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I'm putting on my bulletproof vest.

Oh, this is wonderful: some physicists have suggested that the Large Hadron Collider was broken intentionally by a subatomic particle sent back from the future. Or... something.

A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.

Janelle Monae: "Come Alive"

via www.kiasoulcollective.com

Janelle Monae, who I adore and whose Metropolis: The Chase Suite was one of my favorite things last year, has a new song!

It's called "Come Alive (The War of the Roses)", it's awesome, and you can listen or download on Kia's "The Soul Collective" site.

Robin Thicke - "Sex Therapy"

via www.youtube.com

New Robin Thicke, and it's really good! Reminds me a bit of Lloyd's "Year of the Lover" and Ciara's "Promise", both of which I love.

Canabalt

via www.canabalt.com

Canabalt is my favorite new iPhone game! It's absolutely perfect, because I can only possibly play it for a couple of minutes per game (and that's when I do really well; most of the time, it's under a minute), and yet it's a couple of minutes of pure escapism (literally).

Unicorns and Unixes

Don’t ever let anyone tell you that fork(2) is bad. Thirty years from now, there will still be a fork(2) and a pipe(2) and a exec(2) and smart people will still be using them to solve hard problems reliably and predictably, just like they were thirty years ago.

via tomayko.com

Network programming is fun. I also wish it were a little less painful, at times, but that comes more when you try to get tricky with event loops, non-blocking connects, &c.

Kashiwa Mystery Cafe

A few moments later, I picked up my orange juice.

Except it wasn't an orange juice.

It was an apple drink called "Appletizer", some weird candy, and a little card.

via www.cabel.name

Cabel Sasser's got a fantastic story about a cafe-as-performance-art in Japan.

Almost as good? This comment, which is in response to this one.

Viaduc de Millau

I'm a total sucker for large, impressive structures, so photos like this one of the Viaduc de Millau get me every time. This is beautiful.

QuickCursor

For Mac users who want to use their favorite text editor everywhere. QuickCursor is a menu item that allows you to edit text from any application in your favorite text editor*. Unlike custom “edit in” plugin solutions QuickCursor provides a standard open source solution that uses public API's and doesn’t require input manager hacks to work.

Jesse Grosjean--developer of WriteRoom and TaskPaper, among other products--is making some of the most exciting Mac/iPhone software there is, these days (and even web software: see simpletext.ws, a document-based web service with sync APIs).

One of his latest creations is QuickCursor. I love it: this is $EDITOR for OS X, basically.

1/6/2011: QuickCursor (version 2) is now available on the Mac App Store!

Electric Six - Rock and Roll Evacuation

Electric Six are playing at the Independent on November 12! If you need a primer, listen here.

Beautiful and Sinister

Found in Tom's gallery of the Sydney dust storm.