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..that although archaeologists in Singapore have discovered many artifacts, they do not have government support for their work, and there is no centralised place to store the artifacts?

Oh, the things you learn about your home country from external media. I wonder why it is the case that the country appears to have an overall phobia of looking back into its past. Is it some skeleton in the close that it’s guilty of, or does it think its history irrelevant?

I just got a phone call reminding me that it’s the last week of school.

I have a student’s recommendation to write by tomorrow (done!), I have a talk to give on Tuesday, I have a take-home final to be handed out on Wednesday, I need to write up my current research by next Thursday, and the week after that I have to have my Kyoto poster fired up and ready.

And I haven’t even started planning my Japan hit-list yet. Damn.

Crunchetize me, Cap’n.

OK, one more quickie before I really have to get back to work.

MarkCC at Good Math, Bad Math has a link to a story about a cool judge. The one who presided over Holy Blood, Holy Grail v. The Da Vinci Code over whether DVC stole from HBHG. Apparently, Mr Justice Peter Smith had italicised certain letters in his judgement, seemingly at random. Slashdotters are already spinning mad theories.

Here is a link to the original judgement. See if you can find and decode the message yourself. (So far, the complete message seems to be “smithycodeJaeiextostpsacgreamqwfkadpmqv”, according to MarkCC)

Dylan Stiles, a graduate student in organic chemistry at Stanford, has a blog. Which is really nice for pseudo-chemists (P. Chem.) like myself to look at (somewhat vicariously, I might add) to remind myself of what real chemists do.

He’s written the most amazing post about the smells of (somewhat) common chemicals. Here’s a quick summary of a graph which I have shamelessly linked to from his site: