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The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth’s Spreadsheet Engineering Research Project publishes some interesting research on errors in spreadsheets, including causes and financial impact (”Among the remaining 70 confirmed errors, the largest error was $100 million; however, 9 of the 25 spreadsheets tested had no errors at all.”).  Collection of stories.

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Apparently, it’s a myth that “[t]he fluid from the resulting [poison ivy] blisters [spreads] poison ivy to others.”  All the same, please don’t get your poison ivy blister juice on me.

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