Go to Froogle and search for "acer travelmate". What you get is a very 
large list of laptops.

Now ask Froogle for "talc". And you get... well... talc.

Now ask it for "gold potassium cyanide". You know what? 0 results. (Even 
"liquid oxygen" gets far more than that!)

Now go to Wikipedia, and you'll find that, apparently, no such substance 
exists. Which is really interesting, because if you ask Google about it, 
you'll find a Material Safety Data Sheet all about it. So it *is* a real 
chemical.

Hmm, I'm puzzled now...

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Now go to Wikipedia, and you'll find that, apparently, no such substance 
> exists.

  There are probably millions and millions of chemicals used by the
industry. Wikipedia can't list them all.

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>> Now go to Wikipedia, and you'll find that, apparently, no such substance 
>> exists.
> 
>   There are probably millions and millions of chemicals used by the
> industry. Wikipedia can't list them all.

If I'd picked something obscure, I wouldn't be surprised at all. But I 
picked something fairly widely known. When you consider how rare gold 
compounds are, I thought it would be at least *briefly* mentioned 
somewhere... ho hum.

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> Now go to Wikipedia, and you'll find that, apparently, no such substance 
> exists. Which is really interesting, because if you ask Google about it, 
> you'll find a Material Safety Data Sheet all about it. So it *is* a real 
> chemical.

Add the page? xD

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> Now go to Wikipedia, and you'll find that, apparently, no such substance
> >> exists.
> >
> >   There are probably millions and millions of chemicals used by the
> > industry. Wikipedia can't list them all.
>
> If I'd picked something obscure, I wouldn't be surprised at all. But I
> picked something fairly widely known. When you consider how rare gold
> compounds are, I thought it would be at least *briefly* mentioned
> somewhere... ho hum.

If Wikipedia insists on deleting pages about the Everywhere girl, claiming she
is not culturally significant, what makes you think that gold potassium cyanide
*does* deserve a page?

(Of course, these are the same people who will write hundreds or thousands of
pages on comic book minutia, so I don't think we can trust their judgement on
what is "culturally significant").

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>> If I'd picked something obscure, I wouldn't be surprised at all. But I
>> picked something fairly widely known. When you consider how rare gold
>> compounds are, I thought it would be at least *briefly* mentioned
>> somewhere... ho hum.
> 
> If Wikipedia insists on deleting pages about the Everywhere girl, claiming she
> is not culturally significant, what makes you think that gold potassium cyanide
> *does* deserve a page?
> 
> (Of course, these are the same people who will write hundreds or thousands of
> pages on comic book minutia, so I don't think we can trust their judgement on
> what is "culturally significant").

OK. So let me get this straight:

- "Gold potassium cyanide" isn't present, despite being one of the few 
compounds of Gold to exist, and its prolific use in jewlery.

- If you look up "hannelore", it tells you about a minor character in a 
web comic.

Does anybody see anything wrong with this picture?

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> - If you look up "hannelore", it tells you about a minor character in a
> web comic.

I like her, isn't she cure?

/me plays drums

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>> - If you look up "hannelore", it tells you about a minor character in a
>> web comic.
> 
> I like her, isn't she cure?

Assuming you meant "cute", I strongly agree.

Remember when her mum bet $2,000 that she couldn't do into the men's 
room and touch the seat? I was so proud of her when she actually pulled 
it off.

Yay Hanners!

> /me plays drums

My did gave my sister an electronic drum kit for her birthday one year. 
She was stunned - and very excited. All of her flatmates had to have a 
go. Basically everybody who sat down with those drums immediately 
started grinning like an escaped loonie. I have video footage to prove it!

It was like an electronic Happy Machine...!

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> Remember when...

Hah. Comic nine hundred and twenty six, "Suicidal Insanity". (Gee, why 
does this guy give all his comics such cryptic names? I practically need 
Google just to *find* anything!)

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=926

> Yay Hanners!

Yay indeed. She's only a fictional character, but I felt so proud of her 
after seeing this. [Jesus, I should get some *real* friends!]

And in today's comic, she's once again center-frame. Good girl. Heh. 
CRAZY GIRL!

Sometimes I wish *I* could do something unusual and impressive... ah 
well, never mind.

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