Phill Hunt was thirsty today:

I wanna go for a drink at Higgs Boston.

Hillary, however, suggests it may be too late:

Higgs Boston - it's behind an unmarked door, down a staircase, next to a Dunkies. If you have to ask, you're not cool enough to go there.

And, in fact, there is a surprising number of Google results for the term Higgs Boston.

But what does it all mean? Technology reporter John Moe sums it up, in fewer than 140 characters, no less:

"I'm wicked hahd to find." - The Higgs-Boston Particle.

Chris Marstall adds:

Higgs Boston represent! Take that New York, lets see your Higgs!

To which Sean Frederick piles on:

"How do you like them atoms?" #higgsboston

Some photos from people about town today:

The Boston Police Patrolman's Association took down several years' worth of online back copies of Pax Centurion, which has recently lost some advertisers over its longstanding racist, homophobic and sexist content.

Here are a couple of tastes of what you'll miss (both are largeish PDF files, so give them a moment or two to come up):

Both Ends of Dudley reports Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy will be in town between July 5 and July 7 filming what's now generically called "Untitled Female Buddy Cop Project."

The folks at Bostonography attempt to use the wisdom of the crowds to settle, once and for all where to draw the line between Boston neighborhoods.

Mats Tolander reports on (and photographs) an incident on Comm. Ave. by BU's Warren Towers yesterday that ended with an MBTA cop spraying a belligerent guy in the face with pepper spray and cuffing him.

Why does it cost so much to live in Boston? Why is housing so expensive?

Simple question, and there's a simple answer: supply and demand. Too many people want to live in too few homes.

Solving the problem is where things get tricky. Do you increase supply? Do you decrease demand?

High housing prices obviously limit demand, but no one would thing that's a good idea - you keep making people not want to live here and eventually they won't live here.

Increasing supply is trickier because, as we all know, much of downtown Boston is off-limits to any sort of residential development, due to its historic nature (and, something called NIMBYism).

The US Census Bureau collects data that shows just how bad things are.

Boston's housing stock is old. Like, older than just about any other major US city.

This handy little chart compares Boston to San Francisco, New York, and several other major US cities (these are city statistics, not "metropolitan areas"). It shows that in Boston, 57% of its housing stock (condos, single-family homes, apartments) was built before 1939. Other cities are different: half of San Francisco's housing stock was built prior to 1939, but look at Las Vegas and Miami; not surprisingly, little of their residential housing is old.

MuckRock files a Freedom of Information request and gets copies of 19 complaints filed with the FCC over Clear Channel's impending purchase of the local alt-rock station.

Via Occupy WFNX.

Until today, the MBTA's website announced that, effective July 1, there would be a $3 surcharge for any commuter rail ticket bought on the train -- even if you board at a station such as Belmont or Gloucester, which has no ticket machines and no store anywhere nearby that sells tickets.

Outlying commuter train passengers railed against the new surcharge.