Just watch.  Swallow first though.
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Oh, the places you'll go!

Tuxachanie Creek always looks good in October:

But then, back home after a long day in the woods is always good too: