Beware of people selling Higgs bosons on eBay

Greetings.

Kwanzaa image via Wikipedia; now stop bugging me, Malcolm NC-17

Jewish date:  11 Ṭeveth 5770 (Parashath Wayḥi).

Today’s quasi-holidays:  Pledge of Allegiance Day, Day 3 of Kwanzaa, Card Playing Day.

Worthy cause of the day:  “Tell Obama: Stop the Violence in Sudan - The Petition Site”.

Today’s news and commentary:

• “Supersonic bathtub physics: what happens when discs are pushed through water?”
  
• “Science denial is on the rise”
  
• “2009’s Top 5 Threats To Science In Medicine”
  
• ““Toxins”: the new evil humours”
• “Is Sherlock Holmes the Last Superhero Movie of 2009”
  

Today’s weird thing is “Get your mass handed to you”, which deals with an attempt to sell a Higgs boson on eBay.  Higgs bosons are theoretical particles which create the phenomenon of mass, and as such they should be very abundant.  How the seller in the auction intends to deliver is beyond me.  Enjoy and share the weirdness.

Aaron