PZ Myers. 2006 Jan 11. Zero. <http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/zero/>. Accessed 2006 Feb 13.

Posted on M00o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfr on Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Zero









The rules:
1. Say nothing about yourself.
2. Nominate no one else to do it.
Posted by PZ Myers on 01/11 at 01:00 AM
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  1. Gotcha.
    #: Posted by  on  01/11  at  12:20 AM
  2. Hilarious,

    and about time too.
    #: Posted by  on  01/11  at  12:30 AM
  3. I think that's two rules too many.
    #: Posted by Chris Clarke  on  01/11  at  01:32 AM
  4. .
    #: Posted by mikez  on  01/11  at  02:17 AM
  5. -
    #: Posted by  on  01/11  at  02:42 AM
  6. "Zero" ?

    As opposed to nothing, null, nought and empty?

    That could SET one to thinking ......
    #: Posted by  on  01/11  at  02:56 AM
  7. { }
    #: Posted by Heathen Dan  on  01/11  at  04:09 AM
  8. That's just perfect -- even more wonderful, int it's way, than the Luskin demolition. I like your religion.
    #: Posted by Andrew Brown  on  01/11  at  04:23 AM
  9. Can I say things about other people?
    #: Posted by Alon Levy  on  01/11  at  04:56 AM
  10. What's next, a negative number?
    #: Posted by coturnix  on  01/11  at  06:15 AM
  11. ∞
    #: Posted by buck  on  01/11  at  08:37 AM
  12. But even this sentence indicates I know English. Or possibly that one hell of a coincidence has just taken place.
    #: Posted by Ronald Brak  on  01/11  at  08:42 AM
  13. using the predictive power of the science of Darwinian memetics, I forsee that this meme is unlikely to reproduce rapidly...
    #: Posted by mithras  on  01/11  at  08:43 AM
  14. My god, it's the advent of the Anti-meme. Can the Apocalypse be far?
    #: Posted by Mark Nutter  on  01/11  at  09:20 AM
  15. Nichts nada zlicht nothing nanimonoarimasen niente rien
    #: Posted by  on  01/11  at  09:30 AM
  16. 0 bold
    0 strong
    Does the world need both?
    #: Posted by  on  01/11  at  09:31 AM
  17. Oh Great Karnac! The answer is ZERO!

    Karnac: Question - how many functioning brain cells does Pat Robertson have?
    #: Posted by  on  01/11  at  09:41 AM
  18. What's next, a negative number?

    I'd go for an imaginary number, myself. Say 2i things about yourself and forward the meme to 2i people.
    #: Posted by Alon Levy  on  01/11  at  09:52 AM
  19. how zen
    #: Posted by Jim Raff  on  01/11  at  10:32 AM
  20. "A Martian could spend the whole trip contemplating the subtle difference between zero and nothing." -- Robert Heinlein, in Podkayne of Mars.
    #: Posted by  on  01/11  at  10:44 AM
  21. e^(i*pi) + 1
    #: Posted by  on  01/11  at  12:17 PM
  22. Or, rather, "A Martian can simply contemplate the subtle difference between zero and nothing for that long or longer..."
    #: Posted by  on  01/11  at  12:24 PM
  23. #: Posted by Pete  on  01/11  at  12:30 PM
  24. How about a meme where we say nasty things about other people, and you have to guess who they are?
    #: Posted by The Countess  on  01/11  at  01:34 PM
  25. Ø, {Ø}, {{Ø},Ø}, {{{Ø},Ø},Ø}, ...
    The Natural numbers, construced from the empty set.
    Or something from Nothing. And they said it couldn't be done.
    #: Posted by  on  01/11  at  02:17 PM
  26. in words

    in pictures

    in music

    in film
    #: Posted by Lee J Rickard  on  01/11  at  04:04 PM
  27. 零
    #: Posted by  on  01/11  at  04:53 PM
  28. How about four personal-favorite examples of the empty set?
    1. WMDs discovered in Iraq;
    2. 18.5-minute gap in Nixon White House tapes;
    3. Number of funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq attended by Bush or Cheney;
    4. Current number of political friends of Jack Abramoff.
    #: Posted by  on  01/11  at  04:57 PM
  29. The natural number which is not the successor of any other natural number.
    #: Posted by Keith Douglas  on  01/11  at  06:54 PM
  30. smile
    #: Posted by  on  01/11  at  07:03 PM
  31. 31 examples of creatio ex nihilo in this here thread. Now the creationists have an experiment to work with. ;)
    #: Posted by  on  01/11  at  09:22 PM
  32. G W Bush
    #: Posted by  on  01/11  at  10:22 PM
  33. All your zero are belong to us!
    #: Posted by  on  01/11  at  10:53 PM
  34. " "
    #: Posted by  on  01/11  at  11:46 PM
  35. {{{Ø},Ø},Ø} isn't the set 3, but {0, 2}. The set 3 is {0, 1, 2} = {Ø, {Ø}, {Ø, {Ø}}}. The number of Ø's in the set representation of a natural number n >= 1 is 2^(n-1).

    How about a meme where we say nasty things about other people, and you have to guess who they are?

    I don't think guessing is possible. If you say something like, "A sexist prick who likes trolling my blog anonymously and calling every woman who gets too uppity a man-hater," you describe about ten different people.
    #: Posted by Alon Levy  on  01/12  at  01:19 AM