Big physics blogging news

Director shuts lab for 7 months, hounded out of job by blog.

I bet it made some reporter's day to be able to write the third sentence below:

The security alarm turned out to be a clerical error - the disks, in fact, never existed. Still, Dr. Nanos kept many lab areas closed for seven months, until late January. During that time, laboratory personnel worked on improving safety and security.

I would have appended "when not busy blogging" to make sure my editor was awake.