Shoulder-deep in tasks too absolutely, mind-melting boring to enumerate here, I hurl in your direction a few links for your amusement. I'm sure the first one already made the rounds of Metafilter and elsewhere, but stumbled on it entirely by accident.

Acquired growth hormone deficiency and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in a subject with repeated head trauma

Recent literature has helped us gain a better understanding of the pathophysiology of hypopituitarism resulting from repeated head trauma. We believe that the multiple traumas Tintin sustained could be the first case of traumatic pituitary injury described in the literature.
Also:

Keeping Libraries Safe (via Bookslut)

From Ed (a little while ago, to be sure: see above, re shoulder-deep enmuckment): FEED MY EGO, SUZE!