Doctor Who-related: Manic Depressive with Blinky Device Saves London, Again. "For approximately the fifteenth time this year, an uncredentialed and possibly unstable academic, identified by government officials only as “The Doctor,” averted a potential alien invasion of London, aided only by a handheld device that lit up and made beeping noises...."

Not Doctor Who-related: The webcomic xkcd explains the difference between scientists and non-scientists. Last week, I was telling Daniel the story of how I crashed one of the test servers at work (I did something; the server went loopy and then recovered, so I promptly did the same thing again. The second time, it didn't recover.), and he pointed to me this comic.