What do you mean? EXPLAIN! EXPLAIN!

I'm using both The Old Reader and Commafeed. Both are similar. I liked The Old Reader design a little better but Commafeed had less unplanned downtime. Commafeed is also open source so you can run your own instance if you want to.

Redhat provides a quick start for Tiny Tiny RSS in its public cloud (Openshift) for free. I didn't try nor use it but some may find it useful so you don't need to run own server.

So you didn't even looked at the contest site right? read some previous winners entries and come back then.
There is a reason that there is not a VB obfuscated contest.

People with no mutation to hide have nothing to fear. What could go wrong?

Please explain the features of Flexisheet that would put it in anyone shopping list. I could only find a domain for sale, a Sourceforge project with no released files and a CVS repository and also it seems only runs in Mac OSX.

About LyX, I guess most people wouldn't want it a little rough, wouldn't them? From the site:

I think most people would want to edit text, not mathematical formulas for LaTeX and science papers which seems to be the main focus of this editor. It may be very good for that for all I know.

Someone is using FORTRAN for life critical control systems? really? FORTRAN?
There are much more use cases that don't need that kind of hard real time constraint in today world. Even phones can run over more high level languages.

You are either absolutely right or absolutely wrong. Or in between.

There, there. I put a link for you: Shakespeare Programming Language.
You are welcome.

Lord President Rassilon to be more precise.

You might note that in any way I tried to correct your post. Just pointing to plausible causes for simultaneous global extinction. I was going for +1 informative.
BTW "probably" sounded good IMHO.

Outside world? what outside world?

Astronomical events could do that easily. For example a big asteroid collision, direct hit by long gamma ray burst, change in (supposedly) cosmical constants and others.

Of course they... wait a minute, false is upside down or upside up?

Why not? they very safe. Just be sure to set the 'KILL' switch to 'false'... And hope the programmers read the DailyWTF site. Hope real hard.