Spock Days

If you're ever in Vulcan, Alberta at the right time, check out Spock Days. It sounds like the best thing since Spocktoberfest!

Thanks to Rick Mercer's Monday Report for publicizing this event and for making me wonder how I missed Jacques Chiractoberfest last year.

Foldage

The New York Times has a nice little story on Erik Demaine and the mathematics of origami.