Comment OMG! (Score 1) 186
It's full of stars!
Comment Re:Canadian. (Score 1) 232
That's no excuse!
Comment Data is last (Score 1) 458
...I have 6 distributed backups
Comment Re:Oblig reference (Score 4, Funny) 272
Bad caps! Bad caps! Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
Comment Re:More Info From iGEM (Score 1) 177
Sucrose?
Oh I see! This is nothing more than a system to convert fast food into concrete. Repair the sidewalk and cure the obesity epidemic in one fell swoop.
Comment Computerized (Score 1) 402
Ours is controlled by a computerized system. When they installed it, they said "This is a State Of The Art System, and it will control the room temperature to within 0.1 degrees!"... Unfortunately, it seems that they forgot to specify which 0.1 degrees, so we roast in the morning, freeze at lunch time, and get wild swings during the afternoon.
Sigh.
Sigh.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Internet 92
MMBK writes "Our friends at JESS3 have unveiled The Ex-Blocker. It's a Firefox and Chrome plugin that erases all name and likeness of your ex from the Internet, even if they become a meme, or the president. You'll no longer have to threaten to delete your Facebook account or concoct an elaborate e-hoax to assuage the reality-shattering complications that are born from break-ups. Simply construct an Internet that omits bad vibes all together."
Comment Waste of time (Score 1) 157
Well that was a waste of time, wasn't it? Durrrr.
Comment Saucer (Score 1) 361
That there's a flying saucer, if ever I saw one.
The Greatest Scientific Hoaxes? 496
Ponca City, We love you writes "The New Scientist has an amusing story about the seven greatest scientific hoaxes of all time. Of course, there have been serious cases of scientific fraud, such as the stem cell researchers recently found guilty of falsifying data, and the South Korean cloning fraud, but the hoaxes selected point more to human gullibility than malevolence and include the Piltdown Man (constructed from a medieval human cranium); a ten-foot "petrified man" dug up on a small farm in Cardiff; fossils 'found' in Wurzburg, Germany depicting comets, moons and suns, Alan Sokal's paper loaded with nonsensical jargon that was accepted by the journal Social Text; the claim of the Upas tree on the island of Java so poisonous that it killed everything within a 15-mile radius; and Johann Heinrich Cohausen's claim of an elixir produced by collecting the breath of young women in bottles that produced immortality. Our favorite: BBC's broadcast in 1957 about the spaghetti tree in Switzerland that showed a family harvesting pasta that hung from the branches of the tree. After watching the program, hundreds of people phoned in asking how they could grow their own tree but, alas, the program turned out to be an April Fools' Day joke." What massive scientific hoaxes/jokes have other people witnessed?
