I had to laugh when I saw this over on CS.SE. Who knew that Google filed (and were granted!) a patent on a well-known concept that Roman Maeder had implemented in Mathematica a decade previously... talk about prior art! WRI should give up on small beer like pentagons vs. heptagons and sue Google for the rights to this patent!

@CHM Ha!

@OleksandrR. What was THAT?

@OleksandrR. brilliant!

Too quiet

@belisarius yep...

@belisarius a parody of old British TV programmes for schoolkids. On balance though I think the one about sulfur is probably better than the calcium one.

@OleksandrR. Sorry, never saw those programs.. But I guess how bad they were :)

@belisarius you'd have been sorrier if you had watched them

@acl We had our local versions. Awful too

@belisarius thing is, I'm not from the UK. no idea why they showed this stuff.

although some of it was interesting if you are geeky (which I am and was)

@acl let me see if I find one of those stupid programs (local version)

seems only the parodies are on youtube :D