We should make the distinction between bound electrons (in a pointy stick) and free electrons (electricity). With pointy sticks, electrostatics is a player, but I'm guessing it is primarily the inertia of the massive nuclei and Pauli exclusion that are really doing damage (and breaking bonds in your skin). With electricity, it is electrodynamics, not electrostatics, which is the culprit. You may be thinking of electrostatic discharge, which isn't usually what people mean by "electricity", but, as most of us on /. know, can still be quite effective for security (and should be in the poll). Ok, sorry. Just mod me both "making crap up" and Pedantic 2+3i.

Or did you mean. . . de Grey goo? [sound of horses neighing]

The submitter, J.L. Tympanum, is clearly some old timer's sockpuppet (low UID, only 3 unmodded non sequitur comments in 5 years, 2 quirky submissions including this one).

NASA has a long history of naming missions and modules after rather arbitrary, but dignified sounding, things. For example, the arts (Apollo Theater, Orson Welles' Mercury theater company, etc.) as well as pseudo-scientific things like signs of the zodiac and crypto-geographic places and cryptozoological creatures. Not to mention South American countries featured in drug-oriented movies, science fiction space ships, and even abstract contestants on a game show. "Colbert" seems pretty consistent with this non sequitur trend.

"In a whimsical abuse of pedigree leading to much undeserved press, two guys who apparently understand neither philosophy nor quantum mechanics mathematically connect two of those fields' major questions in a non-peer reviewed arXiv article and simultaneously solve humanity's deepest ontological questions using a translucent haze of logic."

Based on the wording of the poll, I assumed the "you" in the question to be "me" and the "you/r" in the answers to be the pollster. Now that I understand the wording better, I want to make it perfectly clear I do not regard the slashdot staff to be the biggest threat to my privacy.

Here are a doublet of papers for an undergraduate laboratory demonstrating Bell's Inequality and and entangled photons. The whole apparatus (detailed in the second paper) is estimated to cost USD 15k circa 2002, so the optical elements have probably come down in price since then.

1. Entangled photons, nonlocality, and Bell inequalities in the undergraduate laboratory. [American Journal of Physics 70, 903 (2002)], Dietrich Dehlinger, MW Mitchell. http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0205171/

2. Entangled photon apparatus for the undergraduate laboratory. [American Journal of Physics 70, 898 (2002)], Dietrich Dehlinger, MW Mitchell. http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0205172/

I'm not sure why so much is being made of this '25 Random Things About Me' note on facebook. It is just a variation on an old parlor game that never really "came and went". Some people want to play, others don't. Yes, there are meme-y elements to virtually everything in a culture, but would an invitation to a kegger, superbowl party, LAN party, or a poker game be given such careful meme-y analysis? I'm not saying someone shouldn't analyze those things in this framework, but it seems this '25 Random Things About Me' note is being treated as a wild fad (some kind of canonical meme flash and burn) although it is really no different than some people at a large BBQ deciding to play poker while others play frisbee.

Be advised you are following the same meme cliche cycle by complaining about it. For every annoying decaying, witless in-joke past its glory days, there's someone who has a tired argument to remind us how annoying, witless, and cliche the in-joke really is. And similarly, there's someone like me who will boorishly complain about the complaining about it. And so on. Culture's one big recursive clicheplex. I don't think we can help it.