What I'm reading (and trying to understand)

Lisa Randall's Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World. I know I'll like it: the first illustration is from one of my two favorite comic strips, xkcd.com (the other being, of course, the oatmeal.com).

Great headlines and articles about physics

This article is not new, but it's by Simon Singh, one of the most outstanding science authors alive:
"Screw the electricity bill, we've got to find that damned God particle."

You might also enjoy this latest news on developments at the Large Hadron Collider: "Cern scientists suspect glimpse of Higgs boson."