5:00 PM
Couldn't update this morning due to Blogger outage, but now that I'm back (and have a few minutes in the middle of an inordinately long meeting) I have a couple things to share:

• An excellent list of UFO-related Freedom of Information Act requests.
  
• The info page for A Hundred Monkeys, a California branding company, is actually interesting reading. I appreciate both their no-bullshit approach and the quote that closes the page:

Why does one chess player play better than another? The answer is not that the one plays better or makes fewer mistakes. The one who plays better makes more mistakes, by which I mean more imaginative mistakes. He sees more ridiculous alternatives. The mark of a great player is exactly that he thinks of something which by all known norms of the game is an error. -- Jacob Bronowski, The Origin of Knowledge and Imagination