Comment Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. (Score 2, Funny) 198
Looks like I got landed with the Universe where Slashdot didn't run the story.
When it was created by the magazine's staff in 1947, it was initially set at seven minutes to midnight and has moved 17 times since then.
Amusing and interesting all in one! Go read the article at the source but if you don't want to give Wired any page hits (or are lazy), I'll quote it below. The gist is that a magician, a practicer of slight of hand not the paranormal, got fed up with psychics and their tricks and ploys bilking the unsuspecting public so he offered up a cash prize to anyone that can prove their claim of supernatural abilities.
Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.