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That’s not the real subtitle, but you can now get Feynman via iTunes.

It really is the future.

The book Leland and I made continues to do well, and has now made it to double digits on the New York Times Best Sellers List.

Barely, but no complaints…the top three (Tintin, Habibi, and Hark! A Vagrant) are all great and the Twilight and Walking Dead juggernauts are tough to beat as well. Even for Richard Feynman.

The title above refers to the publications, and not about some crazy thing one might have said about the other.

Though come to think of it, the context is sort of crazy, as in Feynman is nominated for the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s SB&F Prize, and it was also featured on Oprah.com‘s “BookFinder” last week.

All I can offer in commentary is big punctuation: !!

Well, our book still made it into this part of the paper. It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I… well, you know the rest!

Thank you to everyone who’s bought the book. I’m stunned, as are Superman, Captain America, Sookie Stackhouse, Wolverine, Ook and Gluk, and a bunch of zombies and sparkly vampires. But you know, up against Richard Feynman I think they’re all fighting out of their weight class.

Every day this week over at Tor.com, Leland Myrick and I offer a different aspect of Richard Feynman’s life and work. We have a book about him coming out, you see.

Today’s entry is special because it’s an out-take from that book, an unpublished bit about a time at Esalen when Feynman and his son Carl met up with Uri Geller. Feynman is skeptical…