links for 2008-09-20

Designed by Dr John Taylor for Corpus Christi College Cambridge for the exterior of the college's new library building. The Clock will be unveiled on 19th September by Stephen Hawking. Inspired from a design by a clock made by the legendary John Harrison, the pioneer of longitude. BTW, read Longitude the book… fascinating account of the race for a device to measure longitude.

AH! It happened. (Ok, not really. But coincidences are weird.)

Could the LHC sabotage itself for the future?