Genius?

I don't know if I'm the first person onto this guy or the last but holy shit!

What sports commercials used to look like...

Talking yourself into things...

Perhaps its because I'm the father of a six year old boy but this video, and in particular the audio track, just  sent me around the bend. Here's a nine year old taking the next step in his ski-jumping career...

Bought a bottle of Stoli for my Dad's birthday...

...and it rolled out of my car onto the concrete floor of his garage and shattered. I don't usually like to rely so heavily on the old chestnut about the thought being what counts...

Did they find the Higgs Boson or not?

So, as you’re no doubt aware (!), the physicists at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research) have, amongst their august goals, the challenge of finding the postulated Higgs Boson. This is the theoretical particle that gives all things mass. Without it, we’re back to the drawing board in our fundamental understanding of the universe.
Today, particle physicist Fabiola Gianotti did a live webcast from CERN talking about this very subject. Courtesy of Boing Boing, the short summary is this:

The public announcement wasn't really an announcement of anything. Instead, it was more like a year-in-review presentation. CERN has made some good progress in the hunt for the Higgs Boson, they've been able to narrow their search to small field, and they have seen some potentially interesting things happening within that field. But there's not really enough here to say, one way or the other, whether the Higgs Boson is there. What they can say: 2012 is likely to be a really exciting year for particle physics, as researchers dive into experiments that will help them figure out what those "interesting things" really are.

Hey! There’s another reason to look forward to 2012!

Stanley Kubrick's New York

Before Stanley Kubrick built a career as a film maker he was the youngest-ever staff photographer for Look Magazine. Now, VandM and the Museum of the City of New York are making prints available by the teenaged prodigy...

(Tip of the cap to Kottke.org...)

Driving While Reading

Those of you following my Twitter feed (Hello Lou Barlow!) know that I was cited last week for DWR - Driving While Reading. $35 seems like a small price to pay for the pleasure of having the story to tell but then I was reminded that this was a moving violation and I will be paying surcharges for car insurance for the next 6 years.

At least the guy didn't pepper-spray me...