Saw this on Digg - about Digg

By rallain on November 1, 2008.

I have been meaning to post something useful lately, but I am currently at the southeastern section of the APS. Anyway, I saw [this link on digg](http://www.hyperevo.com/new%20site/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1225…)

Apparently there is a message in the source code on the digg page. Funny stuff.

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Interesting but the information about the Cavendish experiment is wrong:

blockquote>The gravitational constant appears in Newton's law of universal gravitation, but it was not measured until 1798 â 71 years after Newton's death â by Henry Cavendish. For more reading on this check out Wikipedia.

Cavendish never measured G because G was defined about a century after he died. Maybe we need a theoretical physics mythbusters show too.

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