Epistemic Ingemination

Here you go. The 50 best cult books.

The 2008 James Beard award nominees are in.

Okay, so this isn’t going to be so much a general interest topic. As a matter of fact, it may well be dangerous to the sanity of the average normal human being. But if you’re a blog reader and a political junkie, it’s highly amusing, wonderfully snarky and quite informative.

The Official Village Voice Election-Season Guide to the Right-Wing Blogosphere.

Warning: your I.Q. drops ten points for every hour you spend reading these people, unless you take precautions. If you find yourself beginning to feel anger at the injustices forced upon the Rich White People, take a break.

John Wheeler passed away this weekend.

I had the pleasure of meeting him, once, in 1976. We struck up a conversation at a booth at Flapjack Canyon on South Lamar, and talked about Physics for hours, until about three in the morning; it was one of the more memorable experiences of my life. I didn’t figure out who he was until much later.

A kind and brilliant man. The kind of guy who’d talk to a kid he met in a coffeehouse for hours without mentioning that he was the head of a major physics department — and had taught several Nobel laureate students. Rest in peace, neat guy.