From my favourite, "applied science" series...
"If you've ever had one too many and tumbled into bed with a vision, only to be greeted in the morning by a sight you'd gnaw off your own arm to escape, take heart".
[Edit] Ah, and before you suggest this is AFD hoax, here's the ref:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22260359
We discussed a few times about whether it is possible to determine the quality of a paper by extracting visual features from the paper and then learning a mapping to a measure of quality such as the number of citations etc. This paper circulated at CVPR 2010, and does exactly that, mapping visual features to estimate whether it has been accepted for the main conference or the workshops.
"Higgs Boson partices - guaranteed to satisfy! Need mass in your objects? Get some Higg Bosons!"
"The Higgs Boson particles are SOLD WITH THE JAR! You may not be able to SEE the Higgs Boson particles unless you use a large hadron collider."
"Q: Since it is, after all, the god particle; can you observe closely and tell use what religion it is?"
of course not !!!! :)
The ACT Magic nights are alive and well, and getting crazier all the time.
And I'm happy to say, no blood has been spilled yet... though at times we've come close :).
Funny article .... Reminds me a bit of Luzi :-)
And look at this phrase: am I in good or bad company ?
"Sergey Brin, a founder of Google, rarely leaves home without his Vibram FiveFingers nylon shoes."
In the article it is mentioned as a sign of particularly bad taste :-)