Birthday
I knew somebody was born on Guy Fawkes Day. Happy birthday, Stephane.
Support Bloggers' Rights!
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, the best math site on the Internet, is back on-line.
Shame on CRC Press, publisher of excellent technical materials, for suing them and for imposing the terms of their settlement.
See also: "Welcome Back to MathWorld", "Eric's Commentary on the Shutdown of MathWorld", and Eric's affidavit in that case (an extremely long discussion of the potential perils of book deals).
I'm busy at ALS all this week, but I'll try to post a long conference report here at the end of the week. My diary may be a little quiet until the weekend.
Contact: Seth David Schoen