By Gad, the future is an amazing place to live.

Where else could you buy this?

Or this?

(Via Clauset and Shalizi, naturally.)

I have a confession to make: Once, when I had to give a talk on network theory to a seminar full of management people, I wrote a genetic algorithm to optimize the Newman-Girvan Q index and divide the Zachary Karate Club network into modules before their very eyes. I made Movie Science happen in the real world; peccavi.