Dennis Ritchie is dead. Long live UNIX and C!

Sad news and no fanfare for the passing of this s/w giant =(

Father Of C And UNIX, Dennis Ritchie, Passes Away At Age 70

Actual picture of electron orbitals in a molecule!

Here is what the molecule looks like in theory:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentacene

Here are the real imaged/measured(!!!) views of the molecules electron orbitals:
news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/08/molecules-imaged-most-intimately.html

Be amazed! Those weird looking orbital lobey things you may have seen in chemistry class actually exist like that in real life AND we can look at them. We can now look directly at the orbitals that electrons take.

(All the more fantastic for me as i was never really sure that i believed in them.)