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The great internet swear-word project. Mob Wisdom at its best Mr Schofield.

Digg - New Design

http://reddit.com sounds a lot like what you're after. (see comment)

The Great Internet Swear-Word Project

Nice n short IP finding tool

The Great Internet Swear Word Project

The Great Internet Swear Word Project

The Great Internet Swear Word Project

1UP gives Gaming What it Deserves

"White elephant". You keep saying that. I do not think it means what you think it means. (see comment)

Bill O’Reilly vs the “coolest 8 year old girl"

The video was a commercial for a band. (see comment)

256GB of data on a sheet of paper

Heh.. that's a much cooler way of thinking about it. Either way, it's total bunk. (see comment)

256GB of data on a sheet of paper

65536^26400 gives the maximum number of permutations possible, the amount of data which can be stored on one sheet would be 65536*26400 by your reckoning. Either way, it's not a huge amount of data. (see comment)

256GB of data on a sheet of paper

I call shenanigans. A sheet of A4 paper printed at 1200dpi with symbols 10x10 dots would only store about 400000 symbols. With, say, 8 different shapes and 1024 colours each, with each shape/colour combination representing a single kilobyte of data, that' … (see comment)

What is polonium-210?

Well, I've certainly learned something about alpha radiation from this. I already knew that gamma is good for turning scientists into huge green monsters and beta is something to do with computers. Now I also know that alpha is toxic to Russian spies! … (see comment)

15-year-old Girl Starts Caucasian Club at her High School

The main problem with a club like this isn't that it's inherently racist, or that the girl who suggested it has some sinister racist plot in mind. It's just that white people, and it has to be said American white people in particular, have an awful track … (see comment)

British pupils 'cannot locate UK'

I call shenanigans. 86% can identify Iraq, but only 80% can place the UK? Even adjusting for recent news coverage, there's no way that can be the case. (see comment)

Ghostly UPS Boeing 767 Taking Off

The dots are there because the lights on a plane flash on and off -- they don't stay on solidly, as would be required for a steady 'trail' of light to be seen in the photograph. Oh, and it technically isn't an 'overexposure', it's just a very slow shutte … (see comment)

The New Fuel That Will Shape the Future

Argh. Multistory farms can't work. Only the top 'layer' would ever recieve light (which, btw, is crucial for the growth of crops). Theoretically, you could make a multistory farm with large lamps providing light to each level, if the land was expensive en … (see comment)

Anti-Aging Molecule Discovered

This research promises a halt to cellular aging. However, this is far from the "fountain of youth" that most of you folks are envisaging. Making cells live forever will not make us live forever, far from it in fact. We already have the phenomenon of cellu … (see comment)

Top 25 Unanswered Science Questions

Your answers, apart from the last one, are unscientific. They don't really have any relevance to a discussion of a list of science questions. Sorry. (see comment)

Top 25 Unanswered Science Questions

Humans have a remarkably small number of genes, compared with many organisms of similar or even lesser complexity. We've only ~20k genes, in 46 chromosomes, while some plants (for instance) have many hundereds of genes. Common sense would suggest that we, … (see comment)