As an FYI, the fine was scrapped (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-30111525) following an intervention by Trading Standards.

Oxford and Cambridge are not private.

This happened last time there was a big HN-Monthly giveaway ...

...when I was naive enough to host all 19 free issues on my Linode server (lowest plan).

Um, you can use Markdown, and in the context of Github pages (http://pages.github.com/), that is exactly what you're talking about ...

I was genuinely unaware of the connection here. Thanks for posting that.

Google Cache link - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... currently main content not working for me.

For 60k/yr paying a fee of even 1000 to get a DUNS number seems negligible ...

Spherical Cow? Well that's a new one!

It's a very old joke:

http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/stats/WAPP2_cow.html

When I heard it the punchline was "Assume a spherical cow which isotropically radiates milk", which was pretty awesome.

I like Brass Eye's version of it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgnuxd0tiHk

I heard it first originally as an engineering joke. And also horses instead of cows.

You know you're an engineer when: You'll assume a horse is spherical in order to make a math easier.

Funnier with horses. Horses are less spherical. They way they industrially force feed and force breed cows these days, spherical is actually not that ironic an approximation to make. More sad than funny.

I was hoping it was a Fritz Zwicki reference - spherical bastards: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spherical+bas...

Perhaps it will only work in a vacuum?

I like it better than "Beefy Miracle"

I assume it is a CC-Licensed image?

No, it isn't :( (http://www.clipartof.com/portfolio/patrimonio/illustration/r...)

Same here, still looks to be down ...

Heh, awkward. - Hadn't seen your site's ?recent? makeover, looks nice! Also, his page suggests he's a 'Developer at Github'?

Yup. "Awkward"

That's the word. :P