Brilliant minds in Switzerland and a glum, sad case sitting at my desk

I'm feeling sadly stupid this afternoon. I'd been sitting here at my desk slogging through research articles and white papers as I try to bone up on the latest trends in the streaming media industry.

I take a break to rest my brain for a few moments and I begin surfing the World Wide Web. It's then that I come across a little article in LiveScience.com.

Ker Than writes that a group of Swiss researchers have managed to screw around with the speed of light.

"Scientists have recently succeeded in doing all sorts of fancy things with light, including slowing it down and even stopping it all together,” the article says. “Now a team at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland is controlling the speed of light using simple off-the-shelf optical fibers …."

Real intellectual Vikings the scientists must be. So brilliant they devised a way to bend the rules of physics as we know them.

And look at me ... I can’t even figure out a way to get myself laid.