God damn IE. Before it crashed in mid-composition, I wrote 500 words about Stephen Wolfram's new book, "A New Kind of Science" before linking to a great Wired story written by Steven Levy on Wolfram, his book, and the decade-long journey to create it and publish it, and a Slashdot review from a reader who's skimmed the surface of the dense 1200-page tome.

My copy's arriving from Amazon in just a few hours. The first self-funded publication run of 50,000 copies has already sold out, so who knows how long it'll be before Amazon, Ingram, and bookstores nationwide will be able to fill orders for the book which yesterday was Amazon's #1 bestselling item.

More to come as I dive into the work that's already made a big splash (good and bad) in the scientific community.