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March 2009's Entries

Fun (With) Video
- Mar 2, 2009
- Fantastic fingering ferrofluids.

Random Past Entries

LazyWeb Chiral Symmetry Breaking
- Oct 6, 2006
- A LazyWeb query on ‘t Hooft Anomaly Matching.
Day 4
- Jul 14, 2005
- Strings 2005, day 5.
Old and New
- Sep 24, 2003
- My previous post on Dvali and Kachru’s recent paper stimulated a lot of interest. I got into a really wonderful physics conversation with Konstantin Savvidis of the Perimeter Institute and with Sonia Paban down the hall.
A Brief History of Golem
- Jan 20, 2005
- Three generations of computer, one domain name.
Flashback
- Dec 12, 2003
- Hitoshi Murayama was in town this week, and gave a talk about some decidedly nonstandard alternatives to the Higgs content…

MT How-To

Validating Comments
- May 3, 2003
- Run comments through the W3C Validator before posting. The first in a series of “How-To” articles on MovableType.
Bullet-Proofing II
- May 11, 2003
- More bullet-proofing tips to ensure your blog is valid XHTML
Text Filters for Comments
- May 19, 2003
- Allow a choice of Text Filters in your Comment-entry form.
Serve it Up!
- May 26, 2003
- Serving your blog as XHTML 1.1 with a MIME-type of application/xhtml+xml.
<abbr>, <acronym>, Accessibility & ...
- Sep 10, 2003
- A tutorial on marking up abbreviations and an MT plugin which makes the job easy.
Forcing Comment Previews
- Jun 16, 2004
- Introducing the MTHash plugin, and a reliable way to force Comment Previews.
Internationalization and Trackbacks
- Feb 17, 2005
- In which our hero gets fed up with gibberish Trackbacks and takes matters in his own hands.

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March 2, 2009

Fun (With) Video

Been rather busy with other matters, but I thought I would share a cool little physics video with you.

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Posted by distler at 10:17 AM | Permalink | Followups (17)