Getting fresh air by inhaling smoke. War is peace.

In C, ~ is the bit inverse (or "not") operator.

"Not one bit of information."

Meanwhile, the iPad 3 has 2048 x 1536 in under 10 inches. That alone is almost enough for me to want one.

It's called Pascal's wager. Look it up. According to it, it's cheaper to believe in a god that doesn't exist than to not believe in Him and risk being punished to Hell.

In Sweden, people dance naked for free.

Parsers of XML, HTML and SGML need and may only support U+002F SOLIDUS as "closing slash". If that weren't the case, we'd already have problems with people writing <htm1> and <B0DY>.

Raise your hand if you couldn't code a parser that detects those characters and takes appropriate action, such as popping bidi characters.

I'd love to be able to write IPA when discussing pronunciation, or actually write out words in other languages, ohm character for discussing electronics, pound and yen signs for currency ... Hey, even a bigger whitelist than what we have now would be great!

To clarify, the content on Wikipedia is CC-BY-SA 3.0. Some images might still be GFDL. None of the content is GPL (apart from a few code snippets), but the MediaWiki source code is.

Strangely, it's only spelt "New Zealand" in English (and languages that don't localize it). The reason everyone else gets it wrong is that the country is named for the Dutch Zeeland, not the Danish Zealand.

The rest of the world gets to vote neither for nor against the senator that killed the Internet. Why do we need to suffer/be persuaded? The EU has already spoken out against SOPA.