This is a reminder about this evening's Wikivoices.

Mike Peel of WMUK is a participant and from following him on twitter has only recently submitted his PhD thesis.

This looks like today's biggest physics story[1]. I'm sending the link to Mike as he'd possibly be persuadable to write an article on this and can give it more from a physicists' perspective.

One point I do want to touch on related to that is the wiki community having people like Mike. Most likely everyone remembers the mess that was the "Balloon Boy" story/hoax. If I recall correctly it was 3-4 days after this was top news non-stop that someone bothered to find out from a physicist that, in all probability, the balloon was incapable of carrying the child's weight. *That* would have been a very nice bot of OR to include early-on and avoid getting sucked into a media circus/publicity stunt.

I'm still looking for Wackynews. If anyone has seen some truly silly stories (with two or more independent sources) let me know ASAP.

[1] http://news.google.ca/news/story?pz=1&cf=all&ned=ca&hl=en&nc...