Administration
Happy birthday to
State of the 'Song
Pretty much okay, helped by staying in last night.
Holiday Shopping
90% done. Still have to figure something out for my cousins and my... demicousins? My cousins' cousins related to me through marriage. There are four of them, and I can give classic books to the wee ones, but the teenagers require more thought. Must Facebook-message their mom.
Link Soup
* XKCD is DEAD ON.
* Bright of the Sky for free on Kindle! I loved this series. You should grab it.
* Methods of communication among activists [h/t
Daily Science
The latest test in quantum mechanics provides even stronger support than before for the view that nature violates local realism and is thus in contradiction with a classical worldview. By performing an experiment in which photons were sent from one Canary Island to another, physicists have shown that two of three loopholes can be closed simultaneously in a test that violates Bell's inequality (and therefore local realism) by more than 16 standard deviations. Performing a Bell test that closes all three loopholes still remains a challenge, but the physicists predict that such an experiment might be "on the verge of being possible" with state-of-the-art technology.
Plans
Work, home. Knitting my butt off, either in the afternoon or evening; I'm 20 rows from the end of Elayna's shawl and need to jump on something for my birthmother next, to have done by the 20th. Tonight is the first night of Chanukah!