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The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) says it expects to restart the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by this weekend after more than a year of repairs. The 27 km (17 mi) particle accelerator was launched last year, but suffered a failure from a faulty electrical connection, damaging 53 of the smasher’s 9,300 superconducting magnets. Repairs are now completed, and the plan is to begin injecting protons into the LHC this weekend, on the path to search for particles such as predicted-yet-unobserved Higgs Boson. Collected below are some photographs of the repairs, and of the LHC and some of its experiments in various stages of construction. (30 photos total)

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View of the CMS Detector before closure, on August 17th, 2008. (Maximilien Brice; Michael Hoch; Joseph Gobin, © CERN) #

Well, the first version is submitted to Apple. I still have to work a bit on the website, but that’s fine…

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I use the following bit of CSS to help visualize the structure of an XHTML (or HTML) document by putting a colored outline around the border of every element. At each level in the hierarchy the color changes so you can see when “depth” changes.

  * { outline: 2px dotted red }
  * * { outline: 2px dotted green }
  * * * { outline: 2px dotted orange }
  * * * * { outline: 2px dotted blue }
  * * * * * { outline: 1px solid red }
  * * * * * * { outline: 1px solid green }
  * * * * * * * { outline: 1px solid orange }
  * * * * * * * * { outline: 1px solid blue }

I usually keep this block of rules at the top of a stylesheet, commented out with /*…*/, which I remove when I want to see the structure.

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Top executives at four companies that jettisoned their employee pension plans received $49.5 million in retirement and severance benefits in the years before the companies filed for bankruptcy, while retirees saw their benefits cut by as much as two thirds, congressional investigators conclude in a report released Thursday.

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Pope Benedict XVI called Wednesday for greater international efforts to ensure basic human rights for children, saying he was praying for all young people who suffer.

Benedict made the comments during his weekly general audience as he marked the 20th anniversary of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, the first legally binding and most widely ratified international treaty to affirm human rights for all children.

“My thoughts go to all the children of the world, especially those who live in difficult conditions and suffer due to violence, abuses, sickness war or hunger,” Benedict said.

Such as rape cover-ups by the Catholic Church?

While urging all to join him in prayer, Benedict appealed to world governments to commit themselves to ensuring the treaty’s goals are met “so that the rights of children be recognized and their dignity ever more respected.”

Excellent. I expect you to turn yourself in at the ICC any time now.

Obama’s Home Teleprompter Malfunctions During Family Dinner

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Mobius is an invite-only event, hosted by Microsoft, where the invited guests are shown what Microsoft is doing in the mobile space. Full disclosure: Microsoft generously covers our flight and hotel expenses, and keeps us well fed during the event – though there are some attendees that pay their own way to get here, and pay for their own hotel. I’m not one of those people – if a company is willing to pay for me to fly out to see what they’re up to, I’ll take them up on the offer. It won’t change my opinion about what they’re showing me.

But look at the products used by the developers attending, and read the full post linked in the article below this one, taking care with the bit about why developers work on the iPhone:

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An organization that wins by exercising power starts to lose the ability to win by doing better work.