Recently I've been more involved in communication, education, and outreach activities via the "Snowmass" Community Summer Study.  One of the goals we discussed was to get to the point that the public is more aware of the fundamental particles.  Ideally, we'd like something as iconic as the periodic table (which …

It was worth a shot.  The funny thing is that Mark Zuckerburg is a friend of my friend and he is being followed by an NSA employee.

And for good measure

Wow, perhaps this is my first real blog post since rebooting thoeryandpractice.org.
And really one of my first blog posts ever.

I'm back from a really invigorating trip to CERN to give some statistics lectures to the CERN summer school. I played around with d3.js, a cool javascript …

I was a big fan of Zope early on (late 90's) and always wanted to do some fun web-based projects.  One of the more successful ones was LaTeXWiki, which was one of the first wiki plugins where you could write LaTeX.    Unfortunately, I was always sufficiently confused about some aspect …

A quick test of inserting an HTML file with some D3 magic into a wordpress post using the iframe trick I found here