Assorted links

1. "Sorry, I can't spread my fingers the way you Vulcans do!"

2. A TGS/cryonics cartoon.

3. Spiral of death, ho hum, drunks, lampposts, etc..

4. Japanese markets in everything, and Irish betting odds on woolly mammoth cloning.

5. What does it mean to discover the Higgs particle?, and further opinions here.

6. More on the Target2 debates and whether European monetary policy, and collateral practices, will collapse.