Viking Metal Bands

Stumbling across this on Wikipedia made my day (our school mascot is the Viking).

Emergent Behavior Emerging Everywhere!

Chris Rollins has a great post on Emergent Behavior on Scientific Blogging.
He makes a great series of points hear about the relationship between emergent behavior and entropy, and how they can possibly coexist:
Emergent behavior, or the spontaneous creation of order, is present all around us. Insects are a good example because they are familiar to [...]

Is Your Skeleton Running?

From the designer Mark Weaver

(Hat tip: Morbid Anatomy)