Shor, I’ll do it (scottaaronson.com)

Wonderful article, but link entered into text field rather than URL field. http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=208 (clickable version). Beautiful explanation of the Quantum Fourier Transform and some practical aspects of quantum computing without any domain-specific math.

I know I just read something amazing, but my head hurts.

Unfortunately he did not credit Feynman for the 'clock' analogy, who I believe originated this way of describing quantum processes.