Important World Cup Updates

The US managed to survive yet another appalling lapse of officiating and beat Algeria 1-0 on a goal in stoppage time. Simultaneously (in some frame of reference), England beat Slovenia 1-0. With South Korea advancing yesterday, countries with current or forthcoming editions of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog are 3-0 when it comes to advancing past group play. Meanwhile, France, where rights have not yet sold, was eliminated.

I'm also happy to report that Spanish translation rights have been sold, and a translation is in progress, so Spain can go into their final group play game without worrying about dog-physics karma. This leaves Germany as the major European nation still lacking an edition of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog, heading into their game against Ghana. You've got eight minutes to buy those rights, German publishers...

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While we were busy with the pageant of the new administration, we are still cleaning up the messes from past administrations (not just Bush although Bush was the examplar of incompetence). Past messes like a broken food safety system.
I'm still recovering from DAMOP, so no really substantive blogging today. I did want to mention a couple of recent developments regarding How to Teach Physics to Your Dog. I think I mentioned a while back that the Portugese rights had been sold.
Ben McNeil investigates Andrew Bolts claim that Ian Plimer's error-filled Heaven and Earth has 25,000 copies sold or ordered:
From http://www.philcooke.com/book_publishing via mt's shared posts:

Hmm, how are the German rights doing?