Too Polite
Surely, subscribers to the comment feeds here at Musings or at the String Coffee Table must have noticed that the <PubDate>s of the comments in the feed coincided with the date the corresponding entry was posted, rather than with the date the comment was posted.
Turns out that it was a subtle incompatibility between SimpleComments and (recent versions of) MovableType. Easily fixed, once I figured out what was going on.
In other news, as reported at Talking Points Memo, Preposterous Universe and elsewhere, Edward Witten and Chiara Nappi joined the Frist Filibuster at Princeton University’s Frist Campus Center.
It appears that they both read from Griffiths, Introduction to Elementary Particles. My, how that must have thrilled and inspired the crowd. Alas, I missed their appearance on the live video feed. Perhaps some other Princeton Faculty will take a turn at the bullhorn. I’d be happy to suggest some suitably uplifting readings …
