Grab bag: Security and meltdowns

Shorter advisory: Use Firefox.

Whither Window?

A rare inside look at the workings of a particle accelerator. Despite misspelling “quadripole”, the photo feature is interesting and informative.

In commemoration of Messiaen’s 100th birthday, Alex Ross posts a performance of “The Resurrection of Christ” that’s absolutely spine-tingling.

The notoriously ephemeral poem/book Agrippa spawned a lot of legends. I think I still have the 1992 text file of the poem on my machine at home. It’s only fitting that this particular “reading” of the poem has drawn so much traffic that it’s taken its host machine offline.