Miscellaneous links
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Here are a variety of links that don't easily fit somewhere else:
Music
History of science
Slipher and the discovery of galaxies and the expanding universe
Planck (1911), Nernst (1916): the discovery of zero-point energy and its application to the vacuum density.
Historical images of Edinburgh
Evolution of the city since 1693
Delobotomizing Mountain Lion
Setting up a MacBook under Mountain Lion, and restoring some of the scientific functionality that Apple seems determined to remove
A diatribe on typesetting
TEX, HTML, and all that
The ESA-ESO working group on Fundamental Cosmology
IAU Commission 47 (Cosmology)