Book of the Week: Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives
In a world where proving the wrong mathematical theorem might call up something nasty, many-angled, and hungry from a parallel universe, Bob Howard is an IT geek/necromancer who works for an agency called The Laundry, whose function is to keep said math under wraps and away from an unsuspecting public - while, at the same time, maintaining ISO-9000 compliance. It's Dilbert meets H.P. Lovecraft, Cold-War spy-thriller-stylee, and I haven't giggled so much in ages.

Track of the Week: Blaze, How Deep Is Your Love? (Asad Rizvi's Submerged Vocal Mix)
Asad Rizvi has proposed one answer for this question - fully submerged, thank you very much - but it's essential, in scientific circles, to obtain independent confirmation for your hypothesis.

A careful examination of the relevant variables (boogie-fat chuckling bassline, dreamy top line, falsetto backup vocals straight out of a Motown time capsule, and a lead vocal so mellifluous and true you'd follow it anywhere after five minutes) followed by exhaustive statistical analysis yielded a p value of Really Fucking Deep, confirming Mr. Rizvi's inital findings.

Long-term research plans include extensive field investigation as well as the analysis of mutational processes between wild-type ("original mix") and re-mixed variants.