While I continue to befuddle myself with my random-spatial-network simulation results, everyone else should go enjoy themselves by reading Philosophia Naturalis #14, the latest edition of the physical-science blogging carnival. It’s got a Sputnik theme!

And, why not, here’s Tom Lehrer singing about “Pollution.”

Back to my perplexing plots I go. . . I need to wrap things up in time to attend the Ig Nobel Prizes tonight.