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ASCIIMathML can help if you're just generating HTML.

"Our fiber-optic cables are so good, they deliver the signal nanoseconds before it's transmitted!"

Yet Another Recursive Repository?

I agree it's an Underwater Found Object.

...to learn the languages of countries that I might actually want to visit because they aren't yet censor-happy dictatorships / overflowing with toxic pollution / not biased against female children / not known for selling toxic crap overseas. I'd love to visit Japan, but you could not pay me to visit China any more than you could pay me to visit North Korea.

I have nothing against the Chinese people, but they allowed their government to get out of control, and their government cares more about keeping outside ideas out of its populace than improving health and safety and living conditions, and now their country probably un-redeemable.

"Catch a falling star, put it in your pocket..."

Falling into a gravity well pocket in space-time...

Everyone knows that to make an anti-laser, you just have to switch the polarity!

One would expect the water in a nuclear reactor to be continuously recycled; using it to provide the city with water doesn't make any sense at all.

coming soon to a theater near you.

I'm a bit OCD, and I subscribe to over 100 RSS feeds to get all my news. My biggest complaint is that it's hard to filter out the irrelevant articles from the interesting ones, because most sites only have one feed and I can't filter by tags :(

Replace all the other street signs in the US with all-caps. All-caps signage is slower to read, but they can be read without squinting.

Somehow I don't think the idea will go over well, though...

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Someone failed geography.

1. North America
2. South America
3. Africa
4. Europe
5. Asia
6. Australia
7. Antarctica

When did the HST become a manned satellite?

It's simpler to summarize it this way:

Use *fewer* for integers.

Use *less* for real numbers.