The worlds best selling book (after the main religious core texts) is the Da Vinci Code, which describes a hypothetical trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci. Clues that are visible to all, but disguised.

Science is not the private playground of people in white coats with clipboards. Popular Science is a good thing. The problem, however, with popular science is that it can introduce all kinds of misconceptions. Take, for example, this story, in which the BBC quotes Professor Frenk FRS as follows:
We are now able, using [...]

We’re all back from CCgrid 2005 in Cardiff and (I think) fully caught-up with sleep. We had a fairly strong group presence this year (as opposed to just me last year) which meant it was a far more sociable occasion. This also meant we were able to share camera duty (by borrowing Mat’s [...]

Grid Computing has become a popular phrase: it’s too popular. It’s tossed around by companies and marketing executives who fail to grasp that many of the fundamental problems are still to be solved before real Grid Computing can become a reality.
This is a bad thing.

This book (co-authored by my PhD Supervisor) provides a comprehensive introduction to Grid computing,

IRC savvy grid researchers may be pleased to learn that there is now a #globus channel on irc.freenode.net
the channel is currently quite sparsely populated but as more people learn & lurk this will no doubt change. all are welcome.

the road to Globus Tooklit version 4 (GT4) is a long one and (to continue the metaphor a little) it is also a winding one.