Facebook's study also confirms something that bloggers and Fox News have known for years: negative comments produce more online activity.

I would say the slashdot editors know it too. (And if you disagree with this post, I'll know you're only doing it for the karma).

Does anyone know if the UK has a similar party? They sound like the kind of people I would vote for.

I'd like to add that creating diagrams with tikz or pstricks is so simple, and they look great. I also like Kile for hiding many of latex's idiosyncrasies.

The record is actually for flying the furthest in eight days across the Pacific, not the furthest non-stop flight ever as implied by the headline. Which is not surprising - the common swift, for example, can spend years in the air without landing. http://www.commonswift.org/records_english.html

Nonetheless, these birds are still impressive.