I got married this past Saturday! Married to a lady. Photographs available on request. There's also a video on the way. Stay tuned for that.*

In other news, mice can eat a diet of bacteriophage T7 with few ill effects. Who says negative data never gets published?

*"Stay tuned", beyond being a culturally antiquated idiom, is an interesting bit of skeuomorphic language. It's a relic of a time when viewers could be asked to stay on a particular radio or TV station. Most modern radios and TVs aren't manually tuned. The audience also can and will change stations at their own volition. Asking them to remain in place is like asking them to wear the same pants for a week.

This song has been stuck in my head all morning.

I've been trying out the Android beta of Swell Radio - it's really quite nice. The basic idea is that it treats podcasts as radio shows, so you can just start the app up and it'll just keep on streaming. I had tried it on iOS a year or so ago and was disappointed to see that Android development was lagging. It looks like they're making progress now.

Its recommendation engine still needs regular maintenance. An average User Experience goes like this:

1. Swell plays hourly NPR news update
2. Swell plays a few more NPR clips
3. Swell plays a Wall Street Journal business update, or at least all of its ads 
4. User skips to next item in playlist out of irritation
5. Swell plays another NPR clip
6. Swell plays a set of Comedy Central standup clips

The issue is transitions. It wouldn't hurt for the app to announce the next item in the list so I'm not left wondering why Paul F. Tompkins is on Morning Edition. I mean, the guy loves NPR so it's not too far-fetched.

Slate apparently hasn't heard of metonymy.

In related links, @SavedYouAClick is just great. It's instant answers to all those unnecessary questions in internet news headlines. I wonder if the process could be automated.

I've been working with some very large protein-protein interaction networks lately. Many of them come out like this in Cytoscape:

An artistic re-interpretation. Not actual data. As if there was anything to find in there, anyway.

They're ominously big but still appear to be scale-free. Strict adherence to power law distributions makes me a bit suspicious even though it shows up everywhere.