The lengths that people will go to to refute 0.99.. = 1 are truly astonding.

A poor math teacher wrote the proof on his blog, Polymathematics, and got linked from all over the place, including digg and reddit. Digg went so far as to bury the link to his proof because so many of its users wouldn’t believe it, thus proving that democracy doesn’t work.

Polymath does a good job to address the common refutations in a subsequent post.

diesel sweeties (June 2 news entry) nicely sums up my opinion of 06/06/06 and 06/05/04 3:21 and all such nonsense:

The universe cares not one whit for our numbers.

So nice to see the good people of the internet grinning and joking about the death of me and my colleagues.

Reminds me of something Ann Coulter once said:

My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building.

And I mean some of the commenters here, not the bloggers. Kate’s free to point out the irony of CBC’s policy to not use the word “terrorism” even as people are accused of planning to take over or blow up our building.

This Diet Coke and Mentos thing started out as a interesting little viral video meme, but now it’s in the realm of performance art.

(Found on /.)

Bonus: The science explained, somewhat. Apparently, it’s not a chemical reaction.